I like Daniel Goleman’s post on steps for making a vacation last.  Click here to check it out.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130731134342-117825785-three-steps-to-a-vacation-that-lasts?trk=mp-reader-card.

Vacations present an opportunity to decompress, to tune-out the typical day-to-day stressors and to tune-in to family and friends.  And yes, even yourself!  And don’t you really owe that to yourself?

With a long Labor Day Week-end soon at hand, we’ve got an opportunity to try these 3 steps.  And I’d like to add a 4^th, try leaving your Blackberry or iPhone turned off.  Impossible?  Not necessarily, try it for one day to see what happens.  OK, maybe try it for a half-day.  Just leave it on a table, not in your pocket.  Yes, you’ll probably have some emails, but how many of them were “urgent?”  Urgent enough to distract you from your priority- to be on vacation?