Before going on vacation,
I would look at the things I normally do
during this time
and delegate what HAS to be done.
Then I would seriously ponder
whether or not the other tasks
EVER had to be completed again.
Rohit Bhargava
takes this idea
one step farther
“When you are busy,
one of the challenges of going on vacation
is how to handle your work
when you’re gone.
Some people simply save it
until they return.
The smart people, instead,
actually hand off some of their work
to colleagues or employees
to handle while they are away.
But here’s the really smart part:
When they return,
instead of assuming all their old activities,
they watch how people are performing
and ask themselves
if they really need to take that task back.
Taking vacation, in other words,
can be the ultimate method
to get out of long-term, time-consuming tasks
that you no longer need to do anymore.”
Use vacations
as an excuse to prune or delegate tasks.