Day Off

The sun is bright, your answering machine is empty, calendar is blank and your girlfriend is sound asleep. For this short period of time there are no worries of budgeting, sales, contracts or hounding clients;only peace and pleasure. As you lay on the terrace with a cold one and great company, your mind zones out to a “happy place” as they call it. This is the place where you are free. Free of worries, free of doubt, most importantly free as a person. You reminisce about the dreams you once had when you were younger and how your adult life would be like. You also plan on how you want your retirement to be, sitting on the porch of your beach house or in your cottage deep in the woods.

This is the time that keeps us sane, being away from all the work commotion, traffic stress and mundane lifestyle. This is the time I like to call “A Day Off”.

We want to be successful, we want to be recognized for our hard work, we want to live comfortably, but more importantly we want to live. Why spend all our breathing moments under pressure up to a point where you just can’t take another breath anymore. Taking some time off by turning the switch, escaping away, not worrying about why we have woken up that morning but enjoying the fact that we have and being grateful to see the sun shine another day. That is the best method to swim up to the surface and catch a glimpse of air to have more energy to face the reality of our lives and push through.

Trust me life is great, take your time, that’s right take YOUR time because after all, this is your life so the only clock or schedule which runs your life is the one that you make. Take your day off. Even better, take your days off, breath as much as you can, and enjoy life as much as you can. The last thing you want is to live in sorrow and regrets, instead of living with a sense of completion and satisfaction.