WHAT WOULD I DO
FFFs
(FREQUENTLY FACED FEARS)
WITH THE TIME OFF?
Anything! Everything! The point is to stop doing what you were doing beforehand, be that for a month or much longer. Ideally you’ll recall a long lost desire to achieve something, improve somehow, go somewhere. Identify that and the rest will follow, and if it’s in any way travel and/or experience related, we’re here to help, but it might just as easily be learning
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to play the piano or paint watercolours. Equally valid, but we’d argue you can do that sort of thing of an evening during your ‘normal’ life. If you have managed to secure the longest single amount of time off you will ever have in your working life then we strongly urge you to think big and head out into the world. Who knows, you may get a flavour for it and become a serial sabbatical taker. I RUN MY OWN COMPANY. WHAT HAPPENS WHILE I'M AWAY?
It might be a sweeping generalisation, but most founders/bosses tend to have a touch of control freakery in their make-up. It’s the flipside of the perfectionism that makes them such excellent entrepreneurs in the first place. You'll find it hard to resist checking up on the business, but we'd recommend keeping it to a bare minimum. After all, handing over the reins to your second-in-command will help succession planning and you can take immense pride when the team rise to the challenge in your absence. WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE A JOB TO RETURN TO BECAUSE THE PERSON COVERING FOR ME HAS TAKEN IT?
So here’s the thing. If this happens to you then they're not the sort of company you should be working for anyway. Or, they didn’t think you were right for them, in which case you're better off not working for a company that doesn’t value you.
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