Workation Tips: Having A Vacation While Staying Home

Workation Tips:
How to blend work and vacation
while staying at home.

If you’re here to find out how to live in the Bahamas or some other island afar while you run a booming internet business, you’ve come to the wrong post.

This post is about having two sisters come over for a vacation.

And the need for “workation” tips on how to blend your work with their vacation.

This won’t be an in-depth study or a very serious list, but hang in here with me.  There are ways to have fun and do the work at the same time.

Save your shopping for when your sisters visit.

When my sisters visit, they like to shop my city.  Goodwill, Hobby Lobby, Kirkland’s, Target, Kohl’s… all those places where you find hidden treasures.

Finding treasures takes time, so you can run around gathering things on your list for your business while they pick up this sweater and put it back, or try to choose between this pair of shoes or that.

Since our business involves pretty paper and harvesting ideas to put on paper, casual shopping is actually a very good chance to buy supplies, and to get ideas.  Just have pen and paper in your purse, or a memo app on your phone, to remind yourself later about your inspiration.  Remember that you can break copyrights by taking actual photos of things, so your reminders may need to be handwritten, with only the details that apply to your business.

When you’re finished and they’re not, you can sit on a bench with your phone or tablet and get some rough writing in, to complete later when you’re not distracted and have access to your own workplace.

Let them shop for you while you’re back on the ranch.

Yesterday we spent a lovely morning at the stores.  After lunch, I was done.  They weren’t.

I gave them my credit card and my list, and I went home to work.  We were all happy.

Taking a break is really good for business.

No one keeps fresh ideas and inspiration flowing freely while sitting in the office or workplace, seeing only the same four walls all the time. You might need work-vacation time in your life!

Inspiration flows from many places:

• A quiet time with a cup of coffee and your Bible or other good reading while your guests sleep in.
• Shopping the places that you love, because you want to make things you love.  Seeing those things through other artists’ eyes often feeds your own style.
• Hiking and picnicking in nature, even short walks around the block with your guests, will get the creative juices flowing.  You can provide fun for your family while you stash ideas away for later.
• Eating out at unique restaurants with special themes is fun for your guests, and can also serve as a jumping off place for new product ideas.

This post is the result of a mini epiphany that happened
while running about with my sisters.

Although I wasn’t a total free spirit, I could escape the humdrum for short bursts of time.  I got new ideas and huge benefits from the change of pace!!

We hope you like our workation tips and also find that fun breaks while working can be super helpful.

Although these tips may be more helpful with creative type work, we hope they can be helpful to anyone who has frequent guests.