Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/10/26
We’re halfway home (I’m writing this on Friday) on the ferry from Nantucket, which drops us off in Hyannis, which is 90 minutes from our house in Rhode Island. This is our 37th year coming here and the ferry (AKA: Steamship Authority) has been pretty good. The employees are quite nice and very helpful. My only gripe on this trip is that they ran out of hotdogs.
I’m eager to get home. The dogs will lose their minds when we show up, our pool is in great shape, I’m the lector in church tomorrow, we’ll have dinner in my favorite restaurant, and I want to get back to some of my hobbies and business projects (such as a new blog I’m considering, a “secret” group I'm invited to join that’s being organized in December with 12-15 highly successful and well-known entrepreneurs, and completing a particularly tough model I’m building).
Our east coast family of four was with us for half the stay, and the twins will be leaving for different colleges next August, so we’ll probably vacation in mid- to late July next year. Our west coast family was in Scotland with a play our son wrote and in which our daughter-in-law was cast for the Edinburgh Film Festival. Next year we’re planning to take everyone to Italy for two weeks.
I kept up with emails, investments, repair work at the house and other needs via email and texts. I do take client calls if they’re urgent while I’m on the beach. I’ve never believed in shutting down business while vacationing (or in shutting down pleasure when not vacationing).
So the SUV is loaded, it will take us two days to unpack completely, and the dogs will get back into our routine. (They love the house sitters.)
My message to you is a common one: We don’t have a personal life and a business life, we simply have a life to live and fill as appropriate for us. “Life Balance” doesn’t entail a line of demarcation separating the two, but rather a confident and calm synergy.
That synergy means that you should love to go places on vacation, and also love coming home.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. —Jackie Robinson
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. —Rabindranath Tagore
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. —Dalai Lama
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. —George Bernard Shaw
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