4/11/2025-Plan a summer vacation NOW

For sellers, vacations are tangible representations of hard – and smart – work. In the year after you made 30% more in commissions, you deserve a vacation worth 30% more fun.

Is it taking you 20 minutes to do a 2-minute task? (You might still be fighting The Fever from earlier this week!)

Your December holiday was four distant months ago, and even if you had a winter break, you might be running on fumes now.

The mere act of planning and booking a vacation can pump you up. Having something fun to look forward to doesn’t just lift the soul; it motivates you to keep selling hard.

With all due respect to the 900 million canines alive in the world, you work like a dog. You deserve many vacations throughout the year.

Don’t make this year’s vacation a default…as in, "…we always go to Lake Somuchfun, so we’re going again this year."

Sure, do that, but also make it a reality to visit that place you’ve always wanted to go to this summer.

Is it Japan?

The Pyramids of Giza?

What about N’awlins in the dead of summer, highlighted by a midnight swamp tour with a rollicking zydeco band?

This weekend, book a different summer trip. The sooner it’s on the books, the better.

According to Harvard Business Review, more than half of Americans give up some PTO every year.

And, a study by the U.S. Travel Association in 2018 found that unused vacation time amounted to 768 million days, with more than 30% of it forfeited completely.

You don’t need facts like these to remind you of the regenerative benefits of vacation.

Still, for sellers, holiday time takes on a deeper meaning due to the profound physical and emotional energy that’s expended 50-some-odd weeks a year. The fact is, selling clears out your tank more than any other job on the planet.

For sellers, vacations are tangible representations of hard – and smart – work. In the year after you made 30% more in commissions, you deserve a vacation worth 30% more fun. Whether you define that by spending 30% more money or taking 30% more time is up to you.

Time is your enemy when you’re grinding Monday through Friday, so it makes sense to get some of it back on your vacations.

Watch this insipid 10-second summer vacation parlor trick to get you in the mood for your big weekend of travel shopping and booking.

Ahhh summer.