4/12/2024-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 something you used to be able to do in 10?

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

Often, you don’t recognize when you’re dragging, but just planning and booking a vacation – and having something to look forward to – can pump you up.

With all due respect to canines everywhere, you work like a dog. You deserve regular out of town holidays.

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

Right now, open Google maps and hunt for an extravagant location you’ve been dreaming of for years.

Is it Morocco?

The Pyramids of Giza?

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

Booking your trip will make you feel jacked and give you good chatter to use in your social selling interactions.

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.

Jimmy Buffett’s songs immediately conjure thoughts of open water, white sand, hot days, and cold beverages…

Ahhhh…summer vacation. Thankfully, it’s around the corner.

As if you need the motivation to plan your summer get-away, let Jimmy take you away on this (intentionally) low-tech 3-minute performance of It’s Been a Lovely Cruise.