Running your own business is a mixed blessing, but one thing is that you don’t need anyone else’s permission to take time off.  However, it is remarkably hard to allow yourself to stop working when it is your business.  It is ever so easy to say “I’ll just do this then I’ll stop…”  and yet somehow one never does! 

Be that as it may, I knew I needed a break and really did take things much easier for the last three weeks and I can feel the benefits.  It is a little bit like being in the Starship Enterprise, going into warp drive and on arriving at the destination only to discover yourself there waiting for you to catch-up (an admittedly bizarre image, but an apposite one.)

Sometimes I think we run so fast we don’t realise that we are getting nowhere.  Stopping is challenging.  It is an act of surrender and an act of faith.  The prize is that you find yourself reconnected and re-energised. 

Sometimes a change of pace can be one of the hardest changes to make.  If you haven’t got round to it yet I suggest that you give it a try.

“We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.”   John Kotte