Do you dread leaving vacation and returning to your daily life?
For the past few days, I have been on R&R vacation in Hilton Head as an extension of “beach work” the week before.
It has been so much fun and extremely fulfilling, loaded with exploring all the cute places and beaches as well as drinking some delicious coffee and eating to-die-for icecream.
I did spend one of my vacation days at The Corner Perk Coffeeshop working on PuppiMudworksCo business admin stuff and I was super productive and have officially become a regular there. I have also been working on blogs and reviews and clientele orders so I cannot say that I put all of my work to the side for this vacation because honestly, I feel such a reward when I am able to be productive on my days off. Besides, my brain swarms with art goals constantly and guess what?
That is okay! Because this is my passion.
While I’m out, I do take tons of pictures of the beach and the boats and all of the yummy treats I treat myself to, but many of my photos are for research purposes or dream board content.
It’s a funny story actually because as I sit here on my last night on the dock at the beach house (unless I sporadically change my mind tomorrow and need more on-the-sand time), I find myself aching to get back to my art and to my clay [and to Alex, Puppi, and Josi of course and always].
Now as I have said before, I am passionate about clay but clay is not my passion. There is a such thing as burnout and I have been there before a few times with clay, so I have to be very careful and allow myself permission to step away sometimes and give my hands a break.
So the fact that I am itching for clay is such a great thing! Every time this feeling comes to me, some great new technique or idea follows soon after and I get closer and closer to my style in ceramics.
Have you ever experienced that? Where you’ve been anticipating a mini vacay and now that it’s here, you’re anticipating getting back to your daily life?
I mean I think it’s a great feeling because that says to me that life at home is as enjoyable as life on vacation. I once worked at a place that when I did get the rare opportunity to go on vacation, I always dreaded coming back, almost as if my daily life was that miserable. I am not a fan of living a miserable life and now that I have been able to find fulfillment and joy in not only my daily life, but also my work life and my “career passion” life, I am so much more happy on the inside.
It hasn’t been easy figuring it out and I am always feeling like I’m still one step behind and that I should be further than what I am now but then I have to remind myself that there is no rush. It’ll happen when it happens and I am still young and I do still have that 10 year plan that I’m really only one year into.
The point is that I spent a few hours on the beach today and it was glorious. (Except for that family who was playing music from their cellphone. Please stop doing that at the beach. Bring some headphones for yourself. People want to hear the waves and kids playing in the sand, not music with bad sound quality.)
Insert: as soon as I finished typing that part, the neighbors turned on their loud speakers. lol. What is life.
After I moved locations at the beach, I snoozed for a little bit, watched and edited some throwing videos on my phone, planned to read but ended up just photographing the book for a different post, and really just chillaxed. All day the sky was overcast and there was a nice breeze. I think I got some sun but I’m not sure yet. And I was able to just let go.
Then I had lunch- the best sandwich of my life at Carolina Coffee & Crumbs followed by the girliest cupcake of my life from Sweet Carolina Cupcakes. I walked through some shops and added to my “inspo” folder. And now I’m talking to you.
I must say this is the ideal life and the ideal vacation even if I did work on the bizness throughout the day.
If you don’t have something that makes you feel this way, that anticipation to get back to it, even if it isn’t a business that is profitable and rather it is a hobby that you make a part of your life for fun or time spent with people you love or just something to look forward to and miss when it’s not on schedule for the day, I urge you to find it. You will feel especially rewarded when you add some time spent doing something that is close to your heart.