I am writ­ing this post from a great lit­tle cof­fee house on the Ore­gon coast. This has been a morn­ing of catch­ing up on email. As I men­tioned in my last post, “Some­times You Just Have To,” I spent last week with friends and fam­ily, surf­ing our way up the Cal­i­for­nia coast. It was a fan­tas­tic mem­ory mak­ing time!

Today I am pay­ing the price. I have been knee deep in email for the last three hours.

One of the email mes­sages I just reviewed was from my won­der­ful team­mate, Kit John­son, who runs HR and Account­ing for us at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons. She sent me a report I had requested with our team’s unused vaca­tion hours. I asked for this because I want to make sure I am encour­ag­ing my team­mates to take full advan­tage of their vaca­tion time.

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