Posts Tagged ‘Vacation’

Traditions!

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Today is the day to start a new tra­di­tion. There is a direct cor­re­la­tion between the fun, the qual­ity, the depth of rela­tion­ships in a close fam­ily and the unique­ness and fre­quency of that family’s traditions.

When fam­i­lies inten­tion­ally develop “their ways” of being a fam­ily early on, they tend to expe­ri­ence greater lev­els of fam­ily health and bond­ing. I have observed this over the years with count­less stand-out fam­i­lies and have adopted much of what I have learned from oth­ers over the years. I am in no way an expert, just a guy who is incred­i­bly pas­sion­ate about serv­ing and lead­ing a solid and lov­ing family.

10 Tra­di­tions to Cre­ate More Fam­ily Connection

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Things Will Not Fall Apart

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

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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I Love a Good Vacation in the Morning

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The alarm rings, the head rises, the shower steams, the cof­fee is brewed, the email inbox chimes, the news is watched, the car door slams, and the game of chase begins.

Wak­ing up run­ning is the norm for many in these crazed times. This daily rou­tine can leave many a leader feel­ing over­whelmed and tired. It can cause us to live our days crav­ing an escape.

We go about our sched­ule with mechan­i­cal pre­ci­sion, with­out really being present for days, weeks, or even months. We’re just wait­ing for the day we can board a plane to the trop­ics. Then, once the wheels are up and the Mai Tai is in hand, relax­ation will finally set in.

It does not need to be this way.

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Trip or Vacation?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

As I write this, I am in the home stretch of our return trip from South Africa. 26 hours down, just 2 to go…

My fam­ily and I spent the last three weeks sight­see­ing, learn­ing, sun­ning and surf­ing our way through this amaz­ing yet chal­lenged coun­try. We were so very for­tu­nate to join my sis­ter, her South African hus­band and their three won­der­ful kids on this trip. My brother-in-law Mark was a fan­tas­tic tour guide.

Our sched­ule was action packed. We saw pen­guins on the beach, vis­ited the Apartheid Museum, hiked through beau­ti­ful moun­tains, went zip lin­ing over rivers, and rode Ostriches. We went on game dri­ves where we saw lions, rhi­nos, ele­phants, and wilde­beests. We learned a lot about their bro­ken gov­ern­men­tal system.

And yes, I finally surfed my dream wave at Jeffrey’s Bay.

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Once in a Lifetime

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Once in a Life­time — Daniel Harkavy from Build­ing Cham­pi­ons on Vimeo.

Find out why I will be “unplugged” for the next few weeks!