Take Breaks (Mountains Preferable). 🏔
We recently returned from the mountains of North Carolina after a week of sitting by the fire, exploring, and enjoying uninterrupted time with our girls. SO worth it. I’m grateful to return to the farm we love and for all the people who watched over it while we were gone.
One of the biggest things we’ve learned in 13 years of owning our own businesses?
TAKE BREAKS. ✌🏽
We need time to dream and play and explore and rest and go on adventures and just BE.
✔️Saving up for breaks
✔️Building in breaks
✔️Not making excuses for why you can’t take breaks
…are all SO important to keeping the soul filled, the creativity alive, and the entrepreneurial spirit growing.
We can all make excuses that we are just too busy or that things can’t survive without us for a week. We can say it’s too hard because we’ll have too much to clean up when we return.
But a human being who JUST KEEPS GOING can’t survive forever like that.
We’ve learned the hard way - there were so many years we didn’t take a real break when we were getting our Dallas business, Urban Acres, up and running. And if you don’t stop, your body will stop you. We went through shingles, pneumonia, and more. So we are passionate about this now ~ the sacrifice of leaving things for a week is better than the sacrifice of emotional, physical, and mental health.
After Thanksgiving in the Raleigh, NC area with Steven’s family, we drove to the Blue Ridge Mountains, just the four of us, and explored Maggie Valley, Waynesville, Sylva, Lake Junaluska, and the Cataloochee Valley (this place is magic!). We’ve visited this area after Thanksgiving every year since 2015, and each year we save up and work hard so we can stay a little longer. For us, the mountains are the perfect place for rest and adventure for our family.
In Wake Forest on Thanksgiving - like mother, like son :)
Lovely Lake Junaluska
Check my “NC Highlights” on Instagram for more photos and commentary on the area! 🏔
