During one of my recent late-night caffeine-fueled StumbleUpon jaunts out there in the Blogosphere I came across something that made me laugh out loud. Then it made me think. 
   Written by Steve Sharam and posted more than a year ago at “Signs That You Need A Vacation,” isn’t just another allegedly humorous list soon to be copied-and-pasted into hundreds of thousands of “forward to everyone you know” e-mails. I have to admit I found both the art selected to illustrate the page and Sign No. 3 (“You hospitalized the last person who criticized your choice of fonts”) really rather humorous.
   The point is the silliness of this piece is rooted in fact. People have to slide out of the yoke once in a while and, as they say, get out of Dodge. It’s challenging for many to believe its possible to get away. Some people even get so nervous at the prospect of leaving for a week they can get physically ill. 
   The bottom line is that you need to get away regularly. Not to a trade show; not to a seminar; not to a convention, but a real, actual vacation. Go someplace you enjoy and haven’t visited in a while. Build in some non work-related activities and don’t think about the company or your job. It’s not going to disappear while you’re away, and you’ll come back to it with the ability to see the whole forest and not just the tree stuck right in front of you. 
   ‘Later…