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Your World is Dead. Long Live Your World
Posted On 2009-08-17 , 7:25 PM
Your World is Dead. Long Live Your World
| You've heard the phrase, in movies if nowhere else, "The King is Dead. Long Live the King." This is a very quick way to both honor a king who has just passed away, "The King is Dead," and at the same time honor the heir, "Long Live the King." |
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You Need a Break
In today's lives of cell phones, instant messaging, having your email open all day at work, and above all the essential post-it notes, you need a break. I'm not talking about a 15-mintue break or a night on the town. They have their place. But a weekend camping can rescue you from a dead world.
Say you and your team at the office have been working ten and twelve-hour days to finish a project on time. You have to cancel the date with your spouse, your kids start to complain, and someone calls because you forgot to pay some bill. You are exhausted. The deadline comes, your project is delivered on time.
But you are exhausted. You have nothing to give your spouse, your kids, nor your work, to which you have to return on Monday.
Go camping!
Get away from the city, leave the cell phone off in the car. Take it in case of a real emergency. Leave the computers, the texting, the emails and get just far enough away to know you have entered another world and left the old one behind.
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Even for just one or two nights of a weekend. Get physically and mentally away. |
But a Camping Trip is a Project in Itself!
You have two options.
- Just take the essentials. Eat on the way and just sleep in a tent away from the city. Come into the city, eat at restaurants, whatever you need. But spend time in the outdoors—far enough away that no one can reach you.
- Plan Ahead. Long before you have a huge project at work, organize your gear, firewood, and food so that you can be gone any Friday with less than 30 minutes to load and be out the driveway. Just knowing this is waiting for you can take the edge off the stress, and help you be more efficient at work in the middle of that big project.
There is a feeling of freedom when you wake up in a tent or camper and walk right into wilderness. No cities, less noise, no agenda.
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Such a camping trip can let your world die. |
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And give birth within you to a new world. |
You won’t return to the same job because you will be different. You will have had time to reflect on the big project or the unexpected stress. Your objectivity will be restored. You will go back to a different world because you will be different.
Whenever you find your world is dead.
Go camping.
And long live your world.
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