Jim Murphy

And my first thought was, I don't go on vacation.

But then I started thinking about, it was going to be him and his son who had just lost his mom.

And I thought, you know, maybe I could go and be something positive in their lives.

And

But this thing about vacation, the article, How to Be on Vacation, is the idea that most people go on vacation to escape their lives, like you said.

The common thing is, I'm going to go on vacation.

I don't want to think about work.

Let's not talk about work.

Let's not talk about anything back home.

We're just going to relax.

That's a very common idea, right?

Yeah.

And it's kind of like escaping your life.

And like you said, why do you have a life that you want to escape from?

So the gist of the article is rather than going to escape your life on vacation, the best vacation is one where you go to enhance your life.

Well, how do you do that?

Well, first of all, we need to stop all the busyness.

So stop all the thinking and all the doing and stop all that for a day or two.

And then think deeply about your life purpose and why you're here on this earth and how can you move towards that when you go back to your regular life.

There's a question that I like to ask at the end of every year is what good reason do you have to not change every single thing in your life?