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Three Tips to a Successful Time Out
Author: Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.

Do you ever wish you could get away from work for a month or a year?

Many people envy academics who take sabbaticals. What they don't realize is that sabbaticals are not designed as time on the beach. You are supposed to use your free time to accomplish specific projects. Often you cannot embark on a sabbatical if your plans seem vague or unproductive.
So Tip #1 is, Have a plan.

If your time out is part of a life transition, plan for fun. How do you want to play? Did you always want to spend a year at the movies, take a ceramics class, write nonstop all morning, or begin each day with a blank slate? If this idea is totally new, even scary, you may want to practice on weekends. You may need to identify what you really want to do before you start.
After you know what you want to do, move to Tip #2:

Design playful activities.

The Moving Lady recommends two types of goals: a creativity goal and a physical activity goal. A creativity goal involves developing a new side of yourself, using some combination of art, music, drama, and writing. You may become an artist or take "appreciation" classes. No ideas? Check out The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron, available at any bookstore. The Moving Lady is willing to bet that you will have no trouble identifying playful activities as you work through the program. Physical activity can be as simple as walking or as rigorous as training for a marathon. Learn a new sport. Dance. Work with a trainer in the weight room. People tell me over and over, "I felt stronger as a person when my body became stronger."

Some goals are unique combinations of the physical and the creative. "Build a cabin on my property," "Sail my boat to the island and back," "Walk the length of the state of California and keep a journal."

Goals suggest that your Time Out will come to an end. Thus, Tip #3:

Set a time.limit for your Time Out.

In basketball, you get twenty seconds. You might have a month, a summer, or a year. Over three months, you can sign up for a class in pottery or piano. You can complete The Artist's Way program. Six months? You can draft a short book or outline a longer one. Six weeks? You can travel or go to workshops or see all the movies you didn't have time for.

A time limit can free you. Someone I know (call her Janet) finished her MBA and began drifting. She worked part-time in a restaurant in a charming resort town. She felt no rush to get a corporate job to begin her career. After several months, the restaurant closed and Janet's parents reminded her, "We supported you through school so you could get a real job!" Janet eventually built her own successful business, but she says a time limit would have given her a sense of direction. Don't drift. You can always start a new Time Out if you're ready.








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Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D., offers tele-coaching, writing and speaking services, specializing in career change and relocation. As you reduce stress and experience a creative life transition, you can also save time and money. Visit her website at www.movinglady.com and subscribe to her free newsletter. You can order her book, Making the Big Move: How to Transform Relocation into a Creative Life Transition from www.newharbinger.com or from any bookstore. Her e-mail is cathy@movinglady.com. This article originally appeared in the Gainesville (FL) Sun.

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