3 Ways Vacation Clears Your Work Cache
Jul 27, 2025
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale talked about how a constantly bent bow will break. The bow needs pressure released to function well.
Dr. Stephen Covey extolled the seventh habit of sharpening the saw. You work harder with less production if you saw without a break to sharpen.
Think of this same principle as clearing your cache. You know how your browser slows down if you don’t clear your cache?
Vacation clears your cache. How?
Here are three ways I discovered vacation can clear your cache when you create a Work Positive culture:
Work Continues
You best evaluate your systems when you step out of them for a time. Are they dependent on your presence? Or can the team handle work without you?
You work a job if you’re required to be present. Magnify your impact and magnetize your team relationships by creating a positive work culture that grows people and profits with systems that support them.
Vacation to clear your cache and discover how well work continues.
Work Creates
You tap resources consumed by “the daily grind” when you step away and clear your cache.
One summer I kept trying to solve a situation with one of our companies to no avail. It was a classic case of applying the same mindset over and over. I released it while vacationing. It washed away with the tide one evening as I relaxed.
Later I walked through a room, watched a news piece, and immediately saw the solution. I got a handle on it with an idea of how to grow our culture better.
Vacation to clear your cache and see how work creates particularly with innovation.
Work Clears
The best outcome on vacation is to clear space to be more human being than human doing.
One year, my older daughter and I went to a Star Trek movie, a series I raised her to love. Then we went to McDonalds for a milkshake and fries, something we did every Friday when I picked her up from elementary school.
My younger daughter and I went shopping, an activity she loves. We bought three new tops and some Oakley Shields.
I got in touch again with these two incredible young women whom I love dearly. We laughed, reminisced, and just enjoyed being together.
I returned to work with a renewed sense of meaning and purpose. Instead of a myopic focus on more and better work, I looked within, found more reasons “why” I work, and dug in deeper.
Make your bow ready and know work continues while you’re on vacation. Sharpen your saw and know work creates when you’re gone. Clear your cache and know your work clears, too.
Enjoy your vacation and Work Positive!
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