Top 10 Reasons Vacations Keep You Healthy: Top 10 Reasons Series, #1

By DAVID J. NOZAR

Americans are taking fewer vacation days now than they have in the last 40 years, according to a study published in the Harvard Business Review. Yet more and more data reveal that employees show greater success at work when they vacation more.

This is the premise of a new nonfiction book advocating for more vacations and family fun. "Top 10 Reasons Vacations Keep You Healthy" by David J. Nozar endorses a lifestyle that includes vacationing more. The book, billed as the "workaholic's cure for stress," debunks the destructive "all work and no play" mentality, providing information about vacations and how they play an integral part in health and wellness.

Top 10 Reasons Vacations Keep You Healthy dispels the common myth of hard continuous work leading to greater productivity, recommending time to break through this mindset to create greater health and happiness.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: DAVID J. NOZAR
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386259619

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Part One

INTRODUCTION:

YOU NEED REST

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It’s been hectic, wasn’t it?

The whole day, in fact, the whole year got by and you probably didn’t notice, right? Taking a good look at your little girl recently? She had probably gotten so tall and all girly and you were blissfully unaware. How about taking a closer look at the receptionist at the door to your office, it might astound you to realize that it was not the same person that sat in that chair a while back.

Getting closer to home, you might also want to give more than a passing glance to your appearance in the mirror; you just might discover quite a few wrinkles around the eyes that were not there last year. Better still, it might interest you to know that you have been wearing the same shade of color for a long, long while. The list could go on and on; the summary of it all being; you are in a serious big rut.

A little bit disheartening, you think?

Yes! Those longer looks you are taking right now are saying loads and volumes- you are in dire need of a time out. Considering what you are observing at the moment, it should be safe to say that those closer and longer looks should have been taken eons ago.

Nonetheless, better late than never; rectifications can still be made to redeem the situation.

Imagine yourself staying in a particular fixed location for a long time. One is sure to get itchy and grouchy. Cramps soon set in the muscles and frustration is sure to follow suit. Well, those are the feelings derivable from being involved at work without taking the time to step out to recoup and refresh.

All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

One would not comprehend the divinity of the above popular statement if one does not actually stop to think to see oneself as being over involved in one’s work. Some people; workaholics, they are called; never see themselves as being overworked and deserving of a vacation. It would therefore be strange if the impact of the adage above has no relevance to their thoughts when it should really be their utmost concern.

However, whether you are one to face the truth of the matter or not, the divine truth is that ALL work definitely ends up making the brain a big for nothing white mass. Prolonged work and unending routine can also make us irritable, weary and unfocused; all of which hinder the body’s ability to fight infection and can lead to unhealthy behaviors, like loading up on fatty foods, consuming too much alcohol and smoking.

Should you still find it difficult to accept that you most definitely need to step aside (at least for a little while) from your known ‘norm’ into another realm, then shall we take a walk through these Top Ten Reasons you definitely should take a vacation- a real, considerably long, work-free and relaxing vacation.

Vacation is derived from vacate and generally means leaving or getting away from the daily routine. On the other hand, the word holiday comes from the word holy, or god-like. It usually refers to a day of freedom from labor, or a day set aside for rest and relaxation.

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STRESS RELIEF

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Every person needs to take one day away; a day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

-Maya Angelou in "Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My