08/09/2026
After sharing bits of our summer, I kept hearing the same thing. Oh I have not been on vacation in years. Oh I could never take that much time away from my business.
Full stop. What?!
I try to take some kind of mini vacation every single month. And this summer we went full vacation mode. Daniel took Cam on four back to back cruises with Ethan joining them for the last one while I stayed behind for fourteen focused, heads down days. Then I closed the laptop completely. Two weeks through Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon ending in Vegas. Add in two Concerts, a Giants game and exploring San Francisco. One final three day cruise. And now closing out summer relaxing at home.
I am not sharing this to brag. I am sharing it because this is what the CALM framework actually looks like when you live it, not just talk about it.
It takes planning. It takes intentionality. But the thing that actually makes it possible is the systems underneath it all. Systems that keep working whether I am heads down or fully offline.
That is not luck. That is what happens when your systems can carry the weight, whether you are sprinting or completely offline.