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Book a Dream Vacation Even If You Work (A Lot)
Includes My Favorite Travel Links
8 min readJun 30, 2023
Somehow, today is the last day of the first half of 2023. And if you’re up for it, it’s an excellent time for a mini progress report. How are you doing relative to the goals you set for yourself this year?
Let your subconscious work that out while I steal your attention to discuss something important: Not goals, but a vacation.
But first, a pop quiz. Answer each question with true or false.
- 56% of working parents struggle to balance work and family.
- 54% of mothers are solely responsible for their children’s activities and schedules.
- 50% of working fathers spend less time with their children than they want.
- 48% of Americans take less vacation or paid time off than they could.
- 46% of families have two full-time working parents.
- Women own 43% of small businesses in the US.
- 41% of women don’t advance in their careers after becoming a mom.
- 26% of families have a full-time working dad and a SAHM.
- Moms own nearly 5 million US businesses.
- Less than 2% of women business owners ever break $1M in revenue.