發(fā)動(dòng)親友，尋求幫助

????OFD咨詢(xún)公司是一家位于弗吉尼亞州的婚禮營(yíng)銷(xiāo)企業(yè)。公司業(yè)主梅根?伊利去年九月曾與丈夫一起去愛(ài)爾蘭度假八天。她說(shuō)：“在度假之前，我會(huì)培訓(xùn)我的一位員工，讓他變成‘我的代理人’。” 比如代替她回復(fù)電子郵件，前期接洽潛在客戶等等。

????如果沒(méi)有員工該怎么辦？對(duì)醫(yī)生來(lái)說(shuō)，他們會(huì)在假期期間彼此幫忙代班。如果你欣賞和信任某一位同事，尤其是在你準(zhǔn)備休長(zhǎng)假之前，你可以嘗試向他托付自己的工作。你還可以請(qǐng)求一位你信得過(guò)的好友或者家人替你查看電子郵件和語(yǔ)音郵件，如果有很糟糕的事情發(fā)生，他們還能打電話到你度假期間下榻的酒店找你。

少量多次，分期休假

????古拉夫?沙爾瑪現(xiàn)在經(jīng)營(yíng)著初創(chuàng)企業(yè)RightBuy.com。他還開(kāi)過(guò)一家網(wǎng)絡(luò)咨詢(xún)公司。他說(shuō)，“去年我休假一個(gè)禮拜，雖然我事先規(guī)劃得很好，但還是給幾位客戶造成了困擾，”這幾位客戶后來(lái)也不再光顧。所以現(xiàn)在他主要休長(zhǎng)周末。

????而有些人則在常規(guī)的日歷周期之外另辟蹊徑，但時(shí)間長(zhǎng)度仍為一周。蒂姆?帕西雷奧經(jīng)營(yíng)著董事會(huì)顧問(wèn)營(yíng)銷(xiāo)公司（TheBoardRoomAdvisors）。他休假的時(shí)間通常跨越兩周，比如，從這周三到下周三。如果說(shuō)客戶考慮問(wèn)題的周期是以一個(gè)星期為單位，這樣實(shí)際上的休假并不會(huì)完全漏掉某一整個(gè)星期。他說(shuō)：“這讓我更容易應(yīng)對(duì)客戶，并且這對(duì)我的收益流也沒(méi)有多少影響。”

閑里偷忙，張弛有度

????布萊德?弗萊德曼在一家社交媒體營(yíng)銷(xiāo)公司擔(dān)任代理人。他說(shuō)：“我的A型人格不可能允許我完完全全地關(guān)張一禮拜。”所以他所做的是“在度假之前做好規(guī)劃，每天或者隔天抽出一些時(shí)間查閱電子郵件和電話信息。我盡量把這種‘工作時(shí)間’限制在每天不超過(guò)半小時(shí)。坦白講，與完全抽離工作長(zhǎng)達(dá)一整周時(shí)間相比，這個(gè)小經(jīng)驗(yàn)?zāi)茏屛腋潘傻囟燃佟！?/p>

????然而，即使你牢牢記住上面提到的所有經(jīng)驗(yàn)，有一些快樂(lè)的企業(yè)主會(huì)建議說(shuō)，有些時(shí)候只要大膽抽身就好。休假有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，但經(jīng)營(yíng)企業(yè)通常也有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。佩奇?阿洛夫芬是行家大腕咨詢(xún)和營(yíng)銷(xiāo)公司（Mavens and Moguls）創(chuàng)始人。她在自己40歲生日的時(shí)候休了整整一個(gè)月的假，呆在海外鄉(xiāng)下的一戶簡(jiǎn)樸的農(nóng)家，上不了網(wǎng)也不能接打手機(jī)。她早在數(shù)月前就通知了所有人，到時(shí)間就出發(fā)了。她非常享受這段經(jīng)歷。她和丈夫決定在2012年再用一個(gè)月時(shí)間前往澳大利亞和新西蘭度假。

????她說(shuō)：“這對(duì)我們兩人來(lái)說(shuō)，這并非一個(gè)具有重大紀(jì)念意義的生日，而僅僅是一種享受人生的方式。”她和丈夫在過(guò)去幾年內(nèi)相繼失去了數(shù)位親人，他們從中得到的感悟就是，即使在度假歸來(lái)需要努力才能挽回一些生意，也“不要非得等到有了什么理由才去休假。”

????譯者：李玫曉/汪皓

Get help.

????Meghan Ely, owner of OFD Consulting, a Virginia-based wedding marketing firm, took an eight-day trip to Ireland last September with her husband. "Prior to leaving, I trained one of my staff members essentially how to 'be me,'" she says, answering emails, taking the first few steps with prospects and the like.

????Don't have staff? Doctors cover each other's shifts for vacations, and if you have a colleague you admire and trust, you could try referring work over there during your time off -- particularly if you plan to take a longer leave. You could also ask a trusted friend or family member to check your email and voice mail and call your hotel if anything disastrous happens.

Consider shorter, more frequent breaks.

????Guarav Sharma, who now runs the startup RightBuy.com, used to run a web consulting company. "I took a week off last year and even though I planned it well, a few clients were frustrated," he says, and did not become repeat customers. Now he sticks to long weekends.

????Others squeeze in a week by thinking outside the usual calendar categories. Tim Pacileo, owner of TheBoardRoomAdvisors, a marketing firm, often takes his vacation from, say, Wednesday to Wednesday. If clients think on a weekly cycle, this allows you to never actually skip a week. "It's easier on my customers and doesn't affect my income stream as much," he says.

Schedule short "work breaks" on your vacation.

????Brad Friedman, an attorney who now works in social media marketing, says that "My type-A personality wouldn't possibly let me completely shut down for an entire week." So what he does is "set a schedule before I leave town. That schedule provides me with some time every day, or every other day, to check email and phone messages. I try to limit this 'work time' to no more than an hour a day. Frankly, this tip helps me relax on the vacation much more than if I would try to totally cut myself off from work for a whole week."

????But even keeping all this in mind, happy business owners say that you sometimes just have to go for it. Taking time off is a risk, but so is running a business in general. Paige Arnof-Fenn, founder of the consulting and marketing firm Mavens and Moguls, took a month off for her 40th birthday, staying in a rustic farmhouse overseas that had no Internet access or cell phone reception. She told everyone months ahead of time, and then just went. She enjoyed the experience so much that she and her husband will be taking another month off to go to Australia and New Zealand in 2012.

????"Not a milestone birthday for either of us but just a way to celebrate our lives," she says. She and her husband have lost several relatives in the past few years, and the lesson they are drawing from it is to "not … wait for an excuse to take time off" -- even if it takes some effort to scale back up when you return.