What's a reasonable amount of vacation time to take off each year? Feeling guilty when I use my time, and also feel the expectation is to be checking in.

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7 days in April, 7 days in July, every Monday in Jul and Aug. 7 days in Dec.

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EJ 1, I’ve had the same experience with clients. I called my best clients and let them know I’d be out and made sure they had my cell number.. not only did none of them call me, a few called me the week after to ask how my trip was. I’ll take that as a compliment to me doing things right.

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I think it is in our heads. As long as you run a clean business, clients are happy, and you are meeting your annual growth objectives ... I would try hard to relax and enjoy your time away. If you have that feeling with someone, I would ask them directly if it is an issue for them. Then I would try to determine if it is justified.

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FA1, i need to do the same thing. I have always had a difficult time taking vacation. I realize that this has not helped me or my practice. I do believe I would be much farther ahead if I had figured this one out years ago.

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Just got back from a couple weeks visiting family. I started telling clients in Feb I’d be gone over the 4th for a vacation and they all said I should take more time. I worried about it too but the clients who called while I was gone scheduled for this week because it wasn’t important enough they said to interrupt my vacation. It cleared my head and I don’t feel so bad about taking time going forward

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3 months per year..

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I think if you aren’t able to be away at least five weeks, you don’t have a sustainable practice.

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I think it’s important to take 4-5 weeks throughout the year for vacations. At least 2-3 weeks of which you are completely detached

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I hate taking vacation. Always feel like im missing out. FOMO. Need to get over it.

Nyl1, it’s not so much not being able to be away... I always have that scottrade commercial from like 10 years ago in my head, where the broker is on a yacht talking to his client and the client tells him he’s leaving for scottrade and then the voice over talks about paying advisors to do nothing when you can pay $7.95

I also think that you should either: 1) build a business that can run without you; or 2) if you want a smaller, solo practice type that you can run your business from wherever you want to live your life from. e.g. I spend the summers at a vacation home and can run my practice from there.

French vacation model - at least 6 weeks here. If you’re setup properly, shouldn’t be an issue.

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