Beach Reading

Beach Reading

As summer gets going in earnest, there’s a decent chance you’ll find yourself sitting on a beach sometime over the next several weeks. You can see it now…a prop plane lazily towing a promotional sign for a local restaurant glides under puffy cotton clouds, a sailboat silently inches across the cobalt-blue horizon, and foamy ocean waves lap endlessly on shore. Finally at peace, your eyelids become delightfully heavy. 

Then, almost by instinct, you snap back to attention and reach for your phone.

This won’t take long, you say to yourself. You’re just going to quickly scan texts and emails, and maybe briefly check in with the office to see if anything important is going on. You’ll be back in your zen-like state in two minutes.

A half hour later, you’re power walking up and down the beach, head down, staring intensely at nothing, barely aware of your surroundings as you respond to a client, weigh in on a key hire, and dig into why it’s taking so long to close the previous month. You begin to wonder why your vacation somehow feels suspiciously like a Tuesday…Read more