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#164: As an entrepreneur, Bob Lotich loves growing and expanding. But after a particularly stressful year, he realized he had burned out.\n He woke up one Monday morning and, for the first time since he\u2019d started self-employment, he realized he didn\u2019t want to go to work. This was a new and uncomfortable feeling.\n He decided to take a mini-retirement.\n He had taken long breaks before. In the past, Bob had taken a full month off of work. This time, he wanted to a more ambitious break. He wanted to take a quarter off.\n He went to his whiteboard. He wrote the goal \u201ctake a sabbatical,\u201d intending for this to last for three months. But then he paused. He wondered if he spelled the word \u201csabbatical\u201d correctly. He Googled the word, then started reading about the concept. Bob learned that a sabbatical is historically a one-year break. Hmmm.\n That\u2019s when he changed direction. Bob Lotich shares the reasons he decided to take a full year off work.\n For more information, visit the show notes at http://affordanything.com/episode164\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices