TIME OFF IS MEDICINE!

Besides dramatically cutting the risk of heart disease, vacations have a number of other health benefits. Vacations have been shown to cure burnout, the last stage of chronic stress. The time away from stressors helps re-gather crashed emotional resources, such as a sense of mastery and optimism. But it takes two weeks for this process to occur, so you need to have real time off to get the recuperative benefits.

Studies have also shown that time off increases positive mood, a sense of initiative, competence, and that the more leisure activities you're involved in the higher your life satisfaction.

Because vacations recharge and rejuvenate, the research shows they also increase performance on the job when you return to the office. Productivity works hand in hand with time off. When vacations are planned into the flow of operations, and cross-training allows colleagues to fill in while you're gone and vice-versa, everyone benefits, including the bottom line.
(FROM JOE ROBINSON'S WEB SITE: WWW.WORKTOLIVE.INFO)

YOU NEED A HOLIDAY!

Dr. Mel Borins of Toronto, Ontario, physician and author of Go Away! Just for the Health of It, says "Vacations are a good way to recharge your batteries, step off the treadmill of life and see things in a different perspective."
(FROM MEL BORINS WEB SITE: WWW.MELBORINS.COM)

TAKE BACK YOUR VACATION!

Vacations are vanishing. Only 14% of Americans will get a vacation of two weeks or longer this year. It's time to protect vacations before they disappear altogether. Unlike 127 other countries, the U.S. has no minimum paid-leave law. Australians have four weeks off by law, the Europeans four and five weeks. The Japanese two weeks. We have ZERO!

Join the campaign to pass The Minimum Leave Protection, Family Bonding and Personal Well-Being Act of 2007. For more information, visit http://www.timeday.org
(FROM TAKE BACK YOUR TIME WEB SITE: WWW.TIMEDAY.ORG)