When was the last time you woke up on a work day and decided to get in the car a take a day trip… instead of going to work?

Talk about feeling free and having a sense of adventure!

Sometimes you just have to do something spontaneous to break up the monotony. My wife, Gwen, and I did just that a couple of days ago. There’s this great restaurant in Livingston, Montana which is about 130 miles from where we live.

The neat thing is that we can get there using the “less traveled route”. Imagine driving through some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world and seeing maybe one car every ten minutes or so! What an amazing way to spend an afternoon.

We don’t talk about the business or anything other than what we are experiencing at that moment…

After we arrive at our destination we have dinner then return home. When we get home we feel relaxed, refreshed and ready for the next day. A spontaneous one-day vacation. The secret is not to plan the day ahead of time. Just wake up one day and do it.

Sometimes you need to put your life back into perspective and the best way to do it is to spontaneously extract yourself from your day to day routine.

Don’t feel guilty about it either! It’s your life and it may be exactly what you need to actually make you even more productive at your job. (Just remember to call in and tell them you have to take a personal day off.)

Treat yourself to time free of any expectations.

Drive somewhere and go to a restaurant you’ve never been to before. That’s exactly how Gwen and I discovered one of our favorite restaurants one day taking one of our spontaneous Montana day trips.

Boy, was it fun!

-Bob Baran