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Vacations are like a project. There's a before-vacation and an after-vacation period that needs to be carefully managed. After years of taking vacations?and that too thrice a year, we have to do a lot of planning. So how do we make sure everything works when we're away? How do we make sure we don't get tempted by e-mail and work while on vacation? And how do you manage a smooth re-entry back to work? These super-duper secrets are yours for the taking in this super-duper episode.

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Right after Renuka and I got married, we decided that we're going to go to many places and we did go for a honeymoon because that's what I was told, you don't go for your honeymoon, and every time you have a fight, that's the one thing that comes up. Anyway, we went for a honeymoon and then a year passed and we didn't go anywhere, and the second year passed, then we did a trip to Australia simply because there was some kind of discount on Qantas, but then the years ticked away and then we moved to New Zealand and we realized that 4 and 5 years had passed and we weren't going anywhere. That was a real problem because inherently, the reason why I quit my job in India in the first place was because I couldn't go on vacation whenever I wanted to.

Even when I got to New Zealand, it was a problem because every time I went on holiday, I'd be very hassled about someone else taking my work, that I was not getting paid, and so holidays or vacations became a very important part of our life. What lots of people don't realize is that a vacation is also a project and you have to plan if you want to make it successful. One of the things that you have to plan is what you do before you leave and what you do when you get back. This episode is dedicated to the vacation.

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