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No Vacation Required provides inspiration and tools to help you build a life you don’t need a break from.
Our blog and podcast dive into the real stories and everyday strategies behind building a No Vacation Required life. We challenge outdated norms, share fresh perspectives, and explore what it means to find fulfillment right now—in a world that rarely makes it easy.
This week, we are talking about the auxiliary personality trait. It’s the balancing force of your personality stack, and it might just be the missing piece you’ve been looking for.
Read MoreThis week, we are kicking off a new four-part series by diving deep into your dominant personality trait. We are exploring what it feels like to be "in the pocket" of your greatest strength, how to recognize when you are operating out of alignment, and why your dominant trait is the ultimate key to building a life you don't need a vacation from.
Read MoreThis week, we are exploring the final piece of the personality puzzle: Intuition vs. Sensing. Whether you are a big-picture dreamer or a grounded, five-senses realist, there is so much magic waiting for you here.
Read MoreThis week, we are diving into the core cognitive engines of personality: Thinking vs. Feeling. We are breaking down how to bridge the gap, whether you are navigating a love relationship, a friendship, or a dynamic at work.
Read MoreThis week, we continue our personality series by exploring another of the structural keys that shapes how we move through the world: Judging and Perceiving.
Read MoreIn this episode, Caanan shares a personal look at how he spent years believing he was an extrovert – doing the "dog and pony show" at parties – only to realize the profound relief of discovering he is, in fact, a screaming introvert. We break down why introversion and extroversion are actually "structural keys" that unlock how your personality operates, why true alignment requires knowing your energy baseline, and how a lack of self-knowledge causes us to blame ourselves instead of looking at how we've structured our lives.
Read MoreIn this final episode of our fulfillment series, we’re talking about money. Because money touches everything. Our careers. Our choices. Our sense of possibility. The stories we tell ourselves about success. The futures we imagine for ourselves.
Read MoreIn this episode, we share a handful of personal stories that highlight just how deeply these ideas show up in everyday life. We talk about why alternative lifestyles can be so difficult for people to imagine, why freedom often looks strange from the outside, and how easy it is to confuse someone else’s definition of success with your own.
Read MoreIn this episode, we share our own experiences navigating resistance, misunderstanding, and disappointment from people we care about. We talk about why unconventional choices make others uncomfortable, how social pressure shows up in surprising places, and why knowing yourself becomes even more important when everyone else has an opinion.
Read MoreIn this first episode of Season 3, we're sharing the origin story behind No Vacation Required and introducing one of the foundational concepts that changed our lives: what we call the Dream of the Planet – the collection of assumptions, expectations, and scripts we inherit about what a successful life should look like.
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