I happen to live in a city that I once visited on vacation.

Because of this, I often wonder: In a given moment, when I'm not actually working, what is the difference between being on vacation and not being on vacation?

Well, I'll tell you: It's doing the dishes. But a big part of it is the mindset. I've learned that I can be "on vacation" by changing my attitude.

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To get from mainland Greece to the island of Santorini can be done in a few different ways.

You can fly directly from Athens in under an hour.

You can also take a couple of different types of ferries from Piraeus, Athens’ port city. One is a high-speed ferry that takes about four and a half hours. The other runs at a more moderate speed, taking more than seven hours to make the trip.

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When I left college, I thought I was going to be a performing songwriter.

I recorded an album of original songs that year.

I recorded another album of original songs eighteen months later.

And since then...nothing.

I've written songs, but I've never gotten back to the mindset I once had in which writing and recording songs meant everything.

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In school, effort for the sake of effort gets rewarded.

After all, what's an honors course but an opportunity to do more work in order to prove that you're a person who is willing to do more work simply for the sake of doing more work?

And once you show yourself to be the kind of person who puts in effort for effort's sake, you get more opportunities to demonstrate your work ethic at ever higher levels.

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This blog was not originally meant to be for entrepreneurs and creatives, but I know there are a lot of you reading.

And one theme that these folks often struggle with is how to take the next step—especially when you don’t know what the next step is.

One source of confusion is that building a business and building an audience are two different things, but they are often presented as the same thing in a lot of the discourse online. One can lead to the other, but it’s important to have clarity about which thing you’re doing and why.

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