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Are you blocking time to quiet the mind and work ON the business?

11 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Andy Neary (speaker) urges business professionals—notably in insurance—to intentionally block time to quiet and declutter the mind, distinguishing family vacations from solo or peer retreats. He describes a recurring "guys' trip/weekend" as a deliberate opportunity to work on personal growth and business strategy and says he consistently returns with actionable ideas ('nuggets') to apply to his business.

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If you think about it, one of the things we struggle with as business professionals, especially in the insurance industry, is we don't take the time to detach and declutter our mind. Like I said, taking the family on vacation is a great way to detach. But my question is, does that really give you a chance to declutter, clear the mind, get quiet? Because you're always spending time with your family, right. Which is great. But when do you spend that time to really get quiet with yourself and work on you and or your business? See, that's what this is for me when I get a chance to hang out with these guys. Yeah, we call it the guys trip or the guys weekend. But it's really a chance to work on me and my business. And I always know I'm going to come out of those three days together with some nuggets that I can apply to my business.