How important is taking a break from work?

I went to UT in the Fall of 2000 to do my undergrad. From the following summer until the day I graduated, I always held 2 internships - paid/unpaid didn't matter, what mattered was what my dad said, "it has to add to your resume" so I did it and loved it. When I graduated, I found a job 14 days after moving to India. Mind you, I had 3 days post graduation to pack and move back to India. My first job was fun but the real job I wanted came through 3 months later and so I moved, yet again to Bangalore and Infosys.

3 job moves and 7 years later...I have had a maximum of 10 days between each job! Not surprising that I have reached a point where I think I need a break. So that's what I am doing. Come August I am going on a month long break (to start with) and doing all the things that I have put on the back burner up until now. I have discovered that no one..not even superman can goon without taking a break. Imagine if superman didn't have the boring day job (during which he could take a break from his REAL job), would he be fit to take on the bad guys?

Every human needs some time to recuperate, to sit back, relax his/her mind and body and take stock of his/her life and then start again. I have stopped myself from doing that for 11 years! The reason was- Fear!. Fear of losing sight of my goals, of not being able to get back on the wheel once I get off this bus of a hectic life, of what everyone would say. But the last few weeks, and especially the past 2 yrs of a crazy busy life, travel and stress has made me realize that there is more to me than my job. I won't exist without ME. So I decided to take this as a wake up call and take a break. To put everything on the side and focus on what makes me ME.

My advise to all you guys out there who are running around, making task lists and thinking how to squeeze in 30 mins of ME TIME every day....sit back and look at your life. If you want to go from this earth as someone who became CEO or someone who became CEO and enjoyed the ride there. I plan on being the latter!