The (Un)Planned Sabbatical

How It’ll either Make or Break Your Business

Tyler Boufford
3 min readMay 16, 2024
Photo by Ludovic Gauthier on Unsplash

“Don’t be so busy that you forget to live your life.”

— Paulo Coelho

Let’s paint the picture we’ve all been fantasizing about:

A beach in Bali, surrounded by palm trees, sipping on a cold cocktail while our business chugs along like a well-oiled machine, generating passive income with us not having to lift a single finger.

Ah, the charm of building a business that doesn’t need you every waking hour!

You dreamt it, you worked for it, and just when you thought it was a mythical unicorn — poof! — it’s now your reality.

For me, this dream materialized into an (un)planned sabbatical to Abu Dhabi.

Yes, you heard right. Yours truly fled the home office to bask in the warm, luxurious sands of the UAE.

Falling off the face of the earth

But here’s where our tale takes a twist, my fellow hustlers...

When I said sabbatical, I didn’t mean a brief two-week siesta.

Nope.

This turned into a several month “OMG, is this guy still alive” sabbatical. Yes, I actually got a few…

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Tyler Boufford

Once $85.7k in the hole from a business flop, I penned my way to a 6-figure comeback. Now, I craft captivating copy that makes brands soar and revenues roar.