489: Take a Break

You can love private club work and still be running on fumes. I’m sharing a straightforward reminder for golf and country club professionals: reward the effort, protect your energy, and make time to be fully present somewhere outside the club. 

We talk about what real recovery looks like for hospitality leaders and club managers, especially after holiday stretches and nonstop seasons. Sometimes that means friends and family. Sometimes it means doing something solo. The goal is the same: pick activities that bring you joy, spark creativity, and get your brain out of the constant loop of payroll, debriefs, and member issues. I also dig into why certain hobbies and endurance-style challenges work so well because they demand total focus, the kind that quiets everything else and leaves you feeling reset. 

Then I share a “treat yourself” option that blends adrenaline with professional development: 

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Welcome to the Private Club Radio Show, the show where you get the scoop on life inside private golf and country clubs. I'm your host, Denny Corby, and each episode is a real conversation with club leaders, the pros, the people and partners who help clubs thrive. We talk leadership, culture, food and beverage, member experiences, member engagement, marketing, governance, and so much more. If you want practical ideas, better teams and a club experience, members actually feel and talk about. You are in the right place now. Welcome to the show

Hyper Focus Hobbies That Reset You

Adrenaline Meets Education Event

Final Reminder To Recharge

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In this episode, we are talking about taking a break. Rewarding yourself, treating yourself you work the holidays, you cover the shifts, you show up, you do the work, you, your team, you as the individual. not everybody works the holidays, but a lot of people do. So it's just a dumb reminder to just treat yourself. Take time for yourself, take time for you, your friends, your family, your, the people who you just care about, or even if it's not even the people you care about, maybe just the things that you care about. Forget the people, right? Go do some loaner stuff. I think I love practicing magic. No, but. Taking time to enjoy your hobbies, the things that bring joy to you. Use your creative side. Do some stuff with that side of the brain that gets those juices flowing. Try a new activity, Get the, get the synapses moving, this is actually this past weekend that, that this airs, uh, it'll be Easter weekend and this is the first weekend I haven't had off in two months. Um, or did I say that right? This is my first weekend off. This is my first weekend off in two months. From conference to Florida, like all over. It was just a constant. Every weekend just shows travel and doing something, so I get it. So we all have to remember sometimes take care of yourself and our selves too. Tweet yol, bark and Rec. Tom and Donna had it right. Seriously though, re reward yourself for the work that you are putting in. Take the time to do something that takes your brain. Really makes it focus, right? I think that's why so many people get into endurance sports and things like that, where it really just takes your focus and because,'cause you have to, right? It takes so much mental energy to focus and to really push the body and the limits or whatever it's doing, right? Just that super focus. Danger things sometimes. Always. It's always, always fun. When your brain is just fully locked in, shuts everything else off, no member complaints, no payroll, no event debrief, just you fully present. So that's it. Take some time for yourself, and if you really wanna take some time for yourself and really reward yourself for something amazing and you like a little bit of adrenaline and you like a little bit of hyper focus, but you also like education, let me tell you about my event management in motion. We did it last year. We're doing it again this year. We're almost at 50% sold out and it's in September. It's at the Monticello Motor Club and it's adrenaline meets education. We take BMWM cars. We do drifting drag racing auto X high speed laps. Hot laps. We got go-karting. It is so much fun and interwoven in between. Everything is the education, but the education is from you, you guys. It's. Other club professionals coming to talk to you all, and it's in a really intimate setting, only 50 people, and it's about how they take their motion, whatever their motion is, and how they relate that to leadership, and then how that just all translates. So the first year I had Joe, uh, Smith and Lou Angio Vannelli, who were like very big car people, and they came and talked. I think they're actually coming back again this year. Um, to come and, and enjoy the whole whole experience again as, uh. An attendee, but uh, this year I have locked in Ed, ed Ronan, and his motion is cycling and scuba. Which is really cool. Uh, and he also came last year, so he got to enjoy the fun, the craziness, the adrenaline. Uh, he actually has one of the best pictures on the, uh, website. His hair looks amazing. Uh, after, after taking the helmet off and get doing a hot laugh, it was so cool. Um, but it's just a really fun day and it's intimate and it's, it, it's a nichey event inside, already A nichey event, right? Because, um. It's hosted by me. I'm, I'm putting it on. Um, and it's just, I just wanted to get fun club people together in a fun setting. And Yel, I'm gracious to call him. I would say a friend, I don't know if, if he would call me a friend, but I call him a friend and we'd had a great episode on private club radio and I jokingly said to him, oh, I would love to bring a bunch of club managers here and do a fun thing. He's like, oh, well I brought in, I brought some, some, some chapters in. I was like, no, but I wanna do like education where like they are, you know, it's like people who are in clubs who also just enjoy like adrenaline and cars and talk about how like they maybe relate that into like. Leadership and he was like, done and we're doing it. It was just one of those, it just happened and it's happening again. Um, and expanding on the motion to not just cars being part of the education, but also just different'cause everybody has different motions and how they use those motions to lead and to manage and how they use it to grow themselves personally and professionally and all that. So it's gonna be so much fun. If you wanna learn more, head on over to denny corby.com/management in motion or just denny corby.com. But that's this episode, shameless plug. Mixed in with a quick message of just treating yourself. Make time for yourself. We're all busy, we're all working, and it's important. And to take time for yourself, and whether that's with people, without people, pick up a skill, do something. Get your creative juice going. Get around good people. That's this episode. I'm your host, Danny Corby. Until next time, catch y'all on the flippity flip.