This community truly offers the best in golf and luxury amenities. Quail West Golf and Country Club features 2 18-hole golf courses designed by course designer Arthur Hills. The courses are uniquely challenging as they unfold along waterways and nature preserves, creating a great test for all levels of golfers.

The Lakes, a links-style course, stretches to more than 7,000 yards. The Preserve is a more traditional, championship course that winds through 200 acres of landscape filled with wildlife and nature. Only 600 members belong to Quail West, which hosted a professional golf tournament in 2007.

The golf club features a state-of-the-art practice facility and professional teaching staff. The 70,000-square foot clubhouse offers members three dining options, a pro shop, a spa, a salon and a fitness center, along with tennis courts and an indoor pool.

Quail West, located near Interstate 75, offers convenient access to all the attractions in Florida. including fine dining, shopping and entertainment. Residents can also take a short drive to the sun-drenched Gulf Coast beaches. Art and music lovers will enjoy the Naples Philharmonic, the theaters, or the many art galleries throughout Naples city itself.

Homes in this luxury community are in demand, and range in price from $800,000 to $9.9 million.

It’s easy to get caught up in the minutiae of planning a holiday, vacation or other event as a father. As men we are more goal oriented and tend to focus on the “what needs to be done to achieve this” attitude. This is great is life as we do get a lot done, but we can miss out on the big picture with such a narrow viewpoint.

To the average Naples family, vacation time is a busy one. Whether you’re going on a road trip, abroad, or staying local there’s a lot to plan, to do and to experience. Christmas is one such time, that’s full of things that need doing to achieve the desired effect, but we as men, and fathers sometimes miss out on the big picture.

My son ran up to me the other day and told me he wanted the best Christmas ever this year. I immediately thought of all the things I had to do before the day, shopping, gifts, decorating the tree, organizing family and a host of other things. I also do the cooking in our family so I had that to worry about too. Getting the groceries, planning meals and seating plans while my wife looked after the presents and other activities.

This took me away from the whole spirit of the holiday. I had taken vacation time so I could be with my family over the holidays because I normally worked. Americans work more than most other Western countries, so it’s easy to get caught up with the demands of work. Apparently we work a full nine weeks a year more than anyone in Europe. Thirty eight percent of fathers report they regularly work more than fifty hours a week. It’s no wonder that we sometimes forget the bigger picture.

It’s no surprise that the spirit of Christmas often passes us by. With that in mind, to the Naples family, vacation time is an important time to spend together, catching up on what we missed and making up for having to be at work so much.

To make the most of holiday or vacation time, it’s necessary to lose the goal oriented mentality and ask “what does my family need?” This will still involve tasks and things to do, but with a wider scope and perspective. Changing the habit of a lifetime won’t be easy, but it will be rewarding. Try it one Christmas and see the difference in your family. If the change is positive, use it as motivation to continue the behavior with them.

Standing there looking at my son, it was also time to get into the spirit of Christmas and see the bigger picture. So I sat us both down on the chair and asked him how and why he wanted this Christmas to be the best one ever.