Did Your Vacation Refresh You?Thursday, January 04, 2007I recently heard someone say that we should take 3 week vacations. The first week would be spent training yourself not to think about work. The second week would be your actual vacation and the third week you would start thinking about work again. Someone else told me that they really could use antidepressants the first week returning from vacation. Transitions seem to be difficult for us. I think they are difficult primarily because we make them difficult. If you take three weeks of vacation, you should do just that. Take three weeks! The day you walk out of the office, turn the valve off. Train yourself to leave work behind. Several weeks ago, I encouraged you not to check your email during your Christmas vacation. How did you do? If you are successful in jumping right into your vacation and then check your email the second day, you blew it. Email is a cesspool of stress, problems, requests - more work! After reading the email, motivated employees will feel compelled to fix a problem. I have been guilty of checking email during my vacations for many years. It took me a long time to learn this lesson. This year, I took a 10 day vacation over the Christmas holiday and I did not check email at work a single time. I was not even tempted. I successfully removed myself from my work for a week and a half. It was wonderful! Did your vacation refresh you? Labels: Work/Life Balance posted at 1/04/2007 08:00:00 AM |
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