The Return Of The Holidays: How To Generate Habits To Return To The Routine
The return from vacation can be a complicated period for many people, and there are even people who find it difficult to adapt to the work rhythms of this season and motivate themselves to face it correctly… To the point that they cannot adapt to the rhythm of necessary work or even suffer from mental health problems due to psychological exhaustion.
Therefore, here we will summarize several keys and habits to return to the routine when you return from the holidays
With the aim of learning how to generate useful habits to return to the post-vacation routine, below we will review the best tips, advice and behavioral guidelines that we can put into practice when we return from vacation.
1. Prioritize organization
Organization is essential in all areas of life if we want to generate habits again that allow us to return to our routine with more spirit than ever after the holidays.
This organization must be in the schedules, that is, we must start up again the schedules that we had before the holidays, both when we go to bed and when we get up each morning. To make it easier, it is recommended that it be a gradual process, so it is best that you readjust your sleep schedule at least a couple of days before returning to work, for example.
Likewise, organization must also take precedence in the workplace, ensuring that the desk table is clear, clean and tidy and having only the work material necessary to correctly carry out our duties. without distractions that we can fall into more easily in these first days
2. Dedicate time to yourself
Taking time to rest after the first days of post-vacation work is essential to get used to the new work rhythms.
Likewise, it is also very important to dedicate time to what relaxes us and truly fulfills us for a couple of hours each day or at the end of the day. There are many activities that we can do during our rest hours, the important thing is that they are our favorites.
Some of these activities that we can do after a hard day of work can be playing sports, taking a walk around the neighborhood, watching our favorite movie or series or simply relaxing in front of the television.
3. Make a list of pending tasks, prioritizing for simplicity and urgency
To avoid feeling overwhelmed when returning to work and try to complete all the assigned tasks, we can do a list of everything we must do during the day or during the week
In this way we will know at all times what to do at all times, being clear about which are the most laborious and time-consuming activities and which are the simplest ones.
In this regard, it is also recommended to start with the shorter and simpler tasks upon our return to the workplace and then do the more difficult ones, all with the aim of getting used to the work that has been entrusted to us again.
We all know that by maintaining a series of healthy lifestyle guidelines and habits on a daily basis we will feel much better on a physical, mental and emotional level, which will allow us to adapt more easily to the new pace of work after the holidays.
The main lifestyle habits that we must maintain during and after the holidays are: perform moderate or intense physical activity two or three times a week ; sleep correctly the hours necessary to rest and maintain a varied and healthy diet throughout the week.
5. Not taking work home
Psychological professionals recommend avoiding taking work home during the first days or weeks in which we return to work.
This will allow us to have well-differentiated personal and professional spheres during our daily lives and to be able to enjoy ourselves at home without having to work in the private sphere of the home.
6. Set mini-goals
Establish small daily or weekly goals related to our productivity and those tasks that we must take care of It will help us motivate ourselves at work and get used to the new work routine better
These partial objectives are of great help when it comes to working better and faster and allow us to improve our daily and weekly productivity.
7. Start new and motivating activities
With the return of routine and work obligations, it is advisable to start new activities that help us disconnect and allow us to stop thinking about work in our private life. In this way we will not experience such an intense shock due to the contrast between having a lot of free time (first) and not being able to stop dedicating ourselves directly or indirectly to work even if it is in our mind (later).
They do not have to be markedly relaxing activities, but rather stimulating ones For example, studying a new language, playing a new sport or a new skill that catches our attention and allows us to be creative or helps us release tension.
8. Implement daily relaxation techniques
There are some very useful relaxation techniques that, carried out daily and systematically, can help us achieve daily states of relaxation that allow us to be in a better mood and adapt better to the new routine.
Some of the most effective relaxation techniques are yoga, progressive muscle relaxation or pilates
9. If the situation overwhelms you, go to therapy
If stress or anxiety is excessive, it is important that you go to psychotherapy. In sessions with a psychologist you will learn strategies for emotional management and work organization. In PSiCOBAi We will be happy to assist you.
