Welcome back, yeah right.... So you've been away on a holiday break and you're now back at work refreshed and ready to attack a new year with vigour and passion. This break you made some decisions about your future and you can't wait until you get into it..... Hmmmm maybe not! So you've had a great break and now being back at work is horrible, you lack focus (especially with this hot weather in Canterbury we're having) motivation, got lost somewhere between Xmas pudding and 2am New Years Eve
Ok so the truth lies probably in the middle for most of us, we have plans for the new year but getting back into the daily ritual of working is hard, so here's how I have done it:-
- Plan the first day as a planning day only, clearing emails and generally mucking about. I found that after doing this I was more prepared to actually do some work, the tasks and objectives were now documented and recorded so it had me relax and not feeling over whelmed
- Turn up in the office everyday for the first week with no massive expectations of personal performance, expecting that after a lovely break you'll be full of beans could be dangerous as it'll set up feelings of guilt when you do get to the end of the day with little achieved. All I did was sit at my computer at 7-7:30 every morning and start from there, it was a making that a couple of days I worked so well that I didn't even consider breaking for lunch until 2am.... Of course I rewarded myself with a 2 hour training ride ;-)
- Be casual if you can get away with it, going straight from jandels to lace up shoes and a tie is down right depressing, I found that I went to the office a couple of days and wore dress shorts and a tidy clean shirt and this had me feel like I was still in control and on a break...
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