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Why you need a working holiday
Do you feel as though the world (aka: the internet) is sending you mixed messages this time of year?
On the one hand, it’s all hustle, hustle, hustle. Get ahead of the pack for 2019. If you snooze you will definitely lose. But we’re also receiving contrasting messages. These encourage us to slow down, reflect and get ready for the holidays. Switch your work brain off and take a break after a long, hard year.
When it comes to work and holidays, is it really all or nothing? No, it doesn’t have to be. I’ve long advocated the working holiday as a solution that gives people (like me) the best of both worlds. Taking a break and slowing down is important. It allows us to recharge our batteries and regain energy and motivation. Taking a working holiday allows us to put this extra energy to good use. To think about our work challenges, our personal development needs or our goals in an environment, and at a pace, that allows creativity to flourish and ideas to flow. It is a solution to honour that we aren’t our work selves one day and our non-work selves the next, but a harmonious blend of the two.
Some might think this is all a consequence of running my own business. But I’ve always been this way, even when I worked in corporate roles. I’ve never taken a holiday, in the true sense of the word. My brain is always switched on.
