You’re more likely to relax if you take more frequent vacations/year and dial down the expectations on each one.
Family visits are more likely to result in a feeling of exhaustion. Prioritize your top 10 relationships for the year and find ways to interact with them year-round.
Getting more adventure on your daily life will take the pressure from your vacations to be adventurous making it more relaxing.
Spending some time outdoors reminds us how small and insignificant most of our problems are.
A staycation – a vacation from work without the travel - will help with regulating your sleeping schedule.
If you’re traveling don’t hop from place to place, instead try to immerse yourself in them more.
Plan in transitions. Leave home later and come home early, to ease back into your routine over the weekend.
Nearly all deadlines are arbitrary. Map out what needs to be done on your return and extend the deadlines around your holiday instead of trying to meet them all before you leave.
Don’t over-plan and over-extend your vacations.
Find the time and space prior to it to focus on work without interruption so you can fulfill your workaholic needs and not feel like you left too much unfinished.
Everyone has to deal with burnout at some point. Between long hours, demanding clients, and a never-ending pile of work, eventually, it can all become too much to handle. And in this economy, there's no reprieve: Workers are more likely than ever to skip their vacations, fearing that if their bosses find out they can live without them for two weeks, they might be able to survive without them, period.
The burden is slightly different for a nonprofit employee. In addition to an intimidating pile of work on your desk, you face a steady stream of people whose lives often depend on yo...
There is no regular downtime when it comes to serving the needy and fundraising to keep a nonprofit organisation running—this never-ending demand means constant deadlines and a steady stream of emergencies.
How to Deal with it.
Schedule Time Off. Plan breaks around deadlines, even if it is only part of a day.
Prioritise. Focus on what's really important.
Take Some Time to Think. Diarise time to do deadline-free work.
Falling into the trap of feeling guilty about prioritising yourself when so many people depend on you.
How to Deal with it.
Find a Community. Try scheduling dinner or a happy hour with your colleagues or finding an outside group of nonprofit workers.
Create Redundancy So You Can Really Disconnect. Start keeping your colleagues in the loop about all your projects—even training them to take over for you in a pinch.
Leverage Funding. Consider talking to your donors. Plenty of understanding foundations may be willing to schedule funding for employee wellness.
A common misconception of business travel life is that it is like going on vacation. Most business trips are the exact opposite, and most business travelers are workaholics. After a long day of travel or work, the average road warrior returns to their hotel room and logs an hour or six in front of a laptop or tablet.
Scan your email occasionally to reassure yourself that nothing catastrophic is happening in your absence.
Try some activities, maybe something new, so you can have so much fun you forget all work related stress.
Turn off your phone and email notifications so you’re not constantly reminded of work.
Don’t be tempted to work. You are taking a vacation to get a break. Working during the break will add stress to your trip and resentment when you return.
In Japan, they have a condition called "karoshi". Karoshi means "death due to overwork" and it is common enough that they actually have an organization for it, the National Defense Counsel for Victims of Karoshi. The group claims nearly 10,000 Japanese die from overwork each year.
The need to relax and take a break from work is a requirement for your body. But, studies show people are happier at work–even while claiming they rather be at home.
Not keeping them separate tends to decrease performance in both. Working on your days off, your body starts being lazy during your workday to compensate.
Committing to work only during a certain time periodhelps to combat the tendency to mix work and pleasure.
Some people do fine with unstructured days off, but others can better enjoy themselves when they plan fun things to do even when they don’t follow them perfectly.