9 ways to enjoy your vacation

I was inspired for this post by his 9 Tips for Planning Your Holidays, where he talks about his findings and experiences. And after reading each of them, I realized that I not only support his opinion, but recently also practice almost all the rules. And now I suggest you familiarize yourself with them.

Give yourself time to switch

Have you ever had a time when you just started enjoying the pleasure of your vacation, but it ended immediately? I think most of us have faced such situations. After all, it is important not only to carve out time from your busy work schedule for vacation, but also to give the body time to switch from one regime to another. For me, the adaptation period and the transition to the rest regime takes about 1-2 days. That is why it is difficult for me to call a three-day weekend a vacation, since during this time you can get a lot of pleasure from communicating with friends, but not fully relax. This time is simply not enough to free the brain of thoughts about work. It is very important to give yourself enough time to break the work rhythm and allow the body to fully relax. My minimum is 7-10 days, during which I have time to mentally rest and reboot.

Let others work for you

If you do not want to answer letters and phone calls on business issues throughout your vacation, take care of this before you leave, transferring all the affairs to your colleagues and drawing up a plan for their work. If you cannot completely "get out of the process" and not open your mailbox for a week, agree with someone from your colleagues to whom you will simply forward work letters, and he or she will take them to work. By organizing work processes in this way, I can enjoy my vacation without thinking and worrying about office matters.

Turn on the "Out of Access" mode

If you did everything right at the first stage, you do not need to follow the work process and get in touch at work. Otherwise, you won't be able to fully rest and reboot your brain. Just forget about it for a while, warning partners and clients that you will not be in touch, and devote these days only to yourself and your personal life.

Minimize stress

If you are comfortable living according to plan, you should not experiment with spontaneous travel, but prepare and plan your vacation in advance. Prepare the entire list of documents and information that may be useful to you on the spot (hotel reservations, local train schedules, travel itinerary, a list of nearby cafes and restaurants), upload to the city phone and everything you need for your peace of mind and comfortable travel.

Forget about gadgets

For many of us, vacation is impossible without a smartphone or tablet. We take pictures of everything that we see around us, and immediately post photos on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, in a hurry to share new impressions with others. We are far away, but we strive to stay in touch, "sticking" on the screen throughout the rest.

In ordinary life, I cannot imagine my day without a smartphone, laptop and WIFI (work requires), but on vacation I always try to use various gadgets as little as possible and enjoy the reality around me. To get the most out of your vacation, forget about the free internet in your hotel lobby and do something more useful in this case.

Take a book with you

The book will help not only distract, but also organize the exercise of your brain. In addition, new knowledge and experience while on vacation will not be supplanted by the work hassle. Books inspire and open up new facets of our consciousness. From experience I can say that the freshest and most daring ideas I came up with as a result of reading on vacation.

Try a new experience

Nothing so energizes as vivid impressions and emotions. Therefore, if you want to fully relax, do not wallow for days on the beach, but rather have fun and take part in local activities. Play golf, take a surf lesson, take part in a local cooking class or go scuba diving. It doesn't matter which one you choose, what matters is that you discover new experiences and opportunities.

Chat with people

With both locals and foreigners. Share experiences, get to know the lives of others and have fun with it. You can always choose a pleasant and interesting interlocutor for yourself, chat for at least 3-5 minutes on general topics and learn about how people live in other cities and countries.

Leave a day to get ready for workdays

And in order not to spoil the result of your vacation in no time, do not forget to return home at least one or two days before you need to go to work. This time is necessary for the body to adapt and gradually adjust to the usual way.

I tried every point that Tom described for myself, and realized that most of them are already practicing in one form or another. Hopefully, these basic tips will help others to get the most out of their vacation, no matter who or where you work.