Getting restarted after vacation

[Tom Allen]

Has anyone got any ideas how to get reved up and running again after vacation?
I actually had a very productive vacation as far as my spiritual growth is concerned but now I have to translate it into action. I am a goal setter and thanks to Steve Pavlina and his website I have made some great advances in the past six months. But now I am at that difficult point. I've overcome some difficult obstacles but now I face a tough one - that post vacation "let down". Any advice or tips would be appreciated.

[Shamou]

Tom!

Here is an interesting article on how to cope with post-vacation blues…

Some of the highlights from that article…

1. Allow for readjustment.
If possible, avoid returning from vacation the night before you are due back at work.

2. Re-orient slowly.
Unless there is an urgent phone call to make or meeting to attend, spend the first hour or two at work refreshing your memory about assignments, deadlines and deliverables.

3. Create a prioritized to-do list.
Rather than tackling all outstanding items at once, prioritize your tasks and focus on the most critical ones first.

4. Update everyone at once.
Chances are your colleagues will pepper you with seemingly endless questions about your vacation, especially if you were out of the office for an extended period of time. To keep your first day back from turning into one long gabfest, offer to go to lunch with the group and share stories about your adventures with everyone at once.

The very best of luck to you… and take comfort in the fact that after two days back at work… vacation will feel as if it had been eons ago…

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[Tristan]

Hello,

Hopefully your vacation did what it was supposed to do and recharged your internal battery so you can plug away till the next one.

If you're like me, then coming back from a vacation, you have to deal with a mound of emails, voicemails, mail mails, and probably other pressing things that your co-workers need you to do. That probably plays a large part in the "let down" feeling because it's a bit overwhelming.

One of the things, besides a task list that I have found very useful in combating this is to make and keep a tickler file in your office. If you don't know what a tickler file is, you can read a very comprehensive article I wrote about it.

I simply collect all my bits of information that need to be processed onto paper and then I put them into the various folders in my tickler file depending on when I want or need to deal with them. By doing that, it relieves psychological stress because now your now dealing with a huge and intimidating list of obligations, but rather, your work is now out of site, out of mind and your week (or month) is now planned out for yourself in those folders. Your tickler file essentially chunks your work up for you and spreads it over the course of several days so that you don't have to think about it until that day arrives. For me, this plays a huge part in relieving that strangling feeling of "It's just too much!!" I recommend you give it a shot.