Sometimes I wonder why I go away because when I get home there is all this “stuff” to catch up with and the holiday is soon forgotten.
In the past I have fallen into a big black hole within days of returning from a great holiday. I believe that what I was doing was looking around home and comparing it to my time away. On holiday I had sunny weather, I did not have to cook or wash up, I enjoyed endless days exploring a different culture and I generally lived it up without any responsibilities.
What I unwittingly did was to allow myself to become overwhelmed by all the “stuff” I had to catch up on. Instead of steadily working my way through jobs I looked at everything I had to do and just collapsed under the weight of tasks I thought I should be doing.
Now I know that I need to deal with each task one at a time and once I get started I’m usually off to good start. After a holiday it’s just too easy to fall back into the reality of work and everyday life and throw up our hands in horror whilst at the same time hating that the holiday had to end. I’m usually happy to be home but unhappy that I have to once again do all the mundane jobs that come along with being home.
The one thing I have learnt to do after the come down from a holiday is to break down the tasks into single tasks that I finish before I try to start another one. If I try to multitask the result is usually having lots of tasks started but none finished.
This is where having a list of things to do each day helps me to tackle one thing at a time and get it done before I move on. Most busy people are good at multitasking but I’ve found it is just a recipe for many unfinished projects.
To help stop the end of holiday blues I now don’t try to do everything all at once but I try tackling one thing at a time and have come to discover this is the best recipe for a successful return to life post holiday. I try to give myself a soft landing back on home soil and found that this usually provides a buffer for those post holiday blues.
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