The whole year you wait for this longed-for holiday time, when you can finally go on vacation and rest and gain energy for further work. How to break away from the constantly ringing phone, clogged e-mail box, demanding boss, even more demanding children. Vacation is a time to relax and recharge your batteries for the next year. What to do to make this time successful not only for the whole family but also for you?
There are a few helpful rules, the implementation of which will allow you to return from vacation happy, rested and satisfied.
First of all, when planning a vacation, think about how you want to spend it, where to go. Put yourself in a strategic position, don’t push your needs to the very end. Children will not be harmed if they do not eat their lunch on time a few times or run around dirty. Regardless of where you spend your vacation, think about what will give you joy and pleasure. The internal compulsion to have everything under control should be eliminated and spontaneity should be used. Try to talk to the whole family about vacation plans, taking into account your needs as well. If you prefer the mountains and the kids basking in the sea, negotiate. Give yourself time to rest, have time just for yourself.
Don’t demand too much of yourself. Try to find time for a lonely walk during your trip and calm down, if you feel like it, walk barefoot in the dew at dawn, swim in the lake. Everything depends only on you. The family won’t lose anything. Give your husband a chance and let go of the rule that no one can do it better than me. Let him take the children on a bike or ice cream, you can lie alone on the beach and read an overdue book for which you always lacked time.
Don’t promise yourself anything. You don’t have to visit all the places in the area and go to every museum, and children don’t have to be the determinant of your free time. If you let go and spend your time spontaneously, you won’t get frustrated and you’ll come back refreshed. Rely on full slack and fun. You won’t be like a newborn right away, but you have to be kind to yourself, you can sleep late and do nothing. After all, holidays are meant to distance yourself from everyday life.
Move a little, wake up your senses, physical effort will allow you to get rid of bad and unnecessary emotions accumulated during work. Walk, you can bike, you can swim. Any activity is good.
Try to make the time spent on vacation different from everyday life. If you go to the same place every year, there is really little that can surprise you. Maybe it’s time for changes and surprises. Let yourself be persuaded to buy a tent and see that it can be a great adventure for an active holiday with kids. Make time for things you don’t do every day because you don’t have time. Read, run, work in the garden, go with your husband to evening dances, climb the wall. You can realize your hidden desires. This will allow you to energize yourself for the coming months of work.
When you are constantly running somewhere every day, you don’t have time to breathe, slow down. Contemplate nature, laze around. This is the perfect solution for you.
The most important and the only goal you have to achieve in order to come back from vacation rested and relaxed is to listen to yourself and give it a rest.