Holidays are the best! They always seem to arrive at the right time, just when we need a break from our daily routines. Just when we need time out to relax and recharge.
Holidays help us take a break, both mentally and physically, from the responsibilities we carry out every day. I intend to sleep in, exercise more, hang out with friends, and read. I do all of these things on a regular basis but holidays allow me to do them for longer, uninterrupted periods of time. And I can do them spontaneously which adds to the fun.
Holidays also opens up our creative juices and gets us to thinking of different ways to decorate our houses, apartments or even ourselves! We try new recipes and sometimes even travel to a new place.
When we continually do our work routines or personal responsibilities over and over again in just the same way, every day, with hardly any break in the routine, we can start to burn out and then things start to go bad. You can be on the path to burning out and not really know until it's too late. Others probably know it because they see a change in you, but you are probably determined to power on, pushing to do what you need to do at all costs.
It's time to take a break!
The Washington Post story below is about nurses and how they deal with patient burnout but their solutions could be our solutions too:
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| Nurses at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center do stretching exercises Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post |
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-10/national/39865768_1_burnout-intensive-care-unit-nurses
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