How to enter the mode after the holidays: 10 tips from a sports psychologist

These life hacks will help you get into the job painlessly.
Long weekends filled with trips and meetings with friends, skating, and going to the movies unsettle and restructure the body. The usual rhythm and daily routine are lost. Many take liberties with food and wake up after dinner.

But sooner or later the holidays have a peculiarity to end. In the meantime, violation of the regime cannot but affect the general well-being. It becomes difficult to enter the working system.

Psychologists call these conditions "post-holiday syndrome", for some they can result in "post-holiday depression". It manifests itself in an unwillingness to go to work, a feeling of apathy, blues, irritation, and a bad mood. There is a feeling of drowsiness and general weakness.

10 PHOTOS

1. Sleep mode

A few days before you leave your vacation, you need to start going to bed and waking up at the same time as you do on workdays. This will help to establish sleep, which is important for the normal operation of basic mental processes - memory, attention, and thinking.

2. Nutrition

We change the menu - we remove the sweets in a distant drawer. We try not to starve and not overeat, we eat the right food - fruits and vegetables.

3. Sports

If you prefer to spend your holidays in a relaxed mode and at home, then a few days before going to work, connect activities. Go skating, tubing, skiing, or take a walk in the park.

4. Planning

The day before you go to work, write out a plan for the next month. Even if you don’t usually do it, it will help you to rely on something, while the brain has not yet entered the working rhythm.

5. Image change

Think of a set in which you will go to work. Buy new clothes, get a new haircut. Let the return to weekdays be an occasion for you to show off your unusual style. It will definitely set you up for the positive.

6. Practice Breaks

Increase the workload gradually. Do small things first, then big ones. Take short breaks between tasks.

7. Dosing work

Leave work at work when you leave. Switch to other roles in life. Do not immediately take on the entire volume. See what you can put off until later in your first work week.

8. Recording progress

Don't dwell on the negative. First of all, mark well-done tasks, and then look at your points of growth.

9. Disable comparisons

Do not compare yourself with friends and colleagues regarding the quality of work and salary. That way you won't fall into the negative. Find positive things in your profession. Perhaps you could even miss the long vacation from your duties. Find opportunities to have fun at work. That is, find tasks that you like.

10. Task scaling

Set yourself a goal for the year, and then decompose it into short goals. Mark where you need to be in a month, or six months to meet your long-term goal.

Most importantly, however you spend your holidays, stay in good spirits and don't demonize the return to work. New Year's deadlines are already behind, which means that the new working year can be started with ease.