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Prepare for break
I don't know about you, but at least for me, I feel like I have been going non-stop for a really long time. Due to COVID all of the normal long weekends and breaks throughout this semester were canceled. So I am incredibly excited for Thanksgiving break to start on Wednesday. But as I think about this time off, I have also been thinking about the importance of preparing for this break in an intentional way.
Even though this next week is officially "Thanksgiving break" according to my university, that doesn't necessarily ensure that it will truly be a "break" for me. What I mean by this is that if I don't prepare well for this upcoming week, I could still have a lot of work to do despite the fact that I don't have class. Lots of my classes have large projects or other assignments due quickly after we come back from Thanksgiving, so if I want to truly enjoy my time off it is important that I get these assignments done early or make strategic plans to do them after the break if possible.
At the end of the day, just because the calendar says I have a break from going to class, that doesn't mean that these few days will automatically be a restful or restorative break for me. No matter what your holiday break situation looks like, maybe it is a break from school or work or whatever else, it is important to make a conscious effort to prepare for this time off and make sure you can make the best of this down time. If we don't make any sort of effort to intentionally guard this break from intruding work it will be easy for us to let things pop up or push into this time that is supposed to be restful.
So that is my challenge for you this week: prepare for your break. I'm not sure what your holiday break situation looks like. Maybe you have several days off, or maybe you don't actually have a real break until Christmas or New Years; whatever the case may be for you, make sure to prepare well ahead of time and make an effort to protect your break time so that you can truly enjoy it. This might mean a little more work right now or a little more strategy involved in planning your work after this holiday, but I can guarantee that it'll all be worth it if it means that your break can be a true, restful "break."
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