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Winding down for Christmas
Making it to the Christmas holidays can feel like dragging yourself across a finishing line. But it doesn’t have to be like this. Get to the New Year threshold with a positive attitude to the work you left behind
How many working days are there left until Christmas? Enough, too many or an irrelevant question because the way things are going you won’t be taking a break. One of the problems with working to a point where almost everything is going to close down for a while is that the run up can be so frenzied you end up too exhausted to enjoy your time off.
In the run-up
People convince themselves that everything must be finished before the holiday and so impose a lot of unnecessary pressure all round. Although it’s satisfying to tie up all the loose ends before Christmas, don’t push it to extremes. The very worst thing you could do is to take work home with you. You need a complete break from your job – knowing there’s that report you could be analysing tucked away somewhere will make you feel uneasy and guilty. Remove that possibility by leaving all work where it belongs – in the office.
Anything that isn’t done will keep until after the New Year. Holidays are times to indulge yourself and do the things you enjoy. That takes energy and you don’t want to spend the time recuperating from overwork. Katy Hale, who works at a busy estate agency in Manchester, has noticed that she often goes down with a cold over the Christmas break. ‘We work flat out in the run up to Christmas, because everyone wants things sorted out before the holiday. I stay late all through December and then when I finally do stop it’s like my body decides it has time to be ill. It seems so unfair to spend the break in bed feeling grotty.’
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