While holidays, vacations and family time are some of the best days you will ever spend, they cause my mind to lose focus and it is a real adjustment trying to get back into the full speed of a traveling, working, selling routine. Some people like to tell me my mind never stops working, but that is far from the truth. There are times, especially around vacations and holidays, where I am able to unplug the wires and just let things be.
But this for me can be tough to get back in the swing of things because as things happen so fast, it is hard to jump back aboard a train that is moving at 90 miles per hour. Getting re-focused for me is a process and takes some time to maneuver so it doesn’t immediately lead me to a point of exhaustion.
- Making a List – The #1 thing to get re-focused for me is making a list. It needs to have every detail or task that I need to complete and needs to be complex enough that I can have a visual snapshot of all that I need to do.
- Not All At Once – Again, people who know me would think the opposite, but a big piece to getting refocused is not taking on everything at once. You need to spread out the items and do so in a way where you can achieve a lot of small victories along the way to tackling really big things. Especially as you get readjusted, you aren’t going to be at full speed on day 1. But work at a rate that you can steadily increase and feel yourself making progress.
- Delegate – Even for people who are not good delegators, when you are coming off vacations, holidays, etc., this is a time when sometimes you are forced to delegate. There simply isn’t always time to do everything yourself, so picking out tasks that others can handle will free up your time to be better at what you are doing.
Without holidays, vacations and family time, life really wouldn’t be worth living. They are vital in so many ways that they are needed for you to continue dealing with everything that life throws at you. The ability to refocus and ramp back up after them is what takes an artform to manage.