7 Tips to Rest and Recharge this Holiday Season

The holiday season is busy, and on top of holiday parties and getting ready for gatherings, you are rushing to complete last-minute work tasks before the year's end. While amid this busyness, set aside time to rest and recharge. This is a beautiful time of year to reenergize and in the stillness to find answers, find inspiration, and invest in relationships. It will make you that much better of a human, a parent, a leader, or an executive next year. ?

Here are seven tips to recharge, relax, and reenergize this holiday season to help you and your team become more productive, innovative, and successful in 2023.?

1. ?Give yourself permission to rest and recharge with family, friends, or time alone. Permit yourself and have this intention so that you will make it a priority and you will follow through.??
2. Set time aside for reflection. There are two ways you can reflect on the past year: talking about it with your loved ones or journaling about what you learned, your highs and lows, what you are hopeful for, and how grateful you are.?
3. Schedule time to spend in nature without technology. Spending time in nature decreases anxiety and stress, giving you new insights into your life and business. You can do it alone, or you can do it with friends and family.??
4. Do active relaxation activities. Active relaxation activities are personal and are things you like to do. These can include playing cards, reading, creating art, and playing board games with friends and family. These activities allow your brain, body, and mind to rest and relax.?
5. Start a daily meditation practice, whether it is formal or informal meditation. Formal meditation is when you are sitting on a meditation pillow or lying down and going through a guided meditation. You can also do a full-body scan or just a belly-breathing meditation. Informal meditation is practiced anywhere, and you take a moment to pause, tune into the present moment, and focus on all five senses.??
6. Focus on gratitude and mindfulness. There is so much to be thankful for and counting your blessings and savoring the good is essential. Our brain has a negative bias as it tries to protect us from harm. Be intentional and take time to notice the good things in your life. Share them with family and friends and see the good and all the blessings in your life.?
7. Visualize your future self. Take time to see yourself one or two years from now and connect to your future self's life and career. Envision your successes, the incredible relationships you will have, and the advancements in your health and wellness.??

Talk about these seven tips with your team before everyone takes time off for the holiday season, and lead by example. When you give your team the tools to rest and recharge, they will return to work stronger and reenergized, ready to work. Remember, happy teams are successful teams! Contact Tia today to learn strategies for increasing happiness in the workplace!?

Arrive At Happy's mission is to inspire transformation through the science of happiness. Tia Graham, founder, partners with organizations and individuals to increase their daily happiness and success in all areas of their lives. Relying on science-backed empirical data, she has gained the insight needed to prove and teach that happiness indeed leads to success.??

Tia has a Certificate in Happiness Studies and a Certificate in Teaching Happiness from Harvard's Tal Ben-Shahar and The Happiness Studies Academy. She is a Certified Chief Happiness Officer from Woohoo Inc., Europe's premier Happiness at Work organization.?