What to do and not to do on day 1 after your break

How excited are you to get back to work after your summer break?

One?study?found that "health and wellbeing improve during vacation, but these positive vacation effects fade out within the first week of work resumption". Even so, the same researchers noted that vacations "may act as a buffer against future stressors".

While you may feel less than your best on - Day 1 back at work - or even Day 10 may not have you feeling your best yet, there are certain things you can do to leverage your Performance Energy ? to help get to your best sooner.

Your inner energy is one of four ingredients to getting the best of yourself.

This is the energy you get by doing things that matter, are meaningful and are essential to you.

Here is one thing you could and shouldn’t do to boost your inner energy and get you in your groove for a successful 2025 on your first day back at work.

Don’t open your emails and get stuck into everyone else’s priorities.

Do start the day in a different environment. Outside on the deck, at a cafe, or in a different room than your home office.

Grab your notebook, laptop or iPad, and write down the answers to these questions:

1. As a leader of self, what new skills do I want to acquire in the next three months?
2. What negative habit can I abolish this month?
3. Who brings out the best in you? How can you schedule more time with them?
4. What would your ideal week look like, and how could you start creating it?
5. What do you want to achieve this year to make you proud of yourself?

Here’s what else you should do.

Allow yourself to answer these incredibly important questions by joining me, and we can answer them together.

My first day back is January 28th and I will answer these questions as my first task of 2025. If you'd like to do this exercise with me, feel free to jump online with other like-minded people.

Click here to register and get the meeting link sent directly to your inbox: https://tinyurl.com/3t7pr9eh

Honestly, just thinking about giving myself time to go through these questions has already given me a boost. See you soon.

Cheers,

Adrian

PS If you want to inspire, motivate, and get your people thinking differently about how they get the best out of themselves and their teams, private message me, and we can chat about how you can benefit from us working together.