{"id":7542,"date":"2016-01-05T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:46:10","slug":"ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Beat Post-Vacation Blues and Get Back into Work Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We&#8217;re here again, back in our cubicles and staring blankly at\u00a0the 100+ emails that have flooded our inbox for over the long weekend while we were binge watching Stranger Things and getting a bit fatter over the holiday. Hate to break it to you, but vacation&#8217;s over and\u00a0those deadlines aren&#8217;t going to magically finish by themselves. When you\u00a0add eating a lot of food, traveling, and lack of sleep after partying till dawn into the mix, it\u2019s nearly impossible to get\u00a0back to work with guns blazing.\u00a0Let&#8217;s take it little by little and follow these easy steps to get yourself back into productivity mode, and hopefully come out victorious by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_26 counter-hierarchy\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">TOPICS<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><label for=\"item\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2\/#1_Get_into_the_right_mindset\" title=\"1. Get into the right mindset\">1. Get into the right mindset<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2\/#2_Make_a_list\" title=\"2. Make a list\">2. Make a list<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2\/#3_Relevance_is_key\" title=\"3.\u00a0Relevance is key\">3.\u00a0Relevance is key<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/ways-to-beat-post-vacation-blues-and-get-back-into-work-mode-2\/#4_Be_ambitious\" title=\"4. Be ambitious\">4. Be ambitious<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Get_into_the_right_mindset\"><\/span>1. Get into the right mindset<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You may not realize it but your mind is very powerful. You have the potential to actually convince it that you&#8217;re feeling productive, even though you&#8217;re definitely not in that state of mind yet. But yes, you can trick it like that so you could jump-start yourself back into being lean mean working machine. So, try to think about a time when your productivity levels were high and how that made you feel, then visualize that good feeling and make it happen.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Make_a_list\"><\/span>2. Make a list<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Not a mental list, but a written list of all the things you\u00a0need to get done and catch up on. Ideally, you should have written this before you left for vacation, but if you didn&#8217;t do that because you were too excited to head home for the holidays, you could start doing it now. Got the list ready? Good. Now you can\u00a0start ticking things off throughout the day or week, while purposely boasting some of your awesome vacation stories with colleagues. Slow and steady acclimation is the way to go.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Relevance_is_key\"><\/span>3.\u00a0Relevance is key<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably overwhelmed like me when I opened my inbox yesterday. But when\u00a0I deleted or moved those useless updates and subscription emails,\u00a0I was ready to\u00a0dive into the deep of sea very\u00a0important stuff. Jot down on your to-do list important emails and requests that need moving so you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s urgent and what you can mark for later. Tip: If you have an out of office reply going on, leave it for a few more days until you can catch up on things.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Be_ambitious\"><\/span>4. Be ambitious<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Post-holiday\u00a0resolutions are good if you actually have a plan on doing them. Let&#8217;s call them\u00a0&#8220;intention setting&#8221; to make it different this time. Picture yourself and your career. What would you like to achieve this year? Have your priorities changed over that short time away? What things should you do differently this year to grow in your career? Write it down (we like to write things down if you haven&#8217;t noticed it yet). With your career goals on paper, you\u2019ll have something to look forward to in the coming months, but more importantly, it will help spring you back into action as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<h1>5. Amp up with good music<\/h1>\n<p>There&#8217;s no better way to get back into work mode than immersing yourself to\u00a0some good music. Do you notice that listening to some beats while working out pushes you to run just a little bit farther and faster? You can also do the same in terms of trying to get your mood back into being productive in the office. So, get those earphones ready and listen to these awesome\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/user\/filtr\/playlist\/6jGobw1tHKu96VSBqUuhwx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beats from Spotify<\/a><\/strong>, and start hustling! Remember that the holiday helped recharge your mind, body and spirit. Keep your positive thoughts flowing and sooner or later, you&#8217;ll find that by mid-week, that old familiar work rhythm will naturally return, which means you have already survived the post-holiday sluggishness.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Maybe it&#8217;s more than just the vacation blues.\u00a0<\/em><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalibrr.com\/?utm_source=b2c-blog&amp;utm_medium=in-text&amp;utm_campaign=blog-cta&amp;utm_content=vacation-blues-083016&amp;ref=b2c-blog_free_blog-cta_vacation-blues-083016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up on Kalibrr<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0today and make a change in your career.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong><i>Kalibrr is now on Android!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/kalibrr-download-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download<\/a>\u00a0our app on the Play Store.<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We&#8217;re here again, back in our cubicles and staring blankly at\u00a0the 100+ emails that have flooded our inbox for over the long weekend while we were binge watching Stranger Things and getting a bit fatter over the holiday. Hate to break it to you, but vacation&#8217;s over and\u00a0those deadlines aren&#8217;t going to magically finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}