How consciously spend New Year's Eve
Holidays Motivation / / December 19, 2019
For several years now there are rumors that the New Year holidays want to cancel, but still the whole country goes postnovogodny drunken spree. Solve operational issues in the New Year's holidays are often impossible as hard these days work only clubs, cafes, restaurants and shopping centers. Therefore, all frantically close the problem before the end of December, knowing that before the middle of January is unlikely to be something budge. Those who did not manage to finish the work before the New Year, there is only his mother in the social networks.
But the owners of shops, restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, clubs and other entertainment businesses happy: any holiday - a good opportunity to cash in on the fun. After the New Year holidays are usually converted into meal a week, drink, impulse purchases and spending on cocoa zefirkami during walks around the city. How can you give up on all this when marketing except that the door to you knocking with an offer to purchase.
This past New Year I went down for a week for a month salary. And, frankly, I do not really remember what it was. In memory were jeans and sweaters with two sales, hipster sunglasses and a suspicion that 10 thousand dropped me somewhere out of the bag (although who am I kidding!).
On the first working day after the holidays, I felt gamut of emotions:
- Frustration over the last week. It was not as fun and eventful as I dreamed.
- Bewilderment and irritation due to a heap of money spent. After all, hell, I could spend it more wisely.
- Totally incapable of the brain to focus on the problems of the workers, because of the holidays, it is somewhat numb.
- The feeling that I'm more tired during the holidays than the rest.
This holiday season, I want to spend differently. And I think I know how to do it.
We need a plan!
Like it or not, and without a plan anywhere. According to my observation, human nature is such that if there is no plan, we choose the most simple way. That is, if I do not know what I occupy myself today, I will most likely either in series and zalipnu the social network or go somewhere to drink coffee, wander through the New Year the city, and then to drink mulled wine with friends. That, in general, and even quite good, and one or two days it is possible to give these lessons. But, if you hold a week because she just does not remember.
So, make a plan for the New Year holidays. I'll list what you can do. This list is not exhaustive, but it is meant to remind you of the creative classes, which will benefit and joy to you and sometimes others.
Things to do on New Year's holidays
1. Learn something new. When you still be so much free time to finally start learning something. Of course, for a week you hardly something to learn, but you will have the time to engage in the process, and then keep it in everyday work. And here is an article for inspiration "Something to learn 10 skills that anyone can learnยป.
2. Do winter sports and outdoor games. Skating, skiing, alpine skiing, snowboarding, buns, sledding, snowmobiling, snow-cats and plastic pieces a la cardboard - choose what you closer. Obvious point, is not it? But here are my three years ago bought skates went out on me a couple of times immediately after purchase. And then somehow everything was not the time and desire. Include sports activities in the plan!
3. Start a business or preparing to change jobs. Maybe you were thinking for a long time to open your online store, but could not concentrate on this idea because of the bustle of everyday work. Now is the time to write a business plan, choose a platform on which to run the store, start pages in social networks. If you are considering a career change, then be engaged in writing decent resume and its placement on the job sites.
4. Engage each other. Instead of gaining weight, enjoy a reduction of in the order. Gyms and swimming pools are open in the New Year's holidays, and you can afford to visit them at any time of the day. After the holidays surprise his colleagues cheerful state of body and mind and a fresh complexion.
5. Visit relatives and friends. Those same two days, you took a coffee and mulled wine, can be combined with a visit to people close to you, to which you just can not reach. We had a good article on how why with age we lose friends. This is a natural process, and the relationship often do not require recovery. And yet most of these New Year's meeting with relatives bring pleasure and warmth. It goes without saying that if you live far away from their parents, the New Year holidays - it is a wonderful opportunity to visit them.
6. Spend time with family and children. If, because of work, you rarely see a spouse (wife) and children, on Christmas vacation be sure to arrange a family outing somewhere: in the central hills area, children's Christmas performance or a tree, a walk in the park (on foot or on skis), ice skating, a trip to the country (possibly with the same family friends).
7. Arrange a general cleaning of the apartment. The beginning of the work week will be easier if, after work, you will come to a fresh, cleaned of trash the apartment. We have several articles that will help you to get out quickly and without expending too much energy.
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8. Work. Why not? Sometimes it is easier to work during the holidays, no matter how strange. Maybe it's because you feel a little hero? Or because there is no deadlines and working hours of nervousness? Back in late December, think about what you could do for work, what you do not depend on colleagues and institutions that work in the holidays will not.
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9. Go somewhere. This is generally a great option. If you go on a trip, you will have to recall and what a week will not seem useless. You can at least for a day or two to go to the next town. Sometimes I think: well, why go, well, there you can see... Yes, even the road itself and a new kind of window in the morning will bring fresh experience. A friend of mine practiced such a mini-tour. Just somewhere I was driving. the choice of the city, I often seemed strange. But he always left there stories as he went somewhere, and listen to them even a little jealous.
A few tips on drawing up a plan for the New Year holidays
1. You can come up with many more lessons, but most importantly - it is necessary to fit them into a plan! What will you do on the first day, in the second, and so on. Also indicate the approximate time allotted for each task.
2. Do not plan too dense. Desire to get everything, everything eventually leads to the fact that you are not doing anything. The plan must be adequate and even a little relaxed.
3. Not necessarily your friends and family to talk about the plan, but it is possible to incite them to the same class. For example, a call to go skiing or to go on a journey. Sure your friends also want to spend the holidays fun and be happy that someone has a proposal.
4. And, of course, you'll need organization to stick to the plan. I think the most successful way to achieve organization - think how you will be satisfied if the fulfill your New Year's plan, and how you will be disappointed if the vacation will fly again in useless classes.
What is interesting, the material expenditure will certainly be rather big. But you will be sorry about them or you will be sorry at all. As the money spent on impressions and spent consciously bring more joy than the cost of spontaneous purchases.