by Phillip Day
‘One in three British workers fail to take their
full
annual holiday entitlement, a survey has shown.
Instead,
they put in 36 million hours of free overtime,
giving
bosses almost £1 billion in unpaid work every
year –‘
We must be barking mad. And if we do go on holiday –
The survey of nearly 6,000 workers by the Chartered Management Institute
found nearly half stay in contact with their employer while they are away.’
– Daily Mail, 15th June 2005
No! No! No! No! No!
Behavioural patterns are formed over a 15- to 30-day period through repetition
and a state of emotional excitement (what I term the Pavlov Principle).
They overwrite over the same period. Few of us take four-week holidays,
which is why we still have bats in the belfry. Pavlov’s Principle relies
on location, repetition and the 30-day conditioning period, so clearing
off somewhere nice for a break makes all the sense in the world, especially
if we go to play. It must be a geographical break. For four weeks.
Take those who relax you. Leave the kids at home if necessary (straight-jackets
are for this). Go forth and frivolate, you’ve earned it. The first ten days
of your four-week re-adjustment are usually spent cussing out Spanish waiters
and being generally beastly as the mental puke gushes out. After that, serenity
and bliss usually prevail or your travel agent will give you your money
back.
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Now go and play
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Do not take the laptop or anything
connected with work
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Do not ever phone work
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Do not ever tell your boss
where he can reach you
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Do not phone home and get stressed
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Tell family to contact you only
in an extreme emergency, otherwise sayanara, you’ll buy them a tee-shirt
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In fact, Lose the Mobile Phone
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Eat raw, living, organic whole-foods
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Exercise (more play)
·
Behave inappropriately (even more
play). It’s a holiday
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Don’t burn. Do get some sun
·
Dreaming comes easier with a magenta
sunset and a Mai-Tai. These are the times of refreshing and inspiration.
Get refreshed, sunshine.
N DIRE
WARNING: THOSE WHO DON’T
TAKE HOLIDAYS ARE TREASURING UP FOR THEMSELVES WRATH FOR THE FUTURE. YOU
SELF-EMPLOYED ARE THE WORST FOR THIS.
IN
FACT…
STRESS
I am not
sure exactly how it works, but this is amazingly accurate.
Read the
following full description before looking at the picture.
The picture
below has 2 identical dolphins in it. It was used in a case study on stress
levels at St. Mary's Hospital. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the
water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study
revealed that, in spite
of the fact that the dolphins are identical, a person
under stress would find differences in the two dolphins. The more differences
a person finds between the dolphins, the more stress that person is experiencing.
Look at
the photograph and if you find more than one or two differences, YOU MAY
WANT TO TAKE A VACATION.
