A number of us fall into the lure of saving up work now we have to finish over the weekend for Sunday night — and that may make the final a part of our weekends really feel lots like, nicely, Monday.
To keep away from the “Sunday scaries” — the stress to make amends for work earlier than the work week — get catch-up work achieved earlier within the weekend, so the very last thing you do earlier than Monday is one thing enjoyable.
Cassie Mogilner Holmes, affiliate professor of promoting and behavioral choice making at UCLA’s Anderson College of Administration, has a suggestion to take it even additional: Deal with the whole weekend like a mini-vacation and do not work in any respect on Saturday and Sunday. Individuals who do that keep in mattress a bit of longer, cuddle with their particular somebody a bit of extra, or spend a bit of extra time consuming and fewer time on home tasks and job obligations — and begin the brand new week feeling really rested.
Mogilner Holmes says the weekend-as-vacation mindset helps you be extra linked to the current second. “Time sort of stops a bit,” she says. “It is such as you’re lastly taking a breath.”
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22 suggestions for 2022 is edited and curated by Dalia Mortada, Arielle Retting, Janet W. Lee, Beck Harlan, Beth Donovan and Meghan Keane. This tip comes from an episode of Life Equipment reported by Sam Sanders and produced by Sylvie Douglis.
