Just got back from holiday, feeling well rested and ready for the Autumn fray. I wish I could bottle it!

I’ve also come back with a renewed sense of perspective – what’s really important and what is just ‘sweating the small stuff’. I’ve also surprised myself with how easily solutions for some supposedly intractable problems have appeared by just giving myself a break from thinking about them. I’ve noticed the same in stressed out  coaching clients who finally get around to giving themselves a break.

I recently read an appalling statistic that fewer of us are taking proper breaks from work, and some of us even do as much as 3 hours a day work when we are supposedly on holiday. Apart from issues of physical and mental health and family relationships,  how are you supposed to get a real sense of perspective if you are always nose deep in the detail. If we never disconnect from the hamster wheel we never stand a chance of reinventing the hamster wheel.

So here’s some tips about ways to stop working while on holiday…