Are holidays bad for our health? That’s not just a clickbaity question.*
Here’s why: you take time off to relax and enjoy the company of family and friends. But in the process, if you’re anything like me†, you begin to think.
And when you think, you have an idea. Or, worse, more than one. 96.4% of these ideas will be terrible.** The kind you normally wouldn’t even dare mention out loud. But because you’re in holiday mode, your guard is down, you’re chilled, all is good with the world. So these new ideas feel amazing. Achievable. In fact, you’re nothing short of a genius!
You return to work with renewed vigour and a string of brilliant ideas to inject into your business. Or maybe you quit your job completely. To pursue one of your handful of brilliant ideas so brilliant that they need a business of their own in which to flourish.††
Except they’re not brilliant ideas – they’re holiday ideas. Which disintegrate on contact with real life. And now, like Seinfeld’s George Costanza, you have to go back to work and pretend you never quit in the first place.
So that’s why holidays aren’t always as good as they sound. And thinking is overrated. On that cheery and positive note, hope you’ve enjoyed your first full week back at work. If you’re still there.
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* Well, it is, but a better one would involve Taylor Swift or the Royal Family – preferably both.
† Which you may not be – in which case, congratulations!
** A precise but not remotely scientific or validated figure.
†† Not YumTuc [he says, rather too forcefully] which was conceived over a 12-18 month period. And even my holidays aren’t that long.
