Ep 165: How to build a life you don't need a vacation from?

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In today's episode, Marta and Anna are solving Alicia's challenge. Alicia has just come back from her vacation and she's not ready to enter the treadmill, so she's asking: How do I build a life I don't need a vacation from?

Challenge description:

So… I just came back from vacation and after a couple of weeks I am supposed to be fully recharged and ready to come back to work and “normal life”. Instead, I feel like I just want to lie down in my bed and hide under the blanket. I simply can’t imagine entering the treadmill again. I am really grateful for being able to keep my job through the crisis but the number of requirements, politics and bureaucracy has increased so much, that I completely forgot what I used to like about my job. All the mess also causes me to work longer hours which I simply don’t have because I need to run to pick up my kids and attend to all the commitments around their lives. Just thinking about my everyday life makes me need a vacation. I want the life I don’t need a vacation from, how do I do that?

Option 1: Create a vision of the life you wouldn’t need a vacation from

You could use one or more of the ways to create a vision...

describe your perfect day (in detail from the moment you wake up until you fall asleep)

imagine yourself in 5 years: how will you be feeling? who will you be? what will you be doing, what will you have?

scripting- write a letter to your future self
create a vision board

Option 2: Detail review of your current situation & priorities

ask yourself a couple of questions... where does it really hurt? where do you need a change right now?

Work through your priorities: identify your top priorities, rate each of them on a scale from 1-10 in regards to how do you feel it is going for you? (where 1 is really bad and 10 is great)
what is most important to you right now? being a mum? growing your career? personal growth? your relationship? be honest with yourself

Option 3: What do you already know and what do you need to find out?

sometimes it's difficult to figure out where to start, writing down what we already know is a great start.
sometimes, on the other hand, we can be too optimistic and it could serve us to make a good list of all we still need to find out