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How to Really Take a Break This Christmas
- As a pastor, Christmas is our biggest outreach and largest services of the year. We developed an outreach strategy that saw our Christmas Eve services grow into big outreach events. But year after year, after a bajillion services, I would come home on Christmas Eve honestly exhausted.
- An unending sense of responsibility to work eventually destroys your ability to work. Take meaningful breaks and avoid feeling burnt out.
- Eliminate the word “try” from your vocabulary. Stop saying you are trying to take a break and just do it. Changing all settings on your phone and putting a fun app in the place of a work app can help avoid work temptations, this way you are not tempted to compulsively check your phone while spending time with family.
- It’s a good idea to set up technology-free moments, hours, or zones in your home. Focus on what fuels you - pick up new goals like reading that can help you take a break, workout or develop new routines for fitness.
- Prepare for your vacation, don't just take it. Use your evenings to rest before you leave, craft a killer auto-responder, and pack a day or two early if you’re traveling so the last few hours before you leave aren't crazy.
- Take a break this Christmas with 5 approaches mentioned above and stay healthy and optimized. If you put the same kind of thought into your time off as you do in your leadership, you'll be able to return far better rested to lead again.
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