Plan Now to Avoid a Post-Holiday Reentry Crash

Cari Nazeer
Forge
Published in
1 min readDec 21, 2020

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A person with short bobbed hair sitting on a couch in front of a Christmas tree, working on a laptop.
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The idea that you should come back from time off feeling bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and full of newfound motivation is… well, it’s a nice thought. But as Emily Underwood has explained in Forge, post-vacation burnout is a very real phenomenon. Even if you take time off and spend your holiday doing nothing but lounging around your living room, the return to the grind can be awful.

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