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Guys, I am nearly frazzled. My usual August / early September burn out didn’t arrive until a couple of weeks ago and I’m fast peddling away trying to make it to the end of October without completely overloading myself. There’s been so much riding on this holiday to Mexico, so much so that I’m still keeping my birkenstocks on for the foreseeable (yes I am aware it was only 3 degree’s this morning in Yorkshire!)
This trip is the big one for my 30th (as you’ll know because I’ve not stopped harping on about it!) and I’ve spent pretty much the whole of summer watching everyone head off on gorgeous vacay’s whilst I sit crying in to my tub of Ben & Jerry’s wondering when on earth my time to fly will come around?
After sitting down on last nights coaching call with Sophie, I decided that I needed to put a plan in to action, thus my October to-do list before we head on holiday has been born!
Thanks to Sophie, I’m putting in to practice a few things so I can make sure my brain isn’t completely worn out by the time we hit the skies at the end of the month.
One of my main problems is that I take on far too much, at work, on my blog and social life. There’s so much external noise that sometimes I can hardly think. We discussed that the best way for me to feel like I’m offloading some of those pressures is to have a huge brain dump (sounds grim, right?)
I need to grab a piece of paper, and I need to let my brain explode all over it, with the things I need to do before I leave work for my two weeks off, the campaigns I need to complete before I go, the huge packing list so I know I’ve got everything I need for the trip and anything else in between.
It will be a sure-fire way to free up some space to allow myself to look forward to the holiday rather than worry about the 10 million things I may or may not have done before I go.
Having a full diary is what has led me to this rather, stressed out point of the year, a diary jam-packed with events, weekends away to Lodon, social engagements and more. I’ve actually made myself ill with it.
I need to remember to keep saying no to things that are going to hinder my wind down period before our holiday, or at least post-pone them until November when we get back. I’m learning the power of being in control of my diary and it’s so fulfilling knowing that I have the choice to do what I want to do.
This is something I have already started doing, since pay day rolled around I’ve had a few deliveries arrive for my Mexico wardrobe and it’s been nice to see everything lined up.
I plan to narrow it down to daytime tee’s & tops, skirts and shorts, daytime dresses, along with evening dresses and the jewellery I want to take so it’ll give me a good indication if I’m over packing or under packing (which surprisingly I have done before, on our trip to Madeira.)
The last few holiday’s we’ve been on I have just winged it and it’s led to feeling pretty stressful without having a proper plan with my suitcase packing – fingers crossed this helps!
There’s a couple of emails in my blog account that need finishing and blog posts that need completing. I want to feel like I’ve finalised those last few things so I don’t feel like they are hanging over me like a dark fog on holiday.
I want to go knowing that everything is as completed as it can be!
It’s time to lean in to those cosy nights where I’m hunkered down in my pj’s with a duvet, fire lit, watching Gilmore Girls and it’s also time to stop letting myself penalise myself for feeling like I’m not being productive enough with me time.
This is a perfect opportunity to unwind, especially so I don’t end up spending our holiday feeling worn out and ill – and that has happened in the past in a previous job where I was so lost with how I was meant to navigate life that I let so much build up. It was not a good place to be and pretty much ruined a lot of our holiday!
Bee
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