How to get your post-holiday period mojo back?  

We all love ‘going on a Summer holiday’, but how do we get our mojo back after the Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations are over?  

Holidays can be a time of excess (there’s a reason Santa is so round and jolly, right?!), late nights, lazy days, splurges, and it’s great while it lasts! But after it’s all over, a lot of people can feel flat and disheartened and stressed or even depressed about the year to come.  

It’s a common phenomenon, but the good news is there are a few simple steps you can take to get yourself back on track and make the new year fantastic.  

1. Don’t beat yourself up for indulging. Treasure the good memories you made during the holidays, and ditch the guilt for those extra blocks of chocolate/cocktails/beers/burgers.  2If your splurges were financial, take the credit cards out of your wallet and leave them at home. If they are not on you, you’re less likely to use them. If you’re a Paypal junkie, unlink your credit cards from your account. If detailed budgets scare you, see if you can set yourself a limit per week to your spending to cover groceries, petrol, and necessities, and only put aside a small amount for non-essentials.
2. Get your routine back on track. You can start while you’re still on holidays; readjust your sleep routine which affects cortisol and stress levels; get back to the gym or your sport of choice to increase those endorphins; start to balance your nutrition to fuel your body; increase your water consumption up to 2 litres per day to stay hydrated. Inadequate hydration can affect mood, brain function, and energy levels.
3. Prep yourself for returning to work, uni, or school. Do some cooking to stock the freezer, get yourself a new diary or work clothes that make you feel good.
4. Make a list. If New Year’s Resolutions are your thing, great! If not, make a list of what you want to achieve this year, or what changes you want to make. It doesn’t need to be a written list, it could be a visual compilation (like a storyboard), or even just mental.
5. Book something fun! Schedule something fun for a month after you start back at work/uni/school so you have something to look forward to.
6. Repeating step 1; stop beating yourself up. If you fall off the indulging/splurging/gym wagon, recognise why, and move on. What’s in the past can’t be changed, but you can learn from it to make sure the future is better.  

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