Comments on: Best of Both Worlds podcast: Design your holiday 2024

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:00:58 +0000

In reply to Laura Vanderkam. Indeed, there is one situation that happened that I have not thought of, which is that there is a client who suddenly assigned a project for our company to finish right at the week before the week of Dec 25. Usually this project takes 2 weeks to finish. She asked us to finish in1 week. She asked us to finish it right at the week of Dec 25 I'm still figuring out whether or not this is supposed to be normal. In the meantime, I found everything else that you and Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger has come up with to be reasonable, Ms. Laura Vanderkam.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:54:27 +0000

In reply to Yukun Wu. @Yukun - the transition from vacation to work mode is always hard!

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:00:32 +0000

Now, I read the name of this episode, and I’m like, “I don’t ‘design’ my holidays”. The whole point of having this holiday for me is to relax myself and not think about much of, well, anything. There usually is just 1 thing that I actually need to design for my holidays. Then I read on to find out that you and Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger will actually discuss how to plan out the next few weeks, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. Then I realized, “Oh, that’s what you meant to design”.
The thing that I’ll design that is unique to the last month of the year before Dec 24 is that I’ll need to reflect on whether this year is a wasted year. Specifically, I’ll need to reflect on whether I’m facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that I have done things differently. And yes, that’s an expression that an author that you and I both know of came up with that I found very useful.
What I’ll actually design for my holidays from Dec 24 to Jan 1 is that I’ll need to always count how many days are left for this holiday. When there are just 2 days left in a holiday, I’ll need to make the transition from holiday mode to work mode. Failure at this transition is basically not an option. So that’s what I do need to design.