Maintaining pleasure after a great vacation is a challenge, but there are vacation-extending tactics that can help.
A colleague recently returned from a trip to Europe with that unmistakable just-back-from-vacation glow. Striving to hold on to it for as long as possible, she deployed various strategies including placing her used boarding passes front and center on her desk, and leaving receipts from the TV Tower in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris on a bedroom chest of drawers that she passes each morning.
“It just surrounds me,” she said of the strategic placement of her vacation mementos. “It sustains that warm vibe.”
I liked her strategies and began wondering about other potential vacation-extending tactics.
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