Have I mentioned how much I LOVE HOLIDAYS?! I love everything about them. Great food, fun, friends, family\u2026.how could I not love holidays??\u00a0 In fact, I get so excited about holidays that I start celebrating them in my mind the day before they even arrive\u2026the closer we get to the actual holiday the more antsy and distracted and like a little kid-like I become. \u00a0And despite the fact some may say it\u2019s embarrassing for a grown woman to get so excited about a holiday, to me it seems completely reasonable!!\u00a0 I mean, for heaven sake, how can anyone expect me to focus when there are parades and fireworks just one day away?!?!\u00a0 IT\u2019S JUST SO EXCITING!!!<\/p>\n
I was contemplating today the difference between my focus leading up to a holiday versus my focus leading up to taking a vacation and how different they are.<\/p>\n
The days leading up to me taking a vacation I\u2019m no fun at all.\u00a0 I become completely hyper-focused and go into mega-adult mode during those days. \u00a0Frankly I am probably my most productive on the days right before I leave on a vacation.<\/p>\n
So why that big difference? Why am I so unfocused and childlike the day before a holiday but so hyper-focused and adult the day before vacation?\u00a0 As I contemplated that question today here is what I surmised:<\/p>\n
When we are going into a vacation we are the only person who will be taking time off, which means everyone else is going to keep working while we are gone, thus there is serious motivation to try and get ahead of the pack before you go so you won\u2019t be quite as behind when you come back.<\/p>\n
Holidays are totally different because when we are going into a holiday we know that everyone else is going to be taking the same day off WITH US!\u00a0 Which means no one is going to be getting anything done\u2026which means there is no reason to get ahead before our time off\u2026.which means we get to celebrate and enjoy ourselves without any worries of falling behind\u2026.IT\u2019S SO AWESOME!!!<\/p>\n
All of my pondering today has led me to one simple conclusion \u2013 WE NEED MORE NATIONAL HOLIDAYS!!!\u00a0 Seriously though\u2026<\/p>\n
Have a great Fourth of July Holiday Everyone! I\u2019ll be back blogging on the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 !<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have I mentioned how much I LOVE HOLIDAYS?! I love everything about them. Great food, fun, friends, family\u2026.how could I not love holidays??\u00a0 In fact, I get so excited about holidays that I start celebrating them in my mind the day before they even arrive\u2026the closer we get to the actual holiday the more antsy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,395,46,18192,63,590,18194,1431,6470,96,1911,5197,67,51,4473,571,1919,1404,189,18193,55,18191,18195,18190,464,64,35,161,1622,1272,3143,81,275,149,11331,18196,18197,54,18198],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-d-d","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-attitude","tag-be-productive","tag-blessings","tag-celebrate","tag-celebrating-the-holidays","tag-celebration","tag-childlike","tag-culture","tag-distracted","tag-distraction","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-family","tag-fireworks","tag-focus","tag-food","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-friends","tag-going-on-vacation","tag-happiness","tag-hard-to-stay-focused","tag-i-love-holidays","tag-independence-day","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-love","tag-party","tag-picnic","tag-productive","tag-productivity","tag-smile","tag-stress","tag-success","tag-take-a-break","tag-the-days-before-a-holiday","tag-the-days-before-vacation","tag-time-management","tag-we-need-more-national-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}