Freedom from labour

One of our goals at Change Works for 2010 is to have more holidays!

Now I know lots of people each year make this resolution with a willing spirit, but as the year rolls on, it seems only a distant memory as the pressures of family, work and life in general take effect. But a cursory look at the word holiday shows us an avenue to take lots and lots of holidays in 2010.

As with many words in the English language, holiday has many meanings, but the one that stuck for me was ‘a day free from labour’. This got me to thinking, perhaps if we can’t take a full day off to be free from labour, then perhaps we can take an hour off, or even 15 minutes! Isn’t that in effect a mini holiday?

So to fill your year with mini-holidays try these things on for size:
* Have lunch in the park, take your shoes off, and even dare to have a mini-siesta in your ‘mini-holiday’
* Slip out for a glorious 20 minute morning tea with great coffee, cake and conversation
* Visit a travel agent in your lunch hour and dream of your next ‘big holiday’

Whilst mini-holidays in your regular week will not ever replace an experience of a week-long stay in a private villa in Bali (our Christmas holidays!) they will give you a moment’s freedom from labour. That’s got to be a good

Warm wishes

Darren & alison