Rest needs to be planned: With these 15 tips, you can have a relaxing vacation.

Tell all your friends, acquaintances and customers that you do not work directly, that your vacation begins the day before. Otherwise, urgent matters will pile up on your desk on the last working day and your phone will ring non-stop.

Do not make an appointment with the travel agency, do not plan to meet with the employees, visit the doctor or hairdresser just before the holiday. Because appointments like this often take longer than scheduled. As a result, time is running out and you start your vacation stressed out.

Before the holidays, take care of all the important and urgent business that you cannot delegate. Otherwise, you will feel guilty on your days off and have trouble closing it.

Holidays are holidays. Point. Leave papers that remind you of your work at home. Also, don’t take any literature on it with you – don’t read it anyway.

Tell your assistant or assistant that after the vacation there should be as many tasks on the table as the number of vacation days. Otherwise, in the last few days of your vacation, you only think about the mountain in front of you and cannot enjoy your free time.

Start packing four or five days before you travel. Later, if you find that you don’t like your previous holiday outfit, you can buy a new bikini or swimsuit in time.

Get into the holiday mood in the comfort of your own home. For example, navigating the travel guide in bed in the evening, marking places to go on Google Maps, or taking inspiration from pictures on Instagram.

Celebrate the start of your holiday. For example, by drinking a glass of sparkling wine on the plane.

Leave your smartphone out of reach. If you want to be constantly informed about what is happening at home, in the stock market or in the world, you will not be able to take the necessary distance from daily life. Put your phone in airplane mode during the day and keep screen time to a minimum.

Forget everything you’ve heard about time and personal management during the holidays. There is only one mission during the holidays: to relax.

Say goodbye to focusing on performance that bothers you during the holidays, in everyday life. You don’t have to climb every mountain, visit every museum, or try the entire all-inclusive buffet.

Make your vacation agile. Do not work on a rigid, pre-formulated vacation schedule. Do whatever you want – sometimes do nothing.

Get five straight for once. Perfectionism is appropriate at work – while on vacation it’s important not to be complicated. If you’re not, you’ll be annoyed by every lame waiter and very hot cocktails.

As you announce the start of your vacation early, you also extend your vacation unofficially. Tell anyone you don’t work directly with that you won’t be back for two days. Otherwise, your phone will ring non-stop when you come back and the recovery process will be completed in no time.

Keep the holidays in mind. Put a holiday snapshot on your desk or use a related image as your computer background. So you always remember the holidays and you can dream of the South Seas or the mountains.