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Hi, it's Michael and welcome to this week's useletter.
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It's the newsletter that's useful. Focussing on your future not my past.
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Happy new year wonderful reader.
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Hoping you’ve had a brilliant break and perhaps still enjoying it or at least its afterglow.
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I’ma gonna keep this short this week, as I’m in the liminal space between holidays and full return to work. It’s a space in which I’ve been thinking about the nature of holidays.
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Are your holidays to take time off to recharge?
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are your holidays purely for joy and pleasure?
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The reason I ask is the whole concept of holidays and wellbeing at work has been recently reframed for me.
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And I thought I’d share given it's that time of year.
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I've said it before and it stands saying one last time...
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PS: I'm looking for help and advice about unmeasured's market fit. If you're up for it and got time to jump on Zoom for 45-60 minutes, please drop me a line. I'll send details.
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PPS: You want to save time? or get better at saying no? I got you too. Details below.
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On holidays
For most of us, I think it’s fair to say, the idea of holidays is to recharge. It might be for travel and cultural experiences too, but often it’s to take a restorative break from work.
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if you need a restorative break from work then it’s possible there’s a problem with work. The extreme of this is burnout. And whilst you might not have reached that point, if you’re using holidays to recover from work, you have a problem. Either your wellbeing is not being looked after at work and/or you're not taking enough breaks.
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The big aha moment here is the research, which suggests that length of holidays is far less important than frequency - 2 weeks of holidays is no more restorative than 1 week. To start with, if you want more restorative holidays, then take them more frequently instead of taking long ones. Don't wait until the point of exhaustion, let alone burnout.
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People often don’t take time off because they feel responsible to others at work, needing to be there to support them or the projects they’re all working on. But when people realise they work more efficiently and interact better with those around them, they start to recognise that holidays are an investment in their wellbeing that flows on to all their relationships. Your time off affects everyone around you. There's really only upside in holidays. It's something keep it in mind this year.
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The challenge is to ensure you’re taking holidays for joy and pleasure, not for recharging or recovery.
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PS: Whenever you’re ready,
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When speaking to countless architects about the challenges of practice, the singular and universal obstacle they all face is not having enough time.
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Saying No
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5 key concepts and strategies on saying no
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How many things have you said yes to in the last week or two and immediately regretted? Saying no is a skill. It requires emotional intelligence. And it can be learnt.
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recent useful blog posts...
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It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
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There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
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Or…
do architects do too many of the wrong things?
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“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” - Paul Klee
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