FLAME with Brad Hook
How to Have a Great Holiday Break (Start Now, Not in January)
Most people hit the holidays exhausted and wired, crash, get sick, finally feel human — and then it's time to go back to work. There's a better way, and it starts before the break does.
New Year's resolutions quietly fade by February, which tells us something: waiting for January 1st to fix your life is a terrible strategy. This episode flips the timing — instead of treating the holiday break as a rescue mission, it walks through a handful of small, science-backed shifts you can start now, so you actually land into the break rather than collapse into it.
The result: stepping into the new year calmer and clearer instead of merely recovered. Eleven minutes, best listened to before the out-of-office goes on.
In this episode
- Why the crash-and-get-sick holiday pattern happens
- Landing into a break vs collapsing into one
- Small shifts to start before the break, not after it
- Why January resolutions fade — and what works instead
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