How to Have a Great Holiday Break (Start Now, Not in January)

Thanks for visiting! Connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyhook/ or https://www.instagram.com/bradhook and don't forget to subscribe here for more videos like this.Most people hit the holidays exhausted, wired, and a little numb. We crash, sometimes get sick, finally start to feel human again… and then it’s already time to go back to work. At the same time, most New Year’s resolutions quietly fade by February, which tells us one thing: waiting for January 1st to “fix” our life is a terrible strategy.This video is about a different approach.Instead of treating the holiday break as a rescue mission, we’ll explore a handful of small, science-backed shifts you can start now so that you actually land into your break — and step into 2026 calmer, clearer, and more aligned.In this session, we’ll cover:

• Why stress quietly erodes immunity (and why so many people get sick as their holiday starts)
• A one-minute box breathing practice to begin lowering stress before you stop working
• How candlelight and stargazing one night a week can change the tone of your evenings
• The power of airplane mode mornings to reclaim the first 30 minutes of your day
• The post-it on the mirror ritual: turning a single core value into daily action
• A simple weekly question — “What went well?” — that retrains your attention toward what’s working
• Why our average screen focus is now around 47 seconds, and how to trade doomscrolling for deeper comedy, documentaries, and music

These aren’t resolutions. They’re tiny pattern disruptions—practices small enough to start today, but powerful enough to change the person who arrives at the holiday break.⸻👋 About meI’m Brad Hook, author of Start With Values and Resilience Mastery, a speaker, and Head of the Resilience Lab at the Resilience Institute. I’ve spent the past two decades at the intersection of performance, wellbeing, and technology, helping people and organisations burn bright rather than burn out.⸻📌 If this video helped you

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