Work Vacation Checklist Help With Essential Oils

Prepping work before your vacation? Use Young Living Clarity™ essential oil in your USB diffuser to keep your mind on planning, scheduling and list-making.

What’s a Young Living USB diffuser? It’s a very natty device you plug into your laptop, computer or car, and it sends little puffs of essential oil molecules into your immediate vicinity. These hang suspended in the air for a little while to work their magic and freshen the air without harmful synthetic fragrances. The USB diffuser is ideal for offices and work stations because it specialises in a smaller area.

If you don’t have Clarity™ essential oil blend in your collection, authentic peppermint or rosemary oil is a handy alternative, or a blend of the two: even better. And of course, you can use a standard diffuser if you don’t have a USB diffuser.

(If you’re still heating oils, please put that oil bottle away and don’t open it until you’ve read the Whys and Hows of diffusing.  Then come back here to get our help with choosing a diffuser that’s well suited to you.)

Clarity™ includes single authentic essential oils of basil, cardamom and rosemary (among a bunch of others) for keeping your thoughts energised and collected, just as you’d expect with a product name like that.

Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.

Quality varies immensely, so please ensure you are choosing a brand with complete transparency from seed to seal, such as Young Living. Discover why we love them so much in this short video.

When it comes to the practical side of prepping your work for holidays, let’s do what we can to help reduce the odds of you becoming another one of those ‘I need another holiday already!’ casualties on your first day back. And one of the best ways I know is to walk through your work day.

The basics can be so obvious, they can be your undoing. When it comes to the nitty-gritty of checking that anything due to be done in your absence has been done by you ahead of time or delegated or automated and double-checked, you’ve probably (hopefully) got that down pat.

So just as you’d do a final sweep of your holiday apartment after you’ve packed to be sure there’s nothing lurking in plain sight, do a final sweep of your regular routines and be confident you haven’t forgotten the work equivalent of packing your passport.

See yourself step by step doing a typical day, starting with your approach to the building and wrapping up with your last routines before heading home.

1. Is there anyone you regularly make contact with who needs to know you’re going to be absent?
2. Is there anyone who won’t be inconvenienced by your absence but would really appreciate your thoughtfulness in letting them know ahead of time?
3. Are there any things you have to do just before you leave that you can’t do ahead of time? Don’t assume you’ll remember anything. Keep it simple and physical: print out your Must Do list and stick it slap bang under your keys or bag so you can’t walk out without seeing it
4. Allow at least your entire last afternoon at work pre-holiday for unexpected ‘bushfires’
5. Set your phone alarm for two to three hours before you’re due to leave. When it goes off, pause and ask yourself, “How’s your schedule travelling?” If you need to send up a Mayday, now is the time, not when everyone else has left the building
6. Touch base with every single person to whom you’ve delegated something and ask them, “For my peace of mind, can you let me know your understanding of what you’re handling for me while I’m away?”  Make sure their understanding matches yours
7. Do they have access to whatever they need in order to handle it? Your office, files, computer, cloud storage or contact list? Keys, codes?
8. That pot plant which humbly oxygenates your space and helps counter climate change in its own unassuming way? A few days before you head off, find a workmate with the healthiest-looking pot plants in their vicinity and ask if yours can join theirs now for company. Tick that baby off the list and add that workmate to your Thank You Gift list
9. Bring back a little Thank You gift for everyone who cared for something of yours in your absence. Helping you might be part of their job description, but a thoughtful gesture to show you appreciate them goes a long way. If your budget doesn’t extend to a customs-safe trinket handmade by locals, for instance, a handwritten ‘IOU a favour when you’re on holidays’ on the back of a postcard and scented with a drop of Young Living Gratitude™ essential oil can be a fun way to show you care

As for your holiday, you’ll find our handy tips here on handy oils to take and how to pack.

Have fun, stay safe and enjoy the good oil daily.

The information on this site does not constitute advice. Please consult with your health practitioner. When using any of the products mentioned throughout this site, please be sure to read the labels and follow their suggestions for safe use.