Spring Break

Happy Spring/Easter break – and for Twitter followers – Happy Tweaster, Tweetsters!!

Easter is the first real chance of the year to grab a holiday. A lot of people do just that and head off to the slopes or the sun, to the country or the coast.

It gives a chance to ‘recharge your batteries’, as we like to describe the process of emotional rebalancing that a break from work can provide.

As well as a physical change in routine and the variation that a change of location can provide to the senses, it is worth thinking of topping up mental reserves through the effects of good books! It doesn’t matter whether you are Kindle-ing or paper-ing your reading – they all count.

Reading does affect mental well-being – a recent letter in The Times pointed out that in cases of mental health problems, doctors would do well do ask patients how many books they were reading – and on the answer, ‘none!’ they should suggest that it would help to read more.

So, if holidays can give a physical rest, then mental reconnection is just as important. And why not look at ways of improving your approach to life?

Two books this year that have given me pleasure in this dimension are:
How to Live:Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Answers by Sarah Bakewell – a literary tart of a name, you could say; and How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton – who usually hits the right philosophical ‘button’.

Oh! And if you want anything to sharpen your business thinking and freshen up your thought processes for the return to the office, then anything published by Thorogood would help – maybe for starters anything written by Barrie Pearson or by John Adair.

Neil Thomas

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