How To Optimize Your Vacations (According To Science) | Jennica Day
EPISODE 229 – Combining her education in kinesiology and psychology with her MBA and experience living in Cancun, Jennica Day has carved out a niche for herself as a vacation expert. She has spent the past eight years conceptualizing, researching, and writing a book on the science of vacations and she is now on a mission to teach everyone how to vacation optimally to prevent burnout and improve their health and wellness. Jennica is also an ex-varsity wrestler, an ecommerce analytics nerd, a wife, and a mom to three boys. In the episode, Jennica explains that a vacation doesn’t need to involve travel, why detachment is a critical skill for enhancing any vacation, the three vacation cycles…and more!
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QUESTIONS I ASK JENNICA IN THE EPISODE:
- Why is it important to analyze vacations from a scientific perspective? And why should people care?
- You talk about vacations that are tailored to individual personalities and values. Can you elaborate on this?
- How can you balance the various personalities in a family on vacation?
- In your book you talk about three vacation skills. Can you elaborate on these?
- What about when travel becomes stressful? How can you still get the rest and rejuvenation you need from the vacation?
- You like to think of vacations as not just vacations, but as vacation cycles. Can you explain what this means?
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