There are a bunch of public holidays lined up in the coming months and it’s only right to want to spend it doing what you love and enjoy. More often than not, you have probably found yourself eagerly anticipating these holidays, only to realize they went by too fast and you didn’t make the most of it. If you want to enjoy holidays more, let this be a guide on steps to maximizing public holidays.

Have a plan

You should plan for public holiday periods the same way you plan your workdays. Have a set-out plan of the activities you want to do and the places you want to go to. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean you will do exactly as you have planned, it is still important that you start the holiday knowing what you want to get out of it. Remember, without plans, the holidays will pass by and you’ll end up not doing anything.

Do something different

The public holiday should always be your clue to step out of your usual routine and try new things, go for adventures, and cross out an item off your bucket list. Also set aside time to relax and connect with yourself like reading a book by your favourite author, walking on a beach, going on a spa date or doing yoga. Make sure to put away anything that will get you worked up unnecessarily.

Explore fun places in your city

You can set a radius of how far you’re willing to go and then find fun new places to visit, check out fun places in Nairobi for a start. While choosing the places you would love to go to, remember to consider your safety, how accessible the places are and a couple of reviews of the place just so your day goes right. If you’ve got these right, then it’s time to let your hair down, give room to your inner child and go have some fun.

New in Nairobi? Nairobi is best explored steadily and leisurely. If you want to see the very best of the city, you need to spend more than 24 hours here.  Nairobi is a place for adventurers, unpretentious and authentic with multicultural cuisine, plenty of art, amazing wildlife and plentiful attractions. You will find beneath its picturesque look and quaint charm a scrupulously evolving city that will fascinate and make you visit again.

We are located near; the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi Snake Park, Nairobi Botanic Garden, Nairobi National Museum, University of Nairobi, Museum Hill Centre, TransUnion Kenya Offices, Nakumatt Lifestyle Shopping Centre, City market, Central Park, Tatu Restaurant – Fairmont The Norfolk Restaurant, Naivas Supermarket, and the City Market.

Let go of your phone and computers for this period

Decide to not worry about the next text coming in and instead focus on the moment. One thing a lot of us forget to do is savour the moments we have. Allow yourself to focus on the moment at hand, rather than worrying if that text came in or if they texted back.

Outsource chores if you can

Except doing chores is your hobby or you don’t have the resources to outsource these chores, you should pay someone else to do it for you. Not only does it allow you experience the soft life it also gives you enough time to rest, relax and go out to have fun.

Depression isn’t male or female thing nor is it just feeling sad and unhappy. It’s not something that you will snap out of eventually or will completely disappear when you wake up one day. Living with depression requires day-to-day management and is unique to every person. Understanding your own depression is paramount to receiving the correct treatment needed to support you through the journey, and what one treatment does for one person may not be effective for another. Travelling may not be the cure to depression but it might be one of the most effective ways to help you fight depression, people and experiences through travel  allows you to overcome depression or help cope with your depression in a natural way.

These are five ways that can help you fight depression:

You will Meet New People.

Loneliness’ is directly linked to Depression, meeting new people can become something you want to avoid and you may have trouble connecting with others. At home, meeting new people can be hard but when traveling, you are more likely to meet open, friendlier people who are easy to strike up conversations with. Traveling creates a common bond between fellow travellers because a lot of you are sharing similar experiences. You can encounter experiences like volunteering where meeting people less fortunate than you can be humbling and allows you to focus and appreciate the good things in your own life as well as the other volunteers you get to know through the process.

Meeting people from all walks of life can often bring out ideas, advice, and beliefs that may never have occurred to you before. In the long-run, friendships carved from traveling can be a constant reminder of your positive memories and help you with containing your depression once you’re back home and improving your outlook on life. It’s a disruption that will keep your mind to some for some good time.

Traveling ignites self-confidence.

Depression can lead to low self-worth and create negative beliefs that lead us to think we are incapable of a lot of things. It cloud us from seeing our true potential. Traveling educates us in ways that no other experiences can, showing us that most of what we think is impossible is actually possible. 

Traveling creates inspiration that can help alter our perceptions of ourselves and those around us. When you meet people who have made life choices based on what they want, not what society expects, this can help open up new ideas and beliefs and you can choose to think this way too. When traveling, you have the freedom to eat what you want, see what you want and do anything that you want to do, which sometimes depression doesn’t allow you to think about or attempt in everyday life.

Nature Therapy.

Never underestimate the vast beauty and wonder that Mother Earth provides and its effect on us as humans. Traveling can cultivate a sense of awe that we don’t necessarily get the chance to notice when we’re seeing the same places and people every day at home.

Studies hint at a very clear connection between depression and human proximity to nature. The human brain is devised in a way that it finds infinite calm in dense forest, by a riverside in mountain rivers and waterfalls. Once you are close to nature depression will leave as long as you linger there. Staying close to nature is one of the most potent ways of fighting depression.

Traveling will help You See the Big Picture.

When depressed, we tend to lose the ability to see the bigger picture of our lives. When we’re bogged down in day-to-day life, we don’t get the chance to step back and evaluate our problems properly. Sometimes depression causes us to have an outlook on life that involves a skewed view of the world.

Traveling allows us to see the bigger picture. It can help us put certain thoughts and beliefs in perspective and assess the way we think more candidly. When we take ourselves out of our usual environment, we are forced to literally see the world from different eyes. An accumulation of all the experiences we have while traveling can create a whole new thought process that can help towards overcoming depression.

Exert More Stay happy.

We advise you to break your work-home routine and sign up for a vacation that makes you indulge in more physical activities such as Horse riding, swimming, Boat riding, hiking Trekking, and many more. Such activities lead to the release of endorphins that combat depression directly. so you can  book  these activities or Nature trail at kambi mstuni resort