People who set personal goals during their time off — such as seeing friends, pursuing a hobby, or even organizing a closet — report being happier than those who don't.
and we find that it makes people feel happier than passive forms of recovery.
Next, we wanted to understand whether proactive recovery is associated with how many days of vacation people planned to take off from work and what activities they anticipated engaging in during those days. On average, people who had holiday goals planned to take 1.2 more days off from work than those who didn’t set goals for their holidays. This is important since roughly, which is approximately $62.2 billions in lost benefits.
Notably, we found similar results in a different sample of 184 workers surveyed back in 2019 who indicated having access to paid holidays. Those who indicated that they typically set goals for their holidays were 12% happier than those who didn’t. Proactive recovery was further associated with spending one’s holidays pursuing more social activities and fewer rest-related activities. As before, time spent on social activities during holidays was associated with greater happiness.
Further, the positive effects of setting goals aren’t just limited to weekends and holidays, but can actually be tapped into on a daily basis — setting goals for how we spend our evenings can even be beneficial. In a separate sample of 242 workers, we found that those who set goals for their evenings spent more time on social activities and were also 10% happier than those who didn’t set goals for their evenings.
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