If you do one thing for the Holidays…
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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There are two types of people in this world. Those who fuss about the holidays, and those who don’t.
You know, the ones who stress themselves out about what everyone else will think, only to stress and bicker some more that the people who they were fretting for didn’t give a rat’s behind. Then there are those who live on the flip-side of this planet – the ones who don’t so much as buy a card for nobody, including moms.
If you do one thing to prepare for the holiday season, DETOX. Physically and mentally.
The festive season is usually a time of great excess, so prepare yourself for it in order that you don’t overindulge, over do, and over be, only to then be pressured into setting unrealistic goals for yourself. Goals of which you do not express loudly of course, because, nowadays, telling people that you’ve set ‘New Years resolutions’ for yourself is soooooo last decade. *Goooooosh*.
It’s all about the winging it, innit? Forget the goal setting, just freestyle the next 365 days of your life. Brilliant!
I digress.
The Holiday Season.
Excessive food.
Excessive conversation.
Excessive drinking.
Excessive spending.
Excessive skin teet.
Prepare your body and mind for it. Eliminate the the current build up of toxins, before you open up and indulge in new ones, so that come 01022011, you don’t feel chock full of bile and regret. Allow yourself enough psychological and physicial space to properly deal with excesses drama that don’t belong to you; the stuff that messes with your zen and makes your year start off with a *Pfffft* rather than a *How you like DEM apples!” kinda thing.
And while you are detoxing yourself, why not clean up your environment?
Schedule a Fall cleaning.
Declutter your space and make room for everything that you will and hope to receive in the new year.
SORT OUT YOUR *ISH.
Give the lightly used, clothing or otherwise, to charity, to someone you know, or to a family in need. For some of us, the unused stuff that you got on clearance because it was a ‘deal’, and paid no mind to the fact that it neither fits, nor compliments your shape nor anything else in your closet for that matter, also qualifies. Let’s face it, if you haven’t used it in a year, worse if you live in a climate that does NOT change for the entire year, then chances are you aren’t using it for a reason.
“Fabulous” fits and flatters. “Unfabulous” doesn’t.
Do yourself and the public at large a favour and give unfab away. Freely.
And while we’re getting busy with it…volunteer.
So you can’t buy something for everyone that you know is in need, but you can give of your time, your energy or perhaps of your experience. It is said the the less time that you spend focusing on yourself, the more you appreciate what and those that you have, especially when you spent your time with people who are less fortunate than you are.
Theory of relativity.
That’s like me stressing out yesterday about having lost my son’s bag, and his entire ‘LIFE’ along with it on the subway.
Stressful? Sure. I guess someone got an early Christmas. But when I think about the fact that I could have lost him???… well, losing a fun-filled knapsack ain’t so bad in the grand scheme of things. Go ahead and enjoy.
b Freakin’Fabulous.
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