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Feeling overwhelmed about Christmas?

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I read an absolutely fabulous post over at Beth’s place the other day called The Christmas Police.


What a great reminder to simplify!

If you’re feeling overwhelmed with all there is to do, STOP.

  • You don’t have to buy more gifts.
  • You don’t have to do more baking
  • You don’t have to send out Christmas cards even if you’ve received some.
  • You don’t have to decorate your house to match your neighbours’ houses.
  • You don’t have to put up another tree.
  • You don’t have to go to that party you don’t want to go to.

Just relax and BE.

After the initial bout of slight panic, it’s strangely freeing to go against the grain!

Give yourself permission to STOP and enjoy what you have done (even if it’s nothing). Nobody enjoys being around frazzled people, especially at this time of year.

Which is exactly why I’m avoiding the malls in Johannesburg… although I decided on the red daily planner and wouldn’t you know? They only had ONE left when I went last week so I snapped it up!

What do you need to give yourself permission to stop doing?
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P.S. Mine is in the comments :)

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Do you send Christmas cards? Here’s how I get them done.

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

  • I make a list of everyone I want to send a card to.
  • Gather all the cards from my storage box
  • Address them all – I store the addresses in Outlook
  • Then when the cards are sitting on my desk with all the addresses peeking at me, I’m more motivated to actually write out the messages and get them done.
  • I try and write a few every day so that all the writing doesn’t become a burden. I don’t believe in just saying “To ________ From _________ ” so I try and put a bit of effort into it.
  • I took 10 with me to the hairdresser’s last week and while the colour was on my hair, I managed to write out 6.

In South Africa, people aren’t really big on giving Christmas cards. Or maybe that’s only in my circle???

This year I took about 40 from my stash (I buy them at half price just after Christmas every year) and I think 10 were for people in South Africa; the rest are being sent overseas.

Do you send Christmas cards? What’s your strategy for getting them done?

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