Give Thanks, make a list of all that you are grateful for
Share your gifts, talents, wealth, time.
Volunteer to help with a charity.
Read up on the history of Thanksgiving
Imagine how you would have handled being a pilgrim
Make a call to a old friend
Find a new recipe to try on turkey day
Buy or create a new outfit.
Exercise
Watch - Home for the Holidays
Christmas
look past the materialistic part and understand why you celebrate Christmas
Make and deliver cookies/treats - friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, shut-ins etc.
Go to church, midnight mass is special
Buy yourself a toy
Watch - Rudolph, The Grinch, Christmas Vacation, It's a Wonderful Life, Christmas Story, etc. in your pajamas, with hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps.
Start a new tradition.
Make someone else's Christmas special.
Sing "Blue Christmas" at a karaoke bar, complete with back-ups singers. Post it on "youtube."
Get some friends together and go caroling. Don't forget the hot chocolate and schnapps.
Find out if the "Christmas Spirit" is real.
New Years
Set some goals - health, career, education, spiritual, emotional, family, travel, financial - develop a action plan, then share with a friend. Ask them to help keep you on track.
Overall:
Manage your energy - sleep, diet, thoughts, actions, spirit
exercise
pray
take your dog for a walk
stay connected to healthy people
fill you own love buckets
be responsible for your won happiness
You all can handle it.
Love to hear more ideas, thoughts, actions, and opportunities.
Cheers Coach
ps YCDBSOYA
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M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
I was just sitting here wondering what to do to keep it together through the upcoming holiday season...Thank you for this post - It couldn't have come at a better time
May All Who Seek To Take My Life Be Put To Shame And Confusion; May All Who Desire My Ruin Be Turned Back In Disgrace. ~Psalm 40:14~
Turn the A/C down low so it gets chilly in the house, then start a fire.
Re-arrange your obnoxious neighbors Christmas display. Put the reindeers and elves in compromising positions.
Find a "turkey trot" race on Thanksgiving to run in.
Get a gig as a mall Santa.
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Me 36, W 37 M: 08/02/97 D13, D9 1st Bomb 02/08 Reconciled 04/08 2nd Bomb: 09/08 W filed for D 02/04/09 Separated 03/09 D dismissed 06/09/09 Still separated...
