CHRISTMAS

How You Can Get Ahead of yourself to Deal with Holiday’s Stress

The daunting task of holiday’s season can be overwhelming that keeps you constantly battling with stress. Especially when you’re looking out for perfect holiday season to share with family and friends, decorations, choosing colours and organising get-together, as a result of all these you will struggle to cope with the stress that comes with it. Choice of meals come with varieties, as different meals are prepared to attend everyone’s taste, when the holiday’s get tense and the constant worry about preparations, those are memorable and special time for families and friends, when you overburden yourself about perfect holiday season, what comes next is the manifestation of troubled mind, when you come short of expectations.


You never get the exhausted list of people you’re expecting, that’s why sometimes people commit to overspending and over prepare that they don’t get to experience the beauty of the season, and they struggle to cope with the stress. Kids are making endless list of what they want, and their friends keep coming. It becomes a never ending circle. To get ahead of the holiday’s stress, you need to prepare without overthinking, it will enable you join the get-together without frequently running around in the kitchen looking for meals to pass around at the dining table, it has to be simple and modest, with that you can get ahead of the stress, and have a relax mind embracing the moment and the season.

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To get ahead of the holiday’s stress you need to work with the budget you have, be contented with the available resources, with this you have something to work with without overstretching the festive season by trying to make everything look perfect at your expense. When you get excited with the season, you might be disappointed that’s why you need to keep it modest and enjoy the simplicity at its finest with family and friends get-together. It makes them to focus on temporal picture-perfect situation neglecting long term feel good factors, when festive season is over prepared to get in the mood for the season, you miss those long term goals. Holiday season is all about doing your life routine in a special way, but that doesn’t mean overthinking to make it perfect.


Teamwork can make holiday’s season less stressful, it becomes a huge burden when you try to figure out everything on your own, but when roles are shared, everyone gets involved and it makes the task easier to achieve on time. It is fun for them to know that they will be able to contribute in their own capacity, it mustn’t be done in a particular way you want it to be done, it could be done differently but with the desired results. You need to ease off the pressure of taking care of everything and, allow family and friends to take part in the preparation. Show gratitude and be grateful how everyone carried their task to contribute for successful festive season, with this you can get ahead of time to deal with yuletide stress.

Chukwuebuka Ogbu

Writer.

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