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Breaking Up with Burnout: How to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions
The idea behind New Year’s resolutions is so appealing: It’s the perfect time to make big life changes! What better time to change our bad habits to healthier ones than at the beginning of the year, right?
But, making lofty resolutions that end up with a shorter shelf life than leftover Christmas cookies is a cliché for a reason: we tend to burnout before February rolls around.
Why do we drop our New Year’s resolutions so fast? Our bodies and brains hate change….
Managing Holiday Stress by Overcoming the Perfect Christmas
So many of us associate this time of year with holiday stress. Let’s be honest, how many of us both loved and loathed Thanksgiving preparations? It's only one day, but many of us worked as early as the weekend before to get ready.
Christmas is up next, and the pressure is on. Holiday joy gets taken over by searching for the perfect Christmas present, preparing to host our extended families, traveling, and pressuring ourselves to make this year worth the wait after quarantine Christmas last year. So whether this is your first Christmas trying to go ‘back to normal’ or you need to do another quarantine Christmas, this holiday season has more pressure than past years it seems, and those weren’t a cakewalk either.
That’s a big burden to bear… so don’t. This year, it’s time to let go of the mythical, ‘perfect Christmas.’