4 Tips for Managing Holiday Anxiety
Holiday shopping, gift wrapping and decorating causing you anxiety? Click here to watch Inez Bracy on Fox 4 Morning Blend with Bill Wood discuss tips for managing holiday anxiety.
Tags: anxiety, holiday, self help, self improvement, strss
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Day 13 of 45 Day Challenge: How to Minimize Holiday Overwhelm
Do you feel as if you’re carrying the world on your shoulders and time is running out? This burden is really getting heavy and making the Holiday season less enjoyable. Boomer women become overwhelmed with the tasks shopping, cooking, decorating and ALL the things we think others expect us to do for the Holidays. AND of course we want everything to be perfect so we feel responsible. Responsibility begins in the mind.
Accepting that you are completely responsible for yourself and delegating some of the Holiday tasks will mark the starting point of relieving the feeling of overwhelm. Be sure to select well in delegating tasks; choose someone who can do the task and will get the task completed on time with minimal supervision.
It is not uncommon to feel anxious the first time you delegate a task. One of the best ways to get over this hurdle is to create a mantra “I’m letting go, I’m delegating tasks and all is well.” The more practice you get, the easier it gets, until one day you realize that you no longer have to carry the world on your shoulders.
The goal of accepting responsibility and learning to delegate is to free you.
Day 13 Decide what tasks can be done by someone else; then delegate. Notice your feelings you around delegating.
Tags: baby boomer women, holidays, self help, self improvement
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Day 12 of 45 Day Challenge: Baby Boomer Women Taking Initiative
Filed under: Boomer Women, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Transitions
Practically everything we do starts with initiative. Personal initiative is the ability to create, nurture and actualize. Personal initiative is a choice. It can be described as divine instruction leading to inspired action. It requires using effective communication of ideas, visions and dreams for a desired result.
Taking personal initiative involves being innovative, facing fears, taking the first step and always holding your vision. Boomer women have been taking initiative and leading the forefront of change ever since we burned our bras, set at lunch counters, loved the Beatles and took part in Woodstock.
Now baby boomer women are at a time in their lives when they get to take the initiative in creating the life they desire. They can step fearlessly into this new passage, embracing and being the change. No one knows exactly how it will be; they all know that having a clear vision allows them to create the new.
Day 12 What’s stopping you from your vision; holding you hostage and keeping you in a life of mediocrity. Choose to do something BOLD today toward making your vision your reality.
Tags: baby boomer women, Boomer Women, initiative, self help, self improvement, self talk
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Day 11 of 45 Day Challenge: Are You Trying OR Are You Doing?
Life is not about trying; it’s about doing. Just for today instead of saying “I’ll try say I’ll do” and notice the difference. The word ‘try’ often leads down the primrose path of failure, unhappiness and little or no joy and nothing gets done.
Having an “I’ll do” attitude opens the channels for allowing opportunities to happen. Obstacles and challenges become opportunities because you see them differently. Instead of looking at what’s missing begin to see the possibilities.
Seeing possibilities helps you tap into your intuition. Following your intuition is much like a river; it just flows. When you stop trying, and start doing your life begins to flow easily and effortlessly. This doesn’t mean that you will not have some bumps, curves, hills and valleys. It does mean that nothing is too big for you to handle.
Day 11 What are you trying to do today? Take a step back and see yourself doing and allowing instead of trying.
Tags: change, doing, intuition, Lifestyle, self help, self improvement, trying
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45 Day Challenge: Day 10-Perseverance & the Holidays
Faith, belief, awareness, desire, action and motivation are required to persevere and succeed. Boomer women know a little something about perseverance. BUT with the holiday season upon us, we sometimes forget! Though the tasks are many and time seems short, we know when we start that we will not quit. It’s okay to take a short break or rest period then go back and complete the task.
Edison and the invention of the light bulb is a study in perseverance. According to Ask.com “Edison actually had to invent a total of seven system elements that were critical to the practical application of electric lights as an alternative to the gas lights that were prevalent in that day.
These were the development of:
- the parallel circuit,
- a durable light bulb,
- an improved dynamo,
- the underground conductor network,
- the devices for maintaining constant voltage,
- safety fuses and insulating materials, and
- light sockets with on-off switches.
Because of Edison we enjoy a wide array of items that contribute to our comfort. Imagine just for a moment what the holidays would be like if he had no persevered!
Day 10 This holiday season look at your tasks and decide the circuitry you will use. If you must invent and reinvent; do so. You can start a NEW thing!
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