How to glide through the festive season stress-free
Functional Fluency International - FFI
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Have you been looking forward to the festive season for months or are you dreading it quite a bit?
This time of year presents a lot of potential stressful events, but do you react to them, which may lead to undesirable outcomes, or do you respond effectively and achieve outcomes that are beneficial for you and others?
Many of us struggle to stay aligned with our own needs and manage the expectations of others around us with ease and grace, especially during the festive season. Some of us have sleepless nights even before it starts. The chances are that the holidays themselves do not run smoothly either. If we don’t manage it properly, we can easily get stressed, frustrated and very overwhelmed.
Are you juggling through?
You want to get prepared for all the dinners and celebrations with friends and family but you keep postponing things because you are too busy getting your work done to make sure you can really take some time off. But when the time comes, how do you make sure that everyone is having a good time, that the brunch or dinner arrives on schedule, and any mutual quarrels don't lead to heated arguments? How do you pay for it all? How do you ensure that you don’t end up doing everything yourself, running around for all the shopping, and spending hours alone in the kitchen cooking and cleaning and missing out on all the fun?
Perhaps you don't fancy New Year's Eve with that bunch of friends or dinner with family at all. How do you tell them?