Hi lovelies ♥
What I love most about the holidays is that absolutely no one does anything during them. So it’s really the perfect time – and sometimes the only time you get all year – to relax completely and do all of the stuff that you don’t get round to in your hectic day-to-day life. Like...
1. Sleep until 2pm
I don't know about you, but I don't find weekday mornings fun at all. In between trying to find some semi-healthy food to eat for breakfast and an outfit that won't give anyone eye cancer, I often get to the office feeling like I might as well not have slept at all. And on the weekends, I try to catch up with everything I didn't have time for during the week. Which ultimately means that sleep is a rare, precious thing, which, over Christmas, you finally have time for! Cherish it and value it. (I slept for 12 hours today. Absolutely no shame.)
2. Meet old friends
No one. Does. Anything. Over Christmas. Which means everyone will be back in their old hometown with their families. Which makes the holidays the perfect time to catch up with people you haven't seen in forever, because they moved, or you moved, or you both have stressful jobs and can't seem to find time during the year.
3. Watch Christmas movies
Everyone has a favorite Christmas movie. Whether it's Nightmare before Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or How The Grinch Stole Christmas (mine!), now is absolutely, definitely the time to snuggle up with family/friends/lovers, some mulled wine or cider, an unconscionably large amount of Christmas cookies, and binge watch the classics.
4. Take forever to get ready
See #1. You know all those youtube make-up and hair tutorials that just make you wonder who has the time to do that in normal life? During the holidays, there is nothing stopping you from taking an hour in the morning to perfect a chocolate-brown smokey eye with winged eyeliner.
5. Go for a walk
Whether you've decided to travel for the holidays or whether you're back in the town you grew up in, what better time to discover a new place or rediscover an old one than the winter holidays? The air is crisp and fresh, the days are just getting a bit longer again after the winter solstice, and all you need is a jacket, a hat (preferrably with funny ears) and maybe a flask of mulled wine. Stroll around a Christmas market and find beautiful handmade gifts and ornaments. Take a walk in the forest and enjoy the peace and serenity. Wander around the city center and discover some new cafés and bars.
6. Declutter your home
After the holidays comes a new year, and you don't want to face that weighed down by old clutter. Go through every room in your home - closets and make-up drawers tend to be prime candidates for this - and identify anything you are not using on a daily basis. Make three piles: Keep, Sell and Toss. Find a place for everything on your Keep pile - somewhere it won't be in the way. Upload everything on your Sell pile to ebay, Facebook groups, etc. Finally, and quite obviously, throw out everything on the Toss pile.
7. Set goals for the year to come
I don't like resolutions like "quit smoking" or "lose weight". They're useless and we all know no one keeps them past the second week of January. But it is useful to have a vague idea of what you want to achieve in the year to come. When Christmas 2016 rolls around, how is your life going to be different? What things will you have done that you haven't done now? Remember to make your goals quantifiable and break them down wherever possible. So rather than saying "I will be fluent in Chinese by December 2016", get up half an hour earlier every morning and practice. This way, you can easily keep track of how you're doing and every day you study will feel like a small success.
I haven't thought about my goals for 2016 yet, but I'll share them when I do. What are you going to achieve?
Happy holidays!
Love,
Damita
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