❄️De-stressing from the stressors:
Yup, it the most STRESSFUL time of the year...The Holiday Season π€ΆπΎπ πΎπ©. With this wonderful season comes anxiety, depression, super super highs, and the worst lows imaginable. In trying to re-focus on my income goals, performance, and creative aspersions I've realized that I have get rid of my stressors first by identifying them and coming up with a plan to wrap up this year, paired with a clear focus for the New Year.
What are my (our) stressors (a general statement)
- Financial Roadblocks
- Work
- Personal Projects
- Family Expectations
- Time Management
- Social Engagements
- Entrepreneurial Goals
- Mental/Physical Health
πTIME FOR PRESENTS!
✨These are some basic ways to build stepping stones to start taking care of yourself . We all have too many responsibilities that tend to weight us down in every way imaginable, it’s only fair that in the changing climate we internalize our focuses and make ourselves a priority.
π€ΆπΎ Financial Roadblocks:
Get serious about your debt (old/new) that still make a reappearance ever so often (student loans). Come up with a game plan on how to rid yourself of the burden. Take away things that you’re splurging on that isn’t utilized in your normal everyday routine. Pay down one debt at a time, then move on to the next. And so on, until it’s done.
π πΎ Work:
This is one of the hardest; even for me. If you feel undervalued and unappreciated make a boss move. Don’t let these you only need a High School diploma jobs determine your worth. When you first started that job, you said to yourself it was just until you get stable...but you haven’t gotten stable yet! So, what’s next? Move on! Develop your craft, self educate as best you can, devise a way to be financially independent or at least maneuver yourself to a place that if you lost that job your bills will still get paid.
π€ΆπΎ Personal Projects:
What are you waiting for? Do it! It doesn’t matter who supports you or not, just as long as you have the drive and vision to see the project through from start to finish.
π πΎ Family Expectations:
This is a tough for us all, but you are not obligated to care for adults who are not mentally/physically/ or due to age incapable of taking care of themselves. Often we find ourselves taking care of family members because of the circumstances they put themselves into, while expecting someone to bail them out. YOU ARE NOT SUPER SAVE A HOE! It is not your job to swoop down from buildings in a single bound to rescue an perfectly healthy adult(s)from a bad situation that they willingly entered into.
π€ΆπΎ Time Management:
Be stingy with your time! Your time is worth more then people are willing to give you credit for. When you give your time to any person, place, thing, or organization that time you can’t get back so you cannot afford to waste it, there is also time you could have used to dedicate to something that was really important for you. Choose how you spend your time wisely when it comes to people, events and other things that occur.
π πΎ Social Engagements:
Don’t use this time of year to be all in your feelings and neglect people that do care about you. It’s a good idea to take yourself away from particular stressors and gather in a group of good people Who can keep you accountable, focused, honest, current and creative.
π€ΆπΎ Entrepreneurial Goals:
If you don’t know it already, then you need to find the thing that makes you want to improve your current circumstances. We are not born to pay bills and die, there are things each of us want to achieve in a certain amount of time or at the very least before we are called home. Find and/or develop your talent. Hone the craft in attempt to make that work for you. Which will give you financial freedom if your willing to put in the work!
π πΎ Mental/Physical Health:
The new year isn’t an end goal to take care of things that you know you should have taken care of years ago. Don’t wait for the new year to come in to decide you want to become physically, financially, emotionally, mentally healthy. Work on the state of your health right now as you’re reading this December Goal suggestion. If you’re not mentally prepared then you won’t be able to get through all the negative reactions that people in new places can give you when you’re trying something new for the first time. If you’re not physically healthy you won’t be able to endure the environmental things that Has to be overcome when you have to move from one area to another area. If you’re not emotionally healthy you won’t be able to separate people giving you constructive criticism from people giving you criticism in such a way as to discourage you from proceeding any farther.
❄️ Thank for reading π I hope to see you in the New Year so we can start this journey all over again. Mamas got a brand NEW bag π°
