12 Days of Giving 2015: #1

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Day one, and the challenge is: Give yourself a break.

Some of these challenges will be familiar if you’ve ever participated in the past, and there’s a reason for that. No, I’m not too lazy to come up with new ones, 

It’s that these are the things I need to be reminded of myself. Again, and again, and again!

This challenge doesn’t require any money.

As the holiday approaches we all have lists of things to do. Family dinners, shopping for presents, annual Christmas family update letters, children’s concerts, staff parties, christmas cards, white elephant gifts…

Is your blood pressure higher now than when you started reading? Sorry. The idea behind behind today’s challenge is for you think for just a moment about that to-do list. Are you doing some of these things simply out of habit? Are there things you used to do before you had babies/ toddlers/ teenagers eating you out of house and home? Are you doing them because you’re “supposed to”?

There are seasons for everything, even the fun things like Christmas cards. Give yourself permission to do the REALLY important things, and let one of the less important ones slide.

If there is one thing you could stop, what would it be? If there’s one important thing you need to start this year, what should it be?

Leave a comment about that if you’d like. I have three digital keychains to give away, so three winners.