I was having a conversation with my aunt and we were talking about eating healthier before the new year. She suggested the Keto diet, knowing that I am picky eater and my life isn’t conducive to make major life changes at this point. I decided that I would just eliminate three things that I eat often to start me off.
I called these: The three Don'ts for December. Even though they consisted of saying no to soda, coffee and potatoes. I wanted to take it a step further with my personal life. I thought about “Don’t stress”“Don’t overexert”, and “Don’t hold on to dead weight”.
During the holiday season we get so caught up in the commercial part of it that we tend to become different people and have different triggers. Even though the holidays are supposed to be a happy time, it’s not always happy for everybody and as humans we tend to cause some of this unhappiness just by doing too much.
“Don’t Stress”: Learning to not stress over things you can’t control whether that’s the gifts we can’t give or the people who just start to become distant to us. Is so essential, as humans we tend to carry the weight of others and it begins to weigh us down simply because we don’t know how to say no. We are so overly emotional and worked up on pleasing and giving during November and December that we don’t think it’s okay to have limitations on what we will and won’t do. Well, you have to in order to maintain your sanity and your peace, stop spending more than five minutes stressing over something that you won’t invest five years into.
“Don’t overexert”: This is us always over working in friendships, relationships and at our actual job. We always overexert when it comes to the livelihood and love of others but don’t overexert when it comes to our passion and our dreams. Stop running on E for someone else's dreams and never attempt to fill up for your own. By nature we are taught to grind and work hard, you can do all that and still have enough left for you, stop emptying your cup to fill others.
“Don’t hold on to dead weight”: We are about to transition into the new year, dead weight shouldn’t have been carried into the month of November, but it definitely can’t make it into the month of December. Let Go, it’s too much to live for, too much to invest in, to be holding onto people who let go a long time ago. During the Holidays we tend to keep people around for extra company, but that’s actually the time we should be letting the ones we are unsure of go, don’t bring no mess into your new season of blessings.
Saying No is easier said than actually done, but it’s possible. Understand that you’re worth everything and more, you’re worth you. Not just you, but happy you, excited you, stress free you, don’t let people or things destroy your spirit if they didn’t help build it.
