Do You Hear What I Hear?
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Susan in Inspiration
Step away from the Black Friday and Cyber Monday super saver sales. What do you really want this holiday season? Super cool brown clover boots from Anthropologie aside, what do you crave? What feeling state are you hoping to get from what you want? 
Almost everyone claims happiness, connection, love, peace. Okay, I get that you want the boots too, but stay with me here for a minute. Because, as much as you want those boots, you aren’t going to get the deeper things that you really want from them (even the clover ones).
Working with hundreds of clients to help them manage the holidays, it’s comical what we get wrapped up in, sometimes literally, during the holidays. The decorating, cooking, eating, mailing, shopping, partying, baking, wrapping, stamping, color coordinating hysteria. These are all fine things to do as long as it feels happy while you are doing them. As long as you aren’t crying while you wrap that 500th gift to someone you barely know. As long as you aren’t eating when you aren’t hungry to stuff down disappointment. As long as you aren’t baking with bitterness. (Bitter baking just sucks.)
During this season, notice yourself. Notice if you are feeling tired or cranky. Notice if you are doing things that you do not want to do. Notice if you would rather just get it all over with. And, then, ask yourself WHY?. Listen for the answer.
And then, ask yourself how you can better create what you are really after: connection, happiness, peace, joy. What could you stop doing? What could you think? What would feel more like love and peace and joy than what you are currently thinking and doing?
My biggest hope for you is that you are living your life as a thank you. A big, loud, jingle jangle THANK YOU. Palms up, smiling, embracing your life.
And maybe also wearing those Clover boots.
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