I’m subscribed to a lot of those newsletters and there’s one that I particularly like because it’s short and to the point and more importantly, resonates with me. Darius Foroux in Wise & Wealthy (yup!) talks about how ‘December can be a hectic month. And every time things get hectic, our personal energy often suffers’.

I know right, so true! He further says:

Personal energy plays such an important role in our overall well-being. In The Power of Full Engagement, psychologist Jim Loehr and journalist Tony Schwartz talk about the best way to spend and recover energy:

When we expend energy, we draw down our reservoir. When we recover energy, we fill it back up. Too much energy expenditure without sufficient recovery eventually leads to burnout and breakdown. (Overuse it and lose it.) Too much recovery without sufficient stress leads to atrophy and weakness. (Use it or lose it.)

As with so many things in life: Balance matters!

And we know that the hecticness is subscribing to an expectation of what the holidays should be instead of how it should be on our own terms, our own set of realities.

If you can’t afford to buy that gift, then DON’T. If you can’t eat too much of that because of diet and health reasons, then DON’T. If you feel that this person is shit and awful, tell it to them NOW and don’t wait until the New Year lol.

Save your energy, save your resources; you owe yourself first.