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Moving Into the Final Stretch of Holiday Preparations with Some Sanity

Fortunately for me, I’m not much of a shopper so my Holiday preparations are simple and fairly streamlined.  I like to give gifts that are meaningful and I like to give gifts all during the year.  This keeps me from feeling any pressure to over-give during the Holidays.

There are other areas of my life and career where I do get a bit over-stimulated and over-prepared.  If you know me, you know this is so true!

My belief is that we all have only strengths, not weaknesses. When we get ourselves in trouble – and for me that occurs about 100 times a day – it is not because of a weakness.  I get in trouble when I simply get the volume turned up too high on my strengths.

My ‘over utilized assets’ get me in trouble regularly when I take responsibility for things that are not my responsibility and I value the team, more than I value myself.  This is easy to see since I know my strengths are in the areas of driving results and building relationships.

During the Holidays, especially over the next 8 days when we wind up our work commitments for the year, prepare for 2013 and throw in lots of Holiday Parties, family activities and a tremendous amount of time with our ‘extended family’, it is even more important to know what works for us, what does not work for us and what our strengths are.

With this awareness and information, we can plan our activities according to what really serves and honors us and our values.  We can establish boundaries with others more easily with this information.  We can build in parameters around shopping, Holiday parties and traveling.  We might even be able to sustain our self-care during the Holidays with this information.

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You’ll be able to take the Taylor Protocols’ Core Values Index and obtain your complimentary profile. If you like it, check our website in January for a series of complimentary Webinars to learn even more about yourself from the CVI Profile.

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One key to enjoying life is to have moderation in everything.  A life lesson I continue to learn, by the way.

With awareness about ourselves we have the ability to choose.

When we have the ability to choose while practicing self-care and having good boundaries, we most often choose wisely!

If you thought I covered about 82 separate topics in this one blog post you are correct. I intend to take each topic…self-care, boundaries, and moderation and reflect on each of these in more detail over the last week before Christmas. While many people do not celebrate this holiday, almost everyone is caught up in the frenetic activity which can, potentially cause us to make poor choices.

Happy Holidays!

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