What Do You Want This Year?Written by Angie Dixon
Christmas is all around us, and many people are making up wish lists. Those who aren’t doing that are busy setting down their New Year’s Resolutions already. But this is a good time to sit down and do some serious introspection.What do you want from holidays this year? Do you want to rush around, spend a lot of money you don’t have, and yell at kids for not playing with all twenty of toys they asked for—at same time? Is that really how you want to spend Christmas? We talk about “Christmas spirit,” and mostly we mean giving. Giving of ourselves, giving to people who need it. That’s great, that’s Christmas spirit.
| | "I Need to Accomplish Something"Written by Angie Dixon
Do you have trouble taking a day off? Boy, I do. When I take a day off I lie around all day, read novels, eat whatever I want, take a nap, and generally do whatever I want. It’s awful. I get depressed, I don’t feel well, I don’t accomplish anything.Did you catch that last phrase? “I don’t accomplish anything.” Well, of course not, it’s a DAY OFF. But do you ever feel that way? That you should be accomplishing something even when you’ve told yourself and others that you’re taking a day off? Do you work on weekends? Evenings? Do you eat at your desk? I do all those things, sometimes. And what it means for me when I’m doing those things is that I’m “out of balance.” Now, balance for me may not look like what it looks like for you. That’s another article entirely, one I haven’t had time to write yet. But what balance looks like for me is basically that I can lie down and read a book or sit on couch with my husband and watch a movie without feeling like I “should be accomplishing something.” It’s that simple. For me, anyway. I don’t always have to be accomplishing something. I have to remind myself that it’s okay to be at loose ends, it’s okay to enjoy a novel rather than studying or reading a heavy non-fiction tome. It’s even okay to play a computer game.
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