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Tips for Christmas
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Deciding what’s important
What would change if you decided to do Christmas differently this year?
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Who is coming for Christmas?
Are you spending time with the people you love this Christmas?
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Who is coming for Christmas?
One of the major ‘stressors’ at Christmas is spending time with people it’s not easy
to be with.
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The cost of Christmas
We can all acknowledge that Christmas has become commercialised - and seems to start
earlier every year!
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Leaving one person to pick up the lion’s share of the work is a recipe for exhaustion,
resentment and short tempers.
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Coping with the day
The best laid plans of mice and men do not allow for things going wrong at emotionally
charged times like Christmas.
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We originally wrote Tips for Christmas as a series of 5 articles each with their own FREE Resource Pack.
Click on each of the links in the ‘presents’ below to read the articles or go straight to ‘Resources’ to download all 5 packs.
Sharing the load
Deciding what’s important about Christmas
What would change if you decided to do Christmas differently this year? There’s no time like the present to begin making Christmas one of those events you look forward to - a time to bring you together with those you love and strengthen your really important relationships.
The Ghost of Christmas Past
We each bring to Christmas our own unique memories of Christmas. Some of these are warm and fuzzy. Some are tinged with pain and sadness. Some make us laugh out loud. Some make us cry bitter tears. Some are our own ideas of what Christmas should be like. Some are traditions we’ve brought with us from our childhood.
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- How many of these memories and the Christmas ‘traditions’ of your family have you explored together?
- Have you developed rituals, customs and Christmas traditions of your own?
- Are there unwritten expectations over who you spend Christmas with?
- Do you hold different beliefs about Christmas?
- Is one of you from the ‘Bah, Humbug’ school of Christmas and the other from the ‘Open House, everyone’s welcome’ paradigm?
- Are you caught in a trap of how much you must spend on Christmas? Is this out of line with how much you can afford to spend at Christmas?
- Who is in control of your Christmas?
Avoid assumptions!
We often find couples are not on the same page when it comes to major events such as holidays and Christmas. It’s easy to assume our spouse or partner knows what's important to us at this time of year and yet the evidence strongly suggests we get it wrong! In our ‘time starved’ society, we’re all so busy doing things, it can seem impossible to take time out for a ‘chat’. Just think how much easier your Christmas will be if you iron out any assumptions and clear up misunderstandings before they happen.
Creating the spirit of Christmas Present
Here are some practical ideas to help you discuss what you would really like to have happen this Christmas.
The FREE downloadable guide to ‘What’s important at Christmas’ includes exercises to help you gain clarity on your values about Christmas and to create a shared vision for making it the ‘best Christmas ever’. Just enter your details into the box on the right and you will be taken straight to the page where you can download your FREE resource packs.
Remember you are looking for positive ways to make Christmas special or at least
bearable. This is unlikely to be a conversation you have had before and it will flush
out for you both the sort of Christmas that will best suit you and your family. You
may well find some new and exciting ways to celebrate the holiday. You may incorporate
bits of Christmas past from each of you.
Keep it simple and have fun! Fun is a major ingredient to success.
Okay, you can leave your creating your Christmas plan as late as one week before Christmas Day, but it’s probably cutting it a bit fine!
Getting to the Heart of the Issue
1 day intensives for couples
Christmas and the end of the year is often a time when people reflect on their future happiness.
Perhaps you’re making plans for the future and face some difficult decisions. Or maybe you’ve realised your relationship isn’t everything you’d like it to be.
We have put together a series of special coaching days to help couples fast-track their issues. On these you will work out effective solutions to your problems and create a plan to kick start the rest of your life - whether together or apart. Click here to find out more.
Contact us now and book the intensive that’s right for you.
Make it your New Year Resolution to break through to the life you want with the person you want to spend it with.