Practicing Constraint

How are you feelin' about this year's growing holiday list of To Do's?
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Sending big love and support to everyone who's feeling the overwhelm. ⁠

I'm deciding ahead of time that this year the holidays are going to be a little different.
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For me, that means to practice constraint.

Constraint is a limitation or a restriction you put on yourself that simplifies your life. I've noticed many of my coaching clients are feeling a lot of dread with some of their holiday responsibilities that are coming up.

Constraint helps eliminate overwhelm. If we decide ahead of time how we're going to focus our energy during the holidays, the more energy we have to create what we truly want.

Constraint (saying no) gets difficult if we are the type of people who like to keep our options open.

Keeping our options open is a problem though, because we have too many options these days.

Constraining your holiday parties is a great idea. One of the things I really like to teach is to find your people and then surround yourself with them. You know, the ones who you feel more light and energy around. When you make that decision for yourself ahead of time, you remove so much overwhelm.

Constraint reveals your ability to make a decision and keep a commitment to yourself. Then it reveals how your relationship is with yourself, and how willing you are to honor the commitments you've made, to you.

So, I'm going to limit my options this holiday season. I already feel more peace on earth by just stating that.

Constraint has completely changed my outlook on how the holidays are going to be experienced this year. I get to focus on a few things at a time, versus keeping a dizzying pace doing all the things and not enjoying the people I love.

Having a few commitments to look forward to will be much better than a lot of options and overwhelm.

Three cheers for peace on earth my friends.

I hope you enjoy the holidays.

I love you all.

Danielle xoxo