Your guide to a healthier perspective of life
Ask yourself, is this helpful and at what point will it stop being helpful? It’s good to prepare, but at what point are you over preparing? Where are your diminishing returns? When is it better to just relax and stop compulsively doing something because you’re anxious?
You can have too much of a good thing.
A lot of people love holidays and birthdays. They enjoy gift giving, gift receiving, recognizing others on their special day, or being recognized on their own special day.
As I was thinking about it yesterday (Father’s Day), I realized that I really enjoy the holidays and birthdays too. But I honestly don’t care about receiving gifts or recognition. That’s not my love language. Holidays and birthdays are just another day to me. What I love about the holidays though is having a set day, a reminder, to take some time off from work. It’s almost like a forced break. It’s a scheduled day in our calendar where it’s not only socially acceptable to not work that day, it’s actually encouraged and it’s a little strange to be working.
It’s important for the hard-drivers (the people who are always focused on work, achievement, and improvement) to take some time off. Because too often, we are thinking about what we need to do next, when really we need to just enjoy time with our loved ones – the ones who make our lives worth living.
So, yes…I enjoy holidays too. But it’s not for the reason many think about.