Hi friends this week I'm going to teach you how to survive the holidays I'm in a grumpy

I'm in a grumpy mood call me to Grinch if you will I don't care not having a good time not having a good day

and I think this is the perfect time to talk about how to survive the holidays and like December as a whole because you got a

couple holidays whatever you celebrate is your thing I'm not going to name names whatever you

celebrate celebrate it then you got New Year's right after it. And this month

everybody acts like this time of year is the best time of the year. It's the worst for a

lot of people and I'm going to break down a lot of things that are going to make you feel a little bit more sane about it because it sucks.

I hate this time of year. Everybody acts like it's so happy and it's so fun.

Everything's going to be great. It's awful. The energy is just off.

Everything's weird. Everybody's weird and I want to break a couple things now you need to be aware of,

kind of prepare you mentally for it, and we're going to suffer together this month and then get back on track in January.

Okay? So the way I like to put it in my head, this time of year to keep myself kind of sane and like not fall too far off track is reminding myself everything

you've been doing the way you've been living your life changes in December.

It's like playing Mario Kart and you're used to driving on this track and for 11 months out of the year you drive this same track in December your map changes like you're playing call of duty you got a new location you're playing Mario Kart it's a new map like you

have to get adjusted to this new map because if you do not if you just try and go about

December like you do the rest of the year and think you're going to be the same level of productive and happy and energized and all this and that,

babe, you go come in last place, you're not going to make it.

When you don't kind of prepare yourself mentally, everything just feels worse,

so that's the way I kind of like to look at it is for the month of December we're changing our map like the not worth changing it the map changed like everything we're doing the way everything feels is different You got a new map to play on so

adjusting to this new map for this month is important. And first thing I want to

say about what this new map is like is everything seems harder and it's because it is every single

thing seems harder now I want to go into why so everything seems harder just because

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