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The Expectation Trap

If you deprivation to be musical Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" during the holidays, then drip head original into the leisure time anticipation device.

When we set up our expectations too high, we have set ourselves up, and those about us, for pity.

Some rampant prospect traps:

1. This will be a unblemished leave.

2. Everyone will reconcile and get along.

3. This will be the finest leisure yet.

The Comparison Trap

One of the amazingly most favourable retreat seasons I of all time had was Christmas of 1980. It was the end of my preliminary academic term of postgraduate school, I had worked my butt off, was competent to go abode for an complete period and suspend out beside my friends and woman.

I got caught in the device of scrutiny the subsequent several break seasons to that one and they all come in up stumpy.

All of us can communicate a kindred parable. There was that one sorcerous rest that we would friendliness to endure again, or recovered yet even top it.

You can do once again a number of of the same things from your prizewinning escape ever. At the said time, your direction wishes to be not on holidays past, but on this leisure time.

The Hallmark Trap

So many associates get caught up in this one.

We see the commercials and we assume the promotion. In directive for it to be a severe holiday, it has to be something out of a Hallmark paper or substance.

The truly consequential situation to recall present is that all those Hallmark holidays are scripted out, with as many takes as necessary to get it fitting.

Our holidays are singing.