A stressful holiday season with all the planning and shopping and traffic is seemingly impossible to avoid. But what if there was a way to enjoy this holiday season with peace and joy rather then stress and anxiety? Well, we believe this is possible.
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Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
And today we're gonna share how to enjoy a stress-free holiday season.
Thank you so much for joining us this week and we're really excited to jump into today's episode.
Yeah, before we get started, as usual want to invite you to subscribe to our channel so you get notified every time we upload a new episode. So it's that time of the year where holidays are coming up, we got Thanksgiving, we got Christmas.
Lots of family stuff going on.
Yeah, family time, we got Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Some people see those as holidays.
-Yeah.
They're spending holidays. So we just thought we'd share some tips on how to have a stress-free holiday. So why don't you give tip number one and then we'll just run through these?
Okay. Okay, so the first tip is make sure to plan, when you have everyone over at your house, to do a recipe for dinner that you've never done before. And it's really special if you only give yourself the exact amount of time to get it done.
Like a super complicated Pinterest recipe.
Super complicated, pictures perfect.
It's like 10 courses, dessert, three turkeys, brisket. Like everything, right?
And tell everyone don't worry about bringing anything, just make sure you put all that burden and pressure on yourself just so that you can wow 'em, you know?
Yeah. Number two. That's a good one. Number two is remember that if you don't provide a perfect, perfect holiday event that everyone's gonna realize that you actually don't love them.
Sad.
Like if you don't just put it all together perfectly, when you realize that, it'll help you just to do it right so that you get every single thing right and it's just super special. So that's number two. Just to have a stress-free holiday. What's number three?
So the third one is keep really high expectations up because if you keep high expectations up on how everything will go, then you're usually more motivated and more excited about that specific day.
Yeah, like so high that you like need like a step-up stool to get to the top shelf of expectations, right?
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, those are the special ones to meet your expectations.
Yeah, at the end of the year where all the expectations just like, it's like the power expectation.
Yeah, like how this is gonna go is gonna set the tone for all of the next year.
All next year. Yeah, exactly.
The fourth tip is don't shop online because shopping online is too easy because then you can just wait for it, it comes in the mail and you--
It's boring. You can't like touch the gifts.
Yeah, you want to go like the day before, you know, Christmas or--
On a weekend.
Yeah, right when everyone's going because that way you can do with other people. It's more communal. And everyone's looking for the same things so it makes the shopping experience just much more eventful.
Yeah, and all the traffic to get there, right? I mean, all the red brake lights. That's what I have in my mind when--
And that's time so you just really contemplate how those expectations you just talked about are gonna get fulfilled.
Yeah, when I think of holidays, I think of lights, you know, colorful lights. I think of those red tail lights and like traffic