subject: To Shop During The Christmas Holidays [print this page] If you plan ahead, you would probably want to avoid to shop during the hectic time of the Christmas season. There are plenty of people who have succumbed to the stress of trying to elbow their way in a toy store jam-packed with parents essentially in the hunt for the quickly reducing stock of the same item. And there are few seasons as the season of giving that can bring out the worst in people. To be honest, maybe it has brought out the worst in you as well on more than one occasion.
It is no wonder, as being out in the last-minute with a wish-list you had to staple together and push around in a shopping cart, are not the ideal circumstances for conducting a safe and sound shopping tour.
Preparations
It is what you tell yourself every year - next year, I will come prepared. Next year I will start my shopping in due time before the hectic last days, with time running fast towards Christmas day, and every watch seems to count down the time until the bomb will blast off.
But what if you actually tried it. What if you picked upped that item that you found in January that would used be the perfect gift for your aunts husband? What if you did not wave off that ideas as ridiculous just because the Christmas holidays had just passed, thinking that you have plenty of time to prepare anyway.
That kind of thinking is what brings us to the same position year after year. We stand there bewildered, with a pounding heart and big eyes like we are not sure if we just got run over by a car.
Save that desperate feeling of you crowd-surfing in a store during the last panting moments before closing time. Bring it out from time to time, keep that sense of panic fresh in your mind, so when you see that perfect Christmas gift, no matter time of the year it is, you will instantly buy it in order to be able to cross another distant relative off the list.
Feel The Relief
Make it into a sport if you must, with rewards awaiting you every time you have made a purchase that will bring you another step further away from the dreaded holidays. Maybe you could treat yourself to an evening at the movie theater as you have just crossed off a present for your cousins step-brother from your to-do list. See how much easier it will be to breath for each person you can mark with a little red V, for done.
Do not fall back into your old habits of thinking short-sighted. Remember that it is that laid back attitude that pulls you back into the turmoil of stress and performance anxiety, and if you haven't started in due time, most of December will just run by you with you feeling paralyzed by the mere thought of going out to shop for presents.
by: Kurt Ross
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