OPEN THREAD: How'd you do with those healthy holiday boundaries?
Did you maintain them with others...and yourself?
Two weeks ago (but doesn’t it feel longer?) Jory asked you “How are you setting boundaries over the holidays?” Optionality members had a lot of bright ideas, from the internally-focused, like Kathleen sharing “finding time for myself and getting lost in the things I do love about the holiday“ and externally-focused like Grace sharing “I have to remove my work email accounts from my phone to truly take a break when I need.“
Stowe had the most succinct resolution: “More less; less more.“ 🤯 (The mind-blown emoji is mine.)
Of course I also had a conversation with member Melissa, for whom Christmas isn’t a holiday, and she sees this time as a great time to focus and get a lot done while lots of other people are being super quiet. I’ve definitely taken that approach in the past…I’ve always volunteered to be the on-call person during Christmas week. But more recently I’ve enjoyed the quiet and indulged in winter quiet myself.
Here we are, two weeks later, and my question is this: How did you do? Did you set boundaries with your family, your kids, your co-workers, your clients, and perhaps toughest of all, yourself, and did you stick to them?
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Well I'm back from almost a week offline and I survived! I had to take on a few work projects in the week between Christmas and New Year's that I knew would never get done if I waited for the hustle and bustle to return, but I condensed that work into two days, threw in some dr and dentist appointments for my kids, and then took the rest of the week through New Year's Day completely off -- didn't even respond to holiday text messages, which felt a tad impish, but nice in the sense that I was traveling with family and wasn't off checking messages constantly.