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About to Snap Like a Christmas Kracker? Day 4

December 5, 2014

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?

The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

Day 4: Mrs. Claus Was A Perfectionist!

She takes care of everything! She packs the sleigh, hires the seasonal help, makes sure Santa stops for snacks, checks the bulb on Rudolph’s nose, and keeps all those Elves in line! Oh she’s a trooper, but don’t follow her lead!

Forget planning the perfect family gathering (!!), finding the perfect present, accomplishing the perfect holiday decor, and dine out if you are looking for the perfect holiday meal. Or you could always hire the Elves!

Life is too short, and thank goodness so are the holidays! Time to let go of perfection and enjoy the holidays. So short-circuit the mental exhaustion of perfect and repeat after me…good enough is good enough!

Have a perfect holiday…just kidding!

Dr Toby & Dr Bev

The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap Like A Christmas Kracker? Day 3

December 4, 2014

The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

Day 3: Grumbling Into Your Eggnog Because You Said ‘YES’ One Too Many Times?

Seriously there is no ‘peace and good will’ if you end up doing lots of things you don’t want to. So start early in the holiday season and say a few NOs. Just make your “No” gracious and move on. How Queenly is that!

If you want to have the energy to really enjoy what you choose to celebrate, it’s not too late, just say “No”!

No kidding!

Dr Toby & Dr Bev

The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap Like a Christmas Kracker! Day 2

December 3, 2014

The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

Day 2: It’s About Aunt Flossie’s Candy Cane Trifle!

The BIG holiday rule is that you can never break the holiday rules. After all your Great Great Great Aunt Flossie made her famous candy cane trifle for the first time and we’ve had it every year since! It’s tradition!

Do you dread some of the usual holiday traditions and get queasy when you think of breaking them? Time to sit down with a cuppa and have a really honest think about them. What do they mean to you? Do they make you smile at the memories, snarl or want to weep?

So keep the ones that are meaningful and cross off the ones that no longer fit! Worried about ruffling some turkey feathers? Keep in mind that it will all be over by January 2!

Make this the year you start some traditions of your own. Reinvigorate the holidays with something new!

Be bold,

Dr Toby & Dr Bev

The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap Like a Christmas Kracker! Day 1

December 2, 2014

The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

Day 1: On The First Day Of….Make A List! Make 2!

List everything you have to do, should do, ought to do, would like to do, have promised to do during the holidays. Then get real!

Immediately cross off the ‘shoulds and ought tos’ and then divvy your tasks up with this fabulously simple method.

First: Focus on your ‘Absolute Musts’. These are pretty obvious.

Second: Decide on your ‘Great Ifs’. You know these ones, “Time permitting it would be ‘great if’ I could get to [fill in the blank]”.

Third: [Oh we love these] ‘If onlys’! “If all Santa’s helpers showed-up I could paint my whole house in 2 days time!” And, Mrs. Claus would supply the treats!

Of course Christmas is a magical time, but save the magic for sugar plums and not your To Do list!

It’s good to believe,

Dr Toby & Dr Bev

The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap Like a Christmas Kracker?

December 1, 2014

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?

The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

T’was the month before Christmas and we were thinking and thinking about a gift to send to all of our readers. What to do, what to do? First, make a list of good ideas (always a starter)…

Good news, that list already exists! Such a perfect place to start…

A Partridge in a Pear Tree…Well there are enough chic chic butchers in London to definitely find a partridge, but how to stuff it in the mailing box?!

2 Turtle Doves…Definitely cute, but would prefer chocolate turtles!

3 French Hens…What’s with all the poultry?

4 Calling Birds…These days it should probably be 4 Birds a tweeting!

5 Golden Rings…Now we’re talking! Jewellery! Definitely Burnout Queen Style.

6 Geese a Laying…Ok , this bird fetish thing is just getting weird!

7 Swans a Swimming…Out of the question, the Queen owns all the swans!

8 Maids a Milking… Can do the Maids, but the cows pose another issue!

9 Ladies Dancing…Out in Soho still looking…(see 10 below!)

10 Lords a Leaping…Far too many men in tights!

11 Pipers Piping…Bagpipes hmmm, definitely an acquired taste.

12 Drummers Drumming…In the right setting, this could work!

So we made the list and checked it twice, but (sigh) no perfect gift was found. We will just have to do what we do best and offer you 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief!

Watch for Day 1 tomorrow!

Love from Dr Toby & Dr Bev xx

The Burnout Queens