Working through the festive season?
Having the ‘fear of missing out’ on the festivities, or what they call FOMO?
While some of us are enjoying the festive season with gatherings with our near and dear ones, seeking blessings and indulging in delicacies of all flavours, some of us don’t have this opportunity.
But there’s a different set of opportunities for this latter lot. Read on.
The Opportunity to Enjoy the Routine:
Festivities- organising events, redecorating homes and offices can be tiring. And the thing is, work commitments can pile up around such times. There’s just so much to juggle- office, home, events at the office and events at home- that it can become difficult to manage everything.
So, the ones who aren’t busy with the festivities have an opportunity to enjoy their own calm routine. There’s a quiet beauty in the mundane but productive daily life that tires you just about enough to fall asleep peacefully at night.
The Opportunity to Use the Festive Spirit Differently:
There’s a certain festivity in the air that can make many feel alive. Whether you are in India with people around celebrating the Diwali nights, or somewhere else on the globe, fresh out of celebrating Oktoberfest or Halloween, or your part of the world is on its way to celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas, there’s just a certain momentum around.
Now is a great time to channelise this lively momentum into your work. Old ‘new’ initiatives lying pending somewhere in a file at the back, finishing up a long due task, or who knows, even planning for a new year resolution! If one must work through the festive season, why not show the pending tasks some dazzling lighting too!
The Opportunity for Gratitude:
Now is a great time with longer evenings and shorter days to be grateful about what we already have. Longer evenings, dark and cool call us to light our own warmth into it, and isn’t gratitude the best kind of warmth? Gratitude for the work that gives us the means to live well and dream more, gratitude for the learning each day brings, gratitude for our abilities and competencies. Once we start thinking about it, the list of small and big things to be grateful about it is endless.
The last stretch of the year brings ample opportunities for all of us. Sometimes, the opportunity to rest, rejuvenate, celebrate and indulge. And sometimes, the opportunity to plan, implement and being grateful.