Start something contagious and spread more joy!
If you're running crazy with shopping, planning, sending christmas cards, decorating the house, starting the baking, attending holiday parties all while you continue to work and you feel less and less joy? STOP, yes its time to slow down, take some deep breathes as often as you remember and feel joy in those holiday tasks. The season is about joy and giving, so why not start with you? The more relaxed and filled with joy you are, those around you feel it and joy is contagious.
You can make all the excuses you want for why you can't stop to enjoy the holiday season but I challenge you to try a little more joy, pay it forward to the sales clerk who isn't real happy about coming to work at 5:00AM or the postal workers who are flooded with packages and people who are rude and in a hurry.
Spead some joy, it is contagious!