This holiday season, give yourself the greatest gift of all: the power of choice. Join April Shprintz as she explores how recognizing your ability to choose can lead to greater happiness and fulfillment, not just during the holidays, but all year round. April provides practical tips on setting boundaries, overcoming fear, and prioritizing your well-being, even when it means making unconventional choices. She also emphasizes the importance of self-gratitude and recognizing your strength in creating the life you deserve. Tune in and start choosing yourself today!
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Give Yourself The Greatest Gift
I am so glad you’re here. We are full on into the holidays. This is a great holiday week. No matter what you’re celebrating, I want to help you give yourself the greatest gift that you can. You’re probably thinking, “She’s going to say mindset,” that is a wonderful gift, but there’s one that’s even more powerful. It powers your mindset and everything in your life that leads to happiness, and that is the power to choose.
Recognizing That We Always Have A Choice
A lot of times, and the holidays are one I can really think of, we feel like, “I don’t have a choice.” Maybe it’s in a not-that-big way, like, “I don’t have a choice. I have to go celebrate the holidays with my family. I don’t have a choice. I have to put up with those in-laws I don’t like. I don’t have a choice. I have to get a gift for this person or that person.” None of those things are true. We always have a choice. Recognizing the power that we have to choose is incredible.
We always have a choice. Recognizing the power that we have to choose is incredible. Share on XYou’re like, “I don’t have a choice.” You only have choices you don’t like. Once you realize that you always have a choice, but sometimes none of them feel fun, you can take back the power in your life, not just during the holidays but all of the time. That means that you can have the freedom to do things that may seem a little unorthodox or a little weird but might be exactly what you need to get the happiness and success in your life that you’ve always wanted.
The Idea Of Spending Holidays Alone
One, Christmas alone or any holiday alone. People usually think you have to go and spend it with friends or family. If your friends or family are not the most fun place for you to be, you could choose to let go of the fear of what it would mean to spend a holiday alone and spend it by yourself. I say this as someone who has spent several holidays alone, even big holidays, both when I was in the Military and even in recent years.
When there were things about big holiday gatherings that weren’t fun to me, I made the scary choice to spend the holiday alone and found out an incredible thing. It was that I could have fun all by myself and I could enjoy myself. That put me in a powerful position because that meant I wasn’t saying yes to things because I was afraid of what it would be like if I was all by myself. I was only saying yes to things or only saying, “Would you like to do this?” if it sounded more fun than being alone. There’s a lot of power in that.
The Significance Of Setting Boundaries And Saying No
That plays right into boundaries. I say to everyone, all my clients, all my friends, and anyone I care about, “Do not should on yourself. Don’t should do this and should do that. You should be able to say yes to the things you want.” A lot of times, the reason we say yes to things that we don’t want is because we fear the reaction of another person. We fear what will happen to us if we don’t. We feel guilty about what it says about us if we do something that is different than what other people are pressuring us to do.
The thing is though when you live from a place of fear or you answer from a place of fear, you never feel good, but if you have boundaries and you say yes to the things that you want, put a box around what makes you happy, and don’t go outside of that box, and in that instance, not going outside of the box is fine, you will find that you are so much happier.
When you live or answer from a place of fear, you never feel good. But if you have boundaries and say yes to the things that you want, you will find that you are so much happier. Share on XAn example would be maybe you’re not ready for Christmas alone yet but you know that if you stay at your family or your in-law’s house past X amount of hours, you are done and you’ve had a terrible day. You say, “I’m happy to come for the gathering. I’m going to come for dinner. I’ll be there for a couple of hours and then I have another engagement that I have to get to.” Here’s the thing. That other engagement could be going to your house in your PJs and watching your favorite Christmas movies or going to another friend’s house that’s fun to be at to regroup and have a good time. Setting that boundary will be a great way of loving yourself and choosing you. The greatest gift you can give yourself is the power of your choices.
Acknowledging Our Own Efforts And Achievements
Also, one more gift you can give yourself, the cherry on top of the proverbial sundae, is gratitude for you. One of the greatest gifts you can give is the ability to recognize yourself and all of the things that you’ve done for yourself throughout the years. Go on YouTube and look this up. I love the speech when Snoop Dogg got his star on the Walk of Fame. His entire speech was, “I want to thank me.” People thought it was funny and people laughed, but if you listen to it, it is so true.
One of the greatest gifts you can give is the ability to recognize yourself and all of the things that you've done for yourself throughout the years. Share on XWhen was the last time that you said, “Thank you so much for showing up for me. Thank you so much for doing the things for me that I needed to do so I could get here, be here, do this thing, have this health, and have this happiness.” Take the time to be grateful for all that you have and all the people in your life, but number one, and first and foremost, be grateful for you because you are the one who shows up for you every single day. You are the one that gives you the power to choose. You are the one who is showing up working on your mindset and creating a better life for you, which is 100% what you deserve. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. Here’s to your success.
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- Watch: Snoop Dogg thanks himself after receiving Hollywood Star
