Holiday Blues Part I

The holidays are often a very sad and/or an aggravating period of time for so many people. We do all of this buying, preparing and sharing for several weeks every year. Money and finances seem to be thrown out of the window in order to get certain things for our loved ones. It is not like a birthday, because that is generally only celebrated for one person at a time. As much as we know in our gut that we don’t have to spend as much as we want to spend each year, we also have guilt and emotions that speak for our actions. Think about this – if you needed to look happy through all family gatherings both in the holiday seasons as well as in day-to-day life, would you be able to say you are happy at least 80% of the waking time? There is a principle of Happiness that was written about by a research psychologist, Vilfredo Pareto. The concept is this: “If you apply a rule called the Pareto Principle to your entire life, you can strip away the things that create unhappiness and focus on what truly matters,” (Laney, M.O. 2019).

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