The year 2025 is rapidly approaching its end. And on this final stretch, we inevitably speed up, trying to finish everything that was planned. Entering the New Year with a clear conscience and a sense of productivity is important, but not everyone succeeds. Clinical psychologist Ekaterina Makarova recommended not to try to embrace the ungraspable and to fulfill the maximum program. Otherwise, by the holiday break, you will crawl in exhausted like a lemon, with no strength left to rejoice and celebrate.
Therefore, we suggest acting based on a clear plan. It can vary in one direction or another, depending on your personal circumstances and preferences.
Work
It is better to complete all pending projects by the end of December. If they are so large that their implementation will take several months, finish the most important stages to set an interim point. "Because the New Year holidays will make a pause anyway, relax. And it’s twice as pleasant to relax when you have a solid point in the burdensome tasks marked 'completed'," reminds the psychologist.
Cleaning
Sorting through your wardrobe, rearranging, and dusting off distant cabinets is better done not right before the holiday, but in November or the first decade of December. The pre-New Year hustle will turn your life into chaos; you will be running around with gifts, participating in corporate parties, meeting friends, and there will be no time to do what you planned," warns Ekaterina Makarova. Therefore, we plan a thorough cleaning for the upcoming weekend, and at the end of the year, we simply go through the apartment with a vacuum cleaner and a damp cloth.
Personal Life
This is not about ending relationships. Although in some cases, it is better to end a long-standing romance that burdens you, to open up to another person in the new year. If everything is stable and satisfactory on the love front, think about what you forgot/didn’t have time to say and do. "If there are things that are holding you back, down, if you haven’t talked to someone, if there are important issues you haven’t discussed, if you haven’t apologized to someone, if you haven’t said something very important to someone. Somewhere you are sulking, but you would like to make up and start communicating openly. Somewhere you had a falling out with someone and feel a certain wrongness about it. It’s better to admit this in advance so that this little debt to a loved one, to a friend, or even to the universe doesn’t pull you back into the past," says the expert. This applies not only to a partner but also to other loved ones: friends, children, parents.
Health
If you had a check-up planned for this year that you haven’t had time to do for various reasons, you definitely won’t do it in December. Therefore, if it is scheduled, it is best to move it to somewhere in November, just like the cleaning at home and buying gifts. "And as a doctor, I wish you to get a complete norm in this check-up, and if there are any deviations, to manage to get preventive corrective appointments from a doctor before the New Year," concludes the medic.
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