There is this euphoria that comes with the Christmas 🌲🎁🌲🎁 that's most people tend to do things that just enter their minds at the season. A times I sit to wonder if there is a spirit realised into the atmosphere to regulate the behaviour of people in the wrong direction.
After December comes January and the month of January is always 51 days instead of 31 days. It sound so hilarious abi? 🤣🤣🤣🤣, this may be because previously people have spent so heavily on unnecessary things and coming into January that's the new year fresh things are just waiting and most of which cannot be overlooked and that's the likes of school fees for those that have children or dependants, house rents, feeding and other little maintenance. Some things can be overlooked but that issue of feeding and house rent is very important. If you have a landlord like mine who will even send you a message as a a reminder before the D-Day your head will certainly tell you to readjust yourself.
In all, having a good budget and a good budget management skill is very important. I said good budget management skill because some people have a budget but get carried away by all the euphoria which leads them to even forget that they have something like a budget.
Here are some of the things I do to keep myself under check
- Understanding the Season
I do try my best to remind myself of the excess of Christmas 🎄🎄, yes during Christmas we remember the birth of Jesus Christ and not my own birth. In this case everything I do takes me to the remembrance of the coming of Christ so I feature things like outreaches, visiting the less privileged and spending sometime with my family educating them with what the love of Christ really is.
- Mindset Shift
Over the years there are some cultures we have built that makes it look as if it is the normal thing. Just yesterday my husband was telling me during one of our discussions that before this time every Christmas his mother already buys their wears, and for me, my mother don't even bother with all those Christmas things and I grew that way. It got to a point I felt as if I was not properly cared for, but that's not true.
Christmas 🌲 is not for drinking and wearing of new clothes, it's a time of solitude, moment of strict meditation and coming up with good plans for the coming year. Not to say we will not attend to necessary events but we should deliberately not allow ourselves to be carried away. The system has made it look as if when you don't do all those things, you become outdated and all that. In my mediation, I always tell myself that it is the poor that saves to spend on Christmas. The poor do contributions and all that to appear like the rich during Christmas while the rich use Christmas to gather knowledge which will help him in the coming year. No wonder the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. All the things you buy to make up for the other days is just geared towards enriching one rich man somewhere. Just yesterday when we went to a friend's house, she told me that she went to build some soft drinks from the depot and she was told that it's not available, she was like, here and seeing lots of drinks and you said it's not available. She was still told that it's not available. Quickly, she came home and sent the children to a nearby should and fortunately she got but the price has been influenced without no choice she went for it.
- Wear Some Self Control Gadgets
Yes, in this season it is important I guide my heart properly so I don't feel I am disadvantages. Somethings people do that makes children feel it's only during Christmas 🎄 it can be done includes, buying of new clothes and shoes, eating good food, having meat in abundance. Personally, all those I do at anytime I feel the importance. I tell my son that everyday is Christmas 🌲, so there is no special clothe or event for it. Who even told us that Christmas was born on that exact day? Even if he was born on that day, dis he ask us to celebrate with new clothes for ourselves? When a baby is born do you buy clothes for yourself, make food and buy new clothes to wear on your on body or you buy gifts for the baby 🍼 🍼🍼? So why have we suddenly shifted the attention to ourselves and our immediate environment? Now I make my children know the importance of sharing love and visiting those that have nothing to give not that I will not eat well or care for myself but I am not the focus.
- Managing My Budget
Everything I do is almost the same nothing has changed because nothing I different 🤣🤣🤣. The only visible change at this time is the fact that I will be traveling to my home town which is not always so, it is very needful for me because my brother is getting married and for a long time we have not meet as a family, so we will all share the joy of the season together as we prepare for 28th December. Now I am very deliberate because immediately after that we will be returning for a programme on the new year day. Though I am not the one getting married but he needs our support to make it work well. If not that, I am myself and already have my time fully book for online business courses. At least everyday for 2 hours I have a class to attend to unless I deliberately want to skip the class.
I feel what we need is a Mind reset, the system already told us the way to do things which I totally wrong and it presented it as if when we don't do it we are missing something which is not true. When we move from what we are used to to what is ideal, we will have lots of liberty.
Thank you for visiting my blog today. This is my entry for the hive learner's contest week 92 edition 2. See you soon friends