While the holidays are meant to be a festive time surrounded by family and friends, it is not uncommon to experience an increase in stress or anxiety during this time. Between busy travel schedules and crowded shopping malls, it can be hard to feel confident that everything will get done in time. The tips below will help you keep your stress at a manageable level, while reminding you of what is most important during the upcoming holiday season!
Plan Ahead
This might seem like an obvious one, but planning ahead for the holidays can immensely decrease the stress you experience as the end of the year approaches. For starters, it’s important to make your travel plans ahead of time. Traveling can be one of the most stressful parts of the holiday season so the earlier you make your arrangements, the better! Another challenge can be gift-giving or completing our holiday shopping list. Not only do we put pressure on ourselves to find the “perfect” gift for those we love, but then we have to go out and buy it. Whether you have decided to do most of your shopping online or in stores this year, many people feel stressed and overwhelmed Christmas shopping. To help manage your stress, make a list of the items you want to buy and who you are thinking about buying each item for. This will not only help you organize your thoughts and help decrease your anxiety, but then you can cross each item off the list after you purchase it. By crossing them off the list, you are able to feel productive and visually see how you are accomplishing your goals one step at a time. You can even write in suggestions of places where you might find each item to help you be even more efficient with your time!
Set a Budget
This story is from the November/December 2016 edition of Daisy magazine.
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EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA
High School teachers in Ghana have been on strike for the past week for non-payment of some teachers’ salaries. It also happens to be the examination week before the Christmas break. A High School teacher I spoke with confirmed he had not been paid for three months. Other teachers mentioned higher figures.As at Friday the 13th of December 2019, serious negotiations behind closed doors had been ongoing between the Teachers’ Union and the Ghana Education to resolve the impasse.That, in a nutshell, sums the state of education in Ghana.
BLACK WALL STREET
Prior to the massacre of May 31, 1921, when a mob of white men over two days burnt the black district of Greenwood to the ground, it was one of the most Affluent African American districts in the entire United States.Founded on Indian Territory in 1906 by Mr. O.C. Gurley and his family, a wealthy land owner, who purchased 40 acres of land in Tulsa, named it Greenwood after a Mississippi town. Gurley was able to purchase this land through the Dawes Act. A US Law that gave land to individual Native Americans and many Black Sharecroppers looking for better opportunities in a post-Civil War era and from racial oppression.Oklahoma was considered a safe haven and became home to more than 50 black townships in the State.
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While the holidays are meant to be a festive time surrounded by family and friends, it is not uncommon to experience an increase in stress or anxiety during this time. Between busy travel schedules and crowded shopping malls, it can be hard to feel confident that everything will get done in time. The tips below will help you keep your stress at a manageable level, while reminding you of what is most important during the upcoming holiday season!
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