78. The Power of Planning your Peace

The Habit Thrive Podcast ~ Self Care Habits, Mindfulness & Wellness Routines for Women 50 & Beyond

Picture this 🤔:

It’s Christmas Morning.🎄

You wake up (without the alarm), slip on your comfiest robe and slide into your fuzzy slippers.

Pour yourself a cup of coffee☕ and ease into your favorite chair.

A few hours later, you’ve showered, gone through your skincare routine and dressed.

Your family starts arriving at the door, and you greet them with a smile.😊

Everyone spends the day laughing and relaxing with drinks🥂, goodies, gifts and music.

That evening, you cozy up in bed at your normal time, relaxed and happy and dreaming of doing it all again next year.😴

Sound good to you?

You can make this vision a reality☝️, and today on Episode #78 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are going to talk about just how to do that.

No matter the time of year, no matter the occasion, you can plan your own peace.🙏

The key to doing this: Visualization.💭

It’s a simple concept, but one that many people struggle with.

So if that’s you, no worries! Practice makes perfect.👌

Simply start by picturing one event, day or period of time.

Picture in your mind how you want it to look, how you want to feel🤗 and what you want to accomplish.

Then, you simply reverse engineer it.

Make a list - either mentally or on actual paper - of all the things you need to check off✅ in order to have that vision become reality.

In our example, for instance, I may decide I need to:

• Delegate dishes🥧 for each family member to contribute so I don’t have to do it all
• Make sure my decorations🎄 are all in place a week before
• Make a schedule to declutter, clean🧹 and organize the house for guests (and, yes, that might mean simply closing the door on rooms that won’t be needed😉)
• Choose what I’m going to wear and make sure it’s laid out the night before
• Set the coffee pot to start percolating automatically

Making and sticking to these checklist items helps set you up for success on your big day.

But just remember that it may not always work out perfectly.🤷‍♀️

But even when life throws a curveball, you can always just plan to go with the flow.😎

Lorrie xoxox

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