394: How to Remain Ambitious in 2022
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast and it is the beginning of January |
| 0:24.7 | and the end of a busy, busy holiday season and I don't know about you guys, but that week |
| 0:32.6 | between Christmas and New Year's is that week where I just feel so much apathy, indecision, loss of motivation, |
| 0:42.6 | and generally just feel kind of lost and a little bit of wandering in my brain. |
| 0:48.3 | And I just think that especially working mothers are so freaking exhausted by the end of giving everybody their dream |
| 0:57.3 | holiday beautifully choreographed, all the right gifts, all the right food, all the right decorations, |
| 1:04.2 | got to think about your staff, you've got to think about your husband, you got to think about |
| 1:07.8 | your kids, you got to think about everyone on your list, your mom, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and it's just a lot, the entertaining, decorating, |
| 1:16.8 | getting everything perfect. So I think finally that day, the days after Christmas before New |
| 1:23.6 | years are the days where you finally have some downtime and there's this void of nothing going |
| 1:29.0 | on and haven't quite yet hit the New Year's parties, haven't quite yet found the New Year's ambitions, |
| 1:36.1 | and it gives you pause. And I think all of us feel a little bit of those Sunday scary feelings |
| 1:42.8 | of like wondering like, okay, what is life all about? Is this |
| 1:47.5 | really what life is about? And am I doing the things I should be doing? Am I doing the things that |
| 1:53.7 | make me happy? Every year over the holidays, I vow to cut out the little things that make me |
| 2:00.2 | less happy. |
| 2:04.0 | So this year I did not send Christmas cards to everybody. |
| 2:05.3 | I like getting them. |
| 2:10.6 | I definitely like to keep in touch with people and see everyone's kids changing and growing. |
| 2:13.2 | But I don't really love sending them. |
| 2:16.9 | I found it to be so much extra pressure, stress, and homework. |
| 2:19.5 | So that was one thing I let go of this year. And I felt good about it. And yes, I haven't sent it. Maybe I'll change my mind and send a |
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