When you think about those things that you actually want to go to and participate in,

but there's that one person or a few people and you just know, well, this is going to come to heads and like it never works out well.

Well, all of a sudden, when you have this tool set and you say, well, but all the other people in the interactions and relationships,

I really would love to be there.

But for dot dot dot, this one person, now you have a tool.

Now you have a set of conflict conversation habits that allow you to reimagine the nature of it and potentially even turn it into something genuine.

And then you have a whole lot of conflict and conflict and family patterns and politics and stress and unhealthy coping,

and sadness and loneliness, sometimes all within a matter of minutes.

Even for the most joyful, healthily attached and grateful person, this time can just bring up a lot.

So what do we do with that?

How do we handle that?

What habits or go to strategies?

And we say yes to that just might make this time of year fly by with more genuine ease and joy and connection and maybe even grace.

That is what we were talking about in this month's continuation of our fun five life changing habits series.

So we kicked that series off a little bit earlier in the fall with a wide ranging sort of a more universal five life changing habits episode.

Last month again with our five life changing relationship habits episode and they were met with such a huge reception we figured, hey, let's keep it going and get specific and share genuinely life changing habits that relate to specific moments that we all go through or maybe areas of life where

people habits can make a big difference. So today I am bringing you five life changing holiday survival habits.

So excited to share them with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is BitLife Project.

Okay, so let's paint the picture here for many these next few weeks or month and a half or so will be filled with a lot of moments that challenge us in many and varied ways, especially depending on not just your current circumstance and maybe the state of your relationships or life or work or whatever it may be.

But also depending on the history that you bring to this time of year on a personal level a work level a family level a friend level a partner level and beyond and that can also include feelings that come up not just from a sense of forced togetherness with people you might not want to be around for a range of reasons but also the exact opposite.

The feeling of not having others to be with to celebrate or be grateful for or just have a conversation with and all the different feelings in the middle and at a time where we're told well it's all about gratitude and generosity and reflecting on what's right and giving and receiving if you don't have easy access to these experiences to those feelings those beings those invitations or opportunities.

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