Slow Holidays: The Pre-Christmas Catch-Up

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Can we keep a lid on the crazy social calendar in the lead up to Christmas? Is it possible? Brooke and Ben think so - up to a point at least.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slow ho-ho-home podcast. I like it. Not really, but I do appreciate it.
0:08.6	Yeah, I appreciate a terrible pun. Thank you for joining us. I'm Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery,
0:14.1	and welcome to episode 212. Yeah, thank you for welcoming me. Let's catch up. Okay.
0:21.3	Like now?
0:21.8	No, that's the theme of this podcast.
0:24.2	We are into our Christmas Monday series in November.
0:29.3	Well, it's not just call it Christmas.
0:30.8	How confusing is that?
0:32.2	I know.
0:33.2	I really was at pains to go, well, do we do this kind of holiday season theme in November or December?
0:39.9	But the reality is if we did it in December, everyone would be like great ideas for next year.
0:45.3	Because we've already, you know, done everything.
0:46.8	I must admit, a lot of the podcasts that I'm listening to now are doing Christmas type episodes.
0:52.0	So we are not alone.
0:53.4	Okay, good.
0:56.1	I just, I'm one of those people who cringes when I see decorations, like Christmas decorations in stores in October or September,
1:03.1	even. So I don't want to, I don't want to add to that. Yeah. These episodes, last week's, last week
1:08.4	we spoke about gifts specifically, but the next few episodes are really
1:12.1	about putting in a bit of thought and a bit of preparation and organization now so that your
1:17.3	holiday season, whether that's Christmas related to you or not, can be slower and more
1:23.2	enjoyable. And that does take a bit of time and potentially having some conversations with
1:29.3	friends and family about what you might want to do differently so I hope you'll forgive the
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