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  1. Need ideas on how to implement Slow and Simple lifestyle into your holiday celebration? Bake cookies as family for neighbor, teacher gifts.
  2. May sound corny, but stripping away commercialism and getting back to basics and family puts the joy and specialness back into the holidays.
  3. Don't give into 'plastic pressure' from TV ads. Limit number of gifts. Give your children gifts that inspire imaginiation, creativity.
  4. Decorate with homemade ornaments, string popcorn (after holidays, put outside for birds), bake cookies for neighbors, sing carols.
  5. Simple and slow movement places emphasis on family and spending time together. Takes consumerism out of holidays.
  6. Families embracing Simple and Slow movement to have relaxing holiday. Wish to recapture true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza.
  7. Acceptance is a way to disempower negative feelings. Recognizing their existence allows you to move past they, build more hopeful future.
  8. Change what you can. Learn to live with what you can't. Can't live with it? Remove it from your life. Acceptance doesn't mean be a doormat.
  9. Acceptance of inequities, problems, frailties, unfairness, difficulties of life is first step to decreasing their control over your life.
  10. The happiest people seem to accept life as it is. Life is not all roses; there are plenty of thorns. Trick is to smell flowers; ignore rest.
  11. In my fortune cookie last night: Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have. True words of wisdom.
  12. It helps to have a guide when you're trying to make changes in your life, someone who can help you find the way. A psychiatrist can help.
  13. Don't fall into trap that past defines you, dooms you to failure. You are a product of your past, not its prisoner. You direct your future.
  14. Making change in your life? Forgive yourself if you lapse. It takes at least 20 days to instill a new habit or change a behavior. Be patient
  15. When you're trying effect change in your life, don't let negative internal babble derail your efforts. Imagine satisfaction of succeeding.
  16. To make positive changes in your life, visualize desired outcome. See yourself achieving your goal. Each day spend time focusing on goal.
  17. Good relationships build self-esteem, feelings of security. Strong relationships give you strength to face change with positive attitude.
  18. Review your priorities often. Examine and reassess relationships, time spent with spouse, children. Change life focus to match your goals.
  19. You can learn to embrace change through practice. Build confidence in your ability to survive change by making small changes in your live.
  20. People fear change, see it as a threat. Change represents the frightening unknown. Too much change too fast panics some, depresses others.