Happy Thursday and welcome to Day 8🎄 ! Christmas is less than a week away. If you want, you can reverse engineer your Christmas Day by thinking of what needs to get done by the 25th and what you can do now to ensure that the tasks are done. This tip also applies to me so please don't feel that I'm the paragon of Christmas readiness: I'm not (yet).
Below are the activities for today. As a reminder, and given other priorities, it's more realistic to do just one of the activities below instead of attempting all of them. Again, no pressure with this series. The most important thing to do is to take care of yourself during this holiday season as my cold is reminding me. : )
Tidbit: One of the things that I like about the video below is that it includes DMC's adoptive mom, Banna McDaniels.
Inspiring Quote: "Rhymes so loud and proud, you hear it / It's Christmastime and we got the spirit" — Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis"
Inspiring Holiday Song: "Christmas in Hollis"
Holiday Activity: Learn a simple hip-hop dance move or listen to another holiday-themed rap song. **For the dance move, please be sure to stretch ahead of time.
Reflection Tip: For a local organization or the cause or organization that you checked on in Day 2, reflect on how you can support it. Some ideas are to educate yourself more on it, share about it with others, sign petitions for related causes, volunteer or donate to the organization/cause.
Creative Writing Exercise: Write a few rap verses about Christmas in your hometown or use an AI app like Suno to create the song. (For your hometown, you can choose your current location or your place of origin.)
Affirmations:
