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Holiday Self-Care Ideas For Finals Season

How to maintain functioning during the most stressful season of all.

Dec 11, 2018

As many of you know, finals season is only one week away and everyone is getting stressed as heck. It's easy for your studying to take over your entire life for the next two or three weeks and fall out of the rhythm of functioning like a normal person. With the stressors of finals season, here are some self-care activities and tasks that can motivate you to the end of the semester:

1. Drink Hot Chocolate

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It's cold outside and everyone is counting down to Holiday break. There's nothing better than having a sweet treat to help calm your nerves while studying. With a short burst of caffeine in chocolate, it's the perfect boost to finish that last assignment or hour of studying.

2. Watch A Holiday Movie

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Watching a holiday movie can be a good source of some activity, background noise, and motivate you towards the finish line of break. It not only helps you stay positive, but can boost your spirits and create a calm and peaceful environment for studying.

3. Look At Holiday Lights

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There is nothing more exciting than seeing holiday lights whether it is in your dorm room, a night out on the town, or walking around your neighborhood. Taking a walk to enjoy them or seeing others decorations is a good way to boost positivity and spread holiday cheer with others. Putting up your Christmas tree is a good way to start putting up holiday lights for the season.

4. Bake

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Whether it is making holiday cookies, pie, or homemade hot chocolate, this is a great way to soothe any anxiety and stress. The simply task of making a sweet treat is in the end so rewarding. Thank yourself for doing something good for your sole. Sharing baked goods with others can relieve others stress and help prosper study time with a group of people who are going through the same difficult period of time as you are.

5. Listen To Holiday Music

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There is almost never a dull moment with listening to holiday music. Not only does it boost your spirits, but if it's just the right beat, it can spark extreme motivation. This is perfect for studying for the class you absolutely hate or that has taken up all of your time for the semester. A few top pop holiday songs for an energy boot are "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey, all the Pentatonix and Michael Bublé Christmas songs and "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love.

6. Do Some Retail Therapy For Yourself

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Some retail therapy during finals season may be the very thing you need, whether it is a comfy pair of pajamas, a new pair of winter boots, lots of socks, and loads of sweaters. Shopping online is fun, but visiting in-store can really help to get into the holiday season. Treat yourself right this season by rewarding yourself.

Pace yourself this holiday and finals season. Practicing lots of self-care will be beneficial in the long run to do well on exams and having a nice holiday season.

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Holiday Self-Care Ideas For Finals Season

How to maintain functioning during the most stressful season of all.

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1. Drink Hot Chocolate

2. Watch A Holiday Movie

3. Look At Holiday Lights

4. Bake

5. Listen To Holiday Music

6. Do Some Retail Therapy For Yourself

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Sometimes bigger isn't always better.

1. If something happens, everyone knows about it

2. Never getting to be invisible

3. Knowing every single thing about every single person in the town

4. New kids are a big deal

5. It’s hard to make new friends

6. On that note ... the dating pool is even smaller!

7. Teachers are weirdly close to their students

8. It forced you to make friends out of school

"I'm hopeless and awkward and desperate for love"

1. That Time He Tested Out His Flirting Skills and This Happened

2. When He Was Willing to Do Anything to Avoid Confrontation

3. When He Couldn't Handle Awkward, Emotional Situations

4. How He Reacted Whenever His Friends Ignored Him

5. All of the Times He Worried About His Failing Love Life

6. Whenever He Tried to Whip Himself Into Shape

7. How He Handled New People and New Experiences

8. Whenever His Friends Got Annoying, He Was Always the Voice of Reason

9. He Always Knew How to Jam

10. He Finds a Way to Make Any Situation More Fun

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3. People refusing to be put on hold when a customer is standing right in front of you. Oh, how I wish I could just hang up on you!

4. Having the same conversations over and over again! To be honest I really don't even want to talk to you right now, or have this fake ass smile on my face!

5. Always having to have a smile on your face. I promise I'm not as happy as I may look!

6. Customers not understanding that sometimes, mistakes happen. I am a human being, we all mess up sometimes!

7. Having the boss from hell, it's their way or the highway! Even though I did my job correctly and efficiently, if I don't do it the exact way you do, I'm a piece of shit.

8. Having coworker who don't help out, who bend the rules just enough to screw you over.

9. Having to be at work after closing because a customer is taking forever and half! Not like I'd like to go home or anything!

10. Having shitty hours and more shifts than you asked for. Just because we don't have enough workers, doesn't mean I want to pick up every shift that you cant cover, oh great boss of mine!

11. Not having time for a social life. It gets old saying, "I can't I have work..." Every day of the week!

12. Having that lazy costumer who can't do anything for themselves... no please I'll get that, it's no problem at all!

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9. Your apologies never sound sincere because of your emotionless face.

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