10 Unique Holiday Gifts

 

Are you tired of buying hum-drum gifts or giving the same old thing year after year? 2020 has been a unique year…why not make your gift giving unique as well?

 

To this end, I’ve created a list of ten unique gift ideas. This isn’t a comprehensive list; instead, these ideas are offered to get your creative juices flowing and to inspire you to come up with your own list of thoughtful gifts.

 

10 Unique Holiday Gift Ideas:

 

1. Time: Take your dad on a fishing trip, a green-thumb friend to a local garden, a music lover to an outdoor jazz festival.
2. Experience: How about a cooking, photography, crafting, or writing class?
3. Service: Give your neighbors the gift of a night out when you babysit their children.
4. Charity: Give to your friend’s favorite charity in honor of him or her.
5. Sweets: Sweeten someone’s holiday with a plate of cookies, homemade fudge, or your own unique sweet treat.
6. Photo Gift or Book: What parent, grandparent, or friend doesn’t love a walk down memory lane? Create a themed digital book or keep a special memory alive by creating a keyring, blanket, or wall canvas from a treasured photo. You can use a local drugstore or an online company like Snapfish to create your photo gifts.
7. Clean: Pack up your Bissell Crosswave and clean your best friend’s floors. Or, go all in and clean her home from top to bottom.
8. Spa Gift Card: Give the gift of pampering and relaxation!
9. Airbnb Gift Card: The gift of a get-a-way is always appreciated…especially these days!
10. A New Vision: Give the gift of infinite possibilities with The Vision Board Workbook. This workbook provides a tutorial on how to design a vision board, tools to make it easy to create one, and a worksheet to identify your deepest desires. It’s a bargain at $13.97 plus shipping: https://bit.ly/2JpqOdi.

I hope this list helps you come up with a few new and unique gift-giving ideas. Wishing each of you a happy holiday and peace, love, joy, and success in the new year!

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction blended with new age spirituality. 

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Affirmations for Positivity

 

With a steady diet of negativity encircling us—COVID, the election, worries about the economy, and the news, just to name a few—it’s easy to get caught in the clutches of fear and to focus on everything that's wrong.  

Over the last week, I’ve heard concerns from family members and friends regarding health, jobs, the sustainability of small businesses, and even freedom.

These thoughts and concerns are normal because our brains are wired to focus on the negatives first. This was helpful in ancient times when our worries were life-and-death situations, like avoiding becoming dinner to a saber-tooth tiger.

Today, the tendency to think about everything that may go wrong no longer serves us. Focusing on negative outcomes results in anxiety and fear, and, if unchecked, can cause a plethora of stress-related health issues. In addition, negative thoughts direct our subconscious minds to work toward negative outcomes, which is the opposite of what we want.

The good news is that we can retrain our brains to think positively. Affirmations are a powerful tool to aid in this process.

An affirmation is a statement that affirms what you desire. Examples include: I appreciate my great health; I’m enjoying my beautiful lake house in east Tennessee; and I am celebrating my successful new wellness business.

You can create an affirmation to direct your attention and energy toward what you want in any aspect of your life. You can also use affirmations to replace negative thoughts. For example, when you have the thought, “I’m stressed,” try replacing it with, “I am celebrating my stress-free world,” or “I let go of those things that no longer serve me.”

Using affirmations remind us to stay positive by consciously choosing thoughts that align with what we desire. They help us achieve great success by directing the RAS (Reticular Activating System) in our minds to subconsciously work toward achieving our goals.

“We have to retrain our thinking and speaking into positive patterns if we want to change our lives.”—Louise Hayes

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction blended with new age spirituality. 

The new Vision Board Workbook includes clippable affirmations as well as other positive words and phrases you can post in your personal space or use to create a vision board: https://bit.ly/2JpqOdi.

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 Recommended Reading:

 ***NEW: Vision Board Workbook*** by Chris Clifford: https://bit.ly/2JpqOdi

The Success Principles by Jack Canfield: https://amzn.to/39SgKSt

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