It's dark, it's cold, the High Street is busy and we can't even agree where to spend Christmas day! It's meant to be a time of celebration right? A time when family and friends get together and enjoy each others company! But in this time of over indulgence it can easily become a very difficult; it needn't be survival of the fittest anymore!

With a little planning we can stay on top of things and enjoy the Silly Season. That's why Create Yourself has put together a Survival Guide for the Holiday Season – you're bound to find something no matter how you celebrate it.

How do you cope with the Holiday Season? Contact us and let us know your top tips!

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Top Six Ways to Stay Fit and Healthy Over the Holidays

It’s another Christmas time and you’re nervous about the smorgasbords and hot toddies waiting around the corner. Perhaps you’ve worked hard on a health makeover, and this is your first holiday that you have to face as the “new you.” Maybe you just don’t want to face the New Year with yet another weight gain. No need to panic, though, because you can get through this season intact. Here’s the top six ways to stay fit and thin over the holidays. | More

Feeling a Million Dollars at your Christmas Party

It’s so easy and so standard to opt for a little black dress for a Christmas party but unless black really suits you then you will fade into the background. Even if it does look great on you why not try something different to really stand out in the crowd. When choosing a new dress consider what you natural colouring is, if you have light hair and light eyes avoid black, try on lighter colours or soft silver or gold. | More

Survive Christmas and have a fantastic time!

Anytime we take on something extra than our usual routine there is a chance we might suffer from feeling overwhelmed. This can happen around Christmas time because on top of our usual routine there are presents to buy, more socialising than normal, a house to decorate, Christmas day to organise etc. We are aware that Christmas is going to happen all year long but often it gets left to that last minute and can be quite stressful. | More

Eke out Exercise during the Christmas Holidays

Dashing through the department store trying to find those last minute gifts you realise you need to run by the market on the way home or you’ll have nothing for dinner…again. Sound familiar? Achieving the work/family balance is tricky at best and during the holidays it becomes close to impossible. You know the drill, it happens every year: you run around buying gifts, planning parties, attending celebrations, eating, drinking, not exercising, then cursing yourself at New Year’s when you can’t even fit into your fat pants, let alone that sexy New Year’s Eve outfit you bought last spring. | More

The 10 Universal Laws

1. The Law of Duality - There is a flip-side or opposite of everything. For instance, you can only know good, if there is evil. Light can only exist with dark. Good luck can only exist if there is bad luck. And to experience success you must know failure.

2. The Law of Cycles - All events occur in cycles. Professional athletes might refer to the law of cycles as streaks. In the small business realm it seems to be you"re either hot or not. Have you ever noticed how business can suddenly begin to go really well? Your promotions work, you make sales and opportunity seems to be around every corner. Then boom, you can"t sell water in a desert, your website crashes, your phone goes dead and pretty much everything is a disaster. | More

Overwhelmed? Tricks to have a stress free life!

It’s natural in our busy lives that people feel over whelmed sometimes, especially when you are making big changes in your life. Following are a few tricks to feel like everything is under control and stress free. | More