While we may be at a time of year where self-indulgence is at its peak, it is worth preparing for the crash back into reality when the ‘it’s Christmas’ excuse no longer flies and we have to make an effort in various areas of life again. It isn’t something that most of us want to do, it’s true, but it helps if we stay prepared for what we must eventually face. 

A somewhat soft and sympathetic way of doing this is giving everything difficult a nice accompaniment to make it seem a little more manageable. For example, we get a sweet treat on the way home when we go to the gym, or two or three episodes of our favorite show when we do enough work. We can also fall back on ol’ faithful when it comes to giving ourselves an uplift through the difficult and boring times by looking at memes. They are always here to make things feel better.