159. How To Be Awesome At Planning Your Own Celebration

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it comes time to celebrate YOU, whether it’s your birthday or Mother’s Day or any other special time … nobody knows what you want more than YOU!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of times it’s easy to get caught up in the thought that other people need to do it for us.  And we're not saying that’s not great and you don’t deserve that, Lindsay's just putting it out there that you can actually plan your own celebration and still feel super loved and special.  It’s empowering and it sets you up to feel fulfilled and not feel let down. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Often times we know what we want but we want other people to do it for us… or we don’t want to have to have one more thing to do so we want other people to do it for us… but I’m telling you… planning your own celebration is awesome and we’re going to figure out how you want to do it so it doesn’t take any of the magic out of it.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s just going to make it easy on you and easy on the people you love and you’ll have that moment you want. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few ideas Lindsay talks about:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Do it all yourself </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Do some of it yourself and tell other people some parts to help with (if they are asking) </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Don’t put more than what’s reasonable on other people (time or money) </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-If someone wants to do it all, tell them- this is what I for sure want and this is what I for sure don’t want. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Often times we think people should know us enough to know what we want.  But it just doesn’t always work that way.  Sometimes we need to spell it out. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Plan it