Weekly Happiness Note November 20, 2025
Healthy Habits for a Calmer, Happier Holiday Season
“Every healthy choice becomes easier when you remember how you want to feel.”
Happy Thursday,
The holidays can stretch us in every direction, but they can also become a season of staying rooted in what truly matters. This week’s Happiness Note explores how to honour your intentions, simplify your habits, and gently reset when life gets full. If you’re craving a steadier, more joyful way to move through the holiday rush, this week’s reflection will help you return to what feels nourishing and true.
This week’s topic and inspiration come from the article: “5 Tips to Stick with Healthy Habits and Thrive Through the Holidays.”
💛 Remember the Good
Know Your Why
Remembering the good begins by reconnecting with why feeling your best matters. When you get clear on how you want to feel — confident, energized, grounded, at ease — you create a touchstone you can return to in the busyness of the season. Your “why” becomes the feeling or image that guides your choices and helps you stay aligned even when the holiday extras stack up.
Tip to remember the good: Reflection exercise: How do I want to feel this holiday season? Choose one intention that captures your deeper “why” and let it support your decisions when things get hectic.
Reflect deeper: Take a moment to write or share why this feeling matters to you. When your choices are rooted in meaning, motivation feels more natural and steady.
🌿 Feel Your Best
Make It Easy & Reframe the Range
Feeling your best is more accessible when you remove friction from your habits. The holidays bring “extras” of every kind, so planning ahead can make healthy choices feel doable rather than daunting — setting out clothes, prepping meals, or connecting movement with a friend for added accountability. And when a full schedule makes it harder to maintain routines, reframe your range. Give yourself options instead of all-or-nothing expectations. Even fifteen minutes of movement or one nourishing choice makes a difference that adds up.
Tip to feel your best: Reflection exercise: Where can I simplify or soften the path this week? Choose one small way to make your habits easier, through preparation, connection, or a flexible range of choices.
Reflect deeper: Reflect on one simple action that helps you feel energized or grounded, even on busy days. Name how it supports your well-being through the season’s unpredictability.
🔄 Reset as Needed
Allow Setbacks & Make It Fun
Resets are part of the holidays; they’re normal, expected, and nothing to judge yourself for. When you overindulge or fall out of routine, start again from where you are. The 80/20 rule creates room for flexibility while still honouring your well-being. And weaving fun into your habits brings lightness that carries you forward: joyful movement with loved ones, festive walks, creative cooking, or laughter-filled activities all make it easier to stay connected to your health goals.
Tip to reset: Reflection prompt: Where do I need a gentle reset today?
Choose one small step, even a tiny one, to help you begin again with compassion.
Reflect deeper: Notice how soft resets and moments of play can help you stay aligned without pressure. Journal or share one reset that feels supportive for you right now.
This Week’s Quote:
Grateful Jake
A homework assignment on gratitude leaves Jake completely stumped. After all, he’s just an ordinary 8-year-old boy – what’s so great about that? But a weekend of adventures opens his eyes to the true meaning of gratitude, and just how lucky he is that it’s always within his reach.
This engagingly illustrated picture book will help introduce your young readers to the concept of gratitude, and the accompanying Grateful Jake Resource Guide will help you expand on those ideas with activities your whole family will enjoy.
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