How to Make This Christmas a Merry, Memorable One!
There are many ways to make Christmas both merry and memorable! Unfortunately, sometimes it’s difficult to feel the Christmas joy through the cluttered maze that has become “the holidays”.. Through the years, Christmas has strayed too far from its more spiritual purpose and has become a highly commercialized event.
When it comes to the holiday season, sometimes we get more concerned with buying the “perfect” gift for another than with focusing on the true spirit of the holiday.
It’s time to get back to the basics when it comes to the season of gift giving, love, sharing, and caring. This year, you can make your Christmas a joyous and stress-less holiday by following these 3 easy tips:
1.Give of Yourself. If you enjoy providing gifts to others, that’s awesome. However, it is probably best if you avoid dwelling on it too much. No matter what you can or cannot afford, there’s always one gift that you can give to others: the gift of your time.
Christmas is only as commercialized as you allow it to be. Although it costs nothing, your time is the most precious gift of all.
There are many ways that you can give of yourself to others this holiday season:
Be a friend who listens
Spend time with a loved one you haven’t seen in a while
Help someone with their household chores
Babysit for a mother or father who really needs a break
Let others you care about know that you are available anytime they may need your help
2. Use Your Talents. No matter how nice that watch appears to look in the jewelry case, the homemade pen holder or the homemade blanket that you create for your friend, neighbor, coworker, or family member will be much more appreciated than anything you can buy in a store. Now if you are like me and are not a particularly gifted creator, get some creative and original Christmas cards and put your artistic words on them. And if you want to go ahead and create that gift that will be cherished, here are some ideas of homemade gifts you can make:
Fresh-baked cookies, pies or jams
Hand sewn quilts or crocheted scarves
Framed photo collage
Personalized scrapbooks
Custom made jewelry
3. Cherish Your Time Together. In the end, we can’t take back time. Our time is lost in so many ways on a daily basis – especially around the holidays.
It’s time to place our priorities on our family and friends rather than on the shopping and holiday preparations.
Why fight the crowds on two days before Christmas when you could be enjoying your kids’ day off from school together? Wouldn’t you rather create some warm, happy memories?
If you and your spouse don’t enjoy spending your day standing in long lines at crowded stores, then change it!
Spending the night baking alone (or with a friend) when your elderly mother is in town is such a waste. Plan your baking so you can enjoy your mother’s company while things are in the oven.
If you want to make your holiday truly merry, remember to spend the time that you have with your loved ones enjoying each other. Make joyous memories instead of a frenzy of worrying, shopping, cooking, buying gifts and stressing.
If you follow these simple steps listed above and put your heart in it, you’re sure to have a merry, memorable Christmas this year and every year!
Go for it! And Happy Holidays!
Joe Mitchell, is a High Performance Coach, who has logged over 35 years of in-depth study of personal and spiritual development. In his studies, he has done hundreds of self development courses, spiritual retreats and health related workshops. Coach Joe is a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, EFT Practitioner, NLP Practitioner and a graduate of three coaching academies. He was also a member of a religious order for 5 years. In 2016, after a 20 year career as a criminal and personal injury attorney, he decided to turn his heart's passion into a career as a Success Coach, Motivational Speaker and Trainer. For information on Coach Joe’s programs, high performance videos and to apply for a Free High Performance Session click the following link http://www.activateyourgreatness.com/free-session