Happy Holidays to You and Yours
Happy Holidays
I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours all the best as we end a very interesting year. Every year as we near the Holiday Season I get a bit upset with how commercial it has become. For me this is a season of hope and renewal and time to connect with the important people in my life and let them know how much I appreciate them.
The only “gifts” I like to get today are for the children. For other friends and family I like to offer time and for some donations to their favorite charity. I also like to practice being nice to people (though I’m not anywhere near perfect at this) and to smile at strangers. I’ve also noticed many people this year going out of their way to do little things like letting others out of driveways on busy streets or letting people in grocery stores go in front of them in the check out line. These little acts can be so big if more of us commit to doing them as a habit.
The other thing I look forward to at the end of each year is to go back through my daily gratitude journal and pick the top 20 things I’m grateful for during the past year. Each month I do that also but at the end of the year it’s much more rewarding. It’s very hard to just pick 20. I always share my “Attitude of Gratitude” with anyone I can so they can also reap the rewards that I have. I’ve needed this much more the past two years as some major life-changing events have occurred for me and mine.
Thank you for being in my life and I wish you much to be grateful for in your life.
Steve G.
Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead
Owner Grinstead Consulting, Training and Coaching Services
Senior Consultant/Trainer for the Gorski-CENAPS Corporation
www.addiction-free.com
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