Happy Holidays!

?I wish you all a lovely day, a day full of blessings, a day, full of joy and excitement.

A day to create new memories, new emotions, and new moments in time that will live on forever.

Make this Christmas and New Year, extraordinary, make it exceptional, and go over and beyond the norm.

Not only to your own family but to those who don’t have them, to those that aren’t as lucky as us.

What I mean by that is your old gifts, your old clothes, your old appliances, collect them, give them into recycling, or share them with other people who are needy.

Each year, my children and I, collect their old toys, and their old clothes and we hand deliver them to kids in need.

Not every family has a tradition of Christmas different cultures have different traditions and celebrate Christmas differently.

How do you celebrate Holidays?

What will you do differently this year? That goes above and beyond in?

And by that I mean what will you do differently??

Dr Seuss says in his book, How the Grinch stole Christmas.

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

Perhaps, at a time to put the phone down, to be in the moment, without the photos, without the videos, to purely live with the excitement of what Christmas Day means to you!

Or maybe it’s a time when you have to step out of your comfort zone, maybe you’re the one that controls Christmas, controls the food, controls the drinks, controls all of the opening of the presents and runs your way, maybe it’s a time you let go of control, and you allow the moment to unfold in.

Steve Maraboli says in his book, unapologetically you.?

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”

How did that string a-cord with you?

Are there people in your life that you need to forgive, maybe you need to look in the mirror, and forgive yourself.

Are you too hard on yourself, are you pushing yourself to extremes, is the pressure all too much, and you hide it from the outside world?

The pain we all feel pressure in business is extreme, and those who are trying to hide it, I believe are doing business wrong, you’re doing business too hard.

This goes the same for Christmas, the pressure, gifts, the money, the keeping up with the Joneses, The egotistical BS that surrounds Christmas

Will you share a moment this Christmas, where you can give to those that can flourish from your old things?

I know I will.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, to every single, one of you, I wish you the best day for you and your families, to be filled with such love and happiness.

Go be Exceptional!

- The Exceptionality Catalyst, Pjero Mardesic