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More
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Take
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"Be
thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never,
ever have enough."
-
Oprah Winfrey
Let's
Make Today a Day of Thanks
By
Michael Masterson
In
my Christmas message yesterday, I said that I hoped - after
a day of laughter and decadent food - you would take some time
to count your blessings. If you were too sleepy to do so last
night, take the time today to reflect on and be thankful for
some of the gifts you may take for granted:
Your
Health
Next
to life itself, health is the most important thing. Keeping
your health, therefore, should be your most important goal.
Examine what you are doing to maintain good health. Are you
eating well? Sleeping enough? Getting sufficient exercise,
socialization, and sun?
If
you don't spend time trying to stay healthy, you can't complain
if you wake up one day very sick.
Your
Mental Well-Being
Happiness
comes from two habits. First, you must spend a good deal of
your time working on something you value. Second, you must
avoid thinking about (and especially feeling sorry for) yourself.
Be
honest. Do you really care about the work you are doing? Is
it something you'd do anyway (and for free) even if you didn't
have to work? Ask yourself: "Do I frequently find myself
thinking about how tough my life is? How much easier things
would be 'if only'?"
Depending
on your answers, you may need to consider making big changes
in the coming year.
Your
Family and Friends
Life
is endlessly ironic. The way friendship works is no exception.
Some
people treat friendship like a seesaw, always looking to make
sure both sides are equally weighted. But that's not how it
works. You get more out of a personal relationship by putting
more into it. So don't worry so much about getting your equal
share. Focus, instead, on what you can give.
Your
Financial Well-Being
The
love of money is addictive and destructive. A sensible pursuit
of wealth, on the other hand, is a necessary good. Wealth gives
you the means to accomplish your goals, to take care of your
needs, to support the people for whom you are responsible,
and to make important life decisions with confidence and independence.
Your
Personal Accomplishments
Make
a list of the things you've done that you're proud of. Think
about what you can do in the future. So long as you are alive,
you have the capacity to create and to achieve.
Intelligence
and Ingenuity
Even
if you don't have the wealth you want or haven't accomplished
all your life goals, be thankful that you have a sound mind
and natural ingenuity. Use these gifts shrewdly and there will
be no limit to what you can do.
The
Things You (Really) Enjoy
We
all want to like the better things in life (art, literature,
fine wine, etc.) - but we have personal passions too. Even
guilty pleasures. Sentimental music. Old shoes. Greasy food.
Don't be embarrassed by them. Be grateful that you are able
to enjoy them.
Most
important...
Be
thankful for the freedom you have to think your thoughts, to
feel your feelings, and to dream your dreams. There is no one
else in the world exactly like you. You are a unique being
- a wonderful cluster of energy that has never existed before
and will never be again. Enjoy the greatness of your very particular,
very special, very wonderful existence.
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The
Worst Thing About the Holidays: No Boxing Day!
By
Nicole Reynolds, ETR's Marketing Associate
Growing
up in Jamaica, we celebrated Boxing Day, a holiday in many
Commonwealth countries (including Jamaica and the United Kingdom)
that falls on the first weekday after Christmas. Officially,
you celebrate Boxing Day by giving gifts and donations to the
needy. But it is also a day for lounging around with your family,
enjoying your new gifts, and visiting relatives.
The
year after I graduated from college, I was in America. I had
a job but no vacation time, so I spent Christmas with family
and close friends who were living here. We ate and drank all
day, and the whole time I was thinking that I had all of the
next day - Boxing Day - to recover from the merriment.
Christmas
night, I figured we were all going to continue partying. When
I asked where we were going to go, they all looked at me like
I was crazy. They weren't going out - they had to work the
next day. I was shocked. What horrible jobs they must have
to work on BOXING DAY!
That's
when I found out that Boxing Day is not a holiday here in America.
The
next day, I sadly got up and went to work. To make things worse,
my family in Jamaica kept calling all day to ask how my holiday
was going!
I
decided that would be the last Christmas holiday I would ever
again spend away from home in Jamaica. (And it was.)
A
Word to Work Into Conversation Today: Beneficence
"Beneficence" (buh-NEFF-ih-suns)
- from the Latin for kind/generous/obliging - is the practice
of doing good.
Example
(as used by Roger Highfield in The
Physics of Christmas): "Lord Jeffrey
told Dickens that it [A
Christmas Carol] had 'prompted more positive
acts of beneficence than can be traced to all the pulpits and
confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842.'"
