How to Get Back to the Real Spirit of the Holidays...

 

• Spend time with someone you love.
• Forgive a person that has hurt you.
• Remember your innocence.
• Help another in need.
• Count your blessings.
• Say a prayer when actions won't help.
• Say you're sorry.
• Be patient with sales clerks, slow lines and other frustrated customers.
• Make kindness a priority.
• Give a gift for no other reason than to make another smile.
• Wear something out of the ordinary that makes you feel magical and amazing.
• Write a letter to a long lost friend.
• Plant a tree.
• Clean out your closets and give the extras away to a homeless shelter.
• Tithe more than you intended to your local charity.
• Have faith in others.
• Keep a promise.
• Nurture yourself.
• Smile.
• Throw a party for all the people that have supported you over the years as your way of saying "Thank you."
• Feed the hungry.
• Dance.
• Laugh more than you think you should at jokes that aren't usually funny.
• Make someone feel special.
• Kiss under the mistletoe.
• Take a photo with Santa.
• Light a candle to remind yourself of the light you are to the world.
• Write a list or make a photo collage of your dreams, desires and aspirations for next year.
• Be willing to be awed and inspired.
• Decide to believe in yourself.
• Know that anything is possible.
• Sing at the top of your lungs.
• Relish each moment of life.
• Wish everyone you meet Happy Holidays and mean it.
• Be delighted.