Jacqui White, CPCC Mindful-Life Coaching

This is especially helpful in a workplace environment.

every life has value

A peaceful feeling can come over us when we stop resisting and accept where we are, what we’re doing, and nurture a feeling of kindness toward the activity.

No one I know is having a perfect Christmas. There are folks dealing with illnesses, losses, and worries of all kinds and shapes and sizes. There are lonely people surrounded by family and friends and lonely people who are dealing with events and circumstances without a fix much less a quick fix. This is the season for family dramas, unintended and intended hurts and jabs and disagreements on politics, how to raise kids, what foods to eat and opinions on what we should do, what we should believe, how we should celebrate and how we should live our lives. Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean everything is perfect. In fact, it highlights just how imperfect everything really is. And most of us get to a place, especially during the holidays, where we can clearly see our lives are not a beautiful, idealistic, picture perfect Christmas card! Now stay with me for one more minute because I have an idea that may help. Instead of expecting or looking for that perfect Christmas, keep your eyes and hearts open to those perfect Christmas moments. Quiet acts of generosity, children laughing, an unexpected phone call, a sweet memory of someone who has left that you still love, or just a peaceful walk in the snow humming a Christmas song. Some of these moments you will observe, some you will receive and some you will create. But if you look, stay open and step up, there absolutely will be beautiful, even perfect Christmas moments. I wish you a few and promise they await! - Paul S Boynton
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