When an event replays in your mind, no doubt you see the people who made that memory what it is. What would that event be if different people were there? Maybe you begin to see the powerful relationship between our interactions with people and memory as you reflect on it.
To be prosperous at work is to be strongly connected in our personal relationships. What happens in your home deeply impacts the contributions you bring to your work.
With this in mind, I'm planning to make this year's festivities light-hearted, yet memorable for all the people I cherish. See what you think of these strategies...- Look for magic...
- Notice unexpected melodies and express pleasure to others as they occur
- Recapture memories together
- Keep gifts light and unexpected... give on a day when nobody expects it
- Laugh at yourself - often and hard
- Play a game that a child chooses for the two of you
- Take a food or small gift to a neighbor
- Remember the best things in life are free
In thinking about number three, I remember my daughter impersonating me with just a tinge of exaggeration and I never laughed so hard in my life. I often replay the laughs when my twenty something daughter gave her older brother "The Book of Farts" [a children's story book] as a gift. When he read it for us the tears streamed down our cheeks. Do you have memories like that?
And as I consider the more sacred, I'll never forget our first Christmas with our adopted grandson. He was a very long awaited and unexpected treasure from the hand of God.
I'm hoping to create the kind of celebration that all enjoy during our gathering. I'll review these several times so they don't slip out of my working memory before the event takes place! In fact, maybe by practicing these right away, I'll lock them into my brain's basal ganglia! What do you think?
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