Enjoying the Season!

Can you feel it in the air? As the holidays approach, what should be excitement is mixed with panic, acts of kindness are intermingled with selfishness, and there’s feigned happiness covering fear! All the expectations, all the pressures! Christmas is coming. It should be perfect! But in the back of our mind is January. January? Yes, January! With its slow trickle of bills arriving, coincidentally at the same time as snow, ice, and cold, followed by mood drops. And this happens every year. Why? People anticipating the holidays will spend whether they have the money or not! We’ve no choice, right? We’ll deal with it later. So then the holidays are barely passed and the panic takes over. Can’t there be another way to do this year after year? The answer is yes. I want to share a few ideas that can help take some of the weight off of the holidays.