Ignite Your Fire - 8 Week Challenge
God Bless You and Your Family. I hope you have a tremendous time Giving-Thanks during the Thanksgiving Holiday.
11.24.2009
Happy Thanksgiving...Let Us Give Thanks
POWERFUL LIVING, POWERFUL YOU
This Week's Topic: Happy Thanksgiving...Let Us Give ThanksLinks
How is YOUR eight week challenge going?
We are three weeks into the challenge. Did you have a false start? That is okay...start again. Or perhaps you haven't started at all...no problem...it isn't too late! Pick something that has been pestering you and go for it over the next five weeks ... a cluttered closet, a foul mouth, a soda habit...you name it and YOU can conquer it in the next five weeks!
For those of you well on your way...here are some reflections questions to help guide you through the next week:
Use your answers to these questions and your reflection time to help propel you to the next level! You can do it!!!
This Week's Topic: Happy Thanksgiving ... Let Us Give Thanks
Dear Friend,
"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."
~W. J. Cameron
In the United States, each year we gather 'round with our family and friends and celebrate Thanksgiving. I've always loved this holiday because it is purely American and cuts across cultural and religious divide.
Once Halloween has passed, there is eager anticipation for the Holidays. We work hard to complete projects at work, we clean our homes, we cook food to be shared, we decorate our homes, many of us travel, and we prepare our homes and our hearts for this joyous holiday. In all of this preparation we often get overwhelmed and become irritated with all around us. We are ready for it to be over before we've even eaten the turkey and before the tryptophan results in a nap.
The question I want us to consider this week is, How can we each make the most of this holiday and ensure that we turn Thanksgiving into Giving-Thanks?
Let's make this year about giving thanks for the blessings around us rather than perfecting what is already pretty good.
Close your eyes and imagine that Thanksgiving has passed. The dishes are done, the house is empty, you are back at your desk working away, but you can't remember what was said at the table because you were so worried about...the food, the decorations, a looming project at work, the mess.
This year you have a chance to prevent being derailed by the minutia. This year stay on track. Set your attitude on gratitude and your thoughts on thanksgiving and turning it into action!
What is important about this holiday is spending time with those we love and giving thanks to them and for them. So as the chaos sets in - avoid the temptation of getting bogged down in what must be done and let go - what is done is done and what isn't done just doesn't really matter.
Allow yourself permission to return to exactly what is important about this holiday. Remember that having meaningful connections and coming together as friends, families, and communities is what Thanksgiving is really about. Enjoy this time!
Make It Happen
This week give thanks, above and around. Below are some ways to give and show thanks.
Let's give thanks for
Our electricity;
Our heat in the Winter;
Our running water;
Our firefighter;
Our postal worker;
Our abundance of food and water;
Our home;
Our freedom to worship.
Before you leave your office for the Holidays
Write a note to three people you work with and say, "thank you;"
Write a note to three clients and thank them for their business this year;
Call three people and simply tell them what they mean to you.
Before Your Thanksgiving Meal
Visit a local shelter or charity and cook for and serve others;
Cook Thanksgiving dinner for a family around you who is in need;
Invite those who are alone to break bread at your table with your family;
Donate warm clothes and nourishing food to your local church or temple.
At Your Thanksgiving Meal
Have everyone at the table say what they are thankful for;
Have everyone focus on each person for a minute or two and say what this person means to them, and what they are thankful for about this person.
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Margaret.
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