It's Christmas day, and I'm stealing a minute to myself.
All the prep for Christmas Dinner has become done. I've chopped the veg, given and opened some pressies, the ladies getting dressed and ready and Chris cooking up a storm. I am enjoying I am Kloot, before undoubtedly the Christmas Tunes seriously, in the event the rest of the family arrive.
This will be the newbie I've spent Christmas in Manchester and I must view it makes me feel differently about home. It really gets to be a much more like home than a spot one lives and works. Helps to see what is really important, what matters, and what live could resemble. And next year, using a baby along the way, well then my wifes giddy excitement for Christmas makes room for something a lot more exciting.
As I was having a swig from my Christmas Cider, it gave room for a thought about how Christmas will be the great leveler for individuals. A time to a family event, normality, humility, letting go of striving looking being the large something.
One thing I'm so aware of when I read blogs, tweets, tune in to podcasts, watch webinars and read articles about successful entrepreneurs is the all consuming effort that individuals go to be a 'success.' Everything brings about success. You need to get a big hitter, successful, wealthy and recognised, and each effort, every focus, every goal points because direction. And this is validated time and again by society and others because the approach to live. Than along comes Christmas. Snow stops travelling. People tweet less. Family meals take over. And the family supports a big reminder of precisely what is important, when the quietness with the snow, permits you the space and time to sit and listen.
What I love about Christmas and time with family, is when everyone is linked to in exactly the same way as they have always, regardless of how the rest of the world views them. Whether you're Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and communication platform creator for half a billion people, Sergey Brin and Larry Pagefounders of the mighty Google, or running a local successful business where you're responsible for people's livelihoods, there's still the Christmas Dinner and the time with the family.
"Mark darling, I don't care if you're the Time Magazines Person of the Year; here you need to do the dishes and you are doing the glasses first as I've always told you. There's a sweetheart.'
All the worship, adoration and 'Yes Yesses' pauses there. You're not quite as important, in loving families, actually you're often even more important. Important for being you, not for what you've achieved.
And I love that. At the right times, loved ones are an area where people allow for go of having to be a success, and luxuriate in being human too. Whether you're trying to get a success or you've established yourself jointly, people can take on that they're seen in some other, more human light by others. I love this. Of course, it can be frustrating for individuals who have actually ended up working so hard to get a 'success' as a way to prove something with their parents. But chances are if you want it that much, you're never going to understand it.
So if you're feeling frustrated you are family avoid getting you, that you avoid getting treated this way anywhere else, and you want to be respected; have a pause to state thank you. Thank you for normality, thank you for space, thank you for being the usual you. And as you receive this gift of humility this Christmas, pray it is a great gift you can hang onto throughout the year. Perhaps it may be described as a ticket to both an increased level of both success, enjoying what you are as well as perhaps others enjoying which you a bit more too.
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Have your merry merry Christmas.
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