Learnings from the Christmas Holiday

Covid-19

Plans to celebrate Christmas for my 2 college kids were up-ended by Covid.

Their dad, my ex-husband, and his life-partner, planned to spend most of the week prior to Christmas with us to have time with the kids before the kids and I left for Aruba on Christmas day. 

The day they arrived he joked “hopefully this bad viral cough will go away… “

WHAT?!?

Covid test positive! And Christmas Eve would be day 5 for him. 

Everyone was bummed, sad, upset, disappointed… 

We could have thrown in the towel on celebrating Christmas.

Given Up & 

wallowed in sadness, disappointment, anger at the situation.

Instead, using tools learned in life coaching I am proud of the plan we agreed upon.

Yes, it wasn’t the plan we initially made.

We rallied.

We DECIDED to change the plan and still celebrate on Christmas Eve – day 5.

Masks in place, distance between us.

And JOY. 

We chose joy, laughter, celebration.

Things don’t always turn out as we’ve planned… before life coaching I would have been bathed in disappointment – for my kids; angry at the situation with Covid at an truly inopportune time. And, I might have let that ruin the entire holiday. 

You have a choice – to choose your thoughts and feelings.

You get to choose in life – 

As we start 2023, ask yourself what will you choose for your life in 2023? 

What thoughts do you want to take into the new year?

What feelings do you want to focus upon? 

Ponder these 2 questions – we’ll focus on these over the month of January!

What thoughts do you want to take into the new year?

What feelings do you want to focus on in 2023?

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