“That’s Good Enough”
Driving into work this morning, I was reminded once more that Dolly Parton will be “home for Christmas” and “Mary’s baby boy will someday walk on water.” The cooler weather and the holiday music took me back to my childhood Christmases in Tennessee.
My expectations for Christmas have always been pretty high, and having the perfect holiday was once very important to me. But the older and wiser I become, the more I realize that the stress, worry, panic, and feeling of exhaustion are just not worth it. My new philosophy for holiday prep is pretty simple: ‘that’s good enough.”
What does that mean?
- It means when you are standing in the grocery store and find yourself spending way too much time deciding what rolls to buy because you know Aunt Mary loves crescents and cousin Bob loves potato bread, you take a deep breath, pick up the Hawaiian Sweet Rolls on sale, and say to yourself, “that’s good enough!”
- It means when you clean the house for your company but start to drag out the vacuum again on Christmas morning, you stop and say to yourself, “that’s good enough!”
- It means that when you are finished with your Christmas shopping but see something on TV you think that your sister will just love and you start to go buy it; you pause and say to yourself, “that’s good enough!”
It means that YOU cannot create a perfect Christmas. Because the meaning of Christmas is already perfect.
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