Starting a New Tradition This Holiday Season

As you are busying yourself with the holiday season, I encourage you to take a few minutes to evaluate your family's traditions.

• What do you normally do?
• Why do you do this?
• Is it still a significant source of enjoyment or sentiment to you?
• Is there anything you'd like to change or something new you'd like to start doing?
• If so,
• Consider how/when you would do this new thing
• Introduce it to your friends and family and tell them what you hope to get out of it or why it is meaningful to you
• Invite them to participate in it with you
• Start your new tradition and tweak it as you need to for years to come

Enjoy your holidays. Reflect on what is most important to you. Be creative and bold enough to introduce new things that may become future traditions. Don't get bogged down in routine for the sake of it being routine only. Make it meaningful and joyful.