Read my Christmas holiday season greetings, below. Then, scroll down or click the following 5 links, for Forward Steps’ holiday season goodies.
20 New Year Questions
Advent Calendar Gifts
Advent Calendar Emails
Set Your 2026 Intentions
24 Christmas Quotes
Maya Angelou once said that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. -Maya Angelou Share on XNo matter how tangled your lights, how rainy your days or how little luggage you might have, I know you’ll handle it.
In fact, at this Forward Steps holiday season greetings page, I’ve included a few random notes and exercises to help you through December and into 2027.
Look back over 2026 to step forward into 2027
I recommend that you do take some time to reflect on what might be accomplished for your life, during the next twelve months?
List your 100 achievements over the last 12-months and you will feel so much more invigorated for creating your 2027. Once done, record 100 things you will achieve during 2027.
Remember, there is no such thing as 'failure'; there is only 'feedback' Share on XImportant too, is the ‘staying focused’ part, throughout the rest of the year. Create personal environments that will remind you of your original purpose and of your 100 intended outcomes.
Christmas and New Year are only a brief period of each year and so much of it is “driven” by media advertising hype or our wanting to keep up “appearances”.
Keep it all in perspective!
Mentally sketch a clear portrait of what a “great” festive season could look like for YOU.
Once you are crystal clear about what YOU want, start planning and practice in a mirror saying ‘no’ to the suggestions or invitations from others that do not fit your picture.
Discard the preconceived ideas of what this time of year “should” be like.
Start taking actions that you can expand on each following year, to gradually begin redesigning the lead-up and follow-up months which will suit you and your family.
Recognize that everyone around you is likely feeling the same and they may actually be relieved at a suggestion from you that simplifies future Decembers.
This year has had its moments of sadness and my thoughts are with everyone affected. As we move through the holiday season, may we take small moments to be kind to ourselves and each other.
When giving yourself what you need you’ll be in a better position to give to others, generously and from the heart. This season is not about providing the kind of giving that is done through gritted teeth and has ‘duty’ written all over it.
Give yourself permission to feel the way that you do and to make the choices that you need to make.
Generosity of spirit comes easily if you are not afraid to treat yourself well Share on XSet up a plan of action for keeping in touch with friends and doing nice things for friends and family throughout the year. This will alleviate that “guilt surge” in this period and feeling that you “must” contact everyone who you have neglected the past eleven months.
Start planning and take actions for 2027’s season, now.
Especially if any undesired circumstances that you experience currently are the same ones that were around this time twelve months ago …and each of the years before!
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Enjoy the following collection of 24 gift pages in a personal development advent calendar too.
You can also see the self improvement advent gift calendar here.
Advent simply means, the coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.
Self Improvement Advent Calendar To Christmas
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At this time, I often reflect on the past year and think of you (who have made a difference in my life), as well as those with whom I have made a difference.
Thank you for any of the times that you shared my work with your friends.
I appreciate that you stayed connected throughout 2026 and I look forward to staying in touch during 2027.
When you no longer have any clue of the difference you make and the impact you have consider the butterfly effect.
Celebrate all your achievements, whether you perceive them to be large or small.
Create Some Quick Intentions For 2027
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24 Christmas quotes from Forward Steps
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. -Dr. Seuss Share on X Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale Share on X Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. -Charles M. Schulz Share on X I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. -Charles Dickens Share on X They who have not Christmas in their heart will never find it under a tree. -Roy L. Smith Share on X Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -Hamilton Wright Mabie Share on X Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer. -Bill Watterson Share on X There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. -Eric Severeid Share on X Christmas presents once opened are not so much fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. -Benjamin Hoff Share on X Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. -Larry Wilde Share on X Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! -Francis P. Church Share on X A Christmas candle is a lovely thing. It makes no noise at all, but softly gives itself away. -Eva K. Logue Share on X Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry. -George Wither Share on X Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. -Joan Mills Share on X What do you think of Christmas? I like it, she said. I think we should have it every year. -Liz Flaherty Share on X We would buy a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. -Laurie Halse Anderson Share on X The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! -Charles N. Barnard Share on X We can start making Christmas and Santa can finish up. -Toni Buzzeo Share on X The true beauty of Christmas is revealed when we adore the season, not like some weary adult, but like a bubbly little child. -Michael Bassey Johnson Share on X Festivals are occasions to empower ourselves in the course of humanity, they are the occasions to rekindle the promise of humanity in our heart. -Abhijit Naskar Share on X Christmas is about accepting that we all make mistakes, for which we will be forgiven, but first we must forgive others. -Anne Perry Share on X Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. -Winston Churchill Share on X Not all gifts are wrapped in a box. Some gifts are just being present. Being there when it matters. -Todd Crawshaw Share on X Who, but grownups, would ruin a beautiful holiday season for themselves by suddenly attempting to correspond with four hundred people they don't see all year? -Charles M. Schulz Share on X In this loveliest of celebrations may you find many reasons for happiness. Share on XWhatever is beautiful. Whatever is meaningful. Whatever brings you happiness. May it be yours this holiday season and throughout the coming 2027.
Enjoy a wonderfully festive holiday season that’s carefree and lots of fun.
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