With the holidays here, I’m dipping into the Blog Bag to pull out a few of my favorite bits of wisdom this week and next. These mean something special to me…and I hope they will to you also.
These beloved holidays envelope us now.
I adore this time of year. The lights make the dark skies bright and seem to convey a sense of happiness. In amongst all the stuff we buy, there are heart-felt remembrances from people we love and often from someone we wouldn’t expect.
Marketing and sales insights have been put away
for the week in favor of wonderful moment with family and friends, recollections of happy moments and plans for a particularly joyous New Year.
And as you gather to share and celebrate, come join me in making this commitment…
…Offer someone the Gift of Caring.
The world can be a tough place. It doesn’t always go as we want it to in big ways and small.
How many people do you know who could use a hug or a little reassurance?
Maybe it’s a family member you haven’t spoken with in a long time. Put that grievance aside and reach out. Maybe it’s a friend in need, and you haven’t been with them in too long. Pick up the phone and offer yourself. Perhaps there’s a pooch or kitty at the shelter who really should come home with you this holiday season. Get in your car and go.
Someone needs you. Someone requires some love, or reassurance or intervention to get them to the next place safely.
This holiday season make a difference for someone. Care. It never goes out of style.
Your third of four gifts from us arrives today in a buzz (did you check out the first and second gifts?)
Each week we are buying a gift in the names of our customers (you) to help a struggling family somewhere around the globe. This week we buy bees…from Heifer International. Bees, a box and hive—coupled with training—will pollinate crops, double fruit and vegetable production and provide income from honey and wax.
Would you like to stir up the hive and give a gift of bees, too? Simply head over to www.Heifer.org and send a gift of food, income and self-reliance to some family.
Our final gift arrives next week, a harvest of beautiful things.