For those of you expecting me to provide you with IT tips, I’ll be brief. If you have a technical problem, as the experts from “The IT Crowd” suggest, “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gt9j80Jkc_A
Right. Now I’m done with the geeky bit I can get on to more interesting things. I’m sure you’ll all have different reactions with the Christmas holidays coming up. But whatever your feelings are about Christmas or even if you wonder why we celebrate it at all, you can’t help but notice that it involves a lot more interactions with people.
Spending more time with family, whether that’s something you look forward to or not, catching up with friends at parties, as well of course the big mission of trying to buy presents for everyone on your list! So what am I getting at then?
As you find yourself over the Christmas period spending a lot more time with people, my top tip is that you embrace the idea of thinking of others before yourself. I think it’s one of the great mysteries of the universe that often as we start considering first the well being of others we start to feel more satisfied in our own life.
So what could this mean for you? Whether it’s just considering carefully that secret santa gift that you have to buy for a colleague or biting your lip when that family member does that same old thing that sends you into a rage every year or maybe even giving a small portion of your Christmas shopping spending fund to those less fortunate then yourselves. You decide.
And to those who might say what’s the point in these little gestures, I paraphrase a quote from Mother Theresa (in an attempt to be the first person to quote from “The IT Crowd” and Mother Theresa in the same piece of writing!):
“What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean is made up of drops.”
