Day 9: 25 Days, 25 Ways to a Better Christmas morning

The first day, we explored what your Christmas HOPES were. If you haven't had a chance to catch that episode - head back there before you listen to this one! :)
This episode expands on that first episode to challenge you to consider what your expectations are. Although they may seem like the same question, my hope is that you can see how they are different and how to make them more aligned. Enjoy!
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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hey friends, so here we are, day nine for our 25 days, 25 ways to a better Christmas morning. And on day one I asked you to think about what are your hopes for Christmas this year. And now I want you to maybe ponder something a little bit differently. I want you to maybe ponder something a little bit differently and I want you to think about what are my expectations for Christmas this year and kind of have them relate to your hopes. So if you thought about kind of Christmas break, if you thought about Christmas morning or maybe you thought about a specific place that you're going to go for Christmas and what your hopes were for that, cross that now with what your expectations are.

Speaker 1: 0:52

And as you write down in your notebook or journal or wherever you're at, as you write down what your expectations are, I want you to look at both lists and see how much overlap there is, because if we don't have a lot of overlap, then we are maybe on a fast track to feeling disappointment or regret or sadness this Christmas season, and so what we want to do is have those hopes be more in line with what those expectations are.

Speaker 1: 1:24

And you're going to hear me talk a little bit later in our series here about how we can share our expectations with the people around us to have a better Christmas experience, and that's going to be true for all things. So this idea of exploring your hopes and then your expectations and then sharing your hopes and your expectations with the people around you is kind of going to be true for anything that's going on in your life. But specifically right now we're talking about Christmas and so my hope is that you can do those things as we are stepping into this season and would love to know how it goes if you're able to do those things. So happy expectation, pondering See you tomorrow.