Holiday Wishes
by Karen Pickering
Photo: April & Karen, 2002, by Jack Kintner
As you hustle about getting ready for the holidays, do you ever feel overwhelmed or cheated? What is this season supposed to mean? Certainly not stress. Why then do we feel so pushed to get things done? Have we forgotten the meaning of the holiday?This is a time of discovery for me. It’s a time to review my life and decide where I want to go from here. It’s time to get out of the rut, make things happen and find that motivation to get moving!
I want to share my vision with you. In November of 2008 I sat down and wrote this:
My Dreams and Goals
My dream is to have a small A-frame or rustic style home on acreage. An indoor arena, my office in the structure with a viewing area. A place to invite friends, family and provide a great environment for my team. A place where people can come to see and experience horses. To have balance, time to travel, spend time riding (working 20 to 30 hours a week in the office, and the rest of the time visiting clients, horse people, ranches, and experiencing different clinics). Time to get away (quiet time for reflecting). I would like to be a good leader and inspire others to be successful. Help others on their journeys to build their own dreams. I’d like to go back to school to learn more about software, graphics, get back to drawing and painting as a creative outlet. I would like to be organized, good at time management and clutter-free. To ultimately have time for others and keep perspective on what’s really important to me: God, family, friends, my work relationships, and my animals. To have unconditional love and acceptance of others.
I want to be the best educational resource for horse people in the Northwest. I would like to grow the NWHS organization to other projects such as directories, other publications and eventually tackle nationwide distribution with a team of people dedicated to educating the equine community. I want to be able to work on the business, not in the business, to create alliances that allow the NWHS to expand and grow into an entity that can be around after I’m gone.
Okay, I’ve bared my soul. So now I would love to know what this holiday means to you. Please comment. I’d love to know what you dream about, both for yourself and for your horses. This is a place to make a commitment to make things happen!
I wish you rich blessings this holiday season, a time of reflection and thanksgiving. Thank you for being a part of my world!
Warmly,
Karen
posted by NWHS at
10:00 AM
1 Comments:
I believe the Reason for Christmas, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, whatever you belive it is, should be a time to appreciate all the people in life who make things happier, safer, more comfortable, easier, challenging, joyful, better, unique, and basically a time to show our appreciation for the rest of mankind.
It is a time to do something for someone else and not look for something for ourselves. By doing this, we get more then we will give. You don't have to spend money to do something for someone else.
Perhaps remember to smile and hold a door open for a person who's hands are full or body is frail. Smile when walking down the street and saying thankyou to the people who serve us daily at the grocery store, the bank, the service station, etc.
It's the time to be sure to let the people who are special in our lives truly know we hold them special and our lives would be less rich with out them.
The Holidays to me is a time of celebrating the good in our lives and sharing that feeling with others.
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