Giving your gifts: why knowing what you want can be your best guide for fitness and family time as you begin the busy holiday season Gifts Portal BR

Giving your gifts: why knowing what you want can be your best guide for fitness and family time as you begin the busy holiday season

What do you want?" A line from one of my favorite movies, The Notebook (New Line Cinema, 2004), can be an invaluable guide this holiday season. The question posed above is about sorting through others' expectations of you and what you think you should do versus what you really want to do (something we all deal with, particularly at this time of year).

In the movie, Noah is Allie's first love, and in the scene where said question arises, Allie is all set to marry another man when she reconnects with Noah after many years apart. They discover that the love they once shared is still very much alive, yet Allie is conflicted; she cannot decide if she should marry the man she feels she is supposed to (and whom her mother expects her to) or be with Noah ... and that's when Noah asks, "What do you want?"

We are pulled in so many different directions during the holidays: to travel, be with family, go to one party or another, eat this pie or that cake, buy innumerable gifts. We must stop and ask ourselves ... why? Is it because we want to do all those things or we just do them because we think we must, or need to ... or should?(Continue Reading)

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