This is Havela Kennington and this is the Havela Kennington Podcast.

Well hello, it is December which means we're all going well we're going full force into

this Christmas season and I wanted to give some thoughts about how to navigate your

December. So I want to talk a little bit about December because we need a strategy and

the more you have going on the more strategy you need. And the truth is December holds

it holds a lot of fun and movies and you know Christmas music and all that stuff but

it also can hold a lot of well it can hold a lot of things and sometimes I think December

can kind of get out of control. It's like that you know how you're like running down

a hill and you think you're in control and then all of a sudden the momentum of running

down the hill makes you all the sudden you really is like I'm trying to keep up with my

legs you'll see our kids do it all the time they'll be running down some kind of hill

and you'll see them and they look like they're in control and the moment between when

they're in control and when they're out of control is like a few seconds and that's

kind of how December feels sometimes it's like I'm in the middle of it I've been enjoying

I'm enjoying I'm completely out of control of feeling. So I want to talk about strategy

and I want to talk about maybe the downside of December because there is a downside to

this this feeling of Christmas and the moment of December and so on talk about that because

sometimes I think if the older we get maybe just in life depending on what your personality

is like you can have an expectation of what Christmas can be like and sometimes the reality

of what we hope it will be you know what all of our kids loving what we've got them or

maybe you know that what our house is going to look like or maybe what our family gathering

is going to feel like maybe what our church services look like to like the reality of

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