Don't Fall Victim to the Holiday Mentality
Start Today Podcast
Chris Cavallini
5 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Using the Holiday Season as an excuse to justify complacency is disrespectful to the magic and power this time of year brings.
With December here there's good vibes brought on by gratitude, love, generosity, friends, family, gift giving and holiday parties.
Unfortunately, hidden in plain sight amongst all of these great things also lies complacency, the killer of all things success.
Complacency over the holiday season is tough to identify because we're distracted by holiday festivities and most of those around us are deviating off the path or lowering their own standards as well. But with the holiday season spanning over the course of 2 months, it can be crippling to enter a new year having ended the year with a loss.
The holiday season is not an excuse to stop working on achieving our goals. In fact, to really experience the magic of the holiday season, it should be the opposite; an excuse to step it up!
In episode 34, Chris focuses in on how the holidays can breed complacency. He provides some valuable perspective and challenges us to use the holiday season as an opportunity to go harder to put an exclamation point on 2019 and begin the New Year with some steam!
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| 0:00.0 | You can run on. |
| 0:12.8 | What is up, guys? |
| 0:13.8 | Thank you for tuning into the Start Today podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Chris Cavalini. |
| 0:18.2 | Today, I'm solo. |
| 0:19.6 | I have a short but very important message for you. Today, I'm solo. I have a short, but very important message for you. |
| 0:23.5 | Guys, here we are. It's December 2nd. The first Monday of the last month of the year. This year |
| 0:33.2 | flew by. And, you know, as we progress, as we, you know, just get older, that's, |
| 0:39.9 | that seems to be the, uh, the common thesis. The fact that time just fucking flies by. I mean, |
| 0:46.4 | think about how quickly this year went by and it's, uh, it's absolutely crazy. But nonetheless, |
| 0:51.7 | uh, I hope that you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving and spent it with the people |
| 0:56.3 | who matter most doing the things that make you happy. And I wanted to actually today talk a |
| 1:03.4 | little bit about the holidays. And I want to start off by saying that I love the holidays. I love the |
| 1:09.5 | holidays. I love the holiday season. I love the things |
| 1:14.3 | that typically, you know, the holiday season brings about. And, you know, what are those things? |
| 1:19.7 | Of course, over the holidays, we have the opportunity to connect or reconnect with friends and family |
| 1:26.8 | members, people that we, you know, may not have |
| 1:29.0 | spoken to in a while, get together at holiday parties. And sometimes it's not even a matter |
| 1:34.0 | of getting together. Sometimes, you know, like me and I have three younger sisters. We're |
| 1:38.7 | literally spread all over the country. We do a better job keeping in touch now that we're getting |
| 1:43.6 | a little older, |
| 1:44.2 | but you know, we don't always have the ability to spend the holidays together, but just interacting |
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