Now that the holidays have passed, I realize that like most years I’ve let a good number of things slip.

It’s like this every year.  From Thanksgiving till after New Year certain things just don’t get done at work and home.  There is too much to do.  Too many once a year opportunities.  Too much fun to be had.

Then comes the first week of the new year and I bemoan the fact that so much has been left unattended.

How much better it would have been to have declared in mid-November that I was taking a Holiday Break from those tasks.  Then I could have enjoyed the freedom my declaration created instead of regretting the void left by so many things undone.

So well in advance, I am announcing that next December I am taking a Holiday Break and regular activities will resume early in January.  Already I feel better about all the things that will find themselves ignored.