As we head into the holiday season, your emotions will be front and center at this time of year. Even though we sit around Thanksgiving dinner and enjoy the abundant meal, and we give thanks for all we have in our lives, there is still a feeling of lack, out there in the world.  You may not be able to afford all the Christmas gifts you want to buy. You may not have the relationship you desire this year.

You may be feeling a little down because your life is not everything you dreamed it would be, and that happens. I remember when I used to go to my grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving, when she was still alive. I would sit down, and she would just look at me. I’d get this feeling in my chest, in my stomach, it wasn’t hunger, it was anxiety. I remember grandma Franky would look at me and say —

“So what are you doing with your life?”

I was 24.  What am I doing with my life? I have no idea.  Do I need to know? So I’d look at her and say, “I am enjoying it.”

She said life is about getting serious, you need to find a career like your cousin. Like your this or like your that. The list. The list of people that were far more successful than me at that point in my life. Then she’d ask me about my dating life, and if I wasn’t dating anybody she would tell me it was time to settle down. “Settle down?” I was having so much fun. I had an abundance of women that I was playing with, I was 24 years old, why did I need to settle down?

That is what happens, during the holidays. A lot of people give us their unsolicited opinions of us. We see so many people we never come into contact with during the year.  Most of our lives, we are hanging out with our friends, hanging out with people that support us.  But during the holiday time, our family has the opportunity to judge us.

The key here is staying focused. The key is not thinking about how things are going to change in January, because the clock strikes 12. The calendar flips to a different year. It means nothing.  The key is learning to create abundance in dating and life, from this point forward.  So you are able to take December head on.

When you are able to take December head on you are going to feel much better about yourself.  December is one of the toughest months emotionally.  It’s one of the toughest months emotionally, because you’re forced to reconcile what your year was like. You’ve got to acknowledge it if you weren’t as successful as you wanted to be. That’s what December is about, and why it is a tough time of year for most.

Today I’m going to leave you a very inspirational video on how to create abundance in daily life. It’s a video I’d like you to pass along to many people; it has some powerful analogies on how you need to live your life on a daily basis. I’d like you to share this video with as many people as possible, because it could be one of the most powerful, inspirational messages you’ll ever see.

Not only that, life really can be simple. Consider this an early Christmas gift from me to you.