Short and Sweet--Christmas Newsletters
December 13, 2012
I just received my first newsletter of the Christmas season. How do I feel about hearing about the personal ups and downs of a family?
This year I am giving it more thought than criticism. Personally, I have been through some very rough times this year, but I won't be writing friends and acquaintances about the drama.
Instead, I'm going to write a newsletter filled with life advice and funny stuff. People have had a hard time just finding jobs, keeping their homes, and remaining self-sufficient.
Christmas newsletter writing for me was done tongue-in-cheek last year as I wrote my first and only newsletter. Do people in other countries and cultures do this wholesale flaunting of their good fortune and bad fortune?
I really don't know. But if you are in the middle of writing about the success of your freshman at Harvard, rethink that topic.
If you are in the middle of writing about the drug rehab your grown daughter just endured, rethink that topic.
But wait; there is more. Rethink the whole process of bragging to others at this holy time of year.
So with that in mind, I'm writing my second in my lifetime newsletter, filling it with wishes for the happiness of the people I'm writing to.
Newsletters have become the joke of America. Let's make an effort to make our newsletters uplifting to others, rather than objects to be shared at work as objects of ridicule. Think before you write this year, and make your newsletter short and sweet.
Do you write Christmas newsletters? Leave a comment, please.
I'm resolving to get off Pinterest for awhile and appreciate all the things I have, not wishing for things I couldn't possibly use or wear or cook! So I won't be writing about how many followers I have, just to sound important.
"Pray for peace, people everywhere," and stop writing newsletters to your friends and family this year. (I'm going to write a very short little one, to inspire others, just listing things I'm grateful I lived through.)
While you're not spending hours thinking all about the accomplishments of your family, spend some time at this website instead. Maybe you will find some small way you can use your energy to help others :
