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Holiday Lessons Learned from Charlie Brown and Company December 24 2010
True to my intention of unplugging during the holidays, I'm offering this simple post to say thanks to you, my readers, for your support, engagement and ideas. I've gotten to know many of you though your comments and tweets this year and am really grateful for that. I'm looking forward to continuing the conversations and relationships next year.
In my end of year un
plugging post a couple of years ago, I ran this picture from the Peanuts Christmas TV special. It's the Christmas special (along with It's a Wonderful Life) that I try to watch each year. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz really understood the human condition and I love the way it's embodied in A Charlie Brown Christmas. For an inside look at how he worked with his collaborators to create this classic, check out this great article that ran a few weeks ago in the Washington Post. It's a really cool story about how some creative people with a vision came up with something that has touched the lives of millions and endured through the years.
Whatever your tradition is, I hope you get some time over the next few days to enjoy friends and family and to reflect on what you've given and received this year. I'll be back a day or two next week with some ideas on how to use a model I call the Life GPS® that will help you hit the ground running in 2011. I hope you'll join me back here then.
In the meantime, I'd love to hear in your comments on what you're thinking about or feeling this week as 2010 comes to a close.
Scott Eblin is an executive coach, speaker and author of 
2010 has been good and somewhat regretable in some ways. I've been promoted to a new job, and moved from Florida to Louisiana. My husband who is still in Florida is still waiting for a job here in Louisiana to join me. Not sure what to expect in 2011, and it's a bit scary and I'm getting a lot of anxiety. The new leadership that I served currently have been a big disappointment. I really thought I could learn and emulate a lot of their leadership skills, but I think not. These ones seems to lead with arrogance and intimidation. He talked a lot about taking care of people, but really doesn't practiced what is being preached. Hopefully something good will come in 2011. I still have the faith and hope for the best.
I'm not planning any major goal setting for 2011; ultimately though I will zero in on one area of focus: to improve my blog. Having blogged for about 5 yrs, it's a good time to recalibrate and fine tune.
Thanks for your comments Mae and Mike. As your thoughts imply, this is the time of year when reflection comes naturally. I wish both of you and all my readers the very best in 2011.