This Christmas Give The Greatest Gift Of All

It is Christmas season and we are all in our last minute shopping frenzy trying to find that perfect gift for those people who are special in our lives. Because these people are so important in our life we want to make sure that the gift we choose – will be fully appreciated and enjoyed by each of them. We want this gift to reflect how much we truly care. We want these people to know how much they mean to us.

The value of a Gift can be measured from two perspectives: from the viewpoint of the person giving the gift and from the viewpoint of the person receiving the gift.

As a “Giver” of a gift, we tend to associate how much we value the person to whom we are giving the gift by the cost or expense associated with the gift. The more we like someone, the more special and the more precious the gift needs to be.

Not too surprisingly, the Receiver of a gift frequently uses the exact same analysis. If the receiver knows it cost little for the Giver to provide such a gift, the receiver knows he or she really wasn’t too important to the Giver. Conversely, if the Receiver recognizes that the gift being given came at a great expense to the Giver, he or she immediately knows how important they are in the eyes of the Giver.

Since we have experienced playing the role of both “Giver” and “Receiver” in the past we know this is true.

So, what then is this most precious thing we have that we can give to someone to show them how important they are in our life? What is this thing that if we were to give it to them, they would immediately know and appreciate how much we value them in our life? It is the one thing we value the most, because we have so little of it. It is the one thing they will appreciate the most because it is all they really want from us.

This special gift, this most precious of gifts – is our time. The people who love us don’t want material gifts, they want us! They want to know how much we care for them, they want to know how important they are in our lives, they want to know we care for them so much that we will gladly give our most precious resource, our time.

This Christmas, give the gift of “time”. Find a way to be with the one(s) you love. Yes, that will be difficult...but the more difficult it is, the more they will appreciate it and you. If you cannot find a way to be with them physically, pick up the phone and be with them mentally. In this world of Christmas Cards and emails – a phone call has become special.

Show them how much you care!

Merry Christmas

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