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The season's stresses will bury the joy if you don't set priorities for what makes you and yours happy, mental health experts say. To decide what you want most for the holidays, rank the following activities, then focus on your top few.
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times, published December 11, 2001
Christmas is a time to:
1. Be a peacemaker in my family and the world at large.
2. Spend enjoyable time with my immediate family.
3. Reunite with my relatives.
4. Celebrate the birth of Christ.
5. Create a festive and beautiful home environment.
6. Show my love and generosity through gifts.
7. Remember the poor, lonely and needy.
8. Be active in my church community.
9. Celebrate with friends.
10. Relax and be renewed.
-- Source: Unplug the Christmas Machine, by Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli (Quill, October 1991, paperback), now in its 13th printing.