The Day After Thanksgiving

What are you doing the day after Thanksgiving?

I’ve always wanted to write a web-post about the day after Thanksgiving.  For as many years as I can remember my notes focused only on Thanksgiving Day.  You probably don’t know this, but can imagine that the day after to Thanksgiving is my day to evaluate Thanksgiving.  It plays a major role in defining my ideal Thanksgiving Day. So the day after Thanksgiving is extremely important and timing critical.  Next Thanksgiving starts the day after this Thanksgiving.

Improve the Process
You see the best time to make a process improvement is following the occurrence of the event or process.  Your thoughts are fresh and emotions still high. I suggest you evaluate your Thanksgiving like I do. You’re the only one able to evaluate how you felt or experienced Thanksgiving or any day for that matter.  Were you disappointed at the turn out? Were there too many present? Too few? Was the time the best for the setting? Did you invite the right group of family members? Was the menu what you envisioned? Ask yourself these questions so that next year you don’t leave feeling the same way.  If you want a different outcome, you must do something different than what was done this time around.

General questions you should ask.
Let me help by giving you a couple helpful general questions that I am asking myself:

1. What did I not like about this Thanksgiving?  Start with this question to get it out of the way.  It’s the key target for making next Thanksgiving the best ever.  What stood in your way of having a better Thanksgiving? What can you do next Thanksgiving to avoid the “I don’t likes”?
2. What did you like about this Thanksgiving?  Define what you really enjoyed this year.   Think of ways to incorporate your likes into next Thanksgiving.  

Is It Over Already.
The number one problem people have with Thanksgiving and other holidays is that it went by too quickly or that it was too short.  Did you find yourself back at the office the day after? Maybe next year you can plan to extend your holiday over into the day after.  Maybe you wish to extend Thanksgiving, then plan for it. What you make of it is totally on you. I’ve found that everyone is living by a plan whether they plan or not.  The question is who’s making your plans? Your Thanksgiving plans? You or someone else?

Today is Friday!
Thanksgiving is your holiday; do it your way.  Life’s too short to let another just happen without it being the way you want it. It’s your holiday, your life, your business!
Here’s to your next Thanksgiving!

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