Prevent the 4P’s Power

Hey Friend,

Five days before Christmas, and it feels like everything speeds up at once.

Between last-minute shopping, deadlines, and trying to wrap things up before the year ends, it’s easy to slip into pressure, procrastination, and the chase for “perfect.” I’ve been thinking a lot about how those forces show up—not just during the holidays, but everywhere there’s a deadline.

What if we approached them differently?
What if small, daily action replaced procrastination, clarity replaced pressure, and excellence replaced perfection?

The real gift we’re all chasing—especially this time of year—isn’t productivity.
It’s peace.

Wishing you an abundance of peace this Christmas season and beyond.

Why is Last Minute Shopping (LMS) embedded in our culture and lives? Where else does LMS show up? I suspect every place that has a deadline. Are we a nation of procrastinators? Or just have "too much" to get to, so the pressure causes us to go in starts and stops? Is it a matter of priorities unprioritized, indecision delay and/or a combination of both with a dash of acquiring the "perfect" gift.

That's a lot of P's playing together to puncture our promptness:

Procrastinate

Pressure

Priorities

Perfection

What if in 2026 we proffered a different partnership with these players so they didn't paralyze our progress?

What's provocative about these four is how they permeate through one another. If we penetrate the impact of one, we have the potential to pacify the others. Their partnership is interdependent, flourishing or diminishing together. The relationship we have with one, we have with all.

MINDSHIFT

What if you purposed to actively resist the temptation and persist in a positive mental and emotional state?

Procrastination is defeated by teeny-tiny daily actions. The smallest small step counts.

Pressure turns productive when we incorporate release valves like humor, honesty and humility.

Priorities polarize when everything is most important. Put in a progressive order and start at 1, then work down.

Perfection in an imposter of generosity, excellence and love. Utilize one of those three words instead.

When we position ourselves with a proper perspective we achieve the ultimate Christmas Wish, which also happens to be pertinent to every other day of the year.

PEACE

I hope and pray you prosper in an abundance of peace this Christmas season and all year long.