I would suggest that productivity is not based on how much I get done. Rather, it’s based on how much I improve someone’s life as a by-product of getting something done.

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

If an idea does not enhance the lives of those around us, it’s just a way that the mind is trying to figure out how to gratify itself while looking brilliant enough so that no one suspects otherwise.

While our roads might be markedly different, the fact that we are both walking a road intimately unites us. And if we each dare to step onto each other’s road for even a moment, we can profoundly enhance the journey for both of us. And so, might I invite you over.