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How to Have a Natural Holiday High

Guest post by: Sylvia Lafair

Article Overview: Giving is not only what this holiday season is all about, but also allows you to experience a natural high.

How to Have a Natural Holiday High

‘Tis better to give than receive, so we have been taught. Now, research in neuropsychology shows that to be true. Here is how it works. When you do something good for your employees, something special that will mean a lot to them, it sends an endorphin flush through your body.

This is the same feeling one gets from running a marathon, even a half marathon. In sports it is called runners high. In life it is called feeling good.

Remember that movie from forever ago, "Miracle on 34th Street". It was about a jolly, chubby bearded man who worked as a Santa Claus in a department store. He sent customers across the street to his competition when they had needed products or maybe even better prices.

That kind of sharing, the kind that Macys and Gimbals did is available for all of us. It does not have to start and stop with a jolly man named St. Nick.

At your Holiday party give fun gifts if you like, give extra bonus money if you can, and here is an idea that is even more important. Give someone the gift of appreciation. Tell someone you normally don't talk with too much how much you think about the good job they are doing.

The best idea about giving something extra that will matter to someone else is the fact that you will find you feel good. No, maybe good is too limiting. You feel great. Think about the endorphins surging through your body that make you a winner when you make someone else a winner. Happy holidays!

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