Our number one tip this holiday season? Don’t forget it’s the holidays.

Our number one tip this holiday season? Don’t forget it’s the holidays. When you’re working to keep your business alive, push your company’s numbers into the black and take advantage of all the people doing their holiday shopping, it is easy to forget that the holidays are supposed to be a happy time. So we’ve come up with a list of simple things you can do around your office and home to help you, and those around you, enjoy the holiday season just a little bit more.

1. During the week of Thanksgiving go the extra mile and thank those around you for, well, everything. Write notes to your co-workers, bring home flowers for your wife, use your words and say “thank you.”

2. Take some time out of your busy schedule to do some service. Get your family or some friends together and go serve dinner at a shelter, help a local food pantry collect, sort, or deliver food to those in need, help your neighbors shovel their driveway – there are so many ways to serve!

3. Make your home and office feel festive. Set-up and decorate a tree in your home, hang lights from your house, set up tinsel around your desk, and break out all of those pictures you have of your kids sitting on Santa’s lap!

4. At least, spend Thanksgiving and Christmas day with your loved ones. If you can, take off a few days either before or after these holidays as well so that you, and your loved ones, feel like this is a special time of year and a break from your remedial everyday work schedule.

5. Smile often, be happy and share good holiday cheer! It’s contagious!