QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
Do you celebrate Christmas and how: food, decorations, guests...?
Do you buy gifts for your family and friends and do you have any rules when it comes to that?
How do you usually celebrate the New Year and what are your plans for it this year?
What was your best and worst New Year?
If you could have all the resources, what would your perfect New Year look like?
Did you make New Year's resolutions and did you manage to keep them?
TASK
You meet an alien at a New Year's party. He is new to our planet and asks you to give him some advice for a good life on Earth. Write down as many pieces of advice as you like and then create a list of the top 10 for your new friend.
Rules for a good life
1. Have a Christmas tree for New Year's every year.
2. Never look for your confidence in others.
3. Take care of your health. Always! That is the most important thing!
4. When you meet someone, try to take something positive from this meeting.
5. Always hang out with people, never be alone.
6. Discipline yourself and plan long term, don't do what you want at a particular time but what you think would be best.
7. Always be kind, you never know what situation someone is in.
8. People don't remember what you did for them but how they felt when they were with you.
9. Don't talk too much because you won't hear what others have to say.
10. Do everything carefully, properly and well because there is karma and everything you do will come to you double.
11. Open yourself to others with reciprocity, do not burden them with too much at once.
12. Accept what happened, learn from it and move on.
13. Even a donkey with a plan goes further than one without it.
14. You only live once so don't wait for the right time, do what you want!