#ChristmasSong December 21

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In December 2025, many of us will take part in the 30-Day Rewind Coach4aday Challenge. Each day, we’ll rewind, review, reflect or—in my case—re-blog one of my nearly 4,000 posts that highlight experiences shaping us into better versions of ourselves. If you don’t have a blog, your reflections can come from a journal or even a meaningful memory tied to something learned, a goal reached, or a personal effort to improve. These daily habits of looking back will serve as a powerful springboard for taking on a new and ambitious challenge in 2026. Today my rewind is on favorite CHRISTMAS SONG.

Today, our family is celebrating Christmas 2025. It is a date we agreed upon back in 2024 so our children, their spouses, and our grandchildren could each enjoy Christmas Day on December 25. We’ll share a gift exchange, a meal together, and plenty of music filling the house through the Sonos speakers—hopefully including one of my favorites, fittingly titled “The Christmas Song.”

Rewind-30 Day Challenge Guidelines

As with previous challenges, participants are encouraged to adapt the guidelines to fit their own circumstances. If you can, commit to sharing a rewind, review, or reflection during the month of December

  1. Rewind, review, or reflect on a past effort to improve, a lesson you learned, or a goal you accomplished.
  2. Share with a challenge partner if you have one.
  3. Join the conversation by posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

December 21-Christmas Song

Composed a post on December 11, 2019 that I am revisiting today. Most people will refer to this song as “Chestnut Roasting on an Open Fire” but it is officially known as “The Christmas Song

The lyrics are iconic

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos

First recorded by Nat King Cole in 1946

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