#Possessions December 3

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n 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 POSSESSIONS.

The word possessions have multiple meanings or definitions.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I attended a college basketball game that came down to the final possession. Two nights ago, while my wife and I were discussing holiday gifts for our five children, their spouses, our grandchildren, and one another, we reached the same conclusion: neither of us wanted any more material possessions.

Those experiences caused me to remember a March 27, 2019, post I crafted on that very subject.

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 3-Possessions

I think all of us know internally that “possessions or stuff” don’t give us joy.  We also know that we may impress people with our possessions, but we cannot inspire them. There is a big difference between being impressed and inspired.

I have also found that people that seek significance in their lives often find contentment but those chasing material possessions seem to be never satisfied.

Maybe being the best, we can be in this very moment should be our most prized possession of all.