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Clutter Busting: Holiday Countdown

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Where are you with your holiday planning? If you started around November 1 you should be making some great progress on your task list and hopefully you are feeling less stressed. The whole idea of a holiday countdown is to tackle a few tasks each week so you avoid being overwhelmed and so you can hopefully enjoy the season a little more.

Even if you are just getting started today, here are some ideas to divide and conquer your holiday task list in three weeks:

  • Schedule your tasks in your calendar. Select three days each week to work on your holiday to-do list.
  • Group errands together. Buy all the children’s gifts at the same time. Buy staples and stocking stuffers from the same store.
  • Delegate. Get your family members (based on age and skill level) to help with items still left on the “to do” list such as decorating, baking, wrapping, shopping or decorating.

Make your plan and work your plan and your holiday countdown will be joyful instead of stressful.

Clutter Busting: Strategies to Handle Being Overwhelmed

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Overwhelm [ ??v?r?(h)welm ]

verb

past tense: overwhelmed · past participle: overwhelmed

  1. bury or drown beneath a huge mass:

“the water flowed through to overwhelm the whole dam and the village beneat

  1. give too much of a thing to (someone); inundate:

“they were overwhelmed by farewell messages”

  1. have a strong emotional effect on:

“I was overwhelmed with guilt”

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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Being overwhelmed can be exacerbated during the holiday season.

Do you wake up in the morning with your mind going 1000-miles-an-hour, thinking about all the things you need to get done? If you are feeling overwhelmed you may even be feeling physical and emotional symptoms such as knots in your stomach, a pounding headache, an accelerated heart rate or feelings of being swamped, or a sense of panic or helpless.

For anyone who is constantly overwhelmed, it is possible to experience a heightened adrenalin release that can lead to high blood pressure, extreme fatigue and other diseases. Over time being overwhelmed can lead to burnout. [Read more…] about Clutter Busting: Strategies to Handle Being Overwhelmed

Holiday Countdown- The Six Week Plan

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Having an eight week timeframe for planning the holidays is ideal. But it is still doable in the six weeks remaining before the holiday. Here is an outline of tasks to accomplish week by week for the next six weeks to take the stress out of the holidays.

  •  6 weeks: develop gift list, set up gift-wrapping center shop/wrap ½ of gift list, develop card list, address envelopes/create holiday letter/copy
  • 5 weeks: shop/wrap ½ of gift list, finalize baking/menu list, buy stamps gather return labels
  • 4 weeks: decorate outdoors, write holiday cards, buy baking supplies
  • 3 weeks: decorate indoors, mail gifts/cards
  • 2 weeks: attend/host parties, buy grocery staples, bake/cook ahead, begin cleaning/finalize holiday menu
  • 1 week: finish baking/cleaning, buy perishable groceriesSo put these tasks in your calendar and you’ll be on the road to feeling prepared and calm this holiday season.

If you would like to receive a copy of my Six Week Holiday Checklist, contact me.

 

Clutter Busting: Letting Go

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 To Let Go

by Stephen (2008)

 

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I can’t control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it’s to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow other to affect their own destinies.

To let go is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to criticize, or regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can do.

To let go is to fear less, and to love more.

 

Clutter Busting: 8 Week Holiday Countdown

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The holidays come the same time every year, so why do we act like we are surprised by them…like they snuck up on us?

To get control of holidays, begin the holiday countdown today, November 1. By assigning and completing tasks each week, you can actually thrive and enjoy the season stress-free.

Contact me today for your free Eight Week Holiday Planning Checklist.