The winter holiday season is underway and we want to help our listeners prepare for an easy one. This week, we’re re-running Episode 28, which we originally recorded for the 2018 holiday season. We hope it will help make your holiday season less stressful and more joyful!
The holiday season can be really hard on perfectionists, who often want to do it all and do it right. This week Shannon and Janine talk about making it easier for perfectionists to let the holidays be easy.
Discussion topics include:
- How “shoulds” can get in the way of enjoying the holidays
- Janine’s truly simple holiday traditions
- Choosing the elements of the holidays that are doable
- The time-saving benefits of holiday cookie exchanges
- How the December holidays can be challenging for perfectionists
- How Shannon creates the holidays she wants (including this year’s Thanksgiving of giving)
- Embracing good enough to make holidays easier
- How giving clutter-free gifts helps the recipient and makes gift-giving easier
- A special clutter-free gift idea from special guest Miranda Adams, Janine’s niece
- Giving the gift of experiences or services, rather than stuff
- Choosing a theme word to capture the essence of what you want for the season to use as a guidepost to help you make choices
- Starting earlier on holiday tasks to avoid the stress of last-minute activities
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I’m glad you replayed this. When I listened to it the first time, it was the middle of the summer, so I confess I didn’t listen very closely to it. I like the idea of Minted for cards…if I sent any, I would go that route.