491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

491: Your Holiday Game Plan

How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life 

Kathi and her favorite holiday celebrant, Roger Lipp, are bringing all the best tips for our least stressful holiday season ever and equipping us with a game plan to carry it out. So much of preparing our house is about being comfortable in our own space. There are some key things we can do to declutter and make the holidays less stressful including

  • Determine the priority places & spaces to be decluttered
  • Make a help list 
  • Don’t leave room for unmet expectations 
  • Get a membership to Clutter Free for Life

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

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    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    #634 Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup Secrets

    634 - Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup SecretsHey there, busy friends! Have you ever wished for a true day of rest from cooking? In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and co-host Tonya Kubo dive into time-saving strategies for meal...

    490 How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life with Author Nicki Koziarz – Flooded

    490 How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life with Author Nicki Koziarz – Flooded

    490: How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life

    with Author Nicki Koziarz 

    Flooded

    Kathi is here with long awaited guest: three time best selling author, Nicki Koziarz to talk about how to make challenging decisions. So much of the clutter in our lives is caused by avoiding decision. As the clutter continues to build, we are flooded with choices, and that can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Even though many of the decisions we are faced with on a daily basis are small decisions, they can seem very daunting causing us to continue to avoid them. Listen in as Kathi and Nicki give us some hard truths that can help us develop our decision muscle, including:

     

    • None of us are exempt from hard things
    • How to deal with the emotion attached to the clutter 
    • How to make hard decisions when it seems contrary to what’s expected

    Flooded: The 5 Best Decisions to Make When Life is Hard and Doubt is Rising

     

    Through the painful loss of her mom to a brain tumor and her brother to suicide, Nicki Koziarz has learned that if doubt is left undealt with, it can cause the presence of unbelief to flood our lives, to the point that faith becomes unrecognizable. Hard circumstances often stir something so destructive in a soul: doubt.  In the midst of her pain, Nicki looked through the lens of the biblical account of Noah and discovered five decisions a person can make to help deflect the destruction of doubt.

    When you are wrestling with doubt and fighting back hopelessness, Flooded will help you:

    • Quiet the fear that God won’t come through by discovering the difference between wishful thinking and biblical hope.
    • Resist the urge to control the uncontrollable by finding peace in between the problem and the promise.
    • Find the familiar faithfulness of God in His Word when it feels like nothing is normal and everything is falling apart.

    The reality of hard times holds a decision for each of us to find hope. And the decision to find it is yours. But you don’t have to do it alone. It’s time to rise above doubt, together.

     

     

    Giveaway: For a chance to win a copy of Flooded, answer this question in the comments below:

    Tell me a time that God met you in a decision and gave you the strength to make it OR tell me something that you are working through right now? 

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    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Nicki Koziarz

    Nicki Koziarz is a three-time best selling author with Proverbs 31 Ministries. She and her husband own a small farm just outside of Charlotte, NC where they are raising their twenty children, but only three are human.

    Connect with Nicki on her website, on Facebook, and on Instagram

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    #634 Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup Secrets

    634 - Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup SecretsHey there, busy friends! Have you ever wished for a true day of rest from cooking? In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and co-host Tonya Kubo dive into time-saving strategies for meal...

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 2

    Kathi Lipp and her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, are back to continue their great discussion on to how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey.  Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi has 10 incredibly helpful tips just for that. She and Roger shared the first five suggestions in part 1. Listen in now as they share the last half of their insightful list of suggestions for celebrating the season clutter-free. Kathi explains the value in:

     

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

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    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    #634 Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup Secrets

    #634 Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup Secrets

    634 - Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup SecretsHey there, busy friends! Have you ever wished for a true day of rest from cooking? In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and co-host Tonya Kubo dive into time-saving strategies for meal...

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 1

     

    Kathi Lipp is here with her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, to talk about how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey. Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi and Roger give five insightful suggestions to celebrating the season clutter-free, including:

     

     

    Be sure to catch next week’s episode when Kathi and Roger will share the last half of their advice for a Clutter-Free holiday.

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Let’s stay connected

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    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    #634 Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup Secrets

    634 - Time-Saving Strategies for Busy Cooks: Sabbath Soup SecretsHey there, busy friends! Have you ever wished for a true day of rest from cooking? In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and co-host Tonya Kubo dive into time-saving strategies for meal...

    #417 How to Get Over a Poverty Mentality

    #417 How to Get Over a Poverty Mentality

    Join Kathi and Tonya Kubo, the fearless leader of the Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group and Clutter Free for Life, where they have all the fun, for today’s interesting topic of getting over a poverty mindset. Kathi and Tonya discuss the difference between poverty circumstances and poverty mindset. In understanding the difference, we can take an honest look and realize what is pushing us into our place of pain and discomfort. With this understanding, we can ask the three important questions:

    • Do you love it?
    • Do you use it?
    • Would you buy it again?

     

     

    Clutter-Free Home

    Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

    In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

    Order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

    Links

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life.

     

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    Meet Our Guest

    Tonya Kubo

    Tonya Kubo

     

    Tonya Kubo is the illustrious and fearless leader of Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free Academy Facebook group and the Clutter Free for Life membership program. A speaker and writer, Tonya makes her home in the heart of California with her husband, Brian, their two spirited daughters, and one very tolerant cat. Visit her at www.tonyakubo.com.

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    #416 DeClutter to Stress Less & Lower Anxiety: The Power of Today

    #416 DeClutter to Stress Less & Lower Anxiety: The Power of Today

    Kathi and her dear friend Bonnie Gray, author of Whispers of Rest, are here to help lift us out of stress and anxiety, especially through the tough times we have recently been facing in close quarters. If you are in a place where you know that getting rid of some clutter would really help you but are overwhelmed by depression or anxiety, these actionable steps will really help you. Join in, friend, and learn how to invest in yourself and take care of the you that God created you to be!

    In this episode you will learn about:

    • Three actionable steps Bonnie Gray took to get rid of the clutter during depression and anxiety
    • Why soul care is so important in overcoming clutter and anxiety
    • Bite-size decluttering
    • The power of today

     

     

     

    Clutter-Free Home

    Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

    In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

    Pre-order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

     

    Links

     

    Whispers of Rest Giveaway

    Win a copy of Whispers of Rest by answering this question in the comments: What is a specific way you would like to invest in yourself and take care of the you that God has created you to be?

    Finding Spiritual Whitespace

    Bonnie Gray

    Declutter Anxiety Devotional

    Bonnie’s Hoarding Story

    Learn more about Clutter Free for Life.

     

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    Meet Our Guest

    Bonnie Gray

    Bonnie Gray

    BONNIE GRAY is an inspiring speaker, soul care mentor and author of Whispers of Rest, empowering women to stress less and lead a more peaceful, beautiful life as God’s beloved. Bonnie writes for (in)courage and hosts her popular podcast Coffee Break For Your Soul, encouraging women to take practical steps to restore God’s peace in daily life. Connect with Bonnie on Instagram and her website thebonniegray.com

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