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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    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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    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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    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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    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.

     

     

     

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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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    487 Get the First Peek at Kathi and Cheri’s New Book

    487 Get the First Peek at Kathi and Cheri’s New Book

    487: Get the First Peek at Kathi and Cheri’s New Book

    Have you been in need of a retreat, my friend, but can’t get away? Kathi and Cheri Gregory, her most frequent co-author, are giving us a sneak peek into their new devotional: An Abundant Place. If you are living in the real, everyday mess of life, then you will love learning about this devotional and how it takes us on a journey to that abundant place where Jesus redeems those messes and makes beauty out of them. The best part is that if you pre-order now you get some really fun bonuses including: 

    • Devos For Dropouts Podcast Series
    • Companion Journal 
    • Invitation to a Private Devotional Group with Kathi and Cheri 

     

    Are you overcommitted, overstressed, or just plain overwhelmed? These devotions will give you greater peace and perspective, and a plan for managing your busy life.

    Have you reached the point where one more thing on your to-do list is one too many? Do you find yourself praying, “Lord, I don’t think I can handle any more stuff?”

    Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory have been there. They want to encourage you, but even more important, they offer helpful solutions to make your everyday life easier. Get good advice on how to plan ahead, set boundaries with others and yourself, and be more intentional about self-care without the guilt.

    Let Kathi and Cheri help you find a place of more joy and abundance, one devotion at a time.

    ORDER AN ABUNDANT PLACE

    Pre-order An Abundant Place Devotional and Get Super ALL of These Super Fun Bonuses:

    Devos for Dropouts Special Bonus Podcast Series

    Companion Journal & Guide to creating your own home retreat

    Personal Invitation to hang out with Kathi and Cheri to go through the devotions together

     

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    Cheri Gregory

    Cheri Gregory delights in helping women draw closer to Jesus: the Strength of every tender heart.

    Cheri is the co-author of four books, co-host of the Grit ‘n’ Grace podcast, co-leader of the Sensitive and Strong Community Café, and founder of Write Beside You communicator coaching.

    Cheri and her college sweetheart, Daniel, have been married for 32 years and live in California near their two adult children.

    You can connect with Cheri at CheriGregory.com, SensitiveAndStrong.com, GritNGraceThePodcast.com, and WriteBesideYou.com

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    486 How to Get Rid of 250 Things in One Day Part 2

    486 How to Get Rid of 250 Things in One Day Part 2

    486: How to Get Rid of 250 Things in One Day Part 2

    Hey friend! We are better together and today we are going to join forces to declutter together! So grab your tools, set up your stations, and join Kathi on this episode to declutter together. First, if you haven’t already, go and listen to last week’s episode, How to Get Rid of 250 Things in One Day, Part 1 to set yourself up for success. Then jump on in and let’s get rid of some things together, make hard decisions, and learn about

     

    • Envisioning your decluttered spaces & people using the things you don’t need 
    • How to repurpose things 
    • What storage is costing you

     

    The November 30 Day 1K will take place in the Clutter Free Academy Group!

    At Clutter Free Academy, you will discover how to declutter your home quickly and easily without stress. We are the kindest corner of the internet offering support based on by Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free books, podcast and programs.
    This group is dedicated to Kathi’s Clutter Free method and system. It is not a forum for discussing other methods, for marketing services or for promoting other systems. There are many roads to Clutter Free. It’s important to pick one that works for you and fully embrace it.
    If you are ready to embrace Clutter Free, get ready for newfound freedom. This is a brave space where we realize overcoming Clutter is a mindset more than a system. It’s where you don’t have to apologize for your home or what you have/have not done.
    We believe in progress over perfection and the need to celebrate wins — both large and small.
    We’re all in this journey together, and the only way to fail is to give up. And we’ve all been there; so count on this group to lift you up when you think you’re at your limit, and encourage you to keep pressing on. Peace is worth it.

    Join Clutter Free Academy

     

     

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    Kathi Lipp inspires thousands of women each year to strip down their expectations and lives and live with real purpose. With humor and wisdom, Kathi offers hope paired with practical steps to live with meaning.

    Kathi Lipp is the author of 20 books including Clutter Free, The Christmas Project Planner, The Get Yourself Organized Project, The Husband Project, and Overwhelmed. She is the host of Clutter Free Academy the Podcast! with Kathi Lipp and speaks at conferences across the US. She also runs the Facebook group Clutter Free Academy where thousands of women (and a few brave guys) support each other in living a Clutter Free life.

    She has become well respected on the topics of clutter from a biblical perspective (who knew there was such a thing?). She is a national speaker and is often featured on Woman’s World as one of their “Ask the Experts”, Focus on the Family, MOPS International, Crosswalk.com, Girlfriends in God and Proverbs 31 Ministries as well as a number of other media outlets around the country.

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