get organized for the holidays

secrets to less stress + more joy this holiday season

• Determine what's most important to you and your family to have a joyful holiday season.
  
  
• Create a customized holiday plan so you can get it all done. You'll be organized, prioritized and energized!
  
  
• Gain practical, doable strategies for simplifying the key areas of your holiday preparations—from cooking, baking and entertaining, to shopping, wrapping and sending out holiday cards.
  
  
• Share gift ideas, recipes, holiday traditions, tips and more in the private workshop forum.
  
  
• Get a simple process for getting your holiday gifts put away and your home put back together. You’ll start the New Year organized and energized!
  
  
• See how to store your holiday decor efficiently and effectively.
  
  
• Gather tips and ideas for making next year's holiday season even better than this year, and exchange ideas with your classmates.
  
  
• Share photos of your holiday decorations and storage solutions in the online photo gallery.
  
  
• Create a simple and fun project to organize your holiday cards so you can enjoy them for years to come.
  

• Create your holiday inspiration statement. This statement will serve as your compass throughout the holiday season, reminding you of what’s most important to you.
  
  
• Discover how a holiday planner will organize all aspects of your holiday preparations, then create your own, loaded with holiday planning forms, checklists, and best of all, your customized holiday plan. Whether you decide to make it decorative, or keep it purely functional, this binder will be your go-to resource as you move through the holiday season. (View planner supply list here.)
  
  
• Bonus! In the handout simple + fun ways to celebrate your holiday inspiration statement you’ll find easy and creative ways for you to stay focused and inspired all throughout the season.
  

• Craft your own holiday plan to break down this big project called “the holidays” into manageable steps filled with things you actually enjoy!
  
  
• Prioritize your holiday to-do list, so each activity on your list has a home and a designated week in which to be accomplished.
  
  
• Bonus! Professional organizer Aby Garvey shares her favorite tips for simplifying every aspect of the holiday season, such as entertaining, decorating, gift-giving, and sending cards.
  

• EnJOY your holidays! The goal for this lesson is to help you stay energized and joyful throughout the holiday season!
  
  
• See how to turn your weekly plan into a manageable daily to-do list. As you implement your plan for the holidays, the ideas in this lesson show you ways to evaluate how things are going. You’ll also get suggestions to tweak your plan, if needed, so you’re relaxed and calm all season long.
  
  
• Discover simple ways to stay focused on what’s most important to you throughout the holiday season, so the season is filled with meaning and joy.
  

• This lesson shows you a step-by-step approach for finding space for the new things that have come into your home as a result of the holidays. Find out Aby’s own approach to clearing out that first layer of holiday clutter and make your own clutter-clearing action plan.
  
  
• Create an attitude of gratitude to help carry you through the clutter-clearing tasks.
  
  
• See the simplest ways to reclaim your living spaces, little-by-little! This approach will help you clear out the holiday clutter without becoming overwhelmed.
  

• Lesson 5 gives you a plan to wrap up the holiday season and lays the foundation for an even more organized approach to next year’s holidays.
  
  
• Find out Aby’s own process for decluttering, organizing and storing holiday items, including her favorite storage and container resources.
  
  
• Get simple, doable ideas to make next year’s holidays easier and more and joyful than this year!
  

1. See immediate results. With action-oriented content, you’ll begin creating results in the very first lesson!
   
   
2. Save time. We’ve mapped out the exact steps to complete your project, so you can get busy taking action.
   
   
3. Learn on your time schedule. There’s no set time to login and access the lessons. Enjoy your workshop any time that works for you.
   
   
4. Save money. You’ll get expert-guided, quality content for a fraction of the cost of working with an expert one-on-one.
   
   
5. Enjoy bite-sized, action-oriented content. You’ll see how easy it is to take action without getting overwhelmed.
   
   
6. Create lasting change. You’ll complete projects and create new habits.
    
7. Get quick answers to your questions. Stay motivated (and in action!) with our quick answer guarantee!
    
8. Get class materials tailored to your learning style. Each lesson includes colorful, printable PDFs, audio files and online web pages available anywhere you have internet access.
    
9. Try this workshop completely risk free. If you try a workshop and decide it isn't for you, we’ll issue you a full refund in accordance with our no-questions-asked refund policy. See specifics below.
   
   
10. Enjoy camaraderie and support. Be motivated and inspired by people with similar goals.

• Please note the materials to help you get ready for the holidays are released in November, giving you time to get organized before the season gets in full swing. The content to help you clean up the post holiday clutter is released in early December so that you can take action on the concepts when it fits your holiday schedule.

• In celebration of the holidays, Aby's last day in the workshop will be Thursday, December 20, 2012. The online community will remain open for workshop participants to chat with one another and to continue to share their holiday preparations and celebrations.

• Within 10 minutes of signing up, we will send you an email with all the information you need to access the workshop.