18. Planning for the Holiday Season: What you can calendar now to make your holidays less stressful and more enjoyable (Thanksgiving planning, Halloween planning, Christmas planning, Yom Kippur planning)

🔗 Grab the holiday guide for less stress here: https://kellynolan.com/holiday-guide 

The holidays are coming—and with them, a lot of stress. In this episode, Kelly walks you through how to start holiday prep now (including managing work around the holidays), so you can enjoy more peace and less scramble this season. We're not aiming for a Pinterest-perfect season but to reduce mental load, plan realistically, and reclaim your ability to enjoy the holidays.

In terms of the holidays, think: the Jewish high holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the winter holidays (including things like holiday cards).

You’ll learn:

• Why starting now isn’t about doing more—it’s about spreading things out and reducing stress

• How to manage work around these holidays so you can enjoy them more

• How to pick and choose what actually matters to you from the to-do list of holiday options

• How to calendar holiday prep over time so you can let it go until you actually need to do it

• Tips for navigating shared decision-making with partners or extended family

• Ways to lighten your load by visualizing the work and delegating more of it

• How to stop managing everything in your head (and stop waking up at 3am thinking about it)

• Why calendaring holiday steps now will benefit you every year going forward

Kelly also shares details on the free companion guide, The Working Professional's Guide to Making Your Fall & Winter Holidays Less Frantic & More Enjoyable, packed with action items for Halloween, Thanksgiving, winter holidays, gift giving, cards, travel, guests, and more. Pick what you want, ignore what you don't want, and calendar it all out so you can enjoy the season and the lead-up to it.

✨ If you’ve ever felt like the holidays were more work than fun, this episode is for you.

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