Santa's Tips to Surviving the Holidays

Book excerpt: Whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or one of the other Winter Holiday's, "Santa's Guide to Surviving the Holidays," is the help you need to reduce stress and manage everything during the holiday season. The Holiday Season is a time to be with family and friends and enjoy life. Why get bogged down with hundreds of things to do and then find out you have no time for yourself. No time to enjoy!This book will help you understand why, when the days get shorter and a we lose some of our daylight, a bit of gloom can set in and we sometimes stress out or get depressed as the holidays approach. Then it gives you advice and tools to combat the gloom.It shows you how to plan, organize and handle all your holiday tasks, challenges and commitments, plus your day to day activities, and still have time for yourself, and time to truly enjoy the holiday season.Most important is how to do it 'Stress-Free!" By starting earlier in the year and spreading out your work, you reduce the stress that develops when we get close to the holidays and realize that there is still lots to do. "Santa's Guide to Surviving the Holidays" show you examples for everything from Un-cluttering your life, to getting a head start on your holiday planning and decorating, to scheduling your activities and events and doing all your holiday shopping. And most important, help in fighting the big "D," Holiday Depression.Includes: -Detailed Planning List with tasks to do each month, starting in July, August, September or October. You select when to start.-Suggestions and ideas on how to organize and plan-Sample planning guides, checklists-Advice on taking the kids to see Santa-Scheduling Santa to visit your home or company-Advice on teaching your children about the joy of giving, to -How to answer your child says, "My friends tell me there is no Santa."And much, much, more.Plus, along the way, National Santa Tim Connaghan has included some photos of his exploits and work during his fifty years of wearing the red suit.