Welcome to 100 Days to Christmas where you will find a daily dose of inspiration and motivation to help you get ahead so that you can relax through the busy holiday season knowing that you are more prepared than ever!  This time of year hosts several major holidays and special occasions. Part of being ready for Christmas is knowing how to give yourself plenty of time to focus on the holiday at hand while still looking at the larger picture. If you’ve told yourself year after year that you are going to be more on the ball through the holidays NEXT YEAR, then you are in the right place! If you usually start early enough but hope to find some new ideas to add to old traditions, then you have also come to the right place. If you want to share your holiday goals and accomplishments with friends, then welcome!

Are you ready to get started?  Are you willing to accept the Countdown to Christmas Challenge?  Our first day’s goal is to gather the bones for your holiday planner: a three-ring binder, a three-hole puncher, 5 to 8 tabbed dividers (preferably with pockets), and a zipper pocket to hold pens and odds-and-ends.  Of course, a holiday planner doesn’t have to be paper.  For those who would prefer to go paperless, you can easily create a holiday planner on your computer by naming a folder and storing your ideas there.  Or create a Pinterest board and name it Holiday Planner (or whatever you’d like).  A holiday planner is a great place to keep all of your activities, recipes, schedules, ideas, and lists.  It will become your “holiday central” over the next 100 days. Find out more on how to create your own holiday planner here. Each day here at 100 Days to Christmas, you’ll find the tips, tricks, and reminders to get you planning and motivated for the holiday season.

Follow along on your own or charge ahead with the 100 Days to Christmsa 2012 eBook.  The eBook has bonus links to lists from ListPlanIt.com, links to recipes/crafts, and lots more through our boards on Pinterest.  Find out how to get the eBook for FREE here.

ListPlanIt.com has hundreds of printable lists and planning pages, all geared toward helping you to live a more organized life.  In ListPlanIt’s Holidays & Occasions, you’ll find everything you need to make any holiday a meaningful success such as calendars, daily and weekly planners, card lists, wish lists, gift lists, a cookie/candy planner, party planning pages, holiday meal planning pages, grocery lists, and so much more!

ListPlanIt wants to give five Print Memberships to 100 Days readers. You have several ways to enter to win :

1) leave a comment or photo here below and show us your pre-holiday spirit,

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5) follow our page on Facebook and tell our entire community that you are going to participate by leaving the following message on our Facebook wall, “I’m counting down the 100 days to Christmas at 100DaystoChristmas.com.  This is going to be my best holiday season yet!”.

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*** Be sure to catch our 1st Annual Facebook Party tonight at 9 pm EST.  ***