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Dear Friends, I am henceforth beginning my wonderful blessing of a winter break. I will be off the blog for a while, and only intermittently available otherwise. I hope you have very happy holidays, and I can't wait to see you in the New Year!! Sincerely, Whitney
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I am so excited to have a free gift for you this Christmas!  YOUR 2014 MONTHLY CALENDAR!  This elegant and simple calendar fits perfectly into your 3-ring binder (full or half-sized), and will help you arrange your year into wonderful little weeks full of love and prosperity. Download your FREE 2014 Monthly Calendar in regular-size (8 1/2" x 11") or half-size (5 1/2" x 8 1/2") format here:
This is my gift to you. I hope you enjoy it and have a great time getting ready for the New Year!  Merry Christmas everyone!! Love, Whitney 12/18 UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who signed up for the SOUL PLANNER©! We have met and exceeded my goal, so this offer is now closed. Keep an eye out for the awesome final edition in the future!!  Hey Friends!! I am so excited to offer you this super special chance to get a FREE copy of my brand-new… ...highly customizable... ...über-flexible... ...truly elegant... …life-centered... SOUL PLANNER© TAKING CARE OF OUR HEARTS AND MINDS WHILE WE ARRANGE OUR TASKS AND TIME I am almost finished with it, and I LOVE how it's turning out. So now...I need to know how what YOU think. I want to make a trade. I want to give you a FREE copy of my brand new SOUL PLANNER©, in exchange for your feedback. I'll email you a downloadable PDF, which you can print out, stick in your 3-ring binder (large or small), and play with for a while. Then you can let me know what you love about it, and what could be made even better! This offer will also include my beautiful 2014 Monthly Calendar for FREE too!!! To get your free copy, just let me know you're interested via the comment section below or email me at WhitneyRTill [at] gmail [dot] com!  This beautiful planner is designed to... …focus your energy without squeezing all the breath out of it. ...manage all the balls you have up in the air so you have more time to celebrate the wonders of life. …help you get really clear about what you're spending your time on and why. ...look so gorgeous that you can't wait to open it up every morning! …be used when YOU need it. …let you create more balance & presence & joy in your life. ...integrate the natural rhythms of life into your modern day demands. ...be what YOU need it to be. It contains so much possibility! Because there are ways to make peace with time & plans & to-do lists. There are ways to prepare for the future AND live in the present moment. This planner contains a plethora of different options so that you can fit it to YOUR needs & YOUR energy levels. You will be able to plan your year, month, week, and/or day in whatever combination fits YOU best. If you need to plan simply, in detail or even cyclically, you can find the way that works with YOUR personal style. To get your free copy, just let me know you're interested via the comment section below or email me at WhitneyRTill [at] gmail [dot] com!  I can't wait to hear what you think!! Whitney 
Every year I force myself to wait until after Thanksgiving to play Christmas music. The morning after, I put on Bing Crosby's Christmas hits so I can show off my awesome Christmas dance skills to my husband. Last week, while I was in Target picking out my wrapping paper theme for this year, I was literally jumping up and down with excitement when I found some beautiful 1940's replicas. So now, each day during baby's afternoon nap, I lock myself away with Elf or White Christmas or Little Women and wrap gifts to my hearts delight, admiring my old-fashion paper and reveling in the complicated puzzle I've created for my niece to figure out who's present is who on Christmas morning. My world is blanketed in snow right now. It is stunning. Every time I walk out the door, I am a child kicking fluffy white love all over the place, feeling grateful for how dry my toes remain in my good winter boots. There's something about the world being covered in snow that lets me feel the relief of knowing that everything is over. Everything is gone. Everything is getting ready to become new. I've been contemplating the deeper meanings of Christmas. I love Jesus and the celebration of his birth, but it confuses me. Why December? Babies are born in the Spring, maybe summer or even fall, but winter? Winter is when we run out of resources, it's almost the opposite of new life. Winter is death. The trees have spent the fall drawing their energy back into their bodies and letting go of every last one of their leaves. The bushes have turned brown and the flowers are long gone. So it doesn't seem like the moment to commemorate birth. It feels like the moment to commemorate death. Death is important. Death is essential. Death is the end. And it's good for things to end. Celebrating birth at Christmas feels like trying to trick time into skipping right over the quiet sleep of winter. Indeed, maybe a part of us really would like to just skip over this altogether. But really- what's wrong with paying attention to death and quiet for a moment? What if we celebrate the going away? We can release the warmth and growth with faith that it will return, in order to recognize that this time is as important as any other. I used to think we create a celebration of lights in order to 'get away' from the dark. But throughout this past week, as I have opened my bedroom door to the stunning glow of our tree in the middle of the night, I notice how happy it makes me for the dark that surrounds it. The lights simply highlight the beauty and wonder of the dark night. It's nice to have so much darkness. My eyes don't have to work so hard too see through the blaring, constant summer sun. My body sleeps more deeply in the cool stillness of winter nothingness. I feel a lovely permission to just stay home all day if I feel like it, get in my sweatpants early and not worry about getting my normal amount of work in. I hibernate. So, this year, I am giving myself new permission to honor death. To honor the ending of all things before I get too concerned with knowing what the subsequent new beginning will look like. The ending of the seasons. The end of the year. Letting whatever we are done with die away. I have some ideas about what is ready to die away within me. I know I need the death that a vacation provides. I need to stop working for a while. That's why I will soon be commencing my winter break. I won't be blogging or worrying about any particular project for the holidays or even the month of January. I need a break. A nice, open-ended break. Ahhh…… What are you ready to release to the sweet mercy of winter?  I wish you the happiest holidays possible!! So much love, Whitney  You are your own savior
You are the only one who can make sense of things for yourself You are the only one who can change your own life: DO IT That thing that you know needs to happen in order for you to move forward: DO IT NOW Don't hesitate. Don't wait for something else to happen first Just do it Then figure it out as you go Make a plan if you need to, and then start If there's a certain kind of love that you need: MAKE IT FOR YOURSELF No one else is going to know how to love you best unless you figure it out first Take hold of your own life, and then let the world fall around that Don't wait for permission, for freedom, for security Do what you know you must do, because you're the only one who can |
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