If you're anything like me, the holiday season brings stress and anxiety. I used to be so busy during the November-December time period that there were a few years I didn't even have time to get a Christmas tree, let alone attend parties or buy gifts. I'd work all day at my full time job, come home, get my child ready for school the next day and then bake and fill holiday shortbread orders all night. I'd start the whole process again the next day. I'd do this for about a month between Christmas and the new year. It wasn't good for me and it wasn't good for my daughter.
During the Christmas shortbread rush three years ago, I was so exhausted from the non-stop work days that I drove ON the OFF ramp to the interstate one day. Luckily, I did not have an accident, but I knew something had to change.
I got some help with balancing my workload.
It's 2006 now. I've hired a brilliant baker, a creative copywriter, an efficient bookkeeper, someone to help me pack and ship shortbread, and a woman to clean my house. I am going to be working with a professional organizer next month to help me organize my office and I occasionally call on a virtual assistant for help when I need it . I am working with a partner to begin farming out freelance writing work if I'm overloaded with client requests. I'm working more now, but I'm delegating more too. It wasn't easy for me to do that, but it saved my sanity and my physical health. And I'm getting more done because I have people I trust helping me.
I understand holiday stress. I've lived it and I'm over it. I can help you alleviate holiday stress quietly, efficiently, and dependably.
If you are one of those people who becomes completely exhausted and anxious every year at Christmas (and every year you say, "It's not going to happen this year..." but it always does) allow Vermont Shortbread Company to help. Here's what to do:
- Visit our web site and take a look at our delicious offerings.
- Make a list of all the friends, relatives, business associates, etc., for whom shortbread would be a lovely gift.
- Pick up the phone and call Vermont Shortbread Company at 802-264-4835 or email us at jsaz@gmavt.net and tell us about your order. Do it today.
- Allow us to reward you with a discount for ordering and paying early: 10-14 gift boxes and you get a 10% discount, 15-19 gift boxes and you get a 15% discount, 20+ and you get a 20% discount.
- Check off "holiday gifts" on your to-do list and forget about holiday stress. The holiday elves at Vermont Shortbread Company will mail each one of the gifts on your list on the date you specify. They'll even include a handwritten gift card from you. They have lovely penmanship, those elves.
- Bask in the compliments you'll receive from your gift recipients in December when they say, "Where did you get that stuff?!? It's incredible. Where can I get some more?"
- Feel good all year round that you've supported a small, socially responsible business (who is giving 10% of the proceeds from this August challenge to charity) rather than buying another impersonal gift card from one of those big box stores.
Now enjoy what's left of summer and pat yourself on the back for being proactive and balancing your life so YOU can enjoy the holidays.
Congratulations, you are now a holiday hero!
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