This is Cultivated Good Life, episode 62, the 2019 holiday gift guide. Hey guys welcome back. We are so grateful to have you with us today. I'm Becky Proudfit. With me is my friend and my co-host,

Becky Higgins. Hey now. And I don't know about you, but it struck me. We have like 40- something days until Christmas.

Ooh. Can you believe that?

I can. I can because the whole year feels like it's been flying.

Yeah.

It has and this Thanksgiving is a particularly late Thanksgiving, which means Christmas is going to be coming earlier and I don't know about you but I want to get a head start on all of the Christmas preparation so that I can actually have peace and enjoy the holiday.

I think that that is something that gets overlooked a lot.

I've done that myself where I just

give a head about all of it and I don't mean just gifting I mean preparing the Christmas cards and the

gifting yes it feels good to check those things off the list and also

just thinking ahead about what that whole holiday experience,

what I want it to be, how I want it to feel,

because that beginning with the end in mind principle,

which we talked about a lot, helps me to really make decisions about how

committed we are as a family and that has made a big difference so yeah yes to

anyway so we want to dive right into this holiday gift guide and talking more about this but first let's hear a word from this week's sponsor

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