For many people, the Christmas season involves more stress than enjoyment. Between all of the cleaning and shopping and cooking, there is little time to sit down and enjoy the holidays with your family. Does this sound familiar? If so, don’t worry–you can conquer your Christmas stress with some advanced planning.

Organized Christmas has an 18-week “Holiday Grand Plan” that makes it easier to tackle the mountain of tasks that come along with Christmas. Although the Grand Plan technically started on August 30th, it’s not too late to jump in. After all, any amount of advanced planning is bound to make your holiday season easier.

Their holiday grand plan sets aside each week to complete certain tasks. (Don’t worry, there are only a few tasks for each week, so it’s not too overwhelming. If you need to catch up from the previous four weeks, add a task from a previous week to each day and you’ll be caught up in no time.) They dedicate each week to a certain area of the house, where you clean and organize in preparation for your holiday guests. If you aren’t stuck trying to do everything at once, you won’t feel nearly as stressed when December comes around.

These lists also help you to focus on certain tasks and know when to stop working on a particular task. Both of these are effective ways to manage your tasks in order to minimize stress. Remember, you don’t have to get it all done at once-you have all week to get it done. If you follow their plan, by the time the week before Christmas comes around, you won’t have anything left to do but sit back and enjoy the time with your family. Now doesn’t that sound nice?