A SEASONAL COMPASS TOOLKIT
Your Holiday Compass
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A practical workbook to make your big decisions early, protect your energy and finish the year proud, not frazzled.
WHY IT HELPS
The busy season is what you've worked towards all year.
It should feel like a reward, not a race.
Your Holiday Compass gives you one place to decide what matters, what can wait and what someone else can do, so the busy weeks carry you instead of the other way round.
What this isn't: This isn't about squeezing more out of yourself.
It's a plan for making your big decisions early and protecting your energy, so you and your business arrive at January in one piece.
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What's inside
+ The Holiday Health Check: score yourself in two minutes and find out where to start
+ Five short parts: Reclaim Your Focus, Manage Your Energy, Delegate & Simplify, Protect Your Profit, Reflect & Reset, each with space to write
+ Your enough number: what the season needs to bring in to be a good one
+ Your six-week plan: one focus a week, with your days off booked first
+ Your January restart page: stop, start, continue
+ Five holiday email templates and Canva templates for socials and email headers
+ AI prompts for when you're stuck for words
YOUR GUIDE ALONG THE WAY
Meet Tess
Tess has run a homewares and gift store on her main street for nine years, with two part-time staff. Her regulars say she's the one who remembers what you bought your mum last year. She loves the busy season, and she's learning to make it work for her instead of the other way round.
You'll follow her as she books her days off first, picks her best lines in October, hands off the gift-wrapping and works out her enough number. Her answers sit beside every question, so you're never staring at a blank page.
Not in retail?
If you're a consultant, coach, trade or service business, your "products" are your services and offers, and the thinking is exactly the same. Read Tess's examples with your business in mind:
โ Where Tess picks her best-selling lines, you pick the one or two offers that carry your season
โ Where she sets a last order date, you set your last booking or project start date
โ Where she writes a "how we wrap" card, you write a simple process someone else can follow
โ Where she checks her margins on tea towels and candles, you check which services actually pay you well for your time
IS THIS YOU?
Who it's for
Small business owners heading into their busiest season, whether you sell from a shopfront, a market stall, a farm gate or a website, or sell your services.
โ You love the busy season, but not how it leaves you by Christmas
โ You'd rather make the big calls now than on the run in December
โ You want practical, realistic steps you can do one part at a time
Already in the Your Business Compass program? It's waiting for you in The Way We Work resources.
FROM SHELLEY
Shelley Cox
Founder of Your Business Compass | Regional Business Strategist
A former Barossa winemaker, co-working startup founder & retail collective, Shelley knows a busy season when she sees one!
She's guided hundreds of small and micro business owners to find clarity, confidence and direction, and she's learned the hard way to make the busy season work for her, not the other way round.
FAQ's
How long does it take?
About an hour all up. Most people do one part a sitting.
Is there a webinar?
Yes. Make the Busy Season Work for You is free - held on Thursday 29 October 2026, and the replay goes to everyone who registers.
I'm a service business. Is this for me?
Yes. Tess sells homewares, but every question works for services, and there's a service-based email template.