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✨December Is Almost Here: Rest, Reset, and Rise Into the New Year (Includes Black Friday Specials)✨

✨December Is Almost Here: Rest, Reset, and Rise Into the New Year (Includes Black Friday Specials)✨

Faith Rivera
November 28, 2025

As we step into December, I want to offer you a gentle reminder: you deserve to finish the year with clarity and calm. This season is often filled with pressure—deadlines, events, family plans, and the weight of wanting to “wrap it all up” before January hits. But here’s the truth most entrepreneurs and leaders forget:

You don’t have to grind your way into the new year.
You can rest your way into better results.

This month’s newsletter is all about helping you do exactly that.

1. Rest as a Strategic Advantage (Not a Reward)

Rest is not what you do when everything is done—rest is the reason you do things well.

As founders and leaders, we often treat rest like an optional luxury. But research continues to show that intentional rest increases creativity, improves decision-making, and strengthens your capacity to lead.

This December, try choosing one of these weekly rest practices:

A 20-minute “no agenda” walk
A technology-free morning
A simple nightly wind-down ritual
A work-free Sunday (yes, it’s allowed and highly recommended from personal experience)
A 2-hour CEO pause: quiet thinking, reviewing, visioning

Small rests add up. Protecting your energy now sets you up for clarity and courage in January.

2. Getting December Off to a Great Start

Instead of racing, let’s reset.
Here are three powerful but simple ways to start the month strong:

✓ Review (15 minutes)

Write down:

What went well this year
What didn’t
What you’re proud of
What you want more (or less) of in 2026

This gives your brain a clear snapshot of reality so you can make aligned choices.

✓ Refocus (30 minutes)

Choose ONE December priority in each category:

Business growth
Operations/systems
Personal wellbeing

Too many priorities = no priorities. One clear focus in each area = powerful momentum.

✓ Reconnect (15 minutes)

Reach out to five people who supported you this year—clients, partners, collaborators. A quick thank-you message strengthens relationship currency and opens doors for 2026.

3. Wrapping Up the Year (Without the Overwhelm)

Year-end doesn’t have to mean burnout. Instead, think: alignment.

Your Year-End Alignment Checklist:

Clean up your digital files or desktop
Outline January’s first week (keep it simple)
Audit your services—what stays, what evolves, what goes
Identify tasks to outsource or automate in Q1
Set your “non-negotiable” boundaries for 2026

You don’t have to overhaul your business this month—you just need to prepare the soil so 2026 can grow with ease.

To help you start the new year strong, I’m opening up limited offerings:

**🎁 Black Friday / Holiday Special:

1) The Capacity Clarity Strategy Intensive – Black Friday Edition

Unlock 2026 with clarity, confidence, and a strategic plan that actually moves your mission forward.
This Black Friday, I’m offering a limited number of Capacity Clarity Strategy Intensives at exclusive, one-time pricing.
If you’re ready to simplify your priorities, strengthen your systems, and walk into the new year knowing exactly where to focus — this is for you.

Regular Price: $600, Black Friday price $450, savings $150

What It Includes:

- 90-minute strategic planning session

- Customized 90 day roadmap

- Email support for 7 days after session

- Limited to 10 leaders. Offer ends December 5th at midnight or when all 10 are requested. Email back strategy to get your next steps or click here to get your initial intake call started.

2) Early Founders Access to the Capacity Builder Nonprofit Membership

Your mission deserves a support system that strengthens you — not strains you. Become a Founding Member of the Nonprofit Capacity Builder Membership, launching January 2026, and lock in our lowest price ever.
This membership is for nonprofit leaders who want to grow sustainably, avoid burnout, and build the systems their organizations need to thrive. The membership includes live monthly networking and support calls, access to templates, discounts on Alo Civitas Consulting services, community space for nonprofit leaders, on demand trainings, and a curated list of trusted nonprofit experts. Pricing for the first 10 people to respond CAPACITY to this email will get locked in for as long as they stay active. Typical price will be $97 a month but for the first ten to lock in the discounted rate will be $77 dollars a month, a $240 annual savings.

3) Referral Bonus

When you help us grow, we help you grow.
Refer a nonprofit or small business leader who books a paid offer by the end of the year, and you’ll receive an exclusive Capacity Champion Reward as a thank-you for supporting our mission of nourishing communities. Refer a leader. Grow a mission. Build capacity together.

1 referral → free digital product

2 referrals → free mini-session

3 referrals → $100 discount on their next project

This season is an opportunity to honor how far you’ve come while giving yourself the space to rise into what’s next. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey! I’m cheering you on as you rest, reset, and finish strong.

Here’s to a peaceful and powerful December. 💛

With love, Faith