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Show your Love by Volunteering this Valentines Day

“Valentine’s day is just another day”
“Every day is Valentine’s day”

Everyday should be celebrated as a day when we show love to one another.  Valentines day doesn’t have to be limited to just that special someone in your life. 

Here are some things to do on this day dedicated to LOVE:

Go to a homeless shelter and show your love by:
• volunteer
• offer tutoring for the kids
• bring special baked goods
• bring movies to leave with them
• do craft items with the kids
• coming in with a hand full of balloons to hand out
• bring your dance group and dance for them
• teach them to dance
• play table games

The choices are endless.  Make sure you call the center to make arrangements for your visit.  Bring your friends with you, share your love together with others. 

This could turn out to be the best Valentines Day EVER!

Do It Yourself (DIY) Wedding Planning Craze Part II

At an earlier period in my life, I thought that I could do anything and everything.  Just let me at it and I could build it, present it, make it, chair it, run it, direct it…..  This is a true making of a control freak.  Don’t knock the controlling part, that is what now makes me an excellent event planner.

As I matured and grew into myself I realized a couple of things:

I have great strengths in some areas
Other people have strengths in other areas
Tapping into other people’s strengths allows me to develop my strong points and perfecting what I do best.
That revelation came slowly and I am at the point where I am happy to let others do what they do best, so I can focus on what I do best.

I really learned this lesson when I tired to fix a leaning tree in my front yard, as if I knew how, or had the means.  I ended up tripping and falling down on my arms and hurting myself to the point where I wasn’t able to use my arms nor my hands for about 3 weeks.  That meant that I wasn’t able to type, play the piano, brush my teeth, lift a cup of coffee.  You get the point.

When BRIDES set up to plan, create and work their wedding, and do something that they have NEVER done, it just might end up with disastrous consequences.

Experience DOES count!

Keep in mind that YOU as the BRIDE have never put your own wedding together.  Now if you have planned one for someone else, you will know that in the end you will need someone to manage the day of the wedding for you.  But there are too many BRIDES that think they can do IT ALL, thus the title: BRIDEZILLA.

It’s not that you as the BRIDE are this mean hideous person, it’s the stresses from the planning, from wanting everything to be perfect that creates the uncontrollable, control freak in you.

Even a surgeon allows someone else to operate on him/her.  Even a chef hires someone else to prepare a special meal for a special occasion.  

Even a doctor has his/her own physician to care for his/her children and family.

Why is it necessary to hire someone as a consultant for your wedding and to manage the day of your wedding?

The answer is simple:  you as the BRIDE are too close to the situation to make the best choices for your very special ONCE IN A LIFE TIME DAY!  That is why the physicians have their own physicians.  That is why when I got married, even though I’m a planner, I worked with two other planners up until one week before the big day, when I gave it all away to them.  That allowed me to enjoy enjoying my relatives and on the day of the wedding, I had a blast enjoying MY day.  My now husband enjoyed it as well, because I did.

I don’t mean to leave off the GROOM, but in my experience, they just enjoy seeing the beautiful love of their lives walk down the isle and they want her to enjoy the day.  The rest is just gravy for them.

You and your special man deserve to enjoy your day, to bask in the glory of all that it is, to remember the day with fondness and a smile.

When we try to do something that is bigger then us, we will get hurt.  Know what you can do and do that. Know what you cannot do and delegate that to someone else.

Do It Yourself (DIY) Wedding Planning Craze

It’s not so crazy to plan your own wedding.  Or is it??  Hmmm?
You ARE ENGAGED!!!!  And as soon as you said “I do” you started thinking about the wedding, and you have been thinking about it since you were 12 yrs old… ok maybe not since then, but you have looked through the wedding magazines and have combed through the internet and have seen myriads of ideas and some you like and others make you go “hmmm?”

The bottom line is that all the information that you will need IS on the internet!
The catch is that the internet is HUGE, very easily cumbersome thus making you get lost in it, confused and bewildered.

Not to mention all the ideas you get from your friends, aunties AND you mom.
Now with all these ideas coming from every direction, your head is spinning and you don’t know which way to turn.

You love your mom and all of your friends (and maybe even your aunty) and want to plan this wedding together, but your mom is acting like this is “her” wedding, since she, and your dad, are paying for the wedding, so she should have the 51% of the vote on most everything.  Arrrrrgggg
Aaaaand, you get a bright idea that you want to hand make your wedding invitations AND your favors for all of your 200+ guests.  Don’t forget you have a job that takes you away from your wedding plans 40 hrs per week.

Now you are loosing sleep, getting off track, doing things that can wait and brushing off things that need to get done first, you are getting stressed out because the wedding is in 2 weeks and you just remembered that you haven’t confirmed the caterer.
On the day of your wedding, you are so stressed out from trying to look the best you can, to making sure all of your vendors have shown up and are doing what they are supposed to do that you are NOT able to enjoy YOUR day!

Ok, not all DIY weddings go like this, but you’d be surprised at how many weddings actually are planned that way.  At the end of the day, you as the bride don’t  remember the most important part of the day because you have spent it “working” as a planner and not enjoying it as a BRIDE.
So, what’s the answer?  We highly recommend you hire a consultant to guide you  through the process and manage your day of the event.   Expert Event Planners provide this service at several different levels that you can choose from.  This is well service is well worth cost.  It will give you the chance to plan your own wedding with a personal guide and allow you to enjoy your day as a BRIDE!

Team buildings A + (PLUS)

Make sure the event is worth your money, time, and energy not only required of you but of your team.

Ask yourself the following questions:

Why are you holding it?
What do you hope to achieve?
How will this make your team stronger?
Corporate  clients often create an event for their attendeds so that they will be educated, enlightened, engaged, and energized.

Burnout is prevalent among the majority of workers with 68% reporting feeling burnout at work. - CareerBuilder.com.

It is not uncommon for companies to plan weekend retreats for their team members.

Take for example, Oprah, who hosted a 3-day party in Barcelona, in celebration of her 55th birthday followed by a 10-day Mediterranean crusie her employees and their families where they traveled to Italy, Turkey and Greece. The trip was valued at $5,4000 per person!

Perhaps, not every company can do it as BIG as Oprah…but there are still plenty of activities you can do with your team.

“There is no “i” in TEAMWORK.”-unknown

Why not go on a mini yoga retreat, and come back refreshed? Why not take advantage of Hawaii’s beautful hikes and provide a nice picnic lunch and icebreakers at the top?

Companies are seeing the added benefit of team building and mini events throughout the year…they can be a simple way to say “thanks, I appreciate your contribution to our company” and they can also address problems, and build tthe teams comraderie and morale.

Visit this site, print out these quotes and check out the statistics. Cut the quotes in strips and put them in a jar, have every employee pick one out of a jar at the beginining of the work day.

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