Do you ever feel like work is taking over your life? Does the hectic schedule, the endless email correspondence, and the barrage of details that come standard with the job, ever stress you out? This post gives you 10 tips that take less than 5 minutes, but can really bring a sense of balance into your life.
5 Tips to be a More Positive Event Professional in 2016
In a world that seems to be full of drama, stress, and negative thoughts and actions, it is an ever-increasing challenge to stay positive. While I hope we all want to be positive people, it is sometimes hard not to get sucked into the habit of complaining and negativity. Here are some ways that you can help avoid feeding off of the endorphins and excitement that stress creates.
Is Your Family Part of Your Event Professional Life?
As you know, being an #eventprof is a wonderful adventure! There are times, though, where the hours become long and you are extremely busy. Even for an experienced planner, those long hours away can be difficult for both you and your family. Having a plan and strategies to handle the struggles that come along with traveling and long hours is important in order to maintain happy relationships with your family and friends.
6 Things Marathon Training Can Teach You About Your Events Career
Training to run a marathon is a tremendous undertaking. The commitment and time it takes to train and prepare for the race, takes effort and passion. The process is not so different from your career in the events industry. Here are 6 new tools I have gained that can help you in both your events career and (if you’re up for it) some distance running!
5 Signs Event Planning is Not Your Cup of Tea
If you are considering a career as an event planner, it’s important that you go into it whole heartedly, with creativity, passion and an understanding that not every single detail you plan will go over smoothly. Event Planners have great charisma, creative ideas, are usually overly organized, and know when it comes time for the […]
Are you an Event Planner or an Event Doer?
Event Planners are busy people. Every event has so many moving parts that it is easy for Event Planning to turn into Event Doing. But the danger with all of this doing is that we can lose sight of why we are hosting the event in the first place and what success really means. Planning […]
Planning a Fashion Show – Crawl Before You Catwalk
Fashion shows are different to other events in several ways; they are fast-paced live productions that usually last no more than 18 minutes and there are many creative people (read egos) involved in the production which requires a delicate touch. Fashion shows can take months of planning (depending on the venue, the designer and other […]