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Creative Budget-Friendly Party Planning Tips
Huge extravaganzas, blockbuster affaires, five-star entertaining…who has the energy or disposable income these days to plan over-the-top parties anymore? And, really, it’s just not necessary if what you care about is bringing friends and family together to celebrate or mark a special occasion. As someone who has done her fair share of events for work and pleasure, my most successful endeavors come from summoning up a little creative MOJO, some DIY spirit, and keeping it simple. Pick an Un-Themed Theme Rather than pick something standard or choose the latest, popular character theme, try to brainstorm a bit about the guests of honor and the people who will be attending. Think…
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Does Raising Children Dead End Your Dreams?
Torn between doing what you love and being a good mom, let me share my experience of how I kept my dreams alive while raising my kids. Before becoming a mom, I thought I’d have to give up my personal desires but, to my surprise and delight, my children were a catalyst for my dreaming new dreams…even better dreams for my career and life goals. You see I liked what I was doing—working on marketing projects for a high tech company—but I didn’t like the structure of a 9 to 5 schedule. I worked hard to make myself a valuable employee who could work independently, make deadlines, and add…
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Looking Back I Made the Right Choices After All!
When I became a mom, I immediately felt the push-pull between making the right career choices and doing what was best for my kids. On the career side, it was a time when flexible schedules, job sharing, or work from home were concepts, just beginning to creep into the work environment…and that’s if you were lucky enough to be working for a forward-thinking enterprise. No, if you wanted to become upper management material (and I did), you had to arrive before everyone else, and leave when you looked up from your desk and saw the janitor coming down the hallway. Then there was the pull from wanting to be a…
