What are you Giving Away this Holiday?

The dark is coming to light within Boomer Diva Nation this holiday season. The women who make up this wonderful online community of baby boomer women have started the first annual D.A.R.K. campaign. D.A.R.K. stands for Doing Acts of Random Kindness. We thought it would be a great idea to extend kind gestures beyond our online community by reaching out to others in our own individual cities and towns.

So far, the DARK Campaign has included donations to daycare providers and a homeless ministry as well as providing free business services to customers. Member Heidi Richards spent an entire day calling all of her customers, clients and friends just to say hello and thank them for their business. Member Pam Archer purchased items for a complete stranger in a Dollar Store, calling it a “blessed experience!”

We are not doing the random acts of kindness for publicity sake.  We are, instead, giving back because we know the blessing is always in the giving.

So what are you giving away this holiday season?

“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Ettiene De Grellet

Meet Featured Diva Pam Archer

What goals did you set for 2010?

“To grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Are you carrying over any New Years Resolutions from 2009 into 2010?

I will continue the habit of exercise that I have had for 35 years.

Do you have any unfinished business carried over from 2009? If so, what is it and how do you plan to handle it? If not, what advice do you give to others when it comes to completing tasks?

No, I do not. Being a very goal-oriented person, I tend to overload myself, thinking I can do it all. One day, I sat down and calculated the hours it would take me to accomplish everything I had committed to, to completion. That’s when I decided it was time to take stock of what was truly important in my life. I worked long hours until I completed my jobs, and I refused to take on more during that time. It was very liberating!

If you have tasks that you don’t follow through with and complete, I recommend that you do as I did, and do a written list of what you have that needs to be done. Prioritize the list according to importance and due dates. Make a time line for finishing those things, and then just do it!

All three of my daughters had serious health issues in 2009. My family takes priority over business. In 2009 I reviewed my priorities for my businesses. I will not be as involved in social media as I was in 2009. I found that it stole hours of time that I should have applied to actually growing my business and tending to those who really needed me.

There will be those who will tell you that unless you are in every social networking group there is on-line, and if you aren’t doing webinars, podcasts, and blogging your fingers off, that you are going to be left in the dust on Earth, while everyone else is swinging on a star to Mars. Don’t jump onto that hamster wheel that gets faster with every step, until you are running out of control. Choose a couple of things and do those well, and when you have extra time. Don’t make them a focus of your day.

When someone does business with you what are some things you hope they take away from the experience?

I want each of my clients to feel like they are the only customer I have. They will know that their wedding or event, regardless of its size, is going to be spectacular, and that I have been a good steward of their money, by giving them more than they imagined.

Where can we connect with you? Website(s)? Blog(s) email address

Website: www.pamelaseventdesign.com
Blog: http://idoweddings.wordpress.com
E-mail: afcpam@mindspring.com or pam@pamelaseventdesign.com