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The Lord Thompson Manor works with countless Brides with unique and elegant tastes, and Wedding after Wedding, we see Bridesmaids in unique and elegant dresses.  One growing trend we have noticed is the proliferation of short Bridesmaid dresses, with hems near or even above the knee.

Brides who choose short Bridesmaid dresses generally have a number of reasons for doing so.  First, short dresses can integrate both formality and modern fashion; when Bridesmaids are in short dresses, it’s obvious that the Bride makes up her own mind about tradition and style.  Secondly, short dresses are a practical choice for fun-loving Bridesmaids who are likely to spend a good amount of time on the dance floor.

Bridesmaids tend to love shorter Wedding Attendant dresses because these garments can more easily be worn again.  If a former Bridesmaid is going out dancing with her friends, or perhaps on a date, she is more likely to choose a fun, beautiful dress with a knee-length or shorter hem than one that falls to the floor.

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For every Bride and Groom the Lord Thompson Manor works with, we generally serve fifty to two hundred and fifty or more guests.  It comes as no surprise that we’ve picked up on the “do’s and don’ts” of Wedding guest etiquette, so we’ve put together the following list of guidelines for those who would like a refresher before their loved ones’ Big Day.

Always RSVP within the requested timeline.  If you accept an invitation, you ought to bring a gift or send one in advance—but don’t feel obligated to spend more than you are comfortable with.  The gift ought to be something for both the Bride and Groom.

Observe punctuality.  If you arrive early, remember that Wedding Photographers often take pictures before the guests arrive, so try to contain your curiosity and keep out of pre-arranged photographs.  If you arrive late, try to call as little attention to yourself as possible as you quickly sneak to a seat from the outside aisles.

Take general responsibility for yourself and, if they have been invited, your children.  Unless the Bride and Groom have specifically stated otherwise, Wedding guests generally arrange and pay for their own transportation and accommodations.

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Wedding Dress Ideas, a Few Handy Pointers

 Lord Thompson Manor Wedding Dress Ideas Author Marianne E. Arnesson.

Wedding Dress Ideas

Searching for ideas for the ideal wedding dress gives you numerous options. Whether it’s a modest wedding dress, a celtic wedding dress, a gothic wedding dress, a colored wedding dress, the selection is just about endless. You could likewise design your own wedding dress.

But even as there are myriad ideas for wedding dresses there are a lot of possible pitfalls.

Whilst looking at wedding dresses there are a couple of things you ought consider.

1. Examine out a few dress styles on your own first of all. yes you heard right, do not take anyone with you. No, not your mother or your lifelong best friend. Everybody to some degree has a preconception of what their preferred wedding gown would be. This approximation is made as a result of previous experiences, emotions etc. Their idea of their wedding dress may have no resemblance to yours.

Get going exploring for wedding dresses on your own just to get an idea and narrow down your alternatives a little. And then when you’ve shaped your own opinion on the types of wedding dress that appeals to you, by all means take your friends and mother with you. But working with a large party of friends at the very outset of your search is calling for for trouble. Get the groundwork done first.

2. Pay attention to advice offered by the retailers. Their experience has taught them many things. They’ll recognise which wedding dresses are infamous for wrinkling, which wedding dresses suit which types of figures.

3. The critical advice that these pros can offer will not be confined to wedding dresses alone. They can counsel you on the types of underwear that is the most appropriate for each style of figure and dress. Try out several styles of bra, take your time, you don’t want to have any regrets. These folks will also be able to assist you with picking out complimentary shoe styles.

4.. If you are thinking of a wedding dress in a shade that is not white or cream deliberate on the following.

Blonde and fair haired brides generally have blueish/grey eyes and find that blue colored wedding dresses and lilac colored wedding dresses work particularly well.

Very pale skinned brides should avoid the following colored wedding dresses, very pale whites or light greens.

Peach colored wedding dresses, cappuccino colored wedding dresses, champagne colored wedding dresses work very well for brides with olive to dark skin, these colors also work well for brunettes and redheads.

6. Whilst searching ideas for your wedding veil weigh up the following ideas.

A wedding veil should always complement the wedding dress not compete with it. Wedding veils can be vary from those below the shoulder, to waist level to full length veils to train to the awesome ( and sometimes problematic ) cathedral wedding veils.

The elongated, dreamy floaty veils are broadly speaking made from a silk tulle and favor a bias cut or a columnar style wedding dress. Shorter veils become the full skirted ballerina style wedding dress, which also happens to become the taller bride.

You want also to consider of how well your veil will suit your wedding hairstyle or updo. In that respect are practicalities to be thought of such as how it will be attached and how the underpinning will be hidden.

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The wedding ceremony itself is the highlight of the wedding day, and among the most important moments of the bride and groom’s lives.  That said, we at the Lord Thompson Manor can’t help but notice that they breeze by, often taking up less than an hour, while the reception takes up considerably more time.  We find that wedding guests are the most active and have the most fun when the reception has the perfect atmosphere, and when we want to create the ideal ambiance, we use lighting.

We apply the same little tricks of the advertising and theatrical trades to each wedding reception’s unique needs.  The proper amounts of complementary colors can not only illuminate tables, centerpieces and cakes that were all so carefully crafted and chosen, but make them look better.  Incidentally, the same is true for the guests! 

Proper lighting can also help focus the guests’ attention. We accent our elegant tables during dinner to keep our guests looking at each other and interacting.  The centerpieces are lit to show the bride and groom’s tastes at best advantage.  Afterwards, the lighting in the dining rooms dims, as the coffee and desert tables grow more apparent.  Then, of course, we focus light on the dance floor.

Lighting can both reflect and stimulate the overall mood of the reception.  When dinner is over, the lights brighten up to bring energy to the dance floor and encourage guests to follow suit.  Lighting can even complement the songs the band or DJ is playing.  Then, as time goes by and guests grow tired, the lighting softens and relaxes with them.

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 Career risk management

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Last month’s column focused on the need for those just entering our profession to plan ahead, particularly in regard to their education and the certifications they pursue.

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This month, I want to discuss an equally important topic, one aimed at those of us with a few more years of experience behind us. While it may appear that thinking about where our career is headed is simply for college seniors and freshly minted MBAs, firsthand experience has taught many of us the opposite: The unforeseen can happen at any point in our careers.

Just as we spend time at our respective organizations managing risk–trying to assess and plan for random circumstances and losses–I believe we also must do the same for our own careers, both in how we choose to spend our time and the things we do now to help secure our professional future.

One of the best ways I know to help prepare for unexpected career curves is to invest time in maintaining a professional network. Personally, I am often disappointed when people only contact me when they’re looking for a job or want a reference. One of the first things I think to myself is, “Oh, so now you’re calling me–because you want something from me.” The gap in contact makes it more difficult for me to provide the kind of help they require; it also makes me less likely to go out of my way for them.

Spending time cultivating our professional network is a vital career investment. And it usually doesn’t take too much effort: a few phone calls every so often, an invitation to lunch now and then. Frankly, attending IMA chapter meetings provides a great way to keep connected to your professional colleagues because you get the opportunity to see the same people month after month. Keeping those relationships fresh and up-to-date makes it much easier when a situation arises where you need to activate your network and ask for career assistance.

There’s another aspect of our professional life that should also stay fresh and up-to-date: our job skills. The accounting and finance fields are continually in flux, and so is the technology that supports them. Staying current with the latest trends in management, information systems, and the more technical aspects of our profession helps to ensure that we can adapt when our jobs–or even just job descriptions–change.

The most obvious way to gain this knowledge is through continuing education courses, like the kind required to keep a Certified Management Accountant (CMA[R]) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification in good standing. Don’t think you can rest on your laurels because you once earned these certifications but have now let them lapse. When I interview people who say they’re certified, I always look them up to make sure they maintain active status. Formal professional development courses aren’t the only way to keep abreast of the profession: Business books and periodicals (like the kind you’re reading now) also offer an excellent means to stay informed about industry trends.

Of course no one can predict the future, and that’s especially true in today’s climate of economic change. But working actively at risk management for our own careers can help shore up the investment we’ve made in our professional lives.

I welcome your comments at fschea@imanet.org.

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BY FREDERICK E. SCHEA, CMA, CFM, CPA

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 Progressive Goal Setting Techniques

Author John Sprague

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Goal Setting is a necessary component of building wealth in whatever direction we are pointed. If you don’t first have a well defined goal in life, you shouldn’t hope to be very successful at anything you do. This concept can be in reference to whatever path you choose to be part of. May it be school, work or in family life, the requirement is similar. No direction will cause us to be off course and with no landing in sight.

Plan ahead wisely and understand the consequences of taking each day as it comes. You can and should help to determine where you will be five years from now or even ten or twenty years forward. Like in the game of chess, the moves you make now will help to determine who the winner will be later. Don’t get to far off track or you won’t have much to show at the end of the speedway.

After you have locked in your goals, set the plan in place, then it will require a strong determined spirit to produce a favorable end result. You can accomplish this by not quitting prematurely and smoothing out all the roadblocks that you inevitably will encounter along the way. No path is completely free of gravel and rocks. You’ll need to make intelligent decisions along the way, no question about that. In the end, you will do just fine.
“A person without a goal is like a ship without a rudder”- Dennis Waitley

“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high” – Henry David Thoreau

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” – C. S. Lewis

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Larry Elder

Turn your dreams into a goal setting reality and not just wishful thinking. Make your long term plans now and stick to them until there is a positive outcome. It is just a matter of patience, using an intelligent strategy developed by your own special talents and coupled with your desire for achievement of those goals.

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 Goal Setting and Definition – An Introduction to Lifestyle Design

By Ceena Giselle

Goal Setting is pointless. That is what the people you don’t want to be, tells everyone. The successful people on the other hand, live and die by it and that is already enough reason to believe that it works. I like to call this goal recalibration and I will tell you why in a second.

This stage is the single most important stage in lifestyle design because without this stage, you will never ever start! I define lifestyle design like what you probably think it is. It’s simply designing your lifestyle to the way you want it to be. No fancy explanations, just simple and easy to understand. Know what you really want and more importantly, don’t be influenced by others that want to make that decision for you. This is the foundation of lifestyle design.

Now I want to tell you why I call this recalibration. To calibrate means to correlate the readings with those of a standard. Everyone, you included, already have many goals in mind and those goals are usually “calibrated” to the standards of who you know, what you see and how they want you to be. I want you to re-calibrate your goals to the standards of the “uncommon” people. The successful one’s, the people you envy the most. Recalibrate your goals so that you’d know what is important to you and only you. Do it like how they do it. Find someone you know and look up to and observe them, see what makes them successful at what they do!

So how do you do it? It’s pretty simple actually. Here’s something you can follow right now.

* Close your eyes now and clear your thoughts. Brainstorm personal goals and write them down immediately.
* Impose a deadline. This is important so I suggest you pick 6 months for now. You can change this later on for other goals. Don’t make it too long though because you will lose steam. Remember you crammed before an exam then you still got those high grades? That’s what you want.
* Write your Long Term Goals. These should be finished within the deadline of 6 months. Don’t be worried about how hard they are and don’t over think them. Just keep a positive mindset and stop thinking of conquering the world.
* List your Short Term Goals. Think of what you could do now to start your long term goals.
* Lastly, list down your Medium Term Goals. Without this, you sometimes lose steam and lose track of your goals. Here’s an example. Your long term goal is to be able to fit in that dress of your that your mom gave you last Christmas. So you state that your short term goal is to enroll in the gym and start training to lose weight. Your medium term goal is to lose at least 30 pounds in 3 months. This is like a checkpoint or a big stepping stone towards the milestone. Remember to reward yourself when you finish a medium term goal. This will keep you motivated and positive throughout.

Eventually, when you get the hang of it, you will learn about tracking your progress which is equally important to see where you are at and what you are doing wrong. Do not be afraid to fail, keep working towards your goal and never give up.

In conclusion, simply state your goals and divide them to Short, Medium and Long Term Goals. Write them down and be dedicated to it. Without your whole hearted dedication, you will notice that will stray away from what you need to do and start doing time wasting activities.

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 10 Keys To Personal Goal Setting

By: Steven Gillman

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Does personal goal setting work? Many people want things, situations or accomplishments, call these goals, and then are disappointed when they don’t get them. Call desires goals if you want, but just naming your desires sure isn’t effective goal setting. Good goals have some or all of the following:

1. They are specific. “I want to be healthy” is too general. “I want to lose weight and walk three times a week,” is better.

2. They are measurable. How many pounds do you want to lose? How much money do you want to make? How will you know if your relationship is better?

3. They are in writing. There is power in writing down your goals. It makes them more real, and this influences your subconscious mind, especially if you review the goals regularly.

4. They are realistic. Sorry, but even if it is possible that you could become an astronaut, if you’re already 55, you better try for becoming a pilot for now. Unrealistic goals set you up for failure.

5. They have deadlines. You’ll have a new job by when? Setting dates really helps your progress.

6. They become plans. Making a goal into specific steps makes it much more likely. It isn’t overwhelming to take one step at a time.

7. They are motivated. Having the goal for the right reasons is a good start. You should also learn how to re-motivate yourself, and reward yourself when you make progress.

8. They consider personal factors. Can you really get what you want if you feel like you don’t deserve it? Maybe, but good goal setting takes into account personal changes that are necessary or useful.

9. They are followed by action. One of the keys to motivation and to getting where you want to be is to start with any movement towards the goal. Action begets action. Start slow if you must, but start.

10. They are not written in stone. Goals naturally evolve. Why would you become a doctor once you learned that you liked doing lab work better?

The last one is a tough one. An excuse and a change of course are not the same thing, but to know the difference means you need a certain level of self-awareness. Develop that, apply the keys to personal goal setting above, and you’ll get to where you want to be.

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 Why Goal Setting Has Not Worked For You

By: Koz Huseyin
Setting goals is a great way to achieving them! We find only a few percentage of people ever goal set. I am going to make a bold statement that everyone sets goals. However, there are many reasons why goal setting just is not working for you.

Our desires are a key to a successful outcome with our goals. However, the desires that we have can be summarized into a couple of types. These different types of desire can make or break your goal setting efforts.

Often we will chase symbols. We see that nice car, that nice house and we just want it. Perhaps it is to be better than the Jones or you just feel you got to achieve that goal you set yourself.

Achieving any goal is down to the right kind of desire. With the right kind of desire, the seeds come with the fertilizer, and the plant (your set goal) can grow. But, it needs the water. Without water the goal that you have set will never appear.

Conscious desire is that seeking symbols. It is as a child wanting something so bad, and when you finally received it, you wanted something else! This can be thought of as water that is polluted. Often these kinds of desires make goal achievement not possible. The universe, higher power, God, etc always knows your deepest needs and wants, and will only manifest those things which are necessary for your growth.

So, what is the best kind of desire to have, whether you want to achieve financial success, business success, or even a happy life? The desires which come from deep within, those kinds of goals we place on instinct. We just don’t know why we are having that desire. Kind of like the desire is when you have fallen in love with someone. You just have that feeling.

These subconscious desires are great desires to have. When you find them realize that you have gold in your hands. You have a desire which comes from a higher power, God, angels or whatever you want to label that higher power. These kind of desires always come with the necessary resources for there attainment.

When you goal set, these kind of desires can tell you whether you will achieve them or not. Now I am not saying that no conscious desire manifests, they do manifest. Though a simple look at every lottery winner and you will find that even though they attained the conscious desire, it soon vanished as fast as it came in. Often leaving the people one step behind.

You can start living your dreams when you understand the process of goal setting in the right way. Anything you truly desire can come to fruition. All it requires is taking action, as soon as you feel the impulse of that subconscious desire.

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By Greg Dempsey

Most people find the act of a goal setting activity almost impossible because they set goals that are way too large and become disheartened before they ever come close to reaching them. A goal setting activity that works is one that is broken down until it represents a single event. It is the progressive, sequential accumulation of single events that ensure the final desired end result.

For example, if your goal setting activity is to save $10,000 this year and you are paid fortnightly, you should have 26 single event goals, each written progressively to allow for changed circumstances.

Your goal setting activity should be what I call SMARTIES! SMARTIES is an acronym for the following:

SPECIFIC
Be absolutely specific when producing a goal setting activity and use the present tense.

MEASURABLE
You need to be able to monitor your progress so you can measure your success.

ATTAINABLE
You also need to be able to conceive your goal to attain it.

REALISTIC
Obviously goals need to be within the grounds of logic and circumstance.

TANGIBLE
Your goal needs to be something that is real or physical, that you can see and/or touch.

INSPIRATIONAL
If your goals don’t inspire you it’s unrealistic to expect that you’re going to be driven to achieve them.

EMOTIONAL
The more emotionally involved you become with your goal the quicker it will manifest into your life.

During your goal setting activity, as well as writing down your goals, I recommend you write down every possible benefit you will realize as a result of achieving your goal and its impact on all areas of your life.

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