Today's Blog is a recap of a recent conversation I had with a Colleague in the Wedding Industry. I am creating it as a Blog Entry in order to document my progress throughout my career change. Changing Careers is a huge thing to do. It has massive implications. It really is no different from losing a job and needing to find another. No matter if you are in need of the answers because you are broke with no income at all or just because you want to make the change, the process is and will always be the same. The only way to learn, DO, accomplish or succeed at anything is to allow the Law of Attraction to pull your dream out of the fantasy land and into reality. The first ingredient is Love. It is always Love.
So my Dream, for those out there who do not know it, is to become a Professional Wedding and Event Planner. I want Planning to be my source of income and fullfill my business goals. I have been thinking about this for a career for many years now. The first time I admitted it out loud was last summer and since then I have been working to create a viable Professional Image and obtain Projects, Training, Instruction, and Income with and from it. Mostly feeling clueless about it I began to take the steps I deemed necessary to initiate some experience and I did collaborate with people on some small projects. Since February however, my ideas and my efforts have mostly been on hold while I have been busy managing my daycare and my daughter's Acting Career goals. But recently I see that if I really Love something, I should always make steps toward it, even if they are very small. My life, and my energy needs to reflect the things I truly care about doing. There are three ways I would like to make a living and I plan to do all three simultaneously. 1. Event Planning 2. Managing a Youth Actor (mostly a labor of love) and 3. Published Writing.
After reviewing some new ideas and meditating over them, I agree with my colleague, who's advice was to not look at jumping in with 2 feet and thinking Wedding Jobs would just come to me, but rather to be agressive about learning all I can about the Business of Creating, Managing and Running such events. So here are some great steps we discussed:
1. Be an apprectice (assistant). I admit, I am a fan of many people in the Wedding Business. I have favorites all over the place! I love Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine. She is from Rhode Island! I adore David Tutera, and follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Tv of course! I listen carefully when these people talk and when they share about how they got where they are. I want to follow in their footsteps. It will be important for me to find someone I can learn from here locally. So many amazing weddings happen in Rhode Island every year. People travel from other places to be married at Mansions in Newport. It is important to reach out and meet the people who plan and execute the functions. These are the people I need to be learning from.
2. Be Bold. Making contact with Business Professionals is a key to being remembered. I always try to make a good and honest impression when I meet new people. I like to let them see my enthusiasm for life and my capacity for hard work. It would be normal for any person to feel some level of intimidation or possibly inferiority which may keep them on the sidelines too long. I may be slipping into this category but I vow to correct it now. The Law of Attraction will work if I let it and all the right people, places and situations will be drawn to me and the path will be opened. I just need to put my thoughts and Love for it into the right perspective.
3.Start Small, Go Slowly. The main attribute of the Best Planners (of Weddings) is that they come with experience. You cannot buy experience or even count on gaining it, it needs to come in its own time. By being willing to work with others and learn from them, in time I will come to have the same kind of experience in the field of Wedding and Event Planning that I do in the field of Childcare or Subsidized Housing (I have extensive training and experience working through HUD).
4. Be a Sponge. I had forgotten how I learned all the things I now know how to do so well! from the time I was ten until now I have been caring for children. It stared at home being the oldest sibling of 4, then a daycare job after school, some babysitting jobs on weekends. It continued to Nanny Positions, Home daycare assistant to Lead Teacher to Running my own Childcare from Home. I always learned from others around me and I was always in a place where my help was needed and so I grew and gained momentum. It is not easy to start as the new girl, but I have done it before and I can do it now.
5. Never Ever give up. This I got from Donald Trump, I have to admit. Many others of course have said it, but recently I heard him say it to LaToya Jackson on Celebrity Apprentice and it really resonated with me. So this is a new motto for me. I will never ever give up on my dreams!
I want to Thank my friend Bob from RDP Photography for the good sound business advice. It really put things into perspective for me. Now without further "talk" on the subject...it's time to go "Do".
~Namaste
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