Setting goals can be a powerful accelerator of your business growth.  In addition to motivating us to take action, they focus our energy and effort, help us look past distractions, and enhance our determination and persistence. Well, that’s true if those goals are properly structured so they actually motivate us! Enter “SMART Goals”. The ‘S.M.A.R.T.’ […]

A survey of graduates from Yale University in 1953 (yes, that’s a LONG time ago) found that only 3% of them had written down goals for their lives. The survey team followed up with those people 20 years later and found that the 3% who wrote down goals had accumulated more wealth than the other […]

Be Thankful for the Challenges We Learn and Become Better Because of Them This is certainly a time of year that our thoughts turn to the things we’re thankful for – wonderful friends and family, good health, opportunity, etc. Gratitude is a magnificent and powerful emotion. How often are we thankful for the things that […]

Due to the natural slowdown in work with clients or prospects, this time of year provides wedding professionals with the opportunity for two wonderful activities. We can choose to either take time to relax, recover, and re-energize. Or we can take the time to work ‘on’ our businesses because we finally have the time. We […]

As wedding pros we never advance to the point where we no longer need to prioritize. It something we must keep doing whether we’re running a large conference, managing a mid-sized catering business, or running a one-person photography business. We always run out of time before we get everything that needs-to-be-done, done. Our time continues […]

Be Sure to Show Up It’s an Integrity Thing! We’ve all been there.  Honestly, the week isn’t going great.  A bunch of things came up that weren’t on the schedule which ended up taking way too much of your time.  That new couple that was so interested in working with you now keeps putting you […]

Exceptional Client Experience… Know and Provide What They Value MOST! As vendors in the wedding world we’re always busy, am I right? That ‘busy’ can often be caused by our desire to be everything to everybody. We try to do everything we can to satisfy our clients, give them an over-the-top experience. And it’s that […]

This week we announced some exciting updates we’ve made at The Abundance Group and we’re thrilled to share the news with you!  We made the announcement via a Facebook Live and are recapping all of the details here, as well as, sharing a little background about who we are and what we do!   THE […]

Be Easy to Work With… to Get More Referrals and Have More Fun! As wedding pros, we’ve chosen to work in a crazy-complicated industry, haven’t we?  Let’s take a second and think about what we are all a part of…a multi-day ‘live performance’ of a huge team of separate vendors and professionals.  We do this […]