I’m sitting here, tucked in comfortable window seat, with an open middle seat next to me (a little odd for me as I usually enjoy the aisle) reflecting on not only the past day, but the past few months. Yesterday morning I flew to Chicago from LA, and today I’m returning back to the sweltering heat of the southland. At the current moment I would define my current feelings as ‘on-fire’ about what I do for a living and whom I do it with. I got to come to Chicago to do a site visit for a conference that our company will be producing in 2010 at the Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. And in just a few weekends we will be producing the National Prostate Cancer Conference—a conference for the patients.
I’m beginning to really get use to corporate travel (and might even be becoming a hotel wh*re along the way) but I’m ok with that. As I’m sitting here (with my seatbelt fastened of course), I’m feeling truly blessed for the opportunities I have been given in the past year with BDI Events. I’ve been to Denver, San Diego, Monterrey/Pacific Grove, Washington DC, and now Chicago in less than a year. I will not lie that when I first started as a Conference Director, I thought—am I going to get bored with this? To my surprise, I’ve really grown to love it, and have found areas that get me excited and really meant for me; one of those being the whole logistical angle of how conferences are setup.
For those of you that think what we do is ‘cake’’—it most certainly is not and causes headaches for most people, which is why they hire us. The gift of a good event producer is that they don’t get stressed and overwhelmed. Diagrams, meeting spaces, budgets, audio visual components, successful marketing, keynote speakers, musicians, travel, registrations, for 600 to 1000 people all take EXTREME organization and anal retentiveness. This is what I love, and this is what I’ve always said I do best.
The client that we met with is a New Thought spiritual organization. They are wonderful people to work with, and I’m very excited about the team that is on board for their 2010 conference in downtown Chicago. I’m excited to begin working on their budget to assist them in figuring out ways to make money, create an intense marketing plan to meet the registration goals, and to create an experience for their attendees in which they will walk away satisfied for coming to their annual summer conference.
So as I continue to sit here—I’m feeling energized about what I’m doing and where I’m currently at. I love that I can say that I love what I do AND where I do it. Some people can only say the earlier rather than the later. I’ve said this on multiple occasions and will say it again that I really do have the best 3 bosses around. I think this is only just the beginning with myself and BDI and I cannot wait to see what is in store for me next, and where the company grows in the upcoming years. We may be small—but we know what were doing…and we’re on our way…
A strong practice of New Thought followers is to set ‘intentions.’ I’ve always been one for ‘putting it out there,’ and as I reflect on what I’ve done, it seems to be working. I like to call these ‘goals’ rather than intentions though. Recently I set the goal to bring in or assist in bringing in three new clients for our company in the next year. Tomorrow we have a meeting that I setup with someone about a festival for us to work on—and I think we’re going to sign on with them. One down…two to go.
Happy. Energized, Excited. Blessed. This is where I’m at in my career at age 22.
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