The Best Presents | San Francisco Wedding and Party Music
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Are you planning wedding or party music? One of the best presents you can give yourself is TIME.
Enough TIME to gather all your best options, think them through, and make your plan.
So here’s a tip: Begin planning as early as you can. BEFORE you feel ready to start. Don’t wait until you feel ready. You’ll NEVER feel ready.
Actually, this is good advice for planning practically anything. The best time to begin is NOW, to give yourself plenty of time to improve as you progress.
For example, say you’re planning to give a friend a present. It’s something we always do, all the time.
The best presents take time. Time for imagining, planning, assembling, and delivering.
We’re always giving presents. At holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and all kinds of special celebrations. Right?
What can make your best presents precious? What can possibly be more precious than your time?
See what I’m driving at? It’s about TIME.
Time lost is gone forever. Same with dear friends and with some golden opportunities. TIME is the most valuable thing we have.
Even the best material stuff is usually replaceable, no matter how much value some people assign to it. No matter how much merchants hype their annual selling frenzy. But you can control your buying frenzy, right?
So to my way of thinking, the best, most precious and cherished present you can give isn’t the thing, itself, but the time you invest in preparing it. Not just at the traditional holiday seasons. It’s always the season to give a present.
Occasionally the Magnolia Jazz Band donates our time to entertain at benefit events. Don’t you do likewise? Don’t we all? Let me urge you to pause now and consider how you might give your time to make your best gifts even more precious.
Skip the flat-screen TV, the new shoes, or the iPad for now, and instead share some time — a few hours or days or weeks of deep sincere conversations, help, excitement, and companionship. Skip the baggage and love your friends.
Here’s an example. My wife, Bunch, and I stay pretty busy most of the time. In between fits of hard work, we relax pretty hard. Helps us stay as sane as we are. Hmmmm…
Every so often we give each other a day off together. This one is our annual “company party”. It usually begins with a little casual touring, exploring the San Francisco Bay Area. Next an early dinner at a sentimental favorite restaurant.
Finally, something special. Here we are inside the War Memorial Opera House, recently attending the SF Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”. Music! Dancing! What a spectacle! And what a wonderful time together! These are the best days.
Bunch and I appreciate the time we give each other, and you might find our example satisfying for yourself, as well. Give yourself TIME.
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Meanwhile, the Magnolia Jazz Band entertains at weddings and parties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are ever nearby, you’ll love catching us in action, seeing and hearing us create a great mood.
How can I help you? Call 408-245-9120 or use Robbie@MagnoliaJazz.com. Planning a celebration? Ask about our availability.
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