Using Colors with Words in Greeting Cards to Convey Heartfelt Wishes When we send loved ones greeting cards, messages, and online sentiments, words have power. With the addition of color, wishes for the recipient become even more impactful. When crafting sentiments, consider color to reflect the mood and message you wish to communicate. The result is subtle, yet shows you put effort into creating greeting cards that stimulates the senses. Choosing Color: Think Tone–Words and Shades Depending on the occasion, use a color that matches the tone of the milestone. Craft your greeting cards in ..read more

With Lifetime Wishes, you can leverage the power of video to send your Mom an emotionally powerful message. Recording a Mother’s Day video allows you to take advantage of this digital format. Through video, you can communicate the most moving and sincere messages to your recipients. With Mother’s Day on the horizon, there is no person more deserving of a thoughtful video than mom. And you can easily do it with Lifetime Wishes. If you’re not feeling creative and don’t know what to record in your Mother’s Day video, here are 5 heart-moving ideas. They will surely cause your mom to happily tear u ..read more

Mother’s Day is the day in which we stop what we’re doing to join in celebration and appreciation of moms. After all, they are the people who make everything possible and they very well deserve a Mother’s Day gift. The American tradition started by Anna Jarvis in 1908. Jarvis founded the “Mother’s Day Work Clubs” to teach local women how to properly care for their children. Shortly after in 1868, Jarvis organized “Mother’s Friendship Day”. On this day, mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation. After years of collaboration with other pioneers in the ..read more

Motherhood is one of the universal experiences that unites women around the world. An unspoken bond that’s so innate to our survival as a species that many don’t even stop to consider the mind-blowing facts about motherhood. And all it offers us on earth today. We’d be nothing without the women at the helms of our families. They raise children, breathe life into people, and lay the foundation for what generations will look like years after we’re gone. With Mother’s Day approaching, we thought it appropriate to touch on some of the most incredible elements of motherhood today: Mother’s Voice ..read more

Communication can mean a variety of things to people all over the world, but what does it mean to you? One thing probably holds true: it’s the act of relaying information or expressing emotions to a living being.  As human beings, it is essential to our survival and happiness. Ed Diener and Martin Seligman proved this in the 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois. Students with the highest levels of happiness related it to “their strong ties to friends and family.” “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” – Paul J. Meyer Communication ..read more

Video has become a critical part of our everyday lives today. We could say we spend a big portion of our lives watching videos. But, how many of these actually make a difference to us? How to record a video that touches someone’s heart and communicate emotions is not as easy as it sounds. In this digital format, one can communicate faster and more sincerely, using  nonverbal, verbal, and written communication. Since the sky is the limit with video, it can make the entire production overwhelming for those that aren’t inclined to record a video, its production or technology. As well as for ..read more

We all fall in love. It’s part of being human. But, have you ever stopped to consider why we fall in love? According to Psychologist Arthur Aron at Stony Brook University, we fall in love because we all want to “expand beyond ourselves.” As part of our innate desire to communicate and connect with other humans, we fall in love because we want to be more than just ourselves; we want to be a unit. Tapping into our inner and outer synchronicity, we fall in love when our bodies align with appropriate triggers from the outside world: visual, regular olfactory, auditory and tactile cues, and so fort ..read more

Emotional intelligence (EI) is known as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions. How well we know ourselves and the way we communicate our emotions (or not) to impact on other’s people feelings will determine how emotionally intelligent we are. It’s broken down into four competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. As simple and humanly as it sounds, many of us struggle to acknowledge and develop our emotional intelligence. But improving it can have a pretty big impact on one’s life, and the way we interact with others ..read more

Yes, every single year of your childhood is critical to happiness and sustained success in life as an adult. There’s no doubt about it. However, the first five years are considered to be the most important by scientists and psychologists alike. These first five years of childhood are when one becomes the person they are going to be. It’s when children learn behaviors, boundaries, empathy, and other social skills that are important during adulthood. Studies confirm that even the first three years of one’s childhood are critical to the development of the child’s brain and brain architecture. Mor ..read more

Small businesses are pretty important to America today. Comprising 99.7% of all business that goes on in our country, the U.S. Small Business Administration estimates there are 28.8 million small businesses, employing 56.8 million people right now. As many have put it: small business is the backbone of the American economy. That’s why there’s an entire day, National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day on March 29th, dedicated to it. And we’d like to support them with making Work Life balance work. If you’re a small business owner, you know these statistics to be true. Working your hardest every da ..read more