In choosing a gift for mom, try to find things that are useful to her either at her work or at her mommy job at home. If possible try to personalize the gift items even in a very simple way. You must have a little research on your own about your mom’s favorites and personal details.

Try to pick items that are in style and at the same time affordable. But if you are not that particular about the price, you can easily find great items for mom. There are shops in retail locations and online that specializes in creating great mothers day gift ideas at wide range of prices. You must understand that present for moms are carefully and specially made for mom which means you must order for it in advance. But the convenience of this is that you will not have to rush to the mall in finding a gift for mom and end up getting mom a very generic gift which cannot come up to the worth of your mom’s love for you.

Read through different mothers day gift ideas for mom. Remember, do not just let the gift say the message itself to your mom. Try to make creative presentations together with the gift so that mom will truly feel that you have prepared enough for her.

For new mothers, or mother who just gave birth, it is a good idea to give her newborn baby’s clothes. But do not just shop for it and hand it over to her. It is best if you look for baby’s clothes that are creatively made for moms. A perfect example of it is the Cupcake Body Suit where it is packed in a box of 2, 4, and 6. Make sure that the body suit included in this clothing set is made of 100% cotton to suit baby’s sensitive skin.

It is also nice to treasure memories of you and mom through picture frame sets. It has various designs and colors that you may choose from. The picture frame set is hung against the wall. It is sweet if you surprise mom by designing one side of your wall using all of the varieties of picture frame sets that you may find. You can also get the old pictures that you may see and have them recopied using the modern photo editing technologies. You may find these services in photo shops in retail locations. And you can get your edited photos in just an hour. Also, by recopying and editing the photos, you can save the old photos and still have mom see it frequently as you hang it against the wall.

Also for new moms, you can give them the stylish and functional baby slings. Choose those that have elegant and simple designs like embroideries. Get the baby sling that suits baby’s gender or you may go for neutral colors such as yellow and green. Baby slings are great gifts for moms with babies because it helps mom in carrying her baby and at the same time it keeps the baby safe and warm. Again, choose the material that is 100% cotton or eco-friendly.

There are 3 basic reasons we do not enjoy the present and these brain machinations keep us from enjoying the present and then potentially the future as well.

• We are living too in the past [memory]
• We are living too much in the future [dreaming of what is ahead]
• We have a fear of change

Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams,
But that magic feeling never seems to last.

And while the future’s there for anyone to change,

Don’t you know it seems

It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

[Jackson Browne; Fountain of Sorrow]

Too many of us fail to live in the present because it seems to be the nature of the human brain or mind to skip over what is happening and to dwell on the what-ifs of the past and/or the I-wills of the future.

If we could change the past as the lyrics say – would we? Would we make different choices? It’s an idea to ponder but in reality we can only change the future by changing the present choices – not actually undoing previous ones.

The past is easy to think about precisely because it already happened! We do not need to invent that reality. We replay events wondering what if we had acted differently or had not done a specific action or had done an action.

We can easily depress ourselves via this course of thinking because there is nothing we can do and we feel helpless.

Or we can think about the future and what we will do “when”

• When we have enough money
• When we are married
• When we are happy
• When we feel like doing [whatever it is]

Thinking ahead about “whens” is different than making actual plans for those “whens” or actually moving toward them.

And there are some “whens” that are too vague or too distant or too unrealistic to get us moving toward them.

Many of our “whens” are actually thoughts we use to protect ourselves from any real or imagined failures.

Which leads to the 3rd barrier – fear of change. We as humans like inertia – even if it is an inertia that keeps us stuck in an uncomfortable place. It is one of the odd conditions of being human that this happens.

So we remain rehashing the past or putting up future “whens” to keep us feeling safe rather than getting outside of our own minds and creating that change for our own futures.

You’ve heard about negotiation before, perhaps you agree that it’s needed. But how will a negotiation process that’s specific to sales enhance your strategy and help you win deals?

If there’s one thing everybody knows about sales, it’s that serious negotiation starts when you and your customer or prospect sit down together to close a deal. Right? When people hear the word ‘negotiation,’ they think, “Oh, that happens at the end of the sales process”. The best salespeople start thinking about negotiation much earlier — sometimes even before they’ve made the first contact.

Negotiation is not a destination that you reach at the end of a sale, nor is negotiation about one party winning and the other losing. Negotiation is part of each step of the sales process, not a one-time event. It begins prior to the first sales call and ends with customer recognition of the value your product or service brought to his business.

Interests, options and deal-breakers
Too often, salespeople don’t dig enough to find the customer’s real interests. They need to find out whether the client’s focus is around price, or around the terms and conditions or around something else.

In general the goal is to satisfy clients and provide them with service they consider valuable. When you negotiate from the very beginning of the sales process, you uncover the buying organization’s interests and can therefore generate more creative options. You learn the criteria on which their interests are based, and you discover deal-breakers. You explore how both parties can win. Perhaps even more
importantly, you discover if both parties can win; after all, it’s far better to lose quickly and exit the situation, thereby wasting fewer resources, than to lose slowly.

Achieving the end goal
Additionally, since the end goal is repeating customers, there’s no advantage in creating a situation where you win and your client loses. If your negotiation leaves a bad taste in your customer’s mouth, it’s less likely that they’ll come back to you for more products or services. Conversely, by negotiating in a way that allows both parties to win, you set up an environment that is conducive to a long-term
relationship.

Incorporating negotiation into the early stages of a working sales process leads to deals–and client relationships–that are more mutually beneficial.