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Members Newsletter July 2010
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friendsfirst's 12th Members Newsletter
Creating Amazing Relationships July, 2010 - Issue 12
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| Dear Katharine, |
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Welcome to our 12th Newsletter, dedicated to our friendsfirst members (past and present).
If you are a current member there's some useful membership tips and new services you may well be interested in, and if you are a previous member, we hope you'll still benefit from the articles herein,
With best wishes,
Katharine
Katharine Gray
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Summer holiday
Although for many people, the summer holidays are about to begin, a lucky group have already had theirs. Our fifth holiday took place at St. Rhadagunds from 26th June to 3rd July and once again by all accounts it was the best holiday ever. The holiday was exceptionally well led by a lovely lady called
 Angela who was not only excellent at getting people together and organising fun things for those who wanted to do them, but also led the holiday spiritually, creating just the right atmosphere for people to share their faith journey and be strengthened by each other.
One man said to us that he'd been going to St. Rhadagunds for some time now but this holiday stuck out as being the best and he'll definitely be going back.
Once again the holiday had a good mix of men and women and was blessed with good weather - always a bonus.
Next year there will be two holidays - the first on 25th June - 2nd July and the second on 3rd - 10th September. So if you missed this one and want to plan ahead - I know some places are already booked! then put these dates in your diary - and we'll email you more details in due course (or you can find them on our website). Our thanks to Andrew and his team for providing such a great holiday for us.
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Membership information - for current members
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New email service
We are pleased to be able to offer a new service for members that have an email address. If you would like to have a totally personal friends1st email address we can now provide this for you. This means that if you'd rather not put your personal email address onto your profile, but would like other members to correspond with you by email, you can do so using a friends1st address. For example John Smith has an email of johnsmith@aol.com. We can now give John an email as follows John1234@friends1st.co.uk. All emails sent to this address will be rerouted directly to John's aol email address. This service is available for a one off £10 fee and can be set up immediately. Please do let us know if this would be of interest to you.
Profile distribution
Quite a few members ring us to find out why someone they've contacted hasn't received their profile. If you've been wondering the same, then here's why. All members profiles are sent out to other members every month, but members actually receive them on different months depending on the level of membership they are on. To illustrate this we'll use an example of a couple of members:
Sarah is a Platinum member (she gets profiles every month) and John is a Bronze member (who receives them in March and September). Sarah joins us in April 2010 and in May receives John's profile. John however gets his next mailing from us in September and will receive Sarah's profile then. So when Sarah contacts John having received his profile in May, John won't yet have had her profile.
I hope this helps explain why sometimes someone won't have had your profile when you contact them - although they will eventually receive it. It is part of the reason why each member gets a copy of their own profile and why we encourage you to send your profile to anyone you are contacting just in case they haven't had it already.
Location, location, location
Many members tell us they don't contact people if they live far away from them. However our statistics show that most of the couples who've got married through us don't actually live that close to each other when they first get in contact. And this isn't just friendsfirst members. Recently one of our female members (interestingly in her 70s) rang to say she was moving from Somerset to Ireland having met someone from another agency. It's amazing what happens when you fall in love - so don't restrict yourself to just local people if it's love you are looking for.
Enhanced profiles
Our enhanced profile service is becoming more and more popular. Someone described it to me as beneficial because "you are who you are only in the context of a relationship with someone else". It's easy to illustrate the essence of yourself by talking to someone else - which of course is what we offer with the enhanced profile. If you'd like a makeover of your profile using this service, please do get in touch.
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Food for thought
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If you believe you can, or if you believe you can't, you are probably right
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Creating Amazing Relationships
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We found this useful article on the net. It's by Life Coach Victoria Vetere, PhD, HC and it's more food for thought which I hope you'll find useful.
"The topic of "relationships" is indeed a popular one, because, after all, life is all relationships! We exist in a world where enjoying even a cup of coffee requires the cooperation and coordination of a myriad of relationships. Whether these are personal or professional, intimate or casual, it serves each and every one of us to truly understand how relationships really work. And it especially serves us to commit to enhancing all of our relationships. If nations did this, war would cease. If individuals did so, love and joy would replace ever so much drama.
So how do relationships really work? It helps to begin with one important fact. The common denominator in all of your relationships is you. Thus any patterns are obviously being created by your repeating choices, hopefully good ones. To be even more accurate, you are actually creating all of your relationships. Without going too deeply into quantum science, suffice it to say that each of us is vibrationally attracting everything we experience. Much of this occurs unconsciously and that is where the trouble starts!"
To read the rest of this article click here.
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I trust you've found something useful in this newsletter. If you are interested in improving your profile and would be interested in an 'enhanced' profile, or would like to set up a personal friends1st email address then do give us a ring and we'll be delighted to assist you in this way.
We look forward to speaking to you soon,
With best wishes
Katharine
Katharine Gray
friendsfirst Director
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