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January 2006
Month-Long Celebrations
Week-Long Celebrations Celebration of Life Week (1-7) Book Blitz Month: January 1 - 31. Focuses attention on improving authors' relationships with the media in order to create a best selling book. Celebration of Life Month: The month of January, being the first month of the year, signifies the new year, a new beginning, a new life, a new happiness in many lives each year. Every community has a new hope to begin a new page in their lives. Remember always to value the gift of life for all Americans pursuing life, liberty, happiness and justice for all citizens. Celebration of Life Week. (Jan 1-7): The purpose of this week is to impress upon people all over the world the preciousness of life and the importance of all living things. Coffee Gourmet International Month. From the first scent of its aroma when brewing to the last drop rolling off the palate, the pure joy that gourmet coffee evokes is something to be celebrated. This event is dedicated to introducing coffee lovers everywhere to the pleasures of truly gourmet coffee. Cervical Cancer Screening Month: During January, the National Cervical Cancer Public Education campaign gives women and their doctors information about what causes cervical cancer and the best ways to prevent or detect it. Women are encouraged to get screened for cervical cancer and pledge their commitment to preventing the disease by visiting the campaign's website at www.cervicalcancercampaign.org Diet Resolution Week: (Jan 1-7): This week emphasizes the importance of watching your weight by focusing on the type - not the amount of food you pu8t on your plate. Resolve to consume minimally processed, less-refined carbohydrate foods. Slim down permanently with whole grains, legumes, fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat more but weigh less for life. Delete meat and other animal foods to make miniscule meals and calorie counting obsolete. Start the year off right by eating light with every bite! Family Fit Lifestyle Month: Healthy living is achievable. Try, for one month, to move your body and reduce the fat, sugar and salt in your diet while balancing your meals with healthy nutrition. Use moderation and portion control, and try to prevent many of the diseases associated with high-fat/high cholesterol diets. Help your kids learn proper nutrition and a regular exercise routine. The first month of a new year is the perfect time to change your life. www.americashealthiestmom.com Financial Wellness Month: For people to establish financial balance after credit card bills pour in from the holidays. This is a time to set new goals for financial freedom and moderation in spending. See a financial advisor. Create money management goals. Set up a savings plan. Figure out how to pay off old loans. Get out of debt. Spend less money. Give up a little luxury and donate the savings to charity. Buy in bulk, shop at discount stores, wait for sales and bargains. Shop garage sales, flee markets and online auctions. International Business Resolutions Month: Set in motion a successful year by focusing on PR and marketing effort guaranteed to make your cash register ring and your bank statements sing. Resolve to get your business and message in front of your target market. International Creativity Month. A month to remind individuals and organizations around the globe to capitalize on the power of creativity. Unleashing creativity and innovation is vital for personal and business success in this age of accelerating change. The first month of the year provides an opportunity to take a fresh approach to problem solving and renew confidence in our creative capabilities. www.creativelyspeaking.com International Life Balance Month: Ever feel like a tumbleweed being blown about with no control because of all the demands put on your time? Overwhelmed by all your choices? Those choices can cause stress and isolation. This month is focused not on New Year's resolutions, but on making better strategic decisions yearling to get your life in balance. www.sheryl.com International quality of life month: An international recognition of the importance of the quality of life that encompasses family, community, education, work, finances, health, leisure and spirituality. Recognition and achievement of quality of life is a worldwide issue. International Wealth Mentality Month: The start of the new year provides a great opportunity to examine your financial position and, more important, your beliefs and behavior regarding your financial goals. The international center for strategic planning hosts this month long effort each year to draw attention to the importance of having a wealth mentality (thoughts that encourage and support wealth building) and getting your personal finances in order. www.wealthmentality.com National Be On-Purpose Month: An observance to encourage us to start the new year by putting our good intentions into action, personally and professionally, and to trade confusion for clarity as we integrate our lives with more meaning and purpose. National Clean Up Your Computer Month: Dedicated to the education of computer users with simple tips and methods to increase the efficiency of their systems. www.specterweb.com National Get Organized Month: Is your New Year's resolution to get more organized? This is an opportunity to streamline your life, create more time, lower your stress and increase your profit. www.napo.net National Glaucoma Awareness Month: More than two million Americans age 40 and older suffer from glaucoma. nearly half do not know they have the disease - it causes no early symptoms. Prevent Blindness America will provide valuable information about this "sneak thief of sight." www.preventblindness.org National Hot Tea Month: To celebrate one of nature's most popular, soothing and relaxing beverages; the only beverage in America commonly served hot or iced, anytime, anywhere, for any occasion. www.teausa.org National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week (Jan 1-6) To inspire individuals to incorporate fitness into their daily routine and make exercise a priority, whether to promote weight loss or maintain overall good health and physical condition. www.pexinc.com National Mail Order Gardening Month: There's no better way to beat the winter blahs than by curling up with a few colorful garden catalogs and spending some time dreaming and scheming about next spring's garden. Many catalogs offer tips and information on how to create a beautiful garden. www.mailordergardening.com National Mentoring Month: Goals include raising awareness of mentoring in its various forms; recruiting individuals to mentor, especially in programs that have a waiting list of young people; and promoting the rapid growth of mentoring by recruiting organizations to help find mentors for young people. Each January, this month-long campaign will provide nationwide publicity and information about mentoring programs in various communities that need volunteers. www.mentoring.org National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month: To educate women and teens about realistic self-defense options that could very well save their lives...waking women up to the fact that the key to their own safety lies in themselves. www.nsdi.org National Poverty in America Awareness Month: To promote public awareness of the continuing existence of poverty and social injustice in America. Individuals are encouraged to support efforts to eradicate poverty by increasing their understanding of the causes and practical solutions and by active participation and support for antipoverty programs. www.povertyusa.org National Yours, Mine and Ours Month: Blending families and creating positive step-relationships can be one of t the most challenging aspects of a couple's remarriage. Each member of the family is affected in different ways. This observance focuses on what parents and children can expect as a step or blended family and offers tips for a smooth transition and enhanced long-term relationships. Oatmeal Month: Celebrates oatmeal, a low-fat sodium-free, whole grain and when eaten daily as a part of a diet that's low in saturated fat and cholesterol may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Slow Cooking Month: A month that allows slow cooking enthusiasts to celebrate this useful cooking method and the appliances that make it happen. For time-crunched home cooks, slow cooking and slow cookers offer convenience, ease of preparation, long-lasting delicious aromas (especially in winter) and great taste. Slow cookers use minimal energy and do not heat up the kitchen. They're the ultimate tool for "fix it and forget it" meals. Slow cooking is hot again - use this month to discover a great method and useful machines. www.bettycrocker.com/products/prod_slowcooker.aspx "Someday We'll Laugh About This" Week (2-6): We've all used the expression, "Someday we'll laugh about this!" Why wait? It usually takes less than seven days for people to violate 90% of their New Year's resolutions. This week helps us to remember the art of laughing at ourselves. This week tickles the yoke and joke of perfectionism while encouraging people to strive for excellence at the same time. This week is a great way to start the new year - laughing at the humorous human condition. www.humorproject.com Women's Self-Empowerment Week (2-8): Women wear many hats these days and this week is a time to stop, take stock of your life and recognize all that you have accomplished. It's an occasion to pat yourself on the back and feel good about your role in society and the opportunities that have come your way through hard work and dedication. Let it inspire you to establish new goals and reach for the sky. www.ibwc.org Carnival Season (Jan 6 - Feb 28): A secular festival preceding Lent. A time of merrymaking and feasting before the austere days of Lenten fasting and penitence (40 weekdays between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday). The word carnival probably is derived from the Lain carnem levare, meaning "to remove meat." Depending on local custom, the carnival season may start any time between Nov. 11 and Shrove Tuesday. Conclusion of the season is much less variable, being the close of Shrove Tuesday in most places. Celebrations vary considerably, but the festival often includes many theatrical aspects (masks, costumes and songs) and has given its name (in the US) to traveling amusement shows that may be seen throughout the year. Observed traditionally in Roman Catholic countries from Epiphany through Shrove Tuesday. Epiphany, or Twelfth Day: Knows also as Old Christmas Day and Twelfthtide. On the twelfth day after Christmas, Christians celebrate the visit of the Magi, the first Gentile recognition of Christ. Epiphany of Our Lord, one of the oldest Christian feasts is observed in Roman Catholic churches in the US on a Sunday between Jan 2 and 8. Theophany of the Eastern Orthodox Church is observed in churches using the Gregorian calendar (Jan 19 in those churches using the Julian calendar). This feast day celebrates the manifestation of the divinity of Jesus at the time of his baptism in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Home Office Safety And Security Week (8-14): One week each year dedicated to ensuring that the more than 30 million American home offices are safeguarded and protected against break-ins, theft, workplace injury, computer virus and hacking, natural disaster and any other malady that can impact the at-home working. www.chiefhomeofficer.com National Joygerm Day (8): A delightful way to spend the day rejecting pouting and touting Joygerm Fever: that highly contagious wonderfully incurable disease with prescribed treatment of large daily doses of kindness and courtesy, silliness and sacredness, merriment and mirth, and happiness and humor. Universal Letter-Writing Week (8-14): The purpose of this week is for people all over the world to get the new year off to a good start by sending letters and cards to friends and acquaintances not only in their own country but to people throughout the world. www.friendshipandgoodwill.org Graves' Disease Awareness Week (9-13): Graves' disease is an abnormality in the autoimmune system, causing production of antibodies that attach to the thyroid, enlargement of the gland and overproduction of thyroid hormone. Similar antibodies may also cause swelling of the eye muscles and swelling in the skin on the front of the lower leg. Graves' disease occurs in less than 1/4 of 1 percent of the general population. Most people with Graves' disease are treated and then managed on hormone replacement. Because some people with Graves' disease are misdiagnosed and because it is an illness that occurs in all age groups, education and support continue to be vital. www.ngdf.org Intimate Apparel Market Week (9-13) - Also Feb 27 - Mar 3, May 1-5, July 31-Aug 4, Oct 30 - Nov. 3): Market week dates for the intimate apparel industry. www.apparelandfootwear.org National Thank-Your-Customers Week (9-13): Business owners should take some time each year to focus on thanking those who make their business possible. Thanking them each January, aside from what is done throughout the year, will strengthen relationships and lead to increased business. Annually first full week in January. www.thanksabillion.com International Thank You Days (11-18): An eight day period in which to thank someone from your past or present to did something nice for you. National Skating Week: During this week, US Figure Skating members clubs and Basic Skill Programs reach out to new members in their community by offering the fundamentals of ice-skating from professionally trained instructors across the US. www.usfsa.org Ratification Day (Jan 14): Celebrates Jan 14, 1784. Anniversary of the act that officially ended the American Revolution and Established the US as a sovereign power. Champion Of The Month (Jan 15): Recognize individuals who live their lives as champions. www.achampionvision.com or www.properitybasedliving.com Healthy Weight Week (15-21): People who diet the first week in January and binge the second are ready for better living by the third week: Healthy Weight Week. This is a week to promote healthy lifestyle habits that last a lifetime and prevent weight and eating problems (not cause them, as dieting does); a time to move on to Health at Any Size. www.healthyweight.net Hunt For Happiness Week (15 - 21): Celebrate this week sponsored by the Secret Society for Happy People. www.sohp.com International Printing Week (15-21): To develop public awareness of the printing/graphic arts industry. Annually, the week including Ben Franklin's birthday, Jan. 17. www.iaphc.org National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week (15-19): Drinking fresh squeezed juice is a great healthy way of living. www.wtbq.com Japan: Haru-No-Yabuiri (Jan 16): Employees and servants who have been working over the holidays are given a day off. Saint Anthony's Day (17th): Feast day honoring Egyptian hermit who became the first Christian monk and who established communities of hermits; patron saint of domestic animals and patriarch of all monks. Lived about AD 251-354. Week of Christian Unity (18-25): From the conversion of St. Peter (Jan 18) to the Conversion of St. Paul (Jan 25). Chinese New Year Festival (Jan 21 - Feb 11). North American Chinese community salutes the year of the Dog, Lunar Year 4704. www.chineseparade.com National Creative Frugality Week (22-28): Christmas has come and gone and for many Americans the credit card bills are now rolling in. Give your budget a break by participating in National Creative Frugality Week. Participants are encouraged to have fun as they experiment with frugality and resourcefulness. Whether you're new to frugal living or have been doing it for years, use this holiday to challenge yourself to learn a new skill or try a new money-saving technique. www.creativefrugality.com National Handwriting Analysis Week (22-28): To inform the public that handwriting is a form of behavior that can be analyzed for personality traits; that handwriting originates in the brain; that handwriting style, like personality, remains constant over a period of time while reflecting development; that personality traits can be changed by making changes to one's handwriting. Annually, a week in January to include National Handwriting Day (John Hancock's Birthday - January 23, 1737). www.handwritingfoundation.org National Nurse Anesthetists Week (22-28): To provide recognition for the nation's more than 30,000 certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) who have been providing safe anesthesia care for more than 100 years. CRNAs administer more than 65 percent of the anesthesia in the US each year. www.aana.com Solo-Preneuring Week (22-28): Control your own destiny by taking charge of your work and your life. This week is set aside to plan and prepare for the work you were meant to do, and to celebrate those who are following a path of their own choosing. Whether you are an employee, a business owner or just contemplating your place in the workforce, resolve to learn how you can do work that is satisfying and fulfilling, create e your own job security, prepare for an uncertain future and have fun doing work you love. www.idealady.com National Medical Group Practice Week (23-27): A week to advance and recognize the awareness and understanding of medical group practices as the superior form of health care delivery. This week also honors those physicians, administrators and staff who dedicate their professional careers to the administration of quality health care. Annually, the fourth week of January. www.medicalgrouppracticeweek.com Catholic Schools Week (Jan 29 - Feb 4): A national celebration focusing on the uniqueness of Catholic schools. Many schools plan special activities celebrating their Catholic heritage. www.catholicschoolsweek.org |
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