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I do not know about you, but Christmas shopping seems to get more difficult every year. If you want to get a loved one something they need, chances are they have already purchased the item for themselves. If you want to get something unique, the local department store is the wrong place to go. Everyone in the community frequents the same retailers. So, what is special about revisiting a place you have been to at least 100 times? May I suggest you pick a personal present for Christmas?

Why should personal presents be reserved for showers? You know what I mean. When a friend and the fiancé have both lived on their own for some time, they do not need household items. In fact, the problem is combining two houses full of necessities into one home. The newlyweds certainly do not need any more toasters or towels. So, to celebrate the event, friends decide to throw a personal shower. Instead of buying pots and pans, the guest of honor will receive perfume, cologne or eye-catching lingerie.

So, I ask the question again: why should personal presents be reserved for bridal showers? You can put a little something special under the tree this year. For example, how many friends will splurge on beautiful lingerie, when the bills need paying? Thus, you can put something with a little sparkle beneath the wrapping.

Lingerie makes an excellent personal present for the holidays. After all, everyone needs lingerie. But, most people will not typically buy quality lingerie for themselves. Another purchase always takes priority. But, if your priority is making someone special happy this holiday, you can shop for quality lingerie.

When you pick a personal present for Christmas, you do not have to be concerned whether it is an extravagance you can do without, and thus talk yourself out of the purchase, like when you buy it for yourself. Since it is a present, you can buy lingerie simply because you love the recipient and want to get them something special. In addition, it will definitely be something unique.

So, when you are trying to figure out what to get that someone special for Christmas, think lingerie. You do not have to worry whether they need it, already have it, or would not normally purchase lingerie for themselves. Your goal is simply to pick a personal present for Christmas.

I like to use a few rules for my slides that I hope makes them more attractive and readable by the audience.

1. The slide should have some level of symmetry or balance. For example if you have some bullets on the left maybe an image or diagram on the right to ‘balance’ the slide. Imagine a pivot in the middle of the slide and the words or images have weight – now will it fall to the right or left?
2. Choose your colours wisely. Ask your self whether the colours go together and what the colour combination means. Do your colours look like the colours used in any brand that you know – this may be good or bad. It’s also good to keep some consistency across the slide pack. Using a different set of colours on each slide suggests that the slides have come from different origins. I am not a great lover of coloured fonts – but they can soften the impact of the writing. For example dark grey can look better than black. Dark blue is also effective and quite easy to read. Please avoid writing in red or green. Those of us who are colour blind just can’t read it. Even red on white is very difficult at a distance. This by the way is true if you are using a flip chart – put down the red pen and pick up the black or blue.
3. Most people read slides from left to right. It is often best to place bullets on the left and supporting images on the right. When using a diagram and bullets you may like to swap this over. As the diagram/graph may be self explanatory and the bullets just pulling our some key points that if read first would not make sense.
4. Best to leave off full stops at the end of bullets – it just looks messy and distracts the eye.
5. Remember that you may be asked to print your slides so anything other than a white background uses lots of ink. The old style of yellow type on a blue background is indeed quite easy to read on a screen but now looks very dated and a good quality printed version is hard to create.
6. Add automatic page numbering via the master – very helpful if you muddle up the printed slides as you are preparing for the big day. If you are presenting using a handout it is also much easier to ask your colleagues to turn to page seven, than to look for the page with the big graph and four bullets.
7. To keep things simple it is often best to split the slide into three zones. These three zones will also help you in presenting the slide which we will come on to later. You don’t have to stick to this layout but it is a good place to start and seems to work quite well.
   • Top, where the strap line goes. The sentence that captures what the slide is all about.
   • The main part of the slide split into two or three areas vertical or horizontal areas for words and images
   • The bottom of the slide – often not used for bullets or diagrams but containing page numbers, copyright, logos, etc. The bottom of the slide can also contain the lead in to the next slide. For, some this is a sort of end of slide strap line and for others a small prompt or just a virtual zone that you need use to create the link to the next slide.