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One of the most sought after improvements people seem to want in life – from what I have observed both out there and via my blog – is to improve their social skills.
The scariest and most uncomfortable part of people skills is most likely to get up on stage and speak to people.
As Jerry Seinfeld put it:
“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
My friend Andrew Rondeau has released a product today to help people out with the public speaking skills that many of us would like to improve.
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Note: This is a guest post by Hilary Jeanes of Purple Line Consulting.
How important to you is your career?
It is surprising how many people leave their careers to chance. They seem to think that their career will just happen or that ‘the organisation’ they work for will not only decide when their next step on the career ladder is but also what it will be. If it doesn’t happen, then the organisation is perceived to be useless or not caring or not recognising/rewarding effort or hard work. We spend a lot of time at work, so doing something we enjoy and find rewarding (both personally and financially) makes good sense.
From my own experience, both as an employee of large organisations and as an HR professional, here are 10 tips which make it much more likely that you will achieve the career you want.
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I don’t write a lot about applications/programs that can help you become more productive. I’m not really that much of a tech geek and loads of people know tons more about this than I do.
But one small program that I like immensely and that is a part of my daily routine is the Morning Coffee add-on for Firefox. It allows you to add your favourite websites and then when you press a button - located beside the Home button - in your browser all those websites open up in tabs.
Three reasons why I like Morning Coffee:
- Makes it easier to be disciplined. One big problem with being productive is all those interruptions. You work and then you think “oh, I wonder if something has happened in my in-box/on Facebook/on my blog”. And then you lose focus and spend 30 minutes just surfing around aimlessly. With this add-on you can add all those email/blog/social media websites and make a habit of just checking them via you Morning Coffee button. Perhaps once in the morning and once at night. Instead of running around online 10 times a day and getting stuck in procrastination.
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Note: This is a guest post by Christopher R. Edgar of Purpose Power Coaching.
Many of us have a habit of repeatedly replaying arguments we’ve had with people in our minds.
Our memories of past disputes never seem to fade, and we can often rerun them from beginning to end with perfect accuracy.
Sometimes, we fantasize about saying different things in the argument, imagining how the other person might have responded and pondering whether different strategies might have helped us “win.”
Usually, while rerunning these mental movies, we’re either feeling angry at the person we argued with, or guilty about the incident the conflict was about.
Whatever feelings we associate with the old arguments, they usually aren’t particularly pleasant. Our bodies become tense and uncomfortable, responding to the mental movies as if they were present reality.
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Note: This is a guest post by Adam Sincinski of The Study Matrix blog. To assist you with understanding the concepts, techniques and strategies outlined within this article, please download the free Study Matrix 101 pdf and utilize it as a visual reference tool to help guide you through this process.
- Do you ever find yourself becoming easily overwhelmed with trying to remember and manage large amounts of information?
- Do you struggle to remember key concepts and pieces of information that are critical to your academic, business and career success?
- Do you ever envy those who just seem to remember and recall information with the greatest amount of ease and without any effort?
- Have you ever wondered about your potential to develop a photographic memory?
- Have you ever considered that Mind Mapping might actually be the solution you have been searching for all this time?
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