Managing Emotions During Career Change and Job Search, Part One
March 31, 2008
How can you manage your emotions during your career change or job search? To answer this practical and wise question, let’s first define what emotions are. Emotions, also commonly referred to as feelings, are energy released in your body in response to perceived events, that is, to data received via your five senses.
To build your skill in managing your emotions during your current or next career transition:
1.) Practice Naming Your Emotions. There’s great power in simply naming your emotions as you experience them. Check in with yourself several times a day and name your emotions in a journal or log. Learn to identify the nuances of difference between emotions that are similar. Choose carefully how you name what you’re feeling: word choice creates reality!
2.) Allow Yourself to Feel What You Feel. Resisting emotions keeps you stuck in them. Why not do something radical like feeling them? Let the emotion wash over you and it will pass through you infinitely more gently. Feeling your feelings is always easier than resisting them, because emotions grow in proportion to our resistance to them.
Are Keywords Destroying the Flow of Your SEO Copy?
March 30, 2008
With all the shuffling that’s been seen in the search engine world within the last year, the issue of obvious optimizing has become a hot button. The current line of thinking is that most engines (especially Google) are on the lookout for sites that purposely make an effort to optimize their pages in order to get high rankings. While this theory has not been proven, I agree that obvious optimization is not a good thing. Not exclusively because of what Google might think, but because of what your site visitors might think.
When a Web site is created with the intent of having it ranked highly, one thing often happens. The focus gets placed solely on the optimization and is taken almost completely away from the visitor. This leaves your site in a dangerous state of unbalance. Let’s take a look at some examples.
The Truth?
March 30, 2008
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
The truth. So alluring. So promising. If we only knew the truth, everything else would just fall into place. Sadly, the “truth” of a relationship, situation or event is always hard to come by.
The fact is that no matter what the relationship, situation or event, what you see is never what you get –WYSINWYG for short. No matter how new your software, fast your computer, good your analysis or frequent your focus groups, you will always operate on partial information. You’ll never fully know the “truth.” But there is real power in WYSINWYG. It reminds us that there is always something more going on. There’s always something just out of site that will transform the routine into the wonderful. WYSINWYG requires that you never lose touch with your capacity for surprise and remain vigilant for opportunity. Leaders, who confidently declare that they have “seen it all,” have lost more than their capacity for surprise. They have actually lost the ability to anticipate change and prepare for it. You’ll never completely know the truth, so remember WYSINWYG and take a second look.
Why Trade the FOREX?
March 29, 2008
Why Trade the FOREX?
by: Susan Walker
My purpose for writing this article is to demonstrate to you the advantages of trading on the FOREX market. However, there is one myth that I want to dispel before I go further. The myth is that there is a difference between trading and investing. To dispel that myth I quote from Al Thomas, President of Williamsburg Investment Company, who wrote “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t Buy It”. He said “Everyone who invests is a trader, only the time period is different.” It is a lesson that I took seriously after taking a beating in the stock market in 2000.
So now, let’s compare features of currency trading to those of stock and commodity trading.
Liquidity - The FOREX market is the most liquid financial market in the world around 1.9 trillion dollars traded everyday. The commodities market trades around 440 billion dollars a day, and the US stock market trades around 200 billion dollars a day. This ensures better trade execution and prevents market manipulation. It also ensures easily executable trading.
What I Do Is Not Who I Am… The Networking Factor
March 28, 2008
Ah, the personal touch that continues to make a big difference for the better in our lives and the lives of those who have an opportunity to experience a personal touch from us.
If networking and effective communication are centered on other people, can we effectively network or communicate without the help of other people?
For the sake of argument, let us define networking as: finding out what another individual wants or needs and then fulfilling the want or need of that other person.
People want to know that their existence makes a difference.
The term often used ‘dissed’ meaning an individual feels disrespected by another might seem petty to us but it is usually very real to the individual complaining.
An example, my friend Bill a Plummer who is financially set for many years to come doesn’t always get properly acknowledged. We all realize that there is nothing we can do without the help of other people. Yet, in Bill’s profession he is not always highly respected. This is because society has taught us to value the title of the individual and not the individual.
7 Cheap & Easy Ways To Get Prospects
March 27, 2008
Here are some quick techniques you can put into place on your web site or in your advertising to gather new prospects. There is practically no cost for most of these strategies yet they have proven to be extremely effective in any number of different venues. Use one, two or all of these strategies for a quick shot in the arm.
The key to all of these strategies is the autoresponder, which requires little or no effort on your part once it has been set up. Don’t fail to utilize this tool no matter what type of business you own.
Cash Flow: Why Chaos Equals Poor Cash Flow
March 26, 2008
Recently one of my customers told me the chaos swirling through his company was the result of poor cash flow. If only he had more money, his company would run better.
I must respectfully disagree.
Poor business processes produce chaos. Chaos leads to poor cash flow. Fix the poor business processes and the cash flow problems disappear.
What business processes am I talking about?
1. Having a clear picture of who your customer is.
Here’s what my customer looks like: My customer is a small business owner looking for ways to make his or her business run better. He or she is often overwhelmed by all the tasks that must be completed and often does not have time for the really important business functions of strategic planning and forecasting and may not have a great deal of experience in those areas.
What does your customer look like? What challenges are they facing? What do they struggle with everyday?
2. Using that picture to develop services and products that provide value to your customer.
Based on my picture of my customer I can provide my customer with time saving services and products that teach them skills or provide knowledge they can use to solve the challenges they face everyday.
Work at Home Is A RealityDon’t Give Up!
March 25, 2008
Work at Home Is A RealityDon’t Give Up!
by: Verona Raymond
Have you considered working at home? It really has major advantages:
· You don’t need to buy expensive work clothes. They are uncomfortable and nothing at all like wearing a warm robe and slippers!
· You don’t need to pay for gas to get to work every day.
· Depending on where you live, you don’t have to scrape your windshield in the freezing cold.
· You don’t have to put up with tons of daily traffic.
· You don’t have to pay for a sitter for your kids, pets, etc.
· You can take a break and work out or take a walk without punching a time clock.
· You won’t have a nosey boss breathing down your neck!
Sounding good so far?
Isn’t working at home really what you would like to do? Or is it just a dream that might not ever happen? Noit isn’t just a dream! For example, think about celebrities or athletes that grew up very poor, and then turned their lives around. Do you think they ever had doubts? Sure they did, but they kept on working toward what they wanted and after much dedication and hard work, achieved their dream.
Marketing Is A Long-Term Investment
March 25, 2008
“Dig your well before you’re thirsty” is the title of a wonderful book by Harvey Mackay. It is smart advice for investing your money, “Save your money before you need it”, or growing your business, “Market today for tomorrow”.
When times are tough some businesses stop marketing. They reason, ‘No one is buying so why should I advertise?’ The other time some businesses stop marketing is when they are selling like crazy. Again they figure - ‘I can’t handle any more business right now so why promote?’
Two key points here. Advertising is only one narrow form of marketing. Marketing is about sending messages. You send messages in a plethora of avenues; advertising, customer service, by association, quality, public relations, sponsorship, awards, etc? And the second point; marketing is a long-term investment.
Selling is immediate. When times are slow you need to crank-up the selling efforts. How do you escape from a sales crisis? Improve selling skills, search out new markets, offer more value and most importantly be systematic. When there is a fire, put out the fire.
That’s sales.
Crafting A Stellar Career Summary For Your Resume
March 24, 2008
Are you a career changer? Or, are you satisfied with your stable career but interested in updating your resume? Are you a professional who has tried different things but are still searching for the kind of work that best suits you? Whatever your career situation, what your resume most needs is a stellar career summary.
What difference can a career summary make for you? Here are 4 reasons why you need one in your resume:
1.) A career summary communicates more about you and does so more powerfully than an objective statement.
2.) Employers love career summaries and use them to preview your resume. If they like your summary, they’re more likely to read your whole resume.
3.) A summary does a superlative job of masking weaknesses in your work history (too much experience, too little, too many different kinds of jobs, gaps in employment, ineffectual titles, and everything else you can think of)
4.) A career summary tells the employer what you most want them to know, up front. It therefore sells you well and sets you up to be asked the kinds of interview questions you really want to be asked.
