Self Improvement Articles
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Work a shorter day by employing three basic speed skills to get more work done in less time.
You can get more work done in less time by accelerating your speed in accomplishing important tasks. Three fundamental speed skills offer the key to shortening your work day:
Speed reading
Fast writing
Effective listening
Strategic, purposeful reading accomplishes your goal faster. Most people just plod through their reading from beginning to end. By the time they get to the end of reading, they've forgotten the material at the beginning! Sound too familiar to you? Instead, follow these key principles:
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Who doesn't wish they could knock off from work at 3 p.m. instead of 6 p.m.? It's possible to do. Just learn more effective communication, and your time and work will fly.
Rule #1. Find angles or hooks that interest you. Bad listeners tune out boring or dry subjects, even if they are important for you to hear and understand. Find an angle that hooks you - ask yourself "What's in this for me? How can I benefit from this?"
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I would like to encourage you to be a more active volunteer. I will outline many of the benefits of volunteering. But, I want to emphasize the sole reason to volunteer. Many people often volunteer in order to benefit themselves in some way. However, unconditional giving is what I want to endorse.
Volunteering is a great way to meet people and experience new things. You open yourself to many doors of opportunity when you decide to donate your time. Networking, learning new skills, and seeing the world are great reasons to volunteer. In addition, employers will view you as more favorable ... [
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Go along to any club or dance and you will see an amazing array of people attempting to dance. Watch them for a while and you will see the vast majority of them have no rhythm and two left feet on backwards.
We all watch in spellbound disbelief when good dances hit the floor and seem to glide and sway in perfect harmony with the music. Let's face it the birth of dance shows on TV proves that we all love to watch good dances dance.
Green with envy well there is a cure for the dreaded two left feet syndrome.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Relationships problems affect us all, but it's how you react that determines whether problems will persist in your relationships. To enjoy problem-free relationships, you need to make smarter choices. Here are 3 useful tips to guide you to overcome relationships problems and create blissful love-filled relationships instead.
1. Talk from the heart
Communication problems in relationships are the primary cause of so much grief and unhappiness between people. You must have experienced loads of examples throughout your life of people completely misunderstanding what you were trying to communicate. It doesn't matter whether you are speaking face to face, on the phone, writing ... [
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
All too often, in a recipe for failure, New Year's resolutions are made lightheartedly with little consideration on the true level of commitment that is required to carry through. For a more appetizing recipe please read on.
As the year fades from 2006 and brightens into 2007, maintaining the delicate balance between reflections and planning are vital to remaining optimistic and eager. While we want to look back to analyze where we have been and we want to consider both the bitter and sweet moments, we should not dwell on either. Pulling out the painful, embarrassing, and stumbling ... [
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