Archive for March, 2008
Your belief in your abilities may be stronger sometimes than others. As a result, your ability to feel optimistic about succeeding in all aspects of your life or with projects wavers depending on your mood.
When you are working on your application for graduate school, you will inevitably reach this area: the Graduate School Personal Essay. This summary is an influential and powerful statement that may hold more influence than test scores or previous education. A concise and eloquent statement tells the admissions staff many things about you. This is your opportunity to highlight all your positive qualities. Are you attempting to further your career to help others? To open opportunities for communities or other areas that are currently in need? Are you determined? Ambitious? Would your drive match the demands of graduate school?
When you pick up a book As an author, you often don’t have much control over (1) the book cover or (2) the blurb, BUT every writer knows that a sizzling story start is vital! That first paragraph has to grab the reader’s attention instantly. Smart writers know you reveal more about your characters by showing them in action, rather than by writing long slabs of description about where they are and what they wear.
With yearly tuition increases exceeding twice the rate of inflation, aid packages contain a lot more loans than grants. Before applying to Our Lady of Perpetual Increase University, consider these 5 recommendations: 1. Look for the steak, ignore the sizzle. Financial aid is nothing more than a game played by someone else’s rules and on their playing field. Your opponent believes you’re clueless. Protect yourself with a skeptical attitude, which comes with being better informed. Just by looking at their stunning websites, you can conclude colleges are experts at selling sizzle in the thoughtless expectation you won’t wince at the price. Your best defense is to focus on the steak. How?
Turbulent Times! Reversal in your financial security. Home Foreclosure accompanied a job loss. Have you reached your stress threshold? Do you find methods previously used when at this point just don’t work anymore? Is this the scene or one similar? Bills mounting, payment deadlines missed, plumbing breaks down, turns into a major problem; roots of the beautiful weeping willow tree have entwined the sewer line pipes to the house, tree must be cut down, major repair to sewer system, one of your car needs new tires; yesterday. You can’t afford to explode! What do people do, for heaven’s sake?
Let’s say you’re on an elevator, the door opens, and someone you know steps in. She says, “I hear you’re writing a book Can you answer that question before you get to the next floor? You may be thinking, “Of course, I can. It’s my book, isn’t it?” Yes, but chances are you will be still be talking when the elevator door opens again. Completing this critically important sentence in 30 seconds or less is not easy. In fact, it takes most people quite a while to describe their books in a way that other people understand.
Do you want to draw in more customers and bring in more business? Maybe you have been a coach for a long time and your practice does not have the number of clients you want or maybe you are just starting out and you want to attract a larger client base. Here are a few practical tips to help you on your way! 1. Check Your Beliefs
Aren’t all leaders strategic? Isn’t being strategic a prerequisite for being identified as a leader? I have coached hundreds of leaders; those who have been terminated (right-sized, downsized or fired) and those who are seeking to enhance their leadership prowess. After working with this large volume of executive clients, I am able to fairly easily identify those leaders who have an innate strategic component as part of their leadership makeup, those that have acquired a certain skill level and those who talk about strategy - but don’t have a clue as to how to be a strategic leader.
Facts About Spanish Did you know that almost 415 million people around the world speak Spanish? This is an astonishing number to imagine. In the United States alone, there are about 28 million people that speak Spanish in their home. There are about 47 million people in the United States that speak another language other than English at home. This means that over half of the foreign languages spoken at home in America is Spanish! It is clearly spoken by more people than all of the other languages combined inside the United States. Why Would Learning Spanish Benefit You?
The Internet continues to grow with over a million new users going online and tens of thousands of new websites going up every week. The Net is experimenting with audio and video presentations, which continue to grow, but the overwhelming majority of communication is through the written word. Writers are needed to generate the content and communications for the Net. It’s a huge amount of work involving thousands of writers. A great deal of money changes hands. Rapid growth creates huge freelance writing opportunities. Business is booming - freelance writers wanted! |
, you usually do three things: you look at the cover; read the blurb on the back and you read the first paragraph to see if you like it.