What are you keys to success?
By Curt Rosengren on Success
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#1: Passion
#2: Ability to accept a risk
#3: High self-esteem
#4: Persistence
#5: Being nice to work with
#6: Who you kno
w#7: Master your craft#8: Talent
What to do when phone contacting our potential employers?
Contact potential employers by phone
- Be prepared – have a script at the ready. Not leaving a voice message unless it is clear you are not going to get the person live.
- Keep notes and keep track of your calls and contacts. Include the date & time, the contacts name and phone/email. Where did you find this contact (or who gave you the persons name and how do you know that person). And of course, the results of the call – and next steps. Yellow stickies in a situation where you could not keep track of the calls and contacts. The then put together a simple form and a note book.
Content taken from Job Stuff
Phone interview
Phone contact might be less effective with the lack of non-verbal communication. You can not sell yourself much unless you are verbally persuasive. However, for those who are easily intimidated in stressful situation like a face-to-face interview, phone contact might give them the extra confidence that would have vanished if they have to eye-contact the interviewers. Plus in phone interview, you don’t have to worry about the extra factors: looks and behaviors, instead you can focus on your strengths, skills, and talents, and sell them.
Although I get nervous in a traditional job interview, I still prefer face to face with the interviewers or my potential employers because I am an animated speaker. My personality is revealed through the way I speak. Without seeing me, people might as well read the script I prepare for myself and make an educational guess. Plus I like to be able to evaluate the big boss for whom I am about to work.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit apboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed erveylteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.Research.
I think this is the reason why people make many spelling errors since it is easy to overlook a few misspelled letters here and there when they can actually read an entire chaotic paragraph with relative ease. I am not a native speaker of English, but I have no problem at all reading the above paragraph.
Source from thanhda.com
Categories: psychology, research
No secrets about getting rich post
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/archives/2006/06/i_dont_have_any.html
I downloaded his couse syllabus. It is a just a two page note of finanical key term, tips, and links to other sources.
Eurovision song contest 2006 voting breakdown
Is there a former-soviet-blog voting influence?
Well, why don’t you tell me?
Influential factors
- Neighbors
- Culture (religion, political, common language, etc)
- Taste in music
Now let start the dissection.
Balkan (Neighbor and Political. These countries are the ex-Yugoslavia)
Croatia -> Bosnia, Finland, Macedonia
Macedonia -> Bosnia, Croatia, Russia
Serbia -> Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia
Slovenia -> Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia
Scandinaivan (Neighbor)
Denmark -> Finland, Sweden, Bosnia
Finland -> Russia, Bosnia, Lithuania
Norway -> Finland, Sweden, Bosnia
Sweden -> Finland, Bosnia, Denmark
Ex-Soviet Empire (Neighbor and Relationship)
Albania -> Bosnia, Sweden, Greece (Albania voted in line of religion, Islam)
Armenia -> Russia, Ukraine, Greece
Belarus -> Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Finland
Bulgaria -> Russia, Greece, Armenia,
Estonia -> Finland, Russia, Lithuania
Latvia -> Russia, Finland, Ukraine, Lithuania
Lithuania -> Russia, Finland, Latvia
Moldovia -> Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia
Poland -> Finland, Russia, Lithuania
Romania -> Moldova, Greece, Russia
Russia -> Armenia, Ukraine, Finland
Turkey -> Bosnia, Armenia, Ukraine
Ukraine -> Russia, Bosnia, Armenia
Misc.
Andora -> Spain, Finland, Sweden (neighbor)
Cyprus -> Greece, Romania, Russia (neighbor)
Iceland -> Lithuania, Finland (music taste)
Ireland -> Lithuania, Finland, UK, Sweden (music taste)
UK -> Finland, Lithuania, Ireland (music taste)
Comments:
It is obvious with the voting patterns in the ex-Yugoslavia.
There two exceptions in the voting patterns of the ex-Soviet blog. First, Turkey voted for Bosnia. I guess that this had a lot to do with the historical connection between them. The Ottomen empire occupied Bosnia for over 400 years. Today, there are still many visible aspects of Bosnia’ culture reflecting Turkish. After the religous and historical factors, Turkey voted for Armenia and Ukraine which are their neighbors. The second exception was Albania who voted for Bosnia. Again, we are talking about the religous factor: Albania and Bosnia share the Islamic faith. T
I think that Western countries where world music icons like the Beatles, Bee Gees, Elton John, Cranberries, Sara O’Connor came, they prefere rock or songs they can understand. Plus if English is thenative language, then pop songs with texts written by non-native would be too horrible for the people.
There is no doubt that the top three songs are excellent although I would rank Bosnia, Russian, and Finland in that order. By excellent, I mean that these songs are not blatantly, horrifyingly suck and still eventually win. They all have good melodies, good vocals, and performances. That is why these songs rank high in many other countries regardless of influential factors above.
However, should we complain about the fairness and the injustice? After all, this is a music competition. There is no real definition of good music and a good song. When we speak of music, we are speaking of an entirely subjective matter. What good to you might be bad to me. (One of my friend commented that my music just hurt her ears.)
These influential factors (subjective matters) are something that come with the territory, the realm of subjectiveness in music.
Point chart for the final
http://a1679.g.akamai.net/7/1679/9896/v001/esc.download.akamai.com/9896/press_pictures_2006/final_2006_points.pdf
Europe atlas
http://www.welt-atlas.de/datenbank/karten/karte-0-9002.gif
You can find videos at youtube.com
How ‘daddy’ affects your job?
According to Stephen Poulter, the author of "The Father Factor", there are five styles of fathers — super-achieving, time bomb, passive, absent and compassionate/mentor — who have powerful influences on the careers of their sons and daughters. Children of the "time-bomb" father, for example, who explodes in anger at his family, learn how to read people and their moods. Those intuitive abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes. But these children may have trouble feeling safe and developing trust, said Poulter, a clinical psychologist who also works with adolescents in Los Angeles area schools.
I've always told my friends that the causes of a matter run deep, much deeper than they think. I often use a similar technique:
1. Think about what happened during the day
2. Think about what happened yesterday
3. Think about last week, last month, last year.
5. Think about the time when you were young.
….
x. Remember when you were a little kid.
"Often we understand and re-discover the root of the problem if we trace far enough," I said, but only few people believed it. I took a Scientology course which had a section emphasizing Question/Answer called Dianetics. The questioner has a list of questions to ask the questionee e.g.
Questioner: Can you recall the first time you X certain Y?
Questionee: [Answer] Questioner:
Can you describe the Z?
Questionee: [Answer]
(X: action, Y: event, Z: one of the five senses)
I believe that this line of questioning is to lead the questionees to a point of comfortness where then they will feel comfortable enough to say whatever on their minds. "The first time" phrase forces them to remember thing happened long ago in the past.
What will it be to work only four days a week?
“Four-Day Week challenge” article
The shorter-work week discussed in this article is not new. I sorta figured it out some years ago that I tended to drag things out if I knew I’d have more time. I even told a typical American workaholic friend of mine, “why don’t you go home and work less. If you have 8 days a week, you will tend to spread things out.” However he replied to me, “no, if I had 8 days a week, I would work exactly 8 days a week.” I believed him.
Still, there are many of us who don’t have this single-minded, all-work-and-no-fun mentality and might be benefited from the 4-Day week working habit. Same goes for me, especially since I have a scattered-brain and get anxious staying in the office for long hours unless I enjoy my work.
Tips to be more efficient
1. Avoid using instant messaging: It’s a constant source of distraction.
2. Only check your e-mail twice a day: The surest way to waste time is the ol’ Send and Receive button.
3. Stick to what matters: Take care of the most important stuff first. Don’t waste time on low-priority stuff. (In fact, delete the low priority stuff from your to-do list. It’s not going to get done anyway!).
4. Ask for alone time: If you need uninterrupted time to get something done, politely notify your co-workers that you’ll be unavailable for a couple of hours.
5. Limit blog-reading time: Set a time limit on your blog reading. If you don’t get through all your blogs in that amount of time, hit the trusty “Mark All As Read” button and move on.
6. Make lists: Write a “to do” list for each day (on paper if you can bear to tear yourself away from Outlook). Put the time-sensitive stuff at the top and be realistic. Choose three time-intensive things to do and five quick things to do. Make sure you finish all of them before you leave in the evening.
7. Restrict meetings: If you can, restrict the amount of meetings you call, or are involved in. Meetings drag on and can eat into your day. Instead aim for one or two meetings per week and plan them carefully to ensure you cover all important topics and keep on track.
Why I haven’t bought any strawbery?
It’s a fact known in my family that I am a strawberry sucker. People eat strawberries in term of numbers that is countable. I eat strawberries by the pounds that can render a person unconscious. Every summer, Costco, one of the largest wholesales in America, made quite a huge sum of profit from my family as we buy boxes after boxes.
So, last month I walked around an open market in in Thessaloniki, a city in Greece, and could not believe seeing big fresh strawberries for only 1.5euro per kg. It was beyond the wildest dream in the search for strawberries. I bought a euro worth of strawberries; I would have bought much more if I was not on a bus trip. Fruits are good for health, but too much will make you do unpleasant things during the trip.
I got back to Sarajevo and passed the open market every morning on my way to work. Big strawberries were every where, only that it was 3 euros per kilo. Having possess an important source of strawberry knowledge, I passed strand after stand, telling myself to wait for few day for the prices to go down, if it would ever at all, and contemplating all the possible factors that caused the higher prices in Sarajevo compared to Greece. Well, prices did went down to 2.5 euros a week later, and then 2, and then 2.25, and then 1.75, and then finally a few days ago 1.5. However, the strawberries were tiny and not as fresh compared to those I saw in Thessaloniky, and I determined to wait for a few days more. Guess what! I walked through the open market this morning and spot big fresh red strawberries for only 1.5 euros.
As | walked on, I just realized that I am my mother’s daughter.
Applied psychology
I was not always this carefully with money before as I bought in the spur of the moment. Perhaps:
1. It’s biological, “like mother, like daughter.”
2. It’s the fact that my earning follows the standard of a poor European country.
3. It’s the fact that people do change to adapt better to the new situation.
4. Or it’s just because I am dirt cheap.
How do you drink water?
When I lived in Vietnam, my family boiled water in a big pan before pour it into a pitch, officially making it drinkable. So I formed the habit of not drinking water straight from its source, which in Third-World country like Vietnam, infested with all kinds of stuffs.
I migrated to the United States of America, bringing my drinking-water habit with me to the new home, First-World country that is. Though they don’t boil water, they bought filtered water by the gallons from chain-market stores or water in bottles. Later on, to be fancy, they plugged the expensive filter around the sink faucet and filled their glasses with tap-water, now was purified. There was one time when my uncle forgot to buy water. My mom and I, being new comers to the society without any means of transportation to the store to get us some processed water, refused to drink tap water and got our alternate liquid supply from orange juice and milk. Sure we could have boiled the water and drank it, but we had this dilemma that in place like America, they did not boil their water. You see, even in a small house with two people dealing with a minor issue such as drinking water, though subtle, First-World and Third-World habits clashed. I would not boil water because it was not a First-World’s practice. I would not drink tap water because the water was deemed to be filthy under Third-World view.
Nonetheless, my habit of not drinking water directly from its source remained intact, and my belief that tap water was filthy was an infallible one.
I’m in my mid 20s when I came to Zagreb, Croatia to visit my friends. On the way home from the airport, spotting some fountain at the park, Marko told me, “Our water here is fresh, you don’t have to buy water at the store, just drink from the tap.” I was already informed about the freshness of water in the Balkans, so without a doubt, I believed him. However, a similar situation to that happened ten years ago resurfaced: I was ridiculously thirst for water. I adapted to practices of the new environment, at the same time upholding my former beliefs. I did not buy water bottles from shops as the Croatians; I did not boil my water as learnt from living in America; and I did not myself get my water from the tap unless somebody in the family poured it for me, a behavior prompted by an long-ago belief and habit I acquired in Vietnam.
I live in Sarajevo, Bosnia now. Similar to its neighbor Croatia, waster in Bosnia is fresh, and people here don’t buy water from the store. Yesterday, I filled my bottle with tap water and drank it while reading my book. I have to admit that there was split second pause before the water stream left the bottle and entered my mouth, as I was conscious that I was drinking tap water. Perhaps in a few months, I will drink tap water like a true Balkan and wsave a lot of money would-have-been-used-to-buy-water in the process.
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