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Adult Development
Have you ever visited a web site and been attacked by screaming pop-up ads, gotten lost in a clutter of banner ads, had things flash and go boom? And have you ever visited a site that was informative, easy to navigate and generally pleasant to peruse?
Which site gained your trust? Which site would you revisit? The more user-friendly building tools you use on your site, the more trust will be developed with your viewers. With this in mind, here are expert tips for making your online store tru...
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Adult Development
The thought of writing a resume intimidates almost anyone. It's difficult to know where to start or what to include. It can seem like an insurmountable task. Here are 15 tips to help you not only tackle the task, but also write a winning resume.
Determine your job search objective prior to writing the resume. Once you have determined your objective, you can structure the content of your resume around that objective. Think of your objective as the bull's-eye to focus your resume on hitting....
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Adult Development
Do you have a contented life? For the most part, are you happy?
What makes you think you are happy or not happy?
When are you content?
Where are you when you feel most content? Is there a special time or place when you are most content? How often does this happen?
Why would you say you are happy or not happy?
How do you define happiness, contentment?
Who in your life makes you happy or takes away your happiness?
Look at these questions. If you consider yourself truly ...
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Adult Development
There is not much I can add to the images we are inundated nearly ad nauseam. They are powerful and they are important. We have a new America as of September 11, 2001 due largely to the coverage by the media of an event that happened far from most Americans individual homes. In recent history we have not had the political will or for that matter, the public support, to retaliate against terrorist attacks due largely to the coverage by the same media.
Just this minute (4:00 Sunday 9/16/01) on...
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Adult Development
This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions.
Let's examine what creativity might look like. Here are
some of the ways in which creativity expresses itself.
Perhaps the creative idea is one that mixes and matches
items or ideas that haven't been combined in just this way
before. A wonderful example of this comes from Anita...
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Adult Development
Our mantra is "if you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting." With that in mind, let's talk about "happiness."
If you're into professional development, you've heard of Martin Seligman, Ph.D., who developed the theory of Learned Optimism.
Optimism is the facilitator of emotional intelligence (EQ), which matters more to our success and happiness than IQ. Seligman's research has established that optimists are more productive and accomplish more, i.e....
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Adult Development
About Anger ? The Different Styles
Where does anger come from?
Anger is an emotion. It stems from issues in your past that are both unresolved and unforgiving. These feelings are buried deep down inside you and can cause you emotional and physical harm.
Anger comes from a past environment of confusion, chaos and lack of communication between family members. If you have seen your parents become angry, on a regular basis, you will perceive this behaviour as normal and are more likely to a...
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Adult Development
Some important things to consider about the habits we want to change:
~~habits are difficult to change and yet they can be changed
~~sometimes its best to take major steps and change a habit (i.e. either you're a smoker or not smoking)
~~many times making "adjustments" works best (i.e. you want an uncluttered home, its important to start "somewhere")
~~when we purposely break old habits, we may grieve research shows that it takes at least 21 days to change a habit
~~an empty space is ...
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Adult Development
Some important things to consider about the habits we want to change:
o habits are difficult to change and yet they can be changed
o sometimes its best to take major steps and change a habit (i.e. either you're a smoker or not smoking)
o many times making "adjustments" works best (i.e. you want an uncluttered home, its important to start "somewhere")
o when we purposely break old habits, we may grieve research shows that it takes at least 21 days to change a habit
o an empty ...
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Adult Development
If you're sitting down to write your New Year's resolutions and they're looking a lot like last year's, it's time to try something different!
What to do?
How about developing your Intentionality? It's an emotional intelligence competency. It means saying what you mean and meaning what you say; being able to focus and filter out distractions; and accepting responsibility for both your actions and your motives. It means being able to channel your emotions to work for you, not against you.
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Adult Development
Accomplishing One's Mission in Life
What does Indian philosophy have to say about "self growth"?
First of all, we all have four aims of life:
? "dharma", being honest, upright and doing one's duty to society, to friends and family. In this way we have a sense of well-being and it leads, in the long-term, to contentment with one's health
? "kama", becoming happy and receiving pleasure
? "artha", having a reasonable standard of living
? "moksha", liberation -- becoming free, to do what o...
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Adult Development
Most people in the world spend all there time blaming others for there circumstances and playing the role of a victim rather than taking accountability for there lives. The victims blame everyone else, life's circumstances and everything else for their life's misery, lack of prospering and unattain desires and goals.
On the other hand a Producers, the opposite of a victims, don't let life's circumstances control how they feel or what they accomplish. A Producers take what the world has given...
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