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Do you have the urge to write but don’t quite know where to start? Here are some tips for beginning writers.

1. The very basic, yet very important skill you need to have is a good grasp of grammar and spelling. It’s not that scary, really. Read, read, and read. This will help you get really acquainted with the proper usage of the English language. There are plenty of sites out there that can help you review your grammar.

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Writing articles is not that difficult if you have good ideas to write about. An idea becomes good material for an article if it is something new or if it is presented in a fresh manner.

The writer must see his subjects from all angles. An important thing to remember in writing is, “Show it, instead of just saying it.” Here are some tips that might help churn ideas into writing material:

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Many of us can remember situations when we spent so much energy preparing for an event or presentation that when the great day finally arrived, we were so exhausted we just wished it would end quickly.

This area confuses us sometimes that if we do not know which is important and which is urgent, people will frequently drag us around urging us to do what they think is urgent.


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Today, as has always seemed to be the case, we are in dire need of competent leadership in any field or profession we are in. Few of us can boast of innate abilities and natural characteristics that make us competent leaders, without considerable effort. We must work at being leaders in our own rights, if we are to achieve success in any area.

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Sorting through piles of yellowing documents can be a daunting task—especially if you’re not sure what to chuck and what to save. Give the new year a fresh, clean start by following these guidelines.

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Leadership is an art, and like other arts, requires discipline, good techniques and self-expression.
There are some basic rules or formulas connected with an art, but these are primarily guides to self-expressions. Techniques used successfully by some, are perhaps usable by others. However, an individual learning the art must first convert knowledge to techniques, and then perhaps blend them with personal characteristics that lead to self-expression.

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Each of us needs to discover the specific adrenalin-reducing tactics that work best to relax the mind and body.

It is especially easy for many of us to get hooked on the challenges of a job or career, because attachment to a career is so highly valued in our society. While “workaholism” can sometimes mask home or personal problems and basic insecurities, most often it is an addiction to the adrenalin surges brought on by challenge and competition.

Competition is part of our way of life. Schools and businesses depend on and utilize the high that a challenge can create. But there is a black lining to this euphoric could. Stanley Sunderwirth, a prominent biochemist says we are “drugging ourselves” into an artificial existence. The short-term effect is pleasure—but the long term effect may well be stress disease.

However, it is never too late to start controlling the abuse of your body’s defense system. Even if you are an adrenalin addict with advanced heart disease – or you have already experienced a heart attack—you can promote healing and prevent further damage by learning to manage the behavior that creates the problem in the first place.

Each of us needs to discover the specific adrenalin-reducing tactics that work best to relax the mind and body. Many people have found the following tips helpful:

1. Talk audibly to yourself. Tell yourself to calm down, to quit acting as if life were a 100-meter dash. Remind yourself that you are just a part of a bigger whole. If you stop playing Messiah, you will have considerable less stress.

2. Practice conscious physical relaxation. You must allow your body to unwind so that healing and restoration can take place. One way to help your body relax is to exercise regularly. Appropriately tailored to age and level of fitness, exercise can improve not only your physical health but also your mood and general feeling of self-esteem.

3. Remember that frantic behavior does not guarantee success. Though society sometimes rewards us for hurriedness, real happiness and long-term success in a job or at home come only from keeping everything in proper perspective.

4. If you feel you must succeed in the situation before you, ask yourself, “Is the price I must pay really worth the benefit?” The answer will probably restore a sense of balance and remind you of long-term goals and values.

5. Learn to deliberately slow down. Develop the ability to choose to go slow when you need to. What’s the real hurry? Few friends, fellow workers, or superiors will increase their respect for you because you hurry. If anything, most would be more trusting if you slow down.

6. Quickly resolve those emotions that are adrenalin “biggies”: anger, resentment, frustration, irritation, and excitement. Apologize if you are wrong. Bury your hurts that are a result of oversensitivity or cruelty.

7. Review your life goals. Ask, “Is the challenge before me absolutely necessary to my life goal?” Consider carefully if this quest will eventually build you up or just destroy you.

8. Look closely at the faces of those around you. Do they seem like friends or foes? Are you forgetting that they are people also, with right, longings, aspirations, with a need for love? Have you slowed down enough to really understand you children? Do everyone a favor by easing up your demands on them. When you do, a sense of peace will be restored.

9. Relax your expectations and take time to enjoy the world around you. Recover your total personality and poise. Try to be gracious, and keep your perspective about what is really important and necessary.
 
Copyright © 11/29/2009 Athena Goodlight (Socyberty)


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 When you hire a new worker for your business, you select him or her because of the special skill or ability he or she has which you feel you can use.

Whether you like it or not, you get the whole person, not just the employee’s skills and abilities. That includes the habits formed; you may not want these. That employee’s interests are his own and not necessarily like those of any others in your group. He may approach his job with little hidden fears and misgivings; and may be filled with a myriad of unanswered questions about the new environment.

You must answer the questions and, to a certain point, cater to his personal interests, and perhaps go so far as to help him mold a whole new set of habits. As a manager or supervisor, you must make him feel welcome and give him a feeling of being useful, desirable part of your group. What you do for this worker is a part of his induction for which you are responsible.

His ultimate value depends, to a large extent, upon how quickly and how well you help him adjust to his new, unfamiliar surroundings. This cannot be postponed; it must start the first time you meet the new worker and continue as long as he remains with you.


Instructing and Empowering your Worker

Teaching in some ways is not different from other work. You either like it or you so not. If you do not like to teach, you cannot do it successfully.

There is, in this, peculiar hidden truth not too often admitted. If teaching is an essential part of a supervisor’s job, the person who cannot teach successfully is not a truly effective supervisor. All those who define the job supervisor include instruction as an essential part of it. Therefore, you must do instruction if you are to do the whole of a supervisor’s job.

There is, though, a brighter side to the picture. You usually like to do the things you know how to do and learning to instruct is not too difficult. Once you begin to do it and like it, you will find that it can be one of the most interesting parts of your job. It is fascinating to watch people learn and grow. Knowing that you are part of that growth gives you a feeling of actually seeing a part of yourself grow along with the workers.

Good instruction, then, actually produces two very desirable results. First, your workers become more competent and, thus, are capable of doing a better job. Second, you have the personal satisfaction of knowing that through your efforts, each of your workers has improved.

Copyright © 11/28/2009 Athena Goodlight (Bizcovering)


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The percentage of supervisors who lose their jobs because of technical incompetence is quite small as compared to the much greater percentage of supervisors who fail in managerial positions because of the inability to deal effectively with people.

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Even if your budget cannot accommodate an outside consultant you can still launch your own promotion. Remember, too, that what you can save in money, you’ll spend in time. Here are some tips…

1. Conduct your own market research.

State and federal governments collect lots of useful data – so do trade associations and local chambers of commerce. Know your target market and potential costumers. Find out what they want. Study the product you intend to offer, and test if it would work out for your target consumers.

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Why do some office executives – especially overworked businessmen—look prematurely old and die young? How can they avoid worry, hypertension, and an eventual stroke or heart attack?Here are a few practical tips taken straight from the firing line of day-to-day office experience:

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Why can’t some people just say what they mean and mean what they say? Many times we could hardly believe what we hear our friends, even family, or people of authority, say. Many conversational conflicts could be avoided if we are aware of what is really in our subconscious level. A study in speech communication exposed the hidden meanings behind the words we hear is called metatalk.

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