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Ignore everyone ..."Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it."
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
William James
: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention by Renee Grant-Williams
For those who are constantly interrupted or asked to repeat themselves, the problem may not be what they're saying, but how they're saying it. Voice coach Renee Grant-Williams, who works with singers and politicians like Linda Ronstadt and John Ashcroft, shows how to make one's speech resonate impressively in Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention. She reveals how to enunciate consonants for dramatic effect, use breathing techniques to make the voice richer, deploy strategic silence, cope with stage fright and leave authoritative voice-mail messages. There are copious useful exercises. There's also a chapter on maintaining a healthy voice.
“I was impressed that the author sought to train and not to impress.”
You will learn what you do wrong and then you learn how to correct it. Without recognizing your speaking problems (ALL of them, not just one such as a fear of speaking in public), you won't be a better speaker.
Much like a corporate mission statement, your personal mission statement defines who you are, what you’re all about, and why you’re on this earth. Why do you need a personal mission statement?
· It helps you make difficult decisions when faced with the myriad of choices life presents.
· It helps you realize how very little time you truly have to accomplish the important things in your life.
· It helps you recognize when you’re off course and steers you back in the right direction.
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
-- Samuel Butler
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"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."
by Stephen Viscusi
On the Job offers newcomers to the world of employment a primer for dealing with their current workplaces as well as larger career issues. The book deals with practical measures and will be of use to most people just starting their working careers.
Viscusi heads one of New York City's 10 largest executive search firms and dispenses work and career-related advice as host of "On the Job," a nationally syndicated radio call-in program. He now summarizes the insights he has gleaned and the advice he has proffered after interviewing thousands of job candidates and talking with his radio listeners.
He certainly knows the way of the workplace, and his advice is always insightful and to the point. He suggests that our "work-life puzzle" can be broken down into seven primary pieces. First, he emphasizes that "your career is whatever job you hold today." Second, work can be unfair, so "get over it!" Third, keep work and personal lives separate. In turn, he then looks at workplace relationships, communication, and advancement and career planning.
There is entertainment value in the anecdotes and experiences imparted by the author Always focusing on practical matters, Viscusi repeatedly emphasizes that if one masters the job, a career will follow. This kind of "realistic" advice for the workplace has not been assembled in one location before.
The book will not only help you to understand the employer's side of the job search, but will also allow you to implement a plan for landing the job that you want. It was written in a great format; plain and simple; to the point and informative.
“There are great strategies here for how to think about your work life (and he convinces it is a work life, separate from your other life), so that you're sane both on and off the job, and so that you're positioned to make the most of job/career every day. A must-have for anyone starting a new job, whether entering work for the first time or re-entering after change of career or time off.“
"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse."
Walt Disney1901-1966, Artist and Film Producer
"Don't worry about impressing others, impress yourself. Who are you trying to please, anyway?"
-- Mark McKeon
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