Dissatisfied With Your Job? Stop Believing The Myths!
If you are dissatisfied with your job, you are in a self-imposed career slump!Why are so many of us in career slumps? Bottom line…we are not doing work that satisfies us! No matter what our employer does for us, if we are not doing work we really want to be doing, in a way that fits our desired life-style, we will never be satisfied.What keeps us in career slumps for so long? The number one thing that keeps us in our slumps is that we believe the “myths” we were told!1. We believe, “I can’t make money doing work I love.” Yet reality gives us a ton of examples of people who are wealthy and happy doing the work they do.2. We believe, “In order to be happy, I need to find my purpose.” Yet reality shows us that there are plenty of people doing work they love who have no clue what their “true” purpose is.3. We believe, “To get better, I must work on my weaknesses.” Yet reality shows us time and again that the most successful people are those who focus on their s

Building Your Dream - Locating Resources for Nonprofits Online
A nonprofit corporation has the public’s best interest at heart. It may have an environmental, educational, religious, scientific, or literary focus (among others). In return for their services, the public can make donations to these companies and then deduct the amount from their federal taxes. In this way, it sure is a win-win situation.Although it sounds pretty straight forward, a nonprofit can be a complicated entity. Therefore, it is wise to know where you can find answers to the many questions that are bound to crop up. The easiest place to uncover these questions is online because there are numerous websites that focus on the ins and outs of nonprofits.For example, one place to start is by making sure you understand nonprofit language; in other words, the terms used when discussing a nonprofit organization. Check out this URL:nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitstartup/a/glossary.htmOnce you feel comfortable with the lingo, it is time to make your nonprofit idea a

The Power of High Voltage Marketing
Persuasion, seduction, negotiation, and fear have lost their effectiveness to clinch the deal, close the sale, and make cash registers ring. Whiter, brighter, faster, and better -- while intriguing -– no longer motivate consumers to act. Today’s savvy marketers are shifting strategies to more strongly connect with customers; they are harnessing the power of the four Ps of high voltage communications™ -- personhood, purpose, persona, and presence -- to promote their products, services, issues, and organizations.Sick of the impersonal quality of much of their daily lives, Americans are seeking to reconnect and build stronger relationships. “In all walks of life, we see a trend toward wanting to convert impersonal transactions into personal relations,” reports famed futurist Daniel Yankelovich.Connection, or the feeling of belonging, is one of the top three human needs, according to psychologist Abraham Maslow, after physical needs. In our well-fed society, almost all of our physiolog

6 Questions To Answer For A Knockem Dead Executive Summary
Call it what you will; Executive Summary, Executive Overview, etc. but it is the first thing read in most proposals. These few pages set the tone for the remainder of the proposal and, admit it or not, it can be the only part of the proposal a busy evaluator actually reads. All too often more time is spent arguing over when it should be written than what it should contain. The Executive Summary is not a proposal plan so it doesn’t need to be written first to guide the team to greatness. However, if you’ve started your proposal effort far enough ahead to have actually formulated a solution before writing begins, the Executive Summary can be used by talented writers or competent editors as a guide to creating a sales document. Unfortunately, for many companies, the solution isn’t finalized until moments before final production, writers weren’t that talented and there just wasn’t time to do any editing.In this case the Executive Summary truly is a summary and takes on greater importance beca

Birds of a Feather May Be Turkeys
Birds of a Feather May Be TurkeysBy Gene Griessman, PhD  Birds of a feather do flock together. It's true. Given a choice, most of us will seek out people who think like we do, people with whom we feel comfortable, those we won't quarrel with. Visit any company cafeteria and you will noticethat the people at the tables will be in groupings from the same discipline, department or ethnic group. As a general rule, relationships do not usually thrive when there are profound differences in values, abilities,temperaments or lifestyle. Differences attract, but -- more often -- they repel. Individuals sometimes get involved inrelationships with unlike individuals, occasionally even conflict-ridden ones. These may be exciting for a while -- but unless the principals agree on core values, such relationshipsbecome artificially polite or unravel over time. Ways to work together. This general rule, however, needs fine tuning when it comes to science, engineering and

Cooling UK Property Market
It is of little surprise that recent interest rate rises have taken its toll on house prices across the UK. The number of new mortgage approvals in the UK fell to a 12-month low in April, Bank of England figures show. Mortgage approvals totalled 107,000 in April, down from 111,000 in March and the third monthly decline in a row. In a further indication of weakening buyer demand mortgage lending rose by ?8.9bn, much less than expected and the weakest rise since September"The Bank of England will be comforted by today's news which shows its monetary tightening is taking effect," said Thushani Gajasinghe, an economist at the Centre for Economic and Business Research."With a further quarter-point rate increase possible in the third quarter, consumer lending may cool further."But now, after a fourth quarter-point interest rate rise in just nine months – and another seemingly on the horizon – are the bears among the property commentators finally about to be proved right?So