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"Will That Be Cash Or Credit?" - A Raymond Randall Jr
From Bangkok to Edmonton, credit card statements stuff mail and email boxes with payment deadlines. Every bill reminds the giver that gifts given freely do not come free. Giving and buying often exceed generosity and need as a brittle piece of...
The Cost of Going Public in the United States - William Cate
The following data is taken from "Going Public" by James B. Arkebauer (1994) and the IPO cost website at: http://www.intranet.ca/~tgil/p2.html You should keep in mind that costs vary based upon the complexity, the size of the underwriting and the...
Microsoft Publisher Basics - Mart Gil Abareta
For those who still don’t know, Microsoft Publisher 2000 assists users to easily produce, modify and print materials such as flyers, catalogs, brochures, newsletters and websites. I have two tutorials in this article that can hopefully help you get...
The Not-So-Effective Cover Letter - Linda Matias
Here’s a newsflash: Cover letters work, plain and simple. This is why I’m intrigued by the fact that a) jobseekers rarely submit them and b) hiring managers seldom read them. As a result, I started asking questions. Specifically, “What’s your...
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A Way to Find More Happiness Through Your Work
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Written By:
Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach
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First of all you have to know what you're good at and focus on that and build on it. Then even when you're in a group that's good at what you do, you can still stand out, like Wayne Gretzky tracking the puck. He was famous for his ability to predict where the puck would go and get there first. Wayne "Go where the puck is going, not where it has been" Gretzy.
This is Babe Ruth replying when asked HOW he hit home runs like he did, "I like to," his assumption being that the rest of us could, if only we wanted to or "liked to". He couldn't even grasp the question.
Here are some steps you can take to begin this focus:
2. Write your Personal Mission Statement (www.franklincovey.com/mission
builder/index.html).
Define your values, principles, and what matters to you. Then use this as a touchstone for making decisions and setting priorities and goals.
If your organization needs a Mission Statement, write one collaboratively, if possible. Getting everyone behind the "mission," the "bigger picture," will add to communal work satisfaction.
2. Attach meaning to what you do, what your department does, your organization does, and help others feel the mission in it.
The person who's answering the phone, for instance, isn't "just answering the phone," they're representing your company to the public and a key player in the success of your group mission.
If you feel your work isn't meaningful, and can't be, then you have some "recrafting" to do.
4. Get a good organizational system - whatever works for you. These will work if you work them.
5. Develop your emotional intelligence; it matters more to your success and happiness than your IQ, and it can be learned. Take an EQ - continued below ...
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assessment, The EQ course online, work with a coach, read, and practice.
6. Engage the services of a coach. This will greatly shorten your learning curve re: how you apply your natural abilities and talents and how well you develop your EQ, and he or she will hold your feet to the fire on accountability until it becomes second nature.
So there's a formula: Knowing your leading strengths and crafting your life around them, defining and managing your values and mission which give meaning, and actually
accomplishing this because you've become organized.
Lastly, stay connected. In an interview, Mother Teresa was asked, "You've been in India dealing with illnesses like cholera and AIDS. What's the worst illness you've ever seen?" and she replied without blinking an eye, "The worst illness I have ever seen is the loneliness and isolation in the West."
So, in conclusion, whether or not "pleasures" can occur in the workplace, the deeper satisfactions of life can and your job can be one path to happiness.
If you're the leader, the more opportunities for personal growth, development of potential, respect for strengths, opportunities for personal excellence, and "flow" you facilitate, the happier everyone is likely to be, and
therefore more productive.
It could be that employees are more after this sort of experience than pizza parties and hoopla.
About the Author
Susan Dunn, MA, Emotiotional Intelligence Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Offering coaching, Internet courses and ebooks around emotional intelligence for your personal and professional development. Visit the EQ eBook library - http://www.webstrategies.cc/ebooklibrary.html .
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Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios - Sam Subramanian
‘Sector funds are too risky.’ ‘I doubled my money with Fidelity Select Technology in 12 months!’ ‘Avoid sector funds.’ If all of this sounds confusing, you are not alone. Sector funds are among the more misused and misunderstood investments. So, how...
Stop Debt Collectors Cold and get Back on Your Financial Feet - John Ventura Gerri Detweiler
As a consumer law attorney who counsels people with debt problems, I’ve heard my share of horror stories about debt collectors. For example, a college student client was threatened that she’d be arrested if she did not pay a credit card debt, and...
How Your Business Can Pick A Software Developer - David Berube
Eventually, your business is going to need to have some software development. Your business is unique - you can't rely on a huge, faceless corporation to handle your unique needs with a shrinkwrapped, mass produced, production-line solution. You...
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