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January 9, 2010

My Battle with Hair Loss

Filed under: Great Self Improvement Tips, Health Issues — @ 10:03 pm

I used to love when girls stroked or even pulled my hair. I first found the first revealing signs of hair loss, one morning while I was brushing my teeth: hair was in the sink and noticed that the hair on top of my head was thinning and less full than the sides of my head. I would never have thought that I would suffer from hair loss: Most of the men in my family have a full head of hair. And yet, as I bent my head to look at the top of my head, I could soon see that hair loss was not just in my future but already occurring.

Once I noticed the thinning strands, I lost my self-assurance. I no longer wanted to brush my hair, wore caps as much as possible, and felt self conscious. My partner and I weren’t as intimate as we were because I was anxious about her discovering the thinning patch on top of my head. My anxiety was through the roof and my performance at work slumped due to the inability to concentrate.

Thankfully, I found Advanced Hair Studio. One of my friends told me about them over a few beers. As far as I remembered, he has been bald ever since I knew him. However, one day at the gym, I noticed his hair looked full and fresh. He told me that Advanced Hair Studio was to thank.

That very night, I went on-line and purchased my first product and had them delivered overnight. The results were immediate: my hair felt stronger and thicker in just a few days. After a month the thinning patch that caused me to worry myself sick was full of hair. I’d never before believed anti-balding products worked. However, after my experience with Advanced Hair Studio, I now know that there are products out there that can save men a lot of stress, grief, and worrying.

September 15, 2009

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July 2, 2009

Writing a Resume

Filed under: Great Self Improvement Tips — @ 10:50 pm

When it comes to mastering the art of resume writing, the most important thing is ensure that you can get the attention of recruitment companies who act upon prospective employers. The ultimate goal is to make sure that your resume stands out from among every other one put in. The best way to create and figure out how to compose a CV is to highlight your former experiences and correlate that with the current position you are seeking. Its essential that you use keywords so that it’ll be read all the way through and not just scanned, tossed away aside in a stack completely disregarded.

Regardless of the job you are going for, it is very critical to express that you are beyond qualified for the job than what is shown on your resume. Your name and contact details leads your curriculum vitae and then there is a detailed summary of your job experience and listing of great companies you have worked for previously that will stick out to a potential employer for the role you are applying for. Make sure you bold and highlight your main skills of your abilities. You should include your educational background and list any awards and accolades that further enhance your curriculum vitae.

Finish your CV with listing of references that your future employer can contact about your previous experiences and future abilities. You should take the approach when writing a resume to ensure each section is headed correctly for easy reading. Don’t forget to list the years of each former employments. Use a spell checker to correct any misspelled words or phrases. Make sure your curriculum vitae can be freely saved to other formats. Some employers may request PDF, HTML, or Word formats. Your CV and covering letter should work together in producing a specific profile of your abilities.

June 3, 2008

Creativity Management - Productivity As A Job

Filed under: Great Self Improvement Tips — @ 7:47 pm

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.

There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.

There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.

Productivity as a job

It is often the case that individuals “wait for inspiration” before they embark on their creative and innovative endeavours. However, this misses the mark for a number of reasons:

a) Engagement in the task gets the mind working on the task at various cognitive levels - problems are identified and subconsciously the mind searches for solutions. When ideas then arrive, they are labelled as insight or inspiration. Insight or inspiration is increased in frequency and duration when the creator or innovator dives into the task.

b) The key to quality is prolific output. By treating the endeavour as a job, small goals and incremental deadlines increase output to a far greater degree than a “do your best” approach or a “I’ll do it when I’m ready” approach.

c) There are a significant number of blocks working on the mind at any one time. Together this is called “resistance.” Unless a conscious and sustained effort is made to counter them, they remain obstacles.

d) Climbing the experience curve requires energy expenditure. By treating the endeavour as a job, the experience curve is attacked and overcome much more rapidly.

e) All of the above do not detract from the requirement of motivation, which includes aspects such as: joy for the endeavour, competency expansion, feasibility, self-determination etc.

These and other topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com/

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Kal Bishop, MBA

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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached on http://www.managing-creativity.com/

April 28, 2008

“How to Reclaim Your Life’s Happiness by Demolishing the #1 Self-Esteem Killer”

Filed under: Great Self Improvement Tips — @ 12:41 pm

Copyright 2006 Dr Joe Rubino

Extensive studies show that more than 85% of the population suffers from some degree of diminished self-worth, lacking self-esteem and insufficient confidence. For most of the people who lack a positive self-image, the future looks like a mere extension of their troubled past. Their expectation of what is to be is consistent with what has been with a slight and predictable level of improvement.

Because of their lacking self-esteem and confidence, most are resigned to a life that lacks the excitement and passion that characterizes the lives of those who feel worthy of tapping into the best things life has to offer. People who possess a positive self-image typically have an optimistic expectation of what is ahead of them and as a result, they realize this expectation as a self-fulfilling prophesy.

In contrast to the state of resignation that typifies those with diminished self-esteem and lacking confidence, consider the possibility that the future lives as the realization of a promise a promise you make to yourself and to the world. The future will result from your expectations and the quality of your future will be impacted by the commitment you have for it. It lives as a possibility. In other words, you get to invent it. In fact, you are the sole designer and architect of what is to be. And the result will be entirely consistent with your expectation and your self-image.

In other words, our future will be directly related to what we expect for it to be. If we doubt our self-worth and expect our future lives to be worse than our current situation, we will sabotage ourselves into making it turn out in alignment with this self-fulfilling prophesy resulting in diminished self-esteem and self-confidence. If we limit our expectations and plan on more of the same results we have to date experienced, our apathy will generate a future consistent with this expectation. To the contrary, if we believe in ourselves and our expectation is that our future will be better than our present situation, self-motivation will result to bring about the positive outcome we envision.

If we feel good about ourselves and expect to live happy, fulfilled, and successful lives, we will take the actions consistent with realizing that expectation. We will therefore generate the opportunities that will result in rich relationships, abundance, and joy being attracted to our lives - because we believe we deserve it and act on this belief.

We get what we expect and attract prosperity or lack, joy or sorrow, rewarding relationships or angry, frustrating ones all as a result of whether or not we feel worthy. Just as we can doubt our abilities to succeed and our attractiveness as worthy of rewarding friends and intimate relationships, we can also instead choose to take full responsibility for expecting all aspects of our lives to be the way we want them to turn out.

Realize that you have consciously or unconsciously attracted everything that shows up in your life to you. If where you are in life, the relationships you have attracted to you, your physical, financial, emotional and spiritual states are not what you desire, decide now to alter your course. Decide that you deserve better. Get in touch with the erroneous decisions you made at an early age. Reframe how you see yourself and resolve to act from a declaration of who you are (just because you say so) instead of the unlovable, somehow defective or unworthy image you made up or bought into long ago.

Change your expectations. Design a life plan consistent with your new expectations. Make requests of those who can support your efforts in some way. The future exists for each of us as a possibility. When we do the necessary work to heal our troubled past and put the self-interpretations that do not support us behind, we can courageously decide to design our future lives deliberately to be in alignment with joy, abundance, fun, fulfillment, and self-love. When we train ourselves to first expect positive results and then to act in accordance with what we expect, we set the stage for a bright and promising tomorrow. We have the personal power to create our future on purpose. The future can unfold out of our declaration of how we see ourselves and what we expect it to be like. To the extent that we take responsibility to expect great things in our lives, ensure we give off positive, attractive, loving energy and then get into action to bring about our expectations, we will be the force behind the realization of a rewarding happy future characterized by soaring self-esteem and confidence.

So, my challenge for you today is to write out a clear and specific vision of exactly what your life will be like in every area including your relationships, health, wealth and finances, occupation, recreation and social life, and personal and spiritual development. Commit to resolving any past issues that continue to erode how you feel about yourself. I wrote “The Self-Esteem Book” and the accompanying “The Self-Esteem Workbook” to support you to learn the tools that will allow you to reinvent your life and how you see yourself. Know that all that it takes is the courage to begin the process of restoring your personal magnificence and start living full of self-esteem and confidence.

Dr. Joe Rubino is an internationally acclaimed life and success coach and the author of 11 best-selling books and audio programs available worldwide in 19 languages. He is the author of the best selling, “The Self-Esteem Book: The Ultimate Guide to Boost the Most Underrated Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life” which has been called “the most transformational self-help tool available to support people to restore their self-esteem.” To learn more about this life-changing book, to learn more about Dr. Joe Rubino and to sign up for Dr. Joe’s Ezine, visit www.theselfesteembook.com

April 8, 2008

Spring Has Sprung: Now Who’s Going to Clean it Up?

Filed under: Great Self Improvement Tips — @ 8:45 pm

Doesn’t the end of winter suck? All the fresh, new snow is gone, and what you’re left with, depending on where you live, is grimy pools of melting slush, days that can’t decide if they’re going to be weather-friendly or not, and ten or fifteen extra pounds you can’t remember inviting to the party.

Spring has traditionally been a time of renewal. New growth pushes up from the earth, people shed those bulky layers of clothing, and who knew? That guy/girl in the next cubicle is looking mighty cute right about now.

You might apply the same thinking to your employment, unless you’re one of the few people who actually like their job. Are you happy with what you’re doing, as well as who you’re doing it for? If not, what are you willing to do about it.

First, you’re going to need help presenting yourself. Sure, you can write your own resume, but why take the chance? If you’re really unhappy with your job, and want some new challenges, why not try eResume? They’ll consult with you by phone for as long as it takes to craft a surefire CV. From Student to Technical to Executive, they can get it done, quickly and professionally. Your new job may be just a few clicks away!

With your new job search in full swing, you may want to keep empowering yourself with new knowledge. That way, when your interviews roll around, you’re that much more prepared to answer the hard questions. Nightingale-Conant, publisher of luminaries such as Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins, can help you get in the right mindframe. The Psychology of Winning is a 6-CD set, filled with expert advice on how to reorient your mind to get the job of your dreams, or achieve other seemingly unreachable goals. Whether you play sports, or just want to use the competitive spirit to get ahead at work, listening to this series will give you the winning edge.

Now that your confidence is up, you might try diving into the dating pool again. After all, how long has it been since you’ve practiced the fine art of conversation with another person? (Pets don’t count.) Talking to new people, whether you wind up soulmates or not, is a great way to get back into the game, if you’ve been out of it for awhile, or are just not meeting the right people. True can help, too, by separating the wheat from the chaff for you. As one of the only dating sites that actually checks into their members’ backgrounds, you can rest assured you’re not corresponding with someone who’s already married or has a criminal background. Subscriptions are very reasonably priced, so there’s nothing to lose. They’ve already done half of the work for you. From there, you’re on your own.

In the spirit of renewal, you’ve already put three important things into motion. If you want to take it a step further, why not start a gardening project? Productivity always seems to get a lift fromuse a boost blooming plants and flowers, and Gaiam has excellent resources for this growing season, no matter how large or small your plot of ground may be. You may find your prosperity, not to mention your love life, breaking new ground.

Copyright 2006 Find Your Prosperity.com

For more stories, visit http://www.FindYourProsperity.com

Alyson Mead is founder of http://www.FindYourProsperity.com. In her 18-year career as an award-winning writer, she has published hundreds of articles in over 25 outlets, including Salon, AOL, MSN-NBC, BUST, New York Daily News, Bitch, The Sun, In These Times and more. She has received the Columbine Award for Screenwriting, the Roy W. Dean Filmmaking Grant, and a Writer’s Digest Award.