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Advice on Success from Adam, Steve, Adams:
During the summer, I attend a Success 2013 two day workshop that presented several motivation speakers. I took notes. Here are some ideas by the following speakers: Steve Forbes, Adams Ginsburg and Adam Marlel Steve Forbes: How to get ahead. … Continue reading
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Spelling Tendency
Bad: tendicy Good: tendency I interpret tendency to be something like establishing a pattern and thus repeats its self. So that is the way I can remember that there are two Es in tEndEncy. The word has a pattern to … Continue reading
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Recreating Creativity, compliments of Timp Tellers:
For this month at Timp Tellers story telling club, I attend a workshop on creativity. I think it was by Vance. The presenter gave the following ideas to build our brain power and increase our activity. Here are a few … Continue reading
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How to set yourself up for raises at work:
I watched an online presentation by a guy named Allen Card about job searching and how to be recognized for positive contribution at work. Here are some of the notes I took. – Go to Alen’s web site: arlencard.com/subscribe – … Continue reading
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Using mnemonics for learning technology
I’ve been working on increasing my technical knowledge and one of those is learning the ports that email, file transfers, and databases use. I have a hard time memorizing so I often use mnemonics to help me remember things. I … Continue reading
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Achieving Financial Success:
During the summer, I attend a Success two day workshop that presented several motivation speakers. I took notes. Here are some ideas by Les Brown who is a motivational speaker and minister. – Ask yourself what are some of the … Continue reading
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Spelling Sequel:
Good: sequel Bad: Sequal I will see if this will help me remember this word. A sequel in a book is a book that follows the plot line of a previous book. Most likely they will have the same characters. … Continue reading
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First-time novelists:
Last winter I attended a symposium called Life, The Universe and Everything. Here are the notes from one of the panels. – Make manuscript stand out to concept. Concept is important as it offers something unusual. Have a clean manuscript. … Continue reading
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Things learned from 911 to the California Earth quakes:
These are some notes I took from a CERT fireside that talked about preparation in case of emergency. – 9/11 was the circumstance that notified the US government that they were not adequately prepared for communication between organizations. – After … Continue reading
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Building upon our original foundation:
During a recent meeting at Toastmasters, we received some very good counsel for one of the core members of the club. He reminded us to recollect what our original motivations for joining Toastmasters were. We may have wanted to improve … Continue reading
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