Archive for Change
Are You a Change Champion?
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Think back to a time when you were really excited about something that was changing.
Maybe it was a new initiative at work or in your community, or a new idea for your family. It can be anything at all that you were excited about and anxious for the change or innovation to take place or for the new idea to be implemented.
It doesn’t matter if what you are thinking about is current, recent or “ancient history” or whether it`s work related or in your personal life.
Have you got a situation in your mind?
Great!
When you were living with that change and believed in the value of that change, what did you do?
My guess is that you: Read More→
Public Speaking for Shy or Private People
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Learning public speaking is like learning to ride a bike. All you need is some initial courage and a sense of balance. Then you have to change gear as appropriate. Once you’ve progressed that far you simply learn when to put on the brakes.
Most of us have suffered from listening to poor public speakers. We’ve squirmed as they’ve gone on endlessly saying the same thing in a dozen boring ways. Most of us too have admired brilliant speakers and wished we too could captivate an audience. At the very least most of us would like to express our views in public without losing our courage not to mention our voices.
The thing most public speakers have in common is simply a fear of making fools of themselves. They may be college students who have to study rhetoric as part of their schooling. In adult life those who attend may be budding politicians, trade union activists or aspiring business people. There may also usually be a few shy singles and some married couples sharing a new experience in communications. However interesting the mix they don’t usually expect to start the class with breathing exercises. Read More→
Here’s Why I think We’re at The Bottom
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I have a newsreader (the thing that acts like a newspaper but with blog posts). I regularly follow approximately thirty different real estate and mortgage related blogs. If you follow my twitter posts, nearly half of them are about the content of these real estate blogs.
Over the past year, almost all the blog posts have been bad news.
- Pricing drops in nearly all geographic areas
- Substantial home builders filing for chapter 11
- Stories about massive foreclosures
- Tales of woe, misery and pain
My conversations with my colleagues and network contacts were dismal and depressing
About a month ago this started to change. Certainly there are still numerous examples and stories about the down economy, but I began to notice bog posts and news stories that I have not seen in quite a while.
Here are some of these posts just from last week:
Sales of Existing Homes Rise, Fueled by Tax Credit – Builders Online Blog
New-Home Sales Rise 4.7% in February – Builders Online Blog
Signs of Recovery – Homes Sales Insights Blog
Signs of Life in California Real Estate – CNN Money Blog
WHAT’S THIS?!? Phrases such as, “Rise”, “Recovery”, “Signs of Life” in blogs posts? Prior to this week, I had not seen blogs posting with these words.
Are there problems? Absolutely, most of the blogs are still talking about the problems, however there bits and slivers of positive things are starting to creep into blog posts.
And I have seen more of it in the past week than in the past year.
Do we have a still more to go? Yup.
Do I think were at the bottom? Yup.
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- More Information That The Housing Market has Reached Bottom (movephilly.blogspot.com)
- Pending Home Rise 2.1 Percent in Feb. From Jan. (abcnews.go.com)
- Can These Positive Trends Continue? (hsh.com)
- Are the Home Buyer Tax Credits Working? (usnews.com)
- Real Estate News Continues to Improve (hsh.com)
- Lyon Homes says stimulus is working (lansner.freedomblogging.com)
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This Is Not My First Post
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Well, technically it is for this new blog, but I have other blogs and have written many posts.
But I am glad to have made the switch to Wordpress. I bit off more than I could chew with my previous site.
I wanted to have tons of functionality, forums, plugins, components, automation. You name it, I wanted it for my site. So I settled on Joomla, the massive content management system that offers everything you could want in a site (including a HUGE learning curve). Unfortunately, with all those bells and whistles you need LOTS of administrative focus and time to make it work.
Over the space of a year, I built several sites with Joomla. And the work ballooned. And the sites grew. Don’t get me wrong, they were terrific sites, but I was wondering whether I needed to hire an IT staff to keep up with it.
So I bit the bullet and switched to Wordpress. Does it have all the massive functionality of Joomla, not really. Did I need all the massive functionality, no, not at all. Actually Wordpress gives me all I need and then some. Joomla gave me all I needed and WAY more. I just need what Wordpress gives me.
That’s a life lesson I continuously need to follow – start with what you need, add from there.
- Joomla Vs Wordpress (articlesbase.com)
- Building Your Location Independent Online Business: Should You Build A Blog Or A Static HTML Website? (locationindependent.com)
- Forum: How To Choose The Right Web Publishing Tool (teemingmedia.com)
- Wordpress.tv broadcasts tutorials and Wordcamp reports (thenextweb.com)
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