Reinvent Your Career by Writing Your Own Narrative - Christopher Bowe by Christopher Bowe | 1:45 PM May 4, 2012 A topsy-turvy world like the one in which we live offers us tremendous opportunities. But to tap them, we must remove the barriers within ourselves. The crucial barriers are the ways we compartmentalize our experiences — keeping them uniquely bound to one kind of job or career. Not long ago, I had a respected executive recruiter tell me I needed to “climb in a box” — drastically narrow what kind of work I was seeking to do in a new career move in order to get potential employers to fit me into one of the boxes they needed to fill. I’ve made two major career moves in the span of four years. A mixing board is a large, imposing console with hundreds of dials and sliding faders to control volume. To use this as a template for personal innovation, visualize each of your experiences and skills in life as an instrument controlled on a sound mixing board. Here are two simple examples of past experiences I’ve “mixed” higher to innovate me.
Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning - Peter Bregman by Peter Bregman | 11:00 AM May 27, 2009 I was late for my meeting with the CEO of a technology company and I was emailing him from my iPhone as I walked onto the elevator in his company’s office building. I stayed focused on the screen as I rode to the sixth floor. I was still typing with my thumbs when the elevator doors opened and I walked out without looking up. Then I heard a voice behind me, “Wrong floor.” I looked back at the man who was holding the door open for me to get back in; it was the CEO, a big smile on his face. The world is moving fast and it’s only getting faster. So we try to speed up to match the pace of the action around us. But that’s a mistake. Never before has it been so important to say “No.” It’s hard to do because maybe, just maybe, that next piece of information will be the key to our success. A study of car accidents by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute put cameras in cars to see what happens right before an accident.
What You Really Need to Apply for a Job—and What You Don't “An ideal candidate should have a strong marketing background, five years of experience in the consumer goods industry, a track record of designing and running complex marketing campaigns for new consumer products, proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, and a graduate-level degree with a focus on marketing or public relations." How many times have you found your perfect job—and then taken a look at that list of requirements and decided there was just no way you could apply because you didn’t meet every one of the criteria they'd set out? Well, here’s a secret: You don’t really have to. Years of Experience For example: 6-7 years of communications experience Are years of experience an absolute requirement? Of course, if they’re looking for a candidate with 10-15 years of experience and you’re a recent grad, that’s probably not going to fly. Hard Skills For example: Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite Specific Accomplishments Similar rules apply when it comes to industry experience.
Top 10 Things That Determine Happiness | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice photo: meddygarnet Happiness is, by nature, a subjective quality with a definition like a moving target. There is scant evidence — qualitative or quantitative — to lend convincing support to those life variables most critical in determining individual happiness, which is likely why past researchers committed to the scientific method rarely tried to tackle the subject. This is changing. While we’re not entirely convinced of this marriage between science and subjectivity, we can still offer up a top 10 of things that determine human happiness, as supported by this growing body of research. No.10 – Having a short memory Are you one to hold grudges? No.9 – Exacting fairness According to a recently published study in the prestigious journal Nature, people derive more happiness from scenarios and situations that result in a perceived fairness for everyone involved, even when this fairness goes against self-interest or comes at some personal cost. No.8 – Having lots of friendships No.2 – Good genes
Learn to Survive the Most Common Deadly Bites I'd gladly be bitten/stung by any of those things than be stung by a suzumebachi; it's what I'm most afraid of here in my tiny mountain village in Japan. We have giant centipedes (mukade) that are creepy and have a nasty bite, but the suzumebachi will frakkin' kill you... sometimes with one sting. They're the Asian giant hornet, or "sparrow hornet," or "yak-killer" and they kill more people annually in Japan than all other animal attacks/bites/stings *combined*. Also, when they sting you, they emit a pheromone that attracts and enrages other suzumebachi, so as soon as you're stung, you're a walking target for other angry suzumebachi. I've only seen 'em around my village a couple of times, luckily.
5 Steps to Reinvent Yourself “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” ~C. S. Lewis Change means reinvention. Each time a major shift happens in our lives—leaving a job or a relationship, moving, losing a loved one—we have to take control of who we will become or risk never reaching our full potential. I’ve reinvented myself several times in my life. But what I always forget is that we have to choose reinvention. When I’ve waited for my future to find me, I’ve waited in vain, lost in confusion and sadness, or I’ve gotten tangled up in a situation I didn’t want. One morning, after struggling for months with grief and loss, I woke up and realized that I was having so much trouble moving forward partly because I had no idea what it was that I wanted to move toward. That morning, I woke with a vision: a crowd of people from the life I needed to leave behind with the sun rising opposite them and me standing between the two, the sun beating down on my face. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. About Melissa Kirk
6 Amazing Minecraft Creations That Will Blow Your Mind Alright. Maybe “blow your mind” is too extreme of an idiom for something as simple and not-so-mind-blowy as Minecraft. However, some Minecraft creations truly are jaw-droppingly awesome. I don’t really play Minecraft much anymore – I would if I had the time. What Is Minecraft? Back in 2010, Minecraft exploded in popularity all across the Internet because of its simplistic yet strangely alluring gameplay. That’s the basic gist of it. And now, without further ado, here are 6 really cool creations that were made in Minecraft! The Survival Games In March of this year, the highly anticipated movie The Hunger Games made millions of dollars at the box office. The Survival Games is a Minecraft mod that is based on the movie. Minecraft DOTA DOTA, which stands for Defense of the Ancients, is a multiplayer arena game where 10 players (2 teams of 5 players) fight to destroy the other team’s base. Minecraft DOTA does not require any mods at all. Game of Thrones – King’s Landing Middle Earth
THERE’S NO PAINLESS WAY TO KILL YOURSELF Altucher Confidential Posted by James Altucher I gave my 11 year old daughter important advice the other day: there’s no painless way to kill yourself. “What about with a gun?” she said. I told her about a friend of mine who shot himself in the mouth. He put the gun in his mouth and pointed upwards towards the brain. He missed. He shot off half his face, he went blind in one eye, and he is now in a wheelchair. If you type in “I Want to Die” into google, my website is the first result. My first business I sold for $15 million. Mobb Deep would hang out in my office. Then I saw that kids in junior high school were learning HTML. I bought an apartment for millions. Then I started more companies. From June 2000 until September, 2001 I probably lost $1 million a month. I couldn’t stop. I wanted to be loved. Writing this now I even feel like slitting my wrists and stomach. I felt like I was going to die. I lost all my friends. There were no jobs, There was nothing. I tried meditation to calm down but it didn’t work.
3 Free Voice Chat Programs For PC Gamers Voice chat is an important part of the online gaming experience, yet PC gamers are left behind the consoles in this respect. It’s the one (big) disadvantage of gaming on the computer. Yes, we get to install whatever we want – but we also don’t have mandated, centralized services for things like free voice chat. Of course, there are a number of companies that try to rectify this by offering simple, free voice chat for players. Vivox C3 Recently I was tasked with finding a simple, client-to-client voice communication solution to use with a friend while gaming. Vivox C3 is the software we settled on. Voice chat programs are not known for being easy to use. Xfire The Xfire service started in 2003 as a gaming instant messenger and community. Steam and other online stores with built-in communities featured have infringed on this traditional territory, so Xfire now offers free client-to-client voice chat to keep relevant. The application is quick, but it also feels a bit outdated. Mumble