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What is your dating mantra?
 Posted 2/23/2010 5:13:00 AM
One of my friends recently saw a psychic who told her that she needed a dating mantra. The psychic explained that a dating mantra is a phrase that she could repeat over and over to herself so that she could avoid dating the same type of guy over and over.
So my friend went home from that psychic encounter and decided that her mantra needed to be: “I’m not a bandaid!”...yep you guessed it, she was a habitual dater of fixer upper guys...you know the type of person male or female who would prefer to push their problems onto their partner rather than deal with them.
A guy friend of mine has a habit of dating the gold-digging-type of woman who shamelessly takes as much as she can get when he comes home from working up north. I passed along the psychic’s advice to him recently when he was complaining ...
''I’m too busy''
Posted 11/16/2009 8:04:00 AM
I always fear becoming that person that is “too busy” for everyone around them. The person who doesn’t have time to laugh at a joke with a co-worker or listen to the story that a loved one is telling. You ask Mr. or Ms. Busy how they are doing and all they can say is, “I’m really busy.”
I really appreciate those people in the office that despite a hectic schedule or many responsibilities they never make me feel that they are too busy for my quick question. I love those family members who always take the time to take an interest in everything that I am doing no matter what pressing concerns or obligations they have on their mind. It isn’t easy to be the person who is able to keep a cool head and manage all the pressures of life while taking the time for those around them....
Are your ideas STICKY?
Posted 11/10/2009 9:19:00 AM
“Having a good idea isn’t enough--we have to be able to make it stick for it to count” explains author Chip Heath to Meredith Vieira of NBC News’ TODAY.
Packaging your message in such a fashion that it resonates with your audience is an important skill that we all employ at some point or another. For instance, a teacher spends every day trying to make his or her educational message stick with a group of students; a retailer works tirelessly to make information about where to purchase his or her products stick with consumers; and a job applicant carefully prepares for an interview in an effort to make his or her message stick with a potential employer.
The bestselling book, Made to Stick: why some ideas survive and others die discusses practical ways to make your great idea memorable.
The co-authors of Made to Stick, brothers Dan and Chip Heath, ...
Making your own personal newspaper
Posted 10/26/2009 6:16:00 AM
You don’t have time to read the paper, you have too many sites to visit every day and you can’t keep up with your favourite bloggers…it is time to make the information find you. You can use different web services like Netvibes to organize all the important information that you would like see on a regular basis.
Don’t waste time navigating to each website you visit on a regular basis rather insert widgets into your Netvibes page so that you will receive notification when the site or blog is updated. So essentially you can create your own personal newspaper that will bring together all the information that you are looking for. (Editors Note: Don't forget to add iNews880.com into your personal newspaper for all your local news! - blb)
All professionals should take note of this tool to keep track of conversation about their brand or products. You can ...
New relationships + family functions = YIKES!
Posted 10/14/2009 5:55:00 AM
A friend of mine phoned me last week in a panic because the guy with whom she had gone on only a few dates with thought that she ought to come with him to his Family Thanksgiving celebrations and asked if he could come with her to the Turkey Festivities with her family...
I tried to convince her that it was a good thing that he wanted her to meet his family and that he was willing to meet her family but she insisted that it wasn’t. She explained that since they had only gone on a few dates together she really hadn’t gotten a chance to get to know him all that well and hadn’t really decided how she felt about him. She went on, “If I bring him to dinner they are going to ask him a million questions and then the next day they are each going ...
Can guys and girls really be just friends?
Posted 9/29/2009 10:00:00 AM
I have never had a guy friend who I would have considered to be my best friend so I have never understood how a guy and a girl can hang out all the time just the two of them and maintain a strictly platonic friendship.
In almost every situation I have seen where a male and a female spend a great deal of time together "as friends" there is always one person in that friendship who develops deeper feelings for the other person...if not both. Many a male has warned me that when a guy poses as a friend, he is often acting as a sheep in wolf clothing hoping that at some point he will have the opportunity to be more than just your friend. I believe the same can be true of the opposite sex, women often act as a friend waiting for the day that he notices ...
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