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Here's part IV of a helpful set of articles on the top spelling blunders in article and blog writing. clicking the link at the end of this article. gfp (2012-02-10) Yo can work your way backwards through the series by

This is a helpful Blog serieson the generic SMART Goal Setting approach.

This is an excellent article that answers the above question simply and well in 2,154 words according to it's entrepreneurial author. gfp (2012-03-09)

When you expect applause, when you do your work in order (and because of) applause, you have sold yourself short. gfp (2012-04-26)

I use Schedule Once to book meetings and let clients do so with me. The basic plan is FREE! gfp (2012-04-02)

This is an excellent article on a strategy for using Facebook Timeline in your HBB or small business.

Business owners take all possible steps to ensure customer satisfaction. One of the most successful and recommended strategies in this regard is to begin with a virtual receptionist service. This service brings in extra representatives for a business and eases the lives of the customers. When the customers have questions or queries to be answered or any problems to be solved, they try to reach the authoritative body telephonically and it is not uncommon for them for not having to been able to do so. This is where the need for virtual receptionists comes in. Virtual receptionists are basically persons who work for the customer support but do not work from the office or any specified location.

When will your Tweets have the best traction! GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-12-03)

An interesting article on male/female relationship issues by Mary Allen & John Cole.

Research participants were more creative when they were exposed to background noise of 70 decibels, comparable to the sound of a moving car 10 meters away, than when they were in a low-noise environment, say Canadian & U.S. university researchers. gfp (2012-03-13)

Rex Murphy feels, and I agree that "...there is no doubt that [anti-Muslim] prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of "Islamophobia" are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam." he states further and I also agree that: " There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality." gfp (2012-03-12)

Is work a 24/7 proposition for you? Has it become a depressing rather than fun activity? Do you not know where to turn to get off the treadmill? This short article by Jim Lang, of the Christian Business Men's Committee has some freedom-producing answers for you! gfp This

Is work a 24/7 proposition for you? Has it become a depressing rather than fun activity? Do you not know where to turn to get off the treadmill? gfp

Do you argue with your colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially partners and other relatives... when they behave irrationally? If you're like me you do because I'm a "Recovering Type 'A' Controlling Personality"! :-) However regardless of your personality type, you are wise not to argue with seemingly irrational people because "Irrationality Isn't Always Stupidity"! gfp (2011-11-23)

Discover in this short article why arguing with an irrational is really dumb as well as a better way to relate to them! GaryFPatton

Few of us are effective questioners. And being good at the skill of asking questions effectively is not just a major underlying part of a manager's job as is the focus in this excellent article. I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! A major life challenge of many of us is that we don't know how to probe the thought process of our bosses, colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially our partners and other relatives. Instead we make ill-informed and unwise assumptions about the basis of their actions and behaviours. And when those assumptions are wrong ...as they usually are..., all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can result. gfp (2011-11-23)

Discover in this article why what you weren't taught in school can be a major draw-back in your career and life!

Peter's article contains a key phrase I have highlighted. I've added how it applies to work experience statements.

""Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. ... "The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata."~ RusseLL Kirk in his 1993 essay "Ten Conservative Principles analysed by Brian Lilley in this short OpEd.

Anne Kreamer shares some helpful and interesting links in her article.

Daniel Goleman has changed his title for inter-personal competencies from "emotional intelligence" to "social intelligence" ...a better descriptor of the skill-set involved.!