More About Writing and Some Writing Basics

In this age of mass-communication, few skills are more important than writing. No matter what your profession, the better you are at conveying your thoughts and ideas through your writing, the easier it will be to accomplish your work and communicate with your customers, your co-workers, and your superiors. A lot of writing I see misses some of the simple basics. Understanding the basic fundamentals is essential to great writing. Whether you are writing KSA’s for a federal job, a resume for employment, emailing a co-worker or your boss, or an article for your blog, writing will play an important role in the success you achieve. Read more

Imagination, A Prescription For Growth

I was inspired to write today when I stumbled upon this quote by Stephen R. Covey.

“You can change. You can live out of your imagination instead of your memory. You can tie yourself to your limitless potential instead of your limiting past.”
— Stephen R. Covey

That statement is profoundly enlightening and authenticates my own fundamental belief that you are the one responsible for making a choice, a commitment to any personal or professional accomplishment you desire to achieve in life. These are words apropos to not only personal success, but also to success in business. We all possess limitless potential or that “master aptitude” defined by Daniel Goleman in my article “Emotional Intelligence, How Do You Measure.” What we don’t all possess is the motivation or commitment to developing those abilities that are affected by that aptitude. Or do we? Read more

Emotional Intelligence, How Do You Measure

Emotional Intelligence, Soft Skills Measuring Stick

You may never really have thought about it before but the soft skills you have developed throughout your life are an essential element to most any employment you seek. In his book Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that it is not your intellect, experience or skills that make you successful; rather, it is your emotional intelligence - how well you can “read” other people’s emotions and feelings in the workplace. Read more

Making Choices and Committing To Them

I spent the evening perusing various titles at one of the local bookstores tonight with a very good friend. Interestingly enough, we both share a commonality in the sort of books we enjoy reading. Not fictional, biographical, home or gardening, but those of self-improvement. No matter how hard I try, I can never, or I should say rarely, read just for the pure entertainment of reading. I always gravitate to the very spiritual, or to titles involving self discovery, understanding, or really boring books about economic globalization and politics, but that’s for another day. Read more

The Write Biz is Born

I would like to share, some experiences and perceptions about my own measurements of success and failure in my professional life that has led to my decision to develop my own on-line business…the-write-biz.com.  We have all experienced success in our lives, as too, failure.   I recently experienced a very disappointing situation while attempting to move up within the organization I currently work for which prompted me to really process and analyze my own definitions of success and failure. Read more