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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Monday, 5 July 2010
Conditioned Taste Aversion
Mine is Liver. What is yours?
From
Kendra's Psychology Blog
From
Kendra's Psychology Blog
Kendra Cherry, About.com Guide to Psychology
http://psychology.about.com/b/2010/06/16/what-is-a-conditioned-taste-aversion.htm
What Is a Conditioned Taste Aversion?
Wednesday June 16, 2010
I once had an acquaintance who told a very vivid story about eating a chicken enchilada while on vacation. Hours after eating the enchilada, she became violently ill. For years after that, she was unable to bring herself to eat a chicken enchilada and even felt queasy when she smelled foods that reminded her of that particular dish. This was despite the fact that she knew that her illness was not connected to eating that particular item. In reality, she had picked up a nasty virus from one of her travelling companions who had been ill just days before the trip.
Taste aversions are quite common, and can sometimes last for several years.
Photo courtesy Matka Wariatka / iStockPhoto
These conditioned taste aversions are quite common and can last from a period of days to several years. Consider your own aversions to certain foods. Can you link your distaste for particular items to a period of illness, queasiness or nausea?
Learn more about the characteristics of taste aversions and why they occur.
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Friday, 2 July 2010
How Much Are You Worth?
By: Kyle Lacy on June 17th, 2010 at 5:30 am
http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/how-much-are-you-worth/
How do you rate the your value on the marketplace? How do you figure out how much you are actually worth? How much should you charge a potential client?
Let’s say you determine this through how much and how you are paid. Is that hourly? Salary? Project to project? I read a blog by Seth Godin where he shared a story about a college professor who saved a potentially multi-million dollar project with one simple solution.They paid him $45,000 because if he succeeded they would save millions. The solution was a trip to a hardware store to buy a chemical that would fix the problem. Small solution but big problem without the professor’s knowledge.
Your price tag
Because of this brilliant post, I started thinking about where my value is centered as an individual, as a professional – where does my value lie? Can you actually put a price on someone? Do you have enough “sass” to value yourself above everyone else?
This subject matter leans heavily on whether or not you produce results for the people who pay you. Are you creating quality work for the money? Do you value yourself on the quality or work and what the marketplace is willing to pay? Do you take in the intangibles of branding and personal marketing?
Consider how much we pay doctors. Now, I’m not saying they aren’t valuable. In fact, they are essential. But consider it. If you have a common cold and decide to see the doctor – the doctor then says go home, sleep, drink lots of fluids you’ll be fine in a couple of days – what did you (or your insurance) pay them for? You paid him/her for something only they could tell you with full confidence. So now you know all you had was the common cold, and nothing else.
What I’m ultimately saying is that we are valued on the work we produce, as well as the assumption of the marketplace. If you are assumed valuable, it does help your bottom line as a professional.
Author:
Kyle Lacy writes a regular blog at KyleLacy.com and is founder and CEO of Brandswag, a social media strategy and training company. His blog has been featured on Wall Street Journal’s website and Read Write Web’s daily blog journal. Recently, Kyle was voted as one of the top 150 social media blogs in the world (on two websites), and produces regular keynote speeches across the Midwest. He also just finished writing Twitter Marketing for Dummies by Wiley Publishing.
Life Just Is
Life just is, there is no meaning to it other than the meaning we bring. It just is.
Acceptance just is and when you love something or somebody you accept them as they are. Better to accept than resist, then.
In the nanosecond of 'Here and Now' nothing exists other than what we consciously create and that includes the Past. It is all an act of creation and it is all out there and not back there.
So what is there to resolve?
A past creation constructed from Nothing?
All breakthroughs happen as the result of breakdown, right?
Never lose that extraordinary power that you have right now! It changes lives!
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Success and Failure
One of the presuppositions of NLP is that: ‘There is no such thing as failure – only feedback’
Are we not slightly obsessed with the need to succeed?
Which raises the question. What is Success and come to that, what is failure?
When I reflect on what success is, I get that I have been a success at everything that I have ever done, including my failures.
Be kind to yourselves
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal ~ Mike Ditka
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings ~ Arthur Rubinstein
I don’t know the key to success, but the the key to failure is trying to please everybody ~ Bill Cosby
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do ~ Bob Dylan
Nothing fails like success ~ Gerald Nachman
Addicted to Twitter
By bLaugh on March 12th, 2008
http://blaugh.com/2008/03/12/addicted-to-twitter/
Source: Twitter
Domain: Twitterdicted.com
Author: Chris Pirillo
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