samedi 15 juin 2013

How to succeed in your life


The ability to face and overcome the challenges of life is the number one adjective in Personal successful. If you lack the ability to withstand bravely claim, any steps taken in the way of success become meaningless.There are two types of human beings, victors and victims. Victors do not allow parking of anything in the way of their achievements. No obstacle they can not overcome. They see life's challenges as opportunities to improve themselves and their means to work on achievement. Victors realize that without the challenges of life there would be no opportunities for growth and development.Victims on the other side wasted a lot of time thinking about the difficulties that face them. Do not consider challenges, opportunities for improvement, but as reasons to accept failure. When faced with this person any challenge in life is found happily take the easiest way is the lack of resistance and surrender. And even resists any change that might occur in his life and is considered the challenges of life a reason for the withdrawal and submission. That life is not something given to those who do not deserve. Accept the idea that life will not stop for a challenge and you will face a new challenge every day must face and rise above it. The greater the success of increased challenges they face.How to succeed in your life:The first step: Know your intentions and select the target:Know what you want to achieve and why achievement worth the work and effort and time and sacrifice necessary for success. Know exactly who welcomes limit access to him to achieve a goal. You must change your way of thinking and outlook to yourself to continue to achieve your goals. If you in أعماقك not feel confident in your abilities to overcome this success because it will be a reason for failure.Step Two: Be realistic:See for your project from all sides and measure the risk to reward ratio. Be realistic and values ​​of the potential success of the crises and difficulties that may accompany the beginning of any project (investments, liabilities, or structural construction). Put all that in mind, select your goal. When any crises or setbacks see it as part of the growth process and not as an obstacle make you retreat and abandon your primary goal and withdraw. Designed to create opportunities within the setbacks and to resolve any problem to remove the obstacles. That will make you discover the capabilities were not known to exist inside you.Step Three: Know the strengths and weaknesses of your personality:Use your strength citizen and grew and weaknesses powers or tried to get rid of them using your will and desire to succeed. The balance between what is owned by the capabilities and qualities to become someone able to deliver. As an example if you find it difficult to solve the problem of listening to others, you learn to look at others' comments and like Trivia resolved. Listen concentration for who, what, when, where, why in what you hear. Focused attentively how to solve the problem of not listening attentively following this approach, which is trying to find answers to previous questions on what you hear.Step Four: Learn how to be more effective:Ie to become a continuous, negotiator able to solve problems, and an important player in the community. Select need your community and I'm working on finding ways to achieve them. Do not be a mere spectator in your team, your community, your family, etc.. Think of the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people and work to achieve them.Step Five: Be positive:Work to solve problems and find appropriate solutions and continuing each crisis. Think about results and not obstacles. Grew inside your mind the ability to scale the challenges and not overdoing it. The outlook for both Minimize challenges or zooming will affect directly on your self-confidence. The mind is the one who grows up or getting smaller, so it must be developed think it's positive and convince yourself that any problem can be solved with patience and focus and proper mindset. When you have self-confidence to the challenges will consider the positive side and will work to address them.Step Six: inside you grew a passion to reach the results:I love the benefits and the process of achieving the same results. Plant inside you a feeling of happiness and success with every achievement achieve your goals. Happy feeling inadequate, Mark sense of satisfaction of accomplishment achieved and defended a catalyst for the further step and the next stage of success. Keep having this feeling to achieve complete success in your life.Qualities that will help you succeed:

    
Believe in what you do: It's very important to believe in what you're doing. Initially be easy for you focus on what ستربحه to from behind the goal. With the passage of time, forget the excitement that you feel and fade torch that was inside. To avoid so make sure you maintain your vision to achieve the objective and results clear in your mind. Write your goal and implementation process step by step and, if possible, attach a diagram and pictures even motivate you whenever I saw her and see a clear goal in front of your eye with each step are they remain the excitement and motivation within you to complete success.

    
Trust: trust in the beginning may be strong but with the passage of time and the emergence of the obstacles or problems may fade something in something. If this happens Remind yourself that you have the ability to achieve the goal. Renewed your design and adjourned fear and the forces of self-confidence and your insistence on success.

    
Design: faith بهدفك and your ability to achieve is a good start, but you'll also be determined to turn it into reality. Keep your design strong برفضك the submission of the obstacles and problems and remind yourself of the importance of the target you. The design is the torch that will remain in your mind and heart to Tqoak and encourages you to meet the challenges and achieve the goal.

    
Motivation: to remain a catalyst can also be considered as a challenge, especially with the passage of time and fading of excitement and enthusiasm for the goal and feeling turned into just a sense that what you do just plain work. The strength of feeling is incentive Once the decision is simple existence. Find What keeps you motivated to complement the way to achieve the goal. Read articles or books that talk about it, spoke with the successful and hear their success stories and what they did in order to reach their current status, moved away from the losers or desperate.Perception: Be aware and conscious of what is going on inside your head. If you find there is something or act does not achieve your goal or delay it, looking at the roots of the problem and its causes quickly until you return to the correct path and complement the road to success in your life.

How to Succeed in your career


Did you try to make light of the sun through the lens performs aggregated to light; to fall on the white paper?If you have not tried it before, let me describe to you the scene.Simply become the light of the sun, the star, like a point or at most a small circle on the white of the paper,If those lens combined with high strength in the assembly and focus, they can burn the paper or occur where a hole at least!


You might say and what the relationship of my success to those bundled lens and the light of the sun, and those physical experiences, and complex scientific theories?!This may seem at first glance is true, but there is a close relationship between them.The sun in the previous example as a human energies and capabilities ..The bundled lens is the mind's ability to focus ..The hole that occurred in the white paper is a product-minded focus on those energies and investment potential.
The answer to the perplexing questions
Sometimes the human mind stands bewildered; in order to answer some puzzling questions,Like to ask the same of us says:Why be Anjaza for objectives Btia?Or maybe ask another:I've made a lot of effort in studying, but I do not realize highly, why?!Or marvel at the third says:I work long hours, and my colleague at work, working less to me, but it accomplished its goals more quickly and accurately to me, why?!The above is not only simple examples of a torrent of questions and a flood of question marks, and that we can answer them that the main reason is: weakness or maybe lost focus.

The problem is not in the device

Zig Ziegler tells in his book (the success of the starters) for a personal position happened to him and says:(When I participate in a seminar small usually use films transparent means of clarification, and do not always do I adjust the focus of the monitor when I view the first image, and often pretend that I did not notice the problem, and so I continue my conversation with the crowd for several minutes, then I monitor all those individuals who They point their fingers to the device to draw your my attention to the problem,At this point, I say to the fans:In fact, there is no problem in the device itself, just there because it needs to adjust, and likewise the lives of many people such a device, do not simply need only to adjust the focus, surely these people are going in dozens of different directions; As a result, they rarely achieve their goals Home life).
As well as the Dear reader / dear readerThe problem is not the lack of capacities and capabilities; the love of God Almighty by each and every one of us, lies the biggest challenge to us, to adjust the focus on the objectives of life, rather than dispersed among the different tasks of life.
Road to genius
(Genius is the ability to focus on one thing at a time)Thus Zig Ziegler describes the main pillar of genius,Namely, the power of focus, here's the story of a genius of geniuses of the modern era, a world-famous Newton ..
It is a story shows you how to focus while he was doing the work, and how it was his ship to shore genius.


In one day, and while he is busy solving one of the complex scientific problems, Newton forgot to have his breakfast, did not want his wife to go in observance scientific, but at the same time it was concerned by a hungry work.I looked wife often while came to her seller some fresh eggs; was Newton's fond of eating such eggs boiled, but was make it himself on a small stove in a room office, فناولته eggs, and reached out to him in hours and said not to leave the eggs in the water while boiling more than three minutes , and left the room so as not to overburden the world's glory.
But when she returned to take the vessel, including the remains and found the eggs are still in the hands of Newton, also found time soaked in a pot of water boiling long ..And, of course, were not such an exceptional incident in the life of Newton, but tells about his focus a lot of stories and anecdotes.
Obstacles on the road
If the focus is the path to success and genius, but without access to the obstacles, weaken the concentration of one of us and make his mind distracted, distracted, and perhaps for reasons of which the most important are:1 - There is an urgent problem haunt us, the problem may be personal, family or emotional or financial Oajtmaih.2 - anticipating is scary and busy.3 - suffering from a health problem.4 - the occurrence of command leads to intense joy.5 - get used to the live prisoners fantasies and unrealistic fantasies and hung up.6 - To be in the ocean where you live or work in it occupies thought; leads to discomfort, examples include:Arrangement is not appropriate and spam to your room, or the intensity of the noise in your workplace or study.



How can ....?!And the way to overcome those obstacles, and possessing the power of focus needs to be the keys three; to decode the treasure concentration, and these keys are:First Mark your surrounding environment make you focus:1. Contact the place where you sit; Whenever the place was tidy, it was supported by the concentration.2. During a conversation with your colleagues, Mark interest and attention focused on the understanding of what they are saying, not make what Ilbssouna or carry it with them distract your mind.3. Prepare all you need to accomplish your tasks of tools and machinery before starting them; you in order to bring these tools work disperses the center of attention, and weakens the focus.Secondly Mark your health better:There is wisdom says (a healthy mind in a healthy body), and therefore; Here are some suggestions for better health, and a stronger focus:1. If you feel tired stopped on her tasks, and take a share of the relaxation, and close your eyes, take a deep breath several times, then go back to what you are doing then.2. If you feel sluggish, فجدد ventilation in your site, and move a little bit of your place, or March some light exercise for a few minutes.3. Baader treat what ails health problems, and if you suffer from a problem, do not overpay in a hurry, and Atatha thinking bigger than its size.4. Give yourself a sufficient amount of rest before you start thinking and work practice.5. Do not start thinking about important issues immediately after eating, nor during starvation and excessive thirst.
Third trained to focus:1. Promises to yourself to live for حظتك, and limit yourself only with where you are, and try to forget Otttanasy all else.2. Counting numbers in descending order of 100 to one, one by one, like this: 100, 99, 98, etc..Then counted again two by two, like this: 100, 98, 96, 94, ... etc..Then counted again three three, so: 100, 97, 94, 91, etc..Then counted again four four, so: 100, 96, 92, etc..Then counted again five five, so: 100, 95, 90, ... etc..Then counted again six six, thus: 100, 94, 88, etc..Then counted again by sevens, thus: 100, 93, 86, etc..Then counted again eight eight, so: 100, 92, 84, ... etc..Then counted again nine nine, thus: 100, 91, 82, etc..Repeat this exercise once a day for at least a month.
3. Do the following training· Focused on a specific image for a relatively long period, focused in their colors and shapes, size, and everything in it.· Close your eyes, and try to remember everything about this photo.· Open your eyes, and see how much I was able to get the details in your mind.
FinallyIf success and excellence in life depends not only on mental abilities impressive, nor on the effort generous, but we have the power of mastering those capabilities and draws those efforts, and this power is the power to focus on goals, and strive to achieve as quickly and at the best efficiency.And always remember the words of the famous English novelist Charles Dickens, which prescribe you prescription success and says:(I have never been to realize success without habits precision and order, diligence and determination to focus on one work each time

vendredi 7 juin 2013

I'm in my 30's and I Don't Want to Waste Time With the Wrong Men. How Soon Should I Find Out If He's Serious About Marriage and Kids?

Hi Evan,My friends and I are all in the range of early to mid-to somewhat late 30's and this is a very difficult time to find "the one". When I was in my 20's, I never worried about having to find out if my date / bf wanted kids or where he wanted to live or if we have the same ideas about money and spending. We would spend 2 + years together (not worrying about future or marriage) and then break up if we got sick of each other or fell out of love.But now, let's be realistic, how long do we really have to waste? I am almost 33. If I spent 2 years with someone and it didn't work out, I would then be 35, and I want kids!So, at this age, how soon is it okay to have a talk about what we want in life ... 1st, 2nd, 3rd date? What if a guy that is amazing says he is unsure he wants kids and I know I want them? I drop him, right? If a guy in his mid 30's thinks it is ok to date for 2 years and see if it is right, then my instinct is to let him go. By the same token, I feel that it is appropriate to KNOW by 6 months if this person is the one or not. Is this correct? Let me remind you that I'm not talking about people in their 20's who enter into 5-year relationships. My friends and I want to be smart. I just ended a relationship with a guy after 6 months who told me he had serious doubts that I was the one.How long until you should know (at this age) and how long until you should be planning to get engaged / married? I know people that get engaged after 6-8 months because they just know. I do NOT want to waste time. I am still considered young, but one long-term relationship that goes nowhere and I am 1-2 years older! If a guy tells me he wants to date for 2 years, then if we are right, he wants to get married, but then travel for a year before thinking about having kids, shouldn't I run? I hope all of this makes sense. All of my close single girlfriends are in the same boat. We are all in the same age range and try to live by the "rules" of not bringing up marriage and kids and future goals or when we want those things. But shouldn't we talk about that early on, in order to know we are on the same page? I want to date someone that is also looking for "the one" and knows that he wants it soon, just as I do.Thanks so much, SKDear SK,I couldn't be more sympathetic to you. Now that I'm almost 37, most of my friends are in this 35-40 range, and there's no doubt of the psychological toll that being single takes on them. The window to have kids is a narrow one, and, for that reason, it makes everything feel urgent.

    
The window to have kids is a narrow one, and, for that reason, it makes everything feel urgent.I'm confident that just about anyone in your position would feel the exact same as you do. But, like an employee who has to grin and bear it when he's got to work overtime, you have to figure out a way to smile, breathe deeply, and not get overwhelmed by your feelings. First, let's try an exercise. Pretend you're a guy for a second.Now reread your letter. I'll wait.

Dating And Divorce: Is It 'Survival Of The Sluttiest'?

Slutty models
In a Huffington Post article, New York comedian Juliet Jeske lamented that after the end of a nine-year relationship, she no longer knows how to date. She describes her experiences this way:
“As a person who is by nature very direct and to the point, dating is a mystery trapped in a puzzle, tucked in a fireproof safe thrown down a mineshaft. I just can’t figure it out.”
She goes on to say that “It is just sort of expected by many that you start the physical part of the relationship first, and then see if either partner wants to continue after the fact, sort of a try before you buy situation. Sex before emotional attachment, sex before any form of relationship, sex before everything.”
Jeske is complaining specifically about dating in New York, but I think this phenomenon is universal. I mean, how many times have I said that “men look for sex and find love and women look for love and find sex”? What Jeske doesn’t seem to get is that it’s not an either/or.
You don’t have to sleep with a guy on Date 2 just because some other woman will. That other woman is most likely being used and is wondering why all the guys she sleeps with never amount to anything.
What women DO need to understand is that men are driven by attraction, sex and testosterone. And if you think it’s ridiculous that he’s going to want to have a little foreplay before you’re in a relationship, you’re going to be perpetually frustrated by reality.
Instead of complaining that men are interested in sex (duh), how about you figure out a way to better connect with him outside the bedroom during those first few formative weeks/months? And if all he wants is sex, just ditch him. It ain’t that hard.
Read the article here and let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

My Fiancé Has Money and Treats Me Well, But He's Soooo Cheap! What Should I Do?

  1. My Fiancé Has Money and Treats Me Well, But He’s Soooo Cheap! What Should I Do?
  2. Where Do You Draw The Line When Your Girlfriend Asks For Money?
  3. How Much Money is Love Worth?
  4. Do Women Look Down on Men Who Earn Less Than They Do?
  5. What’s the Difference Between Settling and Compromising?

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Do You Need a Man to Make More Money Than You? If So, Why?

My amazing intern forwarded me an article last week that she read on CNN with some not-so-surprising new statistics.
In 2007, 22% of couples showed the woman making more money than the man. That’s up from 4% in 1970.
In this recession, 4.7 million men lost their jobs, compared with 2 million women, thus leaving more women to be the primary breadwinners.

The article points out what I’ve observed previously: the issue these days isn’t so much that the male schoolteacher is “intimidated” by the high-paid female advertising executive (there are some, but you don’t want them anyway), but rather that the high-paid ad exec refuses to date the schoolteacher.
But why is this the case in 2010?
Isn’t the point of being independently wealthy so that you can do what you want, when you want?
Doesn’t the value of being self-sufficient come in not having to worry about someone supporting you?
If you’re a woman who is in the top 10% of earners – and you INSIST that your man out earn you – you’ve now eliminated 90% of the dating population.
For a self-sufficient, high-earning man, a woman’s earning potential carries very little weight. Why? Because we have always been taught that nobody is going to pay our way in life. This gives men the freedom to choose a partner based on what matters most – character, kindness, fun, humor, compatibility – as opposed to mere earning potential. That’s the FREEDOM of making more money.
So why do women treat being high-earners like it’s a curse? “If I make $200,000, then he has to make AT LEAST $200,000.”
I’ve never heard a man say the same thing.
Face it: if you’re a woman who is in the top 10% of earners – and you INSIST that your man out earn you – you’ve now eliminated 90% of the dating population. And that’s before you’ve considered kindness, compatibility, attraction, values, height, weight, age, humor, children, etc. Doesn’t that sound like a self-defeating edict? I’ll say. Which is – in my estimation – one of the main reasons it’s easier for men to find love. We’re not looking at you to support us because we can support ourselves, so we’re free to choose whomever we want.
The question remains: if you can support yourself as well as any man can support himself, what DIFFERENCE does it make what he earns? Why is your boyfriend, the guitarist, “bad husband potential” when his girlfriend, the painter, is just “his girlfriend?” Haven’t we evolved enough to true equality that it doesn’t matter who makes more as long as the couple as a unit is doing okay? Or are women stuck on the old world order where men provided and women took care of the home – even though most $200,000 earning women don’t want to be homemakers? Do women want it both ways? Do you want the option of quitting work and maintaining your high lifestyle, when men don’t have this option? If so, is this the rare double-standard that works in favor of women?
Frankly, I think that successful women holding out for more successful men is as counterproductive as wealthy men doing the same thing – which, as you might have notice, they don’t.
I would love your thoughts on whether women should continue to hold out for men who make more – with these two caveats:
1) Please don’t accuse me of being sexist for making the observation that most women want a man to outearn them. It’s an observation, not a judgment.
2) Please don’t accuse me of encouraging women to date deadbeat slackers with no money, no ambition and tons of credit card debt. It’s not all or nothing. Just as I say you can compromise on chemistry – from a 10 to a 7 – I’m simply wondering aloud why a woman with her own money can’t date a man who makes $45K, the exact same way a man with his own money can date a woman who makes $45K.

mercredi 27 mars 2013

How to Live Your Love (and Make More Money)

 How to Live Your Love (and Make More Money)
Have you ever stopped and thought about how to best share your purpose in life? How do you want to make a difference on this planet while making a lot of money doing what you love?

Throughout school we are told to lower our sights when we dare to entertain the idea that maybe, just maybe we can do what truly inspires us rather than settle for a life fulfilling the wishes of others.

We settle for less than the greatest version of ourselves.

We cheat ourselves (and the people around us who could benefit from our unique offerings and skills) of a life of prosperity, health and contentment. The reason we don't feel fulfilled is because we are not aligning to our highest values ​​... not truly doing in life and not honoring what is unique about us.

The good news is that you don't have to resign yourself to living an average life, with an average wage and average expectations.

So if you want to know how you can make your passion an vital part of your life purpose and earn a truckload of money doing just that, allow me to share his knowledge with you in this talk.

Believe it or not it can be as simple as making a list! Write down a list of one hundred reasons why you are worth twenty million dollars. As you write the list and read it out aloud your mind will start paving neural pathways that say that you are worthy, it is possible and it is important to head in this direction.

What does happiness mean to you?

 What does happiness mean to you?

What does happiness mean to you?Defining happinessDefining happiness can seem as elusive as achieving it. We want to be happy, and we can say whether we are or not, but can it really be defined, studied and measured? And can we use this learning to become happier?Psychologists say yes, and that there are good reasons for doing so. Positive psychology is "the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive." These researchers' work includes studying strengths, positive emotions, resilience, and happiness. Their argument is that only studying psychological disorders gives us just part of the picture of mental health. We will learn more about well-being by studying our strengths and what makes us happy. The hope is that by better understanding human strengths, we can learn new ways to recover from or prevent disorders, and may even learn to become happier.So how do these researchers define happiness? Psychologist Ed Diener, author of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, describes what psychologists call "subjective well-being" as a combination of life satisfaction and having more positive emotions than negative emotions.Martin Seligman, one of the leading researchers in positive psychology and author of Authentic Happiness, describes happiness as having three parts: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. Pleasure is the "feel good" part of happiness. Engagement refers to living a "good life" of work, family, friends, and hobbies. Meaning refers to using our strengths to contribute to a larger purpose. Seligman says that all three are important, but that of the three, engagement and meaning make the most difference to living a happy life.Moment-by-moment vs. long termResearchers also distinguish between the moment-by-moment feeling of happiness produced by positive emotions and how we describe our lives when we think about it. Regardless of whether you had a good day or not, do you describe your life as a happy one? Or describe yourself as a happy person? Psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes this difference as the "experiencing self" and the "remembering self." Psychologists study both to better understand how daily experiences add up to a happy life.Scientifically measuring happinessSince happiness is so subjective, can it really be measured and studied scientifically? Researchers say yes. They believe that we can reliably and honestly self-report our state of happiness and increases and decreases in happiness. After all, isn't our own perception of happiness what matters? And if we can report it, scientists can measure it. Psychologist Daniel Gilbert compares this to optometry: "Optometry is another one of those sciences that is built entirely on people's reports of subjective experience. The one and only way for an optometrist to know what your visual experience is like is to ask you, 'Does it look clearer like this or (click click) like this?' "Research frameworkResearchers have formed a useful framework for studying happiness:

    
* Happiness is made up of pleasure, engagement, and meaning
    
* It involves both daily positive emotions and a global sense that life is worthwhile
    
* People can accurately report their own levels of happinessUsing this framework, researchers are learning more and more all the time about who is happy, what makes them happy, and why.

Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness ShareThis

 Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness ShareThis
As a general rule, human beings adapt quickly to their circumstances because all of us have natural hedonic "set points," to which our bodies are likely to return, like our weight. This is true whether our experiences are marvelous-like winning the lottery-or shattering. Not only did Brickman and his colleagues look at lottery winners but also at 29 people who'd recently become paraplegic or quadriplegic. It turned out the victims of these accidents reported no more unhappy moments than a control group. (This exceptionally counterintuitive finding, however, has not been replicated in a published paper-and subsequent studies have certainly shown that the loss of a spouse or a child can dramatically depress our happiness thermostats, as can sustained unemployment.)There's surprisingly little in the happiness literature about raising children, which in and of itself is odd. Odder still is that most of it suggests children don't make parents any happier. Gilbert wrote only three scant pages about this in Stumbling on Happiness. But he says he's been asked about it on his book tour more than almost anything else. "It really violates our intuition," he says. "Yet every bit of data says children are an extreme source of negative affect, a mild source of negative affect, or none at all. It's hard to find a study where there's one net positive. "(One possible explanation, he says, is that children are sources of transcendent moments, and those highs are what people remember.)"Misery Loves Company" by Open, N.Y.Paradoxes abound. Nebraskans think that Californians are happier, but a study done by the Princeton Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman suggests they aren't. One might expect the homeless of Fresno to be happier than the slum-dwellers of Calcutta, but another study suggests they aren't (probably because Indians don't live in social isolation, as our homeless do). In a 2003 poll by the Roper organization, the Danes, the Americans, and the Australians rated themselves the happiest (Australian buoyancy, such an enduring mystery-they're like an entire nation of people who can't relate to Chekhov). Other polls have found the Swiss happiest, and the Canadians always do well (hardly a surprise to anyone who knows Canadians). Compared with their purchasing power, Latin and South Americans are much happier than one would imagine, and the Japanese are less so, though being happy in Japan might not be a value per se. And every survey agrees on one point: That the people of Eastern European nations-Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Latvia, Belarus, and Bulgaria-consistently rank themselves the least happy, with Russia coming in especially low. (This might explain my own desolate moods. You can take the girl out of Vladivostok, but you can't take Vladivostok out of the girl.) Yet people in the happiest countries are more likely to kill themselves.And no matter where they live, human beings are terrible predictors of what will make them happy. If Stumbling on Happiness tells us anything, it's this. "Imagination," says Gilbert, "is the poor man's wormhole." Our imagination has an odd knack for Photoshopping things in and airbrushing things out, which is why we think that getting back together with our exes is a good idea; it also tends to mistake our present feelings for future ones, which is why, when we decide to marry the right person, we find it unthinkable we'll ever be tempted to sleep with anyone else. At the same time, we forget that our imagination has a miraculous ability to rationalize its way out of grim situations-which is why we're more likely to take a positive view of things we did than things we didn't (so go ahead and ask that woman to marry you), more comfortable with decisions we can't reverse than ones we can, and more apt to make the best of a terrible situation than a merely annoying one.Because our imaginations are limited, we can be disappointed by the things we covet most. But it also means-and this is the gorgeous part-that we're much more likely to cope well with situations we never thought we'd be able to survive. Perhaps the most profound study Gilbert cites is about the disabled, showing that those who are permanently injured say they'd be willing to pay far less to undo their injuries than able-bodied people say they'd pay to prevent them. It's possible, as Gilbert notes, that they may even find some silver lining in their experiences, as when the late Christopher Reeve memorably said, "I didn't appreciate others nearly as much as I do now."Like most New Yorkers I know, I can't imagine living in most other places in the world. My troubles would surely be aggravated, rather than solved, by relocating to Branson. But reading the literature of happiness studies, I can't help but wonder whether we aren't all in the grip of some strange false consciousness. From the point of view of the happiness literature, New Yorkers seem to have been mysteriously seduced into a way of life that conspires, in almost every way, against the most basic level of contentment.

happiness


In the growing field of "happiness research" new studies are turning some well-established theories upside-down, particularly the "set-point" theory of happiness. Now researchers think your permanent 'base' level of happiness can change.Psychologists have generally believed that human happiness (or what psychologists call "subjective well-being") is largely independent of our life circumstances. This explains why the wealthy aren't much happier than the middle class, married people aren't much happier than single people, healthy people aren't much happier than sick people, and so on.It would follow then that changes in life circumstances do not have long-term effects on our happiness. In fact this belief has been the dominant model of subjective well-being: People adapt to major life events, both positive and negative, and our happiness pretty much stays constant through our lives, even if it is occasionally perturbed.This theory predicts that winning the lottery, for example, won't make you happier in the long run. While a divorce or even a major illness will throw your life into upheaval, over the long-run your happiness level will eventually return to where it was at before. It is called the "set-point" theory and employs a term borrowed from the set-point theory of body-weight which states that weight-loss will almost always be temporary.But new research, and reexamination of old research, is challenging some of the these claims. Studies are showing that happiness levels in fact do change; adaptation is not inevitable and life events do matter. The most important variables are that not all life changes are the same and that there are differences in the way that individuals adapt to life changes.With regard to different types of life events, the study's authors noted the different adaptations to marriage on one hand to losing a spouse on the other. "On average, most people adapt quickly to marriage, for example - within just a couple of years, the peak in subjective well-being experienced around the time of getting married returns to its previous levels. People mostly adapt to the sorrows of losing a spouse too, but this takes longer - about 7 years. People who get divorced and people who become unemployed, however, do not, on average, return to the level of happiness they were at previously. The same can be said about physical debilitation. Numerous recent studies have demonstrated that major illnesses and injury result in significant, lasting decreases in subjective-well being.What does all of this theory mean in practice? A lot.If you meet an unhappy single, fall in love, get married and are thrilled to see your new spouse walking around with a smile on their face, be forewarned, withing 3 years of adapting to the new situation they may very likely adapt and return to their previous level. But at the same time it's important to know what is making them relatively unhappy when you met them. It is possible that they were in fact adapting to something bad that happened to them and that their baseline happiness is in fact much higher and that is the level to which they will return. (Note: don't expect to learn this in one speed-dating session.). It's also important to understand the rate of adaption for one individual may be completely different for another.

Your Ticket to Davos

 Your Ticket to Davos
Your Ticket to Davos

Do you have the ultimate idea about how to close the poverty gap? Here's your chance to tell the world. For the fourth year, through the Davos Debates program, one lucky YouTube user will get an all-access pass to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where global leaders gather to tackle the most important issues facing our world.

To enter the running, all you have to do is submit your one-minute video summarizing your ideas on the importance of inclusive growth - a key theme of this year's event. Not sure what inclusive growth really means? Past Davos Debates winners break it down for you here:

The winner with the best video will be selected as an informal YouTube community representative to participate in the Annual Meeting and take part in a special panel during the event. You'll not only have the opportunity to rub elbows with the most powerful leaders in the world, you'll be given a platform to share your views with them.

Travel businesses on YouTube make it easier to get outta town

Planning to get away this spring? Want to see your destination - rather than just read about it? You're not alone. According to our research, nearly half of all travelers watch a travel video online when planning a trip.

YouTube is full of travel-related information from how to ride the Metro in Paris on the GeoBeats Channel to packing tips from travel guru Rick Steves. For businesses looking to reach future travelers video can help visualize destinations and services. Check out a few travel businesses already turning video views into reservations.

Take, for example, Airbnb, a travel business connecting hosts (property managers and owners willing to open their homes to guests) with travelers looking for a home away from home. Their YouTube Channel has gained a large following and millions of video views. By clearly illustrating what they offer and how their service works through how-to videos, such as "How to Airbnb," they've gained credibility and established trust with an active community of intrepid travelers.

 Travel businesses on YouTube make it easier to get outta town
As Virgin America announces more US routes they're using their YouTube Channel to get the word out. Their videos are full of their characteristic quirky humor, like when the infamous Greenman character from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" made an appearance in their video announcing Virgin America's new Philadelphia route.
With white sandy beaches and sparkling blue waters, the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board seems like an obvious fit for online video. But they use video to do more than tempt dreamers looking to escape winter weather. The board uses ads on YouTube to quickly spread relevant news. For example, when an airline recently added new nonstop flights from New York to Nassau, the board was able to show ads about this route to viewers in the New York area - ensuring that they reached the right people with relevant news.
We hope your business can use some of these tips to make your next video campaign take flight! You can learn more about promoting your business, content or cause with online video by joining our conversation on Google+ and adding the YouTube for marketers Google+ page to your circles.

How we're making even more 3D video available on YouTube

Last year we kicked off a beta feature that let creators convert YouTube videos into 3D with a click, and since then you've converted hundreds of thousands of your videos to 3D. Today we're expanding the beta to all of you by adding automatic 3D conversion for short-form videos uploaded in 1080p. Meaning, you can select 3D viewing in the Quality settings (click on the gear icon) on the YouTube player, then pop on your 3D glasses and see YouTube in another dimension. Here's one of our favorites:

 How we're making even more 3D video available on YouTube
How it works

To give you more dimension on 3D, here's some background how the conversion technology works at YouTube. Since last September we've been constantly improving the underlying technology, which now uses several techniques:

    * We use a combination of video characteristics such as color, spatial layout and motion to estimate a depth map for each frame of a monoscopic video sequence
    * We use machine learning from the growing number of true 3D videos on YouTube to learn video depth characteristics and apply them in depth estimation
    * The generated depth map and the original monoscopic frame create a stereo 3D left-right pair, that a stereo display system needs to display a video as 3D

Helping every business play big on YouTube

When Paul Eichen of Rokenbok Toy Company noticed that specialty toy shops were shuttering their doors, he started looking for a new way to introduce customers to his construction toy sets. Paul filmed and uploaded his first video to YouTube, and now it's become his most effective form of advertising with 50 percent of all customers introduced to his products through YouTube.With a global audience of 800 million monthly visitors to YouTube, every day can feel like you're advertising in the Super Bowl, and one video can launch a business. To help even more businesses play big with video, today we're introducing a number of new products, resources, and tools:Google AdWords for video is now available to all. Similar to search advertising-where you pay for clicks and set budgets with bids-we created a new model for video advertising. With Google AdWords for video, you only pay when someone chooses to watch your ad, and you can create and manage video campaigns from the same platform as your search and display ads. You can create an account and start promoting your first video in less than 5 minutes. With AdWords for video you can:

    
* Find the right audience: AdWords for video provides a range of options to reach the right audience. For example, you can promote your video by keyword to appear in YouTube search results, or you can choose to show your ad against content your customers are most interested in - such as sports or music. Connect with your audience on YouTube and the Google Display Network, which includes millions of websites. AdWords for video links to your YouTube account so you can easily start a video campaign with your existing videos.
    
* Measure the effectiveness of your spend: On average, we've found that YouTube video ads drive a 20 percent increase in traffic to your website and a 5 percent increase in searches for your business (Google Campaign Insights, 2011). With AdWords for video you can find out how viewers are engaging with your brand during and after they watch your ad. You can see how many viewers watched your entire video, visited your website, stayed on your channel to watch another video, or subscribed to your channel, after viewing your ad.
    
* Only pay for engaged views: With TrueView video ads you only pay when viewers choose to watch your ad so you aren't charged when viewers skip your ad if they aren't interested or have already seen your video. This means your ad budget is focused on viewers interested in your video. By displaying a call-to-action overlay on your video you can talk about a sale or specific offer to your viewers, share more information about your business, or drive traffic to your website.

samedi 5 janvier 2013

BusinessDictionary.com brand awareness

 BusinessDictionary.com



Extent to which a brand is recognized by potential customers, and is correctly associated with a particular product. Expressed usually as a percentage of target market, brand awareness is the primary goal of advertising in the early months or years of a product's introduction.
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