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HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED
Be willing to say to yourself, “I’m on the right road. I’m doing OK. I’m succeeding.” We too frequently become adept at pointing out our flaws and identifying failures. Become equally adept at citing your achievements. Identify things you are doing now that you weren’t doing one month ago six months ago a year ago. What habits have changed? Chart your progress.
I bought my first new car when I was 21 years old. It was a bright red convertible. Along with the joy of owning my dream car came the responsibility of paying for it. I remember how the feeling of “buyer’s remorse” plagued me for days after I drove the car off the dealer’s lot. (“Buyer’s remorse” is what we feel after making an impulsive decision …until we can justify our decision with logical reasons.)
After a presentation about the importance of praise and recognition at work today individuals often say something like: “These concepts are great-I wish I could get my manager to thank and appreciate me more!” To which we often reply, “When was the last time you praised your manager?” This often catches people by surprise, as if a manager doesn’t or shouldn’t need thanks or praise. Nothing could be further from the truth.
One strategy for achieving your full leadership potential is to study history, and learn from the mistakes of others. I recently read At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, the definitive 889-page study of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The bountiful human errors of leadership suggest lessons for leaders that may help you prevent your competitors from catching you and your company off guard and asleep.
I’m a big believer in making smart investments — that is, I won’t hesitate to pay for marketing if I have good reason to believe that I’ll reap big profits from the campaign. But at the same time, if there’s an effective, free method of promoting my business, I sure wouldn’t turn it down!
1. Publish a picture of yourself in your ad. This will show people that you’re not hiding behind your web site and you’re not afraid to backup your product.
If you’d like to do business on the Internet, launching a quality web site is an absolute must. Learning how to design your own web site can be a little intimidating. However, there is a wealth of free information available on the Internet to assist you.
With the release of a new version of Flash, Flash movies on Web sites are more popular than ever. While such movies succeed in adding interactivity, animation, and information to a site, some Flash movies can become prohibitively large. After all, not everyone on the Internet has DSL or cable access. Keep in mind that many of your site visitors are still plodding along with dialup access. Although Flash does a respectable job of cutting down the size of movies for Web sites, they can still be quite large. This is bad news for your site visitors viewing your site through the aforementioned slow connections.
What are copyright laws? How do they affect my firm and how do they affect me? What are my responsibilities and why should I care? These are all questions that most developers and website owners have thought about at one item or another. This article deals with all of these questions and it will give you a starting point for your own firm’s copyright protection plan.
Many programmers simply don’t like recursion. The general idea of recursion is one of the more difficult topics to grasp. This is because our cognitive abilities are developed through experience, and the concept of recursion doesn’t occur very frequently in our everyday lives, but it is there if you look hard enough.
