The purpose of this article is to prevent you from blindly chasing unrealistic dreams, and inform you how to divert your energy to those goals which are meaningful and purposeful to your life and happiness. I dislike using the word deluded, however there is no better word to describe people who, after perhaps years of chasing [...]
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4 Steps to Improving Your Handwriting – However Bad
Whatever your problem is with handwriting, it is very unlikely it cannot be remedied. People of all ages and professions take steps to improve their handwriting and almost always succeed. It’s probably not your fault but due to the way that you were taught. Recently, handwriting has been given less emphasis in schools, partly from [...]
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Memories of high school French or German lessons are what discourage swathes of people from taking up languages later. You might be convinced it’s too late, that you’re too old, or you simply don’t have the “ear” for languages. This post is inspired by Benny the Irish Polyglot. His website focuses on learning languages practically, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to Listen to and Understand Instructions
Do you ever have complete mental blanks when listening to instructions? Staying on task is one thing, but listening to instructions and following them is more difficult than we’re given credit for; and should you miss any of it you’re really screwed. Being able to carry out what people ask, and equally, giving instructions so [...]
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A- grade wannabes everywhere should hopefully get a lot out of this, and even if only 1 tip sticks in your mind it could make a whole lot of difference later on. This article is seriously meaty so you might want to bookmark it if you want to continue reading later. A big mistake that [...]
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Two words: starting tasks. I share your pain if these words present a vision of tedium. Seeing as the words you see now are a result of my starting a task (i.e blogging), it seems apt to present this topic as a second post. With the exception of sinking into the sofa and watching TV, [...]
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