Pick Your Big Dream + Defend It - When I Grow Up

Pick Your Big Dream + Defend It - When I Grow Up If Your Dreams Dont Scare You Theyre Not Big Enough by Whimsy Collage This is a quest post from the one and only Jacqui Bryant of Stairwell Spirit. Shes a former client o mine and a current author and writing teacher. Here she shows us not only about picking a Big Dream, but defending it, too! This seems like a no brainerchase your big dream. Youll succeed or fail, all the while life will continue. Unless, like me, youre scared of failure. Not because it would be embarrassing but because if you were to fail at your big dream, could you stand to live in the world after? Its like eating all the best parts of food first and realizing that you have to choke down the rest and it ends up being a horrible taste stuck in your mouth. Im the type of person who saves the best for last and even though I didnt mean to I applied this logic to my big dream. I worked on smaller, back-up dreams that were big dream adjacent, in case my big dream fell through, even though I hadnt started to work on my big dream. Now every time I would suffer a set back in a back-up plan I would take a step closer to my big dream, but I was still afraid to dive in because the results were unforeseeable and Id just failed something big dream adjacent proof that I would probably fail in my big dream. Then got l aid off from my underemployed job. Nothing like being told in 24 hours you wont have a job and realizing about a week later that you also werent getting paid for the past 3 weeks work to boot to bring on sudden clarity. I realized that it really couldnt get much worse for me, career wise at least, and that my safe back-up plan was anything but. The kicker is that I was angry at myself for not realizing this sooner: back-up plans not only will still be there if you fail, they are there for when you fail and not before youve started. Plus your back-up plan will probably seem far more awesome post-failure instead of pre. Once youve picked your big dream, life still wont be easy. Your mind will play all the discouraging comments it can think up on a loop and since youre so creative, youre mind has plenty of material. If youre brave, you may have even shared your big dream with a loved one and they said less than encouraging things. This feeds your negative mindset because the speaker is a supportive person. I cant believe youd want to be a master zookeeper, arent all zoos struggling to stay afloat right now? or Gardening is for old ladies who prune flowers. Theres no money or real education required. Its not you, its them. They are far too supportive for your own good. These people dont have your skill or drive and they probably dont know what theyre talking about. Theyre speaking out of love, but also out of turn. If confrontation isnt your thing, write the person and/or yourself a letter detailing all the things that they said or you thought that are holding you back. I suggest not sending the letter to the person, but if you need to release it, mail it to a dead address or to Frank Warren or burn it. Allow yourself to make peace with the well meaning naysayer. I do highly suggest sticking up for yourself and your dream in the moment. Even a small comment like, Hey small rain cloud, this is my parade can help you feel less like youre dream is ludicrous and more empowered with downing the other person. This is your big dream, its a balloon that will lift you up if you protect it, and drag you down if you dont. Jacqui Bryant’s love for reading, ability to create adventure, and general curiosity for all things unconventional in life may outweigh her ability to write well. But she doesnt think so. Jacqui holds a BA in a couple of different things from Emerson College and posts a new writing or reading prompt, exercise, or trick every Friday at her website Stairwell Spirit.

What Does Work Stand For When Writing a Resume?

What Does Work Stand For When Writing a Resume?What does work stands for when writing a resume? Well, it could very well be that it is so hard to figure out what to write.If you are hiring someone for a job, then what do you do? You try to show your skills as a fit, when you do not even know what to put in the resume? It is because most people have no idea what exactly works and what does not, what a little fact here and there.But do not worry, as I have come up with some guidelines for you, as a job seeker, that will help you choose the right resume, from the right company, and the right experience, that will stand out for the right companies. Here is what to write. Here is what not to do:o Do not forget about the 'WORK FIRST' in your resume. o Do not forget about your professional capabilities, your work habits, even the way you act in the company you want to join.o What does work stand for when writing a resume? I think it means: that in order to get the job you need to go out and show the employer that you know what you are doing.o What does work stand for when writing a resume? The way you dress, the way you talk, the way you carry yourself in the interview. All these things will make a difference to the hiring manager and what they may not want to see.I hope you got the message; what does workstand for when writing a resume. Keep these rules in mind and you will find that your resume will show what you have done in the past.

Email What is the Best Way to Sign One

Email What is the Best Way to Sign One Chances are, the amount of thought you put into firing off an email is minimal at best. And for good reason: You’re a valuable employee in a competitive market, baby. You’ve got bigger fish to fry. But every so often, something throws you off your game. There’s a lunch invitation that needs a tactful workaround, or a high-stakes strategy that needs some rejiggering. Maybe you want to ask your boss for a day off, or a coworker to rethink their happy hour invite list. Next thing you know, you’ve devoted a chunk of your workday to crafting the perfect email, and agonizing over every word. By the time you get to the signature, separating your “bests” from your “kind regards” is usually an afterthought. But is there a right way to end an email? Turns out, there totally is. And it’s how you should sign every email, experts say. Just write “thanks.” The logic is simple. “Thanks” doesn’t come across as stiff, or cloying. It’s appropriate for practically every type of exchange â€" you can use it to end a note to any level, department, or role at your company. And, importantly, it’s more likely to get a response than any other kind of signature. Earlier this year, email scheduling app Boomerang analyzed more 350,000 email threads to see which “closings” got the best response rates. Sign offs that included some variation of “thanks” got a response 62% of the time, compared to a 46% for emails that lacked “thankful” closings. “Closing an email with gratitude is a good bet, especially when you are requesting information or hoping to get someone to respond to your email,” says Brendan Greenley, a data scientist at Boomerang. “These ‘thankful’ email sign-offs even outperformed tried and true closings like ‘best’ and ‘regards’.” Of all the closings in Boomerang’s survey, “thanks in advance” got the best response rate (65.7%) followed by “thanks,” (63%), and “thank you,” (57.9%). “Best” â€" a controversial email closing for years now â€" had the lowest average response rate (51.2%) of all the closings Boomerang studied. But it’s hard to tell exactly why. Greenley cites previous research that found expressing gratitude increases the likelihood of receiving a positive response as one theory to why other closings fared better. Yet, experts agree it’s in bad form. “Striking the right tone in your email sign off is important because it’s the last thing a person reads, and it seals the tone of whatever you’ve sent,” says Brie Reynolds, a career specialist at FlexJobs. “I’d recommend staying away from ‘best.” I’ve heard a number of people comment that it sounds a bit cold or rushed.” Down the line, as companies increase their reliance on instant messaging services like Slack to kill internal email, this will become less of a debate. For now, though, email etiquette is still relevant. And “thanks” is the clear winner. “It works for most situations,” says career consultant Denise Dudley. “Even if you’re unhappy with the person you’re writing to, you’re still thankful that they’re willing to listenâ€"or at least that’s what the ‘thanks’ implies.”