This is how you can use fear to your advantage

This is how you can use fear to your advantageThis is how you can use fear to your advantageFor all the things that were taught in school, the most important lesson we learn in life is one that is a product of the school of hard knocks Fear is our lifelong adversary and friend. Fear is what moves us. Fear is what keeps us in our place. Fear is what pushes us backwards. Fear is what scares us. But boy does fear inspire us. Our quest is to learn how this lifelong adversary and friend can both spur us on, and tear us apart.Think of what an education in life really means. Ask yourself - what does it mean to you?Is it about getting good grades to get a good job? Is it about getting to know yourself in a truer, mora intimate way? Is it about love? Hope? Faith? Knowledge? What are the things that you truly want to comprise your life - system be damned? And what are you willing to do to get them?Every step of your journey fear will be their by your side. So you better get used to it. And i ts helpful to realize that no matter your path, you will learn as much from fear as you will learn from anything else. It will shape you, but you are also empowered to use it to shape the world around you.The Education of LifeWe learn how to read, learn arithmetic, analyze compounds, elements and more, and yet the most important lessons of life overcoming fear and adversity, rebounding from mistakes and failures and developing rock-solid personal and professional relationships come outside of our school system. Were expected to glean these things from parents, friends, even enemies.But what about when we dont?Were left to our own faculties, which are often unable or inexperienced enough to help us with the things that really matter. A great education will take you far. Theres no doubt about it. But where you really go for the win is when you learn how to meld emotional intelligence into your thoughts and actions.Thispiece from Harvard Business Review, by Matt Brubaker and Foster Mob ley, takes into account four great ways to combat fear. Its an excellent step-by-step process to incorporate emotional intelligence and break down four parts of fear and how this cycle manifests itself in our livesStep 1 Acknowledge the Fear In the acknowledge phase, we suggest that people take a close look at their history and examine the choices theyve made and the reasons behind those choices.Step 2 Interrogate the fear to better understand it assess current reality and look at the costs of fear spen(d) time considering what it would mean if (you)failed at something.Step 3 Choose a different course of action. This is about deciding what to do next and making commitments - understanding what truly matters to you.Step 4 Act on that choice - in a way that aligns with your values. The last step is to deliver on your commitments.Attributes like acknowledging, confronting and choosing action and commitment are essential for dealing with fear. This brings out our self-awareness, empat hy, self-care and the courage to combat fear. Absolutely essential for living life on our terms.And yet, so many of us run away from our dreams. Our problem isnt that we arent bold, mindful or thoughtful enough, its that we give-in to fear.Making Your MoveYou can also try this simple exerciseThink about the thing that you love most in life.This may be your family or loved ones, but cast that to the side for a second and place that into a separate bucket. Think about the thing, hobby, activity or venture that you are most passionate about, that gets you excited, inspired, enthused and that truly lights the fire inside of you. What are the things that give color and meaning to your life?The things that you dream about, that deep down your intuition, heart and mind are calling you to do?Now - try this simple exercise Look back at the past six months. How many times have you moved in the direction of this thing during that time period? In fact - if you were to attempt in hindsight to measure your progress toward that thing that you love, how far have you actually traveled?What if I told you that all of the successful people that you admire started out from identical circumstances to you? Im not talking about financial status or class, race or background. Im talking about the mental and emotional states in life. The fight or flight response to tackling your biggest dreams and challenges.We either move in the direction of what we want most, or by not advancing - or perhaps even retreating - we stay stuck. We never find out the answer to one of lifes most important questions What if we actually become who were are destined to be?Its never a question of desire. To want or hope begins in our minds. Then, we have to believe that what we want is possible. Thats called faith. By backing faith with enthusiasm, we have formed a firm, rock-solid foundation of emotional and mental well-being. Without this, its doubtful you will ever be able to do something great.The good nachrichten is - its very likely you already have this. You certainly have this in you, you need to believe and you need to get excited about it.From this seminal moment - this epic life decision point - is the crossroads of whether you will live the life of your dreams or settle for mediocrity. I dont mean to sound dour or pessimistic, in fact, far from it. Im an external optimist. And Im also hear to tell you that this next step - this willingness and wherewithal to overcome fear - is what will make or break you.Counter-Intuitive FightIf youre willing to fight - you first must be willing to mentally and emotionally prepare yourself to overcome that terrible enemy who threatens to thwart you before you even begin. You must overcome the voice inside your head telling you all of the following liesYoure not talented/good/skilled/able enoughYoure too old OR too youngYou dont have enough experienceYou wont know what to do with successYou wont be able to grow your businessYoure bet ter off trying something different this is too toughAnd the list goes on. If youve ever been there before, please, know that Ive been and will continue to be right there with you. And so will the greatest success stories in every field and industry all throughout history. No one knows for sure if theyre ever going to make it. Our success and ideas are dependent on whether tens, hundreds, thousands and millions of other people will accept, need or want themAnd no matter how well researched or prepared we are in the market we aim to penetrate, we will never, ever know until we try. Whether our idea is original or unoriginal, we have to give things a shot.This is why secondly, it all comes down to action. Are you willing to act? Are you willing to go for what you really want? Because if you are, you must turn back to your foundation of desire, faith, and enthusiasm. You must not care what others think. You must fight on by using fear to your advantage. This is how to achieve the greate st hopes and dreams of your life.Face YourFearsJoin my newsletterfor ways to improve your life and confront your biggest fears. Check out my bestselling book,The Value of Youand if youre interested in working with metry me here.

Ten Social Listening Tools to Track your Brand

Ten Social Listening Tools to Track your BrandTen Social Listening Tools to Track your BrandTen Social Listening Tools to Track your Brand M. Rand, President and CEO of Zocalo GroupThese free tools can help you sort through the clutter and master the art of social listening as you evolve into a highly recommendable social business. Google Alerts. Google Alerts are so effective, so simple, and so helpful Im surprised they are still free. Simply type in a search term, like your company name, your CEOs name, or a product name, include what sites Google Alerts should look at - like only in blogs, in the nachrichten or media, or in graphics or videos - and also include how frequently - like daily or weekly - and Google will deliver the information right to your e-mail-nachricht address. Twitter Search. Twitter Search is a great means of hands-on data gathering because the results you get are real time and real special and they arent sugarcoated. Simply use thesearch box and type in a term and see what comes up. You may, or may not, be surprised at what you find.IceRocket. When it comes to social listening, few sources are as rich and bursting with discussion as blogs. IceRocket lets you search not only blogs but also Twitter, Facebook, images, and more to find the latest on whos talking about you and where.Compete.com. Your free Compete.com analytics account allows you to see traffic data for over 1 million websites, discover related sites and competitors, and get monthly updates on your site and more.Technorati. One of the, if not the first search engines devoted to blogs, Technorati tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but it is also the fruchtwein comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.HootSuite. HootSuite is a great free tool for measuring not just your reach but also a whole lot more. According to the companys website, With HootSuites integrated, custom social analytics, youll be able to measure y our campaign performance to help improve your social media communications. Yahoo Small geschftsleben Advisor. Helpful for knowing and growing, Yahoo Small Business Advisor offers a variety of resources like articles, trend watches, columns, and more. In addition, it offers website hosting and a marketing analytics dashboard. BrandMonitor. When it comes to social listening, monitoring is the name of the game. Simply checking in with Facebook and Twitter every now and again isnt good enough. BrandMonitor helps you monitor both your social media reputation as well as that of your competitors, which, as we all know by now, can be just as important. Basic (and free) tools include a social media dashboard, brand sentiment analysis, and daily and weekly e-mail alerts so you can set it and forget it. SocialMention. SocialMention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user-generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information. It allows you to easily track and measure in real time what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the webs social media landscape. SocialMention monitors over 100 social media properties directly including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, and Google. SimplyMeasured. This website has quite a few free reports to download as well.How to Listen to your Company Brand Whats important to remember in the rush - even crush - of tools, data and analytics offered is that nothing can take the place of good old-fashioned observation. What the free tools below do is help gather information. Your team needs to actually sift through that info to find the real insights.Not all of it, of course. What we typically do at Zocalo Groupon any given campaign is sift through a statistically significant hand sampling of the data thats coming in.Whats critical to understand about social listening and a companys or brands ultimate reach in real conversations that are taki ng place both online and off is how social mediaresults Twitter, Facebook, blog and forum mentions are turning up as search engine results.What were learning through online word-of-mouth (WOM) analysis is how thoroughly social media is blanketing how others hear and find out about you, what they hear and find out about you as well as where.Keyword monitoring becomes critical in these online discussions because those keywordsthat are actually being used by consumers about consumer brands wind up rising to the top of the search engine results.Through careful monitoring and measurement, brands can master these keywords and use them to drive online discussions, rather than merely follow them.Which, of course, is what knowing is all about.Excerpted with permission from Highly Recommendedby Paul Rand, reprinted with permission from McGraw-Hill. Copyright 2013Author BioPaul M. Rand is author of Highly Recommended(McGraw-Hill, 2013) and the founder, president and CEO of Zocalo Group,one of the worlds leading digital, social media and word of mouth marketing agencies and one of the fastest growing companies inside Omnicom Group. He served as president of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and is on the board of the national Council of Better Business Bureaus and vice chairman of the Deans Advisory Board for DePaul Universitys Driehaus College of Business and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.

9 signs youre dealing with an emotional manipulator

9 signs youre dealing with an emotional manipulator9 signs youre dealing with an emotional manipulatorWe all know what it feels like to be emotionally manipulated. It can be extremely effective, which is why some unscrupulous individuals do it so much.A few years ago, Facebook, in conjunction with researchers from Cornell and the University of California, conducted an experiment in which they intentionally played with the emotions of 689,000 users by manipulating their feeds so that some users only saw negative stories while others only saw positive stories. Sure enough, when these people posted their own updates, they were greatly influenced by the mood of the posts theyd been shown.Facebook caught a lot of flak over the experiment, primarily because none of the participants gave their consent to join the study. Perhaps mora frightening than Facebooks faux pas was just how easily peoples emotions were manipulated. After all, if Facebook can manipulate your emotions just by tweaking your newsfeed, imagine how much easier this is for a real, live person who knows your weaknesses and triggers. A skilled emotional manipulator can destroy your self-esteem and even make you question your sanity.Its precisely because emotional manipulation can be so destructive that its important for you to recognize it in your own life. Its not as easy as you might think, because emotional manipulators are typically very skillful. They abflug out with subtle manipulation and raise the stakes over time, so slowly that you dont even realize its happening. Fortunately, emotional manipulators are easy enough to spot if you know what to look for.They undermine your faith in your grasp of reality.Emotional manipulators are incredibly skilled liars. They insist an incident didnt happen when it did, and they insist they did or said something when they didnt. The trouble is theyre so good at it that you end up questioning your own sanity. To insist that whatever caused the problem is a figme nt of your imagination is an extremely powerful way of getting out of trouble.Their actions dont match their words.Emotional manipulators will tell you what you want to hear, but their actions are another story. They pledge their support, but, when it comes time to follow through, they act as though your requests are entirely unreasonable. They tell you how lucky they are to know you, and then act as though youre a burden. This is just another way of undermining your belief in your own sanity. They make you question reality as you see it and mold your perception according to what is convenient to them.They are experts at doling out guilt.Emotional manipulators are masters at leveraging your guilt to their advantage. If you bring up something thats bothering you, they make you feel guilty for mentioning it. If you dont, they make you feel guilty for keeping it to yourself and stewing on it. When youre dealing with emotional manipulators, whatever you do is wrong, and, no matter what problems the two of you are having, theyre your fault.They claim the role of the victim.When it comes to emotional manipulators, nothing is ever their fault. No matter what they do - or fail to do - its someone elses fault. Someone else made them do it - and, usually, its you. If you get mad or upset, its your fault for having unreasonable expectations if they get mad, its your fault for upsetting them. Emotional manipulators dont take accountability for anything.They are too much, too soon.Whether its a personal relationship or a business relationship, emotional manipulators always seem to skip a few steps. They share too much too soon- and expect the same from you. They portray vulnerability and sensitivity, but its a ruse. The charade is intended to make you feel special for being let into their inner circle, but its also intended to make you feel not just sorry for them but also responsible for their feelings.They are an emotional black hole.Whatever emotional manipulators ar e feeling, theyre geniuses at sucking everyone around them into those emotions. If theyre in a bad mood, everyone around them knows it. But thats not the worst part theyre so skillful that, not only is everyone aware of their mood, they feel it too. This creates a tendency for people to feel responsible for the manipulators moods and obliged to fix them.They eagerly agree to help - and maybe even volunteer - then act like a martyr.An initial eagerness to help swiftly morphs into sighs, groans, and suggestions that whatever they agreed to do is a huge burden. And, if you shine a spotlight on that reluctance, theyll turn it around on you, assuring you that, of course, they want to help and that youre just being paranoid. The goal? To make you feel guilty, indebted, and maybe even crazy.They always one-up you.No matter what problems you may have, emotional manipulators have it worse. They undermine the legitimacy of your complaints by reminding you that their problems are more seriou s. The message? You have no reason to complain, so shut the heck up.They know all your buttons and dont hesitate to push them.Emotional manipulators know your weak spots, and theyre quick to use that knowledge against you. If youre insecure about your weight, they comment on what you eat or the way your clothes fit if youre worried about an upcoming presentation, they point out how intimidating and judgmental the attendees are. Their awareness of your emotions is off the charts, but they use it to manipulate you, not to make you feel better.- - - Overcoming manipulationEmotional manipulators drive you crazy because their behavior is so irrational. Make no mistake about it- their behavior truly goes against reason, so why do you allow yourself to respond to them emotionally and get sucked into the mix?The more irrational and off-base someone is, the easier it should be for you to remove yourself from their traps. Quit trying to beat them at their own game. Distance yourself from th em emotionally, and approach your interactions with them like theyre a science project (or youre their shrink if you prefer that analogy). You dont need to respond to the emotional chaos- only the facts.Maintaining an emotional distance requires awareness. You cant stop someone from pushing your buttons if you dont recognize when its happening. Sometimes youll find yourself in situations where youll need to regroup and choose the best way forward. This is fine, and you shouldnt be afraid to buy yourself some time to do so.Most people feel as though because they work or live with someone, they have no way to control the chaos. This couldnt be further from the truth. Once youve identified a manipulator, youll begin to find their behavior more predictable and easier to understand. This will equip you to think rationally about when and where you have to put up with them and when and where you dont. You can establish boundaries, but youll have to do so consciously and proactively. If you let things happen naturally, youre bound to find yourself constantly embroiled in difficult conversations. If you set boundaries and decide when and where youll engage a difficult person, you can control much of the chaos. The only trick is to stick to your guns and keep boundaries in place when the person tries to cross them, which they will.Bringing it all togetherEmotional manipulators can undermine your sense of who you are and even make you doubt your own sanity. Remember nobody can manipulate you without your consent and cooperation.What are some other signs of emotional manipulation? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below, as I learn just as much from you as you do from me.Travis Bradberry is the co-author ofEmotional Intelligence 2.0and the cofounder ofTalentSmart.Thiscolumnfirst appeared onLinkedIn.

5 Job Interview Deal Breakers

5 Job Interview Deal Breakers5 Job Interview Deal Breakers*/Read the infographic text.5 JOB INTERVIEW DEAL BREAKERSWhen vorstellungsgesprching candidates for creative roles, what do you consider to be deal breakers*?1. Checking or answering the phone during the interview 77%2. Showing up late without acknowledging it 70%3. Not bringing items that were requested (resume, portfolio, references) 70%4. Wearing improper interview attire 69%5. Speaking poorly of a past job or employer 62%Source The Creative Group survey of 400 advertising and marketing executives in the United States. Multiple responses were permitted.*Something a candidate says or does that will likely discount him/her from consideration. 2015 The Creative Group. A Robert Half Company. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.

The Undisputed Truth About Hotel Manager Resume That the Experts Dont Want You to Know

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Speech Pathology Resume at a Glance

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