Define Yourself!Written by Susan Dunn, M.A., Coach
Every time you choose to be with someone, you're defining who you are. People have emotions and emotions are contagious. How you conduct yourself and what values you live by define your culture, just as they do other person's. Businesses have cultures and so do groups, committees, clubs, organizations and any situation where two or more people are together.The most important influence on you is you. You spend more time listening to your own self-talk than to anyone else, so you need to make sure it's kind of culture you want to be in. Is it one of your values to put down other people? If not, why would you then do it to yourself? After that, people in your work and personal life will reflect what kind of environment you've chosen to be in, and what sort of culture you want to live in. Since emotions are contagious, people you're around
| | Specific In Specific OutWritten by Carl Semmelroth
Publishing Guidelines: This article may be freely published and distributed as long as article, bylines, copyright notice, and resource box remain unchanged. If you publish this article in your ezine, newsletter, on your Web site, or elsewhere, please notify Carl at csemmelroth@chartermi.net. ***************************************************************** Specific In Specific Out By Carl Semmelroth Copyright Ó 2002 Most of us grew up using libraries and reference rooms and when we search WWW we take our library habits with us. If we are searching for a date of death for a famous person, say Shakespeare, we proceed like we are in a library. We search for a biography of Shakespeare and proceed to look for his dates. If we are seeking some specific information about Robins, say their life span, we start by looking for information about Robbins. Here's an alternative method for finding specific information. Try typing in Google's search window "Shakespeare died on" or "Robins die" each in quotes. The WWW is now so large that major search engines have stored billions of pages of text. Chances are very good that you will get your answer to a specific question right at top of your search result when you construct a phase that might appear in answer to your
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