Turning Challenges into OpportunitiesWritten by Jeffrey A. Solochek
Turning Challenge Into Opportunity There is a common saying that whenever you are presented with a problem or a challenge, you should turn it into an opportunity. Some of people who have mastered this concept are; United States Government, Large Corporations, Self Made Millionaires. Was Y2K really a threat? Loot at all companies that made a fortune helping you to become Y2K compliant. When it came right down to wire nothing happened according to predictions, we all remained on Internet, our computers did not crash. Michelangelo virus was yet another example; mass devastation was forecasted, yet few really got hit with virus, but software companies raked it in with increased sales for anti virus software to consumers in a panic. The latest is creation of email postage, as ridiculous as this concept sounds this is just yet another example of big corporations coming up with more and more ways to get American public to bow to control. The general idea behind this is to charge email marketers postage on each email sent out. The bill died pretty quickly but now we have yet another bill called Can/Spam Act just enacted. With this for an email marketer it would mean exorbitant rates just to have privilege of reaching their recipients. Who is behind this? The answer should be obvious; it is big corporations like Microsoft and AOL. I believe Microsoft is charging approximately a $1400.00 licensing fee to email marketers if they wish to be able to deliver their advertisements with MSN or Hotmail email addresses. If that is not bad enough check out latest with Identity Theft issues. It seems as though because of problem being so huge, Credit card companies are now offering Identity Theft protection, yes you can get insurance now incase your identity is stolen, which of course you must pay for. Lets look at this concept for a minute, if you don’t want to lose a bundle getting hit by an ID thief and you cannot be guaranteed your information will stay private, though Privacy Act demands it, you must pay for protection.
| | Be a Storyteller, Not Just a SpeakerWritten by Sandra Schrift
Publishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print fre*e of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address(http://www.schrift.com) in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to sandra@schrift.com Thank you. ___________________________________________________________TITLE: Be a Storyteller, Not Just a Speaker AUTHOR: Sandra Schrift CONTACT: sandra@schrift.com COPYRIGHT: ©2004 by Sandra Schrift. All rights reserved ___________________________________________________________ Be a Storyteller, Not Just a Speaker Stories develop themes. The themes chosen to illustrate possibility of stories are: Relationships, Choice, Creativity, Making a Difference, Celebration. Speakers are ordinarily people, from teachers to grandparents, from mountain climbers to cancer survivors. The platform provides them with a privilege and awesome responsibility to share their stories in a way that helps audience to “wake up.” Good stories make people say, “Wait a minute. I can think or act differently about everything than I did before.” Stories are everywhere. Speakers learn to retrieve them and retell them to audiences as a way to show their humanness to show they care; to open people to possibility thinking and how making mistakes will lead to courage to finally help them succeed. Because most of us delineate our thoughts visually, great stories help to enhance and even transform our lives.
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