Newsletter 42 - July, 2006

A monthly newsletter to conduct you on the way to successful performance and harmony in your work and personal life. Every issue brings you tips for interviews, resumes, networking, and strategies for career advancement.

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Life in New Mexico
What a beautiful summer we are having! I have discovered where the most impressive gardens are, and I have even timed my evening walks to see the Sandia Mountains when the setting sun brings out their watermelon color glow. Sandia means watermelon in Spanish, and it is a magnificent sight!

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done . . . or in a future which we either long for or dread. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now.

-Storm Jameson

Where is your attention right now? Are you awake and aware of your surroundings?

I hope this reminder brings you squarely into the present. Although it is good to remember favorite events from our past and to be excited about what might happen for us in the future, real joy comes in the journey.

There is a wonderful quote of Thomas J. Leonard that goes, "Make the present incredibly wonderful, and the future will take care of itself."

Our daily lives offer many opportunities for peak experiences, moments when we are feeling our happiest and strongest. This idea is explored thoroughly in "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In it, the author defines flow and offers examples of people achieving flow. Contrary to popular belief, that optimal feeling does not happen when we are at leisure (perhaps reminiscing about the past or dreaming of the future). It is most likely in the midst of intense effort either at work or play.

When we are in the moment, time stands still for us. We appreciate what is around us and whatever is happening to add to our happiness. We feel in control of our actions, and there is a deep sense of exhilaration and enjoyment.

Pay attention. Take time during every day to notice what you appreciate. As you reach your goals or the milestones toward them, congratulate yourself and let the satisfied feeling sink in. Don't travel to your desired destination wearing blinders! Admire the scenery that your daily experiences offer you, whether that scenery is physical or a mental image and feeling. When you are faced with a challenge, think of how you can learn and become stronger by facing it squarely.

a)

Pause at random moments during your day and get awake and aware! Notice your environment. Focus on each of your senses and really pay attention! Gradually slow down your thoughts and emotions.

b)

What can you appreciate and enjoy about the things you are sensing?

c)

Notice how your body feels. Appreciate that you can feel, whether you sense warmth, relaxation, even pain.

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Take note of what is happening to inspire your feeling.

e)

Repeat these steps every day as often as you wish.

Wouldn't it be great if cover letters wrote themselves? Well, don't hold your breath. That won't happen soon. Fortunately, there are plenty of books with sample letters you can use to guide you. These books offer power phrases and other language you can emulate, and I do recommend that you use them for reference. However, before you resort to copying, please pause to sketch out your basic outline and address your unique situation.

Here are essential elements for a cover letter no matter how you finesse the language. Consider each numbered item as the purpose of a paragraph.

There are a number of good books on this topic that you can order directly from my website. Please check it out!

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Just for Fun

My brother sent me the following. Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

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