links for 2007-10-10
- Looks like the latest patches for IE are out – get ’em while they’re hot!
- Speed, ’nuff said.
- So. Jaiku has been absorbed by that giant web sponge aka Google. Hmm. I need to think about this one.
How opinions of others shape our self-image
Did you ever stop and think how the opinions of people around you impact your self-image?
While I hope that you’re not self conscious about such things, I do ask how the opinions of your friends or family influence the perception you have of yourself? How do your co-workers or bosses perceptions affect your belief in you?
Often I’ve wondered how much the opinions of our peers impact us, and do we benefit from their views or are they detrimental to our self image? Constructive feedback from individuals is an important tool for each of us to use in continuing to improve ourselves. However, too much information from too small a group can be counter-productive to self improvement.
As an example, I used to detest other people’s criticisms. I still don’t like it, but have learned to listen for the lessons that help me grow as an individual. Sometimes they’re hard to find, occasionally layered under unintentional (even some intentional!) barbs or slights.
There are truths to everything, but learning to find what is valuable and what isn’t can be something of an art form. So how about you? Have you turned personal critiques into tools for improvement? What things have you learned that you would add to make people’s opinions more valuable to you?
Photo credit: Pulpolux!!!
links for 2007-10-06
- These are some of the posts I love. Where a blogger has definite ideas and can simply put them “out there” for others to digest. Good post Chris!
Entertaining month
I’d been kinda busy in September, but not entirely and it really was affecting my posting here on the blog. My search for clients and reliable contract work was disrupting my efforts on this blog (and others) to the extent that all thoughts simply dried up.
Well, Friday of this week was a great day for me. A lot of my worries were laid to rest, and I ran across a great contract opportunity here in Minneapolis. Since I’m unsure of their policies about blogging and whatnot, I’ll not be talking about the client or their business. In any event, writing about business for me is boring since I find the topics of social media & networking, and personal branding much more interesting. However, I’m excited by the direction they’re taking technology-wise and will be on-site most of every week, right on through ’till spring.
So now that that part of life is settling down a bit, I’m already getting back the ability to write without loosing my ideas and not freezing up on the keyboard. It’s been a tough few weeks, but I’m game for the next stage.
Happiness LXII
Wishing your way out of a situation is not going to make it happen. Use your strengths to solve the problem.
October Header Graphic
Hey there! This month’s header pic was snapped just over a week ago in Turtle Lake, WI out on Skinaway Lake. Loved the early color of the trees on the other side and I thought it’d make a great shot.
I agree with @RealJamesWoods 100% on this suggestion!👇👇
It all started under Clinton
In (1993) Soros opened up a (HQ) in (NYC) for his Open Society
a month later ~ the National Voter Registration Act was signed into law by Clinton
Prohibiting the federal form used to require proof of citizenship to register to vote
Also making
HERO 🚨
Nick Shirley is finding so much fraud in CA, that they wanna pass a law that bans him from finding it
Shirley is right over the target... he's put off going to (IL) to go back to (CA)
Hit that like button if you appreciate what this young man is doing for the country
John Thune isn’t fooling anyone with his RINO tactics.
He is trying to delay passage of Voter ID and other crucial bills so that Democrats win the midterms and impeach President Trump.
He needs to be removed as Leader and primaried.
A 20-something kid with a cell phone camera just cut the national budget deficit by exposing hundreds of billions in fraud.
Turns out we didn’t need more taxation.
Only enforcement of our laws.