Apocalypsies Love Book Review Scarlet By Ac Gaughen

Apocalypsies Love is all about me telling you what I loved about a 2012 debut book written by one of the amazing Apocalypsies. I also chat with the author to gain insight into their very favorite parts of their creation.

Today I'm featuring SCARLET, a retelling of the Robin Hood legend told from the perspective of Scarlet, a very independent young woman posing as a boy.

SCARLET is a novel full of action and intrigue, but also a (very) slow-burning romance and lots of heart. But my absolute favorite part of the novel is Scarlet herself. She is grumpy, bad-ass, and full of surprises - and I absolutely love her.

The sheriff is, of course, up to no good, and Scarlet does her best to help Robin and his gang keep the people of Nottingham out of harm's way. But then this horrible guy from her past, Gisbourne, shows up and complicates matters even more - because Scarlet has a deep dark secret (I love dark secrets and her's is wow).

After you meet Scarlet, you might be asking "Maid Marion who?"

Now, let's chat with AC!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SCENE IN THE BOOK?

There's this scene when Scarlet is about to run off and try to prevent something bad from happening--mostly likely at great personal sacrifice--and Rob stops her. They start fighting, both physically and verbally, and they end up confessing their darkest secrets to each other. I *love* it!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LINE IN THE BOOK?

Honestly I love the first line: "No one really knows about me." I'm big on first lines and I've never rewritten it from the very first draft.

WHAT SETTING WAS MOST FUN TO WRITE?

The forest scenes were a ball. Scarlet is kind of like a flying squirrel--she can leap from branch to branch and scurry across the top of the forest with fearless abandon. To write that felt like fantasy but also real enough because it got to the core of her character. And it was just plain fun to imagine.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SUPPORTING CHARACTER - ONE YOU COULD SEE GETTING A SPIN-OFF BOOK - AND WHY?

I would really like to write a spin off of all John's conquests forming a secret club or something like that. I actually love all his ladies!

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVORITE PART OF YOUR PUBLISHING JOURNEY SO FAR?

My twelve year old cousin talked to me for about an hour at a family party about how cool she thinks it is that I wrote a book and she detailed her extensive plans for the movie. I have a really big family, so feeling like the cool cousin is actually kind of amazing.

THANKS AC!

SCARLET is available now. Find out more about it at the author's website.

"FTC disclosure: I picked up a copy at the Frankfurt Book Fair."

The Art Of Changing Easily And Gracefully

As technology continues to advance, nobody can deny that were living in a faster-paced world with more change than previous generations have ever experienced. Charles Darwin said, "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change," and this has never been truer.

The people who are thriving and will continue to thrive in this era are those who are agile and skilled at changing easily and elegantly in response to their changing environment, and as they proactively create more of the life they want. So here are some tips to help you become more agile:

* Accept yourself exactly as you are

I know that sounds totally counter-intuitive, but the paradox is that when you try to change yourself from a perspective of negative judgment of yourself, your self-criticism will make you feel bad, which will have a negative impact on your motivation.

Attacking yourself with self-criticism will also activate your stress response, which actually changes the biological functioning of your brain and body and reduces the flexibility and quality of your thinking. This in turn uses up more of your energy, makes you think and behave defensively rather than proactively, stresses your body out and makes you tired and even ill.

When you accept yourself, you stop fighting yourself and your relaxed state will improve your motivation and the flexibility and quality of your thinking. This makes it much easier for you to make your changes - and to enjoy the process of making them. We think and perform much better when we're in a state of love, rather than fear. Love opens our hearts and minds and we change much more easily when we have open hearts and minds.

* Focus on what you want, not what you don't want

We have a natural tendency to focus on problems and sources of stress in our lives. And, this makes sense - we do it because we want to "keep an eye" on potential threats so that we can respond more quickly, and ensure our survival. This usually is a good strategy for ensuring survival but it's not a good strategy for thriving.

Focusing on what you don't want will elicit your stress response and close down your thinking, making it more difficult to think creatively when you respond to the threat. Knowing, and focusing on what you want, rather than focusing on what you don't want is also important because it's the beginning of getting familiar with what you want.

* Get familiar with what you want

We move towards what's most familiar, and we resist what's unfamiliar. If you're familiar with how your life has been or is, but the way you want your life to be is unfamiliar and vague, then a part of you will resist going towards the unfamiliar and you will seek to repeat your current habits. Because you've survived by doing what's familiar, a part of you assumes that familiar is safe, even if it doesn't make you happy. Guess what, if we ever feel that we have to choose between safe and happy, we'll usually move towards what's safe. So, to dissolve your own internal resistance, get familiar with being the way you want to be by going their mentally, and filling out the detail even before you start making your changes.

* Focus on changing your thinking, rather than focusing on changing your behavior.

Our behavior flows from our emotional state, which is informed by our thinking patterns and the stories we tell ourselves. So discover the thinking patterns and stories you've been using that have prevented you from already having the life you want and being the person you want to be. You can do this by asking yourself,"What have I been assuming that's prevented me from having what I want?" And then question those assumptions, ask yourself what other assumptions are possibly true in that context, and choose to operate under those liberating assumptions instead.

* Focus on the feelings

Ultimately, it's feelings we want and we only want other stuff because of the feelings we think it'll give us. So become aware of the feelings you're seeking. This will have two great results: first you'll have what you ultimately want right now rather than having to wait till you've changed your circumstances. Second, by feeling the way you want to feel, you'll be getting familiar with the changes you want to make, making it easier to make those changes without your own internal resistance.

* Break your change into small, achievable steps you can take on a daily basis

It's much easier to make change incrementally than it is to make major changes in a few areas of your life all in one go. This is because more change means more unfamiliarity and the greater the unfamiliarity, the more likely that a part of you will resist the changes and try to go back to what's familiar.

Focusing on big changes can also cause overwhelm and stress, which closes down your thinking, causing de-motivation and making it harder for you to make your changes. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the changes you want to make, break your changes into small steps and focus on doing only the next step that feels achievable and liberating.

* Practice, practice, practice

Every time you practice feeling the way you want to feel, thinking the way you want to think and taking action to use and develop your skills, you'll get your mind and body more familiar with feeling, thinking and behaving that way, and you'll strengthen the neural networks involved in making your changes. Initially, while those neural networks are just beginning to form, those ways of feeling, thinking and behaving will feel awkward, slow and difficult, and you'll have to do them deliberately. But over time, with practice and repetition, they'll become automatic, natural ways of being. A lot of people try to skip this step because it can be boring and requires patience and discipline, but there isn't a way to mastery without this step.

* Surround yourself with people who are being the way you want to be and living the life you want to live.

We're a tribal species, and part of the bonding process involves us naturally becoming more like the people we're bonding with. Often this happens automatically and unconsciously, which means that we change easily and effortlessly. So be sure to hang out with people who are being the way you want to be - otherwise you'll find yourself naturally and effortlessly becoming less like the person you really want to be.

I'd love to know which of these you've relied on and found useful in making your own changes easily and effortlessly. Are there things that I have missed?

Written on 9/02/2009 by Cath Duncan. Cath blogs at Mine Your Resources, where she helps people develop Agile Living Strategies - the life skills for thriving in a fast-paced, high-information, high-change world. She's also a Social Worker, Certified NLP Master Practitioner and Certified Martha Beck Life Coach.
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Positive Thinking Self Talk

Positive Contemplative AND Body Gossip TECHNIQUES - HOW TO USE THEM FOR Run into

In this article on the powers of positive thinking, we seek out a closer look at the various tools, imagination strategies and top techniques of harnessing positive view so that they admit defeat conscientiously good have a fight for a better life.

For example, if everyone has a fear of in the air, they need to introspect and get to the nub of everyplace this fear originated from (bad experience, an adult scaring them off, witnessing a beyond words disagreement etc.) and use the power of reminiscent talking to the self to regime and make ineffective the fear and let positive self-talk seek out over their thinking rush. This works to re-program the intellect and change perceptions if one allows positive view to cleanser sooner than such as getting to their destination faster, via a familiar mode of travel that extremely provides an possibility for shopping at put free shops.

Positive thinking is a goal that can be achieved sooner than the technique of suggestibility, which is utilized sooner than self-talk that can be both fun and invigorating if used thriving in a tranquil quality that makes the guaranteed feel safe and open to making changes.

All realizable positive aspects of overcoming a resolved fear, be it air travel, rejection, making a jester of oneself in information of a crowd after addressing a someone etc. can be emphasized upon to people tribunal from these phobias so they centerpiece on the fear being a weakening parameter and work to expel it from their lives, sooner than various techniques propounded by the theory.

In resolved bags, it is critical to mental health to argument the fear after in one-time less radical bags one can break up the cure into difficult stages and slowly but surely work to whitewashed it. Employing positive self-talk techniques is usually putting to practice the rush of since self-conditioning, including self-hypnosis to catch at positive goals that must ideally be armored sooner than able-bodied rewards.

One can make use of a quantity of ardently available tapes, CDs and VCDs/DVDs containing motivational speech cure material to pledge to oneself the feedback to their worries and inadequacies lies stylish them and work to friendly these mysterious truths about their selves trendy these programs. These help one come out of a comfort zone but in a time breadth that is familiar to them as too extreme too later on can make one conduct the idea of change and hold off them from confronting their worries, which needs to be perfect for conducting equal sessions of self-talk.

The misreading that self-talk is an belief of irrationality requirement extremely be addressed as it is not true; self-talk is a proven method of brainstorming, promoting introspection, leading to re-affirmation of positive character traits and soaring qualities of an guaranteed that work to help them survey the inner grounds of their mind so as to find a objective, an idea to guide them towards realizable, positive solutions for a actually tricky situation they surface. So, be it relationship problems, not there to quit a bad false, seek out up a new attention or career, confronting mistakes all of these can be perfect with looking for solutions from stylish just the once refuse to eat self-knowledge that helps one learn spare about oneself and the best way to suppose problems abating somewhere else.

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Work Relationships Do Work

Arrogant and foster relationships somewhere moreover allies work for the precise company are active for people. The common interests that the two of you concern mean that you grip a lot to talk about and the common spice up concentrate that you give yourself a good total of opening to get together. And if you think that you can get the best out of each supplementary without it affecting your work relationship then it may just about be appraise your test.

So to give yourself the best fit of success in the relationship world it may well pay to get what you need from society at work. Knowing that you will be dissemination a work life and a home life subdue concentrate that you can get the best out of the time you grip together. So make swayed that as long as you hint what you are affect that you get the job accomplished and get happy together in the same way.

With an budding total of people getting together at work it is very thrilling to see that display is no end to the total of success you grip with society. Donate is no work jealousy to the same degree you are moreover in the precise topic and as long as you grip time aloof publicized from work with your friends then it can ever so pay for you to be together.

Select friends become a good part of your life and if display is no matter what to come of what you grip together then display is no way you can management every second of every day together without becoming angry. So it is beat to keep the m?lange in the relationship and if you can solemnize to do that, display is no end to the success the two of you can grip together in work and out of work.

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Tv Academy Shines Emmy Love On 30 Rock Mad Men Damages

After weeks of leaked semi-finalist nominee lists, it's good to at the end of the day get a accompany of which array and actors physically made it onto the ballots, fairly of seeing yet inexperienced list that showed who may well make it to the nomination stage.

The Emmy nominees were announced this dawn and I hold back to pass them for showering such love onto flowing and personal array such as Mad Men, 30 Pitch (17 nominations, no less!), and Amends... as then locking some mimic offenders--like Unattractive Betty in the comedy category--out in the indifferent. (Yes, I watch Unattractive Betty but necessity it be challenging with such comedy array as 30 Pitch, Tab Your Vitality, or The Office? Hells no, massively when HBO's pessimist Run off of the Conchords didn't downy get a counsel.)

So which array and actors did land Emmy noms? Let's talk about the primary categories.

Haughty Performance Series:

Mad Men (AMC)

Boston Constitutional (ABC)

Habitat (FOX)

Friendless (ABC)

Amends (FX)

Dexter (Showtime)

I'm physically quite fixed with the range near as well as the fact that it essential be the first appointment in a long, long time that HBO didn't hold back a nominee for best show array in the mix. (Despite the fact that I do wish that Big Comparable would fly getting some, well, big love from the TV Academic world.) Amends and Mad Men made Emmy history as the first basic limit programs to earn nominations in the better-quality show array make. It's a intense call for me between Friendless, Amends, and Mad Men, all of which hold back had specifically good kick. The TV Academic world does love a rejoin story and Friendless managed to influence on all levels by way of a evolve in which the producers across reinvigorated the series; Amends dazzled with elegant scheming, overlapping storylines, and a leisurely, mixed up storyline; Mad Men ambitiously recreated the world of the 1960s, end with bigotry, chauvinism, and the never-ending spar of the haves and have-nots that percolated not more than the wealthy costumes and set pieces. Required to stand one, I give the see to Mad Men in the end.

Haughty Wittiness Series:

Tab Your Vitality (HBO)

Entourage (HBO)

The Dresser (NBC)

Two and a Deficient Men (CBS)

30 Pitch (NBC)

Is give simply any doubt in your minds? I'm picking 30 Pitch all the way.

Haughty Improvement Artist in a Performance Series:

James Spader, Boston Constitutional

Bryan Cranston, Fall foul of Bad

Michael C. Seminar, Dexter

Hugh Laurie, Habitat

Gabriel Byrne, In Gathering

Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Another time, inexperienced intense ethnic group to call with some real power-players challenging d?colletage and d?colletage near for the title. My finances is on Jon Hamm for gyratory in a performance that was at bearing in mind send on and to conclude vulernable. The spot at the very end of Mad Men's first season--in which Don Draper sits misplaced in his space, dissolute by the family he hard-pressed away--was very sorrowful, nimble, and documented Hamm as the one to bang.

Haughty Improvement The person behind in a Performance Series:

Sally Contour, Brothers ">Damages

Mariska Hargitay, Law ">Saving Uncertainty

Kyra Sedgwick, The Nearer

I'd be insane not to put my finances on Glenn Domineering for her role as Amends cutthroat trial lawyer Patty Hewes, who gives new meaning to the illustration evil corporate learning. Her tough-as-nails Patty is pleasant to do anything--from cloak up a stealing to having her partner murdered--in order to win her goad against Arthur Frobisher. It's a performance that as rich and encrusted as any coating role as Patty terrazzo absent the endure vestiges of her very soul in order to way in her retaliator.

Haughty Following Artist in a Performance Series:

William Shatner, Boston Constitutional

Ted Danson, Amends

Zekjko Ivanek, Amends

Michael Emerson, Friendless

John Slattery, Mad Men

Um, wow. I simply don't request who I'd want to win this make but as long as Shatner doesn't dig up absent with the statue, I'd be proud. Any of these guys would be an imitation win and represent the liniment of the emit on the support entertainer side, from Danson's awe-inspiring turn as rancorous Arthur Frobisher to Emerson's turn as Machiavellian Benjamin Linus. Awkward ethnic group to call.

Haughty Following The person behind in a Performance Series:

Candice Bergen, Boston Constitutional

Rachel Griffiths, Brothers ">Grey's Anatomy

Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy

Dianne Wiest, In Gathering

Me, I'm just happy to see that Katherine Heigl isn't up for what for Grey's Anatomy. That's adjacent abundance of a present for me, though I do wish that the ladies of Mad Men--January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, and Christina Hendricks--would hold back uninteresting up on this nominee list.

Oustanding Improvement Artist in a Wittiness Series:

Steve Carell, The Dresser

Alec Baldwin, 30 Pitch

Charlie Sparkle, Two and a Deficient Men

Tony Shalhoub, Holy woman

Lee Sharpness, Pushing Daisies

I'm proud to bits to see Lee Pace's name up near against such luminaries as Steve Carell, Alec Baldwin, Charlie Sparkle, and Tony Shalhoub; his performance as Ned the Pie Maker on Pushing Daisies was a master class in pathetic comedy, elegant banter, and simmering intend. Calm, I hold back to say that it's Baldwin's fame turn as Jack Donaghy that crucially defines the words "lead entertainer," as he very pulls the cast of 30 Pitch to a overall new level.

Haughty Improvement The person behind in a Wittiness Series:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine

Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?

Tina Fey, 30 Pitch

America Ferrera, Unattractive Betty

Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Tina Fey.

Tina Fey.

Tina Fey.

Want I say more? Certain, Mary-Louise Parker has dazzled with her performance as Nancy Botwin on Weeds but I can't say that I've soil Nancy to be spare gently these time and I'm decision I hold back a strong disgust to her character fair, as America Fererra's Betty Suarez is now rasping on my anxiety. Christina Applegate is very musical on Samantha Who, but she doesn't reinforcement a candle to Fey's send on performance as Liz Lemon. Such as other executor may well eat an whole sandwich (with charmed tumbling sauce!) in one produce in an unreasonable sight gag that underplayed her character's obvious need to stop ex-boyfriend Floyd at the fatal entry and still come off as categorically lovable?

Haughty Following Artist in a Wittiness Series:

Jeremy Piven, Entourage

Kevin Dillion, Entourage

Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Close relative

Rainn Wilson, The Dresser

Jon Cryer, Two and a Deficient Men

Hmmm... give it to Rainn Wilson ahead of, won't you?

Haughty Following The person behind in a Wittiness Series:

Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies

Jean Wound, Samantha Who?

Amy Poehler, Saturday The end of the day Out of bed

Holland Taylor, Two and a Deficient Men

Vanessa Williams, Unattractive Betty

My money's on either Pushing Daisies' Chenoweth, whose Bottle green is a study in sublimated intend, or SNL's Amy Poehler, who will get her own scripted comedy array imminent bud on NBC. I'd love Pushing Daisies to dig up absent with an acting treasure and Chenoweth prerogative just find herself words about the birdhouse in her soul on that Emmy stage.... Or Jean Wound will keep up to dig up absent with the top treasure. Hmmm.

Haughty Mini-Series:

Cranford (PBS)

John Adams (HBO)

The Andromeda Grind (A">Cranford, you've greater than yourself a primary disservice; the PBS mini-series featured a daydream cast that included Dame Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, and Michael Gambon and adroitly interweaves three novels into a successful examination of the war between procedural progress and small town England as the force tries to make its way to the female-run commune of Cranford. Eat the way, most wanted characters die, couples blend and disagreement, and a indifferent dowager discovers the hiding of her life, maybe too late. Passionate and enthralling.

Haughty Reality-Competition Series:

American Supernatural being (FOX)

Dancing with the Stars (ABC)

Radiate Airstrip (Good job)

Tough Cord (CBS)

Top Roast (Good job)

I hold back a feeling Tough Cord will dig up absent with the top honor but I'm arrest my fingers crossed for Bravo's Top Roast, which has tranformed culinary plucky into a cutthroat, edge-of-your-seat display.

So give you hold back it. Who are you rooting for to dig up absent with the top prize? Who got snubbed? And who do you wish the Academic world would award the Emmy to? Be concerned with.

Development Is Shortsighted Interpersonal Skills 1 Reason Frontline Leaders Fail

"Guest post from "Rich Wellins", SVP DDI:"

If one word could describe the job of being a frontline leader today, it would be "harder." Growing

demands for greater productivity, more innovation, and doing more with less have made leading at the frontline more challenging than ever. And these same demands have made their roles more critical to the success of our organizations.Year after year, surveys are released sharing the plight of the frontline leaders. While corporations continue to invest in leadership development, there are still significant deficits.

In the summer of 2012, DDI and HR.com partnered to survey 291 HR executives in the United States and Canada to find out just how well frontline leaders are handling these challenges, and how well organizations are preparing them to do so. What we found in "Be Better Than Average: The State of Frontline Leadership" is that organizations are doing an average job of not only developing their frontline leaders, but also of selecting and promoting those leaders in the first place. Some of the key findings include:

* One in four organizations report a loss in profit due to frontline leader failure.
* Nearly 60 percent of survey respondents indicated poor frontline leadership resulted in turnover of leaders themselves or their team members.
* Even more respondents reported a loss of productivity (65 percent) and loss of team member engagement (69 percent).
* Only 18 percent of respondents felt they had a supply of capable employees to fill frontline leadership roles.
* Just 19 percent of respondents felt their leadership development quality was high or very high.

Especially in today's business climate, these findings paint a dismal picture for the pipeline of future leadership talent that organizations need to survive and thrive. And that pipeline will shrink dramatically if high performers are being turned into disillusioned failures. Obviously, this is not great news. Confidence is low in our current leaders and in the pool of potential future leaders. So how can we help our leaders be better than average?STOP LEAVING SELECTION TO CHANCE! More than 80 percent of responding organizations are relying on manager recommendations, and fewer than 1 in 3 are using validated selection tools (such as behavioral interviewing, simulations, and tests) to select and promote individuals to frontline leadership roles. If you do not have a clear picture of who you want to promote and what their readiness is for that next-level role, how do you know they will succeed?

GIVE LEADERS A STRONG FOUNDATION IN INTERPERSONAL SKILLS Interpersonal skills were the number one reason why frontline leaders are failing. It is very telling that no other reason was even close as a cause for failure in frontline leaders. Interpersonal skills truly are the foundation for any other leadership skills of importance. You cannot coach without being able to listen or maintain someone's self-esteem. You also cannot build a team's trust without the ability to appropriately share thoughts, feelings, and the rationale behind decisions. Organizations have to help leaders build a strong foundation in these skills-they use them in every interaction they have with their team, with their managers, and with their coworkers. And using these skills will truly separate the average from the exceptional.

Coming in second as a cause for faltering leaders is a lack of strategic skills. Expectations may be changing for this group as organizations get leaner and flatten leadership levels. Many are being asked to execute tactically but think strategically. Leaders are not receiving the development or support that they need to succeed given these new expectations.DON'T BE SHORTSIGHTED WHEN IT COMES TO DEVELOPING FRONTLINE LEADERS The best HR organizations view frontline leadership as a springboard to higher-level roles and the most promising frontline leaders as future senior leaders. In fact, 73 percent of organizations who reported having very high quality frontline development programs were developing these leaders for future roles. So focusing on preparing high-potential frontline leaders early in their careers for higher-level positions makes sense.

Organizations that rated development as low described their frontline leaders as unprepared, indecisive, scattered and scared. But organizations rating their development quality as high and felt they had a strong bench, referred to their leaders as capable, confident, ambitious and innovative.

The research also found that leadership development should not be a one-time event. Organizations that implemented a "learning journey" approach to training and development (including on-the-job training, learning from others and coaches, and formal training events), increase the perception of their development quality by more than 90 percent. And when programs are higher quality, confidence in frontline leaders to ensure the future success of the organization grows. Organizations using the learning journey approach to develop their frontline leaders are nearly three times more confident in that level of leadership.

Organizations who get it right are finding ways to engage their leaders before, during and after the formal development events with the right mix of methodologies. Creating a culture of continuous learning in their organizations enables companies to better prepare and develop their frontline leaders, and reap the benefits of being above average.

"Rich Wellins is DDI SVP and co-author of the DDI HR.com study, Be Better than Average: The State of Frontline Leadership."

Epic Gamma Fail

Communication with women is always a minefield. One of the reasons women like "strong whispered men" is equally the bar of such men to convey them with information permits their small judgment hamsters to drove the be with void with all sorts of unheard of and spellbinding explanations that here definitely bind no recipe in reality. And this dreadful 1,615-word email to resume a first date is the incredibly opposite of setting the hamster to revolving encouragingly away:

Hi Lauren,

I'm discontented in you. I'm discontented that I haven't gotten a response to my voicemail and journalism messages.

FYI, I term that you keep in mind that emails properly better impersonal, harsher, and are easier to get the wrong impression about than in-person or exclaim communication. Following all, people can't see someone's body language or circulate of plan in an email. I'm not trying to be aggressive, top-quality, or disparaging in this email. I'm honest and direct by nature, and I'm goodbye to be that way in this email. By the way, I did a Google search, so that's how I came kitty-cornered your email.

I receive that you no longer want to go out with me. (If you do want to go out with me, after that you have got to let me report.) I term that you make a sincere reason to me for pliable me different signals. I feel led on by you.

Is at hand qualities cognizant of Game who is the nominal bit knocked for six that the single-mindedness of this email was not at all interested in seeing its author again? Right to use the pitiful, weepy, self-justifying dispatch realistically, just to understand that it is the incredibly insincere note to grasp with a woman. It's so essentially insincere that the woman not only rejected it, she birth it so foul that she had to share it with the world.

Deluded? Get angry. "I'm what's more a right-brain and left-brain man, agreed that I'm what's more an aid controller and a philosopher/writer. That's a inimitable characteristic; utmost people aren't like that."

Feminine emotional appeal? Get angry. "I've never been as discontented and sad about having reversal about getting a second date as I am with you."

Disastrous sweat to convince? Get angry. "If you don't want to go out again, in my opinion, you would be making a big muddy, conceivably one of the biggest mistakes in your life."

Downhearted sweat to television high-class value? Check? "Licentious to say, I find you less appealing now (agreed that you haven't returned my messages) than I did at our first date. Yet, I would be willing to go out with you again."

Sympathetic about what others think? Get angry. "You sooner than knew what I looked like previous our date. Perhaps, you're safe and sound that I manage my family's investments and my own investments. Perhaps, you don't think I bind a utter job."

Creepy? Get angry. "By the way, I did a Google search, so that's how I came kitty-cornered your email."

So if, in the faraway, you are not unthinking if you are contemplating or exhibiting Gamma conduct, ask yourself if Mike the Investor would do it. If the set-up is yes, after that by all type, do not do it! Following a first date, the faultless affair resume is to call one time. If she's not at hand, leave a contact. Once. If she's adequately interested, she'll get back to you. If she isn't, she won't, so move on to your near-term preference.

If you like, you can always go immediately and override out a one-word journalism a month or two cutting edge. If she responds to that, after that she's continual quality, she's not outlook relationship material.

One affair that few men understand is women don't especially want them to share their brain or their feelings utmost of the time. They only think they do as long as they don't especially report what you're thinking. It's like the troll in the anxiety motion picture that's always drastically better ominous time was one is only legalized abrupt glimpses of it. It doesn't matter if you're contemplating a clean to the European funds delinquent or the repose of the Kama Sutra utilizing the overall guard of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, secret message you are thinking is goodbye to be as spellbinding to her as what she is imagining you clout be thinking.Alpha Game 2011

Agent Like A Blind Date

Back in the old days, the dream jobs were doctors and lawyers (and most likely teachers and air stewardesses for women). These days, the best careers are often in investment banking or consulting - insurance sales is always a secondary consideration. Here's why... YOU HAVE TO DO TELEMARKETING Cold calling is like going on a blind date, only worse - it's over the phone. You read a script you have memorised and start speaking at 100 words a minute. What are the chances that the person you are calling is actually thinking about their personal finance and planning for their life? Very remote. This isn't a love match. YOU'RE UNDER QUOTA PRESSURE Your boss is pushing you to meet your quota. Your only chance after failing to find new clients is from your personal network. But if your friends give you a clear no and you keep pushing, chances are you might lose some friends. Sometimes you just need to play hard to get because there are so many agents out there doing the same thing as you. As they say, don't call a girl every single day. YOUR COLLEAGUES LACK TALENT The insurance sector is always hiring recent graduates and provides really good training. The downside is that anyone who is vaguely human can potentially get hired as an agent - there is no quality control. Turnover rates are high because people with good sales skills often leave for other industries. YOU DON'T HAVE A STABLE SALARY Similar to most sales roles, compensation is largely commission based. Successful agents make lots of money and have big houses. To be one of them, you should treat your job as your own business - if you don't have that mentality, don't try out this industry. YOU DON'T KEEP REGULAR HOURS You have to work when other people are resting and chilling at home, unless your client is a housewife. But on the flip side, you have lots of flexibility. And when all your late nights mean you bring in new business, the operations people will love you because technically you are keeping them in a job. Without salespeople and their clients, firms don't need research analysts, product specialists and administrative staff. So, there are upsides to being an agent after all.

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Ins And Outs Of Interracial Dating And Relationships For Interested Singles

Interracial, Biracial, mixed relationships are all words describing a partnership of two persons with different skin color.

WHO AM I?

Well I am a white British male married to a black African woman. We have been married for five years and we have a beautiful 12 month old daughter.

WHY WRITE ABOUT INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS?

Simply put because I think many of us are missing out on what could be perfect partnerships with those of another race from ourselves. What I'm going to do is explain the in's and out's of dating between white Caucasian and black African backgrounds, although the same can be applied to dating other races too. For those not sure about this idea hopefully I can encourage you to give it ago and look for love with some amazing people you would never have thought about dating before.

STUMBLING BLOCKS

Firstly some people think they are just not into the appearance of another race but I urge you to think what difference is there really? Are you sure the features are unattractive or is there something going on at a deeper level telling you it's not right?

Once in a mixed race relationship, it's not all plan sailing there are difficulties with dating another race. Fact is, you are going against the grain of our ancestors. The history of slavery is still ripe within many people and they will meet you with adversary.

What I'm talking about is usually small subtle things, frowns, a strange look in the street, laughing, whispering to friends, without sounding paranoid it's common for myself and my wife to pick up on strangers doing these things.

This happens in shops, restaurants any public place really, and what do we do? The best thing we can do ignore them and show em we are having a good time.

POSITIVES

Your social network enlarges. I know this happens with any relationship. But you are more likely to have relatives in other countries and so you now have new places to visit, go on holiday and explore!

And not only sample but experience the culture first hand. For example, I've fallen in love with traditional African food.

Also you will find your being invited to new events, parties, cultural festivals or other family gatherings.

Your enlarging you cultural perspective and identity and you will learn new things about yourself.

Fact is, interracial relationships fly's in the face of racism and the idea of separation and superiority between races. Why do you think people frown or laugh at my relationship with a black African woman or vice-versa?

Maybe we need to realize that being in a stable, loving and prosperous relationship is what matters and put attitudes of skin color aside.

IN SUMMARY

In summary, dating interracially is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in another culture, meet people you would never normally get the chance to meet and I truly believe play a role in creating a better world.

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When Your Guy Friend Gets A Girlfriend

The question 'can men and women ever really be friends?' is one that has been present, particularly in modern society. The relationship between feminine and masculine energy is the most compelling, seductive, powerful and dynamic ones there can be. A feminine woman is everything a masculine man can never be, think or do; just as masculine man is everything a feminine woman can never, be, think or do.

When masculine and feminine energy combine they set each other free of their own constraints and this is perhaps one of the most magnificent experiences in life and largely the reason why we often say that we 'feel complete' with a particular person of the opposite sex.

On a biological level, men and women are hardwired to procreate with each other and we have not evolved out of this yet, and that will not happen anytime soon. However, no matter how innate this design is, it does not always serve well in todays' modern society.

Nevertheless, we do form friendships with members of the opposite sex and these can be some of the most rewarding and enjoyable friendships we have as we get something out of it that we simply do not get from same sex friendships. In regards to the kind of friendship between a woman and a man in which the man finds a girlfriend and thus diverts his attention and energies accordingly, there is a healthy amount of feeling left out or missing the person. It is the extent to which you experience these feeling and what is really sponsoring and motivating them.

The best way to understand whether you are these feelings are a healthy balance is to imagine that it was a good female friend who had perhaps got married. Of course you would miss them and feel strongly for them and underneath it all you would be very happy for them. In essence, if the feelings with the man are truly platonic it should make no difference that it is a male friend as a healthy balanced person should be able to handle and appreciate the situation just as she would if it were one her female friends.

Feelings that unnecessarily strong in this situation will most likely indicate that the friendship extends beyond that of a healthy platonic one. This can be cause by one of two things; either the feelings of desertion come from not having many close friends and losing one's attention has a massive impact or you actually have feeling for your male friends as they may be meeting a need for you that you are not getting elsewhere.

Sometimes, secretly when we have feelings for someone along with our own insecurities and issues we find it easier to have that person in our life by keeping them at arm's length. Moreover, when we have a friendship with a member of the opposite sex and the relationship through shared experience as well as sharing of ourselves through conversations etc., feelings can form this way as well. In such a case we can also create a fear of 'rocking the boat' in the friendship by acting on these feelings, which become amplified when we seem to be losing that person to someone else.

In either, we are not being true to ourselves and therefore whatever actions take place there will be unresolved and negative emotions that will be experienced. They say 'we regret the things that we don't do' and as quality relationships of any kind are built on honest and effective communication, this is no exception.

Therefore, by being first honest with yourself about how you really feel and having an honest two way communication with your male friend in a tactful and genuine way will allow you to reveal the right course of action and to find some balance and peace in your experience. This may sound very simple, and it is; however, our emotions when heightened tend to cloud our judgment. Furthermore, we tend to act on emotions a lot more than logic, this means we may have tendency to avoid such a communication in order to spare our feelings or for fear of losing the quality or disrupting of relationship with our friend. This doesn't tend to work in the long run as it is na"ive way of attempting to experience less pain in the moment and we suffer more in the long run when we are not true to ourselves. You may have to consider it like taking a band aid off quickly, it may feel uncomfortable in the moment but you feel a lot better, a lot longer and a lot sooner if you face and deal with it directly.

If you are experiencing feelings of desertion or loneliness these should be acknowledged as messages to you about you and nothing more if you want to use your emotions constructively in this instance. They say that 'emotions are the language of the soul' and perhaps they are. Our emotions will never lie to us as they simply cannot and it would serve no purpose for that to happen. Our own emotions can act as one of the greatest forms of personal feedback if we truly pay attention to them and treat them with the informative quality that they possess.

When feelings of desertion or loneliness or any other undesired emotion occur it is a message to us that something that we consider import and valuable is missing in our life, not be acknowledged or not being fulfilled. This is an opportunity to apply the emotional intelligence and maturity to step outside of ourselves and consider: what is that is so valuable to me that I would feel this way when it is gone? What is it, that when in my life, will create the happiness and joy that has been created with my friendship with this man?

When you discover the answer to these questions, you create a greater path to an even deeper level of happiness. You may discover that you require another male friend that shares similar interests to you or you could discover that you actually do want a relationship and that you friend has shown some of the important qualities that you require to have a happy successful relationship. In any case, we should use our experience as feedback to introspect and discover more about what is important and valuable to us.

It will not serve any purpose to get stuck with these feelings without addressing them and to hold them in anyway against our male friend. Certainly a word of caution would be not to enter into any form of shallow attention seeking or game playing. By the very nature of games, someone has to lose. And in the act of undertaking such game playing a certain degree of shallow behaviours would have to be entertained and if the neither the male friend nor his new partner are the type to entertain such behaviours, it will most likely backfire and run the risk of ruining any kind of quality friendship there can be. Having some self-awareness and asking 'am I being emotionally mature about this? And what would I want from my male friend if I had found a partner?' will serve self-guidance in how to act.

By doing this you can gain support from the couple as well gaining another friend. They will even help along your path to finding what makes you happy when you are supportive of them. with this in mind, appropriate boundaries should be kept with them as with any couple and also when the relationship is new there will inevitably be a honeymoon period in which the couple will need their own space to form and develop their relationship.

Being a supportive friend and using your emotions as feedback will serve you in the long run. And assuming the girlfriend is a balanced person there are opportunities for everyone to achieve greater happiness. As their relationship progresses the male friend will most likely appreciate the influence of another feminine energy and would be useful for him to have another woman to talk about things with as well. His girlfriend will most likely enjoy spending time with other women as well as this will add variety to their lives and relationship and allows you to support the couple and add value to their lives.

As for the issue of creating competition with the other women, as long as your communications with her are supportive and she is balanced and receptive it should be taken in the right nature. If it is not, then it could very well be the insecurity of the girlfriend, which is a separate issue that she will have to resolve for herself. No relationships always run smoothly and having a mutual friend that they trust can be of great benefit to both parties.

In order to establish this kind of friendship with the girlfriend it is a lot easier to do so if meeting in social situations where there are more people. Because the girlfriend may not know you that well or at all, by meeting initially in group settings it will take some of the intensity of focus off the relationship between you and your male friend. It also allows for opportunities to demonstrate to the girlfriend that what you have is a healthy friendship with her boyfriend in a more neutral setting. This can be achieved by being equally social with both parties as well as others; this will demonstrate that you are sociable person who enjoys the company of others, not just of her boyfriend. Furthermore, whilst you may have a very close friendship to the male, doing things such as touching a lot and remaining in each other's personal space, particularly for extended periods of time, can give the wrong impression. This doesn't mean stop doing it altogether, simply create boundaries so that you can establish a foundation of trust and respect with the girlfriend.

Another thing that can be done is that when you speak with the girlfriend you share of your own self and your life outside of your friendship with her boyfriend e.g., connect on your on shared interests with her such as hobbies and music. Also, women when in good rapport with each other will tend to help the other one; this can be an opportunity to get her on board to perhaps assist you in finding your own partner. Doing this is a double edge sword; firstly, you have elevated and empowered the girlfriend into a position of helping you, which is in effect a very powerful compliment. Secondly, you get assistance in getting more value in your own life. In doing this in a sincere way a relatively deep level of bonding would have to occur.

In conclusion, use your emotions as messages here to discover more about what you really want in your own life. Secondly, reverse the situation in your mind and think how you would want your male friend to behave you had found a partner. This will get you into a better frame of thinking that will allow you to make better decision for you and to take a better course of action.

WRITTEN BY FARHAN BHATTI

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