Successful habits This is what the most successful people do before breakfast

Successful habits This is what the most successful people do before breakfastSuccessful habits This is what the most successful people do before breakfastMornings are an underutilized tool to aid productivity.Let me explain.Were often at ur peak in the mornings. This is why Mark McGuinness suggests the single most important change you can make to your workday is to move your creative time to mornings. Its simple really. Were more mentally alert, and our mental batteries are charged.Where does all of this energy go?Email. Meetings. Phone calls. Social coffee with co-workers. We fragment our time into tiny chunks. This, however, isnt the path to success.There is another way.Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, writes Laura Vanderkam in What the fruchtwein Successful People Do Before Breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.Vanderkam studied successful people and discovered that early mornin gs were when they had the most control over their own schedules. This was the time used to work on their priorities.Taking control of your mornings is very much like investing in yourselfThis is how Billionaire Charlie Munger got so smart he set aside an hour each morning just to learn.While there are 168 hours in the week,not all of them are created equally.Vanderkam writes inWhat the Most Successful People Do Before BreakfastPeople who were serious about exercise did it in the mornings. At that point, emergencies had yet to form, and they would only have to shower once. As Gordo Byrn, a triathlon coach, once told me, Theres always a reason to skip a four oclock workout, and its going to be a good reason, too.Most people find doing anything that requires self-discipline is easier to do in the morning. The saatkorn can be said for focus.Roy Baumeister, the co-author of Willpower Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, has spent more time studying willpower and self-discipline tha n most. In the book, he highlights one famous experiment where students were asked to fast before coming into the lab. They were then put into a room with foodspecifically, radishes, chocolate chip cookies, and candy. Some of the students could eat whatever they wanted while others could only eat the radishes. After the food, they were supposed to work on unsolvable geometry puzzles.Baumeister and co-author John Tierney write inWillpowerThe students whod been allowed to eat chocolate chip cookies and candy typically worked on the puzzles for about twenty minutes, as did a control group of students who were also hungry but hadnt been offered food of any kind. The sorely tempted radish eaters, though, gave up in just eight minutes a huge difference by the standards of laboratory experiments. Theyd successfully resisted the temptation of the cookies and the chocolates, but the effort left them with less energy to tackle the puzzles.Willpower, like a muscle, becomes fatigued from overus eThis is a problem because you dont just have one willpower battery for work and another one for home. They are the same battery. And this bucket is used to control your thought processes and emotions.As Baumeister said in an interviewYou have one energy resource that is used for all kinds of acts (of) self-control. That includes not just resisting food temptations, but also controlling your thought processes, controlling your emotions, all forms of impulse control, and trying to perform well at your job or other tasks. Even more surprisingly, it is used for decision making, so when you make choices you are (temporarily) using up some of what you need for self-control. Hard thinking, like logical reasoning, also uses it.Most self-control failures happen in the evening after a long day of traffic, bickering kids, pointless meetings, and other things that zap our self-control.Baumeister continuesDiets are broken in the evening, not the morning. The majority of impulsive crimes are com mitted after 1100 p.m. Lapses in drug use, alcohol abuse, sexual misbehavior, gambling excesses, and the like tend to come about late in the day.After a good nights sleep, your battery is charged and ready to goIn What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Vanderkam writesIn these early hours, we have enough willpower and energy to tackle things that require internal motivation, things the outside world does not immediately demand or reward.Thats the argument for scheduling important priorities first. But theres more to the muscle metaphor. Muscles can be strengthened over time. A bodybuilder must work hard to develop huge biceps, but then he can go into maintenance mode and still look pretty buff. Paradoxically, with willpower, research has found that people who score high on measures of self-discipline tend not to employ this discipline when they do regular activities that would seem to require it, such as homework or getting to class or work on time. For successful peop le, these are no longer choices but habits.Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower, Baumeister says. Once things become habitual, they operate as automatic processes, which consume less willpower.If we learned anything from Mason Curreys book, Daily Rituals How Artists Work, it was that routines and habits played an important role in success.This isnt new or surprising.In 1887,William James wrote on habitAny sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipation of results. The great thing, then, in all education, is to make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and to guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvan tageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.As Baumeister writes in WillpowerUltimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.These are the best morning habitsVanderkam suggests inWhat the Most Successful People Do Before BreakfastThe best morning rituals are activities that dont have to happen and certainly dont have to happen at a specific hour. These are activities that require internal motivation. The payoff isnt as immediate as the easy pleasure of watching television or answering an email that doesnt require an immediate response, but there are still payoffs. The best morning rituals are activities that, when practiced regularly, result in long-term benefits. The most successful people use their mornings for these thingsNurturing their careers strategizing and focused workNurturing their relationships giving their families and friends their bestNurturing themselves exercise and spiritu al and creative practicesNurturing CareersThe reason people do work requiring focus early in the day is the lack of interruptions. Once the day gets going, everyone wants a slice of your time.Vanderkam writesinWhat the Most Successful People Do Before BreakfastYou can crank things out novelist Anthony Trollope famously wrote, without fail, for a few hours each morning. Charlotte Walker-Said, a history postdoktorand at the University of Chicago, uses the hours between 6 00 and 9 00 a.m. each day to work on a book on the history of religious politics in West Africa. She can read journal articles and write pages before dealing with her teaching responsibilities.Once you start looking at email, the whole day cascades into email responses and replying back and forth, she says. These early-morning hours are key to managing her stress in a suboptimal academic job market.Every day I have a job, she says. But in the morning, I think I have a career.Shes on to something one study of young pro fessors found that those who wrote a little bit every day were more likely to make tenure than those who wrote in bursts of intense energy (and put it off the rest of the time).Nurturing RelationshipsOne of the secrets to happy families is that mealtime with family matters.Vanderkam writesinWhat the Most Successful People Do Before BreakfastThis idea of using mornings as positive family time really stuckverzierung with me as I looked at my own life. While my kids tend to get up later, many small children wake up at the crack of dawn. So if you work outside the home and dont see your kids during the day, why not take advantage of this? You can keep your eyes constantly focused on the clock, as I have a tendency to do, or you can set an alarm to give yourself a fifteen -minute warning, and then just relax.People always pontificate about how important family dinner is, but this is just not a reality in families with young kids who want to eat at 5 30 or 6 00 p.m., especially if one or both parents works later hours. But theres nothing magical about dinner. Indeed, if the research on willpower is to be believed, were more crabby at dinner than we are at breakfast. Family breakfasts when treated as relaxed, fun affairs are a great substitute for the evening meal.Nurturing YourselfThe general sentiment here is that everyone else is sleeping, so youre not missing out on something important and you can spend time taking care of yourself, which generally leads to a positive impact on your productivity throughout the day.In What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Vanderkam suggests making over your mornings by tracking your time, picturing the perfect morning, thinking through the logistics, building a habit, developing a feedback loop, and tuning up as necessary.Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and a self-proclaimed night owl, taught himself to appreciate mornings by thinking about the positive.The reason we stay in bed in the morning is beca use our brains get fatigued by thinking about all the things we have to do that day, he says.Were thinking about tasks rather than things that are making us happy.But the reverse of that is also true.If youre thinking about things youre looking forward to, that makes it easy to get out of bed, he says.What your brain focuses on becomes your reality.I know all about teaching people to be more productive. Thousands of students from CEOs to Teachers have used my system to increase their time and become insanely more effective.This article originally appeared on Medium

Working for the Sales Competition

Working for the Sales CompetitionWorking for the Sales CompetitionThere are many reasons why sale professionals decide to leave their current employer. Sometimes the deciding factor is money sometimes, they need a change of scenery. Some may want to relocate, and others want to get away from overbearing managers or bad sales teams. No matter what the reason someone chooses to leave a position, the change can be stressful. One thing that many sales professionals do is leave their current employer and begin working for the competition. Doing so should be well thought through as you may experience some unforeseen challenges. First, Why do You Want to Leave? Before you go any further, you should ask yourself the real reason(s) that you want to leave your current employer and join forces with the competition. If you have a legitimate issue with your employer, feel that you may soon have to find a new job for whatever reason or are being recruited away and are confident that leaving wi ll be in your best interest, then leaving may be the best choice. However, you need to remember that going from one employer to another in the same industry will probably not be all that different than what you are currently experiencing. You may feel that your competitor is a better place to work, provides better benefits and serves their customers better than does your current employer, but you owe it to yourself to be fully honest with yourself and make sure that you are making a move for the right reasons. If you do honestly feel that your desire to leave is for all (or at least some of) the right reasons, make sure you factor in a few other considerations before turning in your notice. Non-Compete and Non-disclosure Agreements Many employers have all their sales professionals sign Non-Compete and Non-Disclosure Agreements. If you have signed one, make sure you check with a lawyer or legal counsel to make sure that you will not be in violation of any signed agreement by goin g to work for a competitor. Dont Expect Your Customers to Follow You Many who leave one sales company and join another feel that their customers will happily and willingly keep buying from them, despite their new employer. While some of your customers may be loyal to you, expecting that any will continue to do business with you is a dangerous thought. If you are expecting them to follow you, what is your backup plan if they dont? If you dont have one, you should realize that you will be starting all over again, most likely. Realize that Customers Like Consistency A common reason that customers leave one company and take their business elsewhere is that of representative turnover. If you leave one company for another, you may be taking over a position left by a well-liked rep or, worse yet, a position that has been filled and refilled several times over the not so distant past. You may take over an account list that is fed up with seeing a new rep every few months and will be forced to deal with a lot of customer uncertainty. Established Friendships May Be Over Work at a place long enough, and you will most likely develop friendships with your co-workers. Leave, and you may be leaving those friendships behind as well. A funny thing happens when someone leaves and joins the competition they become the enemy. And continuing a friendship with someone who is considered to be the enemy is hard for many people. While no employer can (or should) ever tell their employees who they can and cannot socialize with, many friendships have ended once one part of the friendship jumps ship and joins the competition.

The Comeback of the Aluminum Can Part 2

The Comeback of the Aluminum Can Part 2 The Comeback of the Aluminum Can Part 2 The Comeback of the Aluminum Can, Part 2Part One of The Comeback of the Aluminum Can outlined the containers history. This section looks at production techniques and new technologies.Ironically, the can that keeps your beer bubbly starts out totally flat. A typical 12-oz beer can is formed from whats known as a blank a flat disk about 3/10 of a millimeter thick. In the drawing or cupping stage of production, blanks are fed into a machine that punches them into the shape of a shallow cup about 88 mm in diameter. The cup is redrawn to reduce its diameter and wall thickness, and is then put through a series of tooling dies that further irons out the cup into a 65-mm-diameter cylinder of 75-micron-thick aluminum. The can tops are then trimmed to achieve a uniform height and a smooth surface for eventual sealing. The can bottoms are then domed using a convex tool that creates a concave indentation on the under side. Doming significantly reduces the amount of metal needed to make the can while increasing the maximum internal pressure of the contents.Back in the day, church keys were used to punch open beer cans. Image Wikimedia CommonsAt this stage, the inside surfaces of the can are washed and treated with a spray coating of epoxy lacquer that will keep the beer from acquiring a metallic taste. This is also the step where logos and other printed artwork are usually added. Especially in the craft beer niche, brewers are increasingly looking for practical ways to distinguish their brand by adding more color, customization, and variety to their can designs. Decoration technologies are creating multiple ways for consumers to interact with the can tactile coatings that texturize the can surface, inks that fluoresce under the UV lights of a night club, cans that change color when the contents reaches the ideal temperature, and more.For You 10 Ways GDPR Will Affect Engineers Next, in an eleven-s tage process called necking and flanging, the top of the can is squeezed between a necking sleeve and an inner die, gradually narrowing the top so that it fits under a standard 54-mm can lid. The necking process creates a slight flange around the top edge of the can, which fits together with a lid and crimped, forming an airtight ersatzdarsteller seam. The seam is further reinforced with a sealing compound that hardens to form a gasket to trap gases inside the can at optimum pressures of 30 psi.Going MobileMost micro brewers pride themselves in offering a continually changing roster of seasonal and specialty beers, in addition to their standard lines of IPAs, porters, and pilsners. And while its one thing to serve up those beers by the pint in a brew pub, mass producing these small-batch brews for the retail consumer poses unique economic challenges. Mobile canning systems enable brewers to summon a full can-filling production line when and wherever its needed without the huge capit al investment in packaging machinery.Mobile canning companies are cropping up across the nation in hotbeds of craft brewing activity. Colorados Mobile Canning Systems, for example, caters to this market through its national network of trained mobile canning affiliates, and by printing and selling ready-to-fill cans to brewers in much smaller quantities than are normally required when purchasing custom-decorated cans.Canning lines with a range of throughput rates are produced by companies like Wild Goose Canning (Louisville, CO), a firm launched in 2011 by two Boulder-area engineers whose work with a local brewer helped give rise to the mobile canning concept. The company produces a range of small-footprint canning systems for both mobile and stationary use. Systems operate at speeds ranging from 8-12 cans per minute with the manual, dual-fill head WGC 50 to 80-90 cans/minute with the fully automated WGC-600, with eight fill heads and double lid-dropping and seaming capabilities.On t he extreme end of just-in-time beer canning, Ball joined up with Colorado brewer Oskar Blues to develop the Crowler in 2014. Designed as aluminums answer to the popular reusable glass jug, or Growler, used to package microbrew to go, the 32-oz. Crowler can is filled manually at the brewery or pub and sealed using a specialized seaming device. Although Crowlers reduce the staff time and energy required to collect and sanitize traditional growlers, they can be subject to stricter local liquor regulations than their glass cousins.Can-Do EngineeringEvery year, nearly a half trillion of these cans are manufactured. Thats about 15,000 a second. So many that we overlook the cans superb engineering, said Bill Hammack, a University of Illinois engineering professor, author, and advocate for engineering education. The next tip you take a sip from one, consider the decades of ingenious design required to create this modern engineering marvel. A video in which Hammack delves more deeply into th e engineering principles behind the aluminum can and the stay-tab opening system is featured on his popular engineering-related YouTube channel EngineerGuy.Michael MacRae is an independent writer.Read MoreRobots Emerge as Force in Infrastructure InspectionRobots Make Self-Repairing Cities PossibleSafety and Efficiency, Brick by Brick For Further DiscussionEvery year, nearly a half trillion of these cans are manufactured. So many that we overlook the cans superb engineering. Prof. Bill Hammack, University of Illinois

How to Start a Letter With Professional Greeting Examples

How to Start a Letter With Professional Greeting ExamplesHow to Start a Letter With Professional Greeting ExamplesWhats the best way to start a letter? When writing a letter for professional purposes, an appropriate greeting is extremely important. Your greeting sets the tone for your letter or email message, and is an indicator of your writtencommunication skills. The Best Ways to Start a Letter When decidingwhich salutation to use, you should consider if you know the person, and how well. If you are writing to someone in a professional capacity that you have known personally for many years, it is appropriate to use only their first personenname. Otherwise, it is best to useMr., Ms., or Dras anappropriate business letter salutation. If you have any doubts about which salutation you should use, err on the side of caution and use the mora formal style of address. Try not to be tempted to begin your professional letter with informal salutations like Hello, Greetings, Hi There, or G ood Morning if you dont know the name of your contact person. While those informal styles of greeting are fine for casual emails to friends or even for mora formal emails you might send out to groups of people, in a professional letter youll need to use a personal salutation, one with either a first and/or last name (Dear Mr. Doe) or a job title (Dear Hiring Manager). Always make sure to double-check the spelling of the letter recipients name. Otherwise, youll be making a poor impression from the start of your letter. As well, dont neglect to include the period after Mr. and Ms. Follow your salutation with a colon (e.g., Dear Ms. Doe). Examples of ProfessionalLetter Greetings These greetings are all suitable for professional communications. Dear Firstname Lastname e.g., Dear John DoeDear Mr./Ms. Lastname e.g., Dear Mr. Doe or Dear Ms. DoeDear Mr./Ms. Firstname Lastname e.g., Dear Mr. John Doe or Dear Ms. Jane DoeDear Hiring ManagerDear Sir or MadamTo Whom It May ConcernDear Huma n Resources ManagerDear Company Name Recruiter e.g., Dear ABC Company Recruiter Greetings to Avoid The following greeting arent appropriate for formal letters or email messages. Good DayGood Morning or Afternoon (you dont know when theyll receive the letter or email message)GreetingsHiHi ThereHeyHey There Try to Find a Contact Person If at all possible, use a contact name when you write. This makes your letter more personal, and it creates an immediate relationship with the reader. If you dont have a contact name, you can do some research to try to find out theright person to address your letter to. Sometimes the name will be on the company website, or you may be able to find the right person on LinkedIn. Perhaps one of your colleagues or contacts may know who the appropriate person might be. You can also call the office of the unknown person you are writing and ask the receptionist for their name by explaining your reason for calling. For exampleI am applying for a job with your company. Can you please tell me the name of your Hiring Manager so that I know to whom toaddress my cover letter? It doesnt take much extra time to make the attempt to find a name, and the sentiment it conveys is worth it. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you just cant find a name to address your letter to. In that case, you have a variety of choices, all of which are professional and appropriate. The more information you have about where you are sending the letter, the better (for example, to the human resources department of the company, or to the manager of the department related to your inquiry). This way you can make a more targeted choice when selecting your greeting. When you have a name but are unsure of the gender of the person you are writing to, it is acceptable to leave out the honorific, and use the first and last names alone. For example Dear Robin Miller. Tips for Writing and Sending a Letter After your greeting, you would begin your first paragraph, wh ich is usually an introduction that lets the reader know who you are and what you are writing about. If you have a mutual acquaintance who referred you to the reader, you shouldmention them at this time. The body of your letter normally consists of a paragraph or two of text. Here you can elaborate on the theme of your letter and provide supporting details to the subject. Youll want to keep it concise, and pertinent to the person and the topic. Be thorough but dont repeat yourself or go on and on about unimportant details. Next, youll need to sum up your letter. Your summary should include a thank you to the person for his or her time and consideration. If you plan to follow up later, you can also provide the details of when and how you will contact him or her. Finish yourprofessional letter with a closing,such as Sincerelyor Regards. If you plan on sending the letter by postal service, your signature should be followed by your typed name. If youre sending an email, your typed name should be followed by your contact information, which you can type in manually or have it done automatically for you. Hereshow to set up an automatic email signature.

The True Story About Modern Resume 2017 That the Experts Dont Want You to Know

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Jeannie Oscarson Resume Writing Explained

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