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  • Step By Step Personal Branding To Success

    Step By Step Personal Branding To Success

    Learn Personal Branding With Asking Right Questions To Yourself

    Personal Branding Basics

    What is your goal?

    What kind of experience do you want people to have when your name comes up when they communicate about who you are or what you do?

    What do you want to accomplish?

    Examples: landing a job, getting a better position at your current company, attracting better clients if you are self-employed, growing your reputation with your current company, reinventing yourself, and building fame.

    What do you want to be known for?

    Examples: A go-to expert in the media for your area of expertise, a specific role like a lifestyle expert or a high-end real- estate photographer

    Do your research.

    Look at people who have a status position that you desire. 

    What are they doing? 

    Are they writing? 

    Do they have press coverage? 

    What comes up when you google their name or a specific title that you seek? 

    Write down what you see (photos, writings) — anything noteworthy that shows branding work.

    Identify your uniqueness and value.

    Next, identify your uniqueness and value. 

    The distinction can be in the way you think, how you approach work, and your philosophies, style, web presence and career experience.

    What do you have to say?

    What could you teach?

    What can you influence? Or what do you want to influence?

    Personal Branding Planning

    1) Authority

    What is your area of expertise?

    What do you know that others in your industry don’t?

    What kind of content can you create to support this?

    Examples: blogs, articles, PR, podcasts
    (Remember that your value + your values = an authentic voice)

    Write a short bio in the style of an elevator pitch.

    What kind of social posts can you make?

    What content can you create?

    Are you interested in speaking?

    What gems of web wisdom can you share, coupled with your opinions?

    2) Online Identity

    Google yourself! Do you come up? 

    If so, where and how often?

    Do you own your domain name? 

    Is it worthwhile for you to own some versions of your name for personal brand protection?

    Do you use any of these online assets? 

    If so, do they need design improvements? 

    Privacy setting changes? 

    Messaging improvements? 

    Is there consistency in your photos and messaging?

    • Google+ 
    • Facebook 
    • LinkedIn 
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Blog
    • Email signature 
    • Profile Picture

    Do you have strong community connections?

    3) Style

    Look critically at the way you present. Are you “dressing the part”? 

    • Wardrobe
    • Website content 
    • Blog content
    • Website design 
    • Blog design
    • LinkedIn profile
    • Facebook profile
    • Twitter profile
    • Google+ profile
    • Email signature
    • Social media profile picture
    • The way you conduct business

    MEASURE

    Don’t forget to measure quantitative and qualitative points. 

    Quantitative metrics include:

     • Website statistics
     • Blog statistics
     • Goal conversions (email signups, number of contact form submissions on a website)

    Qualitative metrics include:

    • Reactions
    • Influence 
    • Feedback
  • Incredible Wrongs That We Think Are Right

    Incredible Wrongs That We Think Are Right

    Swallowed Gum Takes 7 Years To Digest or Glass is Solid – Incredible Wrongs

    What you are about to read will reveal that many of the things you thought were true until now may actually be wrong! (Incredible Wrongs)

    1. Do not recharge the phone before it is discharged; it damages the battery

    WRONG. This is not the case for Lithium-Ion batteries found in many phones today.

    These batteries do not contain the same raw material as old type batteries.

    For this reason, it can be recharged before it runs out, that is, while there is a charge inside; it will not harm the battery.

    Smartphones cut off the electric current when the battery is full. So if you don’t unplug the phone when it’s 100 percent charged, nothing will happen; neither the phone explodes nor the battery life is shortened.

    2. Applications running in the background cause the phone to slow down.

    Therefore, the battery consumption is higher!

    WRONG. It’s of no use. Phones already allow a certain number of applications to run.

    3. It takes 7 years for swallowed gum to be digested.

    The chewed part of the gum cannot be digested, it is excreted from the body as it is. The remaining substances (such as sugar, starch) are absorbed by the body.

    4. The higher the megapixel, the better the camera

    It does not reflect the fact that better quality photos can be taken with high megapixels.

    The value of existing megapixels indicates only the size of the photo. Lens quality, sensor size, etc.

    The quality of the photo can be determined by dynamics. Megapixels are only one factor and not the most important factor.

    5. Glass is solid!

    Glass is an amorphous substance. This means that the glass flows very slowly.
    That’s why old glass windows have thicker bottoms.

    6. The Great Wall of China is visible to the naked eye from space.

    The Great Wall of China may be huge, but it’s not wide enough to be seen from space.

    The most obvious thing visible from human-made space is actually lights.

    7. A coin falling from a very high height can kill a person!

    No matter how high you send the coin, the final speed it can reach is 50–80 km. Which isn’t fast enough to kill us but it hurts.

    8. Dog’s sweat causes drool.

    No. They regulate their body temperature by breathing rapidly through their mouths. They actually do sweat from the soles of their feet.

    9. There are seven colours in the rainbow.

    The colours in the rainbow are known as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple.

    As a matter of fact, there is an uninterrupted spectrum of colours in the rainbow.

    But the human perception of colour creates the illusion that there is a series of generations in the middle.

    Some rainbows have more than 7 colours that the human eye can see.

    10. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is crooked.

    This famous Italian tower was originally designed as a vertical one.

    However, since 1173, the date of its construction, it started to slide towards the south due to the soft ground at the foundation.

  • There Is No True Happiness, We All Look For Pleasure

    There Is No True Happiness, We All Look For Pleasure

    “Pleasure” is just the momentary satisfaction of the body/ego, while “Happiness” is pursuing your personal growth. True Happiness

    What is Happiness? (True Happiness)

    According to thinkers like Schopenhauer, happiness is “not being unhappy”. The happy person is not the person who has experienced the most vivid pleasures of the greatest pleasures. A happy person is a person who spends his life without experiencing great physical and mental pain.

    What is Pleasure?

    The pleasant effect, liking; moderate and satisfying enthusiasm that is desired to be sustained.

    If they offered you a 10-year period where you would not suffer any pain, be happy in every second, but in the end, you could not remember this period, would you accept the offer?

    According to the famous philosopher Aristotle, the answer should be “No”.

    According to Aristotle, you can reach true happiness only when you discover your own self, know yourself and reveal your own potential.

    According to Aristotle, the situations that we call happiness are not happiness but instant satisfaction and pleasures.

    When you experience instant satisfaction and pleasure, your feeling of well-being is short-lived, and this does not contribute to your personal development.

    For example, according to Aristotle’s definition, the emotion experienced while under the influence of drugs and alcohol is not happiness, but instant pleasure.

    While under the influence of these, the person avoids the negativities and pain in life.

    But he also misses out on opportunities to gain insights and self-development experiences.

    While under the influence of these substances, you do not have the opportunity to question who you are, what and who you love, and it becomes difficult to reach your ideal life.

    Life is full of ups and downs. Unfortunately, sometimes life can seem to us as if it’s always ups, downs, short ascents, again downs.

    But, according to Aristotle, these descents give us new experiences and perspectives.

    Thus, with every perspective and experience we gain, we can become more interesting, more educated and more developed individuals.

    According to Aristotle, the reason many people are unhappy is simple:

    They confuse happiness with pleasure.

    “Pleasure” is just the momentary satisfaction of the body/ego, while “happiness” is pursuing your personal growth.

  • Are We Living In Simulation?

    Are We Living In Simulation?

    Irrefutable Reasons We Might Be A Living In Simulation

    What are we in this universe?” , “Are we living creatures in a simulation created ? “ or “Are we really living a real life?” (Living In Simulation)

    Of course, I can’t answer those questions with certainty but I can convince you of that by reaching the real creator.

    “What are we in the universe?” Just before the answer to this question, there is a more important question to answer. “Why are we here?” and “Why does human exist?

    There must be a reason for it to exist.

    Does our universe is just a laboratory experiment?

    Are we really the subjects in this experiment?

    As some say that could Earth be the work of a much more advanced civilization than ours?

    Let’s look together for Irrefutable reasons to find answers to those questions.

    1. The Mandela Effect

    Some people claim to remember TV coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death in the 1980s even though he actually died in 2013. The “Mandela Effect” is therefore supposedly proof that whoever is in charge of our simulation is changing the past. (Or alternately, this is evidence of parallel universes and some individuals have crossed from one universe, in which Mandela died in the ’80s, into ours, where he lived to age 95.) Additional examples of this phenomenon include some remembering the name of the Berenstain Bears children’s-book series being spelled as “Berenstein” and others recalling a nonexistent movie from the 1990s called Shazaam, starring the comedian Sinbad as a genie.

    2. Video Games That Look Like Real Life

    Elon Musk is a believer in Nick Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis, which posits that if humanity can survive long enough to create technology capable of running convincing simulations of reality, it will create many such simulations and therefore there will be lots of simulated realities and only one “base reality” — so statistically, it’s probably more likely we live in a simulation right now. Further proof that we live in the Matrix, according to Musk, is how cool video games are these days. In 2016, he explained: “40 years ago, we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by 1,000 from what it is now. It’s a given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is 1 in billions.”

    3. Weird News

    Some have proposed that recent unlikelihoods, including Donald Trump’s election, Brexit, the 2017 Oscars-envelope mix-up, and that year’s 25-point Super Bowl comeback, could mean we’re in a malfunctioning simulation or whoever is pushing the buttons is screwing with us.

    4. The “Goldilocks Zone”

    Earth exists within what astrobiologists call a Goldilocks Zone, close enough to a star that greenhouse gases can trap heat to keep liquid water, but far enough away that the planet does not become a Venusian hothouse. That we live in such an orbital sweet spot is circumstantial evidence for a simulation: If our sim-designers wanted us to succeed, it makes sense that they’d place us in such a cushy environment.

    5. We Already Know What the “Bricks” of Our Matrix Are

    According to simulation believers, we may have already found the pixel-sized building block of the universe: the Planck-length, the point at which our concepts of gravity and spacetime no longer apply. If our world is simulated, the Planck length would be equivalent to one bit of information, or a pixel.

  • Success in Life – 9 Steps That Provided Me To Achieve

    Success in Life – 9 Steps That Provided Me To Achieve

    Many years ago, I’ve cached a chance to read suggestions about success from Christensen. (Success in Life)

    So that from my perspective, He who best describes how successful a person is in life and how to measure it is Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

    According to Chirstensen, there are 9 steps to living and measuring a successful life:

    I’m going to share those brilliant ways that also what I used for my successful journey in my life with you.

    1- As a first step, one should realize what motivates you in life.

    For example, if a person who enjoys discovering new places and meeting new people – just because his income is higher – is confined to a desk job, he will experience great dissatisfaction.

    Therefore, finding one’s passion is more important than finding a job.

    First of all, one has to find out what motivates him.

    2- Second, a person must set a goal for himself and move forward in line with this goal.

    In order to be successful, it is essential for a person to stick to the goal he has determined and the path (strategy) that will lead to this goal, despite the difficulties and obstacles that come his way.

    Because without perseverance, success cannot be achieved.

    But there are situations when the account at home does not fit real life.

    Sometimes life throws up such obstacles that it is impossible to overcome them.

    In such a situation, insisting on the same strategy for the same goal is a waste of resources.

    As Seneca said, “We may not be able to determine the direction of the wind, but we can change the direction of our ship by adjusting our sails to the wind.”

    3- The third issue that Christensen recommends we pay attention to is managing the resources we have effectively.

    Human resources are not just monetary resources.

    Humans have resources such as health, time, abilities, knowledge, experience, friends and social relationships.

    4- The fourth is the time that a person spares for his family and friends.

    A person is happy to the extent that he spends enough time with his loved ones and spends full time with them.

    While most people are trying to make a place for themselves in life, to reach a goal, they ignore their loved ones and neglect them.

    5- Fifth is the development of human empathy.

    In both private and business relationships, a person should always act by putting himself in the place of the other person.

    If a person can understand the perspectives of the people with whom he is in a relationship and look at life through their eyes, it opens the doors to be both very successful and very happy.

    6- The sixth is to raise one’s children correctly. I think the most important responsibility of a person in life – if any – is to educate his children.

    Every parent has to ensure the physical and mental development of their children within their means, as well as support their spiritual maturation.

    7- In order to be successful, a person must both have certain values ​​and act in accordance with these values.

    The abstract concept we call “values” is actually the compass behind our daily decisions.

    For example, a person who adopts honesty as a value prefers to tell the truth when faced with the dilemma of “making money-hiding the truth”.

    The person who cares about making money does the opposite.

    8- According to Christensen, a very important issue in managing our lives is to be humble.

    Most people unconsciously walk around with an inflated ego.

    An inflated ego not only causes one to like himself or exaggerate what he has done but worse than that, it causes him to underestimate others.

    9- As a result of all these, the real measure of a person’s success is the benefit he provides to other people.

    According to Christensen, the measure of a person’s success is not the money he has earned or the fame he has achieved, but how much he has contributed positively to other people’s lives.

    Charles Handy said, “A tombstone showing how many millions of dollars a person in the ground has earned won’t impress any of the passers-by. What matters is what he does with the millions he earns.”

  • 10 Steps For Becoming Better in Your Life

    10 Steps For Becoming Better in Your Life

    1. Compliment Yourself (Becoming Better)

    Every morning before you go on with your daily routine, take a couple of minutes to give yourself a compliment. Whether you compliment your outfit, haircut, or how you recently completed a task using your unique skill sets, giving yourself a little emotional boost will make you happy. And, when you’re happy with yourself, that emotion can be contagious to those around you. Inspirational speaker Tony Robbins has a mantra he says aloud to himself most days to put him in a peak performance state. (Becoming Better)

    2. Don’t Make Excuses

    Blaming your spouse, boss, or clients is fruitless and won’t get you very far. Instead of pointing fingers and making excuses about why you aren’t happy or successful in your personal or professional life, own your mistakes and learn from them. When you do this, you will become a better person. When I personally started living up to my mistakes and downfalls, my life turned itself around. I became happier and healthier, and my relationship with my wife improved. We are happier than ever.

    3. Let Go of Anger

    Letting go of anger is easier said than done. While anger is a perfectly normal emotion, you can’t let it fester. When this happens, you may make unwise decisions, and more important, it may affect your health. Research suggests pent up anger can cause digestive problems, difficulty sleeping, and even heart disease.

    To help you let go of anger, Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD, suggests you write your feelings down, pray or meditate, or begin to manage your thoughts.

    4. Practice Forgiveness

    Joyce Marter, LCPC, suggests you forgive and let go of resentment. She notes, “If for no other reason than for yourself, forgive to untether yourself from the negative experiences of the past. Take time to meditate, and give thanks for the wisdom and knowledge gained from your suffering. Practice the mantra, ‘I forgive you and I release you.’

    5. Be Honest and Direct

    How would you feel if a loved one or business partner lied to you? Chances are you would see that as a violation of your trust. If you want to be a better person in either your personal or professional life, you should always tell the truth and state as clearly as possible what you are trying to convey. Learn to articulate your thoughts, feelings, and ideas in an open and honest manner.

    6. Be Helpful

    Whether giving up your seat to an elderly person on the subway, assisting a co-worker on a project, or carrying in the groceries when your spouse comes back from the store, being helpful is one of the easiest and most effective ways to practice becoming a better person. I find that the more I help others, the better I feel about myself and everyone around me.

    7. Listen to Others

    As Jeet Banerjee notes on Lifehack, “listening to people and giving everyone a voice is one of the greatest things you can do.” He adds that he “got to meet some of the most amazing people, close some of the biggest deals, and develop connections that will last me a lifetime all because I took time to listen to people. Being a good listener can change your life in a positive manner.”

    8. Act Locally

    It may not seem like a big deal, but supporting a local cause, donating clothes, or buying from local farmers’ markets or businesses are simple ways you can help your specific region. You may not be able to save the world, but you very well could make a difference in your neck of the woods. Get to know and care about your community.

    9. Always Be Polite

    How much effort does it take to say, “Thank you,” or to hold the elevator door open for someone? Not much at all. However, these acts of kindness can make someone’s day. I decided a few years ago that it doesn’t matter if someone is ultra rude, condescending, or worse. The way someone else behaves is not going to determine my behavior.

    10. Be Yourself

    Tiffany Mason has five excellent reasons on Lifehack why you should be yourself. These include being able to align yourself with your values and beliefs, establish your identity, build courage, create boundaries, and find focus and direction.

    Becoming a better person doesn’t happen overnight, but it is possible. Believe in yourself and know that it is possible!