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Another stumper: “The more time you take to make a decision, the harder it will be for you to recoup any loss you’ve incurred. Money matters can be resolved if you collect or pay an old debt. Get busy before it’s too late.”
As I’ve said, I can NEVER make decisions. But in this case, I’m not sure what it’s referring to, other than the fact that I have this constant dialogue in my head: “Should I send in a resume for that cool-sounding job I just saw posted, or should I really commit to full-time freelancing, as scary as it is?” I can understand how making the commitment might help me focus more, but how would it help me offset previous losses? The other constant script is, “Should I stay in my current home, or move, despite the loss I’d take on the value of the home?” Hey, maybe that’s it!! OK, I’ll get busy looking at real estate — one of my favorite obsessions, anyway. I can’t think of any old debts, whether owed to or by me. Clarity, please, oh cosmos!
NEWS Obama’s speech met with hope and skepticism January 28, 2010 3:13 p.m. EST
(CNN) — When it comes to word choice, President Obama is less positive than any president in modern time, according to a scholar who has dissected the language of State of the Union speeches since Harry Truman’s 1946 address.
James Pennebaker, professor and chairman of the psychology department at the University of Texas-Austin, theorizes that the language that presidents use in these high-profile speeches reflects their overall mood and state of mind.
The president isn’t negative per se, Pennebaker said, but he doesn’t use as many words such as “happy,” “excited,” “enjoyed,” “good” and “nice” that have positive tones, making his tone more somber.
Deborah Tannen, linguistics professor at Georgetown University, disagreed somewhat. She said she thought the tone was positive and optimistic, with a serious overtone.
“I felt like it was serious, because he realized that people are worried and that it’s a serious time. We are facing serious problems,” she said.
But a person who inspires optimism and hope in others doesn’t necessarily exude positive emotions, Pennebaker said. Instead, Obama has shown himself to be “cool in every sense of the word,” Pennebaker said.
“He is a guy that many of us really admire. He’s the cool guy at the high school dance. He’s not giggly and funny. He’s cool. And a cool person can really symbolize optimism for the future, and this person can be a good and strong leader, but they don’t have to be the class clown. They don’t have to be laughing and saying they’re happy or that things will be great,” he said.
Obama’s speeches also indicate that he is the most complex thinker of the presidents Pennebaker has studied, with John F. Kennedy as the runner-up, he said. That’s because Obama frequently presents an idea and re-evaluates it from a variety of perspectives in subsequent sentences.
Obama is also a more dynamic thinker than he is categorical, Pennebaker said. He does not tend to break things down into components, as other politicians such as George W. Bush have done, but looks at the history of the topics he speaks about.
For example, at the very beginning of his speech Wednesday night, Obama said that while it is tempting to assume America was always destined to succeed, the country’s history shows otherwise.
“But when the Union was turned back at Bull Run and the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach, victory was very much in doubt. When the market crashed on Black Tuesday and civil rights marchers were beaten on Bloody Sunday, the future was anything but certain,” he said.
Generally, the way he spoke this year was similar to the way he spoke at his inaugural address last year and even during the campaign, Pennebaker said.
“You don’t see any giant jumps in terms of the way he’s thinking, feeling, relating to others,” he said.
See how Pennebaker and colleagues track language in speeches
Presidents tend to be consistent in their speaking regardless of what is going on in the country, Pennebaker said.
After the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush continued to use positive-emotion words at relatively high rates. Pennebaker’s team also analyzed blog posts from that year and found that people’s emotions reflected on the blogs were back to their pre-9/11 state within four days.
“If there’s something bad that happens, you bubble back up to your emotional state surprisingly quickly,” he said.
Obama’s word choice also reveals that he is a bit more psychologically and emotionally detached than some other presidents, perhaps on par with Ronald Reagan, he said. It’s not necessarily that he’s hiding his feelings, but he does not present himself as an emotional person.
“If you sit down and talk with him, you’re not going to get a sense of what his deep emotional feelings are,” Pennebaker said. “Whereas if you sat down with Bush and Clinton, they would give you signals of how they felt.”
The subtleties that Pennebaker studies are nearly impossible to hear just by listening to a speech, he said. He uses a computer algorithm to calculate the percentage of total words in a speech that reflect a variety of categories, such as “positive emotionality” and “dynamic thinking.”
One parameter is the number of function words — pronouns, prepositions and articles — a person uses, which can say a lot about his or her mindset, Pennebaker said. For instance, someone who thinks a lot about people and is social would use a lot of pronouns. Someone who wants to avoid the press tends to use “I” a lot, he said.
Although presidents generally don’t write their own speeches, they do approve them, and speechwriters must know them very well, Tannen said.
“It’s as much his own words as any speech is going to be these days,” she said.
How do I prevent distractions and interruptions? Hi, I’m Eben Pagan, creator of the Wake Up Productive time management and productivity training program. If you’d like to watch my 47-minute video on how to manage yourself and your time and become dramatically more productive, just go to WakeUpProductive.com, and enter your name and email address. You can watch this video worth $100.00 for free.
So let’s talk about preventing distractions and interruptions. As you probably know, distraction and interruption are the ultimate time stealers. If you get interrupted or distracted, it takes 10 or 20 minutes from when you end the distraction or interruption to just come back and get back to where you were. So if you get distracted or interrupted every 10 or 20 minutes, you don’t get anything done at all. Who’s had that experience in their lives?
I’ve discovered that there are three big distracters and interrupters in the modern work environment, especially if you work from home, especially if you work around computers, especially if you’re using the internet while you’re working. The big three distracters and interrupters are cell phones and text messages, instant messenger and Skype and e-mail. So let’s talk about the three of them.
Cell phones and text messages. When you have your cell phone and your text message just rolling, what does that say to the world? It says, “Distract and interrupt me any time you want.” It’s especially bad if you actually answer your cell phone or respond to text messages very quickly. What I do is I take my cell phone, and I either turn it off or I put it somewhere where I can’t hear it. I never have the ringer on my cell phone turned on because I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to program people that they can call me and reach me, that they can send me a text, and I’ll get back to them immediately. Why? Because then, they’ll start expecting it, and I will have to deal with their distractions and interruptions all day. So turn off the cell phone. Put it on vibrate. Put it outside of your range, so you can’t hear it. It’s not around you. Don’t keep it clipped to your body. Then, you can work and focus chunks of uninterrupted time.
The online version of this is instant messenger and Skype. Anything where you’ve got a status that you can leave on, and people can ping you or contact you and say, “Hey, can I talk to you right now?” The answer here is only turn on your availability a couple of times a day. Set aside blocks of time, maybe from 11:00 to 12:00 and then from 4:00 to 5:00 where you set your status as on, and you’re available.
A nice little trick with voicemail you can do is you can set up your voicemail so that when people call you, it says, “Hi, I can’t take your call right now. I return calls typically between 11:00 and 12:00 and between 4:00 and 5:00. I’m also available by e-mail and instant messenger during those times. If you want to reach me, it’s urgent, try me during one of those times or just leave me a message here, and I’ll get back to you during one of those times,” which is a way to program people not to just interrupt you and expect you’re going to answer the phone. It kind of programs them to expect to wait a few hours because there’s really nothing in the modern environment that can’t wait at least a few hours.
Now, the big one, the big problem is e-mail. E-mail is probably the biggest consumer of our time and our attention that exists in the modern work environment. The trouble with e-mail isn’t just that there’s a lot of it. The trouble is we get addicted to checking it. Even worse than that, we get the little alerts so that e-mails pop up, and we see them as they’re coming in. They go, “Ding,” and then it distracts it. Then, we go click on it, and then it pops up the e-mail, and it makes it so easy.
So to prevent distraction and interruption with e-mail, I recommend that you do a couple of things. First of all, don’t have your e-mail browser on – don’t have your e-mail window open – unless you’re specifically dedicating time to checking and returning e-mail. Especially turn off the pings and the beeps and the pop ups because that stuff is just a constant racket of distraction and interruption. If you’re like me, you get dozens – hundreds of e-mails every day. If you just do the math, if you leave on the pop up or the ding or the beep or the thing that pings you, you’re going to be distracted every few minutes all day, and it will literally destroy your productivity.
Even better, borrow from the technique that I gave you a little earlier, and answer e-mails and return calls during specific times during the day. I call this scheduling your interruptions. Schedule time where you’re going to be doing a lot of this back and forth and where you’ll make yourself available in case people need to kind of reach you in a hurry.
If you start focusing on those big three distracters and interrupters, which is the cell phone, the instant messenger and the e-mail, and the variations of those, you’ll get yourself a long way down the field to eliminating distraction and interruption. Ultimately, what you want to do is you want to turn all that stuff off and as Peter Drucker recommends, work in focus blocks of uninterrupted time of minimum 90 minutes. Any of us can do that. I like to get little kitchen timers or little digital timers for $5.00 or $10.00. You can get them on amazon.com. Type in there an hour or 90 minutes, and just turn everything off, and just focus on getting one thing done. That’s really the ultimate way to prevent distraction and interruption.
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Last week Angela and I were talking about our upcoming seminar and how to get the word out about the webinar version of The Job Search Boot Camp, and the tele-seminar/tele-coaching event Find A Career You Love that we are doing in February. We both noticed that the original contact we have with most clients is through their resume. We are happy to help people streamline their resume. But, most job seekers think the resume is the magic bullet, and will get them hired.
A good resume won’t get you hired. A resume has one purpose – to get you the interview.
Dick Bolles in What Color Is Your Parachute 2010 says that “Resumes make you feel like they are out there, working for you. They make you feel as though you are really doing something about your job-hunt. But in fact they may be moribund or comatose.”
What Bolles is confirming is that you have to have a good job search strategy to compliment your good resume. A good job search strategy is not submitting your resume to Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, or HotJobs.com. These mega-job boards have thousands of applicants for every job posting. Neither is replying to job ads a good search strategy. The resumes are already piling up when you reply to a job posting on the company’s web site, a newspaper posting, or Craigslist. Answering ads is called a Reactive Job Search. You are literally reacting to a posted position. There is literally too much compeitition once the ad is posted. I’m a competitive person, but compeitition isn’t good in a job search when you are relying on income to pay your mortgage, fill the gas tank, and feed the kids.
A good job search strategy is getting your resume in the hands of the person who has the power to hire you. Angela and I will be speaking at the upcoming CareerConnects Event on Friday, January 29th at St. Edwards University – North Austin Campus. Our topic will be “Out of Your Comfort Zone”. We will talk about the Targeted Job Search – which is a Proactive Job Search. This method is 86% effective! I like those odds.
Proactive + Reactive = Results You don’t need to abandon answering ads. Just include the Proactive/Targeted Job Search to your strategy, and shift your effort. Spend your time looking at mega job boards and aggregate job boards (like Indeed.com), but make it less than 50% of your time. Spend the bulk of your time creating and organizing a Targeted Job Search and watch your results skyrocket!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jay Markunas is a Career Coach and Fortune 500 HR professional. Along with his partner, Angela Loëb, will be hosting the session “Out of Your Comfort Zone” at the upcoming Career Connects Event on January 29th.
Through his company, Great Occupations, Jay helps job seekers and career shifters by offering The Job Search Boot Camp webinar, Find a Career You Love tele-coaching event, career & job coaching services, and career-related products. Each 1st & 3rd Saturday, he & Angela host The Job Search Boot Camp Show – which also available on iTunes.
I believ that one way to get better is to get a job. Hopefully I can get a paid job. I want to be able to walk into that interview room, present myself a best I cam, Hid e any atistic tendancies that I have, and come out smelling like roses. I want to be able to pull the wool over the eyes of whoever is interviewing me. I want a goof=d challenging job that neith overwhelms me or underwhelms me. I would love to work in a library. I’m kind of tire with working for the school for autistic kids. It’s just not for me. I want to work in forensics. That would be an awsome job, I would love to to research for nonverbal communication and become an expert in lie detection. I want to work very hard for that goal.
(draft) everyone is looking for them and they’re out there somewhere. the thing is, you can’t find them at your local career market.
based upon UK data, almost 2,5 million students graduated in 2007. that’s a lot. all looking for that great job that makes you feel important, satisfied and pays the bills at the end of the month. that year 65% of the graduates got *a* job within 6 months. 2007? that was before the big recession right?
yes, i couldn’t really find new numbers, but i’m guessing they won’t be better than this.
i’ve seen friends of mine graduating and desperately looking for a respectable job.
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Last week Angela and I were talking about our upcoming seminar and how to get the word out about the webinar version of The Job Search Boot Camp, and the tele-seminar/tele-coaching event Find A Career You Love that we are doing in February. We both noticed that the original contact we have with most clients is through their resume. We are happy to help people streamline their resume. But, most job seekers think the resume is the magic bullet, and will get them hired.