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The power of social media in education

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Since its inception, the Internet has become an intricate part of life where people depend on its access for daily activities such as shopping, social networking, education, banking, home security, and other related activities. Among these, social networks, which seem to be the main attraction of the Internet, can be seen as both a blessing and a curse. In education in particular, social networks are considered a positive indicator of progress in education and its practices. However, we cannot deny the negative influences that can accompany it, which seems to be a distraction for many students today.

Students frequently become familiar with computers while browsing these social networks. They gain valuable skills on an instrument that has become indispensable in the world in which they reside as students and will enter upon completion of their studies. Additionally, it encourages networking with a variety of people, which can be seen as a necessary skill in the business environment. This is also the case for teachers and administrators. With the existence of social blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, teachers can share and record through various media, instructional methods, as well as teaching theories and practices in real time. Additionally, many are able to extend learning techniques and also interact with students on an ongoing basis outside of the classroom.

On the contrary, the rise of social networks and advances in other interactive communication technologies have produced negative impacts inside and outside the classroom. While social media can be seen as a positive tool for education, this tool has the potential to hinder student achievement, social growth, and communication skills. Similarly, it can affect a teacher’s overall efficiency in a number of ways. What is the reason for a decline in academic performance as a result of its impact? What are the social ramifications of social networks? What factors are directly responsible for the inability to educate students effectively? How are teachers affected by social media both inside and outside the classroom?

For most, Internet access for educational purposes would be seen as a great resource of information; however, for students, the Internet poses many problematic factors in academic performance. In general, children who spend more time online find it more difficult to concentrate, resulting in shorter attention spans. Students who rely solely on social media for information rather than researching other resources are likely to experience difficulty concentrating on learning and retaining information. It significantly affects study habits as students attempt to multitask and end up easily distracted because they are too busy tweeting and/or posting on Facebook instead of completing assignments.

Advances and excessive access to technology are direct factors in how social networks have affected the student inside and outside the classroom. Today, students spend most of their time on these networks through mobile devices. However, some schools prohibit the use of these devices; many of them sneak them into the school. They use these devices to record videos; taking photos of themselves and others, searching the internet, tweeting, and logging into Facebook, making it hard to focus during instructional time. These activities also seek to inhibit effective instruction. In addition to this, many of these activities have caused many problems in the school and the community, for example, fights, bullying, lawsuits, etc. Therefore, excessive and unproductive time spent on social media can be very unhealthy and therefore have a negative effect on teens and children. So we can argue that teaching/learning is in direct competition with social media, when they should be partners in educating students.

The use of social media has also significantly decreased the use of proper grammar and syntax in writing. Students have found it difficult to differentiate between the proper use of language as a result of abbreviated writing and abbreviated forms of word formulation. Many jargon terms have become common in written class assignments. These terms IDK (don’t know), SMH (shaking head), BTW (btw), YW (you’re welcome), TNX (thanks), IMO/IMHO (IMHO/IMHO) ) just to name Some, students have slipped into typing so much that they can’t understand the differences between the correct and incorrect way of writing correctly. Teachers see declines in proper capitalization, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement, to name a few. Students are so immersed in poor grammar usage while online that they rely heavily on computing devices to self-correct their mistakes, resulting in a decline in their proficiency in using the English language. Subsequently creating a conflict in the use of grammar.

Another key point that should not be overlooked is the effect of social media on face-to-face communication. Clearly, if students spend more time on social media then we can agree that they spend less time socializing in person. The lack of face-to-face interpersonal interactions can be directly related to the lack of social skills and etiquette. We learn important behaviors and emotional cues from close personal contact that cannot be learned online. As a result, some students never learn to read body cues and other nonverbal cues, such as pitch and inflection. Social networking sites should not be seen as a replacement for personal contact, but as a valuable addition that can create a socially balanced individual.

Nowadays, many students have become less sociable with each other and prefer to interact online and live in a virtual world based on fake people who can be easily accessed through social networking sites. Of course, this can have a lasting effect on the family unit, where effective face-to-face communication is essential to maintaining healthy relationships. Can we then blame some of today’s social ills and break the family structure on social media? Often we go to restaurants or other public spaces and everyone is busy on a device, so there is very little face-to-face communication. The question is how can we create a balance? How do we compete with this valuable tool we call the Internet while maintaining healthy relationships?

Social networks affect both students and teachers. For example, cyber bullying can be seen as the main negative defender of social networks. Many times violence in schools has started through a social networking site. Teachers are also affected by cyberbullying. The perpetrators are sometimes students and/or parents. This abuse can be very damaging to a teacher as it lowers overall efficiency and confidence in the classroom. Teachers experience increasing levels of emotion ranging from being sad to being angry about online bullying. The experience can be humiliating and embarrassing. Character slurs are quite common in the online world and continue to affect teachers and students alike.

Obviously, social networks affect us all in one way or another, either positively or negatively. The technology will continue to evolve, therefore; It is imperative that parents, teacher administrators, and students come together to encourage positive, productive, effective, safe, and responsible use of this valuable tool. The long-term effects of misuse can be very dangerous for progress in education and social development.

Home Kitchen

Kitchen Cabinet Remodeling

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The current treatment of kitchens has led many to consider these rooms as guest quarters alongside living rooms. While leaning more towards efficiency in the past, over the years kitchens are becoming as aesthetically pleasing and comfortable as they are efficient as the margin between them becomes less and less simple.

So while kitchens may be among the easiest to plan, design or remodel, today’s variety of requirements for kitchens might make any designer scratch their head more often. Don’t chew the tip of the pencil yet. Going through various tips from different room designers should get your design gears going in just a minute.

Elimination of conventional modeling

It seems that by congregating in a close-knit society, everyone will eventually share similar traits and tastes. European and western ideas for the kitchen are getting old and it’s good that people are starting to throw away that old western kitchen design. The new (and better) concept in modern kitchen design comes from the oriental style. Yes, it seems that Eastern designs are more space conscious than the expansive flavors of Western design. And since the leading eastern countries have long ago developed a taste for modern urban living, most of these designs come as well-thought-out, space-conscious, hygienic-looking kitchens.

Kitchen designs should not be limited to tired concepts too. Design practices of the past make the kitchen much less obvious to visitors. But as hospitality and courtesy to visitors become more widespread, more homes have begun to welcome guests from kitchens. Apparently the old English habit of kitchens for uninvited guests is absolved.

Kitchen Remodel Floor Plans

At getdecorating.com, you’ll get a healthy dose of ideas for kitchen remodeling floor plans. From a complex U-bend to simpler L-shaped kitchen remodel floor plans, after visiting this site, you will almost certainly have several ideas of your own. That’s a shame, though, as most of the designs shown here aren’t specifically for those on a tight budget. However, the kitchen designs here are really fantastic.

Like this:
http://www.getdecorating.com/kitchens.cfm?master=24641&page=1

Did we just say that the kitchen is becoming more of a reception area these days? So a design like this should come in handy for those homes. Immediately off the living room is the remarkable kitchen, which also serves as the entrance hall to the interior dining room. This idea is good for the housewife who has to juggle baking with welcoming guests who arrive early. Now there’s no reason to throw away those burnt turkeys.

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Electric Car Conversion – Blueprint Part Two

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In the first part of the electric car conversion project, I mentioned why this technological breakthrough is now the rave of the moment. I also mentioned that the emission of poisonous smoke into the atmosphere by gasoline engines represents a serious danger to human and animal existence on planet earth. The other problem was the increase in the price of gasoline. As you digest this part of Electric Car Conversion – Blueprint, you will learn how to do the conversion effortlessly on your own. Unite to serve the earth from global warming.

The form is quite easy to understand, if you are the one doing the conversion. It will be very valuable if you can buy a guide online that can walk you through every step of the conversion process, to avoid mistakes and wrong settings. In some online stores; As well as selling the conversion guide, there is also an electric car conversion kit on offer which is invaluable if you are the one doing the conversion.

To help you understand the process of converting an electric car; it involves the removal of the entire combustion engine and then the mounting of an electric motor in place of the engine that has been disassembled. Batteries will then be added to the system and these will serve as a power source that you can recharge whenever you run out of power.

After converting your car to an electric car, expect to run up to 60 miles at speeds between 50 and 90 kilometers per hour. However, if you are always limited to traveling around the city, an electric car is perfectly suited to your needs.

This conversion process will cost you a maximum of $500, which includes the entire process of installing the electric motor and batteries. It will only cost you this much for once, and the next time you will spend this much on your car after three years when you change the batteries it will cost you around US$300 to US$600.

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Simplified Marketing

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One of the most entertaining things you can do in business is attend a meeting where a group of top executives start pontificating on the subject of marketing. It amuses me more to see people try to distinguish between marketing, advertising, branding, media, channels, markets, verticals, sectors, business development, sales, communications, public relations, etc. It never ceases to amaze me how something so simple can become so complicated, and how people can take a completely ridiculous stance with such passion and want to defend that position to the death. In this blog post, I’m going to try to demystify marketing and give you some actionable items that you can implement right away to drive better results.

Let’s take a moment and have some fun with definitions. The following two definitions of marketing come from the American Marketing Association. The first was a definition that was used from 1985 to 2004, when the AMA published the “revised” edition.

Previous definition of AMAMarketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, ideas, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.

Current definition of AMA: “Marketing is an organizational function and set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.”

Well… a quick analysis of the two aforementioned definitions shows that the error of leaving out the client in the original definition was corrected by the clear and emphasized inclusion of the client in the revised definition (I guess I won’t give up my AMA membership just yet). ). Let me make it clear that I don’t mean to mock academic theory or best practice, but I have little use for generic, omnibus, or blanket statements, as they tend to accomplish nothing of value, but simply create confusion between the ranks.

Let’s take a look at a few more definitions… Most of you know how much I like “druckerisms” and in all conscience I must quote you one more time… Peter Drucker’s definition of marketing is: “Marketing and the innovation are the two main functions of business. You get paid to create a customer, which is marketing. And you get paid to create a new dimension of performance, which is innovation. Everything else is a cost center.” Now we’re getting a little closer, but this is still too ambiguous for my liking…

From my perspective, the problem with marketing as a discipline is that the desired result is often lost in the vast expanse of its multidisciplinary nature. The reality is that marketing is really the aggregation of any activity that touches the customer and that is too much for most organizations, let alone to manage and execute.

So, at the end of the day, I think marketing is “any activity that catalyzes a sales opportunity” (my definition). Simply put, I want marketing activities to make my phone ring! I don’t care what the medium, market, or message is, if you don’t put a qualified prospect in a sales situation, it’s a waste of time, money, and effort. Before the Myatt attackers come out of the shadows, I’m not diminishing the value of brand equity, market share, mind share, etc. I’m simply trying to take a complex issue and make it real and actionable. .

If you’re running brand campaigns or mind-sharing initiatives, that’s fine, but keep in mind that in most circumstances, while these can be classically defined as marketing activities, these efforts don’t catalyze short-term sales opportunities. The litmus test of any good “gorilla marketing” effort is measuring the return on cost of sales. A great marketing campaign generates a high velocity of leads at the lowest possible cost during the shortest possible sales cycle. If you juxtapose this with the typical brand initiative, you’ll see that these two efforts are actually diametrically opposed.

So the goal of marketing is not to get caught up in theoretical debates and academic exercises, but to realize that the main thing is to keep the main thing. If you can’t put all marketing initiatives under the microscope and tie them to acceptable performance based on sales generation, then you may want to reconsider what you’re doing.

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How to Teach Reading Comprehension

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Teachers struggle with how to teach reading comprehension. Implicit instruction teachers hope that reading a lot actually teaches comprehension through some form of reading osmosis. Explicit instruction teachers teach skills that can be quantified, but ignore meaning-making as the true purpose of reading.

Staunch teachers of implicit instruction want to believe that reading comprehension is something that is caught and not taught. They want to believe this “feel good” saying because it relieves guilt and legitimizes pedagogical laziness. These same teachers spend enormous amounts of time reading aloud and enjoying literature with their students. From time to time, these “sages on their stage” may drop pearls of literary wisdom to their rapt audiences. Of course, students enjoy this implicit, spoon-fed “instruction” because it saves them from having to read a challenging text on their own.

Die-hard teachers of explicit instruction believe that every instructional moment should be planned as part of the teachers’ instructional objectives. If reading skill cannot be measured and put on a progress chart, then it is simply not worth teaching. Unfortunately, these teachers focus on the snacks of reading and not the main course. The starters of discrete reading skills are easily diagnosed and often easy to teach. The core course of reading comprehension is difficult to diagnose, even more difficult to teach, and simply cannot be quantified in traditional registration matrices.

Having detailed the extremes, here are reading comprehension strategies that will help teachers strike a balance between implicit and explicit instruction and develop their students into capable independent readers.

1. The explicit advocates of direct instruction are right: snacks are necessary to enjoy food. But snacks are not food; reading comprehension is food. So, in the most efficient way possible, teach the necessary reading skills and help students unlearn their bad reading habits.

How? Get to know your readers. Each comes to your class with different skill sets and deficits. They each need mastery of phonemic awareness, phonics, syllability, sight words, and grade-level fluency to master the automaticity of reading that will enable them to pay attention to meaning making.

Effective whole-class diagnostic assessments that won’t take up all of your instructional time and differentiated instruction of reading skills are crucial to establishing the main course. However, students need to understand the purpose behind snacks. Teachers accomplish this by helping all students “catch up” in their reading skill deficit areas, while at the same time “keeping up” with instruction and practice of challenging reading comprehension strategies. Read about the value and purpose of reading assessments that will inform your instruction. Learn about the importance and role of phonemic awareness, phonics, syllability, sight words, and fluency in shaping reading comprehension for your readers.

2. Use shared reading to model the synthesized process of reading. Shared reading means that the teacher reads stories, articles, poetry, songs, etc. aloud to students to model the entire reading process. Students need to see and hear modeled reading that integrates all reading skills with a focus on meaning making. Without this “whole apart” model, reading skills instruction in isolation will fail to develop readers who read well on their own. The teacher shares reading strategies as she reads that help her understand, interpret, and enjoy the text. She models self-questioning and problem-solving strategies. She learns to do a mind read aloud and teaches self-questioning strategies.

3. Use guided reading to teach discrete reading comprehension strategies. Guided reading means that the teacher reads or plays a CD and stops to help students practice a preselected reading comprehension strategy. At stops, students share with the whole group, share in pairs, or write responses to comprehension strategies. Students do not read aloud as they are generally poor role models. Learn to teach the following reading comprehension strategies: Summarize, Connect, Rethink, Interpret, and Predict.

4. Teach independent reading by having students practice guided reading strategies on their own. Teach students to make personal connections with the text. This does not mean that students relate aspects of reading to their own experience. Instead, readers draw on their prior knowledge and experiences to understand and interpret the reading. The focus is on the author-reader relationship. Learn how to teach students to visualize text to increase reading comprehension.

Assign reading homework with parent-required discussion, even at the middle school level. We need to have students practice reading for at least two hours a week with 5% recognition of unknown words responsibly. SSR in the classroom will not accomplish this, even with response diaries. Immediate discussion at the summary and analysis levels increases understanding. Parents may very well supervise this independent activity. Learn how to develop a successful independent reading component.

5. Teach the connection of reading and writing. Reinforce the reading/writing connection by showing how expository and narrative texts are organized and how each should be read according to its own characteristics. Extensive experience in many genres of reading will help develop comprehension and writing skills. Learn the reading and writing strategies that “kill two birds with one stone” and learn how to teach an effective reading and study method for expository text.

6. Teach vocabulary explicitly and in context. Vocabulary acquisition is essential for reading comprehension. Teachers should expose students to challenging text, teach context clues, teach common parts of Greek and Latin words, teach vocabulary strategies such as semantic spectrums, and practice “word games” to increase vocabulary mastery.

7. Teach content. Teaching content is teaching reading comprehension. Good readers bring content, background knowledge, and experience to their side of the author-reader relationship. Content-poor readers are unable to make relevant personal, literary, or academic connections to the text, and comprehension suffers. Previous teaching of the history background is essential to develop understanding. For example, why not show the movie first, once in a while, before reading the novel? Take a group of struggling readers apart and teach them key concepts to build a scaffolding of meaning.

Remedial readers often practice reading skills ad nauseam, but become more deficient in content. For example, a seventh grade student who is removed from an English language arts class for reading remediation will likely miss the content of reading two novels, learn grade-level grammar and vocabulary, miss units on public speaking and poetry… get the idea. Not to mention, the possibility of missing social studies or science instruction if placed in a remedial reading class… Both content and reading strategies are critical to reading development.

Do you need a reading recovery program that allows the teacher to differentiate instruction? A balanced approach between implicit and explicit instruction? Development of reading comprehension with both the appetizers and the main course? Take a look at strategies for teaching reading.

Health Fitness

Simple lifestyle changes that help you lose weight

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There are a number of reasons why many people in our society are overweight. A lot of this has to do with lifestyle. Your lifestyle will affect your health and often your weight. So if your lifestyle is negatively affecting your health and weight, you probably want to make some changes.

Some changes you could make are actually very simple, but will require some willpower. These changes include proper exercise and a balanced diet. Exercise is very important and it could mean simply getting out and walking your dog. Having a balanced diet might mean including more vegetables and fruits in your diet and reducing your sugar intake.

Exercise means including more physical activities in your daily routine. Many people think about their diet when trying to lose weight. This is appropriate, but physical activity is an essential component to losing weight and improving your health. Exercise will help you burn calories, the calories you get from the food you eat. Go for a walk in the morning before work. Include your dog in this activity as your furious friend needs the activity too. You can also develop a routine consisting of moves that will burn significant calories. These movements can include sit-ups, push-ups, leg lifts, and running in place. Of course these must be done correctly and at least three or four times a week. This could be done after work, before dinner and would be a great way to cool down after a long day at work. Another thing to consider is walking or cycling to work during the warmer months. Walking or biking to work will also save you money when it comes to the cost of running your car. This will also make getting to work less frustrating. Also consider stretching before work, especially if your job is considered physical. Even if you sit at a desk all day, consider stretching before work and during breaks.

Exercise is important, but you’ll still need a balanced diet that involves eating foods with the right nutrients. This might mean reducing the amount of fast food in your diet and increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables you include in your diet. Include items like carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, apples, oranges, peaches, bananas, strawberries, and blueberries in your daily lunch. Fiber-rich foods should be included at breakfast and lunch. Use high-fiber bread for your morning toast and your lunchtime sandwich. You can add kidney beans and green beans to your soup. Reduce the amount of red meat you eat and replace it with seafood such as sole or salmon,

There are a number of changes you can make to your daily routine to lose weight. This means coming up with a plan and implementing it. So pick a day to start and go for it. With this in mind, there are many excellent resources on the Internet that can help you with a weight loss program. But remember you have to stick to the plan.

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Legal Law

Are you selling features or benefits?

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What is the benefit someone is buying when they buy a wristwatch? The first thing that came to mind was something like “the ability to know what time it is”? If so, you have fallen into the Feature/Benefit trap that we often fall into when developing our promotional materials and sales presentations.

A feature is an attribute or characteristic of your product or service. And a benefit is the value of the feature or attribute to your prospect. So, in the example above, a feature is “keeps accurate time” and a benefit could be “keeps you from being late for important meetings or events.” Too often we promote features when our customers are buying benefits.

Benefits appeal to the wants and values ​​of our prospects, and at the highest level, benefits generally fall into three categories:

1. Money: The product or service helps the buyer to earn or save money.

2. Time: The product or service helps the buyer save time or free up time to do other things.

3. Ego: The product or service somehow makes the buyer feel good.

Ultimately, your product or service must appeal to your buyer in one of these three areas. In addition, when developing benefits you should keep in mind the following five considerations:
1. The importance of benefits differs depending on the target audience you want to communicate with. There are often a variety of influencers and decision makers involved in a purchase decision. You should tailor your promotional materials and presentation to each one.

2. It is important to consider the needs and wants of your target audience when selecting benefits to promote. The needs and wants of a Timex buyer are very different from those of a Rolex buyer. Therefore, the features and benefits emphasized in the promotional materials are going to be different.

3. Choose benefits that differentiate your product or service from the competition, or at least those that your target market perceives as differentiating.

4. Benefits must be backed by features. Promoting benefits without features leads to a lack of credibility. A benefit statement such as “Our computer system will improve productivity by up to 45%, saving you $75,000 a year and paying for itself in eight months” should be accompanied by the features that deliver those benefits or your target market. you won’t believe the benefit, you won’t have credibility.

5. While your benefits message should appeal to higher-level values ​​of money, time, and ego, it should also communicate those downstream benefits that lead to increased income, time savings, and “feel good.” If you’ve ever been to a networking event, I’m sure you’ve had the experience of hearing five people say “We help companies improve their revenue.” And the people who claim to provide this benefit can be as diverse as a CPA and an advertising account executive. Without some information about the intermediate benefits they provide, such as “improved communication with your target market,” the higher level benefit of “improved profits” is worthless.

Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate features and benefits in your mind as you develop your promotional materials or sales presentations. One way to make sure you’re promoting benefits and not features is to state a feature followed by “what it means” and/or “what for”. For example, “All of our CPAs take 40 hours a year of continuing education on tax law changes. This means we can make sure you take all the deductions you’re entitled to so you save money on your tax bill.” at the end of the year”. year.”

One of the difficulties in crafting our own feature and benefit statements is that the benefits of a particular feature are so clear to us that we assume they are also apparent to our target market. And that is a dangerous assumption. You can use the “So what?” test to make sure you are communicating the benefits to your target market.

Put yourself in the shoes of your potential customers and read the benefit statement. If you, as a potential customer, can answer “So what? So what does this mean to me?” then you are still communicating functions. Once you’ve communicated a benefit, your prospect will no longer be able to respond with “So what?”

Here’s a five-step process you can implement to develop features and benefits for your product or service and ensure you’re communicating benefits that matter to your target market.

Step 1: Describe your product or service in 25 words or less.

Step 2 – Specifically identify a group of customers you want to target with your message.

Step 3: List the problems your product or service solves for the above customer group and/or the needs and wants your product or service satisfies for the group.

Step 4: With the above information in mind, list three to five features of your product or service that solve the problems or meet the needs described in Step 3. Remember to use “what” and “so” to jump between features. to performance and from intermediate level values ​​to superior values.

Step 5: Test each feature and benefit statement using the “So what?” Test.

Taking the time and investing the energy to clearly communicate the benefits to your target market will lead to a message that resonates with your prospects, leading to increased sales of your product or service.

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The Narcissist: A Boundless Golden Child

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When we struggle with grandiose, ruthless, and self-proclaimed narcissists in our personal and professional lives, we ask ourselves, “How did this person become such a self-absorbed, unempathetic, and deceitful individual?” The answer is not in the stars or in genetics as far as we currently know. The narcissist’s personality develops very early in childhood as a result of their interactions with the mother, father, or both parents. In many cases, the future narcissist is chosen for his or her special talents, intellectual brilliance, physical attractiveness, athletic prowess, or a combination of gifts to become the favorite child in the family. The budding narcissist places himself in the role of the chosen one who will fulfill the wishes and dreams of the parents. Raising a perfect son or daughter will offset your feelings of inadequacy. A message that the father communicates to this child is: “You are perfect, you have no limits, you cannot do anything wrong.” This child grows up believing that he is superior to others. The parent does not teach this child to be sensitive to the feelings of others. All that matters is to succeed, destroy your competitors and get to the top of the mountain. The future narcissist develops a grandiose false self. Believing himself to be perfect and superior and with more rights, the narcissist leads his life manipulating others, convincing them of his superiority and greatness. Despite his success in the world and the emergence of the narcissist, independence remains psychologically frozen in early childhood. On an unconscious level, he is still attached to the adoration and expectations of the parents.

In normal development, a child is loved and cared for as a unique individual. At first he is psychologically fused with the mother or primary caregiver. In this union, his physical and emotional needs are met with loving consistency. As the child matures, he begins to differentiate himself from the mother figure and becomes more independent. With the guidance and love of the parents, the child learns that he is loved for himself. At the same time, parents teach their son by example and directly that he is not the center of the universe. At a very young age, children learn to empathize with the concerns and feelings of others. The emotionally healthy child is spontaneous and joyful. He slowly separates himself from his mother and his father and becomes an individual capable of both giving and receiving love.

The narcissist uses his grandiose false self to fuel his limitless attitudes and behaviors. All are at his disposal and must bend to his will. He learns very early how to manipulate and exploit others to fulfill his wishes and desires. Narcissists have grand visions. Since they do not care about the feelings of others and have very little conscience, they have no restrictions in pursuing their goals.

Today’s society handsomely rewards narcissists. If they are high-level narcissists with charm and magnetism, intellect and drive, they often rise to heady circles of power in business, politics, entertainment, medicine, and other professions. Beneath all the success and material trappings, the narcissist harbors feelings of emptiness. He must continually seek out narcissistic supplies—adulation, praise, an enchanted circle of admirers—to fill the void. This psychological hole within him cannot be healed (except on rare occasions if he seeks professional help). The narcissist is incapable of empathy or intimacy. Surrounded by adoring fans, he is always psychologically alone.

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The Shenanigans of Omo Onile: Site Evildoers and How to Beat Them

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You just bought your land, paid miscreants or nuisances on the site through your contact man or agent and now you are ready to start building, came to your site and all of a sudden people started showing up on and off all claiming be “Omo Onile” and voila. to extort his life savings from him. What are you going to do?

I assume you have been paying and could continue to pay until you are empowered with this information. After settling them, work begins, set and excavation begins, but after an hour of work, three old men in their 70s, yes, I mean seventy years, came to the ground and began to spread their materials on the site to claim the site one of them lying to you that the yucca you cut on that land belongs to him, and he is ready to take you to the police station presuming that you are going to pay him millions for this, telling you that this is what he uses to feed and send their children to school.

You asked them what the problem really is, they are not willing to tell you anything, they are not willing to compromise and you saw them taking the cassava stalk running and gasping for air and you thought the case might be more than money; everything seems to confuse you, you are in a dilemma about what to do next, you call your contact frantically with no answer or he keeps promising to come to the site but he is too far away and too busy taking care of other sites problems. Especially when he has charged you money.

I want to state categorically that what happened to me in “Ogun State Nigeria” is not a made up story, so read on. Yes, what is your experience? These are mine

(1) They are illegitimately legitimate. The government of the day does not recognize these social misfits, but neither do they go against them, even when they reluctantly extort money from hapless citizens. For them, they believe that they are in a legitimate business indirectly supported by the tranquility of the government in power, because nobody is defending them.

(2) They see you as someone coming to take their inherited land and by the time you’re done with your building you’ll just slam your door on them and write beware of the dog on your door like the usual saying. So they have no mercy for you.

(3) They think they have nothing to lose because you’re the one with the money and you’re desperate to see your building built, so you don’t have to put the money to other uses. This is one of their strengths, they know you’re desperate.

(4) They also know you don’t want trouble and are intimidated by their incessant bullying. These and many more are the ones that the Omo Oniles have in their favor and are taking advantage of people for their maximum exploitation.

Do’s and Don’ts: Don’t show them that you have so much money to throw away because the more you spend, the more they will ask for. You have been given stipends before, and now you have finally decided to start something in your field, that does not mean that they will not ask you for more money.

No matter what you give, it will never be enough, so if you are afraid of confrontation, I advise you to find someone who can replace you most of the time. They win by psychology, if you play well with them, you will laugh better. His intention is to suck you dry by wearing you out, if I were you I’d be ready for this. Try to find out from homeowners in your area how much it cost them to get rid of them, find the average and use that to determine what you’re going to give.

I will advise whatever your contact man is asking to liquidate them, I will give you half the money, I will take the other half as what you will use to liquidate others who will come to trouble you on the site. Don’t pay a dime though, but after all that haggling, you’ll find that a token will save you a lot of stress.

Do not give anyone a large sum of money to liquidate Omo Onile, real estate agent or land speculators, the moment your contact man collects the money from you, he expects you to withdraw 60% of that money for yourself. This is the same money that he could have used to establish himself and others to come. Although you always need someone to point out or direct whoever is bothering you, this is usually not enough. Intimidation is by far your best weapon, you can have up to 6 groups that claim the land and come at different times of the day to collect money from you.

If you give in to intimidation or they discover an element of fear in you, you’re done.

One case is a 2 bedroom flat that was about to go up, yes, after paying our contact, and he himself assured us that no one would come to bother us, people started showing up at one point or another, fortunately owner. I wasn’t around, so I had to face the heat on my own. Imagine that you are in a room with 20 young and old burly looking men who smoke marijuana and throw it in your face in an angry challenge and few of them even comment that they beat you up, if you are not ready to cooperate with them. So, faced with the kind of situation, what will you do? Run? If you do, you are finished, you will never have peace in that place again and that is what they expect you to do by putting fear in your mind. My advice is don’t talk to them too delicately and let them realize that the owner is coming to pay.

Like I said before, the more you pay, the more you’re going to keep paying, that’s the logic, until when you get mad and stop paying them, they won’t budge. Your contact person will always impersonate someone who works for you, but not until you leave the site to inform the other Omo Onile about activity taking place on your site.

Another is to use the guerrilla method. If you have a very small project like a 2-bedroom apartment, there are some activities that you can do around 5:00 pm, 5:00 am, and 7:00 am This may give you the opportunity to avoid some of them because that it’s their job, that’s what they leave and they can’t stop coming until everyone is settled in one way or another. I have used this tactic before.

Going directly to meet the Baale or king of the earth, which will eventually cost you a lot, but will save you from incessant harassment, is also a good way to reduce discomfort.

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The Savings Highway Discount Club presents how a website owner’s mistakes led to success

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I am one of the owners of an internet business. This comment is about “things I learned from making marketing mistakes in my home businesses.” Or maybe I should say it’s about “how not to be successful in marketing.” After five years and $10,000 with no return trying to market home based businesses, I think I’ve learned all there is to know about what “not” to do if you want to be successful in a home based business. home. Of course, in the process I also learned a few things you need to do before starting your own business from home or from a store.

My husband and I’s first company was in Cheney, Washington. We opened a small Christian bookstore. Cheney was a university town, with about 8,000 inhabitants, with many small towns around it. Spokane was 15 miles from Cheney. We thought we would get a lot of traffic from Cheney and the surrounding towns. That was not the case. We discovered that people were driving to Spokane to do their major shopping and while there they would visit the huge Christian bookstore. Needless to say, we closed the shop at a loss after a year.

My mistake: Not doing market research or analysis for the need of a Christian bookstore in the area.

Our second major venture was selling real estate houses in a depressed area. My husband and daughter did this as a joint venture. Learning from our first mistake, my husband researched the market, lined up an investor ahead of time who agreed to work with us, and printed the necessary business forms. This business actually generated good income for one person, but barely enough for two. Unfortunately, the state decided to redevelop the area and offered thousands more for the houses than would have been profitable for us.

No mistake here – the only cost involved was fuel for the car to check out the houses. My suggestion on this would be to always line up an investor before trying to sell houses in any area.

At this point, we decided to work online. We attended a workshop on working from home. The presenters were excellent and we spent $6000 on 6 online store type website licenses. This turned out to be a total disaster. We didn’t know anything about online advertising. I chose my template for my site and located the products I wanted to sell from seven different vendors. I made a sale in a year. Fortunately, I had a full-time job, so our only loss was the investment of time and money. At least we weren’t on the streets.

My mistakes: Not learning what goes into starting an online business, such as: researching marketing, advertising, having a web presence, comparing hosting providers, and not writing a business plan with goals and a budget.

While it’s embarrassing to admit, I’ve tried several other online businesses that failed. I finally began to learn that if I wanted to be successful I needed to do my research. The first thing I did was write my business plan. I chose a nutrition company that had been in business for 10 years and had a good compensation plan, offered a second source of income, no side work, and offered lots of bonuses. Through trial and effort, little by little I built my business. I really enjoyed educating my downline leaders on how to train their people in the business. Unfortunately, my downline slowly quit, and when the second stream company made a major revision to their compensation plan, my team builders quit too.

My mistakes: Instead of going into extensive detail, I’ll summarize them as follows:
1. Attract people through the business of the second source of income, instead of the nutritional business.
2. Spending my entire annual advertising budget in the first two months of business to buy leads. (Buying leads is the same as flushing money down the toilet.)
3. Buy a 4 Gig laptop, when I had a desktop.
4. Not doing a Google search for free advertising and leads.

My husband and I are currently doing an online business together. Through my mistakes, I’ve discovered that I hate having to do anything technical with the computer, like setting up websites and capturing pages. I like talking to people and writing blogs and articles. My husband enjoys the technical components and he is very good at it. But to me, if it was just me, he would never be successful in online business, because he wouldn’t do the technical things necessary to be profitable online or even break even.

So, in summary, we have finally found a home business that allows my husband and me to use our particular talents in the area that we are good at. He does all the promotion and design and we both do sales. We’ve learned how to rank with Google for free, advertise for free, and get leads for free. We have learned that the biggest secret is not just knowing your strengths, but having a team of mentors, who are doing well with their business. By learning all of this, we are finally on our way to retirement and helping others do the same.