Chores
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Words
Our words have the power to build up or tear down.
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Personal Statement or Essay for College
Stay sloppy. You need to apply as a strong writer. If you have poor writing skills and poor grammar, your application with be pitched right away. Most applicants don’t understand the limits of their writing skills. Ask a strong editor to read over your personal statement, red pen in hand
Write a wandering essay. Every paragraph should have a point. Brevity is an important skill and you should always be clear about the point you’re making. If the point isn’t evident, you leave meaning up to interpretation.
Get too personal. A personal vignette shouldn’t sound like a therapy session. I think sympathy can be immensely powerful, if you connect it to skills. For example, if a student is a first-generation college graduate, and a managed to do this despite childhood poverty and an abusive father, this demonstrates tenacity and offers experiences that will potentially greatly enrich the program. But it needs to be about what is – or has become -a character strength as opposed to just telling a sad story.
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Empathy
During my last full-time job as an executive leader, my colleagues and I were asked to stand in front of the entire company and talk about which of the organization’s corporate values resonated with us the most. Our choices: self-awareness, positive energy, judgment, intellectual honesty, and empathy. If I had been given the proper time to think about it, I might have answered differently instead of trying to make an unmemorable joke. I might have said “empathy.” Then, I might have gone on to say something like: “I’m going to say empathy because I think it’s really important. But I don’t know—because I’m not sure what we really mean when we say it. I wonder if this would be a good time for us to define what empathy means to us, and then discuss how we’re going to hold ourselves accountable to it.” Eric Solomon
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Time
Time should be respected and revered don’t waste it being unhappy. Beatrice Dixon
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
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