Do not let anger take over your life, learn how to live with the hand you are dealt, and move on with your life.  You can’t control someone else’s behavior. Only how you react to it.   It is better to be assertive and not aggressive.  When you are assertive you respect yourself and you have respect for others.  This allows you to redirect your energies to problem solving not fury.

Focus on LIVING for TODAY!!  Using all your energy thinking about what happened yesterday or what is going to happen tomorrow and you will not have any energy left for today.  Keeping a happy attitude will help control the anger emotions.

Before you allow someone to make you angry put yourself in their shoes.  Why are they getting angry?  You do not have to agree with them just understand where they are coming from.  This will help you focus on the problem at hand and help you alleviate some of your anger towards that person.

Like the inspirational speech Rocky Balboa give his son:

“When Things got hard, you started looking for something to blame. Like a Big Shadow.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it…

You’ve gotta hit as hard as life. It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much can you take and keep moving forward? That’s how winning is done.

If you know what you’re worth, Go out and Get What Your Worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.”

—-Rocky Balboa
The Last “Rocky” Film

So go embrace the world with happiness, do not let anger or anything else get in the way.

Yea!!!

It is a web site for  Healthy Market grocery store. It is a grocery store that promotes healthy living, provides cooking classes, healthy recipes, health tips and much more.  They offer a e-newsletter and blog for connecting with others who have ideas on staying healthy.  You will need to check in out and let me know what you think.

Customer Service

C -   Customer – Customer is always right. The #1 rule of all.
U -  Understand – Understand their feelings and know their needs.
S -   Service – The service you provide should always be excellent. The same way you wish to be treated.
T -  Take extra Steps – Throw in something extra.
O -  Open-minded – Always be open-minded.
M -  Matter – Make customers feel important and appreciated.
E -  Excellence – Give the customer more than they expected.
R -  Remember – Call them by name and always thank them. They could always have gone somewhere else.

S –   Stay Proactive – Be head of the game. Take initiative and think about what they might need next.
E -  Emotional – Customers buy good feelings and solutions to their problem.
R -  Respectful – Be considerate and a good listener.
V -  VIP – Customers are Very Important People, treat them like royalty.
I -  Integrity – Always be honest and do what you say you are going to do.
C -  Communication – Keep the customer informed throughout the entire process. Do not leave them guessing.
E -  Employees – Employees are internal customers. Treat them well and chances are they will have a higher regard for their customers.

The most important thing to know is the customer is the boss. They are the reason you are here, to service their needs and you can only do that if you know what your customer wants. When you listen to your customers, they let you know what they want and how you can provide good service. Always remember the customer pays your salary and makes your job possible.

Diversity is a large part of our DNA.  How we handle day to day activities. How we react with others.  How we respond to situations we encounter.  Culture reflects our cognitive development all through our learning process.  We have to train ourselves to be open-minded to all things and think before we react.  Do what is the best for everyone.

Diversity is a huge part of each persons success!

“The concept of diversity encompass acceptance and respect.  It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.  It is the exploration of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.  It is about understanding each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual.”

-  http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~asuomca/diveristyinit/definitin.html

Have you ever had a friend that has something horrible happen to them and you wish you could just wash it away?  So, you both sit there and just sob together knowing there is nothing you can do except be there for them.  This is compassion; a human emotion of shared suffering, the desire to alleviate another’s suffering.

Why should you develop compassion in your life? Scientific studies suggest there are physical benefits to practicing compassion – people who practice it produce 100 percent more DHEA, which is a hormone that counteracts the aging process and 23 percent less cortisol – the “stress hormone”.  But the main benefit is that it helps you to be happy, making everyone around you happy.  Compassion is one of the main tools for achieving happiness.

This is why it is important to find the job of your dreams.  Find what you are passion about and pursue it.  With hard work and persistence there’s nothing you can’t achieve.  Build your image of compassion and happiness while working with others, creating a sense of accomplishment with each project you complete.

A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” -Confucius

Ajax is also a JavaScript based application, it is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. Which means it can retrieve data from the server with Ajax applications without interfering with the page. Ajax techniques allow a better quality of web services, with increased interactive or dynamic interfaces.

Ajax tutorial and Ajax training tools are readily available allowing developers to create an Ajax based application without having great knowledge about JavaScript. By using Google you can locate the code necessary to create the frames needed to resize an image, reset a document, open document in a different window and refresh page.

JavaScript applications are in a large number of web applications we use, like Google Maps and Solitaire. There are other web applications that could be confused with JavaScript but are developed with other applications are Yahoo Maps, Google Finance and You Tube.

It costs company’s tens of billions of dollars a year in terms of employee theft, re-work, defective products, inefficiency, workplace conflicts and misunderstandings. Accountability is even more difficult in today’s marketplace with rapidly changing technology, diversity in the workplace and more demanding customers.

Companies are looking for associates who do more than just what they are “told to do”. In this fast paced society it is good to know how your contributions fit into the big picture. Employers want employees that will take the ball and run with it. Once the project has been assigned can they count on you to get the job done on time and done correctly the first time?

Take ownership of your work; earn the trust of your boss and coworkers. As their trust grows so will your accountability. Meeting deadlines, being up-front when you make a mistake, correcting mistakes without pointing fingers and making good decisions help to earn you a valuable reputation.

Feel good about yourself, take that extra step and give 100 percent. You are the only one that can build your reputation to earn the respect of others. Help coworkers and clients find a solution even if it does not involve you. By lending a helping hand you are building a reputation as the person who gets things done.

Remember, Accountability is only as strong as the weakest link! Bring your “owners mentality” to work with you everyday so that you are not the “weak link”.

Characters of Good Goals:

• Goals should be within your skills and abilities.
• Goals should be realistic.
• Goals should be flexible.
• Goals should be measurable.
• Goals should be within your control.

Keeping your goals small will make them easier to accomplish.  If they are to large it can seem like you are not making progress.  Write your goals down, record each accomplishment as you reach it and remember to be flexible.  Stay flexible so if you realize a change is necessary you will be ready to make the change.

To review my source of information go to, Mind Tools.

Remember setting goals is an important key to your success.