Read this article (link to www.entrepreneur.com) on how you can find out whether you use ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ when speaking, particularly when presenting in front of an audience. And then find out how you can eliminate them. They say it’s easier than you think.
Did you know that the first word after the greeting in an email or letter always starts with a capital letter in English? Yes, it’s quite different to what we do here in Germany, isn’t it?
Something like this …
“Dear Sam
Thank you so much for writing to me … “
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you’re a history lover, you’ll like the BBC’s news archive website “On This Day“. It contains an online digital library of news stories reported by the BBC on World War II and on world events from the 1950s to 2005.
Take a look what happened on 1 April 1957. You’ll be surprised!
A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty.
Management asked its engineers to solve the problem permanently to avoid it happening again.
The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors operated by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. They worked hard and they worked fast.
However one of the company’s employees came up with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan
and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
In this very short YouTube video, Richard Wiseman (psychologist, author and magician) tells us what we can do when bad things happen to us.
Take a look at Robert’s website to learn more about him. He’s got a very interesting blog …
