von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 15, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
Writing Conversationally You want to write an email to someone you know fairly well and don’t want it to sound too formal. What can you do? Use contractions. You know those words or combinations of words that we shorten by dropping letters and replacing them...
von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 14, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
Do You Eat the Frog? What do you do about the tasks you don’t enjoy? Do you leave them until the end of the day or do you do them right at the beginning? Eating the frog means starting your day with the largest, most difficult and most important task first....
von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 11, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
Make Room for Not Knowing “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that.” Pema Chödrön...
von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 10, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
Do Fast Diets Work? And are these diets healthy? Watch this 5-minute TED-Ed video on Youtube to find out (and to learn how dieters in Victorian England would swallow an unhatched tapeworm and let it grow inside them by consuming undigested meals): Is it possible to...
von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 9, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
A Tool To Help You Check Your Grammar Do you proofread your English texts before posting? Give this easy-to-use online spelling and grammar checker a try. The colourful underlined prompts will point out spelling errors—and make grammar or style suggestions. And...
von Christine Burgmer | Nov. 8, 2022 | Sparks, Uncategorized |
Do You Collect Love Notes? Do you have a file with „Love Notes“ from happy clients? When you’re feeling a bit low, you can take a moment to read them all through. They’ll remind you why you love your business—and they’ll make you feel a...