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Cheap Upgrades For A Better You

July 31, 2019 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

Cheap Upgrades For A Better You

In today’s modern society, so full of daily tasks and obligations, it can be difficult to find some time to truly focus on you. Balancing work, family life, and other daily commitments can be a struggle, and self well-being often takes a back seat. However, it is important that everyone takes some time to focus on ways to improve themselves – whether this is through fitness, professional training, or supporting those less fortunate in the community. With this in mind, here are some affordable ways to create a better you.

Invest in a gym membership

Becoming more active and adopting healthy habits is a great way to improve your confidence and self-image. Research has found that physical activity releases serotonin, which is the ‘feel good’ chemical that creates feelings of happiness. Hitting the gym at the end of a busy day in the office, can, therefore, be an effective way to de-stress and boost your mood. The first step to becoming healthier is to create some realistic fitness goals based on what you want to achieve – this could be to lose a few pounds, gain muscle mass, or increase stamina. Set your fitness goals early and have a clear plan in place to achieve them.

Fortunately, there are plenty of quality fitness centers offering great sign up deals and affordable gym memberships, so developing an effective workout routine doesn’t have to be expensive. Remember that it takes time for exercise to have a physical effect on your body, so you won’t see results instantly. Make sure you are consistent with your exercise efforts, remain positive, and continue working towards your fitness goals.

Take advantage of training opportunities

Completing professional qualifications and training has a number of benefits. This includes – improving your skills and knowledge, increasing job satisfaction, enhancing your employability, and increasing your chances of being offered a promotion with your current employer. What’s more, your employer may even offer to fund certain training courses, if you demonstrate the benefits it could have on their business. If you cannot receive funding, then don’t worry! There is a huge range of affordable courses online that will instantly boost your skills and qualifications.

In today’s modern businesses, things are constantly evolving. For that reason, it is important to take advantage of any training opportunities on offer and be proactive when it comes to your professional development. This will ensure that your skills are up to date, so you can perform at the highest level possible, which in turn, should improve how satisfied you are in your job role. There are hundreds of qualifications and courses out there to enhance a career in pretty much any industry, so make sure you do your research and find any courses that could benefit your career. Click here for information on some of the most popular professional development courses on offer now.

Learn a new language

Learning a new language is a fantastic way to improve your skills and broaden your knowledge of a new country and culture. One of the biggest benefits of learning a new language is having the ability to interact and connect with people all around the world in a meaningful way. Lead with Languages explain how – “Bilinguals have the unique opportunity to communicate with a wider range of people in their personal and professional lives.” Knowing the language means you can instantly connect with local people when you travel. This will help you develop a richer understanding of the culture and local customs, which will improve your travel experiences.

 

Learning a new language can also help with career advancement. Many businesses now trade with organizations abroad, so translation skills are in high demand. Being bilingual is an impressive skill that is highly regarded by employers across all industries. Demonstrating the commitment to learn a second language is a fantastic way to set yourself apart from your peers and put yourself ahead of the competition. Language skills can also help you negotiate higher salaries and other benefits when applying for new jobs. The best thing about learning a new language is that it doesn’t have to be expensive. There are plenty of affordable online language courses and apps that you can download, then learn from home in your spare time. The most popular language apps include – Humble Bundle, Babbel, Udemy, and Rosetta Rose.

Support others with volunteer work

Helping others is probably the first thing that comes to mind when people are looking for ways to become a better person. Sacrificing some of your spare time to help others will cost you nothing, and can have a significant effect on your own mental well-being. Research has found that helping others can be an effective way to boost mood, reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, and improve self-esteem.

In today’s busy society, many people feel too stressed and busy worrying about their own problems, that they don’t consider the issues faced by other people. Expanding your ability to focus on the needs of others and supporting those less fortunate will help you to truly appreciate the positive things in your life and become less affected by minor daily stresses. Many argue that altruism, i.e., helping others, is a reward in itself. Here are some great ideas for ways that you can support people in your community:

  • Do random acts of kindness, for example, helping an elderly person carry their shopping to the car.
  • Get involved as a volunteer for a local charity like an animal shelter or care home
  • Arrange sponsored activities to raise money.
  • Offer mentoring services to people in educational or criminal settings.
  • Organize a local community clean up.
  • Become a regular blood donor.

Final thought

As you can see, there are plenty of great affordable (and free) ways to improve yourself. Not only will this help make you a better person, but it can also improve your job satisfaction and career prospects, and make you a happier, healthier person overall. Give some of these ideas a go and see the amazing effects they can have on your mental and physical well being.

Filed Under: fatherhood Tagged With: education, exercise, fitness, learning, professional development, training, upgrade, volunteer, volunteer work

Priceless Parenting – A Great Training Instrument For Parents

September 9, 2009 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

I was pleased to be offered the opportunity to review a great parenting resource over the past few months called Priceless Parenting.

I had the opportunity to interview Kathy prior to accessing the content of her site and I can tell you that she truly is a down to earth individual who is all about helping parents become better parents while at the same time working to let parents lower their stress levels while increasing the responsibility of children.

Not only does Kathy maintain her company’s website and the free and paid resources that are included, she also maintains the priceless parenting blog that provides parents with wonderful tidbits and helpful hints about being a better parent.

The Priceless Parenting Course

The Priceless Parenting course is a must have for parents no matter how veteran. The topics that she covers impacts all ages from infant to adult children.

The program is very user friendly. It is a web based training that is broken down into 7 Lessons with topics including:

  • Parenting basics
  • Sharing control
  • Problem ownership
  • Letting your kids think
  • Consequences
  • Chores
  • Bringing it all together

The program is very accessible with a secure login for people taking the course. Each lesson is supposed to take about an hour. I was able to get through some of them a bit quicker, but if you were going to take this with your spouse/partner (I would highly recommend it), it may take longer as you discuss issues and topics as they are presented.

The lessons are narrated by Kathy and uses down to earth, real life examples which truly makes the training that much more pertinent. Each lesson even has a homework section that you and your partner can work on together.

Unlike many parenting programs out there, this program is completely self paced. The program allows you to move as quickly or slowly as you would like. The online format/video based format of the program allows you to use forward and back arrows as much or as little as you like to move seamlessly between the topical areas that you know and the areas you may need to hear again. This toolbar also allows you to pause the program as needed, so if you have a parental disturbance (as many of us do) you can deal with it and then go back to the class, starting up where you left off.

The program is somewhat similar to the ideals brought up in some of the other parenting books I have read in the past. Kathy commented that she had tried to use the best of the resources that she was aware of to develop this program adopting the best of the best and taking out the parts that just did not work. She also put in personal and other examples to make the training even more meaningful.

I truly appreciated all of the material that was covered within the training. I have never gone through a formal training like this before and I found myself always looking forward to the next lesson and the learning that it would impart. I already find myself using the knowledge from this course with my eldest (Diva-J). One of the biggest things that I have been trying lately from the training is the idea of choices and providing choices for Diva-J to allow her the freedom to make mistakes and offer learning moments.

I also have to put in a plug for the cartoons that she uses in parts of the lessons. As a fan of the Baby Blues cartoons, she uses these cartoons well to emphasize her points.

This training is inexpensive in terms of what you get and in terms of what else is out there on the market for parenting courses. For 3 months access to the site you pay only $65, and Kathy will even let you register on her site for access to the first lesson to try things out.

Recently the Huffington post just ran an article on the importance of parent education: http://tinyurl.com/ljkxvc in which Kathy was interviewed.

 

For those of you who do not know Kathy, let me shed some light on who she is… from her website itself, Kathy Slattengren is:

a noted parenting educator and presenter who created Priceless Parenting in 2007. She has a deep commitment to teaching parents the critical skills needed for effectively responding to misbehavior while guiding children to becoming responsible and respectful.

While raising her own two children, she learned many wonderful
parenting techniques from classes, seminars and books. Through studying research, she discovered a universal body of knowledge about how effective parents do their job. Her Masters of Education degree from the University of Washington combined with her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Computer Science from the University of Minnesota has enabled her to pull together
parenting research into a course that is easy to understand and apply. After
teaching numerous parenting classes, she knew that parents really benefited when
they learned more effective parenting techniques.

Parents reported how much happier and calmer their homes were after using
the new techniques. Wanting to share this valuable information with parents
everywhere, she created an online course so parents could learn these valuable
skills at their own pace and from the comfort of their own home.

I whole-heartily encourage all of you to check out Priceless Parenting to become an even better parent!

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Filed Under: parenting Tagged With: choices, discipline, parenthood, priceless parenting, training

Priceless Parenting – A Great Training Instrument For Parents

September 9, 2009 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

I was pleased to be offered the opportunity to review a great parenting resource over the past few months called Priceless Parenting.

I had the opportunity to interview Kathy prior to accessing the content of her site and I can tell you that she truly is a down to earth individual who is all about helping parents become better parents while at the same time working to let parents lower their stress levels while increasing the responsibility of children.

Not only does Kathy maintain her company’s website and the free and paid resources that are included, she also maintains the priceless parenting blog that provides parents with wonderful tidbits and helpful hints about being a better parent.

The Priceless Parenting Course

The Priceless Parenting course is a must have for parents no matter how veteran. The topics that she covers impacts all ages from infant to adult children.

The program is very user friendly. It is a web based training that is broken down into 7 Lessons with topics including:

  • Parenting basics
  • Sharing control
  • Problem ownership
  • Letting your kids think
  • Consequences
  • Chores
  • Bringing it all together

The program is very accessible with a secure login for people taking the course. Each lesson is supposed to take about an hour. I was able to get through some of them a bit quicker, but if you were going to take this with your spouse/partner (I would highly recommend it), it may take longer as you discuss issues and topics as they are presented.

The lessons are narrated by Kathy and uses down to earth, real life examples which truly makes the training that much more pertinent. Each lesson even has a homework section that you and your partner can work on together.

Unlike many parenting programs out there, this program is completely self paced. The program allows you to move as quickly or slowly as you would like. The online format/video based format of the program allows you to use forward and back arrows as much or as little as you like to move seamlessly between the topical areas that you know and the areas you may need to hear again. This toolbar also allows you to pause the program as needed, so if you have a parental disturbance (as many of us do) you can deal with it and then go back to the class, starting up where you left off.

The program is somewhat similar to the ideals brought up in some of the other parenting books I have read in the past. Kathy commented that she had tried to use the best of the resources that she was aware of to develop this program adopting the best of the best and taking out the parts that just did not work. She also put in personal and other examples to make the training even more meaningful.

I truly appreciated all of the material that was covered within the training. I have never gone through a formal training like this before and I found myself always looking forward to the next lesson and the learning that it would impart. I already find myself using the knowledge from this course with my eldest (Diva-J). One of the biggest things that I have been trying lately from the training is the idea of choices and providing choices for Diva-J to allow her the freedom to make mistakes and offer learning moments.

I also have to put in a plug for the cartoons that she uses in parts of the lessons. As a fan of the Baby Blues cartoons, she uses these cartoons well to emphasize her points.

This training is inexpensive in terms of what you get and in terms of what else is out there on the market for parenting courses. For 3 months access to the site you pay only $65, and Kathy will even let you register on her site for access to the first lesson to try things out.

Recently the Huffington post just ran an article on the importance of parent education: http://tinyurl.com/ljkxvc in which Kathy was interviewed.

 

For those of you who do not know Kathy, let me shed some light on who she is… from her website itself, Kathy Slattengren is:

a noted parenting educator and presenter who created Priceless Parenting in 2007. She has a deep commitment to teaching parents the critical skills needed for effectively responding to misbehavior while guiding children to becoming responsible and respectful.

While raising her own two children, she learned many wonderful
parenting techniques from classes, seminars and books. Through studying research, she discovered a universal body of knowledge about how effective parents do their job. Her Masters of Education degree from the University of Washington combined with her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Computer Science from the University of Minnesota has enabled her to pull together
parenting research into a course that is easy to understand and apply. After
teaching numerous parenting classes, she knew that parents really benefited when
they learned more effective parenting techniques.

Parents reported how much happier and calmer their homes were after using
the new techniques. Wanting to share this valuable information with parents
everywhere, she created an online course so parents could learn these valuable
skills at their own pace and from the comfort of their own home.

I whole-heartily encourage all of you to check out Priceless Parenting to become an even better parent!

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Filed Under: parenting Tagged With: choices, discipline, parenthood, priceless parenting, training

Blogging for Beginners

July 22, 2008 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

Yaro Starak is goin to be opening his Blog Mastermind course again, and with this he is launching a site with several how-to videos for beginners. No registration or email list signups are required to view the videos (Bonus!). You just need to go, visit the site, and start watching the videos (10 of them available right now).

The Blog Mastermind course is basically an intensive blog training that will lead you, step by step, from creating and setting up your blog to generating traffic and monetizing it. Yaro is amazing, he makes over $20,000 monthly with his blogs and courses, so he knows what he is talking about.

The course will open its doors for new students by the end of July, but you can already download the free eBook that promotes it: Blog Profit Blueprints.


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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, free, training

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