Hello, welcome to a little thing called 750 Words

★ What is this site about?

It's about learning a new habit: Writing. Every. Day.

I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.

I've used the exercise as a great way to think out loud without having to worry about half-formed ideas, random tangents, private stuff, and all the other things in our heads that we often filter out before ever voicing them or writing about them. It's a daily brain dump. Over time, I've found that it's also very helpful as a tool to get thoughts going that have become stuck, or to help get to the bottom of a rotten mood.

750 Words is the online, future-ified, fun-ified translation of this exercise. Here's how it works:

Every day you write, you'll get beautiful stats that analyze the feelings, themes, and mindset of your words.

Mom Illustrates All The Pregnancy Problems No One Wants To Talk About

Body hair. Swelling. Invasive questions.
These are just some of the difficulties pregnant women have to deal with. Illustrator and mother of two Line Severinsen began drawing cartoons of pregnancy problems back in 2012 while pregnant with her first child. The artist, who lives in Bergen, Norway, manages to perfectly capture the array of challenges with wit and humor. Because sometimes you've just got to laugh.
"I thought to myself that there is no way that no other people felt and looked like I did," she told The Huffington Post in an email. "So I wanted to create a counterpoint to help people like me to understand that they weren't alone and that it is OK to feel and act less than perfect sometimes."
Severinsen plans to eventually turn her art into a book.
"It's really rewarding to see that my drawings and experiences are resonating well with so many people ... I now have a 3-year-old girl and a 5-month-old boy, which guarantees that I won't run out of stories for many years to come."

Check out more of Severinsen's work on Instagram and Facebook. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/line-severinsen-pregnancy-problems-cartoons_564207e7e4b0411d3072798d

What not to say to a pregnant woman👿😝

(Nem is olyan) apró trükkök az élő angol társalgásról

Sok kedvenc oldalam van, ami évek óta fel-felbukkan előttem, ha egy kis gyakorlásra vágyom, vagy ötletre a nagy rohanásban. Nem mintha nem lenne belőle elég bennem is, de jó kinézni a világba, mások hogyan is csinálják, tanulni tőlük és megköszönni magunkban, hogy hasonlóan gondolkozunk.

 http://www.angolnyelvtanitas.hu

Az élő angol társalgásról - hozzáteszem, nem nyelvvizsgára, hanem az életre készülve:


This is supposed to be a good wine? – ez hiába tűnik kijelentő mondatnak, mégis kérdés.
Gotta run. Could be fun. – Megette a cica a mondatkezdő személyes névmást. Falánk állat, gyakran teszi.
Látod? Még a merev, vaskalapos angol nyelvtan is megadja magát, ha társalogni hívják.
Úgyhogy hagyd abba a véres-verejtékes küszködést a mondatkezdő nagybetűtől a mondatvégi írásjelig! És helyette vesd be azt a három taktikát, amit az anyanyelvi beszélők is használnak. Mutatom!

1. Ők részletekben mondják el

Mondjuk, hogy külföldi vendéged van, és el szeretnéd neki mondani, hogy amíg a szerelő meg nem érkezik, és meg nem csinálja, ami remélhetőleg holnapután lesz, figyeljen a hűtő ajtajára, mert nehezebben záródik, és ha nyitva felejti reggel, amikor elmegy, akkor annyi az összes szuper kajának, ami benne van.
Az egyik lehetőség: jaj, ez bonyolult, el sem mondom. Lesz, ami lesz.
A második lehetőség: az első szótól kezdve megpróbálod szó szerint lefordítani az egészet. Belegabalyodsz. Megakadsz az olyan idiomatikus kifejezéseken, mint annyi neki, vagy azon töprengsz, hogy mondják, hogy remélhetőleg. Ezt csinálják a szinkrontolmácsok, optimista vagy, hogy nyelvtanulóként máris ekkora fába vágtad a fejszéd!

A harmadik lehetőség pedig valahogy így hangzik:
Please be careful with the fridge door. It’s difficult/hard to close. They will fix it soon/the day after tomorrow. Please don’t leave open. It’s full of food. (=Kérlek, légy óvatos a hűtő ajtajával. Nehéz becsukni. Nemsokára/holnapután megcsinálják. Kérlek, ne hagyd nyitva. Tele van kajával.)
Érted? Fogd a mondandód lényegét, és add át úgy, ahogy az anyanyelvi beszélők: rövid, tört mondatokban.

The Top 4 Soft Skills That Candidates Need Right Now

 When we speak about skills shortages, we’re often focused on the hard, industry-specific sorts of technical skills. However, soft skills are also crucial for employee success in today’s day and age.
This newfound appreciation for the value of soft skills is reflected in many studies, including one from Adecco, which found that 44 percent of senior executive respondents believe that Americans lack soft skills. Compare that to the 22 percent who believe Americans lack the necessary technical skills and the 12 percent who believe they lack the necessary software skills.
According to today’s leaders, the real skills shortage is in the realm of soft skills.
Soft skills are hot right now, and modern professionals looking to advance their careers need to make sure they have the soft skills that employers are looking for. To that end, here are four soft skills that every professional should master today:

1. Leadership Skills
The Adecco survey mentioned above found 14 percent of senior executives thought there was a shortage of leadership skills in today’s workforce. If you want to stand out as a strong leader, you need to be sure you don’t confuse “leadership skills” with “management skills.”
Management skills are the technical foundations of leadership, and the category includes things like the ability to complete appraisal forms, organize meetings, and use management software. What executives are really looking for are the soft skills of leadership — e.g., the ability to make difficult decisions, inspire one’s employees, and prioritize work.

35 gifts which your kids will never forget

Most kids nowadays have dozens of toys, so it’s often hard to impress them with something new. However, the best gifts don’t come from the shops.
Here’s a list of the best things parents can ever give their children. How many of them have you already passed on?

1. Affirmation
   Sometimes one simple word of affirmation can change an entire life. So make sure your children know how much you appreciate them. And then, remind them every chance you get.
2. Hugs and kisses
   You might have seen those fathers who tell their young sons that they’re too old for kisses. Doesn’t it make you upset? Know that your children are never too old to receive physical affirmation of your love for them.
3. Meals together
   Meals provide unparalleled opportunity for relationship, the likes of which can not be found anywhere else. So much so, that a family that does not eat together does not grow together.
4. A sense of humour
   Laugh with your children everyday...for your sake and theirs.
5. The ability to see beauty
   Help your children find beauty in everything they see...and in everyone they meet.

Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion

Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion that is a great way to figure out if you use more of the left or right side of your brain.  When you stare as this silhouette which way is it spinning? left or right? After concentrating on it for about 30 seconds it actually switched directions on me!  So which way does she spin for you? Can you see it spin both directions?

 

http://visualfunhouse.com

Visual 4D-Cube

Tesseract is an 8 Cell regular cube, the outer surface consists of 6 square sides while the hyper surface has 8 cubical cells.  This amazing tesseract cube illusion morphs it self inside out back into its self again.  This glass cube is an spectactualr display of geometry and glass art.For some other Gemoetry illusions, check out the 3d Painted rooms, the impossible cube, or a pretty cool reflection cube.  Just think, back in elementry school you probally never liked geometry, just look at the cool illusions you were missing out on!

To Do for Fun Printable List

Back in February, I realized that I’d become pretty consumed with crossing things off my to-do list. Laundry was getting done. Meals were planned. Floors were mopped. Dust bunnies were trapped and released into the wild.
Things were cooking along pretty good, but I noticed that I we were in a rut. A rut that didn’t include much in the way of FUN.
So, I whipped up another kind of to-do list.
A To-Do for Fun list.

Eight prompts and a few everyday reminders that I use to help me break out of the laundry/bed-making/dish scrubbing/floor sweeping whirlwind.
I fill this list out each week and slap it on my fridge. It encourages us to get out, try new things, tackle new projects, and think of other people in our life.

On Sunday, I usually peruse my Pinterest boards and fill out my To Do for Fun list. My girl helps pick out crafts, recipes, and we talk about our upcoming week. You can download the full size PDF here. 
Now, it’s important to me that I paint an accurate picture of my experience with this list. 
Lest you mistake me for a supermom that has now gleefully tacked an additional eight to-do’s onto an already long list. I’m not. 
I use this as inspiration—as a tool to help me think of something easy and fun to do when the day is taking a downhill turn or when I want to focus all my energy on my girl while the baby naps.
I have never…not once…done everything on the weekly list.
I have hit two birds with one stone and made Bunny Bait (make a treat) and distributed it among family and friends (do something for someone else).
One week, our “do/learn something new” was to teach the baby to wave bye-bye.
For three weeks straight “go to the library” was our “go somewhere”. We never went.
But have had a lot of fun, tried out some new recipes, and turned the music on a whole lot more. This has been a wonderful little tool and I thought it would be fun to share.
Enjoy!

Printables by Juliann Law for Today’s Mama is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.faboolous.blogspot.com/.

Other posts you might enjoy…
Printable Certificate of Awesomeness 
Printable Lunchbox Notes 
Printable End of the Year Time Capsule Questions

read more: http://todaysmama.com/2012/04/to-do-for-fun-printable-list/
 

Probing questions, Socratic Questions

How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
 
When seeking more detail, there are a number of types probes you can use, depending on what they are saying and what you want to discover.

Clarification

When they use vague or unclear language, or when you just need more detail, seek to further understand them by asking for clarification.

What exactly did you mean by 'XXX'?

What, specifically, will you do next week?

Could you tell me more about YY?

How to confirm travel arrangements in a letter

Utazás és szállás visszaigazolása írásban - néhány tipp és tanács a levélíráshoz!

How to confirm travel arrangements in a letter

Dear Mr Brown,

This is to confirm the arrangements we discussed over the phone today. Enclosed are your airline tickets for the British Airways Airlines, flight number 5123, leaving London at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, July 2, 2015, arriving in Moscow at 9:45 a.m. Our colleague Mr James Smith will meet you at the airport. He will be wearing a dark green name tag and there will be a blue flag in his hands with your name on it. As you requested, I left the return flight open to allow you some flexibility in your stay in Moscow.

I reserved a double room for you with a king-size bed at the Hotel Metropol for three nights. I'm sorry, but there were no rooms available with view to the Kremlin towers. I assure you, however, that the view is spectacular from any window in the hotel. The hotel is a two-minute walk from the main sights and the Red Square and it provides unbeatable service. High-speed WiFi access is available in every hotel room and the lobby.

I hope these arrangements meet your approval. If you need anything else, please call me at 123-4567. I am happy to help whatever problems may arise.

I look forward to your arrival.