Does the thought of computers make you fearful , worried or concerned? Does it cause anxiety as you know you should learn how to use one? Do you feel overwhelmed at the thought of learning a new skill? Are you afraid that you might not be able to learn? Are you scared that you might press the wrong button and delete everything?
A key emotion that can keep you from achieving what you want in life is Fear or Low level concern, Anxiety, Worry. I'm not talking about panic attacks, high level fears and phobias, which are often caused by a significant emotional event in your past. The fear and anxiety I am referring to are those daily worries, niggles or sixth sense telling you that all is not quite right for you. They can keep you stuck if you allow them to and can grow out of all proportion if you don't act to resolve the feelings.
If this fear is having a significant negative impact on your life, it’s time to do something about it.
Luckily these fears can be turned into a positive resource and can be easily overcome. They are telling you that something is going to happen soon that you need to prepare for. They are your body's way of alerting you to something you need to do.
The solution
• Review what you are feeling fearful about and evaluate what you must do to prepare yourself.
• Figure out what actions you need to take to deal with the situation in the best possible way.
Overcoming your fear – e.g. a fear of learning IT Skills
1. Understand your reason for wanting to learn new skills. What does it mean to you? What will it give you? What's in it for you?
If you have a compelling reason for achieving your goal of learning a new skill then you will overcome any barriers that might come along.
2. Identify what you are afraid of. What exactly are you saying to yourself? If it’s ‘I can’t do this’ or ‘I’m too old to learn something new’ or ‘I might make a mistake and break something’. These are negative or limiting beliefs that you have about the situation and if you allow them to, will stop you from being successful. What you need to do is change a negative thought to a positive one. For example, ‘I can do it’ or ‘Even though I am XX I can learn a new skill’.
One of my favourite quotes is from Henry Ford who said ‘If you think you can or you think you can’t, your right!’ Start telling yourself that you can do it.
3. What do you need to do? Who can support you? Who do you know who has already done what you want to do? What courses are there locally?
4. Decide what you need to do, believe that you can do it, then do it!
At this stage also check in with yourself about your level of commitment. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being low and 10 being High as to how much you really want to learn about IT. If it's 7 and above well done and go to it. Anything below 7 then you need to go back to your goal and understand what it is that you want to achieve. Once you are at 10 then you will do whatever it takes.
Senin, 11 April 2011
Jenny Lind: The mystery of Nightingale’s figurehead
In 1990 I was a fed up schoolteacher and decided to open a little antique shop in Gothenburg,
Sweden. After a few years, I met Günter, a picker who drove around in a fire truck,
buying old furniture, windows and so forth. In May 1994 Günter asked, “Do you want to buy a
scarecrow?” He had visited a farmer the day before and seen a hand protruding from among the
rakes and shovels, leaning against the wall of a hayloft. According to the farmer, the appendage belonged
to a near life-size wooden figure used as a scarecrow about 100 years ago. At night however, in the moonlight,
it had scared people as well as crows, so it was relegated to the back of the loft and forgotten.
The only thing Günter could distinguish in the darkness was that the hand appeared well carved.
No one had ever tried to sell me a scarecrow before. After some anguish, I made an offer through
Günter to buy it. A few weeks later, he asked me to come to his farm and see my purchase.
Günter had a strange sense of humor. That evening, when I pushed open the heavy barn door,
I saw through flickering candlelight what presumably was the scarecrow. It was hidden
under a thin blanket. Mozart’s Requiem streamed from loudspeakers.
Hesitantly, I walked toward the figure to uncover the blanket. What was I going to see?
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The experience was unreal. When the figure’s intense gaze met mine the world stood still as
questions whirled in my head. Who are you? Who made you? Where did you come from?
RESEARCH
By Karl Eric Svärdskog
THE REMARKABLE FIND
EuroArts Music International
EuroArts Music International, which was always spearheading innovation and also produced on the highest artistic levels, has re-focused its production and distribution activities recently to a bigger variety of events, concerts, documentaries and cross over projects.
In this ever changing world, TV viewers and DVD buyers have an appetite for not only great artistry but also wanting to be entertained and taught.
Besides continuing relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, where the output will be up to four different productions per year, EuroArts will continue to produce documentaries about music and people, arts and faith, challenges tasks and political development in its context. It just has started “Music can’t be stopped!”, a Frank Scheffer film about the Iranian Philharmonic Orchestra Teheran and the composer Nader Mashayekhi which will stay exactly stay in this tradition.
The big “Mahler” event from Kaliste, last year’s Pavarotti memorial concert and other productions of this kind will also reach out to a bigger but well educated and interested viewership.
EuroArts will increase its number of co-operations with trusted Productionpartners to raise variety by staying at the same quality levels it always has been. The task for its Production-Group is to enable its television licensing department to offer the biggest variety and most interesting programs to all of its partners. The same applies for the EuroArts DVD and Blu-ray Disc label.
Idéale Audience will keep its traditional output and increase the number of operas and performance programs which also will benefit the number of great programs available in distribution under the Idéale Audience name for Television and on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
In this ever changing world, TV viewers and DVD buyers have an appetite for not only great artistry but also wanting to be entertained and taught.
Besides continuing relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, where the output will be up to four different productions per year, EuroArts will continue to produce documentaries about music and people, arts and faith, challenges tasks and political development in its context. It just has started “Music can’t be stopped!”, a Frank Scheffer film about the Iranian Philharmonic Orchestra Teheran and the composer Nader Mashayekhi which will stay exactly stay in this tradition.
The big “Mahler” event from Kaliste, last year’s Pavarotti memorial concert and other productions of this kind will also reach out to a bigger but well educated and interested viewership.
EuroArts will increase its number of co-operations with trusted Productionpartners to raise variety by staying at the same quality levels it always has been. The task for its Production-Group is to enable its television licensing department to offer the biggest variety and most interesting programs to all of its partners. The same applies for the EuroArts DVD and Blu-ray Disc label.
Idéale Audience will keep its traditional output and increase the number of operas and performance programs which also will benefit the number of great programs available in distribution under the Idéale Audience name for Television and on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Indirect speech
In grammar, indirect or reported speech (also indirect discourse; Latin ōratiō oblīqua) is a way of reporting a statement or question. A reported question is called an indirect question. Unlike direct speech, indirect speech does not phrase the statement or question the way the original speaker did; instead, certain grammatical categories are changed.[1] In addition, indirect speech is not enclosed in quotation marks.
Person is changed when the person speaking and the person quoting the speech are different.
In English, tense is changed. In other languages, mood is altered. Latin switches from indicative to the infinitive (statement) or the subjunctive (question).
Grammatical forms may change when the reference point (origo) is changed. There are two reference points: the point in time and the person currently speaking. A change of time causes a change in tense, and a change in speaker may cause a change in person.
In the first sentence, the reference point changes from present to past: the original speaker sees the rain pouring down, but the narrator is referring to a past event.
In the second and third sentence, the reference point changes from one person to another. In the third example, the reference point moves from the person who intends to come to the party to the one throwing the party.
This explanation, however, cannot be generalised. It does not account for the change of mood in Latin and German. In Japanese, among other languages, the speaker is free to change the pronoun or leave it as is.
Person is changed when the person speaking and the person quoting the speech are different.
In English, tense is changed. In other languages, mood is altered. Latin switches from indicative to the infinitive (statement) or the subjunctive (question).
Grammatical forms may change when the reference point (origo) is changed. There are two reference points: the point in time and the person currently speaking. A change of time causes a change in tense, and a change in speaker may cause a change in person.
| Direct speech | Indirect speech | Altered grammatical categories | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "It is raining hard." | He said that it was raining hard. | tense |
| 2. | "I have painted the ceiling blue." | He said that he had painted the ceiling blue. | person, tense |
| 3. | "I will come to your party." | He says that he will come to my party. | person (twice) |
In the second and third sentence, the reference point changes from one person to another. In the third example, the reference point moves from the person who intends to come to the party to the one throwing the party.
This explanation, however, cannot be generalised. It does not account for the change of mood in Latin and German. In Japanese, among other languages, the speaker is free to change the pronoun or leave it as is.
Examples
can express indirect statements and indirect questions. An indirect statement or question can serve in the place of the direct object of a verb related to thought or communication.
An indirect statement is expressed by changing the case of the subject noun phrase from nominative to accusative and by replacing the main verb with an infinitive (without changing its voice or tense).- Ego amo libertatem.
- Dicit me amare libertatem.
- Rex dedit omnibus leges.
- Credo regem dedisse omnibus leges.
- Videbimus permulta cras.
- Speras nos videturus esse permulta cras.
- Tertium non datur.
- Docuit philosophus tertium non dari.
- In Senatu imperator interfectus est.
- Audivi imperatorem in Senatu interfectum esse.
- Ego sum felix.
- Dicit me esse felicem.
Comparison between direct, indirect and free indirect speech
- Quoted or direct speech:
- He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. "And just what pleasure have I found, since I came into this world?" he asked.
- Reported or normal indirect speech:
- He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. He asked himself what pleasure he had found since he came into the world.
- He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. And just what pleasure had he found, since he came into this world?
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