A SMILE Is Bio-Chemical, Not A Gender “Game”
How often, when, and WHY should women smile? Here’s one answer. I’ll tell you why it is time to bring the word “SMILE” back to its origins. While a smile can be twisted, faked, turned upside down, and turned around from a complement into an insult; while a smile can make a person feel victimized, or vindicated…, in the end it’s none of the above. When we separate the act of smiling from all of its labels, it is simply a bio-chemical reaction to a good feeling…., or the “learned” ability to create a good feeling in ourselves and others. I feel good. I smile. You see me smiling, and you smile back. With the power of a magnetic force, a smile draws people toward us. Turn a smile upside down and the reverse is true, people move away from us (literally or metaphorically). Before I began writing about it, and talking about it, I discovered its power quite by accident. I was having a “bad hair day.” I had left the house in a hurry to do some errands, and then decided to stop by my favorite cafe for a coffee. Walking inside the cafe, I caught the reflection of myself in the window, and I was horrified. My hair! Look at my hair! I forgot to comb my hair. Now, I’m of the generation that remembers the famous bathing suit ad: “Just wear a smile and a Jansen.” What the ad was reminding anxious young women was this: “Don’t worry about your weight, or your shape. Just wear a smile and a Jansen.” So I auto-smiled as I...
Her Story: The Evolution of Women As Leaders
The story of women from the dawn of human history to modern times, evolved in community and at the hearth. Because of this, the social mind of the female brain has evolved in ways that are uniquely suited to manage the complexities of today’s volatile, interconnected world. The social mind of today’s modern women, like women over history, is able to understand the unmet, unspoken needs of others, and freely express emotions. Women, are highly skilled at social communication to the benefit of the larger community. Over millennia, the skills associated with social networking, including a woman’s ability to interact with, collaborate with others, and balance out the diverse interests of others. Why are these skills urgently needed in the world today? Because the networking, community-building, social skills of the female mind makes it easy for women to cooperate and collaborate with others. They are able to interacts with others and balance out the diverse interests of others. A story in the Huffington Post on the rise of an empire of women as community leaders in Syrian refugee camps offers a modern day example of this and calls out to our humanity, our human-kindness, for support. To date, The Kayany Foundation, led by its founder Nora Jumblatt, and in partnership with the American University of Beirut and UNESCO, has built five schools so far, including an all-girls high school. The all-girls school was created in the summer of 2015, in partnership with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafza on her 18th birthday. Alexia Parks, author and Virtual Mentor with the United Nations, is founder of Alexia Parks 10 TRAITS Leadership Institute....
Could America Have To Wait Until 2025 For A Woman President?
If Election 2016 turns out to be a slugfest between two white men will the winner gain a two-term presidency? If so, the United States (an oxymoron?) may well have to wait until January 2025 for a woman to be inaugurated president of the United States. Here’s a reality check…. A few years ago, I did a series of interviews for an article titled “The Best Boss I Ever Had Was A Woman.” When I asked women do describe this “favorite” boss to me, they returned blank stares. Most of their bosses were men, and the few women they had encountered in management, had been trained to fit into a male structured world. The best boss, a woman? Well “the times,” as the song goes, “they are a’ changing.” Men, with their goal-seeking, single focused, team spirited, testosterone charged drive have brought us this far. Now, a new study…., (READ more. Includes LINKS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexia-parks/are-women-willing-to-wait_b_9198742.html...
New Hampshire Is More Than A Coin Toss. It’s A Number’s Game
Forget the media spin on Election2016. Instead keep your own scorecard. to predict the Election2016 Democratic candidate before the media announces the winner. You can do this by following a scorecard: a projected goal for winning delegates state-by-state. The scorecard was produced by David Wasserman for The Cook Political Report. The reason I like it is because it allows voters to follow the candidate of their choice without all the media hype and fear-mongering. In other words, just do the math. Here’s how it works. In a recent story, the DailyKos.com highlighted the research of David Wasserman. Wasserman’s model shows how many delegates each candidate has *already decided* they need from each state in order to get to 1976 pledged delegates. For example, here’s a screenshot taken from before the Iowa primary. In round one, HRC gained 10 additional delegates, Sanders subtracted 10 that the surveys predicted he would win. New Hampshire is round two. The image shows what Wasserman predicts each candidate needs, state-by-state, to reach the 1976 total necessary for a win. ...
American Politics: The Birth Pangs of An Inner Revolution
While the dust is still settling from a photo-finish, Hillary Clinton’s victory smile sets the tone for what may be a long race. While Bernie Sanders is calling for a revolution, Clinton is leading one. In entrepreneurial America, Clinton has chosen an evolutionary model for her campaign. It’s a “Let’s expand on Obama’s legacy. Let’s grow the affordable healthcare programs. Let’s take what’s working and make it even better.”This is a solutions driven model that focuses on growth and expansion. It leads to ever expanding complexity, networking and collaboration, leaving no room for disorder. By contrast, Sanders call for a revolution echoes within the walls of a closed system where entropy is the end game. In a closed system, order begins to break down, leading to greater disorder, greater social unrest, until the system is torn down and, over time, replaced with another closed system. This is also what we are seeing happen with the GOP. The Republican’s Grand Old Party is no longer growing, it is breaking apart, falling apart, breaking down. Like cats in a room full of rocking chairs, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. In time, the chairs will stop rocking, the cats will calm down. And what about the women in the room? The Hillary bashers? The Hillary haters? The women who throw words – like men at a modern day stoning – at the woman who could be the very first woman to serve as president of the United States. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once reminded: “There is a special place in Hell for women who don’t help other women.”...
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