Our sister company, Grape Stuff has a free eBook with over 50 ideas for activities and events to do with your family for little or no money. Summer is a grape time to be with family and a good time to begin finding activities you and your family love to do together. The weather is good enough to do inside and outside activities. However, this special gift for your family also gives you ideas for winter as well as anything in between. It's free! So download your copy by visiting the Grape Stuff blog post here! If you liked this post, please share it on social media! The buttons are below. And we’d love your feedback so please share your...
We've had a tough couple of years while here in Indiana and my time here with Art of Eloquence has suffered in the transition. This included the year we inadvertently subscribed to the Catastrophe of the Month Club and this past year and a half where my husband was a casualty of the "Over Qualified" job hunting variety. Due to the fact that I only have two hands and fading brain foggery has set in, I took a month or two (I can't remember...or count) hiatus from my blogs. I'm reinstating them post haste, but at a slower interval. Having to keep up with three blogs, three Facebook fan pages, a teenager who is in his final years of...
I have never understood why the very same people who don't believe communication skills are important enough to study are the ones who complain about or get offended by others. Those who don't feel the need to be careful about what they say or how they say it are the very same individuals who become irate at the audacity of others to say X or do Y. The ones who believe they have the right to speak their mind any way they feel like it are the very ones who are aggravated and offended by a Facebook friend who posted her beliefs. Isn't it a bit hypocritical to expect others to choose their words carefully while you profess your...
Don't you just hate those social media articles that sound so interesting by title but the author or platform makes it so difficult to read them that you give up before you even find out what they promised to tell you in the title? You know. They're the ones that promise: "25 Ways to Save Money with Coupons" "Sixteen Things You Need to Know to Live Through a Heart Attack""Why you don't want to eat that vegetable you think is good for you!""How to Get the Most Out of Your Workout" But when you click over to read the article, you find one line of text and one picture with an arrow ====> you need to click on to get to the...
Most people think of communication skills as being important only for speech making politicians or pushy salesman. But the truth is that the most important communication that takes place isn't a speech or a debate, it's all the little things we discuss with family and friends. It's not just important to be careful of the words we use when we are trying to convince someone of something. It's is equally important (and I'd go further by saying it's much MORE important) that we carefully craft our every day conversations that take place between ourselves and our friends and family, teachers and coworkers, neighbors and even strangers on the street. Studying communication skills and being careful to craft your conversations...
