...She begins one of the exercises, obeying the instructions in the article. She straightens her back, crosses her legs, rests her hands gently on top of them and releases her tense shoulders. Phone in hand, she sets a timer for one minute, the suggested time for beginners. Gazing downward with her eyes softly closed, Maggie focuses solely on her breath. She reminds herself that it is normal to have a wandering mind during meditation. When this happens, she focuses once more on her breath without judgment. In, out. In, out. In, out. Wait, what about my English paper due tomorrow? I need to write my conclusion! I guess I’ll just rephrase my intro…Oh shoot! My mind wandered…Okay. Breathe. In, out. In, out. “DING! DING! DING!” Slowly, Maggie opens her eyes and smiles. Instantaneously, she feels her stress alleviate. Her mind clears and becomes alert of her body and the surrounding environment. Even though Maggie meditated for one minute, this simple act diminished her...
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...expected to be completed in four minutes or less. The average check-in time for guest on July 31st was four minutes and 51 seconds, the minimum time the check-in process took was two minutes and 23 seconds and the maximum time was eight minutes 45 seconds. The issue that occurs during check-in is the average time for check-in is 51 seconds more than is to be expected and exceeds it by four minutes in some cases. Figure 1 will show the data in a table (Hotel, 2014). Work measurement is the application of time and motion study with activity sampling techniques that will determine the time a qualified worker can complete a specific job in a set level of performance. It’s used to determine the budget, planning for manpower, set the schedule, determine the cost, etc (Work, 2014). The work measures to do would be to find three of the least qualified guest service clerks to check-in ten people as efficiently as possible. Once the thirty people are checked-in, the average of their times should determine if there is a problem with the check-in times. A time study analysis looks at a specific job to find the most efficient method to do the job to determine the time and effort the job will take (Time, 2014). The time study analysis to do would be to find three of the most qualified guest service clerks to check-in ten people as efficiently as possible. Once the thirty people are checked-in, the average of their times should determine if the four minutes is an efficient time. Hotel Escargo’s...
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...Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Customer Satisfaction Strategy Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Customer Satisfaction Strategy An advertising strategy is a campaign developed to communicate ideas about products and services to potential consumers in the hopes of convincing them to buy those products and services. This strategy, when built in a rational and intelligent manner, will reflect other business considerations (overall budget, brand recognition efforts) and objectives (public image enhancement, market share growth) as well. As Portable MBA in Marketing authors Alexander Hiam and Charles D. Schewe stated, a business's advertising strategy "determines the character of the company's public face." Even though a small business has limited capital and is unable to devote as much money to advertising as a large corporation, it can still develop a highly effective advertising campaign. The key is creative and flexible planning, based on an in depth knowledge of the target consumer and the avenues that can be utilized to reach that consumer (John Wiley & Sons, 1992). HPLA’S company advertising strategy and how it aligns with its marketing goals. As a business begins, one of the major goals of advertising must be to generate awareness of the business and its products. Once the business' reputation is established and its products are positioned within the market, the amount of resources used for advertising will decrease as the...
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...physical activity and terrible eating habits. People tend to drink more soft drinks and snack on sweets rather than eating our correct servings of vegetables and fruits. Exercising, eating healthier, and minimizing stress are good healthy ways of losing weight without so much dieting which can cause malnutrition. All of these suggestions sound good but losing weight is tough because it requires time and a little self-discipline. First and foremost the important thing when losing weight is to focus on eating habits. Fried foods and sweets are the foods that cause rapid weight gain so a cut back on those foods will surely help. Replacing soda and fruit drinks with water is a start and eating low whole grain foods, vegetables, fruits, and protein. Eating less and healthier may automatically cause one to lose weight without exercising because one’s body is now having less intake on those foods that are causing excess weight gain. Additionally, keeping note of calories that day helps with trying to eat fewer calories. Trying to eat 300 to 500 calories less a week can help lose 10 pounds yearly. If more calories are slowly weight gain will start to occur. Although, if more calories are conserved than burnt weight gain will begin with approximately one pound every one to two weeks (Waehner).Substituting a soda for a glass of water can save a person 97 calories daily. An individual doesn’t have immediately cut out all bad eating habits...
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...The final seconds of the clock began to tick away. The Idaho Girls Basketball State Championship was disappearing faster than it came. A screeching buzz signaled the end of the game. of the final buzzer sounded. That was it. Borah and Boise had reached the pinnacle of high school basketball, but their seasons, contrary to a movie-like moment, now ended in a very dreary, anticlimactic fashion. The orange glowing lights on the display hanging in the center of the gym indicated the meager final score: seventeen to seven (Lycklama). After a full thirty-two minutes of play, the two teams from this factual recount managed only twenty-four combined points (Lycklama). This extreme instance in history reveals a prominent issue regarding the rules of Idaho high school basketball. The lack of a shot clock in high school causes problems that would otherwise be solved...
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...people turn, whether it is to a newsstand, television or billboard , advice for guarding and improving health bombards them. Although much of this advice is commercially motivated by those eager to sell vitamins, natural foods and reducing gimmicks , some of it, especially that advocating a regular exercise program, merits serious attention. Such a program, if it consists of at least thirty minutes three times a week and if a person's physician approves it, provides numerous benefits. Regular exercise releases tension, improves appearance, and increases stamina The first of these benefits, the release of tension, is immediate . Tension builds in the body because of an overaccumulation of adrenaline produced by stress, anxiety, or fear. Doctors agree that performing calisthenics or participating in an active sport such as tennis or volleyball for thirty minutes releases tension. If a person swims, jogs or rides a bicycle for half that time, he or she should sleep better at night and have a better temperament the next day. In addition, after the release of tension, petty irritations and frustrations should be less troubling. For example, an employee upset by the day's work and by traffic congestion may rush home, argue with the family, and eat excessively. Taking about thirty minutes to release frustrations through physical exercise could help him or her to avoid this behavior. Planned physical exercise, therefore, can eliminate, or at least control, tension. An...
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...is the “partial rebreather mask.” This type of mask, which is often referred to as a “medium concentration oxygen delivery mask,” resembles the non-rebreather mask, but it does not have a one-way valve between the mask and the reservoir bag. This delivers almost forty to fifty percent oxygen, and can increase up to sixty percent with flow rates from six to ten liters of oxygen per minute. This is not to be used with a patient with tendency towards carbon dioxide retention. The third type of oxygen mask is the “Venturi mask,” this mask is generally used in patients who are critically ill, or who are in respiratory distress, who require a certain concentration of oxygen. This mask is consisted of a mask with holes on each side that allow the patients exhaled air to escape the mask, the base of the mask has color coded entrainment ports that can be adjusted to allow regulation of the concentration of the oxygen administered, they are as follows. White cap: thirty five percent Fi02 set liters per minute at nine, forty percent Fi02 set liters per minute at twelve, fifty percent Fi02 set liters per minute at fifteen. Green cap: twenty four to twenty six...
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... [Your Name] GEN200 March 4, 2014 The three keys to academic and person success is goal setting, staying organized and time management. It is very important to stay motivated and focused on one’s personal responsibilities. In my opinion, personal responsibility means taking responsibility for one’s own actions. Keeping in mind that one’s own actions always have consequence. Those consequences can directly or indirectly effect one’s self or the people around them. Everyone has their own personal responsibilities. They can be specific like picking the kids up from school every day to wide in range like a general responsibility to the community to raise those kids to respect laws and abide by rules. The relationship between personal responsibilities and college success is a strong one. It involves being accountable for your actions to both yourself and to others. While working on team assignments if you do not follow through with your personal responsibilities the team as a whole will suffer greatly. Assignments will be handed into the team last or at the very last minute. This allows for very little discussion and editing if needed. Everyone on the team will essentially pay for your lack of responsibility to the teams assignments. When one is not willing to take responsibility for their own action the idea of success becomes impossible. Being accountable it the key to long lasting growth. My preliminary plan to practice personal responsibilities in...
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...from the author. Unauthorized distributions hurt myself and my capacity to make more guides such as this. Second, I provide advice in this book, but use your head! Don't do anything dangerous and I'm not responsible for any self-inflicted damage. Table of Contents Introduction.............................4 Intro My Story What is a Habit The First Push Consistency Initial Leverage Operant Conditioning Changing Habits of Thought Intro to Habitual Mastery Trial Periods............................14 Habitual Mastery........................67 Writing Your Plan and Commitment Achieving Goals Through Habits Advanced Methods.................37 Intro to Advanced Methods Triggers Replacement Theory The First Thirty Days Dealing With Logistics Summary of Thirty Day Trials Questions to Ask Yourself The First Steps About the Author Links and Resources Acknowledgments Introduction “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle Do you have a habit you want to change? Maybe you want to quit smoking, stop eating unhealthy foods or turn around negative thoughts. Do you have a habit you want to create? Maybe you want to exercise more, stick to a new diet, work more productively, become friendlier or just enjoy life more. Whether you want to remove a bad habit or create a...
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...ComStock While visiting my cousin we decided to go out for dinner. We decided to go to outback steak house. When we arrived there it was awfully crowded. We had a forty-five minute wait. While waiting in line I start to observe this Caucasian female. I chose her because she seemed to be very interested. For one she had bright pink hair and tattoos all over. There wasn’t a clear skin spot anywhere. While standing in line for forty-five minutes I start to observe her blinking her eyes. The reason my attention was focused on her was because she didn’t have just an ordinary blink. It appeared to be excessive blinking. Although, blinking is involuntary; which is known as a respondent behavior it’s also an automatic reflex (Lee, Axelrod, pg. 2). “Blinking is an automatic reflex that protects the eyes from dryness, bright light, and any other objects coming towards it”. Blinking regulates tears, in which they nourish and cleanse the surface of the eye” (www.aapos.org). ` The lady appeared to blink her eyes thirty times within one minute. Within the time frame of me observing her she had blinked one hundred and fifty times within five minutes. The blinking rate is 2 times per minute when you are born. By the time you reach adolescence it should have increased to fourteen to seventeen times per minute throughout a lifetime (www.aapos.org). Just looking at her I knew something wasn’t right with her eyes, and it wasn’t just one eye it was both. This is what made her blinking...
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...the games though. That’s the worst thing when it comes to addiction for me. I don’t think I could live without my video games. That’s my source of entertainment. I’m sure others would rather go to parties and concerts. If you put a controller in my hand, ill be good for the week. Our objective was to compare our selves to stites who is a crazy ten. Then compare myself to students in our class. The amount of internet usage I had was a total of fifty hours. I spent the whole week playing video games for thirty-five hours. I spent time on my computer for eight hours and looked at funny pictures for two hours on my phone. I have also Skyped on my phone for three hours and listened to my Pandora for two hours. I usually play video games around the clock. When it comes to my video games I play whenever I can. I could play for hours if I didn’t have other things to do. When I compare myself to others in the class, I am still a five. Michelle played five hours in the week. I had thirty-five hours. She rated herself a three. I may not spend a lot...
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...had to attend. I wasn’t excited about this because I thought this summer was going to be the summer that mom and I was going to be able to spend time together. I had to be understanding because mom was a travel nurse and when hospitals are short of employers they call people like her to come out to work. So she told me after breakfast pack my clothing she was taking me to the airport my plane leave at 4:00pm. Dad stays in Miami, Florida so I had to pack clothing for that type of weather; which it’s always sunny down that way. So I packed all my shorts, tank top shirts, bathing suits, and sandals. Thirty minutes later “Are you ready?” mom called. I wasn’t ready to leave her but I guess I’d better get ready because I’ll be spending two whole months with my dad. “I’m on my way down mom,” I said. So I got my luggages and loaded them in the car. The airport was only forty five minutes away depending on traffic. The whole ride to the airport neither mom nor I said anything. Then I finally said you know I’m going to miss you right? She said I’m going to miss you too. Finally we...
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...had to attend. I wasn’t excited about this because I thought this summer was going to be the summer that mom and I was going to be able to spend time together. I had to be understanding because mom was a travel nurse and when hospitals are short of employers they call people like her to come out to work. So she told me after breakfast pack my clothing she was taking me to the airport my plane leave at 4:00pm. Dad stays in Miami, Florida so I had to pack clothing for that type of weather; which it’s always sunny down that way. So I packed all my shorts, tank top shirts, bathing suits, and sandals. Thirty minutes later “Are you ready?” mom called. I wasn’t ready to leave her but I guess I’d better get ready because I’ll be spending two whole months with my dad. “I’m on my way down mom,” I said. So I got my luggages and loaded them in the car. The airport was only forty five minutes away depending on traffic. The whole ride to the airport neither mom nor I said anything. Then I finally said you know I’m going to miss you right? She said I’m going to miss you too. Finally we...
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...complete a required task or fulfill an obligation before or at a previously designated time. "Punctual" is often used synonymously with "on time." It is a common misconception that punctual can also, when talking about grammar, mean "to be accurate." In western cultures, punctuality means being ahead ten to fifteen minutes earlier in a given time period. As for eastern cultures, punctuality or being punctual is quite a challenge in their daily life. Punctuality is a good quality. Punctuality is quite a kin to regularity. Regularity means working as per rules, regulations and programme of time. That being said, punctuality shows ones discipline about time. Like they always say, time is of the essence or time is gold, we can’t bring back time so it is really not necessary to waste it. It also means working as per the programme of time. Punctuality involves time factor. We are to see that we are working strictly according to the time fixed. This is punctuality. If we be punctual, we can finish up our work at right time. Punctuality checks unnecessary wastage of time. Time is very valuable for us. We can save it only by punctuality. Time and tide wait for none. Seconds, minutes, hours and days pass by in right order. There is a maxim "We should hold the time by the forelock". If we be punctual, a single second of us will never go waste. The English men are very punctual. They put on wrist-watches to exercise punctuality. But as for the Indians, they put on wrist-watches only as ornaments...
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...Transcript of Copy of EFFECTIVENESS OF RETENTION POLICY AMONG ACCOUNTANCY STUDENTS 1. There are no common problems among accountancy students on why they fail their accounting subjects. 2. Retention policy of an accountancy student is very important in order for them to become a Certified Public Accountant. HYPOTHESES INTRODUCTION 1. What are the common problems why accountancy students fail to pass their accounting subjects? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a retention policy? 3. What retention preparedness program is being used to help accounting students pass their major subjects? Statement of the Problem For student to strive harder to be able to know whether they are fit in the program or not. For accounting instructors to know on what are the students’ perspective on having a retention policy. For Administrators to have an idea on creating a program in the preparation/preparedness for retention policy to all accountancy students. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY These are some schools who also implement the Retention Policy among Accountancy Students: Review Related Literature The descriptive normative method of research was used with the questionnaire-checklist. Descriptive research, according to James P. Key of Oklahoma State University, obtains information concerning the current status of the phenomena to describe “what exists” with respect to variables or conditions in a situation which involves range from the survey which describes...
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