...had to take a courageous step to come out of my comfort zone. Some of them include moving to U.S. from my native country, attending school in America, the first time performing on stage for a school play, my first swimming lesson, starting my own business, and pursuing my MBA degree. On the other hand, there are still certain things I dared not to step out of my comfort zone; things like riding the roller coaster, dining in the restaurant by myself, and learning to say “No” to other people. Every time when I am facing with a choice of whether to stay put with my limitations or expand it out of my comfort zone; I begin to look into my fears, personal limits, and boundaries. Many times the reasons why I wouldn’t step of the box because I could not predict what the final outcome is going to be, and I wasn’t ready for change in my lives. There were moments that I would prefer to stay where I was in life and just hope that something grand would come my way in the very near future. Yet, I know that there is more for me to do with my lives. As I replay the moments I stepped out of my comfort zone, they actually felt great. I felt I had just conquered my fear of something like being afraid of water, being shy, accepting and encountering challenges in a new environment, change, and taking risks. As I expand my comfort zone, it is that slightly over the boundary of comfort; but I am controlling it. I can stop it any time...
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...| Stepping Out of Comfort Zones | Leadership and Organizational Behaviors | Zhang Xiaohao 2012213230 | Table of Contents Introduction2 Motivation2 General flow2 Literature review3 Definition of comfort zones3 Exploring the uncertainty4 Defeating the fear of failure5 Stretching the comfort zones6 Real life experiences8 Small circles formed unconsciously8 Risk avoidance due to fear of failure9 Development plan12 Mentally prepared and force to step out12 Proactively step out in new environment12 References13 1. 2. Introduction: Motivation of this paper “Comfort zone” was the first word that came into my mind when I was thinking about the topic of my paper, because I know I am the one who always want to stay in my comfort zones, which may impede my way to become a good leader or a successful person. So, I need to step out of my comfort zones on purpose once in a while, to improve my leadership skills and interpersonal skills. To finish this paper, first, I conducted a wide range of research on internet about “comfort zones” and “leadership”, finding that a lot of people shared the same feeling with me and there are plenty of articles in this specific area. I’ve learned a lot from the literature review stage, and knew more about how the “comfort zones” formed and its impacts. Then I reflected to some real life experiences of myself, further understood the reason why I would like to stay in my comfort zones and the importance...
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...Today’s children have too easy! If they get one scratch, they are ready to give up on life, and in turn, they give up on life altogether. Now, instead of monkey bars, jungle gyms, and slides, the kids play on safety first playgrounds with tire shreds and wood chips with smaller outdoor equipment. In John Tierney’s article, “Can a Playground Be Too Safe?” he demonstrates that kids need old-fashioned playgrounds where risks occur. If children are allowed to take risks, they will gain courage, confidence, and character. By allowing kids to not play it too safe on the playground, it teaches them how to be well-rounded people and conquer their fears, anxieties, and panics in life. When I was a child, I was always climbing and swing on things, and I would fall, get scratches, and get back up to do it again. I would sometimes cry, because it would hurt too much; however, I kept climbing and swinging. If I had stop climbing and taking those daredevil risks, I would not conquer my future risks in life. It is like the story of David and Goliath. David was only a child in Saul’s army. He was tired of the giant, Goliath, mocking God and taunting the people of God. He gain courage and remained courageous through his life by standing up to Goliath and defeating him with “a sling shot and five smooth stones in his pocket” (Samuel). Just like David conquered his giant, children who are allowed to be kids and take risks can conquer their giants and become courageous adults. While courage is...
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...The most difficult challenge in my life was getting out of comfort zone. During my freshmen year and sophomore year I was very focused on my academics. I had a goal that I would try my best to get high grades and do my best to make it into the honor roll. My mind was clearly set that if I had A’s and B’s I would likely be accepted to a university. However, I really wasn’t involved in any extracurricular activities. As an older sister I had responsibilities at home and I never took the time to join any club or sports. I didn't want to do any extra-curricular activities because that meant I would be taking my free time away. I would often hear that some students would come home late and finish their homework late in the night. Some classmates...
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...Sustainable Built Environment SciVerse ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com[->1] Studies on the indoor air quality of Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Malaysia Y.H. Yau ⇑?, B.T. Chew, A.Z.A. Saifullah Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Received 8 March 2012; accepted 26 July 2012 Abstract This study was conducted to determine the comfort conditions of Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Malaysia. Four laboratories were selected as investigation sites. The Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system of the laboratories must be designed for providing good indoor air quality (IAQ) to the workers in the laboratory and keeping the expensive equipment in good condition. For the investigations, a number of measurement equipments were used to obtain the IAQ data of the laboratories (i.e. dry bulb temperature, air humidity, air flow velocity, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, etc.). Some random subjective assessments on the workers in the laboratories were made to acquire information on the workers such as their thermal comfort rating, activity level and their clothing con-ditions. In this study, air temperature for Laboratories 1, 3 and 4, are 22.38, 20.53 and 19.50 LC, respectively, slightly below the ASH-RAE recommended air temperature. Besides, the total volatile organic compound (TVOC) for Laboratories 2 and 3 shows high TVOC concentration in the wash room and chemical room, which are 22.8 and 6.5 ppm, respectively...
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...Comfort women are defined as young women and girls who were forced to work at comfort stations during World War II. These young ladies are mostly kidnapped from their homes, forced to be in sexual slavery in Japan, and have to serve Japan. Japanese army at that time established those prostitution for preventing the rape crimes and give their soldiers easily opportunities to solve their sexual needs. Most of comfort women come from neighbor countries, such as Korea or China, they are the majority of the number. Besides, other women come from the further countries as well, for example Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan; and more than that, they can be Japanese too. After the war has ended, those comfort women can finally find...
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...The essay “I Killed Britney Spears” was written by the London based journalist Jean Hanna Edelstein, in 2008. Edelstein was born in New York, 1981 to an American father, and Scottish mother. She later moved (1999) to London, where she studied economics and political science. She has also lived in Montreal, Berlin. She has an online-based blog, where she uploads a few essays and inputs – inputs that are all backed up by her academic background. Despite the online essays, her first official published book was in 2009. “I Killed Britney Spears” is a (non-fiction) personal essay, with a first person narrator which makes the essay identifiable. Edelstein clearly wrote this essay to highlight a few consequences and flaws in the relationship between fan and idol. Most of these flaws are shown in the age 13-18. These years are filled with the confusion that follows the transition from child to adult. Edelstein might have thought about this particular transition and thereby, intending the text to be read by these confused adolescents. The text “I Killed Britney Spears” was written in 2008, a year of great turmoil for the star Britney Spears. She was fighting over the custody of her children, she had been in rehab and just cut off her hair. All these events generated a lot of public attention. Mostly negative attention. Many of the “Spears” fans (including Edelstein herself) who identified themselves with her, were emotionally hit by Britney’s instability. The intention of Edelstein...
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...genders, to direct their parents to drop them at the respective room while they join the service at church. The program will have to select the volunteer teachers and securities as need per room, so there is enough care, and that the kids have time for kids activities. As the renovations continue the administrator wants to create a series of activities for kids walking trough different zones, but there will be 4 zones, zone 1 for kids worship where all the groups will meet, zone 2 for teaching of the word of God and questions, zone 3 play activity, zone 4 snacks and return to their rooms, but there will be many groups, so time is limited for each zone so every group can enjoy them. So the local church want to create groups of girls from 1 year to 3 years in room G1, girls from 4 years to 6 years in room G2, and girls 7 years to 10 years in room G3, and the same will be for boys, same group ages but the rooms will be B1, B2, B3. The program should give the administrator a set time for each activity keeping boys and girls separated from each other after zone 1, plus time for each group to enjoy zone 2, 3 and 4 while their parents are in the service, which lats...
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...Brown-Forman Wandan Su Oct.28th 2012 Managerial Accounting * Company Overview * Company History In the year of 1870, a great company was founded in Louisville, Kentucky. It was formed by George Garvin Brown, a young pharmaceuticals salesman. He saw the demand for a consistently high quality whisky that conform medicinal standards. Brown and his half-brother used an innovative approach to sold whisky with sealed glass bottles to guarantee their quality while whisky was sold in the barrel in common at that time. The brand called Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, was the first bottle bourbon in America, which remains one of Brown-Forman's best selling brands during the current days. The name of the company changed so many times as the business grew and the original partnership dissolved. Later partnership become between George Garvin Brown and his friend also his accountant, so the company was formed was call Brown-Forman. Old Forester sold very well --but In 1902 Forman sold his interest in the Brown-Forman Distillery because he believed that Brown-Forman's success would diminish as soon as the novelty of packaging began to fade. The Brown family bought all of Forman's interest in the company. In1917，George Garvin Brown died and his oldest son，Owsley, took over the Brown-Forman. It was a difficult time because of the depression and prohibitions during the two World Wars. In 1924, the company moved to the 18th & Howard Street, where the company...
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...MEDIA REVIEW TEMPLATE: Date of event/article published: | 16-12-2015 | Name of Source:Newspaper/news channel/writer etc | BBC iPlayer | Summary of the event: | Documentary examining the violence inflicted by men on women everyday, telling the stories of all women who died at the hands of a male partner or ex partner. The Documentary stated that on average seven women a month in Britain are killed by their male partners. Of the 164 women murdered in Britain in 2013, 86 were killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This film names all 86 women and, through interviews with families, friends and neighbours, tells the stories of seven of them in detail. The first victim spoken in detail about in the documentary is Kirsty Humphrey (aged 23), she was described as a genuine, kind and funny person by her family and friends that is until she met mark who used to hurt her physically and verbally and stole money from her to buy drugs but despite all this she was still fascinated by him even when he began to beat her. Her friends and family had started to notice marks on her but she brushed it off by saying they were play fighting or that she had burnt her hand when getting food out of the oven. Kirsty’s behaviour over this period had also started to change; she had become isolated, looked worn out and had started to become addicted to alcohol. On 4th September 2013 kirsty was murdered by Mark police found several stab wounds and bruises on kirstys body. Second victim Anne- Maire...
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...every day but in fact we were offered only two per day. Secondly, the advert promises one three-day camping expedition to introduce the joys of group-work. Unfortunately, we couldn’t even pitch the tents! Thirdly, it says that our “day off” would be full of the varied, remarkable and relaxing games cited in the leaflet at the residential centre. Actually, the centre was found full so they put us in a youth hostel, instead, some seven kilometres away with no buses and no taxis. For the relaxing games and the remarkable facilities, we were provided with a broken tennis table and used pack of cards. Besides, your company promises comfortable double rooms and memorable delicious meals for accommodation. To our astonishment, the only comfort we found was very dirty bed –clothes and disgusting meals. In general, our holiday was far from the one you had made us expect and the promises you had made us dream of. As a result of all these non-kept promises, I feel like I have been betrayed because I kept my promise of paying you and you did not. The only thing in your leaflet which is true is when you promise in the very introduction that the holiday with you will be an experience we will never forget !!! And it is so. Yours faithfully, Signature. Please find enclosed the facsimile of my...
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...Tourism recently presented its new slogan “It’s more fun in the Philippines” which has been a catchphrase for a lot of people in the different parts of the world. Aside from the tourists’ spots and festivals here in the country, have you ever ponder of the other reasons why it is more fun in the Philippines? Nowhere in the world can you find a group of people where hospitality and resilience is like of the Filipinos. Their unique way of welcoming visitors and guests had made a remarkable impression to everyone. Extra efforts were exerted to make the visitors feel at ease. They even go beyond their limitations just to offer a comfortable and worthwhile stay to their guests without thinking that they are already compromising their own comfort. It is undeniable that only the Filipinos can give you an excellent service with a sweet smile on their face. They have the resilient attitude which keeps them courageous despite the hardships and worries they’re going through. It is here in the Philippines where everybody, regardless of race, is treated with utmost hospitality and generosity. When it comes to money matters, the cost of living here in the Philippines is far much more inexpensive compared to other countries. Housing, transportations, utilities, and other basic needs are considerably cheap. Buying clothes in bazaars located everywhere in the country can give you a different kind of shopping experience. Also, fining dining of Filipino cuisines is available in such a very...
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...Turning it on In order for this to work, you need to eliminate all distractions a write completely stream-of-conciousness. If you don’t go right from your head to the paper, you’ll have to go back and read through old parts of the paper in order to get back into the zone. Checking your email three times is going to cost you much more than a few minutes. Close everything but the word processor and go somewhere quiet, bare and lonely. The content Jojjo felz nadvidad ajksdfa kasjfksdjfs j jfjhf hf jd hdh dfjh d You can’t ask for an extension We’ll assume that you can’t ask for an extension, which is usually the case — but one thing you can certainly do is check the syllabus for other loopholes. Some professors deduct a specific point count per day of lateness. That will definitely be worth considering. But don’t spend too much time deliberating. You can decide to turn it in late while you’re walking to class with your bullshit-backup in hand. Turning it on In order for this to work, you need to eliminate all distractions a write completely stream-of-conciousness. If you don’t go right from your head to the paper, you’ll have to go back and read through old parts of the paper in order to get back into the zone. Checking your email three times is going to cost you much more than a few minutes. Close everything but the word processor and go somewhere quiet, bare and lonely. The...
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...Antidepressants: It can either heal or harm you If you are considering antidepressants, think again. Antidepressants are designed to relieve one’s self from depression on the contrary, it still harmfully affect humans. Studies show that antidepressant users are more likely in peril than those of non-users. Researchers found that it affects all the systems in the body. Antidepressants are not efficient medicine though it may lessen depression to increase the level of happiness. Common antidepressant users blame their anxiety as the root of their medicine dependency. Depression is a dreadful nightmare anyone would ever want to escape. And this is why people use different medicine to overcome this horror. Often, personal problems cause their depression. While not all reasons may be their misery’s fault, certain and various causes may also take place. Famous popstar Britney Spears claimed that she was being prescribed antidepressants at the age of 18. She would take the medicine everytime she feels restless and tired, but then the continuous intake made her mental state even worse. There are times she would wake up feeling depressed. As this horror frightened her, she decided not to take it again. Certain cases lead to different diseases. Even worse, it can lead to death. There are a lot of things you can do to replace this approach. One way is by simply listening to music. Using antidepressants can surely eliminate your burden, but will it last longer than you think? These...
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...Trident University International Marvell R. Dean MHES 509 Module 1 1. How is a response to destruction from a terrorist incident different from a response to a natural disaster? Be specific, give examples, and quote from the readings. 2. You are a volunteer for the American Red Cross. You are to enter a scene of destruction in order to assist wounded victims. What are some precautions that you must take? What are some restrictions placed on you? From whom do you receive clearance? 3. First responders should isolate hazards by establishing control zones. There are three types of control zones. List them and give examples. Cite your sources. Difference Between Response to Destruction By Terrorist and Natural Disaster Previous to the National Response network there were various differences on how and when agencies responded to incidents by terrorist groups or natural disasters. Prior to the 11 September 2001 attack on the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania, the World Trade Center, and the 2005 Hurricanes Rita and Katrina the Federal Response Plan existed which primarily focused on the Federal roles and responsibilities during an emergency or disaster incident. By using the lessons learned and the response to the hurricane season in 2005 the National Response Plan was replaced by the Federal Response Plan. The United States has dealt with a number of unprecedented disasters and emergencies from small...
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