Archives for December 2010

Do you make it look easy?

When you interact with someone who makes his/her business look easy, they did not wing it. Likely, they spent hours, weeks, and years (behind the scenes)trying to improve, even by contacting the speech coach nyc you can improve your power of speak for your business,  modifying and improving their approach to doing business.

Behind the scenes, people who are successful work hard on getting better. They think, evaluate, and plan their business approaches. Over time, they think critically about their progress, reflect on their experiences, and re-evaluate their strategies.

In other words, they practice and improve to become the best. As a result, they make it look easy.

Have you ever heard of the 10,000 Hours Rule?

It has been described by Seth Godin and written about by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers (great book by the way), and others. In simple terms, most remarkable people spend about 10,000 hours doing something before they become the best at it.

I do not know who said the following quote, but it perfectly characterizes the essence of this blog post:

“Champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there.”

When you succeed in the “ring” of life or business consistently, generally, it is not because of chance or luck, but rather because you prepared well.

Many factors (including genetics) predispose individuals to certain qualities. However, people are not born awesome public speakers, skilled artists, landscapers, or website developers. They work at it when no one is watching, until they become the best.

Behind the scenes, when no one is watching, are you working hard to improve, become the best, and make it look easy?

The “Read More” tag

The WordPress blog page typically shows your most recent 5 or 10 blog posts. This page displays each post in its entirety, which:

  • makes your blog page seem too long
  • may not look too good to have so much text in one page
  • makes it difficult for your readers to browse through your recent posts

Here, we will show you how to use the “Read More” tag to display the first few sentences of each post, followed by a “Read More” link pointing to the page that contains the entire post.

It’s actually really simple and you can do it right from your WordPress post editor. Here are the steps:

  1. Click “Add New” under “Posts”
  2. Enter your post title and write your content
  3. Place the mouse/cursor wherever you want to truncate your content
  4. Click the “Read More” button (shown in image below)
  5. (or if you like shortcuts, click Alt+Shift+T)
  6. Publish or Update your post
  7. That’s it!

Here is a screen shot of the WordPress post editor to show you what the “read more” buttons look like boxed in orange in both Visual and in html modes:

click on image to enlarge

Questions? Please let me know