A Better Tomorrow

Facilitators of Active / Successful Aging According to Rowe (1998), factors contributing to successful aging are the individual’s lifestyles choices, their innate personality in how they approach life, and a positive attitude build in resilience. Consider resiliency, by definition—quality of life does not always relate to physical illness. When comparing similar socio-demographic factors, those factors relating to positive outcomes for resiliency were the ability to recognize the people who…

Girls Just want to have Fun. Having opportunity is a vital characteristic to life it is what gives society hope for a better tomorrow, this is the major reason why America is viewed as the birth place of prosperity. “The American dream” is a wide spread term to describe the ability to achieve anything through hard work and dedication. Although many people connect this notion towards gaining vast amount of wealth, the idea of the American dream has morphed into an “idea of America being a…

The adventure begins on a plane, flying over the clouds and the Himalayas. As the passengers admired the view, Eric was thinking about somewhere else. His thought of navigating in 1933 in a beautiful paradise have referred to in James Hilton’s book where he called it Shangri-La, a utopian world separate from us and where only lucky souls can go. Some of these wanted to leave it, but Conway, a character with whom Eric relates and envies, didn’t. Eric Weiner lived in India in the 1990s as he was…

Issue Three: Job Design is an operational issue that Albatross Anchor might be facing. Is the right person in the right role? This directly correlates to job design. Every employee cannot perform every function within a company certain employees are better suited to roles than others. Frederick Herzberg identified attributes that make a potential job design a good fit (Russell & Taylor III, 2011). Employees that are well suited to their jobs are more likely to be happy and stay at their job.…

increasing their worker’s loyalty and commitment to their organisation’s goals and means. An engaged employee is one whom exhibits emotional commitments to the company, usually distinguishable through the voluntary effort they exercise in their roles to better the organisation. They will actively seek out ways to further the business and its efforts; they are perseverant, passionate and loyal to the workplace. This inherent motivation to contribute to their company’s success…

confusion with the team assignment hindered the early discussion of each member’s plan to complete the individual project. Discussions about the individual project must start at an earlier time and participation of all members must be encouraged to have better team…

Throughout our educational years we’ve all had experience being a group member. Whether this was a positive or negative group experience, it provided us opportunities for learning, improving, and communicating with others. My placements during my college years in the Developmental Services Worker program took this group interaction to another level where the significance of being part of team took on a whole new meaning as I applied my education to real life experiences and grew in knowledge and…

This current semester I am enrolled in Professor Zack’s Media Production I class. Our first project of the semester was a silent film that would focus on someone or something involving a lock and a key while expressing an emotion. This project wasn’t a solo project, but instead involved working with one other person. The lock and key could be metaphoric or literal and from that concept we had to tell a story in twelve to fifteen shots. Our idea was to convey a young musician finding the right…

As part of my personal growth journey, I signed up for Soulvana. I had a heck of a time finishing up the first course, Self-Esteem: Your Fundamental Power. Reflecting on it there were a few reasons why it was so hard to get through, but I finally finished it as I waited for my husband 's flight to arrive last night. The course was created by Caroline Myss. Apparently she has expertise in many different fields, including energy medicine, human consciousness, and mysticism. I had to look up the…

Elevate works by first picking the skills you would like to improve, then from that data Elevate creates a personalized training program. They suggest you to train at least 3 times a week to improve results. You receive a new set of mental games each day to build the skills you need most. Elevate also has a detailed performance tracking that scores and ranks you on how well you do. Skills like focus, memory, processing, math, precision, and comprehension etc., are tested and claim to be improve…