As shown on thepersonalbusinessplan.com:

This practical guide to creating a defined and actionable plan to achieve success and happiness. It will give you the answers to these fundamental questions – and more:

• How do you balance your professional and your personal life?
• How do you get the most out of your high potential situation?
• How do you create a sustainable position for your family and yourself?
• How do you identify and focus on the important things in life?
• How do you avoid the emotional burnout from constantly giving to others?
• How do you get success?
• How do you find happiness?

“Aim at learning more the next 20 years than you have learned the last 20 years”

Also, check out this 2011 PBS interview:

ADULT LITERACY DESERVES FOCUS

“My task, which I am trying to achieve by the power of the written word is to make you hear, to make you feel … to make you see.” Joseph Conrad, “Lord Jim”

The number of adults reading at an elementary-grade level has grown beyond the 50 percent level in the United States and continues to grow.

The ability to maximize our greatest potential as residents is founded upon each individual possessing basic literacy skills (the fundamentals of learning and communication). Yet we are ignoring the fact that 90 million adults living in America are challenged when reading the business language of the world: English. We can no longer accept the status quo that exists today in too many of our schools. More than 30 percent of our students drop out of school, and if you are African-American, it’s 50 percent, and if you’re Hispanic, it’s 54 percent.

Dr. G. Reid Lyon, former chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institute for Health, estimates 5 percent of children learn to read effortlessly, while another 20 to 30 percent learn to read with relative ease when exposed to any kind of instruction. However, for about 60 percent of students, learning to read is more challenging. Their success is tied directly to the efficacy of instruction. Of those, 20 to 30 percent find reading to be remarkably difficult; how those children are taught to read is critical to their success.

Teachers can’t teach what they haven’t been taught! All teachers participating in “continuing education” to maintain their credentials need to become familiar with the newest advances in teaching reading and how to implement evidence-based instruction into the classroom. Teacher colleges also need to be held accountable and participate in research to determine if what they are teaching our future teachers will work. All first- through sixth-grade teachers should be required to be certified reading specialists if we are to achieve our goal of every child learning to read.

At 48, I learned to read and have been a literacy advocate ever since. I am often tempted to give up on literacy issues, however, with immigration reform and early childhood education being current topics of discussion, it is time to include adult literacy programs in the discussion and legislation.

Today, it is as important to teach adults how to read as it is to teach our children. Adults, two-thirds of whom are parents of school-age children, should be provided with the same opportunity to learn how to read as our children. We hear from schools all the time that they can’t do it alone. Parents that can’t read can’t teach their children how to read. “Together We Can” is more than a motto, it is reality. In other words, going to preschool may be important, but having literate parents is an even greater predictor of a child’s success in school. Adult-family literacy can’t be overlooked.

Literacy and illiteracy are not just words! They are a way of life… illiteracy is a way of life that is limiting and embarrassing. I have lived in our society as an adult not able to read and as one being able to read. If you have not walked the walk of a student or an adult who cannot read, then you may be taking for granted how many times you access the world via the written word.

The written word is the dominant language in the classroom and in the workplace. English is the business language of the world. In our relations with competing international businesses, our ability to collaborate and join together in a common goal is greatly enhanced if we can speak and read our language proficiently. A major, immediate, positive transformation occurs when someone learns to read, despite their challenges. Their self-esteem takes a giant step forward, making them better students, parents, employees, patients, consumers and citizens. For adults, it literally changes their whole outlook on life. It actually changes the way their brain processes.

During upcoming public forums on education all over the country, the opportunity for you to speak out in favor of literacy returning as a major issue should be presented. I urge everyone to take a stand on behalf of literacy and legislation that will promote a more equal educational opportunity for adults to read, as well as children.

Corcoran, a longtime Oceanside resident, is a nationally known literacy advocate and author. He serves on the San Diego Council on Literacy board.

The first MELT Method book is about to be released! To celebrate with me, order your copy today!

The MELT Method: A Breakthrough Self-Treatment System to Eliminate Chronic Pain, Erase the Signs of Aging, and Feel Fantastic in Just 10 Minutes a Day! (January 2013, HarperCollins)

With lots of photos and easy-to-follow instructions, I’ll teach you everything you need to know about how to eliminate the stuck stress that accumulates from daily living. You will learn how to alleviate chronic issues that lead to pain and what MELTing for just 10 minutes a day can do for you. I also reveal the true cause of pain and how MELT works. The book will give you everything you need to become a Hands-Off Bodyworker® so you can create the immediate and lasting changes that tens of thousands of MELT fans enjoy already.

I’m excited to help millions of people feel better now and live a pain-free life. To do this, I need to ask for your help. Do you know anybody who needs MELT? Don’t we all need a little help in feeling better and staying pain-free? Please forward this message and spread the word about the secret to healthy, pain-free living through self-care with MELT.

Starting this month, I am traveling across the country to introduce MELT and teach people how to get rid of stuck stress and feel better now. I’d love to see you at one of my Intro Workshops and Book Signings if I’m nearby. (If you bring a copy of your book or your receipt, I’ll even have a gift for you!)

Please spread the word about our campaign to get out of pain and feel better now! Thank you so much for being a part of our community. And don’t forget to order your book today!

Have a happy and healthy 2013!

Best,
Sue

Greek rights to John Strelecky’s WHY ARE YOU HERE CAFÉ, to Protoporia, by Michael Avramides at OA Literary Agency, on behalf of Doris Michaels at DSM Agency.

Japanese rights to James Salzman’s DRINKING WATER, to East Press, by Miko Yamanouchi at Japan Uni, on behalf of Doris Michaels at DSM Agency.

DSM Agency authors Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond have written an article on a well-regarded Wall Street program that was recently brought to Rwanda. You can read the entire article here.

RWANDA, INC. by Crisafulli and Redmond will be published in the fall by Palgrave-Macmillian.

As seen on Las Vegas Review-Journal:

February 19, 2012

John P. Strelecky, DSM Agency author of THE WHY CAFE, explains that employers look for “someone who approaches them with an idea of a new position, as long as it makes sense.”

Read the full article here.