I watched the video on Fox News’ website of the CEO of Webimax, who was interviewed on the morning news. He mentioned video resumes like they were a new, great way to get noticed by employers.

Adam suggested I do some research on these high-tech resumes (and try to answer the 10 questions he listed a few blogs ago: http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/2010/03/17/use-linkedin-facebook-and-video-resume/).

After breezing through some articles, blogs, and videos, I’m not so sure about them. For one thing, do employers really want to sit through an amateur video starring you?

Visit my site www.kdoud.com to read my blog post about video resumes, and let me know your thoughts!

I have been getting the daily Beachwalks.tv updates in my email for quite sometime now. The daily videos of Roxanne and her dog Lexi, come from the beaches of Hawaii. Roxanne has a different topic everyday which may include personal development subjects to less serious topics. She also gives you a little Hawaiian Language lesson  with a Hawaiian word of the day. Today’s word of the day was Manawa kpono or opportunity.

Today, Roxanne talks about taking a life challenge as her partner Shane said when they were faced with a client rescheduling issue, “What’s the Opportunity Here ?”

Technorati Tags: opportunity,problem solving,personal development

I like the idea of finding gold in situations that if  we allow ourselves to, could potentially make us a little sad,very depressed or worse.

For example, when the SEO Company Lizzie and I were working for, had to let us both go due to loss of clients, we could have, gotten really depressed(we did get a little bummed) because we then had to find new (sorry for the curse word in advance) jobs. But instead, we looked at it as the opportunity to fully go out on our own. Within a month, we were able to network our resources and were able to more than make up for the lost income and benefit security. Today, our own SEO Company, Baldydog.com, is a growing, thriving business.

How about you,

when did you have to find the gold nugget in a potentially bad situation?

Just a quick post to remind everyone to visit AlexShalman.com to read his Happiness Project series. In the Happiness Project, Alex is interviewing some incredible people and getting their opinions on Happiness.

The Happiness Project Questions include:

1. How do you define happiness?

2. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your happiness now, versus when you were a child?

3. What do you do on a daily basis that brings you happiness? (and how consistent is the feeling of happiness throughout your day)

4. What things take away from your happiness? What can be done to lessen their impact or remove them from your life?

5. What do you plan on doing in the future that will bring you even more happiness?

Each interview in the series starts out with a little author bio, and lists any sites the author has, and any publications that the author might have published.

The Happiness Project is a great series that I have enjoyed reading all week, and I highly recommend everyone check it out.

Update:

Alex just sent me an email and asked me to include my answers to the questions in this post, so here they are:

1. I am not sure how I define happiness, but I suppose it has to do with having positive feeling towards myself and others, and feeling like everything is going to be alright. If I am not feeling happy I am able to appreciate the small things like coffee in the morning, or having time to write a post.

2. I have a hard time with this, because there are different times of my childhood that stick out, somewhere happy some were not so happy. If I were comparing my current self to my teen years, I would have to say I am a ten. Sadly, Teen-age angst was pretty dominant in my life at that time.

3. To bring myself happiness throughout the day, I take time out for small pleasures such as healthy snacking, kissing my wife periodically, lending a helping hand, communicating with others via phone, email, or IM. My general happiness does fluctuate, but I am more in tune with it and can usually change my mood if I watch for signs that it is dipping.

4. When my resources are tapped(physical, mental, financial) and I am unable to accomplish a task due to limitations, that really takes away from my happiness.

5. To bring myself more happiness, I intend to increase my resources(emotional, physical, skill sets, financial) so that I can accomplish more, and overcome limitations. I am also planning on experiencing joy and happiness by being able to appreciate the accomplishments and successes of others to include my wife, my children, my parents, my bro and his family, and any other individuals that I may have the pleasure of having my life touch.

What are your answers?

Since I have not done a Meme in quite some time, please consider yourself to be tagged. Please write a post that answers Alex’s questions. Linking to this and or Alex’s post are optional.

The blog TheWritersManifesto is or rather was holding a Group writing contest, and all of the entries to the Tutorial Group writing project are below followed by my top three pics in reverse order.
Megan Bayliss has a great post How to Respond To Disclosures of Sexual Child Abuse. A very serious topic as compared to all the others, but one that any parent/grandparent or childcare worker should read.
Rishi gives some Tips to Get Best Out of Product Related Ad Networks.
Karthik writes about Upgrading Your Theme to WordPress 2.3 to be able to use tags for posts. Karthik also does a brief sell for using tags. The main benefit being the increase in the number of pages for your site.
Aseem Kishore has a really use post that teaches How to Find Good Ideas and Content for Your Blog.
Kyle Eslick shows How to Ad Edit Buttons to Your WordPress Theme.
Adam(moi) shows how to Add a Blog to Flickr.
Sumesh gets a little technical and shows How to Add Plugin Function Calls Without Breaking Your Theme.
Simonne shows How to Get Your Favorite Stumble Upon Pages in Your Feed Reader, cool tip for creating a feed for any Stumbleupon user including your own.
Shivaranjan tells us How to Move Self Hosted WordPress Blogs Across Webhosts.
Jacob Share has the Obnoxious Guide to Environmentally Safe Job Hunting.
Terry Didcott tells How to Install A Self Hosted WordPress Blog.
Doug Woodall shows us How to Thwart the Barbarian Spyware.
Joanie Raisovich gives some Tips for Getting Through Nano,National Novel writing month.
Kryistina has an Environmental Tutorial that was written for Blog Action Day, that gives advice about moving your house in an environmental manner.
David Rogers has a great post How to Solve A Problem.
CSS shows Simple Photo Editing Using GIMP, which is a good post about using Gimp, a free online program, to edit photos. I will have to give it a try and compare to Photoshop.
Dee gives some good advice about Making Friends with A Neighbor or Co-Worker, which can be used in our real lives.
Em Dy tells how to Plan Your Vacation Online
Sarah, the Gnomeynewt tells How to Attract Comments on Your Blog.
Gal teaches The Best Excerises You Might Not Be Doing (Series).
Jen Lawton shows us How to Set Up An Online Fundraiser.
Fred gives some good advice about How to Set Up the WordPress Pinging Service.

With a bit of waffling, my top three pics in reverse order are:

3. The personal development post that teaches How to Solve A Problem.

2. Simonne’s post showing how to add Stumble Upon Pages to Your Feed Reader.

1. Megan’s Child Abuse post. Update: Megan’s site is no longer up and running so it was unlinked.

This morning I was quite surprised when I was checking the inbound links I went on AlexShalman.com and found I had won an Ipod Shuffle he had been giving away in his Personal Development contest he was holding. Then this morning Alex emailed me for my mailing info and wanted to know what color Ipod I wanted. So I went onto the Apple site and ordered a red one. Apple is donating the proceeds to the Aids Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

I originally found out about Alex’s contest when he left a comment on another Personal Development Contest post I had done. Alex was letting me know about his contest which was very similar to Aaron’s contest which is still being held to promote the launching of Personal Development Partners.
So now, I will have an Ipod Shuffle. What will I do with it? I can keep it for my own listening pleasure. I can give it to one of the kids for a Christmas present. Or better yet, I can use it as a prize for a contest here on Pixelheadonline.

Got any suggestions for a contest or what I could do with AlexShalman’s Ipod Shuffle?