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Different career councilors can provide different answers on how to assess your career options. This means that there is no one best way but there are some common factors across the board. For one, you have to judge yourself from every nook and corner of life to discover what you really can afford to do for the rest of your life.

How to assess your career options should begin from a very early age in education. First, guardians in homes and schools should help. When the opportunity eventually appears you should then be in a position to see it from a mile away. I know that not all of us had the privilege of being guided when we were young hence my decision to right these guides and recommendations.

First trial should be made on which category fits a person: science, arts or commerce.

Assessment should be made as to whether one finds it worthwhile to make huge money, to earn fame, to serve the country in administration or social welfare or to do research activities.

When moneymaking in order to have vast influence on the economy is your goal. Then you probably should consider business studies. If you are planning on starting a business later on then the proper place of doing business and the proper kind of it with proper partners has to be decided along with keeping in mind the initial capital available in hand.

Government and non-government jobs are also to be considered as career options. I know that there is some negative connotation that is linked with working for government but if you truly love it then I see no reason why you shouldn’t consider it.

If you are like me and love to read and discover new things then consider some research-based studies. There really is a lot of pleasure in investigating things and serving humanity with life changing discoveries.

At the end of the day, career options should be assessed according to how an individual wants to assess life within the existing limitations and resources. All this should be part of the answer to the question on how to assess your career options.

My last article dealt with video-recording yourself when you practice your presentation or speech. While I value the lessons learned by video-recording yourself in practicing, don’t stop with your rehearsals. The next step is to record your live presentation or speech. How you deliver in front of a live audience will be a bit different than your delivery in practice; and, both situations need to be studied.

By recording the actual presentation, you will be able to see yourself in action. Do you smile at times? Do you have enough volume? Were you heard? Were you making eye contact with your audience? Did you look natural and comfortable? Were you understandable? Did the pitch of your voice rise because of your nervousness?

Many of the questions I am asking here are not covered in my first article because recording yourself in a practice session will not produce nervousness – at least it shouldn’t! But my questions here deal with how you handle your nervousness. For example, the pitch of the speaking voice will only rise unnaturally because of nervousness. On the other hand, you may speak distinctly in your rehearsal but be considerably less intelligible in the live situation because you are subconsciously pulling back your volume.

Maybe you were speaking too quickly. Speed is one of the most interesting components of public speaking that can never be judged honestly until you hear yourself in a recording. You may speak at a good pace in normal conversation but increase your speed dramatically on stage because of excitement, nervousness, or because you want to get it over with as quickly as possible.

These are some of the easy questions to ask yourself as you listen and watch your performance. But you need to go even further. How did your audience react to you? Many who successfully finish their speech or presentation often don’t remember what happened. They are so thrilled to have it over that they can’t remember specifics.

This is where the video-recorder can be most beneficial. If you have a few jokes that have gotten no response, for example, then maybe you should change your style of delivery. Not everyone can tell a joke successfully. Maybe your humor is funny to you but not to your audience. On the other hand, your audience may have laughed at something you said that you had never considered humorous before.

This actually happened to me many years ago. In talking about voice, I was discussing the role of the diaphragm in supported breathing and I said, “we all have one (a diaphragm) we just don’t use it”! Upon hearing that remark, this one particular group burst out laughing. I had never thought that that statement was funny, because in discussing the diaphragm in the past, I had never thought of it in its other role as a contraceptive device.

You may have a wonderfully supportive audience who thanks you and was enamored with your presentation. But you still don’t a visual or an aural representation of what really happened until you are able to playback the video and watch yourself in action.

Become your own best critic if you want to be the best that you can be in public speaking.

There are basic marketing concepts that  you must know when considering, for example, Mexican restaurant menus for your business. If followed, these five tips can help you to make the best decisions and get the most out of your business marketing strategy. With any advertising plan, you need to be able to put all of your effort and time into its development and delivery to ensure that it is carried out successfully. No advertising strategy is successful without the right planning, including design, delivery, content and more. Every single detail needs attention and these five tips you must know will help to ensure your Mexican restaurant menus are the best they can be.

1. Build Your Brand. Make sure you Mexican restaurant brand is prominently displayed on your flyer design. Include your business logo, ensuring the name is easy to read and clear and you can even add a restaurant mascot image if you prefer. Branding is essential to ensuring customer are not just a one off sale, you can ensure they keep coming back to you and not to competitors by providing a memorable brand to your flyer design.

2. Use High Quality Food Pictures. Make sure you include high quality photographic imagery in your menu design. Low quality blurred or low resolution images can have a dramatic negative impact on your sales. Customers are much more likely to be enticed into purchasing your food with tempting and tantalizing imagery of the food they could get in your establishment.

3. Always Print in Full-Color. Make sure your flyer design is in full color. Customers respond to full color advertisements in a much more positive manner and grayscale printing can actually be harmful to your customer sales base. Using vivid and properly thought out color schemes within your flyer design will attract more customers to your flyer and will therefore increase your sales naturally.

4. Hire a Professional Designer. If in doubt, hire a professional graphic designer. It may cost you more than if you did it yourself but you will obtain a design that is not only highly effective and well planned to suit your target audience and your business but also one that will last you a very long time and increase your sales as a result.

5. Optimize Your Menus According to Your Distribution Method. Optimize your distribution by utilizing more than one method (Example: newspapers, direct mail, and doorhangers). No flyer marketing plan is successful without the aid of an effective distribution method. Direct mailing is the main core of any Mexican menu printing campaign, however, there are other ways to get your flyers noticed too. Make sure you hand out flyers to all of your customers on every order, and keep some in your restaurant as well so that passers by can take one with them for later. When direct mailing flyers, make sure everyone in your delivery area gets one and that more than one is supplied to student accommodation and flats. You can also hand out menus in the local high street and outside late night establishments such as clubs and bars so you can catch people when they are most likely to want a bite to eat.