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Why Team Building Is So Important (and Best Outdoor Team Building Ideas)
Where there is a team, there is a need for team building. Turning a group of coworkers into allies who communicate openly, cooperate well and support each other is the main goal of every team building event. Although plenty of group activities can take place in the office, the most effective and memorable team building is the one that will draw your team out in nature. Long office hours, especially in the era of a sedentary lifestyle, can really suck out life, energy, and creativity out of workers. Change of scenery and exposure to fresh air can only do good for your employees and your company. Outdoor activities can improve health as well as they can restore mental energy. To reap all the benefits, here are a few great outdoor team building ideas that will revitalize your team and get it back on track.
By Nina Simons7 years ago in Journal
10 Tried-And-True Ways to Make Money at Home
At one point or another, everyone has thought about trying to make money at home. The perks are plentiful, after all. When you work from home, you don’t have to wear office attire, you can watch your kids, and you maintain an overall better work-life balance in many situations.
By Skunk Uzeki7 years ago in Journal
So You Want to Be a Writer
I will admit right now that I am not the world’s leading expert on writing, far from it, however, there are some things I have come to learn. The following are three things I have picked up along the way, shared views with authors, and remind myself of daily.
By Acasia Tucker7 years ago in Journal
Finding More Storage Space
If you’re feeling a little cramped, you’re not alone. We have less space than ever to work with at both home and work. In the United States, the average size of a single-family home peaked in 2015. It’s been on the decline ever since. There’s less land and higher expenses associated with building. Canada is dealing with a similar problem, as the homes there are shrinking even as the population continues to grow.
By Carlos Fox7 years ago in Journal
The Benefits of Having Others Edit Your Work
When you’ve just completed a written work, you feel like a grand load comes off your shoulders. This is only natural since, in order to write well, you need to invest yourself in your work. However, as with any other task out there, we tend to make many unintentional mistakes along the way. That also happens with writing, even to the best of us.
By Tiffany Harper7 years ago in Journal
Why Does YouTube Allow Copyright Abuse?
It’s a question that has come up time and time again. Creators on YouTube have been in a battle for some time now over what is considered a real copyright claim and what is just some ridiculous attack from a stranger over nothing. YouTuber’s (influencers?) are being put in a position where they could be losing everything they have worked for because the content they have created might have miffed someone in the wrong way. With the possibility of losing it all overnight why isn’t YouTube looking into this?
By Michael DeNicola7 years ago in Journal
Firm, but Not Crushing
Steel and glass enveloped the building in Wilmington, Delaware. A young COO named Kholer Ingot entered the skyscraper with energy and readiness. He possessed a chestnut skin tone and a flattop hairstyle. He was 33. His impeccable suit wrapped around him with exquisite precision. He journeyed to the elevator bay and boarded the enclosed space. He selected the 60th floor. Upon reaching that level, he met with the CEO of Afroflex Plastics, Alder Mann. Gray flecks in his dreadlocks showed his age. This CEO moved slower at his 97 years. But his mind remained glass shard sharp. He sat in a large room with 24 chairs around a huge oak table.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Journal
When I Voice-Acted on YouTube...
So in today's world of social media, I think we can all agree that online video platforms have caught our eye from time to time with the cliche cat video as well as everyday people like us falling on their butts from their risky shenanigans. Well... it seemed the heavily populated platform known as YouTube caught my attention during my days as an introverted high school student who wanted to share something he thoroughly enjoyed! Now, I have many interests that I am passionate about ranging from art, music, dancing, & even writing (which is what has brought me to THIS platform), but one of the interests out of the bunch that gave me most clarity was acting... even though I had the absolute WORST stage fright of any single person in my hometown. This was a bummer... HOW would I be able to share something I love to do without fainting or having a panic attack (which I dealt with frequently)? To me it seemed I found a loophole one day while having a lazy moment with a good friend of mine as we played video games. Now the game we were playing is very well known—*cough* C.O.D. *cough*—so you, the reader, may know a certain mode involving the undead that lies within the game. Hours of playtime and I picked up many of the sound effects, even recognizing them to the point of actually imitating most of them... imitating them to the point where my friend was... uh... pretty annoyed. Haha I enjoyed it though... It gave me a chance to escape some of the insecurity I felt about myself to "be something different." I think that is when I officially got the bug for voice-acting!Now what? How would I start creating online as a voice-actor when I had primarily been a dancer at the time? Well, I knew for sure I had to get the essentials, which were a microphone & computer. The rest I knew I could research and adapt to. Now as a full-time high school student, allowance was my only dependable form of income. I shared the idea of using my voice online with my mother who, of course, was supportive enough to help me get a netbook & inexpensive headset from a small but well-known retail store so I could get started. I did a good amount of research, searching for tools that would be at my disposal as an amateur "voice-actor." I eventually came upon the program known as Audacity. I really couldn't believe it... a FREE sound editing program up for grabs to whomever may need it for whatever work that needed to be done (NOT SPONSORED). You would not believe how late I stayed up the very same night of installing it, learning how to trim sound, clean up noise, modify my voice, just thoroughly learning what I could to up my game. After days of practicing editing, I was ready to begin... and I was stumped again because I needed one last essential... a NICHE! What was I going to act as? Should I narrate things as well? I hadn't even thought of a username yet! Ironically enough, that aspect of my journey came from one of my favorite video game series of all time... Resident Evil. Horror! That would be great! Not only can I be suspenseful for the fun, but I can grow a definite audience since horror & scary media provoked a certain feeling in their viewers. An adrenaline rush? I know that's why I always went back to scary movies, it was such a thrill! Looking for horror stories across all platforms I could find was actually the best thing I could've done as it led me to what most of the online world know as "CreepyPasta." Short online horror stories, eh? I can do that! With endless content from such a large community, I narrated and acted out my first reading of "The Clown Statue."
By Jake Vargas7 years ago in Journal
