Copacetic

I dropped into the sensational Bloggers Lunch yesterday evening. Niall Harbison from ifoods.tv cooked up a storm in his flat and filled his bath with beer for good measure.

The food was absolutely delicious and double points to Niall for preparing it all in the kitchen of his flat. I didn’t manage to snap what for me was his star dish of the night, Scallops on Black Pudding, Yum!

Stuck in an airport several months ago I finally overcame my age long prejudice against a book I pigeonholed into “self help shite” when I was much younger and dumber. So I grabbed Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends and Influence People” of the shelf and finally realised what I’d been missing.

I’ll quote something from the introduction from his wife which should strike a chord with bloggers everywhere,

Dale Carnegie wrote as he spoke, in an intensively exuberant, colloquial, conversational manner

I can’t think of better advice.

If you read this book (and you’re as old as me) you’ll hear lots of stuff that sounds familiar. The difference with Dale is, he said it first and its all in one convenient package.

His front page (of my edition) says it all. But the method is the key and for that you need the book itself.

• Get out of a mental rut think new thoughts, acquire new visions, discover new ambitions
• Make friends quickly and easily
• Increase your popularity
• Win people to your way of thinking
• Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done
• Handle complaints, avoid  arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant
• Become a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist
• Arouse enthusiasm among your associates

Do like Dale says and succeed.

In these times of layoffs and recession I thought a search engine for all the Irish job sites might be useful. So here it is courtesy of Google’s Customised Search Engine.

Its permanent home is http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/irish-recruitment-sites-search-engine/.