APhTI loves Live Your Potential

It is my goal to bring some really good content to those who read this newsletter! 

 Throughout my years of experience talking to students and helping them maintain focus on various tasks from certification to just sticking with the training program,  I know that many of us struggle with goals. I do too at times!  You know, there are those who are really good at setting goals but not so good at implementing them, I call these people visionaries.  Then there are those who are really good at implementing but not good at setting goals, I call these people soldiers.  Wait, don't be offended, we need both the visionary and the soldier to be successful at our tasks!  I have some good news, recently, I was able to interview someone who has expertise in this area, her name is JoAnn Youngblood King.

JoAnn is the owner of a company named, "Live Your Potential" and it has its headquarters in Queens, NY.  I must say that every time I speak to JoAnn, she always has some great seed to plant to help me grow and be a better leader/entrepreneur.  How does she do this?  She is a very empathetic person!   In her own words, she says that she suffered from low self esteem as a child and wasn't happy with herself because of it.  She turned things around by reading a book that helped her realize that she had the potential to create a happy, successful life for herself and that is when her turn around came. 

I have said for years, in order to combat all of the negative things that we are bombarded with on a daily basis, we have to put more good things in.  Reading is great because it allows you to take the writer's words  and develop your own mental picture of what that topic means to you!   So I am glad that JoAnn and I were able to discuss her company and the service that it provides to people.

Her company's mission is to help entrepreneurs and small business owners to discover, tap into and take action based on their inherent potential for success.  I wanted to know more about her practice and so I was able to chat with her about helping Pharmacy Technicians become more.  Many technicians give so much of their time and effort to help others. 

When I spoke to JoAnn about this issue, this is what came out of our discussion...  "We all have goals we want to accomplish regardless of the profession we're in.  Having the desire or skill to be a Pharmacy Technician is one thing.  However being able to stay on task. move to different levels within the profession and handle any adversities that come up are areas where successful coaching can be beneficial.  Also everyone needs motivation and encouragement as well."

  For more on this, there is a great article that is written for Pharmacists but there are some gems in it that apply to Pharmacy Technicians as well.

http://www.pharmacytimes.com/blogs/redheaded-pharmacist/1011/Top-Ten-Goals-for-the-Profession-of-Pharmacy#sthash.amMBRxBl.dpuf

The thing that JoAnn wants people to know about most is the value of a Success Partner. " Often times, entrepreneurs and goal oriented people want to be heard, supported, and motivated.  We all want to be happy, wealthy and healthy.  Sometimes our family or close friends may not really understand what it is we are trying to accomplish.  It helps to have someone in your life that will help you to  stay on track, keep us accountable toward our goals and help us to move in the direction of success." 

Live Your Potential provides success coaching through one-on-one coaching, over the phone or by email, group coaching, holding success seminars, workshops and events.   The company offers free teleclasses  a couple of times a year.

For more information on this wonderful service contact JoAnn any of the following ways:

JoAnn@liveyourpotential.com
LYP Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LYPSuccessCoaching
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/5/278/a01
Twitter: www.twitter.com/JoAnnyking
BLOG: http://www.liveyourpotential.blogspot.com/

Are you still on track with your goals? APhTI loves Live Your Potential

It is my goal to bring some really good content to those who read this newsletter!  Thorough my years of experience talking to students and helping them maintain focus on various tasks from certification to just sticking with the training program,  I know that many of us struggle with goals. I do too at times!  You know, there are those who are really good at setting goals but not so good at implementing them, I call these people visionaries.  Then there are those who are really good at implementing but not good at setting goals, I call these people soldiers.  Wait, don't be offended, we need both the visionary and the soldier to be successful at our tasks!  I have some good news, recently, I was able to interview someone who has expertise in this area, her name is JoAnn Youngblood King.

Joann is the owner of a company named, "Live Your Potential" and it has its headquarters in Queens, NY.  I must say that every time I speak to Joann, she always has some great seed to plant to help me grow and be a better leader/entrepreneur.  How does she do this?  She is a very empathetic person!   In her own words, she says that she suffered from low self esteem as a child and wasn't happy with herself because of it.  She turned things around by reading a book that helped her realize that she had the potential to create a happy, successful life for herself and that is when her turn around came. 

I have said for years, in order to combat all of the negative things that we are bombarded with on a daily basis, we have to put more good things in.  Reading is great because it allows you to take the writer's words  and develop your own mental picture of what that topic means to you!   So I am glad that Joann and I were able to discuss her company and the service that it provides to people.

Her company's mission is to help entrepreneurs and small business owners to discover, tap into and take action based on their inherent potential for success.  I wanted to know more about her practice and so I was able to chat with her about helping Pharmacy Technicians become more.  Many technicians give so much of their time and effort to help others. 

When I spoke to Joann about this issue, this is what came out of our discussion...  "We all have goals we want to accomplish regardless of the profession we're in.  Having the desire or skill to be a Pharmacy Technician is one thing.  However being able to stay on task. move to different levels within the profession and handle any adversities that come up are areas where successful coaching can be beneficial.  Also everyone needs motivation and encouragement as well."

  For more on this, there is a great article that is written for Pharmacists but there are some gems in it that apply to Pharmacy Technicians as well.

http://www.pharmacytimes.com/blogs/redheaded-pharmacist/1011/Top-Ten-Goals-for-the-Profession-of-Pharmacy#sthash.amMBRxBl.dpuf

The thing that Joann wants people to know about most is the value of a Success Partner. " Often times, entrepreneurs and goal oriented people want to be heard, supported, and motivated.  We all want to be happy, wealthy and healthy.  Sometimes our family or close friends may not really understand what it is we are trying to accomplish.  It helps to have someone in your life that will help you to  stay on track, keep us accountable toward our goals and help us to move in the direction of success." 

Live Your Potential provides success coaching through one-on-one coaching, over the phone or by email, group coaching, holding success seminars, workshops and events.   The company offers free teleclasses  a couple of times a year.

For more information on this wonderful service contact Joann any of the following ways:

JoAnn@liveyourpotential.com
LYP Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LYPSuccessCoaching
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/5/278/a01
Twitter: www.twitter.com/joannyking
BLOG: http://www.liveyourpotential.blogspot.com/

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APhTI loves Madison Gems

APhTI loves Madison Gems...

I have been able to speak with alot of entrepreneurs during the past few months.  One of the people that I have been able to speak to has her own jewelry business and since next month is February, if you are looking for the right gift for a special someone, take a look at what her company offers.

Madison Gems is an online boutique and the website is www.madisongems.com.  This company not only sells jewelry and accessories but specializes in the care of jewelry also.  The founder and CEO, is Ifeyinwa Onwualu and she is called Ify by those who know her.

The mission of her company, Madison Gems, is to provide men, women and children with opulent fashion jewelry and accessories at a guilt free price, delivered right to the client's door.

Madison Gems is an enterprise that participates in Global humanitarian efforts.   In Ify's words, "Our mission helps the profession of pharmacy by way of donating our time, talent and treasures towards charitable endeavors." Currently, her company has a line of stylish gemstone optical cases.  Being a wearer of spectacles, myself, I think this is a great service!   In addition, Madison Gems foresees a line of personalized pill boxes and pharmaceutical accessories.  So much of wellness is tied to how a person feels about themselves and her company helps people feel better about themselves and uses accessories to do it.

Ify is also a humanitarian and Madison Gems is  involved in the Mother Mary Children of Ghana Aid Foundation to help children in that country have access to education.  If you go to her website, you can find out more about this endeavor.  She possesses a Bachelors Degree in International Business and an MBA in Travel and Tourism, she sees her company being a worldwide enterprise!  I think that she is well on her way!   Each one of her pieces is hand wrapped and I am sure that this is because of her background in Hospitality.

What does she see for her business in the future?

Style enhancing classes which educate her clients on how to accessorize articles of clothing along with jewelry care classes to prolong the life of jewelry pieces.

Ify states that her favorite thing about running Madison Gems is, "the sense of accomplishment that I feel once a client's life has been impacted by the satisfaction and the added boost of confidence, they receive by accessorizing their wardrobes with my merchandise."

She is doing some great things and I hope that she finds much success!

Happy 2015

How To Study Anything Part 2

I’ve taught a lot of students…I haven’t really done a count of how many students I’ve had, but I will tell you that it’s somewhere in the thousands of students that I’ve had, and this is something that I teach my students to do. You have to chunk your material into small parts. You have to, in order to be effective and masterful!

There’s another thing that comes before all of this that I’ve just said- you need to know what type of learner that you are. I’m not talking slow and fast here; I’m talking about how your brain breaks down material. Some of us are audial learners, some of us are visual learners, and then some of us are kinesthetic learners.

 Many of us are actually a combination of two, sometimes three, rarely all three, but sometimes people are a combination of two different learning styles. You need to know how you retain information. Like for myself, I know that I am an audial learner, meaning that if you tell me something I will remember it more so than if you told me to read something, or if you tell me to do something. You know with some things I’m not the most mechanically inclined person but I’m not the least mechanically inclined person either. I mean I assembled my own distilling apparatus in chemistry, so you know, I can put things together but it’s not my strength. My strength is through my hearing; that’s me. 

So if you’re a person that’s musically inclined… if you’re a person, let’s say that you’re watching a television program and you remember the jingles of the commercials…I remember the jingles of commercials for years, for twenty and thirty years. I could tell you that when I was a child, the Breyers ice cream commercial used to scare me because it started with thundering and lightening; those things- sounds- tend to stick with me. So if I’m studying something, I’m going to want to put that in the format that my brain accepts as quickly as possible. So if it’s something that is written, I’m going to want to read that aloud. I’m going to use the other tools like Walker’s Mind Map, but I’m going to make sure that when I visit this material, I’m going to visit it through my ears because that’s the way that I retain information.

If you are audial then what you want to do is you want to read your chapter, and you want to record it. Record yourself reading that chapter, that way you can play it over and over and over again. We are in the generation where everyone has some sort of device where they’re listening to something, so why not put your notes in audio format and that way you can listen to your notes on the go. 

Now you might not be like me, you might have been the child that your mom was always saying ‘are you listening to me?’ that might be you. For example, my husband, I could talk to him all day long ( and just know in my mind that I have communicated with him) and he will retain a portion of what I said to him, but if I show it to him, he’s going to retain a greater percentage of it. He is visual; he’s actually visual and kinesthetic.  So if you are a visual learner, what you must do is you must write it out. You have to write things out so that way it trains your eye to see it, because that is the way that you retain information.

If you’re good at reading maps, if you’re good at not only reading maps but if you’re good at spatial relationships- for example if you can go to a place one time and six months later someone says to you I need you to take me to the place that you took me to six months ago, and you’re able to find that place that you went to six months ago without having gone there in the interim, then you’re probably a visual learner. You’re probably good at types of math that involve space like geometry, like trigonometry. You probably excel in those types of subjects if this is you.

So you’re going to have to write things out, you’re going to have to draw diagrams and schematics to help you to retain the information.  If you’re visual then you want to use flashcards. Flashcards are excellent for the visual learner, and the thing about flashcards that I really like is that you can get them in different colors, you can get them bound, you can them unbound, you can take them just about anywhere; they are extremely portable. 

Then we get to the kinesthetic learner. The kinesthetic learner is the one that learns by doing. They learn by doing, so you’re going to have to take what you are reading and you’re going to have to put it into that format. And you’re probably saying ‘well Vanessa, how do I do that?’ The way that you do that is you’re going to have to implement other things. You’re going to have to take field trips. You’re going to have to concentrate on anything that would allow you to put your hands on that particular thing. So you may have a little bit more work to do, as opposed to the other learning styles. 

For example, my husband is very proficient at building things, and he’s very mechanical. He is the type of person that he can look at the diagram of something, and he can go and build that particular thing because he’s visual and kinesthetic. So he works on cars, he does all of these things; he’s able to see something in its elemental parts, and then act on that and put it together. This is a good quality to have. So instead of him reading about a particular thing, he’s actually going to look to find out who’s doing that particular thing. He’ll use something like, if he wants to learn something new, instead of listening to it or instead of just reading it although he’s visual, he will go to a place like YouTube and he’ll watch them actually put it together (or take it apart). That enhances what he’s able to do because he’s visual and kinesthetic.  

The bottom line is this, when you are receiving the information, you need to adapt it into the style that will enhance your learning.  Afterward, you can develop it into the other learning styles to suit your need.

So these are the things that you should use when you are studying anything.

Hopefully this helps.

Vanessa    The APhTI Project
                                                                                                           vw@aphti.com