Administrative Professionals’ Day, formerly known as Secretaries’ Day, is observed annually in the United States on Wednesday of the last full week of April. Long before this holiday was first established in 1952, Mildred Elley has been on the cutting edge of training students for administrative careers in the Albany, New York area. Since Mrs. Elley began to train students in shorthand and typing skills in her Quail Street home in 1917, thousands of students have graduated from the school with the skill sets necessary to provide administrative support in a great variety of settings.
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Today I’m sitting in my chair trying to think of the best New Year’s Blog ever and it seems that everyone is writing the same blog about great New Year’s Resolutions and how to stick with them throughout the whole year. So I’m NOT going to write that blog, but rather, I’m going to write about resolutions not to make! So here are my top 10 resolutions that will probably go badly and what to try instead!
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Yesterday was the Boston Marathon. I was watching some updates yesterday afternoon and saw that one particular runner I was following had just hit the halfway point. She had run 13.1 miles, and had 13.1 ahead of her. I wondered how she was feeling. She was so close to her goal, but with all the effort she had put out, she probably felt further away than when she started.
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Week 2. How’s it going? Perhaps a few months ago you decided that you wanted to ditch your job and get a career, and here you are 2 weeks in to achieving that goal.
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The beginning of a module for a Mildred Elley student is a fresh start. It's an end to the procrastination, another chance to stay on top of the game and watch it all play out perfectly. In short, it's the deep breath before the dive.
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Topics: student success, Mildred Elley, academics, module, study habits, checklist, scheduling conflicts, motivation, organization, job search, career path, career services, office of academic support and advising, student services