Julia Roberts’ Smile Enhanced Her Career;
3 Reasons Yours Can Help You
Actress Julia Roberts understands just how valuable her wide, dazzling smile is to her career. She once insured that smile for $30 million.
Not everyone would place such a high price tag on their facial expressions, but a smile can make a significant difference in anyone’s career advancement, just as Roberts’ did for her, says Dr. Jamie Reynolds (www.AskDrReynolds.com), an orthodontist, national and international lecturer and author of World Class Smiles Made in Detroit.
“A smile works on both the physical and emotional level to transfer positive feelings between two people,” Reynolds says. ”A beautiful smile can communicate a sense of well-being to those who see it.” Of course, not everyone has a brilliant smile they’re ready to show off to the world, and so they turn to whiteners, braces or other fixes to improve the look. “I’ve had some patients who are self-conscious about their smile, and it has seriously affected them,” Reynolds says. “It made them feel timid or hesitant.” And that’s not beneficial to career advancement.
Reynolds says a few ways that a winning smile is valuable in our efforts to land jobs or seek promotions include:
• A smile helps your self-esteem. Feeling good about your smile is an important component of self-esteem. “Too many people cover up their smile or stop themselves from smiling because of embarrassment over their teeth,” Reynolds says. “That’s a shame. A beautiful, healthy smile gives you the confidence to smile proudly and be yourself without hiding.” Exuding confidence is crucial to career advancement, whether you’re going in for a job interview, or trying to impress the boss in hopes of getting a raise or landing a better position in the company.
• A smile helps create a connection. Your smile puts others at ease. That can be advantageous during a job interview, which can be emotionally taxing as questions are asked and answered in a fashion that can seem like an interrogation if everyone doesn’t just relax. That smile can work wonders to ease the tension and create a connection with the person interviewing you.
• A smile conveys the message you are competent and productive. When you smile, you appear more likeable and courteous, which probably isn’t a surprise, but you also appear more competent, according to a study from Penn State. “That smile can go a long way if you’re looking for a promotion,” Reynolds says. “It will help you come across as a hardworking employee because studies have shown that happy employees are the most productive.”
“Employers care about whether you have the skills to do the job that they are interviewing you for, but they’re also trying to gauge whether you’re someone who would work well with others in the organization,” Reynolds says. “A smile helps make you seem more personable and can give you an edge on your competition.”
About Dr. Jamie Reynolds
Dr. Jamie Reynolds (www.AskDrReynolds.com) is recognized on an annual basis as one of the top orthodontists in metro Detroit. His book, World Class Smiles Made in Detroit, puts an emphasis on the many benefits of having a great smile. Reynolds – who is a national and international lecturer on high-tech digital orthodontics and practice management – attended the University of Michigan for both his undergrad education and dental studies, and did his orthodontic residency at the University of Detroit-Mercy.
=======================
The court battle challenging President Trump’s attempt to slash Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent — dismembering it into two smaller units, Indian Creek and Shash Jaa' — is just heating up, but the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is plowing ahead to create monument management plans for the reduced units.
The Bears Ears National Monument was fought for by a coalition of five Native nations, whose voices continue to ring out in defense of this precious space. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Public Lands and Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears show the power of these wild and sacred places and the many reasons to love this land. Now it’s time to share your voice in defense of the Bears Ears and the work of Tribal leaders to protect it.
The BLM is accepting comments from the public until April 11, 2018.
Submit your comment below, email it to blm_ut_monticello_monuments@blm.gov, or mail it to P.O. Box 7 Monticello, Utah 84535.
Public meetings will also be held, where you can submit a written comment:
Not sure what to say?
Learn more about the Bears Ears reduced monuments' planning process here.
Thank you for standing up for the Bears Ears.
With gratitude,
Kirsten Allen
Publisher
Torrey House Press
=============================
BLM CANCELS ILLEGAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING Meeting cancelled after legal action threatened by two advocacy groups
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – The Bureau of Land Management has cancelled the March 27-28 National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting after an attorney representing The Cloud Foundation and the American Wild Horse Campaign sent BLM a formal letter in protest of their illegal lack of appropriate public notice.
The meeting, slated to take place in Salt Lake City, was announced on March 13th, in clear violation of the requirement for 30 days of public notice prior to a public meeting in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
William A. Miller of Scottsdale, AZ, sent BLM the letter threatening legal action against the BLM on March 14, 2018. The BLM then cancelled the meeting on March 16, 2018.
“The BLM must give proper notice so that the public can have a voice on this issue that so many citizens care about,” said Miller. “We will not stand by while this agency trounces federal law in order to restrict the voice of the people and ram through yet another morally bankrupt and unscientific recommendation to kill our American mustangs.”
BLM claimed the meeting was urgent because the tenure of three board members will lapse on March 30, 2018, which still would have required at least 15 days of public notice.
“It’s difficult to understand how the lapsing tenure of these three board members could be considered an urgent matter, when we’ve known the lengths of their terms for three years,” said Lisa Friday, Director of Communications for The Cloud Foundation. “Even so, they still failed to meet the 15-day public notice requirement for urgent matters.”
At the October 2017 National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting in Grand Junction, CO, the board voted to hold the next meeting in Washington, D.C. Instead the meeting was scheduled for Salt Lake City on the home turf of pro-horse-slaughter Congressman Chris Stewart.
“It is appropriate that the BLM chose to cancel this meeting, which did not allow for the legally required amount of public notice,” said Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation
and Humane Advocate member on the National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board. “I look forward to subsequent meetings which will allow the public and the media ample time to make preparations to attend.”
Members whose terms expire on March 30, 2018 include Ms. Jennifer Sall, Public Interest Representative; Ms. June Sewing, Wild Horse & Burro Advocacy Representative; and Dr. Julie Weikel, DVM, Veterinary Medicine Representative.
###
SOURCES: BLM Meeting Cancellation: https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-postpone-national-wild-horseand-bu... Federal Advisory Committee Regulations: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/43/1784.4-2
The Cloud Foundation (TCF) is a Colorado based 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of wild horses and burros on our western public lands.