Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Cleaning and care about diamonds
Cleaning and taking care of your Diamond
Diamonds are the hardest natural substance on Earth. They are uniquely resistant to damage by heat or scratching, and can be cut or polished only by another diamond. If you are not careful you can damage the diamond. An extremely hard blow to the girdle can cause a diamond to chip. By having your diamond set in a relatively protective setting, and remaining conscious of it on your finger, you can keep your diamond intact for a lifetime. Exposure during ordinary wear to perspiration and household chemicals, like chlorine and hairspray, can cause build-up that dulls the surface of a diamond. It is suggested that your diamond goes through a periodic cleaning session to preserve its brilliance and refraction.
How to take care of your diamond
To clean a diamond, always use a soft brush, mild soap and water. If you do not possess a special brush for cleaning jewellery, you can use an eyebrow or lipstick brush - these are soft, small and acceptable for cleaning purposes. Before cleaning, dissolve a mild detergent in warm water. Then place your diamond jewellery carefully in this solution. Start cleaning your diamond jewellery while holding it in the detergent solution. To rinse the diamond jewellery free of the detergent, place it in a strainer or a soft porous cloth under clean running water. After the cleaning, use a clean, lint-free cloth to dry the jewellery.
Tips
First of all, you should know that your diamond jewellery needs to be checked by a professional jeweller at least once a year. He will look through the prongs and mountings. These are the ones that hold your stone in its place. When checked properly, you can be sure that your diamond will not fall and get lost. Always try and purchase the special cleaning liquid used for jewellery cleaning. Be sure to check on the instructions if the cleaner is suitable for diamond jewellery. Today, you can also access special ultra-sonic cleansers that use high frequency waves to clean diamond jewellery. This equipment is available in various type and price ranges. So, if you find it practical to install such equipment at home, do ensure that you select the one that is most appropriate for your jewellery. Remember that only by cleaning your jewellery regularly will it keep sparkling brilliantly.
Some precautions you need to consider
When cleaning, try not to touch the stone with your fingers, and handle the diamond ring or necklace by the edges. When you do physical exercises, you should take off your diamond jewellery thus, you will also prevent it from being scratched. If you like the colour of your diamond, then make sure that it does not come into contact with household cleansers like, for example, bleach. These cleaners can not only change the colour of your diamond but the colour of the settings and mountings that hold it as well. Due to our everyday movement, diamonds on jewellery get smudged and soiled. Even if you do not wear diamond jewellery, it attracts dust. A negative impact on the diamond is made by natural human skin oils. These can cause a build-up of grime, and thus, negatively influence the lustre of the diamond.
Storing your diamond
If you do not wear your diamond jewellery for a length of time, you should store it in a jewellery box and keep it apart from other jewellery. In fact every piece of diamond jewellery should have its own, individual place. This way you will protect your diamond from being scratched as well as from damaging other diamond jewellery pieces.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
1. Where Are You and Why Are You There?
How to get promoted? First you will need to have a reference point. Ask yourself, where are you now? And why are you there? Is there any key strength that has brought you where you are now that you can continue to leverage for the next promotion? Are there any weaknesses that you really need to correct before the next promotion is possible? These questions, while simple are strategic. It allows you to check your strengths and weaknesses. It forces you to access what has worked and what will work to get you promoted.
2. Where Do You Want To Be and How Do You Get There?
You obviously need to have an objective and a plan. Just saying that you want to get promoted is not enough. You need to be clear on your next position. Is it a promotion to a different department or a different branch? Write this down.
Now that you have written this down, how do you plan to get that promotion? Develop a plan for to achieve that objective. If you are lucky, you can even work this out with your immediate boss. Most bosses do not promise that promotion at such discussions but at the very least you get an idea of what are the expectations.
ATTITUDE
3. Put Pride, Passion and Belief In Everything You Do
People who get promoted are those that have a sense of pride in their work. And they take pride in their work. They are driven by genuine enthusiasm and desire to do their best no matter how small the job. They believe in themselves and they believe in the bigger goals of their unit or department and company. How to get promoted? Ask yourself; do you conduct yourself with pride, passion and belief?
4. Back it Up with Skills/Knowledge, Direction and Action
Having pride, passion and belief is only part of how to get promoted. It must be backed up skills and knowledge. That means having the necessary skills and knowledge to do a superb job. Having a direction is important to guide that energy generated by your passion. Otherwise, effort is wasted. Without action which is the actual completion of the task, all else is academic. You will be judged by what you do.
5. See Challenges As Opportunities
Another obvious tip on how to get promoted is to see challenges as opportunities. Very often I see young executives being thrown challenging assignments, which they choose to see as an additional chore. If you want to be promoted, look at challenges as opportunities to shine. Do not complain about hard work, how hard you worked or if your assignment is tougher than your colleagues’. Trust me, no one wants to know how hard you work. In everyone’s mind, their own work is the hardest.
ACTION
6. What Is Your Part?
Know your part and play your part. What is your role? Are you an implementer? Or are you a leader? Know exactly what you need to do in order for your unit to achieve its goals. Knowing your part means being a team player. No one can succeed without help from others. We all need the support of colleagues. When the team succeeds, you succeed too.
7. Do Your Best NOW
I consider this as one of the most important tip on how to get promoted. Do your best NOW.Today. This week’s tasks and projects. Do not bask in the glory of your previous work. That is gone. In all likelihood, no one else cares about it especially your bosses. Do not think too much about future projects that are not implemented yet. That is in the future. It is not here yet. Focus on DOING your best NOW. It determines how you are being judged. When you reflect too much on the past and think too much about the future, you forget to focus on the NOW.
8. Do More Than Necessary
If you want to know how to get promoted, do more than the necessary. That means volunteering for work and taking the initiative to make a job better. It also means not sitting around waiting for work to come to you. Bosses like people who can help them solve problems. Even if the problem is not yours, but if you feel you can be of help and have the expertise to solve it, then volunteer to help. You become the team’s competitive advantage when you do that. And bosses like people who give their unit an advantage over the others. Helping your team stay ahead is then helping you stay ahead too.
9. Do Work from The Next Level Up
If you continue doing work for your current position then you truly deserve your current position. People who know how to get promoted know that if you want the position next level up, you start doing some of those work from that level now. If you are a senior executive now, do some work that is only expected of an assistant manager (assuming that is the next level up). This allows you to demonstrate that you are capable of that position already.
Obviously, there are zillions of tips out there on how to get promoted. These are some of those that I deem to be obvious and not practiced enough by career success seeking newbies. Putting these into practice would greatly increase your chances of a promotion.
How to get promoted? First you will need to have a reference point. Ask yourself, where are you now? And why are you there? Is there any key strength that has brought you where you are now that you can continue to leverage for the next promotion? Are there any weaknesses that you really need to correct before the next promotion is possible? These questions, while simple are strategic. It allows you to check your strengths and weaknesses. It forces you to access what has worked and what will work to get you promoted.
2. Where Do You Want To Be and How Do You Get There?
You obviously need to have an objective and a plan. Just saying that you want to get promoted is not enough. You need to be clear on your next position. Is it a promotion to a different department or a different branch? Write this down.
Now that you have written this down, how do you plan to get that promotion? Develop a plan for to achieve that objective. If you are lucky, you can even work this out with your immediate boss. Most bosses do not promise that promotion at such discussions but at the very least you get an idea of what are the expectations.
ATTITUDE
3. Put Pride, Passion and Belief In Everything You Do
People who get promoted are those that have a sense of pride in their work. And they take pride in their work. They are driven by genuine enthusiasm and desire to do their best no matter how small the job. They believe in themselves and they believe in the bigger goals of their unit or department and company. How to get promoted? Ask yourself; do you conduct yourself with pride, passion and belief?
4. Back it Up with Skills/Knowledge, Direction and Action
Having pride, passion and belief is only part of how to get promoted. It must be backed up skills and knowledge. That means having the necessary skills and knowledge to do a superb job. Having a direction is important to guide that energy generated by your passion. Otherwise, effort is wasted. Without action which is the actual completion of the task, all else is academic. You will be judged by what you do.
5. See Challenges As Opportunities
Another obvious tip on how to get promoted is to see challenges as opportunities. Very often I see young executives being thrown challenging assignments, which they choose to see as an additional chore. If you want to be promoted, look at challenges as opportunities to shine. Do not complain about hard work, how hard you worked or if your assignment is tougher than your colleagues’. Trust me, no one wants to know how hard you work. In everyone’s mind, their own work is the hardest.
ACTION
6. What Is Your Part?
Know your part and play your part. What is your role? Are you an implementer? Or are you a leader? Know exactly what you need to do in order for your unit to achieve its goals. Knowing your part means being a team player. No one can succeed without help from others. We all need the support of colleagues. When the team succeeds, you succeed too.
7. Do Your Best NOW
I consider this as one of the most important tip on how to get promoted. Do your best NOW.Today. This week’s tasks and projects. Do not bask in the glory of your previous work. That is gone. In all likelihood, no one else cares about it especially your bosses. Do not think too much about future projects that are not implemented yet. That is in the future. It is not here yet. Focus on DOING your best NOW. It determines how you are being judged. When you reflect too much on the past and think too much about the future, you forget to focus on the NOW.
8. Do More Than Necessary
If you want to know how to get promoted, do more than the necessary. That means volunteering for work and taking the initiative to make a job better. It also means not sitting around waiting for work to come to you. Bosses like people who can help them solve problems. Even if the problem is not yours, but if you feel you can be of help and have the expertise to solve it, then volunteer to help. You become the team’s competitive advantage when you do that. And bosses like people who give their unit an advantage over the others. Helping your team stay ahead is then helping you stay ahead too.
9. Do Work from The Next Level Up
If you continue doing work for your current position then you truly deserve your current position. People who know how to get promoted know that if you want the position next level up, you start doing some of those work from that level now. If you are a senior executive now, do some work that is only expected of an assistant manager (assuming that is the next level up). This allows you to demonstrate that you are capable of that position already.
Obviously, there are zillions of tips out there on how to get promoted. These are some of those that I deem to be obvious and not practiced enough by career success seeking newbies. Putting these into practice would greatly increase your chances of a promotion.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
GSI Launches Minisite for Indian Jewelry Industry
GSI Launches Minisite for Indian Jewelry Industry
Gemological Science International (GSI) has launched its first minisite, http://www.gsiindia.net/, dedicated specifically to the Indian jewelry industry. GSI has been in India since 2006 and its business now serves both export and local sectors, according to CEO Mark Gershburg.
"The minisite concept has been used by many non-jewelry companies. We believe this is its first application in the jewelry industry," says Mr. Gershburg. "This approach allows us to offer more Indian-directed services online without overcomplicating our main site. It also shows our dedication and strong belief in the future of the Indian jewelry industry." In support of the Indian industry, including those looking to enter it, the GSI-India minisite provides information and services that are unique for a gem lab. For example, it offers a list of Indian suppliers of equipment and services along with directories of Indian jewelry associations, trade publications, and retail jewelers all over the country.
"Practically anything that can be done in the lab can be done by our MobilLab," says Mr. Gershburg. "It creates economic and efficiency advantages throughout the gemstone/jewelry supply chain."
GSI's customers in India, or elsewhere, also have the unique benefit of viewing their actual reports online, rather than just as data. Another one-of-a-kind feature allows GSI customers to track the progress of their goods in the lab in real time.
Gemological Science International (GSI) has launched its first minisite, http://www.gsiindia.net/, dedicated specifically to the Indian jewelry industry. GSI has been in India since 2006 and its business now serves both export and local sectors, according to CEO Mark Gershburg.
"The minisite concept has been used by many non-jewelry companies. We believe this is its first application in the jewelry industry," says Mr. Gershburg. "This approach allows us to offer more Indian-directed services online without overcomplicating our main site. It also shows our dedication and strong belief in the future of the Indian jewelry industry." In support of the Indian industry, including those looking to enter it, the GSI-India minisite provides information and services that are unique for a gem lab. For example, it offers a list of Indian suppliers of equipment and services along with directories of Indian jewelry associations, trade publications, and retail jewelers all over the country.
"Practically anything that can be done in the lab can be done by our MobilLab," says Mr. Gershburg. "It creates economic and efficiency advantages throughout the gemstone/jewelry supply chain."
GSI's customers in India, or elsewhere, also have the unique benefit of viewing their actual reports online, rather than just as data. Another one-of-a-kind feature allows GSI customers to track the progress of their goods in the lab in real time.
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