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Starting an Email Empathetically During Difficult Times

S tarting off your message, it may be useful to first consider your reader or recipients more deeply. How do you think they are presently, actually feeling? If you were in their position, what kind of help or advice would be useful, right now?  After thinking deeply about your reader’s thoughts and feelings, you will notice a real shift to the mindset of displaying empathy in your message. If you’re still a little doubtful, here are some empathetic ways to word your initial greeting without sounding corny or false.   I hope you and your family are holding up, well.  Starting off your email with good wishes is a way to immediately acknowledge your recipient’s feelings or hardships. Since it’s been an exceptionally challenging time for everyone lately, you are showing that you are aware that they might be affected more than usual. It’s also good to offer good wishes a second time in the email, either in the body paragraphs or as your closing. Not only do they establish a pe...

SHE WAS CALLED "THE VIRGIN QUEEN"

 Elizabeth,1, was the only British queen never to marry. Privy Councillors and MP's expected her to marry in order to secure the succession, and dozens of foreign princes and English noblemen wanted to marry her. Elizabeth, however, kept her thoughts on the subject private, which led to much speculation as to why she never did marry.  One particular suitor, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, was a particularly amorous, and good-looking courtier and while she spent copious amounts of time with him, leading to people thinking they were in love, there was a big problem in boughs, since he was already married. When his wife was suddenly and mysteriously found dead one morning, there were rumors and a hot scandal soon erupted.  This led to Elizabeth's withdrawal from Dudley's ambitious advances as her reputation and position as queen were under serious threat. Another prominent courtier in 1560 was King Philip of Spain, who proposed to her. He was a Catholic who had been ma...

WE ARE NOT ALONE 2020

LAW AGAINST WEARING A MASK IN S A AS A DEMONSTRATOR

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