I designed and teach this six-week online course through Education2Go.com, the world's largest provider of continuing education coursework.  A new class starts each month, 12 months out of the year.  Each lesson includes two hours' worth of reading (which you can download), assignments, quizzes, recommended reading, and annotated links to great journaling resources, as well as a discussion forum.  I personally respond to all questions/comments in the forums within one business day.

Curious about the class content?  Here's just a sampling what you will learn in this course:

• What journaling really is; the differences between a diary and a journal
• Why reflection matters and 100 benefits of journaling
• Types of journals, writing tools, paper, journaling software, and blogging programs
• A 7-step journaling process to get you writing now
• An in-depth look at different kinds of writing prompts, including freewriting, timed writing, listmaking, sentence starters, dialogues, and unsent letters
• Making your journals more creative through papermaking, altered books, and scrapbooking/cardmaking techniques
• The difference between journaling thoughts and feelings; how to protect your journal for posterity; safeguarding your confidentiality
• The difference between emotions and feelings; how to enhance your emotional intelligence through journaling
• The creative process and how journaling can be used to deepen your creativity
• The Cycle of Career & Life Change; how to leverage journaling to weather life's unexpected storms
• An introduction to dream journaling, dream interpretation, and understanding symbols, metaphors, images, and dreams
• The Career Development process and a new way of thinking about your "career"
• How to utilize your journal to help you design resumes, prepare for a job search or career change, select a college major, and advance your career
• How to ensure a healthy lifelong journaling habit

As you can see, Introduction to Journaling is extremely comprehensive.  In fact, I'm not exaggerating when I say it is more comprehensive than most journaling books!  My students consistently tell me they received much more information and resources than they ever expected to receive in this course.  And most pledge to save their course materials for use as a reference text throughout the balance of their lives.  Now, is that a bargain, or what?!

If all this isn't enough to convince you to join me for the next online session of Introduction to Journaling, then sample a few of these testimonials:

"I adored this course and finished with an unexpected wealth of knowledge and tools not only relevant to journaling but also for coping with life! I highly recommend this course with Cheryl Simpson to all writers and non-writers. Her teaching methods feel more like conversations with an old friend, rather than lesson plans. Thank you once again."

"I especially loved all the web site references and resources for more learning and fun. The content of this course was way over my expectations and I have so much yet to process and use again and again. I never caught up with all the assignments yet that is ok because this is really an ongoing experience. The instructor's knowledge and skill is awesome and so complete. Great course!"

"Cheryl, this class is giving me so many new insights on journaling that I cannot thank you enough. Every week I am overjoyed on Wednesday and Friday as some new information enters my life."

Class start dates in Winter, 2007 include:

• January 17th
• February 21st
• March 21st

To read a more comprehensive outline, peruse more than 70 testimonials, or sign-up, visit Introduction to Journaling.  By the way, ITJ costs just $99 or $119, depending on how you enroll.  Happy journaling!

Do you know the difference between the Visible Job Market and the Hidden Job Market?  Do you know why the difference matters, what impact each has on your job search, and how to penetrate each?  If you don't, then let me warn you that your job search is in big trouble.

Just yesterday I met with a highly educated businessman - a CEO in fact - who's been job searching unsuccessfully for over two years. In that time he's applied to hundreds of jobs online, yet landed very few interviews and no job offers.  He doesn't lack skills or education ... he just has no idea how to job search, and unbeknownst to him,  he's been doing everything wrong.  His savings account is drastically depleted and he's fast losing hope and ideas.  He has no idea what to do next.

Does any part of that story sound like yours?  If so, please do yourself, your job search, and your bank account a tremendous favor, and take a closer look at this five-lesson online course.  Guerrilla Job Search in 30 Days or Less will teach you everything you need to know to makeover your job search from the ground up.  You'll learn how to:

• Assess your skills, personality, and values and weave them into your resume/cover letter
• Strategically describe your scope of experience and craft a killer Career Summary for your resume
• Optimize and redesign your Word, text, and web resume (and do the same with your cover letter, including the all-important "T" column cover letter)
• Balance your job search with the rest of your life without sacrificing your family or yourself
• Make strategic use of both Visible/Hidden Job Market penetration tactics with my exclusive Job Search Action Planner

Each lesson includes supplemental links, worksheets, and a discussion forum.  As with my Introduction to Journaling class, I personally respond to all forum postings within one business day.  You'll also get unlimited email coaching from me as your personal Career/Job Search Coach.

Consider this:  I charge $125 per hour to teach these skills to my clients one-on-one.  If I taught you all this course entails in individual sessions, it would take at least 10 hours to do so, or more than $1,000, which makes Guerrilla Job Search in 30 Days or Less a tremendous bargain at just $99.  And it's currently priced at 60% off at just $39.  Check out the course syllabus and your enrollment options at UniversalClass.com, the provider I use to host this class.  See you online!