However, sometimes, we desperately need a vacation, and we can’t always bring our dogs with us, since airlines don’t have the best pet accommodations. This is where a dog sitter’s duty comes in. It is our job to care for these dogs while their owners are gone. As a professional dog sitter, I realized a few life lessons these animals taught me that helped me in the long run....
Abstract thinking refers to our ability to understand complex concepts that don’t rely directly on our physical senses. Such thinking relies on our capacity to hold frameworks and models in our minds of how the world works. The ability for abstract thinking is so necessary for our increasingly complex and digitalized world—where our physical senses are not nearly sufficient to lead us in the right direction. The key to abstract thinking comes from metacognition—our ability to understand our own mental processes....
For the past few days, she’s been asking the people around her – kids, friends, co-workers – what they think makes life worth living, and the answers have been pretty much of a sort: family, friends, work, music, some possession or other, faith, maybe health. Computer games. Although these answers aren’t necessarily trivial, they strike me as very unsatisfying answers to the question “What makes life wort living?” What about family, friends, work, etc....
What’s your Protein IQ?
The question posed to Weinstein was as follows: What is the difference between asking, “What would you do?” and “What should you do?” To me, this is a very intriguing, yet simple discussion on ethics and morality. Let’s take a quick look at Weinstein’s answer. Psychological vs Ethical Weinstein informs us that the first part of the question, “What would you do?” is a psychological question. He informs us that psychology explains why we do what we do....
Constipation can strike out of the blue – but it’s often for very simple reasons. Diet is a major cause, particularly when you haven’t been eating enough fiber or drinking enough water.[1] Other causes include a disruption to your normal bowel routine, such as not going to the bathroom often enough. This sort of disruption can occur with traveling or even being in a sedentary desk job. Lack of activity can have a major impact on your bowel regularity....
Medication is important and you should consult your doctors whenever you want to stop it. The good news is apart from medication, there are other things you can do that are proven to help. First of All, What’s Polycystic Ovary Syndrome? Polycystic Ovary Syndrome occurs when the female hormones estrogen and progesterone are out of balance. Additionally, the body produces too much of the male hormone androgen. This hormonal imbalance causes numerous cysts to grow on the ovaries....
What Are Cordless Impact Drivers? The cordless impact driver is a professional hand tool that helps handymen quickly and easily grip for handling in the drywall construction. Furthermore, the torque in the motors has high efficiency, which will progress your work quickly. In addition, a cordless impact driver usually has metallic gears and worm detectors with an electronic switch lock button which is capable of continuous operation, but the machine still ensures the safety for the user....
What Energy Drinks Really Are Starting with Red Bull’s tepid introduction to the U.S. in the late 1990s, energy drinks have gained a tremendous amount of steam—largely because most energy drinks were originally marketed as dietary supplements. As such, they were virtually free from FDA regulations. Because those energy drinks weren’t forced to include the caffeine content and other ingredients on their cans, people naturally assumed that these drinks were perfectly safe....
Have you ever heard of the Myers and Briggs personality test? It is a psychology test that Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers designed to approach personality, how people perceive the world, and make their decisions. It actually opens up your eyes about yourself because you start to realize that not everyone has the same thought process and decision making process that you do. It has become the gold standard of psychological assessments, used in businesses, government agencies and educational institutions....
(As an aside I’ll wager that the times good advice is taken is pretty similar to the number of times the advice matched what the person receiving the advice wanted to do in the first place! But that’s very much an aside to my main point!) The point is this: it’s always easier to solve other people’s problems than your own. Admit it, you know it is. It’s the way coaching works, after all....
More often than not, prevailing wisdom and general laziness lead us to try and take powerful, albeit bloated applications like Outlook and attempt to make them work for us. We learn all the bells and whistles, ignore what we don’t want to use and try to manage our contacts, calendars, tasks and email all in one place. And if you are reading this, chances are that this approach did not work for you either....
In this article, we’re going to explore why and how you should listen to your gut, as well as some concrete tips on how to make sure you’re making the most out of your gut instincts. How to Listen to Your Gut The key when making any big decision is to always take a minute to listen well to yourself and your inner compass. If you hear your actual voice saying yes while inside you’re silently screaming no, my advice is to ask for some time to think, or simply take a breath and pause before the yes or no escapes your mouth....
– Ben Barrett-Forrest Many believe that typography was created by Johannes Gutenberg, who modelled his font Blackletter on the handwriting of scribes. However, when printed Blackletter often looked squished when printed although the idea of fonts caught on as it took a lot less time than handwriting. In the 15th Century, Frenchman Nicholas Jenson created Roman Type which quickly spread throughout Europe due to the renaissance. In the 18th Century many new styles of typography were created, including Caslon which is regarded as Old Style, Baskerville which is Traditional, and Didot and Bononi which are regarded as Modern....
Personally, I always get annoyed when doctors or dentists ask me how many glasses of coffee or tea I drink in a week because there is such a drastic difference between the two. For doctors trying to calculate your caffeine intake, it’s wildly inaccurate to compare white tea to coffee and soda. In fact, tea can reduce the chance of heart attacks and a number of cancers. For dentists, the question is even more ridiculous because while black tea can stain teeth, it still has fluoride, which can strengthen teeth -and if you’re drinking white or green tea, there’s no disadvantage when it comes to the health of your teeth....
Not only is a five hour workday stress relieving, employees are able to produce and put out better quality of work. Read to find out more reasons as to the benefits of a five hour workday and its ability of boost a company’s productivity standards. 1. It gives time to reenergize Energy is one of the most important things an employee or worker can have. A five hour workday is just the right amount of time for one to accomplish tasks without feeling overworked and getting everything done as well....
What Is A Hiccup? A hiccup, medically speaking, is also known as a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF) or singulitis. It is an involuntary movement of the diaphragm, the muscle which separates the lungs from the abdominal area. The small “hic” sound that you hear is because when the diaphragm does contract, it causes the vocal chords to close abruptly, which makes the typically hiccupping noise. Babies can do this anywhere from 4 to 60 times a minute!...
Although some manifestos are a bit extreme, the definition of manifesto from the Oxford American Dictionary is simply this: While you may never go into politics or try to take over the world, writing a manifesto is a great way to Clarify your beliefs Examine your motivations Create personal “policies” Describe what kind of world you’d like to live in Write down your goals Distilling these “policies and aims” down on paper helps you think about what you truly want out of life, which in turn helps you:...
In this article, you will find insight into why you need a strategy for your goals and examples of what you should include in your goals strategy. What Is a Goals Strategy? A goals strategy is an approach you take to achieve your set goals[1]. It is a plan of action and a set of tactics you deploy to ensure that you accomplish the things you set out to do....
