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Self-Improvement Is Not a One-Off Goal
By: Adrian S. Potter
Tags: Personal Development, Self Improvement, Habit Building, Self Development, Habits

Willpower by itself is often not enough to successfully integrate new positive habits in our lives.

We can all look to the litany of our forgotten New Year’s resolutions, abandoned weight loss goals, and failed cold turkey attempts to quit questionable addictions as proof — determination cannot be the sole ingredient in the recipe for altering our behaviors.

So how can we go about building new habits fast? One way is by “habit stacking.”

Our minds are already conditioned to perform our existing habits. Those behaviors have established strong connections within our mental processes. Think about things like taking a morning shower, opening curtains at dawn, or starting each day with a cup of coffee. These are daily activities many of us do reflexively, with little if any thought.

These existing practices present a fantastic opportunity for us to effectively create new ones. When it comes to developing new habits, we can shrewdly leverage the power of our current behaviors to our advantage. Think of it as a “cheat code” for our personal development.
How to build successful long lasting habits.
By: Dilan Espinosa
Tags: Health, Habit Building, Growth Mindset, Learning, Life Lessons

Google, “Top 10 Habits of Multi-Millionaires” and I’m sure you’ll find an endless supply of websites telling you to read, exercise, wake up early, yoga, eat healthy… you know the deal. I’ve tried to implement some of these habits myself and I’ve researched how long it take its form a habit. There’s websites that will tell you 30 days all the way till 6 months.

Our body loves routine.

That’s not the point. The point is, we’ve all been in that situation where we fall back on our new habit challenge of let’s just say eating healthier. You decided to grab that New Popeyes chicken sandwich everyone has been raving about. Now you feel guilty and stop after a week.

Here’s the deal. When it comes to instilling new habits within our daily lives, we make them seem daunting when in fact, we don’t have to do that at all. Set yourself up to win. Make it easier for yourself. Make it a game. How to do that?

Do one small thing a day.

It can be the tiniest, most little thing possible that gets you closer to your goal.

For example, going to the gym. Instead of making up a story in your head about exercising for the next hour, sweating you balls off at the gym, try telling yourself “ All I have to do is go to the gym”. Even if it’s stepping one foot into the facility. BOOM. You hit your goal for the day. Now the next day, improve 1% better. Try doing 1 exercise. That’s it. You’ve completed your goal. Then from there improve on that and so on.

This mentality and perspective will make it a lot easier for you to build the successful habits you’ve longed for and in the long run you’ll quickly realize it’s been instilled automatically.
How to Form a Gameday Mentality in your Everyday Life
By: Benny Dimirco
Tags: Health, Mental Health, Habit Building, Mentality, Performance

What are three things you would tell your 20-year-old self and why?

I would start off by telling myself to have tunnel vision and to focus on being the best version of myself. After that to be the best teammate/leader you can be. Not just try but to understand, understand the personalities and settings. I was always a super-disciplined leader and it’s rubbed off on some incredibly well, but also has made others feel guarded around me. With that being said to become a little more relatable, especially to the guys who admire my work ethic but to also maintain that chip on your shoulder mentality. Lastly, I would tell myself to read more. I’ve learned great leaders are great learners. Being aware of whats going on in the world is going to help you grow as a person, leader, athlete etc.

The Daily Endurance club is a blog created to empower others to live their best and healthiest lives. The mission of this blog serves as my personal wellness initiative and will be full of updates and interviews constructed to help others either begin their transformation or simply add tweaks for their peak performance.

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How to Start it? (it being anything)
By: Abhay Chopra
Tags: Habit Building, Personal Development, Startup, Motivation

Starting something is so TOUGH. Starting anything, either it is a Blog or even beginning to learn something new or starting a new habit or anything, is so difficult. But the main thing I want you all to remember is that :

CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY, So KEEP TRYING NO MATTER WHAT!!

This is a Poster of an Idea I am planning to launch in Jan 2020

There are a lot of ideas and plans I want to implement to make my life better and achieve what I always want to accomplish in life. But what stops me or what stops us from doing that thing which we want to do to make something, according to me the following are those factors:

Fear of Failure

Judgment by Society, Friends & Family

Thinking that it might be a Big Risk

So, what should we do to have a great start or a start from which we are motivated for future related tasks? These Following things can be done:

Facing the Fear: When Starting something new, there are a lot of things that can attract fear. You might be afraid of mistakes, and it’s fine to be scared. It’s part of the process, but accepting it and getting over it eventually is essential.

When Starting something new, there are a lot of things that can attract fear. You might be afraid of mistakes, and it’s fine to be scared. It’s part of the process, but accepting it and getting over it eventually is essential. Managing Everything: While you can plan to start something new, you should keep this in mind to not lose control over the past things. Make some extra time for new ideas without interrupting the old stuff.

While you can plan to start something new, you should keep this in mind to not lose control over the past things. Make some extra time for new ideas without interrupting the old stuff. Break into Steps: Everyone Dream Big and they should, but you can’t build a mansion in just one day, or you can’t fill the ocean in one day. Everything is done slowly, so break your process into small steps or goals to keep track of them, which will help you stay motivated.

So at the end stay Motivated and be Consistent with your task. If you falter, take a breather, then come back to the task with renewed determination. If you fail, do your best to figure out what went wrong and try a new approach.

When you’ve finished the first step, it’ll be time to take the second. The finish line awaits.

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Habit Of Running
By: Nirali Patel Jivani
Tags: Run, Health, Habit Building, Habits, Running

Habit changes your life and thinking toward life…

After so many years I did not feel that a small step in your life is a very big step.

Lots of people said that please do something new in your life daily. But do you have a question about how to start?

I have been trying to write for a long time but I still don’t get any topics. Then suddenly I remembered that I should write something about habit. I should explain it to everyone.

Running Change Every Thing

There is no quick way to suddenly change your life. You should try. Let’s talk about my habit. What a step I took and made a habit in my life. This habit is going on.

“Running” is becoming my habit.

Yes, you read correctly. My habit is Running.

Everyone has a different running style, but ultimately, the goal is for us to put as little effort as possible, become as efficient as possible, and without getting injured, all this time!

I read a lot about Running, Health, Nutrition, and many more. Just start running and fall to love with it. I love Running.

Actually, Running doesn’t come naturally to all of us, however, it’s something that we are never exactly taught. Whether you’re completely new to running or a seasoned runner, After Starting Running I Realized The Benefits Of Running are Very huge.

Here are some benefits of running

Running is improve health Running Boost our confidence level Reduce Stress Burn plenty of kilocalories Strengthen muscles Sleep better Running improve our immunity
Consider Your Social Media Habits
By: Bennett Z. Tuleja
Tags: Time, Habit Building, Habits, Phone Addiction, Social Media

What would you do if you had an extra 16 hours per week?

For most people, that’s two full work days. Certainly plenty of time to take on a new passion project or a side hustle. Or perhaps you could use those hours to spend more quality time with friends and loved ones. With all this new free time you have, the possibilities are endless.

You may be saying to yourself, that sounds all good and well… but where am I actually going to get these extra 16 hours a week from? Survey says (yes, that was a Family Feud reference)… potentially, the time you’re spending on social media.

According to statistics, worldwide the average person spends 145 minutes a day on social media. Do the math, and the average person is spending 16+ hours per week scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and so on.

That is the average week. Let’s extrapolate further — if the average person is spending 16 hours per week, that means in a year, the average person is spending 832 hours, or about 34 days on social media. In a lifetime, we’re talking years. It is incredible how the little things we do every day compound over time.

While the statistics certainly have shock value, this is not to suggest that we should all simply delete our accounts and go cold-turkey. Social media definitely has its place in society. However, like many things, there is a point of diminishing return with social media. If 16 hours a week is our collective average, we may be surpassing that point.

It goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyways: your time is immensely valuable. If you think you might be spending too much of your time on social media, I hope this article inspires you to evaluate your habits. Go to your settings and check your screen time. If you feel you’re spending more time than you’d like to on social media, here are some ideas on how you can cut down.
How to Build habits (The Right Way)
Tags: Howto, Habit Building, Habits For Success, Habits

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” — Brian Tracy

Photo by Prophsee Journals on Unsplash

The secret to having a great life is in your habits

As James clear mentions in his book Atomic habits, you can build good habits by following the habit Model which is a cue (an external or an internal trigger to any action with the potential for reward) leading to the craving (the feeling that motivates you to take action)then the response (which is the action you are supposed to take), and finally the reward( which actually satisfies the craving).

Let's say that you want to start drinking more water so you heard that putting it somewhere near you will help. now let's apply James clear habit model, so let's assume you put a jar of water near your bed, while going to bed you see it, it triggers your brain to drink the water so you crave it and then you take the action of getting up and drinking it and finally the reward which is all the good nitty stuff you get from drinking more water,

So by following this model you can build a habit as mentioned in atomic habits by:

Making the cue obvious: To start the behavior you want, look for external stimuli you can maximize (even for a while) to triggering a specific habit, and likewise if you want to get rid of a habit remove or minimize that external trigger.

Making the craving attractive: A great way to develop good habits is not to think about what you’re giving up for it, but rather focus on what you get to enjoy.

Making the response easier: to make sure that the action that you’re trying to turn into a habit is actually something that you can do on a regular basis. and remember the easier the response the easier it will become for you to repeat it,

and the reward satisfying: give your self a reward once that action is done even a bar of chocolate will make a difference as Charles Duhigg mentions in his book The Power of Habit this reinforces the habit loop and your brain will see it as something enjoyable rather than seeing it as a daunting thing,

Habits shape behaviors, behaviors shape life outcomes. The first step to success is having the right habits.

Photo by Prophsee Journals on Unsplash

and the final way of building a good habit is by tying it to our identity, it is one thing to say I want something and it is a whole new level to say I am this, Who we are drives everything we do. so if you want to make a lasting change you need to ask yourself who you want to be.

Few things to remember is that to make these habits stick :

Don’t focus too much on the end goal: don't look for a quick route to get where you want to be but start small and keep building it up.

Do a monthly/weekly review: this will keep you accountable and at the same time help you see where you are at with your goals.

P.s if this article made you think differently give it a clap and if you want to see more check out my blog.
How To Find The “ One Big Domino “ That Solve Most Of Your Problems
By: Kenneth Gabor
Tags: Personal Development, Self Improvement, Habit Building, Habits, Productivity

Do you always make excuses?

If only I was lucky.

If only I were better looking

If only I am more talented.

If only I am more capable.

If only I can make it.

You blame your frustration, failures, defeats into something that is out of your control.

You feel like you are a victim of fate, you feel helpless.

The weather sucks! If only it was better I would not lose the race.

A black cat crosses my path! If only he did not, I would be lucky and win.

If I was wearing my lucky red polka dot underwear, I could have made it through the next round.

I know it`s tiring to make excuses, to feel like you lost control over your life. You wish you can turn things around.

Start new.

Start fresh.

If only you can find that one thing in your life.

“One Big Domino” that can fix, solve, dealt, and have a positive knock-on effect on all aspects of life, to help you succeed in whatever your goals were.

And YES, you can find it! Take my hand and let me show you how:

Example Of “One Big Domino”

Your ” One Big Domino ” could be struggling with low self-esteem, confidence, discipline, being short-tempered and other countless issues.

For me personally, I should work on getting things done and stop procrastination.

It would have a positive effect on all other aspects of my life.

If only I can get stuff done and stop procrastinating, I would:

Be more productive with a short period of time.

I`d go to bed early, have a quality sleep that would make me more physically and mentally aware the next day.

I won`t hate myself for being such a lazy ass, I won`t feel frustrated and defeated anymore.

I can still have time to exercise every day, rather than sitting around and doing nothing.

I can spend more time with my family.

I can get more out of life.

All this just by getting things done and stop procrastinating.

Finding Your Own Domino

Now that you made it this far, Its time to find your own domino!

To find your own ” One big domino ” ask yourself this simple question:

What is the one thing that can greatly improve all aspect of your life?

Now that you found it, create a plan on how you can improve.

Then give it a big push by taking action and watch everything fall into place.

Do you want to change your life for the better?

Yes, you can!

Do you want to improve all aspect of your life?

Yes, you can!

You can do it, I know you can. Its time for a change.

Let`s Go!
Habits forever
By: Arun Sathian
Tags: Habit Building, Personal Development, Feedback

Our day to day life is a set of actions performed by us and things happening in our surroundings. At some extent, our actions can control things happening in our surroundings and define the boundaries of our surroundings.

action => habit

When will our actions become habits? When we keep repeating the same actions, at one point in time we will experience an inner push or unconscious trigger to perform the action. From there it is no longer an “action” for you, it is your “habit”!!.

How we can cultivate a habit?

Unfortunately, there is no short cut to achieve this. We need to make the habit as part of our routine with discipline. Experiments are saying we need 40 days approximately to build a habit.

Do we really need 40 days to construct a habit?

For us, some habits take place within a week. some habits may take two or three weeks.

For me, it took one month to build a regular reading habit. I played a video game for two weeks and that is now a habit of me.

How this habit construction period varies with respect to habit?

Every action will give a “kick” back to us. We should be able to consume or enjoy the “kick”(feedback). If we are able to enjoy that, obviously we will go for it again. So we should have a clear picture of what is the feedback we are expecting out of a habit and how we going to enjoy it.

Instant feedback and delayed feedback

Some habits give feedback right there. Some habits give feedback after weeks. Some habits will give both instant feedback and delayed feedback. For example, in gym people will sweat right there(instant feedback). Some people will enjoy that sweat. But some people will really look for the shaping of their muscles(delayed feedback), which will take months to happen. Since they are not enjoying instant feedback, there is a high chance to break the habit. If they don’t have enough patience or discipline, ready to enjoy the instant feedback is the only way to keep up the habit alive.

Every habit will give hundreds of feedback! identify them and consume it as much as possible. It helps you to build a strong bond with the habit.

Enjoy your actions!

cheers!!
B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits, and Elements of Behavioral Change
By: Health Tech Hub
Tags: Behavior, Habit Building, Healthcare, Medicine, Health Technology

Thesis 1: Frameworks for Behavioral Change are underutilized in Medicine.

Thesis 2: The topic of Behavioral Change is not well covered in Medical Education.

Frameworks for behavioral change continue to be an underutilized tool in medicine. Promotion of behavioral/lifestyle changes can potentially lead to safer and more natural chronic health management than consideration of medications alone. But how can physicians provide more practical education to their patients regarding behavioral change?

While their likely is not a one-size-fits-all solution to this, I was interested in thinking about the basic elements of behavioral change when I stumbled upon Behavioral Expert and Director of Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits, Behavior Grid, and Behavior Wizard.

A look at the Behavior Grid:

Whether it’s starting a new behavior, maintaining a behavior, increasing/decreasing a behavior’s intensity, or stopping an existing behavior, there are independent paths that one can take to reach their goal:

Fogg’s Basic Elements of Behavioral Change:

Triggers- how can you create more/less triggers in your daily environment to proceed with the desired behavioral change? Ability- how can you improve your skills/knowledge/education to alter your ability to proceed with the desired behavioral change? Motivation- how can you modify your intrinsic motivation and identify the strongest positive/negative consequences of making the desired behavior change?

Essentially, once you’ve identified the habit that you would like to change, the basic elements above open doors for thinking about how to make a habit change easier for you.

Check out this fun and easy interactive website: the behavioral wizard to try modifying a behavior for yourself!

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The tools described by B.J. Fogg are just one of the many frameworks that one can look at when thinking about Behavior Change. But the more tools that people are aware of, the more power to create the changes they want to see in themselves and in others.

Other thoughts:

Patients should be given a designated opportunity to discuss tiny habit changes and should be educated on how they can make specific lifestyle changes

Common triggers for health-related behavioral change should be well-covered in medical school as well as persuasive motivational techniques.

for health-related behavioral change should be well-covered in medical school as well as persuasive techniques. Ability (for behavioral change) likely requires cultural and community infrastructure changes in order to create healthier habits (i.e. healthier food options at affordable prices, family education on nutrition/exercise, access to gyms and other sites of recreation, etc.)

In my next post, I want to take a look at how community infrastructure affects population health and how people can be involved in making their own communities healthier.
How to Form a Habit
By: Jeffery Do
Tags: Habit Building, Habits

Post of the day: 12 days in.

Over the last 2 months, I’ve been on an ABSOLUTELY amazed by how many habits I was able to pick up.

I picked up the habit of:

playing guitar

drawing

flossing my teeth

going to the gym

writing

programming

waking up early

I’m getting ready for a 10 mile run for the Presidio10, and I’m making a ton of progress on an app I’ve been working on.

In the past, I’ve tried soo hard to start good habits. I’d eat snacks for meals. I would sign up for a gym membership, and end up going once. I’d train for a triathlon for 3 months and only go to the gym 2/3 times a week. In the end, I failed the swim portion of the race miserably. I’d write daily for 2 months, but then I stopped completely… I dropped the habit for years… for years…

But now I write every day!

And I’m incredibly happy about that!

Starting habits were not easy for me. But now I’ve gained the skill of building habits. After a couple of months, I think it’s safe to say that MISSION: LEARN TO HABIT, was a success. And now I can safely continue habits as I please with minimal effort required. I’ve even started telling people that I’ve begun the habit of starting habits.

In the past, I’ve tried to complete that mission but failed miserably. I read a bunch of articles and books on the subject, but nothing worked. Until I was recommended this gem. And It’s been working with flying colors. If you want to hear the words from the author’s mouth, please pick up the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Superhuman-Habit-Becoming-Possible-Yourself-ebook/dp/B00NGC8I9E

Otherwise, you can read on below, so I can give you the short version, of an already short and amazing book. And explain how it’s personally helped me become GREAT at forming habits.

Here are the principles I follow to win the MENTAL game for creating a habit.
7 Years of meditation experience helps me answer FAQs by friends and family.
By: Mahak Garg
Tags: Meditation, Habit Building, Beginners Guide

2 frequently asked questions by my friends trying to meditate. First, “when do you meditate and for how long?” And second, “what do you really do when you meditate?”

Meditation is the first thing I engage with when I wake up. This is the time my thoughts are at their lowest pace. I am not running through my to do list. I have slept on the past day’s events. That said, I too have days when I wake up with just too many thoughts and it is difficult to shut the noise out.

Through meditation, I am simply creating 2–3 strong positive thoughts — reiterating them till I internalize them. Sometimes these thoughts could be in response to negative feelings from a previous day/event. For example, if I felt anxious I would meditate saying “I am a strong powerful person. I trust myself to navigate this path with grace and compassion” or if I was angry/hurt I would meditate “I am a peaceful person. While the external situation is out of my control, I choose to stay positive. I commit to create only meaningful thoughts.”

While this morning meditation ensures that my day is off to a good start, various events — both good and bad — could unfold throughout my day. Hence, I try my best to engage with quick few seconds of meditation throughout the day to retain that positive energy and to reconnect with my own self. Again this simply means creating strong positive thoughts and correcting any wasteful thoughts/actions/emotions that I may have engaged with.
Ambitious Good
By: Rachel Aliana
Tags: Morality, Ethics, Charity, Love

Pyramid of Good Deeds

The #trashtag selfies, the Youtube videos of students that give presents to poor classmates, the Facebook charity donation pages: we are in the midst of an era where our acts of charity give us as much social benefit as the people we help.

I am not saying to stop doing charity entirely. But I believe this kind of giving lulls us into a belief that we are making the world better when we are really making it easier to perpetuate systems that make these bad things ok.

When a few good people clean up a park, it is easier to forget the mark our plastic consumption has on the world. When we volunteer in soup kitchens, it is easier to forget about rampant income inequality. When we feel good funding a Kickstarter campaign for a person’s chemo treatment, we feel exuberant, forgetting that there are tens of thousands of other Americans that cannot afford healthcare.

I believe we need to recognize that what we currently do as charity is one of the lower rungs on the ladder of “good acts” that are possible, and it is high time to add another rung to the charitable ladder: ambitious good. Ambitious good means to create systems in the world that empower people to be good, do good, and be ultimately independent from charity.

This is not just teaching one person how to fish. It means setting up educational programs to teach entire villages to fish. If the idea of ambitious good is successful, it means that charity will be a thing of the past. Every system, from housing to education to agriculture will empower and provide for people without the need for charity.

We are immersed in systems every day that we can begin with. We can build ways for people to have food without plastic wrappings to generate less trash. We can promote adequate parental leave policies and pay in the companies we work at and create. We can support legislation that would provide Americans greater access to affordable healthcare.

Technology’s increase has made charity ever more rewarding as it creates strong social rewards, but now more than ever we need to push past the perception of charity as a long term solution. Ambitiously embedding justice and equity into a system of ethical capitalism can be.
Creating a challenge on Beingful. How the core of our new social platform…
Tags: Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Civic Engagement, Civictech

Creating a challenge on Beingful

Beingful’s challenge buttons representing different civic challenge categories.

Background

Beingful is a social platform for social impact. We empower you to create, share, and react to challenges with your friends that make an impact in your community and then to track your impact. We envision a community that offers simple, but meaningful, opportunities to get active the moment you’re inspired to act.

The problem

Many of us are overwhelmed by the massive amount of information we get bombarded with on popular social platforms today, which often becomes highly charged and negative when it turns political or civic-related.

These platforms were built for sharing updates about our lives, like family vacations or going out with friends. They were never intended for discussions around important issues, much less meaningful action on those issues. It’s clear that ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ do not build stronger communities.

Our solution

Sharing a challenge on Beingful is equivalent to ‘posting’. However, instead of posting a photo or video and receiving ‘likes’ or ‘comments,’ we designed a new experience that enables you to share information, but also combine it with a call to action. This action is how people react to your post. We envision our community finding a small action they can take every day on a range of topics (hopefully via a challenge created by you!).

How to create a Beingful challenge

Creating a challenge takes seconds. First, select the content (news, photos, videos, stories, events, or links) that you want to share. We call this the “story.” Then, designate an action. An action can be as simple as asking friends to read a thought-provoking news article, or something more engaging, like joining an event, petition, or sign-up form. The sky is the limit, so this is where we want you to get creative. 😎

The actual process of adding content is done via pasting a link for now, but in the future, we plan to give you a variety of tools to create truly custom challenges.

a story + an action = a Beingful challenge

Tracking your impact

We all enjoy seeing the impact of our good work. It’s not just about personal gratification, but it also energizes us to keep giving back for the good of our community. Beingful built a process to track your impact, which we will cover in more detail in a later article — but just know that by simply creating and accepting challenges we will help automatically track your impact.

Sharing with friends

Finally, no challenge would be complete unless you share it with your friends. Beingful gives you a variety of options to share:

Facebook, Twitter, email, or simply copy and paste your unique challenge link to share via text message or any other way you would like.

Join Beingful

We hope you’re excited to create your own civic challenges or browse through ones created by our community. We invite you to join us below:

Sign-up here ✅ and follow us on: Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
World Best Baby Sleeping Trainer Product
By: Vipul Chauhan
Tags: Baby Sleep Miracle, Baby Sleep Miracle Review, Baby Sleep Music, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Sleep

For an adult, sleep may seem a simple thing. You’re tired, you sleep. A baby, however, needs to learn how to do that. As surprising as it may sound, sleep is a skill that needs to be learned.

Sleep training a child is undoubtedly one of the most challenging — and frustrating — things for all parents. You may be tired or exhausted from helping him to get some, but your child won’t understand that as he or she is too young.

The only way to overcome this hurdle is to teach him.

# First, let’s answer the question: “Is it hard to train my child to sleep”?

The short answer is no. Training is synonymous with learning and babies love to learn — even when it comes to sleeping. They suck in new information as if it were warm milk.

However, some parents think of it as hard because of the word ‘training’. This is due to the fact that they don’t agree with the term, arguing that training is for animals and not for children.

But think about it.

Even as an adult you train in something in order to learn it. When you get a new job, you receive training. Someone already skilled patiently guides you through your new duties.

And when you make a mistake, does someone gets angry at you?

Of course not.

The same thing happens with sleep training. The skill needs to be learned. After all, your baby’s job during the night is sleeping, not crying.

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# What Is Baby Sleep Miracle? Will It Help My Child Sleep?

Baby Sleep Miracle is a program that is aimed at debunking all myths and misconceptions regarding this essential step in your child’s development, seeking to expose the truth about sleep training to parents in a simple, easy-to-read format.

The program is divided into 4 chapters that include several sub-chapters, all relating to the important tuition of sleep training.

In it, the author Mary-Ann Schuler, mother of two, provides parents with solutions to all of the problems that may arise during this developmental phase.

Moreover, the product is designed to include all the necessary information that parents should know when they are starting sleep training for their children.

The first two chapters of the program talk about the importance of sleep in a baby’s development as well as the dangers of sleep deprivation for you and your child.

The third and fourth chapters deal with matters in a more specific way, providing sleep training methods from birth up until five years of age, tailoring every approach to its corresponding developmental phase.
Fighting Gravity
By: Eric Thomas Webb
Tags: Military, Disability, Veterans, USA, Navy

U.S. Navy Veteran |Aurelio Ayala

The Army and Marines pound boots on the ground. But sailors? We spend our time on the water — on a piece of metal — fighting gravity. Ships move left, right, up, and down — all at the same time. It wasn’t until I stepped out of uniform that I understood what that meant.

In a matter of six months, my whole body began to deteriorate. I went to the doctor, and they found arthritis in every joint in my body. Did you know that it takes five years of build-up before arthritis even shows up on an X-ray?

In the Navy, I was an Electronic Warfare Technician on surface combatant warships. Iran, Syria, Somalia — we were always in a position where things could get ugly — and fast. I’m honored to have served my country, but 23 years on the open water has taken a toll on me.

I used to think of mental health only in terms of PTSD and suicidal ideations. But mental health is interesting. And it tends to throw people off with all its stigmas. The truth is, chronic pain affects our day-to-day mental health — the way we think and act.

Once I understood this, I took ownership of my disability. The system currently in place for veterans doesn’t make filing disability claims easy — there’s no real training or guidance on how to help you. I fought most of the way through the claims process alone.

Then, In 2020, I got connected with VA Claims Insider, and they walked with me to the finish line. Within a few months, I increased my VA disability rating from 90% — to 100% P&T.

I’m five years retired from the Navy but still wired like I’m on active duty. I’m always doing — thinking about doing — or planning something. Thankfully now, I can take a step back and know I have full benefits for me and my family.

— Aurelio Ayala
What type of burglar alarm should I choose?
By: Burglar Alarm
Tags: Burglar Alarms, Security Services, Security Camera, Burglary

Emmaeva9018 writes: The highest point of the range caution is a checked framework introduced by a provider licensed by either the National Security Inspectorate (NSI) — a NACOSS Gold provider — or the Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board (SSAIB).

The BSIA just speaks to firms that meet these two assessment systems. It says that sort of caution may cost as much as £950 to introduce for a standard home. It could likewise have yearly expenses of maybe £400 for adjusting and observing.

At the opposite part of the arrangement is SMP-introduced Burglar alarm costing as meager as £200. An expertly fitted capable of being heard no one but caution could cost you £750 to introduce, the BSIA says.

You can pick cautions that either:

Ring or are quiet

SecureMyPlace Wireless Burglar Alarm

Get in touch with you or contact a neighbor

Contact a checking station or the police

Are wifi or hard-wired

That implies you can have a chime possibly caution that will ring if your house is broken into. You need to trust the alarm frightens away the robber or that your neighbors will come running or call the police.

You can have an alert that messages your cell phone, or a neighbor’s when activated. You at that point need to choose the following strategy, perhaps related to a web-empowered CCTV Camera. These can sound an alert when reaching you, or stay quiet.

Originally published at https://slashdot.org.
How do burglar alarms and motion-sensing lights work?
By: Burglar Alarm
Tags: Wireless Alarm System, Burglar Alarms, Security Camera, Security Systems

T­here are a wide range of approaches to make a motion sensor(wireless burglar alarm). For instance:

It is regular for stores to have a light emission crossing the room close to the entryway, and a photosensor on the opposite side of the ­room. At the point when a client breaks the pillar, the photosensor distinguishes the adjustment in the measure of light and rings a chime.

Numerous markets have programmed entryway openers that utilization a basic type of radar to identify when somebody goes close to the entryway. The container over the entryway conveys a burst of microwave radio vitality and trusts that the reflected vitality will bob back. At the point when an individual moves into the field of microwave vitality, it changes the measure of reflected vitality or the time it takes for the reflection to arrive, and the crate opens the entryway. Since these gadgets use radar, they regularly set off radar locators.

Something very similar should be possible with ultrasonic sound waves, bobbing them off an objective and hanging tight for the reverberation.

These are dynamic sensors. They infuse vitality (light, microwaves or sound) into the earth so as to recognize a difference in some sort.

The “movement detecting” highlight on most lights (and security system) is a latent system that recognizes infrared vitality. These sensors are subsequently known as PIR (detached infrared) indicators or pyroelectric sensors. So as to make a sensor that can identify an individual, you have to make the sensor touchy to the temperature of a human body. People, having a skin temperature of around 93 degrees F, emanate infrared vitality with a wavelength somewhere in the range of 9 and 10 micrometers. In this manner, the sensors are ordinarily delicate in the scope of 8 to 12 micrometers.

The gadgets themselves are basic electronic parts similar to a photosensor. The infrared light knocks electrons off a substrate, and these electrons can be distinguished and intensified into a sign.
Clocking Machines and Systems for Every Type of Business
By: Bde Technology
Tags: Guard Tour System, Surveillance Camera, Security Camera, Cctv, Digital Door Lock

Guard Tour System — 8000AT

In the present very aggressive business condition, the requirement for expanded laborer efficiency is currently more noteworthy than at any other time. Consistently tallies from the minute the worker strolls in the entryway until the time he ventures out. In any case, do you have the correct devices that can enable you to screen whether your workers are shaving off a couple of additional minutes all over?

You might utilize logbooks and timesheets to spare yourself from purchasing progressively modern and thusly, increasingly costly, participation checking instruments. In the event that you do some calculating nonetheless, will undoubtedly find that the utilization of customary participation devices, (for example, timesheets) which your representatives can exploit, might be more expensive over the long haul than simply getting time and participation arrangements that work as they should.

Here are the most well-known kinds of timing machines and frameworks. Select one that would best meet your organization’s requirements.

Checking In Machines. While not as advanced and brisk as different machines included here, this one carries out the responsibility, and still pounds having to physically fill a period card where the genuine occasions can be unintentionally or deliberately distorted.

Swipe Systems. Self-introduced swipe frameworks are a stage up over the fundamental timing machines. A product that can deliver participation reports for combination into your finance frameworks.

Biometric Clocking Systems. By a wide margin the best method for keeping representatives from checking in for one another, biometric checking frameworks. A hand punch timing framework, or a hand checking machine, you’ll see one that can best serve your sort of association. By taking out the typical reasons of overlooked or lost cards, and guaranteeing that laborers are really present on the occasions they state they are, you spare a great deal on finance costs.

Guard Tour System. Security is a basic part of any business however it’s regularly hard to check whether the faculty relegated is keeping to his watch plans. By introducing a watchman visit and watch framework, you can confirm whether gatekeeper watch courses are being pursued. This is finished with the utilization of handheld gadgets which can record the date and time data on explicit purposes of the watch course.

Time and Attendance Software Solution. Full administration workforce the executive’s instruments are not essentially intended to fill in as participation screens. Be that as it may, most arrangements can be effectively incorporated with timing frameworks so you have all the data you need about the work part of your business in only one application. These arrangements likewise give web get to and enable you to make worker calendars and store your staff database.

With the assistance of these apparatuses, you can screen their participation effectively, setting aside you time and cash.
Breaking Bad episode review — 1.7 — A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal
By: Patrick J Mullen
Tags: Tv Reviews, TV, Drama, Breaking Bad, Television

Original air date: March 9, 2008

Director: Tim Hunter

Writer: Peter Gould

Rating: 9/10

This is a great season finale. It doesn’t end so much on a cliffhanger as it ends on a point of escalation that’s certain to raise the stakes for future seasons, which is how a show like this should work.

And there’s a lot going on here. Jesse tries to sell his house because he doesn’t want to be reminded of what happened to Emilio and Krazy-8. Walt has sex with Skyler in their car just outside of the high school. And with a shortage of pseudoephedrine, Walt figures out a way to make meth without it.

The result is the meth looking blue, but still of the same quality.

This culminates in the drug deal with Tuco at an old junkyard, which Walt arranges. After the deal is done, one of Tuco’s men says something pretty innocent, but Tuco takes it the wrong way and ends up beating him to death.

This is a trope that’s generally used way too much in film and TV, where a villain kills one of his own men to show you how scary he is. Here, though, it’s legitimately intimidating, and happening at the end of the season is great, as it just leaves you with the feeling that Walt and Jesse are in way over their heads.
‘Black-ish’ Tackles Race, Police Brutality Head-On In Powerful Episode
By: Louisianabrown
Tags: Black Women, TV

In a powerful episode that aired Wednesday night, the ABC sitcom “Black-ish” tackled police brutality and racial unrest in the United States, shining a spotlight on some of society’s most damning problems.

Instead of a brute treatment that would have seen the Johnsons, an upper middle-class African-American family, go through a series of knee-jerk reactions centered around outrage, the characters voiced nuanced responses that fit perfectly with the complex times of today.

The episode, titled “Hope” began with the Johnson family watching a breaking news announcement from CNN’s Don Lemon on the eminent grand jury decision involving a police shooting of an unarmed black man.

The show stayed true to its comedic roots for much of the episode, with quick one-liners interspersed with serious dialogue. But showrunner Kenya Barris made sure it also delved deep into solemn territory, depicting a riot that at one part had the family’s teenage boy, Dre, vowing to join protesters in the streets.

“We didn’t want to have it so joke-heavy that we trivialized the situation and the seriousness of the topic they were talking about,” Barris told EW in an interview. “We really just tried to make sure we gave ourselves enough balance to still get the point across but at the same time, give people an entry point where they felt like they could get into it and not be bummed out the whole time.”

The episode, which Barris said came to him as he discussed what was happening in Ferguson, Missouri, with his own child, features a hard-hitting back-and-forth between the father Andre Johnson and his wife Rainbow over her attempts to soften the news that the officer who shot the man would not be indicted.

“I don’t want to lie to them, I just want to give them a little faith in the world,” Rainbow says to her father-in-law at one point.

On Twitter, people commended the episode for its frankness and true-to-life nature.

The episode also deftly handled the millennial angst that many young people grapple with when confronted with societal injustices.

In the end, for many fans of the show, the episode struck the perfect tone: Not black, not white, not quite gray, but certainly “Black-ish.”

This article was originally published on HLNtv.com.
Creating remote-controlled interactive prototypes for televisions
Tags: Prototyping, TV, Rapid Prototyping, Videos, Framer

This article shows essential steps and tools to create TV prototypes using Framer Studio

Background

Over the past decade, we’ve got a pretty mature market, culture, and principles for designing on web and smart phone platforms, which naturally lead to great prototyping tools to validate, test and improve designs. The following are a few popular prototyping tools that in general work very well for web and/or mobile.

After Effects

Axure RP

Framer Studio

InVision

Keynote

Marvel

Origami Studio

Principle

New Golden Age of television

With the exponential growth in daily video consumption, designing an organic eco system for users to watch content on all platforms, including big TVs, becomes essential. We now see more design guidelines, templates, and resources available to the TV platform designers (e.g. here, here and here). However, to my best knowledge, we have not yet seen any prototyping tool that’s (uniquely) designed for creating TV prototypes to simulate the 10-foot remote-controlled experience.

As video platform designers, @erin and I went ahead and studied almost all prototyping tools available in the market and tried to figure out the best way to create an interactive TV prototypes, controlled by a remote, for research needs specifically in our case.

Challenges of prototyping for TVs

There are a few key challenges we took into consideration when exploring tools for TV prototypes

Input: First and foremost, the prototype itself needs to interact with an external input, from a 4-way remote, pointer, gesture, to voice input. We started with a remote to simplify to goal of our project. 10-foot experience simulation: Learning curve:

Check list

Per our study over all tools that were available to us, we’ve built a checklist for the best practice for TV prototypes.

Framer prototype A remote with 4-way keys, Enter and Back A TV with (HDMI) port optional: a keyboard with a Delete key

Framer template

Other consideration
Friday the 13th: The Series episode review — 2.11 — The Sweetest Sting
By: Patrick J Mullen
Tags: Tv Reviews, Friday The 13th, Horror, TV, 1980s

Original air date: January 21, 1989

Director: David Winning

Writers: Rick Butler and Roy Sallows (story by Rick Butler)

Rating: 6/10

Vampire bees, huh? Seems promising. And it’s not bad. The opening little kill is pretty fun.

And I don’t know what it is, but I like these kinds of episodes that take place mostly during the day, outside. I get an autumn vibe, sort of like with “The Scarecrow,” even though I don’t even think it takes place in the fall. It just feels like fall, like Halloween, maybe just because it’s a horror series.

But it’s nice.

The episode gives all three of the main characters something to do, and it’s nice to see the three of them working together. That’s kind of been an issue lately.

The episode also has a nice little reveal, when we learn not just that the honey is like a fountain of youth thing, but that the old guy they’ve been talking to is the younger brother of the villain.

It’s a fun episode, and that’s all that I’m looking for at this point. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if there’s truly a great episode. But this is just fine.