Problem: Article: Engage in fun activities that you can focus your attention on. Do something that inspires you such as: hiking in a beautiful place, meditation, looking at art, etc. Try exercise such as: biking, hiking, sports, dance, aerobics, and yoga. Avoid activities that may increase daydreaming such as watch television excessively. Watching too much television could possibly lead to decreased creativity and increase daydreaming behaviors. Individuals with adequate social support tend to have higher mental health overall. We need social support to deal with any issue, including excessive mind-wandering or distraction. Pick someone that you know very well and feel very comfortable with. Then, ask them if they'd be available to answer their phone and chat with you if you've become particularly engrossed in a daydream. You can ask friends or family to alert you if they notice that you are daydreaming. This will help to keep you accountable and increase your awareness of your attention-span. Planning can be a form of daydreaming because you spend a lot of time thinking about a situation and not much time accomplishing anything. It's time stop dreaming and start doing! Have a schedule and stick to it. If you find yourself daydreaming, get up and leave the situation or do something productive. If you drift into a daydream, gently bring yourself back to what you were doing before your mind wandered. Try to be accepting and non-judgmental of yourself.
Summary: Find new hobbies. Talk to a friend or family member. Plan less, do more.

Problem: Article: Abusive manipulation can cause serious harm, and may end the relationship before you get what you want. Instead, think of "control" as convincing other people to agree with your perspective. With the right methods, you can shift people's attitudes without losing their respect. Make sure that the person you're influencing can actually achieve your aims. Setting yourself an impossible task can create a high-pressure situation, hurting everyone involved. Instead, aim to start a friendship, improve your work or chore routine, or solve an interpersonal problem. Never attempt to force another person to love you, to snap out of an addiction or mental illness, or to make significant life changes against their will. The "success" of serious emotional manipulation is tense, fragile, and extremely damaging to yourself and the other people involved. If these are your goals, find a healthier approach instead. Right now, you're dissatisfied with how certain other people behave. But before you can begin to persuade them towards something different, you have to understand what's motivating them to choose their current course of action. What makes them think that what they're doing is a good idea? Once you know their current set of motivations, you can influence these motivations to persuade them towards something different. Usually, the easiest way to find out their motivations is to simply ask: "Why do you think this is a good idea?" You can also try and figure it out by listening to what they say and watching what they do. For example, your project partner is not contributing as much work as you'd like. He might be motivated by a sense of fairness (he already thinks he's doing enough), laziness (he wants to avoid the work), or low self-esteem (he doesn't think he can do the work as well as you). Now that you know what their current set of motivations are, try to understand the motivator that's most important to them. Influencing this motivator will be the easiest way to get the most impact. Think about what they value most in making a decision, by thinking about decisions that you've seen them make in the past or arguments that you've had with them. If you know what's most important to them, then you can introduce that motivator to get the result you want. For example, you want your mom to vote a certain way in an election. She's voting for the incumbent candidate because she knows her political stance better, and agrees with her social values. You know she values educational spending more than the social values platform, since she used to be a teacher. You can use facts about your candidate's relationship with children, families, and education policy to motivate her to change her mind. Now that you understand what kind of things make an argument look good to them, you'll want to take a look at the factors that hold them back from your argument. What about what you're trying to do makes them think it's a bad idea? When you know what they perceive as the risks with what you're asking, you can figure out how to make those risks seem smaller. There's no reason to be coy about finding out why someone doesn't like an idea. Frequently, once someone says why they don't like an idea out-loud, they'll think that it sounds stupid or realize that they can't explain themselves well, which can give you the perfect opening to talk them over to your side.
Summary: Understand how to achieve your goals. Choose an appropriate goal. Find their motivations. Identify the most powerful motivation. Understand what's holding them back.

Problem: Article: Photographs can be damaged from exposure to water, sunlight, heat, and moisture in the air. Humidity can cause photographs to stick together, while high temperatures cause photographs to become very brittle. Store your photographs in an environment that has low humidity, is not exposed to direct sunlight, and does not experience extreme temperature fluctuations. Ideally, the temperature should be below 75 Fahrenheit. Do not store photos in a hot attic or in a garage or basement where the images may come into contact with water. Keep your photographs in a temperature-controlled section of the house, like a bedroom or hallway closet. Archival boxes and albums provide a safe environment for your photographs that keep out humidity, pests, and dust. You can find these items from online vendors and from a stationery or office supply shop. When browsing for archival boxes or albums, be sure that they are intended for photo storage and are free from acid and PVC, or polyvinyl chloride. Place a silica gel packet in the box to help offset any excess moisture. If an album or storage box is packed to the brim with photos, it may not close properly, leaving the photos susceptible to environmental damage. A box that is not filled enough may also cause damage to the photographs. When there are only a few items in the container, the images may slide around, causing damage to the edges. Be sure that the photographs are secure and that the storage bin can properly close.
Summary:
Store photos in a climate-controlled environment. Keep photos in archival boxes and albums. Properly store the photographs in a bin or album.