Article: When coping with the stress and the problems of day-to-day life, it can be easy to lose track of what truly motivates you. Finding these things can be really helpful in overcoming the low points in life and moving forward. There are a wide variety of things that can be your motivation! For example, it can be your work, your hobbies, or your relationships, or a combination of all of these things. Any of these things can bring you joy, a feeling of accomplishment, and the motivation to keep moving through life. Make a list or write an entry in your journal about what motivates you most in life. This could be a quick list or a more thorough exploration of drives and propels you in life. Writing out your motivations will allow you to revisit them when you are feeling down and can't remember why you need to move forward. Try reawakening your inner child. Find a new hobby or something to take your mind off things for a period of time everyday. Volunteering is a great way to cope with life because it can show you both the wonderful things in life and the way you can specifically can make a difference in the world. If there are things in life that bring you joy, find a way to work that into your volunteer work. For example, work with animals at a local shelter if you love pets, help out at community events even just picking up trash in your neighborhood if you are interested in the environment. It can be hard to see the beauty of life when you are weighed down by the troubles of life. However, in order to cope with life, it's important to find beauty and joy in the world. This can help you to relax and rebuild your strength when times get hard. This could include the beauty of art, moments of kindness between children, or the wonders of nature, just to name a few things. Sometimes finding motivation and purpose requires you to change a variety of things in your life. For example, it may be that you need to change jobs or manage your time differently in order to find satisfaction with your life. Whatever it is that you need to change, change in general can be scary. It may take a lot of conviction and perseverance to make the changes you need to. However, keep in mind that the ultimate payoff for following through with changing you life is a happier and more fulfilling life.
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Think about what motivates you in life. Make yourself useful. Find moments of joy and beauty. Make room for change.
Article: An air purifier is essentially a fan that pulls air in before filtering it back out to remove the odors in a room. Buy an air purifier from a building or cleaning supply store and plug it in the wall in the painted room. Set it on high and leave it running for 2-3 days to filter out the smell of paint. This is a good option if you really don't have a lot of ventilation in your living space. If you don't have central air conditioning or access to a lot of windows, get an air purifier. You need to replace the filters for air purifiers after a few months of running. Air fresheners come in the form of sticks, sprays, or plug-ins. They release synthetic odors that replicate the smell of popular odors like lavender or citrus. Get a few air fresheners with odors that you like and set them out in the painted room to mask the smell of paint. This will keep the smell of paint at bay while the room clears out and ventilates. Air fresheners are an excellent choice if you have a very specific scent that you want to replace the paint with. This won't technically remove the smell of paint. It will help mask the odors though. While it's typically more expensive than standard acrylic, latex, and oil-based paints, low-VOC paints are an excellent option if you want to avoid paint odors altogether. Before painting your room, ask your paint supplier about low-VOC options. Apply low-VOC paints the same way that you would normally paint a room. Low-VOC paints aren't made with high quantities of the chemicals that make paint smell like paint. They're also typically healthier for your lungs too. VOC is short for volatile organic compound. They're a set of chemicals that tend to have strong odors and are commonly found in aerosol products.
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Buy an air purifier and plug it in to clear your room of paint odors. Set out air fresheners to replace the scent of paint. Cover walls with a low-VOC paint to avoid paint odors altogether.
Article: You are entitled to any evidence that the prosecutor has that may prove your innocence. This is called "exculpatory" evidence. Your attorney can ask the prosecutor for this evidence or, more formally, file a motion with the court requesting it. Pay attention during the trial to any reference to exculpatory evidence. Sometimes prosecutors fail to turn over all helpful information to defendants. For example, a witness might blurt out that the alleged victim told her that you were not at fault on the day at issue. If this witness then subsequently spoke to the police, then you can assume that the witness told the police what the victim said. You should question the prosecutor whether this information came up during a police interview and why it wasn't disclosed to you. If the prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence, then you need to bring that fact to the judge's attention. If you want witnesses to testify on your behalf at trial, then you will need to subpoena them. A subpoena commands a witness to attend the trial. It also informs the witness of the day, time, and location of the trial. Generally, you can get subpoenas from the court clerk and have them served on witnesses either using the sheriff or a private process server. If you represent yourself at trialwhich is not recommendedthen you will need to read up on your state's rules of evidence. These rules limit the kinds of evidence that can be used in trials. To find your state's rules, search the Internet. One rule to pay attention to in particular is the rule against "hearsay." Hearsay is any out-of-court statement used to prove the matter asserted. For example, if your son said, "My Dad beats me every week" and a cop repeats this claim in court, then it is hearsay to use that claim as proof that you do, in fact, beat your son every week. There are many exceptions to the rule against hearsay, so you can't get all hearsay statements excluded. Nevertheless, if you find hearsay statements offered in court, you need to stand up and object.
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Request exculpatory evidence from the prosecution. Subpoena witnesses. Read the rules of evidence.