Article: The bully likely interrupted you doing something like class work, reading, work for your job, or just talking to someone else. Ignore them by focusing back on what you were doing. Concentrate on your classwork, or project, go back to reading your book, or keep talking to your friend. Aim for a short period of hard focusing at a time, about 10 minutes. It's easier to focus in short bursts and by the time you are done the bully likely has moved on. Do more difficult tasks first. These tasks will require more of your attention and focus, drawing your concentration away from the bully. Reward yourself for successfully refocusing your attention. Rewarding yourself now will help train your brain and make it easier to refocus next time. If you are in a situation like being on a bus, at work, or in a class, you won't have the ability to get very far away from the person, and walking away entirely is not a solid option. Just try and move as far away from the bully as you can. Move to the other side of the classroom, or the other end of the bus, and stay away from them. It will be easier to distract yourself and get back to what you were doing, and if you happen to be closer to an authority figure they may witness and intervene. If a bully is physically threatening you, immediately move towards an authority figure. If you are in a classroom move towards the teacher. If you are on a bus move towards the driver. You may be concerned about what the bully will think if you move towards an authority figure, but your safety comes first. You can just walk away if you don't feel like saying anything. If you feel like you have to say something, keep it short and simple like "I don't have time for this." A great way to drown out the voices of the bullies is to listen to music you like. Carry headphones with you and put them in when the bully is around. This will help you focus on your work and keep you from reacting to whatever they are saying. Create a playlist that is positive and makes you feel good about yourself. Music will help calm you from painful or stressful situations. Music helps reduce stress and anxiety. Music can help aid in better memory. If you have a friend with you or nearby, enlist their help. Engage them in a conversation or ask them to tell you about their night or their weekend plans. The more distracted you are the less you'll be affected by what the bully is saying and they will lose interest. Talking to a friend will also help with any anxiety you are feeling. The internet can be a great distraction tool, just be careful not to do this during a class or so much during work that it gets you in trouble. You are just looking for something to distract you from the bully until they lose interest. Go to your favorite website. Look for something cute or funny. Check out online resources for bullying. Stop Bullying www.stopbullying.gov National Crime Prevention Council www.ncpc.org/topics/bullying International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment www.iawbh.org
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Concentrate on your work. Move far away or to a safer area. Listen to music. Concentrate on a friend. Use your phone or computer to check out something fun online.
Article: Your approach (your sprint down the runway) will make a big difference in how far you end up jumping. You want to get up to speed in your first few sprints and then maintain your speed until you jump. Practice this by doing approach runs on a track. Don't actually go through with the jump, just focus on getting up to speed and maintaining your velocity. Designate a take off spot on the track and then stop when you reach it. Go back to where you started after you finish and try again. Practice doing jumps without the approach. Stand in place and bend your knees, placing one foot in front of the other. Bend your body so your upper torso is parallel with the floor. Hold your arms at your sides and extend them straight back so they're also parallel with the floor. When you're ready, lift your body and propel yourself into a jump. Raise both of your arms up and over your head. Land with both feet flat on the floor. Each time you do the drill, mark where you landed. On your next attempt, try to beat your last mark. Find a long jump pit to practice in. Do a short 2-3 step approach down the runway and jump when you reach the takeoff board. Work on getting your legs up and out in front of you. You want your heels to be the first part of your body to make contact with the pit. Repeat the drill until you feel comfortable with your landings.
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Practice your approach with approach drills. Do jumping drills. Work on your landings.
Article: Tracing paper is made to be translucent, so you can clearly see what's underneath it. If you don't have a piece of tracing paper handy, you can use a piece of thin white computer paper. Use a steady hand and slowly trace over the lines, loops and dots in the signature. Try not to shake your hand or pick up the pencil as you trace. In order to produce a convincing signature, pay attention to the following: The thickness of the lines. People naturally apply more pressure to certain parts of their signature. Maybe the right side of the person's "l" loop is thicker than the left side, for example. The slant of the signature. As you trace, pay attention to the natural slant of the signature and be sure to follow it. The order of the letter formation. For instance, does it look like the person crossed his Ts dotted his Is after completing the rest of the signature? This can affect the way the final signature looks. It's a subtle matter, but it can mean the difference between a decent forgery and one that's easy to call out as fake. Be sure it's aligned correctly so that it will look like it was signed in a natural way. Many people don't sign their signatures neatly and in a straight line, so take this into account when you're positioning the signature. Use a pencil or another pointed instrument to press fairly hard over the traced signature to make an impression of the signature on the desired forging area. Don't press so hard that you tear the paper or change the way the signature will look. A deep impression will be noticeable as a sign of forgery, so try to make it as faint as possible while still leaving enough of an indent that you'll be able to go over it in pen. Carefully go over the indented signature with a pen. Don't lift your hand or make any shaky movements - try to make it look natural.
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Place a piece of tracing paper over the original signature. Use a pencil to lightly trace the signature. Place the tracing paper over the blank spot where you want to copy the signature. Make a signature impression. Remove the tracing paper and write the signature in pen.