Q: Allow it to sit until the gel forms, taking about 5 minutes. Grind them together in a blender until well-combined. Mix on low speed using an electric mixer. Whisk until properly combined. Blend well until fully mixed. Slice the cookie into pieces. Top with extra chocolate chips, if desired. Enjoy!
A: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). Grease a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Stir the flax seed and water together in a small bowl. Grind the oats, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt. In a medium-sized bowl, blend the seed or nut butter with the coconut sugar and coconut oil. Stir in the flax mixture and vanilla into the blended coconut mixture. Fold in the dry ingredients mixture and add the chocolate chips. Flatten and spread the cookie dough on the cookie sheet. Bake the cookie in the oven for about 12-15 minutes. Allow the cookie to cool for about 10 minutes. Serve.

Q: Whether you're thanking a friend, colleague, or a near-stranger over the phone, it can be a bit trickier to thank someone over the phone because it's harder to communicate your true feelings without face-to-face contact. But thanking someone over the phone is easy if you pay attention to a few key points: Speak clearly. Communicating over the phone can be tricky, so make sure you enunciate your words, speak slowly enough for the person to hear you, and that you aren't calling from a place that is loud or has bad reception. Give the person your undivided attention. Though it's tempting to multitask when you're on the phone, don't call the person while you're driving home, cleaning your apartment, or watering your plants. Tell yourself that the phone call should only take a few minutes and that if you're really grateful, then that person deserves your undivided attention. Call at a good time. Make sure you're making a call at a time when the recipient isn't likely to be busy and that you're not calling too early in the morning or too late in the evening. If you're calling a person who lives far away, make sure to account for the time difference. Have the right body language. Though it may sound silly to use body language over the phone, maintaining an open posture or gesturing with your hands can help you emphasize your true feelings. If you're calling when you're laying down or using your hands to make a sandwich, you won't be able to show the person how grateful you really are. Know your audience. If you're talking to a family member or a close friend, you can be open, honest, laugh, and be more free about how grateful you are. If you're calling to thank a potential employer for interviewing you, you should still give them your attention, speak clearly, and use proper body language, but you should also keep things short and sweet. Just because you're on the phone doesn't mean you are free to ramble and be chatty; if you're thanking someone for professional reasons, then keep things professional. Sometimes, saying thank you in a text message can be more effective than saying thank you in a phone call. If you just saw the person and wanted to thank him or her for a great time, or if you just wanted to send someone a quick thank you without making a big deal about it or taking up the person's time, then a text message may work best. Maintain your sincerity through texting. You can just say something like, "Hey! Thank you so much for helping me clean up after my party. You're a great friend and saved me a lot of time." Use the person's name. Even if you're texting, saying, "Thanks, Amy!" makes your message sound more personal. Don't sound overly enthusiastic. There's no need for a million exclamation marks to show the person how grateful you are. That will just make it look like you're trying too hard and don't really mean it. Pay attention to your words. Though texting is more casual, aiming for correct grammar and punctuation will show that you took time to craft the message.
A: Say thank you in a phone call. Say thank you in a text message.

Q: Hope is an attitude that you work to achieve every day. It is not a permanent state of mind. One definition of hope used by some psychologists is "a positive motivational state that is based on an interactively derived sense of successful (a) agency (goal-directed energy) and (b) pathways (planning to meet goals)." Hope is the result of doing things that bring us pleasure and help us reach our goals. Don't expect yourself to become more hopeful all of a sudden, as if there's a switch you can simply turn on or off. Becoming hopeful requires you to work on your attitude every day. Take this process one day at a time and focus your attention on the aspects of your life that you actually have control over. For example, if you lack hope regarding your ability to find a job. Don't dwell on what you cannot control, such as who calls you for an interview. Start thinking about what you can control, such as how many jobs you apply to. Take small steps to build your hope up every day by working on the things you can control. To have hope, it is important to work on your ability to deal with negative thoughts and stop letting them get the better of you. By learning to engage with difficult emotions when they arise, as opposed to ignoring them, you can begin to understand why you are having those feelings. Understanding your feelings will help you to deal with them in a constructive manner, rather than allow them to overtake you. For example, if you notice that you get discouraged about your weight loss progress sometimes, think about what is causing you to feel that way. Are you comparing yourself to other people? Are you not losing weight as fast as you hoped you would? Try to identify the source of your discouragement become more aware of the reason for these thoughts. In order to cultivate a sense of hope, you need to learn how to function in situations that cause you distress and derail your sense of motivation. Research has found that learning to be more comfortable in threatening situations can actually reduce the risk for physical health problems and improve overall psychological functioning. A strong social support system and feeling confident in your abilities are also necessary to develop a sense of resilience.
A: Think about what it means to have hope. Realize that you need to work on your attitude every day. Learn to challenge your negative thoughts rather than ignore them. Recognize that you need to be resilient in challenging situations.

Q: Bendy straw work the best, but you can try it with a normal straw as well. It just needs to be long enough to reach from your armpit to your mouth. Take one end of the straw and close your armpit around it. You can do this with a shirt on if you stick it in through the collar. Put the other end of the straw in your mouth and blow. It should produce realistic sounding fart noises with ease.
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Find a straw. Put the straw in your armpit. Blow to make fart noises.