- Talk with family and friends.
A daily dose of friendship is great medicine. Call or write your friends and family to share your feelings, hopes and joys. - Engage in daily physical activity.Regular physical activity relieves mental and physical tension. Physically active adults have lower risk of depression and loss of mental functioning. Physical activity can be a great source of pleasure, too. Try walking, swimming, biking or dancing every day.
- Accept the things you cannot change.
Don't say, "I'm too old." You can still learn new things, work toward a goal, love and help others. - Remember to laugh.
Laughter makes you feel good. Don't be afraid to laugh out loud at a joke, a funny movie or a comic strip, even when you're alone. - Give up the bad habits.
Too much alcohol, cigarettes or caffeine can increase stress. If you smoke, decide to quit now. - Slow down.
Try to "pace" instead of "race." Plan ahead and allow enough time to get the most important things done. - Get enough sleep.
Try to get six to eight hours of sleep each night. If you can't sleep, take steps to help reduce stress and depression. Physical activity also may improve the quality of sleep. - Get organized.
Use "to do" lists to help you focus on your most important tasks. Approach big tasks one step at a time. For example, start by organizing just one part of your life — your car, desk, kitchen, closet, cupboard or drawer. - Practice giving back.
Volunteer your time or return a favor to a friend. Helping others helps you. - Try not to worry.
The world won't end if your grass isn't mowed or your kitchen isn't cleaned. You may need to do these things, but today might not be the right time.
Healthy habits can protect you from the harmful effects of stress. Here are 10 positive healthy habits you may want to develop.
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You may decide to hire people and train them to do what you do (if you can), but many small business owners prefer not to; especially those who work from home. If they decide to employ more people, they need to consider investing in commercial premises and stocking those premises; which is expensive and a risk, as they have no idea if the new business model will work. Equally, if they elect to hire people to work from home, there are issues regarding quality monitoring. Both those models can work, and for many they do work (extremely well), but it’s not for everyone.
It’s also an outdated model for most small business service providers, who want to have a great income and a great lifestyle too! You want to stop exchanging time for money. You can look at developing a very interesting 12 part course, which is delivered over a 12 month period to clients who pay an annual fee. The course consists of workbooks, videos and a members only website, packed with useful information. If the marketplace decides this digital product is great value, once it’s developed, it can be scaled indefinitely. There’s no income ceiling. With the right marketing and a strong product, this coach can achieve a 6 figure (or 7 figure) income goal with no scaling issues. Here’s a suggestion! If you are a service provider, you have specialist knowledge, which you can develop into a high value product or program. Make your product or program something that can be downloaded, like the coach I mentioned earlier, and you eliminate the need for; stock, storage, distribution and suppliers. People like myself, with large, targeted readerships can sell your product and collectively get it in front of millions of people each year. If you know what you are doing, the potential is huge. Courtesy of Jim's Marketing Blog Flashpoint Business Center has partnered with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to present a Brown Bag Lunch Hour at Flashpoint!
Eleanor Whitney, Program Officer for External Affairs and Fiscal Sponsorship from Artspire, a project of NYFA, will present on Artspire/NYFA’s resources, fundraising and support programs available nationwide for artists in all disciplines at every stage in their careers. The presentation is geared towards individual artists across all disciplines and small/emerging arts organizations and will cover Artspire/NYFA’s extensive resources, fundraising and support programs. The lunch hour is a FREE event and will be held on April 1, 2011 from 12-1PM at Flashpoint (916 G Street NW, Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro). Bring your food, your questions, and register now for an Artspire One-on-One for after the talk! To attend, you must RSVP by Thursday, March 31st to Kate Judson, Program Coordinator, by e-mailing [email protected]. You’re probably well-aware that Facebook’s News Feed and Google’s search results adjust based on your behavior and demonstrated preferences. But are these and the web’s other algorithms making us collectively uninformed as a society? That’s the argument that Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn.org, made in a TED talk on Thursday in Long Beach, California. Pariser started his talk by noting a trend he saw on Facebook. Over time, he said, the conservative friends he had started following to ensure a diverse set of viewpoints (Pariser describes himself as “progressive” politically) gradually started disappearing. As he would soon discover, that was a result of him clicking far more frequently on the links posted by his more liberal friends. This “invisible algorithmic editing of the web,” as Pariser describes it, “moves us to a world where the Internet shows us what it thinks we need to see, but not what we should see.” Beyond Facebook, Pariser notes the huge diversity of search results his friends find on Google about topics like Egypt, where one friend sees news about recent protests and Lara Logan, while another sees results about travel and vacations. In turn, Pariser believes we’re collectively creating what he calls a personal “filter bubble,” which is also the title of a book on the subject due out in May. And while he falls short of arguing that the trend towards personalization must end, he says the likes of Facebook and Google need to “have a sense of civic responsibility, and let us know what’s getting filtered … [and offer] controls to let us decide what gets through and what doesn’t.” What he’d like to see is an information world that “gives us a bit of Justin Bieber and a bit of Afghanistan,” marked by controls that let us filter content by its relevance, importance, comfort (topics that can be difficult to discuss or read), challenge level, and points of view (with an option to see “alternative”). Of course, much of that goes against the history of the Internet, which has been marked by its ability to connect like-minded people, both for good and for bad. In other words, Google and Facebook could build such controls and even bake more human editing into their algorithms, but do people even want them? What do you think? Is the personalization of the Web making us less informed? Do the companies driving innovation on the web have a civic responsibility to give us a fuller world view? Sound off in the comments. Come enjoys the sounds of DJ Natty Boom & the up and coming, DJ Prizm! Happy hour specials and dope art from myself, Dawn J. aka Tree. FYI: I'vebeen working hard on some new pieces!!
A Nova is an explosion in the sky producing gamma rays in the process. I'm exploding. Rays are my soul. Tree We can either be passive consumers of ideas or we can actively use what we learn, to build a better future. We can use information in order to achieve our best results ever or become an eternal gatherer of insights and guidance, which we never use.
We live in an age where there has never been greater access to business development information-in books, free workshops, school and the drop of your finger to the keyboard with the fast pace of the internet. Much of this is written by accomplished, respected experts – People we know we can trust. It’s there right now, just waiting to be read and acted on. I often wonder how many struggling small business owners would be millionaires today, if they decided to act on some of the great information they gathered; rather than simply gathering more and more ideas that they never put into action. Free Online Tax Filing: The Beehive
If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, you can file both state and federal returns FOR FREE* at www.MyFreeTaxes.com/dceitc! * Free for everyone who earned less than $57,000 per year The DC EITC Campaign and its two primary partners, CAAB and Community Tax Aid, are working with One Economy, the Walmart Foundation, the United Way of the National Capital Area and The Real Economic Impact Tour to offer this FREE online service through The Beehive, a program created by DC-area nonprofit One Economy to be “the place to go for information and resources around the things that matter in our lives: money, health, jobs, school and family.” Learn How to File Your Taxes on Your Own! Trained IRS-Certified Volunteers will help you learn to file your taxes on your own with MyFreeTaxes at sites throughout the DC area. Check out the schedule below to see when we will be in your neighborhood. Special Session: Deaf taxpayers who need assistance filing can get help from ASL-speaking volunteers: Tuesday, March 1st, 3:30 - 7:30 pm MLK Library Adaptive Services, 902 G St. NW, Room 215 Mobile Tax Van Schedule The Mobile Tax Van will provide individuals and families with access to computers and online tax preparation platforms. It will be equipped with laptops, tables and chairs, and will travel to sites around the Washington Metropolitan Area. Individuals can visit any of the sites listed below, but must have an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of less than $57,000 per year to participate. Date and Time Location Friday, February 25 10:00 am – 3:00pm Boat People SOS 6066 Leesburg Pike Suite 100 Falls Church, VA 22041 Saturday, February 26 10:00 am – 1:30pm Operation Hope 2509 Good Hope Rd., SE Washington, DC 20020 Wednesday, March 2 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Operation Hope 2509 Good Hope Rd., SE Washington, DC 20020 Thursday, March 3 11:00 – 3:00 pm Operation Hope 2509 Good Hope Rd., SE Washington, DC 20020 Friday, March 4 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Operation Hope 2509 Good Hope Rd., SE Washington, DC 20020 Saturday, March 5 10:30 am – 2:30pm Greater Washington Boys and Girls Club 4103 Benning Rd., NE Washington, DC 20019 Capitol Area Assets Builders (CAAB) offers its Money Management 101 workshop series on a regular basis. This 5-part series will cover the basics of money management, including setting financial goals and tracking expenses, budgeting and saving, credit and compound interest, and credit reports.
The next MM 101 series will be held: Mondays from February 28th to March 28th (5 weeks) 6:30-8:30pm or Saturdays from February 26th to March 26th (5 weeks) 10am-12pm All classes will be held at Martin Luther King Library (901 G. Street NW, Rm. A-5) Register: call: 202-419-1443 or email: [email protected] Full Figured Fashion Week™ is looking for freelance (new faces) and agency runway models for shows & events during the month of June 2011. The deadline to submit is Friday, March 4, 2011.
What are We Looking For?
1. Mandatory Video Submission - In an attempt to further reduce cost, models who reside out of the state of New York are required to submit a video clip of your runway ability when you submit your application below. So, that means you must submit your two photos (see above), a video and your application to be considered. 2. You should upload your video clip to www.YouTube.com and send us the URL to the YouTube.com page in the space provided on the application below. If you indicate that you live out of the state of New York but do not send us a link attached to your application, your submission will be voided upon receipt. Tips for Submitting Your Video:
Note to ALL Models:
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