Developing a realistic budget based on your expenses and initial salary can foremost ensure that you don’t end up broke and back to your parent’s nest by the end of the month. It can be hard to know what to do with your money when you have never had to deal with an actual budget, so here are a few tips on helping millennials make budget for their first job:...
Meeting potential lovers is now more convenient than ever. Instead of going out to socialize in person, we can sit in the safety of our bedrooms mindlessly scrolling through an endless sea of dating fishes. We download as many dating apps as we can, beef up our profile with witty remarks or clever emoji chain in hopes that princess flattery or prince charming happens to swipe right as well. It’s created a vicious cycle of judgement making snap decision after snap decision based almost solely on six pictures or less....
1. Rapid Brain Growth Rapid brain growth is affected by technology. From the ages of 0-2, infants’ brains triple in size! This rapid growth continues until you’re 21 years old. While your brain is developing, it’s important to use a wide variety of motor skills instead of just staring at a screen. It’s more important to learn how to grasp things, turn things, button buttons and zip zippers than it is to know how to poke at a graphic....
If you allow your kids to have screen time (many of us moms do) on an iPad or phone, why not choose an app that is both entertaining for your kids AND educational? It will keep your children’s attention while teaching them important cognitive skills. What should you look for when deciding what app to introduce to your kids? Experts have analyzed existing research on educational interactional media for developing kids under the age of 8, and they formulated these five key criteria that you should keep in mind:[1] The following apps are great places to start....
1. Choose Someone Who Makes You Smile Smiling is an important part of being in a relationship. It shows that you are happy, and that this person is the one making you happy. A person with this quality could potentially be your life partner. 2. Choose Someone Who Keeps You Focused Everybody has certain goals in life that they want to achieve. You want to make sure that the person you choose to spend the rest of your life with will help you strive to achieve those goals....
It’s important for introverts to understand that even though this is a common misconception, there is nothing wrong with them and they don’t need to change or “fix” their behaviors. You are actually very normal! Illustrator Marzi Wilson does a great job of showing us that it really is ok to be introverted through her work. Below are three pictures from her book “Introvert Doodles”. It’s not that I don’t like you, I really like you....
If you want to find out more about how our brain responds to pain and what we can do to relieve pain, read more in How the Brain Interprets Pain and How to Get Relief. Temporary or acute pain, caused by minor ailments like a sprain or a burn, usually resolves itself after the affected region heals. When an acute situation goes unresolved or causes a malfunction in the nervous system, however, the pain cycle becomes self-perpetuating....
“The best things in life are free.” “Money can’t buy happiness.” The list of goes on and on. But what if money actually could buy happiness? What if people started viewing money in a different light and began appreciating its purpose rather than fearing its lack? What if giving what you hope to get actually worked? And what if maybe, just maybe, you bust out of your comfort zone, get a little radical and test-drive a few of these myth-busting slants for yourself?...
They treat everyone with respect When I say “everyone,” I mean that. Those who are emotionally inviting never look down on anybody, and are always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. They give everyone “the time of day” regardless of how busy they are. Because they are so eager to give respect to everyone they come into contact with, they end up receiving it back wherever they go....
Loss of Identity If you are putting on a different show for every audience you come across during the day, it’s easy to lose track of who you really are. Ponder the personality and attitude you reflect with your friends, family, and co-workers. If you notice a stark contrast in how you behave in each social scenario, you are being untrue to yourself. I know there are certain things about you that you might want to avoid talking about with specific people and I get that, so please understand that I am not saying you should talk about your sex life with your parents or co-workers, but if you’re changing your personality and behavior wildly throughout the day, you are being dishonest, and phoniness can be detected from miles away....
How does new breast cancer therapy work? The study presented at the European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam demonstrated a new, miraculous treatment for breast cancer. Team of researchers led by Professor Nigel Bundred of the University of Manchester conducted a study which included 257 women who had been diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer and were waiting for surgery. The study was divided into two different parts. First part included 130 women who were assigned to three different groups:...
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. By Robert Frost Are You Working Harder, or Working Smarter?: Looking at the 40 Hour Work Week
Time to Challenge Your Beliefs
Here’s a couple of quotes from a manuscript written by some guy named Frank Bacon: There’s plenty more where that came from, over at Gretchen’s site. Check out her photo while you’re there and make up your own mind. Is she really a well-kept 381 years old? Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still. Beware of sudden change in any great point of diet, and if necessity enforce it, fit the rest to it....
When it comes to phone numbers, research has shown that our memories are not terribly good. While 49% of people could not remember their parents’ phone numbers, 71% could not recall their children’s numbers. Interestingly, 47% of people could still recall their phone number from when they were aged between 10 and 15, with greater importance being placed on remembering numbers when they were young – thereby pushing their memories to work harder....
Even the treatments for cancer, such as chemotherapy, can wreak havoc on the body, causing you to become ill, lose your hair and more. Because of all the devastating effects of cancer and even the treatments for cancer, it makes sense that we should do all we can to avoid getting cancer in the first place. Our foods are one of the biggest sources of cancer causing agents today, but not all foods are bad and not all are good....
10. Facebook is closing down Facebook-haters like to spread the myth every few years that the site is closing. It is claimed that Mark Zuckerberg is overworked, has fallen out of love with Facebook and that the servers are overloaded. There is no evidence to back up these claims. In fact, since the IPO, it seems that this myth couldn’t be further from the truth. 9. Friends’ acquaintances can see your timeline This myth has been perpetuated a lot on the Facebook site itself....
1. Meatball Sliders Required ingredients: red onion, frozen cooked Italian meatballs, jar of marinara sauce, balsamic vinegar, crushed red pepper, cheese, Roma tomatoes, slider buns Combine the chopped red onions, meatballs, pasta sauce, vinegar and red pepper in a slow cooker. Cook covered on low for about five hours or on high for about two hours. Once cooked, stir the mixture evenly, and serve on a bun with cheese and tomato....
