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Surviving Army Basic Training. Editor's Note: Recruits "lucky" enough to attend basic training at Fort Benning, GA will be part of a test-program which significantly changes the basic training schedule. While the length of basic training isn't changing, the test program makes it much more "intense. " Field Exercises are expanded from the current 3 days to 10 days for one test group, and from 3 days to 23 days for the other test program (you don't get to find out which test group you are in until after you get there). For details, see related article. As with Air Force Basic Training, you'll want to do some things to prepare in advance before departing for Army Boot Camp.

As with all military boot camps, tobacco products are forbidden, so if you smoke or chew, now would be a good time to quit. A significant portion of your nine weeks at Army Boot Camp will be taken up with marching, drill, ceremonies, and lots & lots of standing in formation. Medication. Stamps and some stationary are good to bring. Homemade Hair Treatments - At Home DIY Hair Treatments. Eggs, yogurt and honey are, at first glance, all components of a tasty breakfast—but they also happen to be hair treatment ingredients, and affordable, all-natural ones at that. And they're not the only ones. Did you know, for instance, that the oils in avocados more closely resemble our own skin's oils than any product in the beauty aisle does? Or that the mild acidity in lemon is an effective—and gentler—alternative to chemical-laden products?

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Hope for everything. Take care of things close to home first. Know that the desire to be perfect is probably the veiled expression of another desire - to be loved, perhaps, or not to die, ever. Make eye contact with a tree. Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of them. Dress in a way that pleases both you and those around you. Do not speak quickly. Stay out of debt and small swimming pools. Learn something every day. Be nice to people before they have a chance to behave badly. Don't stay angry about anything for more than a week, but don't forget what made you angry. Free Brainwave Entrainment, Binaural beats, Isochronic Tones, and Monoaural Beats online therapies (mp3 audios) for mental health.

Welcome to GoodVibras.com. In this site you will find special sounds for healing and enhancing your mind and body. We created these sounds using brainwave entrainment, binaural beats, and isochronic tones technologies. Brainwave entrainment means that you can heal and enhance your mind and body by just listening to these special sounds. Binaural beats audios are optimized for headphones and isochronic tones for speakers. The sounds come in the form of MP3 audios that you can listen in any MP3 player, smartphone, pc, or tablet. Note that you should never replace your doctor and medical treatments with these audios. If you are confused with the terms, you should not be worry about this. How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes. David Rowan Editor of Wired magazine This article was featured in Times Magazine, 5 November. There's a shorter version in the Ideas Bank section on the current Wired magazine. Thanks to WPP's Stream for making my little experiment possible...

Can you make someone become intimately close to you -- even fall in love with you -- in less than an hour? Dr Aron -- known to friends as Art -- runs the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University on the north shore of Long Island, east of New York City, and he has love on his mind. Back in 1997, Aron and colleagues published a paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin on "The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness". They arranged volunteers in pairs, and gave them a list of 36 questions that, one by one, they were both asked to answer openly over an hour "in a kind of sharing game". But would the "fast friends" experiment also work with more worldly senior executives and entrepreneurs?

50 Things Everyone Should Know. By Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive , here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

Read the rest of the article. - StumbleUpon. 101 Inspirational Quotes to Light Up Your Life. I love inspirational quotes. Don’t you? They have the power to inspire, guide, and bring entirely new insights. The right quote can help you sail in a new direction, keep aligned with your focus, or transform a less than desirable habit. Quotations can also be a perfect remedy for almost any emotional, mental, or spiritual woe, or at least an important part of your healing toolkit. I’ve created a second collection of inspirational quotes to share with you today. Please enjoy. “It’s not what you call me, but what I answer to.” – African proverb“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

“If it weren’t for my mind, my meditation would be excellent.” – Pema Chodron“I like living. Do you use inspirational quotes in your life? You might also like my first collection 100 Inspirational Quotes to Celebrate 100 Blog Posts. "Death and Life" Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog. 18 Rules of Living by the Dalai Lama. Author quote posters. Being around a successful author would surely be exhausting and inspiring in equal amounts. As well as all that wisdom they put into their books, their thought-provoking one-liners would literally be falling out here, there and everywhere.

So while you'd beat yourself up for not possessing even a smidgen of that kind of talent, you'd also be maniacally scribbling it all down for dinner party quoting. The rather smart Evan Robertson has created a set of posters that combine iconic author quotes with genius design work. If you don't want at least two of these hanging on your wall then we need to have a serious chat. Tags: books, Design, Posters. 101 Most Beatiful Places To Visit Before You Die! (Part I) What a life it's been.