How To Motivate Yourself: 3 Steps Backed By Science You make goals… but then you procrastinate. You write a to-do list… but then you don’t follow through. And this happens again and again and again. Seriously, what’s the problem? Why are we so good at thinking of what to do but so terrible at actually doing those things? The problem is you’re skipping an essential step. The Mistake Every Productivity System Makes Productivity systems rarely take emotions into account. We can’t ignore our emotions. And we can’t fight our feelings. Via The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking: …when experimental subjects are told of an unhappy event, but then instructed to try not to feel sad about it, they end up feeling worse than people who are informed of the event, but given no instructions about how to feel. So what does the unavoidable power of feelings mean for motivation? In their book Switch, Chip and Dan Heath say that emotions are an essential part of executing any plan: Focus on emotions. 1) Get Positive It’s optimism.
Everybody is a genius... 10 Apps for Math Fluency There are so many ways to use mobile devices with students. You can create interactive textbooks for children to read, ask them to explain their thinking through screencasting or help them access informational text using QR codes. Mobile devices can also be used to help students practice foundational math skills and build their math fluency. In order for students to tackle the multi-step word problems they'll be asked to solve as early as elementary school, they need to have mastered their addition, subtraction and multiplication facts. By answering 4 + 12, 15 - 5, 9 x 7 and 18 / 3 quickly and accurately, students can focus on reading word problems to figure out what the question is asking them to do. There are tons of fun apps that help children build their math fluency through games and flashcards. Operation Math (iOS - $2.99, Android - $1.99) This app turns your students into secret spies that will travel around the world on different missions. Sushi Monster (iOS - Free)
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Java SimpleDateFormat example - Convert a Date to a formatted String (Java Date to String conversion) By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: Jun 14, 2014 Summary: This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Java SimpleDateFormat class to convert a Java Date to a formatted String. The Java SimpleDateFormat class provides lets you easily convert (a) between a Java String to a Date or (b) perform the opposite conversion, from a Java Date to a String. Our first Java SimpleDateFormat example In our first example, we begin by getting today's date (as a java.util.Date object), and then we'll create a Java SimpleDateFormat object to define the custom format we want for the date after it's converted to a String. Here's the source code for a complete Java SimpleDateFormat example class that demonstrates this custom date formatting approach: As you can see from the comments in the code, the custom date format (or pattern) we specified looked like this: yyyy-MM-dd-hh.mm.ss and the resulting formatted date output looks like this: SimpleDateFormat - many other custom date formats
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Java SimpleDateFormat - Convert a Java String to a Date (Java String to Date conversion) By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: Jun 10, 2014 Summary: A Java SimpleDateFormat (date formatting) example, showing how to convert a Java String to a Date. In an earlier example I showed how to use the Java SimpleDateFormat class to convert from a Date to a String, but you can also use the Java SimpleDateFormat class to convert in the opposite direction, from a given Java String to a Date object. SimpleDateFormat - Java String to Date conversion, example source code Here's the source code for a complete Java SimpleDateFormat example that demonstrates how to convert from a given formatted Java String to a Date object: SimpleDateFormat Java String to Date conversion - discussion As you can see from that example, the steps to convert from a given Java String to Date using SimpleDateFormat are: Again, just to drill this point home, the date format we're expecting ("MM/dd/yyyy") must match the format we're given (as it does in "09/22/2009"), otherwise the parse method will throw a ParseException.