The Season Of Giving “Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body” Here’s a shocker for you. Myself and Spring at Pebbleshoo don’t give each other stuff for Christmas. We don’t give each other stuff on our birthdays or on our wedding anniversary either. This isn’t to say we don’t give to each other. We give a lot, and not just on specific arbitrary days of the year. When we need stuff, we get it. Products only become valuable to me when they have enabled me to experience something of worth. Nearing the top of the couloir Our favorite products act as catalysts for experiences. I think somewhere along the path to becoming a Consumerist Society some of us have lost this understanding. This season we want to encourage you, our reader, to try something different. We want you to try giving memories before stuff, and if you are giving stuff, to give stuff with stories. So how can you do this? So here is your Call to Action! We’ll start.
100 Getting to Know You Questions Working with a group of new people and need some conversation starters? Break the ice and get to know people better by selecting several of these get-to-know-you questions. Who is your hero? If you could live anywhere, where would it be? What is your biggest fear? What is your favorite family vacation? Party Time! 26. Plan you family meal, office potluck, team party and more. 51. Group Fundraising has never been easier! 76. 90. If you really want to get to know someone, questions (not all at once, of course!) Janis Meredith writes Jbmthinks, a blog on sports parenting and youth sports. Posted by Janis Meredith Posted by Punit Gupta on Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:06 AM EST Great Posted by Anna Nelson on Sun Jan 4, 2015 4:51 PM EST HAHA thanks i needed this for a activity!!!!! Posted by Graham Rogers on Tue Dec 30, 2014 4:12 PM EST What about: If you were on a deserted island what 3 things would you take? Posted by Juggling For A Cure on Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:10 AM EST Thanks for introducing me to myself. :)
Thesis Prison Family Thesiswhisperer has spent the last month in our hometown of Melbourne. We caught up with many friends and relatives while we were there, some of whom are doing or have just completed doctorates. One friend got pregnant twice during her doctorate and had a longer journey than most. While we raised a glass to her recent gradaution I asked her how it felt to be done. “Liberating!” I nodded emphatically. Part of the problem is that a thesis is such a long project. Exercise, socialising, The Good Wife TV marathons are the kinds of things that get cut in order to make way for the thesis. Thesis Prison is similar to the Valley of Shit, but without the self doubt because there’s no time left. So here are 4 tips for getting fit and/or surviving Thesis Prison. Put on your damn shoes Even though we all know that having a routine is valuable, sticking to it is much easier said than done. Routines consist of smaller actions done in a certain order. It’s all about time served The lesson?
Online Dating Checklist Lately I’ve been thinking about my online dating guide, particularly how it continues to grow and how all the information might be overwhelming to someone new to online dating. With that in mind, I’ve put together the following checklist that provides dating suggestions at a very high level based on the advice I provide in my dating guide. Where my guide goes into great detail into each area, this list keeps things simple for quick review. This list is broken down into the major areas of online date: beginning dating online, creating your online dating profile, the communication process, meeting and your first date and, finally, continuing dating online. Each of these sections contains information on how you should approach that phase of online dating. Section 1: As You Begin 1. 2. 3. Section 2: Your Dating Profile 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Section 3: Communicating 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Section 4: The First Date 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Section 5: Continuing to Date Online 26. 27.
El infame caso de la psicóloga que inducía a sus pacientes al suicidio —Ilustración de portada de Marco Grassi Me llamo Lorena Wozniak y soy coach. Si no hubiera perdido mi empleo en una clínica pública, jamás habría pensado en hacer lo que hago. Hace poco conocí a Jovani. Jovani tiene 23 años, trabaja como head account en una empresa con base en París y Barcelona, y un día apareció en mi consulta para decirme que quería dejar a su novia y concentrarse en lo suyo. Yo le empujé a que lo hiciera; le dije que no fuera egoísta. Él siguió mis instrucciones y engañó a su novia, una modelo ampliamente popular en Internet. Tras un intento fallido de suicidio, llegó el peor desenlace: la pareja de mi cliente acabó con su vida. Durante las noches que siguieron a aquel final, yo no paraba de hacerme una pregunta: ¿hasta qué punto era yo culpable de aquella muerte? * Lee aquí el primer capítulo de esta historia. 1. A menudo pienso que mi trabajo en el campo de la psicología consiste en inducir a mis pacientes al suicidio. O por lo menos a la locura. Un vía crucis mental.
Online Dating Guide About the Free Online Dating Guide Download my free eBook, The Online Dating Guide, and find out exactly how I found success using online dating. Stop feeling frustrated! Learn what works and apply it to your own dating life. Online dating can be confusing and frustrating…trust me, I know. In my last few months of online dating, I was going on many first dates every week. Learn more about my experience dating online >> What’s Included My Dating Guide? In honor of Audrey Hepburn's birthday, her most memorable quotes Born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium, Audrey Hepburn was (and always will be) a beloved film icon. She’s known best for her roles in classic films like Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. But she was more than a beautiful woman in a black dress, gazing into a jewelry store window. She was a ballet dancer, a humanitarian and an animal activist. In 1992, she was awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. “Nothing is impossible. Living is like tearing through a museum. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further.
Stop The Heartbreak Cycle: 7 Dos and Don’ts For Handling a Break-Up “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” ~Unknown I’ve learned to be thankful for my first heartbreak. Of course, at the time of the crime I struggled to see anything positive in it. It was literally as if someone stabbed my heart; there was a problem that caused my body to stop working properly. In fact, I still think of him occasionally; it’s so hard to turn off. Like during any trauma your body faces, it tries to repair itself so it can be whole again. I became emotionally promiscuous. Normally my standards are that I date just one person at a time and don’t get intimate with anyone until I’m in a relationship. But now that my heart was hurt, all those rules were thrown out the window. I dated guys just to date someone. I wanted to display the image that I was fine, happy, healthy, and so over the perpetrator. Pretty soon he asked me to be his girlfriend. But I never did. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Writers' Lab: 7 Most Common Resume Writing Mistakes to Avoid Today in the Writers' Lab we are hosting a professional ghost writer, Jeffrey Peters. Jeffrey works as a chief editor for SolidEssay.com, which is a college paper writing service based in the US. In this post, he gives us his best advice for writing a resume. Writing an excellent curriculum vitae or a resume may take some effort and skill, but it is significant at the end since it is a manuscript that vouches for your requirements and strives against other resumes that have been presented for the identical place or position. It might be simpler than you believe to conceive a resume that will put you into the top, but there are decisively some things you should not do when composing it. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
A List of 100 Questions to Ask Your Partner on Date Nights Date nights for established couples can feel boring and stale if you talk about the same old topics all the time. Talking about work, the kids, or household repairs should not be the primary focus of nights when you’re trying to reconnect as a couple. So, here is a list of 100 — yes, 100 — questions that you can choose from to ask each other on your next dinner out. Use only two to three questions per date night, and really talk about the answers in depth. What is your favorite memory of dating me? Whew! Featured photo credit: Dinner Date via pulsd.com Guest Blogger: Anderson Davis So there’s this hot new show running in L.A. right now called For the Record: Tarantino. It features the music from Pulp Fiction, Death Proof, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Any fan of QT’s films will love this clever, intimate production and we are so excited to have Anderson Davis, the Director/Writer of the show here to talk about it. About For the Record: Film’s most memorable characters and songs have always been permanently etched into celluloid and digital history, unchanging and frozen in time…until now. Photo Cred: Pamela Littky Congratulations on the show! Thanks! Yes! No, not yet. Quentin Tarantino, Demi Moore and Rumer Willis in the audience at For The Record: Tarantino How long was the rehearsal process and how many actors are in the cast? There are 9 characters in the show and each role is played by 2 or 3 different actors who rotate performances. Rony’s Photo Booth What songs didn’t make the cut?
7 Types of Women to Stay Away From. *Author’s Note: This is a response to an article written by Dina Strada, 7 Types of Men to Stay Away From. It seems like Dina wrote it from her heart, and based on the reactions I read on Facebook, many women agree with her. I have imitated her style and form in an effort to show another perspective, my perspective—a man’s perspective. As men, it’s too easy to assume women are what we see on the outside. Drawn in by her looks, a smile, we are quick to let our guard down and minimize any negative qualities. We can usually explain why we fall. It’s not surprising, then, that many men fall for the same types of woman over and over again, even it if always turns out the same way. Complete f*cking bullsh*t. If you stop and take an outsider’s look at your current relationship, you may realize you are in this pattern right now. Everyone can change, though, and who knows, maybe this time it will turn out differently. 1. This girl is just a few short qualities away from perfect. Stop now! 2. 3. 4.
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Getting Started with Working in a Research Lab This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those of you interested in pursuing a research position in the Netherlands. If these posts raise your interest in working as a researcher in the Netherlands, even better - and feel free to fire away any questions you might have on this topic! So you've found yourself a great PhD program and supervisor, which is part of your Plan for Your Academic Life, and now you're supposed to get started with your experiments in the lab of your research group. After a few days of taking care of the basics of getting started in your program and doing all the paperwork, you're excited to get started working in your research lab. You start with a smile on your face, maybe even whistling while you work. And then you break something. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
50 Things Men Wish Women Knew I just came across this article and thought it would be great for all of us ladies on here. I know my single friends and I always question what guys really want and this gives us a little more insight into that. Not to mention it's some great advice from men about what they wish we ladies knew/understood about them. What He Wishes You Knew #1 Express yourself. What He Wishes You Knew #2 You look hot in running shoes and shorts. What He Wishes You Knew #3 Bare, tan shoulders are underrated. What He Wishes You Knew #4 If you think I'm speeding now, you should see me drive when you're not in the car. What He Wishes You Knew #5 If you're truly interested in us, don't play hard to get. What He Wishes You Knew #6 Shopping is a chore, not an activity. What He Wishes You Knew #7 When I screw up, go ahead and tell me—once. What He Wishes You Knew #8 No question need ever be asked through a closed bathroom door if I'm inside. What He Wishes You Knew #9 What He Wishes You Knew #10 My guy friends.