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If you have a broken phone, a smashed screen or even a phone that went swimming in the toilet, do not worry, my friend, no one is exempt from smartphone damage. There are, however, some good news for you during this difficult time. There is a way for you to recover data from your broken iPhone or Android device. Read on to see how you can do this. Types of Smartphone Damage There are two ways in which your mobile phone can suffer damage: software damage and hardware damage....

I have also experienced people unleashing their anger at me and again, the consequence for me was not great. Anger can cause problems in your life. If left long enough, the negative expression of anger not only affects those around us but also impacts our quality of life and health. Dealing With Anger and Uncertainty The NZ government strategy to dealing with the COVID-19 crisis was to put the county into Level 4 lockdown....

These different chemical concentrations can cause immediate physical symptoms. For example, if you are suffering from anxiety, you may notice headaches and shaky hands. Childhood experiences and memories become deeply rooted in our current emotions. During a study conducted on 17,000 people, it was seen that the subjects with a disturbed childhood were 4-50 time more likely to suffer from physical ailments such as fractures, diabetes, and heart diseases....

On a more macro level, the ability to speak up at work can be extremely productive and create great things for your immediate team and the organization as a whole. If you open your mouth at the wrong time or in the wrong place, all it’s going to do is create divides between your colleagues and negatively impact the work being done. Let’s take a look at how to speak up at work without being offensive....

But we didn’t want to quit our awesome jobs at Azendoo just because our lives were making us move away. So the founding team at Azendoo decided to adopt a new culture to welcome this new remote working organization. So from my team’s experience, here are 10 tips to switch from an in-office culture to a (partly) remote-working one. As a team, if you want to start working remotely, you first need to know that you have some challenges ahead....

At best, critique groups are supportive, constructive, attuned to the work not personality, and usually peopled by well-read, life-educated, published, or almost-published writers. At worst, well, that’s another post. Before You Begin, Stop Reading Writers’ Memoirs Many writers feel writing groups are an admission of weakness or lack of talent. Some think they’re boring wastes of time. If you really want to be in action about your writing, you will need to stop listening to famous authors who write about hating groups....

When you journal, you’re putting aspirations and frustrations into words. Once you begin writing these moments down, you will find yourself on the road to achieving your dreams. Here are 6 tips to help you get started with journaling for self-development. 1. Set Your Intentions The first step for starting a journal is to decide why you want to begin writing and what you hope to get out of it....

Are you trying to save up for a down payment on a home? Regardless of where an individual lives, this is going to be one of the biggest investments anyone can make. Or perhaps you already have a mortgage and just want to put away a little bit extra every month after this financial obligation. Start by looking at the amount of money you spend on eating out every day....

Not only do you have news and social media working hard to flood you with sensationalized stories each day, but you also have your own mindset working against you. We each have our own inherent negativity bias[1] where the bad stuff tends to stay around much longer in our mind than anything positive. This was a survival mechanism back in hunter-gatherer times, but no longer serves us. Always being negative is something that you can train yourself out of with a little bit of practice and perseverance....

There is a “magic sentence” you can use that will lovingly deepen your connection as you support your partner. But the reality is, instead, both you and your partner can be triggered into variations of the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. You may resort to superhero or deflector roles that were developed in childhood as coping mechanisms for difficult times. You may have already discovered that these strategies may be less than helpful now if you’ve tried to apply them to your partner....

What Is a Quarter Life Crisis? According to popular psychology, a quarter life crisis is a period “involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one’s life” which is most commonly experienced in a period ranging from a person’s twenties up to their mid-thirties. [1] It tends to occur after we have finished our schooling and study, when we have settled into everyday life, often at major points or life changing events when we feel we are at a crossroads....

As I mentioned on the other sleep post, how to find the exact 15 minutes from falling into sleep into waking up. This is probably still my question on research. How to Take A Caffeine Nap – [Achieve-IT]

Decided what time I wanted to get up Set myself a goal Promised myself a reward Tracked my progress using Joe’s Goals Get clothes, computer and breakfast ready the night before Alarms Naps Earlier nights Boast widely about your new early-birdiness Always leave them wanting more How I trained myself to get up earlier in the morning – [Bad Language]

What Is Hard Work? So, what really is hard work? We’ve all heard it somewhere sometime that we need to work hard if we want to achieve anything in life. I started hearing this before I even started elementary school. However, for all the fuss about working hard, no one ever really explained to me what hard work is. Again, what is hard work? This is one of the questions where you don’t need a universal definition....

If you have kids, you know that Halloween means your house will be filled with tempting sweet treats for the foreseeable future. But let’s put this into perspective for a moment. Let’s say your child visits 30 houses on Halloween (many kids are much more aggressive) and picks up a “fun-sized” candy bar at each house. Assuming each of those fun-sized candy bars has 250 calories (I’m using Snickers as the basis for this assumption), your kid would be bringing home 7,500 calories worth of candy....

I will breathe. I will think of solutions, I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit. Shayne McClendon

10 Things Smart People Don’t Do

1. You know songs that don’t belong to your generation at all. When your classmates are busy fan-girling over Justin Bieber’s latest album or arguing who is the hottest Jonas Brother, you are more likely to be listening to some amazing retro love songs, and what most would argue was ‘real’ music—be it Bon Jovi or Guns n Roses. Or perhaps when your friends talk about how amazing Green Day’s new music is, you reminisce about their pre-American Idiot and Dookie days and think how awesome those old rock anthems still are....

Firstly let me say, stop it. It’s pathetic and pointless. And for the rest of us innocent bystanders… very annoying. To be completely honest, we’re sick of your whining, your complaining, your anger, your victim mentality and your inability to see that your current attitude (not some historical event) is your biggest problem. We’re also sick of you blaming your (current) bad behaviour on your parents. What’s standing between you and success right now is YOU....

It is a graphic novel delivered in a modernist, hyper-real persona that severally incorporates actual photographs. This lends an extra air of credence to the tales and the intricacy of the dilapidated and abandoned structures. But it is the author’s quest for answers to her nagging life while trying to evade the realities of life that make Imagine Wanting Only Thisworth a read. Solitude for a partner Radtke seems interested in both the emotional loneliness and the world’s literal ruin, a theme that becomes clear right from the sudden death of her beloved uncle....