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Month: August 2021
Can’t find your car keys? Forget your grocery list? You’re not alone. Everyone forgets things occasionally. Still, memory loss is nothing to take lightly. Although there are no guarantees when it comes to preventing memory loss , certain activities might help.
This article provides seven simple ways to sharpen your memory:
1. Include physical activity in your daily routine: Physical activity increases blood flow to your whole body, including your brain. This might help keep your memory sharp.
2. Stay mentally active: Just as physical activity helps keep your body in shape, mentally stimulating activities help keep your brain in shape.
3. Socialize regularly: Social interaction helps ward off depression and stress, both of which can contribute to memory loss.
4. Get organized: You’re more likely to forget things if your home is cluttered and your notes are in disarray. Jot down tasks, appointments and other events in a special notebook, calendar or electronic planner. Keep to-do lists current and check off items you’ve completed. Limit distractions and don’t do too many things at once.
5. Sleep well: Sleep plays an important role in helping you consolidate your memories, so you can recall them down the road. Make getting enough sleep a priority.
6. Eat a healthy diet: A healthy diet might be as good for your brain as it is for your heart. Eat fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Choose low-fat protein sources, such as fish, beans and skinless poultry. What you drink counts, too.
7. Manage chronic conditions: The better you take care of yourself, the better your memory is likely to be.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Dealing with dissenters in the workplace can be scary. It forces you to get outside of your comfort zone and hear criticism about your ideas, your performance, or group dynamics that might sting at first.But dissent is actually a gif: it points out gaps that need to be filled, weaknesses that need to be strengthened. When you’re open to hearing dissent, you’ll continually improve your best ideas. Plus, open communication is key to building trust in the workplace.
Dealing with dissenters in your workplace will grow easier as voicing dissent becomes an accepted part of the culture. When it’s welcomed rather than feared, people will start to present it in a more positive way rather than feeling they have to be aggressive about it or stay silent. As people put it into practice, they’ll hone their ideas into stronger plans of action.
This article provides 6 useful tips to encourage dissenters and deal with them on the workplace:
1. Ask for critiques: Soliciting criticism is the only way to make your people feel comfortable voicing it. Don’t assume they feel comfortable stating it just because you respond well to it. Ask for it assertively; show real enthusiasm for hearing it, rather than making weak statements. Explain why dissent is so important to your organization to show you’re committed to hearing and using it. Trusting your people to provide input will make your whole team shine.
2. Ask follow-up questions: To really listen to what your dissenters have to say, prompt people to explain their rationale for their dissenting opinions. If in a group discussion, ask others what they think about the dissenting opinion. Dig deep into the issue, igniting conversation that helps people more fully understand how they feel about the issue. Dissent in the workforce needs to be explored, validated, and utilized by the group to be effective.
3. Make sure the comments are directed to the people who need to hear them: Communicating dissent is only empowering if the people voicing it know it will be heard by someone with the ability to use their feedback. Make sure people know who will hear their comments.
4. Ask for solutions: Challenge dissenters to present possible solutions, even far-fetched ones. When people start thinking creatively, solutions that higher-ups never imagined might take shape. However, people should feel free to voice dissent regardless of whether they’ve thought of a solution yet or not.
5. Rework the plan together: If critiques go to only one person who reformulates the plan singlehandedly, you’ll just see different problems arise. The plan needs to be reworked by a group who can see it from different vantage points and talk through concerns that arise in the moment.
6. Express gratitude for the dissent: When you share genuine gratitude in the workplace with someone for having the courage to voice their dissent, you’ll encourage more constructive dissent in the future. Thank the person in front of the group to send the message to everyone.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs.
In this interesting TED Talk, Julia Galef examines the motivations behind different mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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Giving clear understandable instructions is one of those things that sounds easy to do but in real life can actually be more complex, especially in an office environment or within a business. Mixed messages, assumptions and multiple options mean that the message received might differ from what we actually meant.
This article, provides 7 useful tips to give instructions that are clear and get the job done:
1. Don’t assume everyone know what you mean: An imperative when delivering clear instructions is to not assume the recipient knows what you mean, and this can be for anything from industry acronyms to who to contact in different departments or organisations. It will only take you a few seconds more to explain the details, but this will give a crucial help for achieving the result.
2. Be clear and specific: Whilst you don’t want to ramble on in your set of instructions, you do want to ensure that your instructions are clear, specific and concise. Using bullet point reduces the temptation to waffle on and it helps your instructions and actions be more focused.
3. Give time frames: Do not confuse matters by not being specific with your time frames and deadlines. What you consider as “soon” might be very different from your colleagues.
4. Give examples: Whenever possible, make sure you give examples. This will be especially beneficial if they are new to the role, or if they haven’t carried out the task before. This will help to add clarity to you instructions and help form a clearer picture of what it is you mean and want.
5. Give alternatives: When delivering your instructions it is worth considering giving some alternatives just in case our preferred option of instruction is not viable or available. By giving alternatives you are empowering your staff to get the job done with minimal fuss and constant checking back in with yourself.
6. Set boundaries: Once a task is set, the instructions should be clear enough that further confirmation and clarification is not needed. If this rings true with you then you need to make sure that your instructions are clear so that they are certain what they are doing and don’t feel the need to keep coming back with questions.
7. Get clarification: Before you let your staff loose on the basis of your instruction, it wouldn’t hurt to seek clarification from them to ensure that they understand what the task at hand is and what is expected.
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The Diplo calendar 2021 realized by Stefano Baldi reveals some lesser known places in Italy and presents a selection of quotes referred to the role music in our everyday life.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of August:
Where words fail, music speaks
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