Tuesday, November 16
Monday, November 15
Improving Self Esteem - Part I
There are a number of ways in which you can improve your self-esteem.
1. Identify and Challenge Your Negative Beliefs
The first step is to identify, and then challenge, your negative beliefs about yourself.
Notice your thoughts about yourself. For example, you might find yourself thinking ‘I’m not clever enough to do that’ or ‘I have no friends’. When you do, look for evidence that contradicts those statements. Write down both statement and evidence, and keep looking back at it to remind yourself that your negative beliefs about yourself are not true.
The first step is to identify, and then challenge, your negative beliefs about yourself.
Notice your thoughts about yourself. For example, you might find yourself thinking ‘I’m not clever enough to do that’ or ‘I have no friends’. When you do, look for evidence that contradicts those statements. Write down both statement and evidence, and keep looking back at it to remind yourself that your negative beliefs about yourself are not true.
2. Identify the Positive About Yourself
It is also a good idea to write down positive things about yourself, such as being good at a sport, or nice things that people have said about you. When you start to feel low, look back at these things, and remind yourself that there is plenty of good about you.
In general, positive internal dialogue is a big part of improving your self-esteem.
If you catch yourself saying things like ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I’m a failure’, you can start to turn things around by saying ‘I can beat this’ and ‘I can become more confident by viewing myself in a more positive way’.
To begin with you will catch yourself falling back into old negative habits, but with regular effort you can start to feel more positive and build your self-esteem as well.
It is also a good idea to write down positive things about yourself, such as being good at a sport, or nice things that people have said about you. When you start to feel low, look back at these things, and remind yourself that there is plenty of good about you.
In general, positive internal dialogue is a big part of improving your self-esteem.
If you catch yourself saying things like ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I’m a failure’, you can start to turn things around by saying ‘I can beat this’ and ‘I can become more confident by viewing myself in a more positive way’.
To begin with you will catch yourself falling back into old negative habits, but with regular effort you can start to feel more positive and build your self-esteem as well.
3. Build Positive Relationships—and Avoid Negative Ones
You will probably find that there are certain people—and certain relationships—that make you feel better than others.
If there are people who make you feel bad about yourself, try to avoid them.
Build relationships with people who make you feel good about yourself and avoid the relationships that drag you down.
You will probably find that there are certain people—and certain relationships—that make you feel better than others.
If there are people who make you feel bad about yourself, try to avoid them.
Build relationships with people who make you feel good about yourself and avoid the relationships that drag you down.
4. Give Yourself a Break
You don’t have to be perfect every hour of every day. You don’t even have to feel good about yourself all the time.
Self-esteem varies from situation to situation, from day to day and hour to hour. Some people feel relaxed and positive with friends and colleagues, but uneasy and shy with strangers. Others may feel totally in command of themselves at work but struggle socially (or vice versa).
Give yourself a break. We all have times when we feel a bit down or find it harder to maintain our self-belief.
The key is not to be too hard on yourself. Be kind to yourself, and not too critical.
Avoid criticising yourself to others, because this can reinforce your negative views—and also give other people a (possibly false) negative opinion of you.
You can help to boost your self-esteem by giving yourself a treat whenever you succeed in doing something hard, or just for managing a particularly bad day.
You don’t have to be perfect every hour of every day. You don’t even have to feel good about yourself all the time.
Self-esteem varies from situation to situation, from day to day and hour to hour. Some people feel relaxed and positive with friends and colleagues, but uneasy and shy with strangers. Others may feel totally in command of themselves at work but struggle socially (or vice versa).
Give yourself a break. We all have times when we feel a bit down or find it harder to maintain our self-belief.
The key is not to be too hard on yourself. Be kind to yourself, and not too critical.
Avoid criticising yourself to others, because this can reinforce your negative views—and also give other people a (possibly false) negative opinion of you.
You can help to boost your self-esteem by giving yourself a treat whenever you succeed in doing something hard, or just for managing a particularly bad day.
5. Become More Assertive and Learn to Say No
People with low self-esteem often find it hard to stand up for themselves or say no to others.
This means that they may become over-burdened at home or at work, because they do not like to refuse anyone anything. However, this can increase stress, and make it even harder to manage.
Developing your assertiveness can therefore help to improve your self-esteem. Sometimes acting as if you believed in yourself can actually help to increase self-belief!
Our pages on Assertiveness provide more information about this, including how to improve your assertiveness.
People with low self-esteem often find it hard to stand up for themselves or say no to others.
This means that they may become over-burdened at home or at work, because they do not like to refuse anyone anything. However, this can increase stress, and make it even harder to manage.
Developing your assertiveness can therefore help to improve your self-esteem. Sometimes acting as if you believed in yourself can actually help to increase self-belief!
Our pages on Assertiveness provide more information about this, including how to improve your assertiveness.
6. Improve Your Physical Health
It is much easier to feel good about ourselves when we are fit and healthy.
However, people with low self-esteem often neglect themselves, because they do not feel that they ‘deserve’ to be looked after.
Try taking more exercise, eating well, and getting enough sleep. It is also a good idea to make time to relax and to do something that you want to do, rather than something that someone else expects you to do. You may find that simple changes like this can make a huge difference to your overall outlook.
It is much easier to feel good about ourselves when we are fit and healthy.
However, people with low self-esteem often neglect themselves, because they do not feel that they ‘deserve’ to be looked after.
Try taking more exercise, eating well, and getting enough sleep. It is also a good idea to make time to relax and to do something that you want to do, rather than something that someone else expects you to do. You may find that simple changes like this can make a huge difference to your overall outlook.
7. Take On Challenges
People with low self-esteem often avoid challenging and difficult situations.
One way to improve your self-esteem can actually be to take on a challenge. This doesn’t mean that you need to do everything yourself—part of the challenge might be to seek help when you need it—but be prepared to try something that you know will be difficult to achieve.
By succeeding, you show yourself that you can achieve.
This challenges your negative beliefs and will therefore improve your self-esteem.
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/self-esteem.html
People with low self-esteem often avoid challenging and difficult situations.
One way to improve your self-esteem can actually be to take on a challenge. This doesn’t mean that you need to do everything yourself—part of the challenge might be to seek help when you need it—but be prepared to try something that you know will be difficult to achieve.
By succeeding, you show yourself that you can achieve.
This challenges your negative beliefs and will therefore improve your self-esteem.
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/self-esteem.html
Making Yourself Happy
Being HAPPY is a feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
Are you happy?
Do you want to be happy?
Unfortunately, many of us do not know how to be happy or find pleasure in what we do or even understand what it means to be contented with one's life... Why is this? The problem is that OUR SOCIETY is based upon being successful and having more of whatever it is that you have... this latter point revolves around GREED.
GREED, on the surface of the concept, if necessary and needed if our society and economy is going to grow... but how much GREED is acceptable? And, therein lies our problem because we do not have an acceptable level of GREED. If you can acquire it, you should be allowed to have it.
In the 1960's when I was a teenager, companies were willing to sell a lot of profit and make a small but reasonable profit... but, as I got older that concept changed to the point that companies began selling a little and making as much of a profit as they could. In fact, some companies build products that will need to be replaced in 3-5 years so that they can increase their GREED.
So...
how do you find or acquire happiness?
how do you find contentment?
Some people believe that one finds happiness in the following ways:
- eat healthy
- exercise
- treat yourself well
- break from social media
- go to a movie
- get out and explore
- take photos of things
- write it all down
- declutter your life/home
My list is a little different:
- understand that stress is in your life
- identify that stress
- explore ways to manage that stress
- accept your life as it is and not what it should be
- seek to eliminate your debt
- try to live debt free
- build your self esteem (not always that easy)
- be honest with yourself and others
- keep yourself busy
- enjoy friendship if you want
At 74 years of age, my attitude is different than it was years ago even though my personality has change very little or not at all... so, I am the same person I always was... but, being retired has helped me eliminate the stress in my life. I never did a very good job of managing my stress and it cost me a heart attack at the age of 60. I am debt free and while I use a credit card, I charge only that money that I can pay off by the end of the month. I have decided to eat healthy and try and exercise more often than not to which I am not always successful. My biggest obstacle was accepting my life as it was and not as I wished it was or other people thought it should be. I a still working on my self esteem but as I avoid other's influence on me, it is getting better. I like to write and I am constantly putting my thoughts down on paper... My hobby is maintaining blogs and writing novels. I don't care if people read what I write or blog because it is done simply to give me something to do...
It took me a lifetime to get here.
Some never find this balance while other find it many years earlier.
Start now to prepare yourself and begin this transition... in the long run, you will be much better off... at least, this is what I have discovered...
GOOD LUCK!!!
Laws of Logic
Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints on how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time. Patterns in the ever-expanding arrangement of galaxies might reveal secrets of the universe’s first moments.
M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit III (1959). M.C. Escher
For over 20 years, physicists have had reason to feel envious of certain fictional fish: specifically, the fish inhabiting the fantastic space of M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit III woodcut, which shrink to points as they approach the circular boundary of their ocean world. If only our universe had the same warped shape, theorists lament, they might have a much easier time understanding it.
Escher’s fish lucked out because their world comes with a cheat sheet — its edge. On the boundary of an Escher-esque ocean, anything complicated happening inside the sea casts a kind of shadow, which can be described in relatively simple terms. In particular, theories addressing the quantum nature of gravity can be reformulated on the edge in well-understood ways. The technique gives researchers a back door for studying otherwise impossibly complicated questions. Physicists have spent decades exploring this tantalizing link.
Inconveniently, the real universe looks more like the Escher world turned inside out. This “de Sitter” space has a positive curvature; it expands continuously everywhere. With no obvious boundary on which to study the straightforward shadow theories, theoretical physicists have been unable to transfer their breakthroughs from the Escher world. orld, the fewer tools we have and the less we understand the rules of the game,” said Daniel Baumann, a cosmologist at the University of Amsterdam. READ MORE...
Escher’s fish lucked out because their world comes with a cheat sheet — its edge. On the boundary of an Escher-esque ocean, anything complicated happening inside the sea casts a kind of shadow, which can be described in relatively simple terms. In particular, theories addressing the quantum nature of gravity can be reformulated on the edge in well-understood ways. The technique gives researchers a back door for studying otherwise impossibly complicated questions. Physicists have spent decades exploring this tantalizing link.
Inconveniently, the real universe looks more like the Escher world turned inside out. This “de Sitter” space has a positive curvature; it expands continuously everywhere. With no obvious boundary on which to study the straightforward shadow theories, theoretical physicists have been unable to transfer their breakthroughs from the Escher world. orld, the fewer tools we have and the less we understand the rules of the game,” said Daniel Baumann, a cosmologist at the University of Amsterdam. READ MORE...
Quantum Physics and Interacting Particles
Researchers at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory have recently introduced a new approach for measuring the spin states of a nuclear ensemble, a system comprised of many interacting particles with long-lived quantum properties. This method, presented in a paper published in Nature Physics, works by exploiting the response of this system to collective spin excitations.
"For a dense ensemble of quantum objects, such as spins, it isn't possible to measure each individually, to learn how they interacted with each other," Claire Le Gall and Mete Atatüre, two of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. "Instead, one can look for tell-tale signals in the collective response of the ensemble; a bit like the behavior of a flock of birds might say something about how the birds engage with each other. Our system of interest is a large flock, or ensemble, of nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum dot."
In 2002, three Harvard University physicists figured out that large ensembles of nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum dot could be potential hosts for solid-state quantum memories, then published their work a year later. 19 years later, Le Gall, Atatüre, and their colleagues probed this type of nuclear ensemble using a 'proxy' quantum bit, an electron spin that simultaneously couples to all nuclear spins, as reported in their latest paper. READ MORE...
Americans Quit Jobs
Workers are quitting in search for better pay or better jobs, representing a fundamental shift in America's labor market.
"Labor now has the initiative, and the era of paying individuals less than a livable wage has ended," said Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US.
"This strongly suggests that rising wages are going to be part and parcel of the economic landscape going forward."
The nation had 10.4 million open jobs that month as the worker shortage crisis continues, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. It was a modest decrease from the 10.6 million open jobs in August.
Jobs particularly increased in the health care and sector and in state and local government. "The Delta variant is still visible in the September JOLTS report," said Nick Bunker, director of economic research at the Indeed Hiring Lab, in emailed comments.
But he noted "we do know from the October jobs report that the labor market did get on more stable ground."The slowing demand for workers in the leisure and hospitality industry was the cause of the modest decline in available jobs in September. READ MORE...
Sunday, November 14
Cryptocurrency's Computing Problem
Here's the problem: The blockchain accounting technology that powers cryptocurrencies could be vulnerable to sophisticated attacks and forged transactions if quantum computing matures faster than efforts to future-proof digital money.
Cryptocurrencies are secured by a technology called public key cryptography. The system is ubiquitous, protecting your online purchases and scrambling your communications for anyone other than the intended recipient. The technology works by combining a public key, one that anyone can see, with a private key that's for your eyes only.
If current progress continues, quantum computers will be able to crack public key cryptography, potentially creating a serious threat to the crypto world, where some currencies are valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. If encryption is broken, attackers can impersonate the legitimate owners of cryptocurrency, NFTs or other such digital assets.
"Once quantum computing becomes powerful enough, then essentially all the security guarantees will go out of the window," Dawn Song, a computer security entrepreneur and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Collective[i] Forecast forum in October. "When public key cryptography is broken, users could be losing their funds and the whole system will break."
Quantum computers get their power by manipulating data stored on qubits, elements like charged atoms that are subject to the peculiar physics governing the ultrasmall. To crack encryption, quantum computers will need to harness thousands of qubits, vastly more than the dozens corralled by today's machines. The machines will also need persistent qubits that can perform calculations much longer than the fleeting moments possible right now.
But makers of quantum computers are working hard to address those shortcomings. They're stuffing ever more qubits into machines and working on quantum error correction methods to help qubits perform more-sophisticated and longer calculations.
"We expect that within a few years, sufficiently powerful computers will be available" for cracking blockchains open, said Nir Minerbi, CEO of quantum software maker Classiq Technologies. READ MORE...
Rolls Royce and the Nuclear Reactor Business
But given that Rolls-Royce Holdings makes stuff like engines for airplanes, and has worked on nuclear reactors aboard British submarines since the early 1950s, producing nuclear reactors isn’t too much of a step outside the mega company’s wheelhouse. It is, though, a well-financed leap into a new area of energy for the company. For its part, Rolls-Royce said international interest in small modular reactors was “unprecedented.”
Some of the money for this new nuclear venture comes from a big U.S. company: Exelon, the largest electric utility in the U.S. and a major producer of nuclear power, which will be partnering with French company BNF Resources to give $260 million to fund the venture over the next three years.
Some of the money for this new nuclear venture comes from a big U.S. company: Exelon, the largest electric utility in the U.S. and a major producer of nuclear power, which will be partnering with French company BNF Resources to give $260 million to fund the venture over the next three years.
Much of the rest of the cash will come from the UK government, which is giving $280 million as part of its plan to jumpstart green investment. Rolls-Royce itself will kick in the remaining $70 million or so. The company also said that it will keep looking for investment in the venture.
According to a press release issued by Rolls-Royce, one of the 16 reactors it’s planning to build will take up the space of two football fields—about a tenth of the size of a conventional reactor—while providing enough power for 1 million homes.
According to a press release issued by Rolls-Royce, one of the 16 reactors it’s planning to build will take up the space of two football fields—about a tenth of the size of a conventional reactor—while providing enough power for 1 million homes.
Per the press release, the business will now move on to the preliminary stages of starting production, including identifying factories where it could possibly produce modules for the on-site assembly of the reactors. READ MORE...
Dark Matter Creates Dark Matter From Regular Matter
An international team of physicists is proposing an addition to dark matter theory. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group is suggesting that dark matter came from regular matter and that dark matter is able to create more dark matter from regular matter.
The existence of a material described as dark matter has been proposed by physicists to explain certain behaviors observed by researchers—the way light bends as it makes its way from far away places to telescopes here on Earth, is just one example.
But some parts of the theory have yet to be worked out, such as how did the amount of dark matter believed to exist today come into being? The team on this new effort has come up with a theory to answer that question.
The theorists begin by citing prior research which suggests that some amount of dark matter was created as part of the 'thermal bath'—where primordial plasma made of regular matter begat dark matter particles—but not the amount that is believed to exist today.
The theorists begin by citing prior research which suggests that some amount of dark matter was created as part of the 'thermal bath'—where primordial plasma made of regular matter begat dark matter particles—but not the amount that is believed to exist today.
They suggest that at some point dark matter particles began making more dark matter particles out of regular particles. And the new dark matter particles were also able to create new dark matter particles out of regular particles. READ MORE...
Saturday, November 13
Beans... beans...
the magical fruit
the more you eat
the more you fart
the more you fart
the better you feel
so eat beans...
at every meal.
Artist unknown
Today, we are driving over to the Bush Beans Restaurant in Dandridge, TN as it has finally re-opened after being shut down due to COVID...
I am not sure what the others in our party are going to order for lunch but I know that as far as I am concerned, I will be ordering beans and cornbread...
It may seem strange to you that I am no longer interested in eating red meat that I now prefer white meat, fish, and beans... Of course, those of you who are interested in their health understand as well as those who have had a heart attack... and, as far as the rest of you are concerned, you will just have to find out for yourself.
I have no desire to see the family homestead, their dog DUKE, or buy anything from the General Store as a momento... I just want to eat a bowl of beans...
Lakes in Tennessee
Tennessee is a four-season vacation destination whose name came from the Yuchi Indian word “Tana-see”, meaning ‘meeting place’. Living to its name, this state has plenty of attractions to visit and it’s packed with history, nature, and culture. Previously, native Americans tribe inhabited the area, hence some of its places are still named after them. Tennessee also has both iconic natural and man-made attractions that make it a known state and a popular destination. It is the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Mountain Dew drink. It is also where Oak Ridge, the energy capital of the world, is located. Moreover, Tennessee has plenty of lakes with green spaces, offering you outdoor and water activities. Here’s a list of the 10 beautiful lakes in Tennessee, USA.
1. Norris Lake
Source: Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Brian Stansberry used under CC BY 3.0
Norris Lake is quietly nested at the foothills of Cumberland Mountains. It is known as one of the cleanest lakes with deep waters. It serves as a sanctuary to approximately 56 species of fish. Wildlife that can be spotted here includes deer, cows, horses, eagles, turkey, and blue heron. You can indulge in a plethora of recreational activities here, including boating, fishing, hiking, biking, horseback riding, rock climbing, and more. For stay, there are plenty of options near the lake - you can pitch a tent, stay on a houseboat or book a floating cottage. For a complete experience, dine at one of the many restaurants overlooking the lake.
Norris Lake
Address: Ext. 122, Norris, TN 37828
Website: Norris Lake
2. Cherokee Lake
Source: Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Portraitlady4306 used under PUBLIC DOMAIN
Situated in the foothills of the Clinch Mountains, Cherokee Lake was named after the Native American tribe who previously lived in the area. A dam built in the 1940s can also be seen in this lake. Along its shoreline are campgrounds, boat docks, resorts, parks, picnic areas, playground, and paved trails. There is also a swimming beach, should you want to take a dip. Other popular activities here include lake fishing and birdwatching.
Cherokee Lake
Address: Cherokee Lake, Knoxville, TN 37849
Website: Cherokee Lake
3. Boone Lake
Source: Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Jakec used under CC BY-SA 3.0
Boone Lake is one of the small lakes in Tennessee. It has a shoreline of 139 miles. It features a swimming area and a boat ramp. Activities popular here are fishing, waterskiing, and other water-based recreation. Through the summer season, the lake has a stable water level. The lake serves as an aquatic ecology to fishes like crappie, bass, and bluegill.
Boone Lake
Address: Sullivan / Washington counties, Tennessee, United States
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