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1. Prioritize On any given day, there are a million distractions: A child wakes up with a temperature, your boss moves a deadline up a week, or you’ve gotten sucked into the black hole of Buzzfeed quizzes. At the time, you really thought the priority was finding out which “Saved by the Bell” character you are. To make marriage work, spouses must prioritize each other above all else. Take time each day to check in and give them your full attention....

1. You find crowds stressful. Crowds are definitely not an introvert’s favorite place to be. Concerts, rallies, conferences, sports arenas: these can all be very uncomfortable places for an introvert. 2. You aren’t thrilled to meet new people. This isn’t to say that you don’t make friends easily, but that sometimes meeting new people is a big drain on your energy. Simply keeping up a conversation with a new person is difficult, and you leave the conversation feeling drained....

1. Gold Desk Organizer It’s no surprise plenty of DIY blogs enjoy taking on some of Anthropologie’s products with cheap ways to make them yourself. This DIY desk organizer looks super modern without being expensive. You can easily find tins or small glasses around your house or at a thrift store for the compartments. 2. Easy T-Shirt Grocery Bags Plastic bags are still the main option for produce even in the greenest cities....

1. Take Them Camping Borrow a tent so you will only spend on the food, gas, and the camping fee. You can enjoy pitching the tent together, build the fire, and roast hotdogs and marshmallows. 2. Make a Photo Collage Make a meaningful gift by taking out your old photos taken from the day that you started going out together until the present, and create an artful collage out of them....

1. They Visualize their Lives Effective people know what they want, and they visualize and plan ways to get the things they want. Average people sit around hoping what they want will come to them. Stop procrastinating, figure out what you want, and how to get it. 2. They Don’t Take On More than they Can Handle Everyone has their limits, even effective people. They complete one task before starting the next....

Crohn’s is classified as an autoimmune disease, in which the body is actually producing antibodies that act against itself, much like the more commonly known Lupus. Just getting the fact out that it really is a serious disease and not just a “condition” is truly important, because misinformation makes it hard to develop empathy for a friend or partner with this disease. That said, here are 15 things that Crohn’s sufferers will endure that require understanding, patience, and support....

This pudding has a delicious layer of lemony jelly on the bottom with light and fluffy sponge on top. If you want to serve the pudding jelly side up, butter the custard cups and dust them with sugar so the pudding can be flipped over easily. Recipe Source 2. Microwave Chocolate Pudding Rich and gooey, this classic fudgy chocolate pudding uses brown sugar in the batter. Buttermilk, unsweetened cocoa powder, and pure vanilla extract combine to add extra flavor to this easy to cook microwave summer treat....

Misconception #1: Introverts are shy. Being “shy” and “introverted” are two completely different things. Introverts are not necessarily shy or afraid of people. They don’t just don’t prefer talking for the sake of talking. Misconception #2: Introverts are unemotional. Introverts may not show emotion with their facial expressions and gestures, but this doesn’t mean they’re not interested in what you’re saying. Introverts prefer to control their emotions around others and internalize them....

They list desirable qualities such as ‘initiative’, ‘team player’ and ‘strong work ethic’. Those words can mean a variety of things to different people and it can be quite hard for employers to illustrate fully the combination of technical and soft skills they want their potential employees to have. What they often want is a mix of versatile skills that make it easy for them (and you) to adapt to the changing needs and demands which occur in businesses today....

Keep in mind that widgets can be a little more of a battery drain than not using a widget, but in most cases they are extremely useful and well worth the trade-off. HD Widgets HD Widgets are some of the most configurable information widgets in the Google Play Store. They have a lot of different sizes, with some of the large sized ones being 6×2 so they fill up the width of a 7 inch Android tablet pretty well....

Read on to learn about some of the benefits of thrift shopping that you may not have considered. Hopefully at least a few of those benefits will encourage you to forego your trip to a big department store and check out a secondhand shop instead. 1. You may discover designer products at a fraction of the price. Blogger Angie Tarantino writes that her first great experience thrift shopping as a teenager was finding a designer dress that would normally sell for about $80 for only $5 at a local thrift store....

Here are 20 amazing facts about dreams that you might have never heard about: Fact #1: You can’t read while dreaming, or tell the time If you are unsure whether you are dreaming or not, try reading something. The vast majority of people are incapable of reading in their dreams. The same goes for clocks: each time you look at a clock it will tell a different time and the hands on the clock won’t appear to be moving as reported by lucid dreamers....

Important note: As with most things of this nature, this is not professional medical advice. Always seek out your doctor’s advice on any kind of treatment, natural or otherwise, before taking it. 1. Ginger: Prevent nausea Basics: Significant results have been found in ginger’s ability to ease nausea, even for motion sickness and chemotherapy patients. How to use it: Some specialists recommend taking ginger before the nausea sets in; for example, if you know you get airsick, you can chew ginger gum before takeoff....

1. They believe that anything is possible Happy people don’t make the mistake of putting limits on what they think can be accomplished. Putting up emotional barriers by stating “it can’t be done” is a sure fire way to limit the ability to act, imagine or dream. Believing that what is desired can be achieved enables a sense of purpose and, in turn, creates a positive mindset that can carry someone through challenging or difficult times....

1. Don’t Under-Plan Your Website You wouldn’t open a restaurant without first exhaustively creating a business plan. From its very inception, to its target market, promotion, launch and ongoing growth, you would certainly research each and every conceivable stage of operations. It needs to be the same when you start a website. Perhaps the single most component of successfully growing a website is content marketing. Original quality content is key for building awareness of your page, establishing your credibility and authority in your chosen area, as well as improving your search engine rankings....

Aside from personal use, other uses for milk include polishing your silverware, shining up leather bags or shoes, and removing ink stains from clothing. It also makes a great marinade for fish to make it taste fresh caught without any “fishy” aftertaste. 20 Cool Household Uses for Milk | HULIQ 2. Ease the symptoms of a sunburn with milk. 3. Remove stubborn makeup with milk. 4. Don’t let bug bites start to bug you....

Today, it is used in a variety of dishes around the world. In the southern U.S., it is an old favorite for thickening gumbo thanks to its gooey texture when cooked in water. It can also be chopped into stir fries or roasted in the oven for a crispier dish. More and more people are now getting creative with okra as its versatility and nutritional spectrum becomes better known. While okra might be easy to overlook in the produce section, don’t overlook it in your health and weight-loss regimen....

Since then, cinema has played an important role in documenting the world as it unfolds, predicting the way the world might end up, but most importantly, inspiring the way it can be and should be. Below there are 20 prophecies of modern tech in classic movies. Did the movies predict them or inspire those who made them? You decide. 1. Face/Off – Face Transplants In Face/Off, good cop (John Travolta) agrees to go undercover by getting a face transplant of a notorious criminal king-pin....

There’s nothing wrong with being highly sensitive, yet you have your own highs and lows, not everyone would understand. Here are twenty of them! 1.You literary feel everything Sometimes you think your emotions are practically palpable – anything can trigger them: from a passage in the book, to a cheesy scene in the movie or a few lines of the song you’ve overheard playing from someone’s car. These small things may mean nothing for someone else, but for you they can mean a thousand feelings at a time....

Here are 20 signs that you are succeeding in life: 1. Your relationships are less dramatic than they used to be. Drama is not maturity. As we age, we should develop maturity. So maybe your relationships were drama-filled in your past, but if you have moved beyond that, then you are successful. 2. You are not afraid to ask for help and support any more. Asking for help does not equal weakness....