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Walt Disney World Epic Ice Cream Crawl Part Two

Walt Disney World Epic Ice Cream Crawl Part Two

Here is part two of our epic Walt Disney World Ice Cream Crawl covering Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Epcot, and Animal Kingdom:

Disney’s Hollywood Studios:

Top Choice for Hollywood Studios: 50’s Prime Time Café-Hollywood Studios, some dining plans accepted.  This café serves up great food and great ice cream desserts, but my favorite form of ice cream here is the Peanut Butter and Jelly Milk Shake $5.29. This is a great milkshake and recreates that classic combination of peanut butter and jelly in an ice creamy form.  If you don’t have a reservation for the Café, step  inside the Tune-in Lounge and order one up to go.  In the café you can also get milk shakes or malts for $5.29; Root Beer or Coke Floats for $4.99; Dad’s Brownie Sundae for $6.49; Ice Cream Sundaes for $5.49; and they even have kid size ice cream sundaes. These PB& J milkshakes are really great!

Dinosaur Gerties Ice Cream of Extinction, soft-serve vanilla, chocolate or swirl in waffle cone $3.99 or in cup $3.49;

Hollywood Scoops-some dining plans accepted, no discounts given.  This is the quick-service location for hand-scooped ice cream treats.  Apple Crisp a la Mode $6.19; Brownie Sundae $5.49; Ice Cream Sundae $4.99; Ice cream cup or cone $4.29; Ice Cream Sandwich on Fresh-Baked Cookie $4.19; This location has a variety of ice cream flavors to pick from such as vanilla, chocolate, mint chocolate chip, strawberry, cookies and cream, butter pecan, fat-free sugar-free vanilla. No reservations needed at this location. The flavor of the ice cream here is very good, but the paper bowl that our hot fudge sundae came in was covered with ice cream on the outside of it, and it didn’t look impressive.  Mostly it just looked like a sticky paper bowl full of whipped cream.  The ice cream really has great flavor and the prices good by Disney standards. Just go for the plain ice cream here is our suggestion.

Sci Fi Dine In serves Hot Fudge Sundaes with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and cherry for $7.99. Sci-Fi Specialty Shake, Oreo Cookie, Chocolate or Vanilla for $4.99.

Top Choice for Epcot: L’Artisan des Glaces: some dining plans accepted, no discounts. $3.99 for one scoop, $6.10 for two scoops. Flavors include: vanilla, chocolate, mint chocolate chip, pistachio, hazelnut, profiterole, caramel fleur de sel, cherry, white chocolate, coffee and a large collection of sorbets. Chocolate Macaron Ice Cream Sandwich $3.99; Ice cream sandwich using brioche bread and any flavor ice cream with chocolate or raspberry sauce $6.10; Ice Cream Martini $11.50 includes two scoops ice cream, shot of Grand Marnier, rum, or whipped cream vodka.  I tried the Grand Marnier version of the Martini and chose hazelnut and caramel ice cream.  I loved the ice cream but was not crazy about the addition of the alcohol to it. I don’t believe I would order this again.  My companion ordered a double dip: pistachio and coconut white chocolate.  She loved both of these.  The flavor of the French ice creams was full but not overwhelming and they are very creamy. The coconut white chocolate had not just bits of toasted coconut in the base but also a nice balanced coconut and white chocolate flavor in the ice cream itself.  I really enjoyed both ice creams but I would have to say Hazelnut pulled ahead of the caramel in flavor. This ice cream really captures the flavor and delivers it in a delicious creamy cold cup of goodness.

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Crepes des Chefs de France, some dining plans accepted, no discounts; Along with Crepes this stand will add soft serve vanilla, chocolate or swirl to your crepe plate $4.93. Waffle Cone $3.76.

Fife and Drum Tavern, some dining plans accepted, no discounts; American Adventure, Soft-serve ice cream in a cup or waffle cone and The American Dream which is frozen strawberry slush, vanilla ice cream and frozen blue raspberry slush $4.50.

Japan kiosk– freezer with packs of six Mochi, $7.99.  Mochi ice cream is sweet, fruity ice cream wrapped in soft fluffy dough and dusted with a white powdery coating.

Juice Bar, Morocco, currently no dining plans or discounts, chef created ice creams $4.99: Green Tea, Pistachio with Orange Blossom Water, Toasted Almond and Rosewater, Chocolate and Cinnamon, Strawberry and Red Bean. Expect the flavors to vary.

Joy of Tea, China, Epcot-some Disney dining plans accepted, no discouts. Red Bean Ice Cream and Caramel Ginger Ice Cream are unique ice cream experiences.  During the Food and Wine Festival China also offered a Coconut flavored Ice Cream Strings that had very good flavor although the texture was really unusual.

Katsura Grill, Japan, Epcot-some dining plans accepted, no discounts. Ice cream flavors: Green Tea, Azuki, Strawberry, $3.99 each

Hacienda de San Angel, Mexico, Epcot-some dining plans accepted. How about an Empanada de Manzana: $7.95 puff pastry filled with sautéed caramel apples, served with dulche de leche ice cream and caramel sauce? Or maybe Helado de Maiz $6.50 Corn ice cream served with candied popcorn.

Lotus Blossom Café, China, Epcot-some dining plans acceptable. Caramel-Ginger Ice Cream $3.25; Lychee Ice Cream $3.25.

Nine Dragons, China, Epcot-some dining plans accepted. Strawberry-Red Bean or Caramel –Ginger Ice Cream $3.98

Restaurant Marrakesh, Morocco, Epcot-serves Marrakesh Delight $5.95: fresh fruit salad topped with Mint ice cream, toasted almonds, and orange blossom water.

San Angel Inn, Mexico, Epcot has Helado de Dulce de Leche $7.00: caramel ice cream

Teppan Edo, Japan, Epcot, offers Green Tea or Vanilla soft serve for $4.95.

Animal Kingdom:

Anandapur Ice Cream Truck-$3.89 Soft serve waffle cones or cups, vanilla, chocolate or twist, Root Beer Floats. The soft serve here has a heavy chocolate flavor and subtle vanilla in the twist cups.  The Root Beer Floats have that great balance of root beer to ice cream.  The only unfortunate thing is this Truck is located away from any tables and when it is raining you have nothing to get under while waiting to order or to eat your ice cream.  Conversely there is no protection from the hot Florida sun on other days.  This is for eating on the run.

Top Choice for Animal Kingdom: Dino Bite Snacks, Dinoland has Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches made with vanilla ice cream and fresh baked chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, or sugar cookies $4.49; Hand scooped ice cream in a waffle cone $4.59 with vanilla, chocolate, chocolate chip or strawberry; Old-Fashioned Hot Fudge Sundae-vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, walnuts and a cherry $4.89. Root Beer Floats. My group ordered the Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream sandwich and it was a winner with three full scoops of ice cream on large cookies. The Chocolate Chip Ice Cream in a waffle cone was perfect in texture and flavor and was rated the best ice cream in all of Walt Disney World by the person who ordered it. The Root Beer Float was delicious and satisfying.  The Hot Fudge Sundae was disappointing in the size having two scoops and the request to have one scoop vanilla and one chocolate was flatly denied, but you can order two dips of any flavor they have but they “don’t mix flavors here”.  With both dips chocolate it was too much chocolate.  I don’t recommend it for the Hot Fudge Sundae. The Hot Fudge is also not “hot”.  For this price it should at least include whipped cream.  Stick with the other items on the menu here and get your Sundae somewhere else. This is our favorite ice cream spot in Animal Kingdom based on the flavor of the ice creams other than chocolate.

Discovery Island Ice cream kiosk, hand-scooped ice cream in waffle cone $4.99; Haagen-Dazs flavors: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, cookies and cream; Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches $4.49 vanilla with fresh chocolate chip cookies; Edy’s No Sugar added Butter Pecan $4.99; Bugs Sundae: ice cream, gummy worms, cookie crumbles $5.19.

Rainforest Café-entrance, Sparkling Volcano $14.99: enough for three or more, giant rich chocolate brownie cake stacked up high, served warm with vanilla ice cream, creamy whipped topping and topped with caramel and chocolate sauces.

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Trilo Bites, Dinoland, Baked Apple Blossom with Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce $4.99. Frosty Milk Shakes $4.49: Chocolate, Vanilla or Strawberry; House-made Waffle Bowl Sundae $5.59.

Yak and Yeti Restaurant, although they don’t offer a simple ice cream dessert, they do have Fried Wontons $7.99: skewers of fresh pineapple and cream cheese wontons, vanilla ice cream, and honey-vanilla drizzle.

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About Cassie

Cassie L. I am a lifelong Disney fan. I attended Walt Disney World in 1971, and was there during the opening week of EPCOT, and have visited the Disney Parks for than 30 times. I have had the privilege of visiting Disneyland as a child, and then again with my children. My family recently moved from the northeastern United States to the Walt Disney World area. I now have cast members in my family and enjoy hearing the magical stories at the end of a shift. I love visiting all of the parks and getting to try more Disney food and being able to share it with you to help you plan your own magical day at Disney.

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Once again, I'm drinking the purple Kool-aid

It started with the Darrin Nelson drop when I was 10 years old in 1988. Eleven years later, it was the Gary Anderson miss. Eleven years after that, it was the Throw Across the Body (or the 12 Men on the Field, depending on how you choose to remember it).

When 41-doughnut doesn't even make the list of top NFC Championship heartbreaks, you know your team has let you down as often as an absentee father.

The Minnesota Vikings have always had that knack of teasing fans into thinking this is going to be the year, followed by the team losing in the worst possible way.

Remember the comedy of errors in January 1999 when the 15-1 and seemingly unstoppable Vikings lost to Atlanta? Running out of bounds, dropping interceptions, taking a knee with the best offense in the history of the NFL, a perfect kicker missing for the first time. How about those five turnovers in 2010 against New Orleans, including Brett Favre going all Brett Favre at the end of the game with the Vikings in field goal position to win the game?

In between those heartaches, I've learned to manage expectations for my favorite professional sports team, the one I grew up watching with my dad and two brothers every Sunday during the season. I still watch, but I've tried not to get too invested in wins and losses.

But this year is different. It must be all those New Year's resolutions of people planning to be more positive in 2018 flying around social media that has me believing in this team. My pitcher of purple Kool-aid is definitely half-full.

The old me would expect the playoffs to end in excruciating fashion, like Vikings kicker Kai Forbath missing from 27 on the left hash to lose. Or Case Keenum throwing across his body in Vikings territory in a late tie game, leading to a game-winning field goal by the other team. Or Jerrick McKinnon dropping a pass at the goalline on the final play. Or the other team signing Nate Poole to knock the Vikings out of the playoffs.

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Singer Chris Brown arrested for felony assault in Florida

Singer Chris Brown strolled off stage after his show in Florida and under the control of holding up sheriff’s agents, who captured him on a lawful offense battery charge and booked him into the Palm Beach County Jail.

A sheriff’s representative said the performer was discharged in the wake of posting $2,000 bond on the battery charge issued by the Tampa Police Department. No insights about the assertions in the capture warrant were quickly accessible.

The 29-year-old performer’s record of brutality incorporates a blameworthy supplication to lawful offense attack for pummeling his then-sweetheart Rihanna in 2009 and a 2016 capture on an accuse of ambush of a destructive weapon.

He’s as of now amidst his Heartbreak On A Full Moon Tour.

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But wait, there's more!

Like wine caps! (Stropharia rugosoannulata). This is a mushroom I've heard of and searched for, but never found until I was walking with my students on the NYBG grounds last week. Wine cap mushrooms grow in wood chips, and sure enough they were popping up in the mulch under several trees, just begging to be picked. Which I obligingly did.

Sadly, in my excitement, I neglected to take a really good i.d. photo, showing the dark purple-brown gills, the corrugated ring, and the cord-like roots that help i.d. this mushroom. Since I was leaving town the next day for a Garden Writers' conference in Raleigh, NC (where I am now), it was all I could do to get them clean and processed. Can't wait to taste them when I get home.

Raleigh has been fun, although I've been underwhelmed by the gardens we've seen. The street signs sure are entertaining though:

Friday, September 18, 2009

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I'd like to say I'm a well-balanced, even-keeled woman, but it's hard to do that with a straight face. Especially this time of year, when I become almost entirely obsessed with mushrooms. I can't explain the exhilaration I feel; it's not just the thrill of the hunt, nor the deliciousness of the harvest, nor the satisfaction of accomplishing something unusual and difficult. It's a synergistic combination of all this and more that I can't quite articulate.

This fall I'm indulging my desire by re-taking Gary Lincoff's 4 week class at the NYBG: Mushroom Mania. It IS a kind of mania. After I cook a particularly delicious mushroom, I can't stop thinking about it for days. I want more, I wake up dreaming about the taste, which can't be re-created with a cultivated fungus.

I've posted here before about my summer mushroom finds: black trumpets, cinnabar red chantarelles, and purple-gilled laccaria. Now that the weather has changed, there's a different mushroom menu to choose from, and this weekend I found two new (to me!) edibles:

1) Lactarius corrugis (corregated lactarius)

oozes a milky white liquid when you scratch the gills with your fingernail. It stains brown, and you can see the scratch above, on the back of the mushroom. The fungus smells fishy when it starts to age, but the smell disappears with cooking and the mushroom is almost sweet to taste. The cap can be 4-5 inches across, so just a few can make a meal. The crackled edges of the cap give it the corrugated look. I also found L. volemus, a similar mushroom which oozes a yellow sap (see opening photo). Its cap is smoother than that of L. corrugis but in all other respects it's a very similar mushroom.

2) Hydnum repandum (sweet tooth)

has no poisonous look-alikes, which is SO good to know! I saw one last week in class for the first time, so I was pretty sure this was it when I found it, a mere 15 feet away from the two Lactarius. The combination of hardwoods and conifers in our PA woods is indeed fortuitous. This mushroom has a finely toothed under-surface and the cap is buff to orange. It's perennial, so I'll be checking that spot on a regular basis!

Class again tomorrow afternoon...who knows what we'll find! I'm hoping for honey mushrooms.


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He had been working on this motherfucking song for the better part of three hours, and if he didn't think of something to rhyme with 'trance' he was going to kill someone. Someone on this bus. Someone on this bus who was yelling and giggling like a kid on crack in the front. Fucking Chris.

JC sighed and looked back down at his lyric book, intent on the words. He only looked up again when he felt a hand in his hair, almost petting the long strands. Mmm. Felt nice.

It was Justin, and when JC moved his head to look up at him, he blushed and pulled his hand away. "Sorry."

JC shrugged. Whatever. "It's okay." He smiled and tilted the notebook in his hands towards Justin. "This is getting on my nerves anyway. What's up?"

Justin shrugged too, sitting next to him on the couch. Mmm. He was warm, and JC realized that it was cold back there, and had been for awhile. Had to remember to get a blanket next time he got up.

But that would probably be awhile, so he leaned into Justin more, savoring the heat his friend gave off while it was still there. And it looked like Justin didn't really have anything to say to him, so he just went back to his notebook, tapping it impatiently with his pen.

Trance. Ants. Lance. Pants. Fuck.

He felt Justin peer over to see the book, and he heard the smirk in Justin's voice. "Chance, man."

Chance. Fucking perfection.

He wrote the line, added the chorus, then read back over the song. Read it over again. Read it over again, with Justin once again looking over his shoulder. Finally he closed the book and sighed, leaning back even further against Justin, who was surprisingly comfortable, for a skinny muscular guy. "Thanks, man. I think you saved me from another three hours of writing absolute crap."

Justin laughed. "Whateva, bro. You know you're my homie." JC laughed too, because he loved it when Justin slipped into ghetto speak. It only seemed to intensify his Tennessee accent, with hilarious results. Well, hilarious and cute. Justin's ghetto-speak could be damn amusing, under the right circumstances.

But now he was tired, and it really had been a long that he'd been working back there. So he just lay against Justin for awhile, enjoying the silence, when suddenly he remembered drowsily, "Oh hey. So what did you want?"

Apparently Justin was dozing too, because he stiffened for a moment, then went relaxed again. "Huh? Oh...nothing." He seemed assured in that. Wanted nothing, nothing at all. JC sighed internally and sat up, because if there was one thing he couldn't abide it was avoidance. Especially avoidance that wasted his time. He didn't particularly feel like trying to read Justin's mind, but he was used to it by now.

So. Great. As he was the only other person on the bus with a girlfriend, it was time for relationship advice, or something like that. How to appease your long-distance girlfriend in five easy steps. He wished for a minute that Chris had tried just a little bit harder to make it work with Dani, then took it back when he realized how snarky that sounded, even as a thought. "What is it, Curly?"

Justin grinned, a wide-ass little kid's grin, and ran his hand over his nearly-bald head. "Not so curly anymore," he drawled. "But no, I mean?" Justin grimaced a little, stretched, looked down at his perfectly manicured fingernails. Hmm. They were still damn shiny, JC noticed, but getting kind of long.

This was all perfectly interesting, JC decided, but it was disrupting his creative process. "What is it, Just? I have things to do, you know." Justin looked momentarily hurt, so he smiled a bit and said, "And I'll bet Chris is missing you."

A voice called from the bunks. "Damn straight, fucker. We were getting ready to play Final Fantasy when he decided to ditch me for you. Just cause you're prettier..." Chris' voice dissolved into a mumble.

JC laughed and got up to open the door dividing the bunks and the lounge, throwing a pillow at Chris. "I'm not pretty, Fievel. I think you're thinking of Lance."

Justin hooted on the couch. "Ooh, gonna let him know you said that!"

JC closed the door and turned back to Justin. "Oh no, you're not."

Justin was still giggling. "Am so. Then I'll tell him you wanna take him out to dinner so you can see his pretty green eyes sparkle in the candlelight...lean over the table and give him a slow, soft kiss..." Justin's voice slipped into 'husky' and he gave JC the sex-eye.

JC gave him the fuck-off-eye and then jumped him.

After that there was a lot of yelping and giggling and thwapping of pillows against shaven heads, and then Justin was lying half on top of JC, breathless with laughter. "Ha. Told you I'd kick your ass, fool."

JC rolled his eyes and pushed back his sweaty hair. Now that it was longer it got into his eyes too much, dammit, especially when it was sweaty or not brushed up with gel.

He said basically that to Justin and got back a "Yeah, I know," with a frustrated grunt. "You gotta, like, care for it all the time. Mousse. Hairspray. Gel. More fucking shampoos than I even knew they made. But--" And then he cut off again.

Again. Jesus. Was it too much to ask that he finish a damn sentence? "What, Justin? Geez. I've known you for-freakin'-ever, you can probably tell me whatever it is you wanna tell me. "

Justin looked him in the eyes, his own blue eyes serious and slightly embarrassed. "Its worth it cause like, Britney said she loved to put her hands in it. Touch it, and stuff. Especially when we were, you know..."

He trailed off, and JC smiled. "I get the point. That's cool." He threw his head back on a pillow, sighing. "Wish I had someone who could do that to me. You know, now that its long enough." Fucking tour. Fucking bus. Fucking Bobbee, who was like, in New York or something right now.

"Uh-huh." JC looked up and realized that Justin was still on top of him, apparently with no intention of moving. "That's what I was doing. You know. When I came in here. I thought you might like to feel that too."

Oh. "Oh. Well." He tried not to squirm. "Having your hair stroked by a friend and having it stroked by a girlfriend?different intent, you know. Feels different."

Justin's hands moved up, slowly over JC's face and into his hair, so he was leaning over JC on his arms, fingers in JC's hair. "Doesn't have to."

Oh. Um, okay. Their lips met very, very softly at first, and it was maybe not as wet as he would have liked it to be, but it was still very very good. Justin was both hard and soft against him, on top of him; hard because of his muscles and the bony ridges of his hips, sparking against JC's own prominent bones; soft because he was curving into JC so sweetly, like he was made to be there, and it made JC think of high school biology class, and how enzymes fit perfectly into the molecules they were supposed to stimulate because they were shaped that way, shaped to lock into the cell and heat it up.

Later, the other guys laughed when he asked them how long it had been going on. Lance said, "He's been eyeing you ever since the fucking hair, man."

"No, longer than that," Joey disagreed.

"I dunno," Chris said, leaning back on his hands. "Right before he decided that he had to go get some JC-lovin', our ICON video came on MTV. You remember, back when JC had the Keith Richard's hair?"

The other boys groaned, and JC threw a pillow at him, and then went back into the lounge so he could write, and lean against Justin, and feel hot soft hands sliding through his hair as he wrote.

Chance. Fucking perfection.


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Come take a tour!

Dragonfyre Distillery is located  on top of a  hill in Central New York's Cortland County.

Cortland is the home of both the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons, and Dragonfyre Distillery LLC, so Dragons are part of Cortland's history!
The Distillery and Tasting Room are an experience for all whiskey (and dragon) lovers  to enjoy.
We've put together not just a distillery, but a destination!
   Come and taste the spirits of the dragon, produced using our hand made copper still, and served in our unique tasting room.
Hand crafting whiskies from locally grown ingredients in small batches is our passion!
Come enjoy the picturesque enchantment of our location where all things are possible, and you may even see a dragon or two.

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Careful when driving in,  you don't want to run over one of the small folk living near the distillery

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Adding wainscot and trim to the front.

This is the start of the tasting bar, they are 2 kitchen cabinets that we used in our kitchen temporarily while we built the house.

Vince couldn't wait to see what it would look like with the tape off! Pretty cool! Just like a castle floor! Well, sort of! I went around with a brush to soften up the lines a little.

That top beam was too heavy to lift all at once, so we used our handy, dandy portable scaffold to get it up on top. Then Vince drilled holes in the top and screwed in 2 ten inch lag bolts in each end..

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The Tasting Room is (mostly) Done!

A lot of progress has been made! The tasting room is done enough to open with. Of course I have some other things I would like to do- paint a mural on the wall behind the check out counter, and paint some faux bricks and crumbling plaster on some parts of the walls. That will have to wait, because I have to paint the road sign and a bunch of other signs. We are sending out our NY State permit application tomorrow, so we need to be ready to open as soon as that is approved.

So I think this will be ok for now!

Checkout counter, Vince just built the base out of plywood.

Yes, I did that whole floor with a sponge!

Vince's dad made the bar top and the checkout counter top out of walnut.

These are rough cut timbers left over from when my mom and dad built their house back in the 80's. I'm so glad we never get rid of anything!! We planed and sanded them a little so they weren't quite so rough. We don't want anyone to get splinters!

Time to do the floor!

This is what it looks like all finished! Ready to fill those shelves with some shine!!

Vince connected the 2 cabinets and put a piece of plywood on top. The 2 upright beams are attached to the ends of the bar from the inside of the cabinets with lag bolts.

Here you can see the ends of the rafters hanging over the front. I couldn't wait to see what the patio lights we bought would look like on there, and then I had to put the ivy on there to cover the wire from the light string.

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The Neuroplastic Revolution – A Brain That Changes Itself

Monday, May 18th, 2009

This book is about the revolutionary discovery that the human brain can change itself, as told through the stories of the scientists, doctors, and patients who have together brought about these astonishing transformations. Without operations or medications, they have made use of the brain’s hitherto unknown ability to change.

Some were patients who had what were thought to be incurable brain problems; others were people without specific problems who simply wanted to improve the functioning of their brains or preserve them as they aged. For four hundred years this venture would have been inconceivable because mainstream medicine and science believed that brain anatomy was fixed.

We Are Belief-Making and Belief-Consuming Creatures

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

As children, we called it “make believe.” People encouraged us to be imaginative and creative, to fantasize and enjoy. Then, as we aged, the guidance changed. Grow up! Be realistic! “Making believe” became the more serious game of “making beliefs”: judging, drawing conclusions, deciding what’s good and bad, right and wrong. All our emotions and behaviors then follow from the beliefs we create.

Parents, priests, teachers, corporate executives and politicians compete busily to teach us or sell us beliefs so that they can influence our feelings and behavior. They know, and we soon learn, that winning the games of power, both personal and political, depends on what we choose to believe.

The Rise of The Phoenix – An Evolving Global Humanity

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It is obvious, even to the most Prozaced-out individual, that today’s global crises impacting the environment, health, economics and social stability are threatening the survival of human civilization. Suddenly, the old cartoon of some bearded weirdo carrying a placard reading, “The World is Ending!” doesn’t seem that funny. Media and government continuously focus our attention on the darkness of impending crises, however, recent advances in physics and biology offer a significantly different and amazingly hopeful alternative for these very same symptoms.

New scientific insights suggest the evolution of human civilization resembles the recurring fate of the Phoenix, a sacred firebird revered in ancient Egyptian mythology. At the end of its lifecycle the Phoenix builds a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes. From the ashes arises a new and greater Phoenix.

Are Humans Evolving Faster?

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.

“We used a new genomic technology to show that humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age roughly 10,000 years ago,” says research team leader Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.

Harpending says there are provocative implications from the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:


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Elegant Custom HARDCOAT Stucco home built by John Willis on a fantastic cul-de-sac lot in an excellent neighborhood! This home was custom built for the owner and is a one owner home. Bright open floor plan with master on the main, additional office on the main with custom built-in shelving. New interior paint, new fixtures, 2 story foyer, grand staircase, wonderful kitchen with SS Appli. looking into the vaulted ceiling keeping room. See through fireplace, hardwood floors, and large walk out deck overlooking a private, wooded, backyard. Fantastic location near restaurants, shopping, Perimeter Mall, & 285.
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If you are in Santa Cruz, especially as a tourist or with visiting friends, consider taking the Holiday Light Train. It’s a great way to connect with the town’s folks and see the sights of this beautiful seaside community. And if you are in Cocoa Beach, Florida, check out the recently rebuilt Launch Complex 40, which has been seriously upgraded! All the easier to fly to the moon, as Trump dumps Obama’s Asteroid projects for a moon base.. Though you can’t hear it, the Earth’s hum is an interesting mystery, at least partially created by the echo of waves around the planet cascaded into each other..  More news on the AI front with Alpha Zero aceing the game of chess in 24 hours, starting from scratch, with no previous knowledge of the revered game.  And is aging actually a disease, perhaps cured by the latest insights into how biological organisms actually work?  Enjoy the show!


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Dunbia Invests in Innovation

Dunbia Invests in Innovation
Dunbia Invests in Innovation
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Dunbia, renowned for its excellence in innovation and product quality is further investing close to £0.5m in strengthening its Food Development Team.

The investment will see new positions responsible for conceiving, championing and developing new technologies in food processing as well as innovative products and concepts to satisfy and exceed customer needs.

Announcing the investment Deputy Chief Executive Tony O’Neill said: “Dunbia is a company driven by entrepreneurial vision and innovation. This latest investment highlights our continued commitment to exploring innovative ideas and driving the sector forward. The new roles will align closely with our current business model but will keep us at the forefront by modifying existing products and processes as well as developing new and exciting products and concepts for the benefit of consumers.”

O’Neill continued: “we are actively recruiting and seek creative, passionate and driven individuals for positions including Innovation Project Managers, Food Technologists and Innovation Chefs. As a company we have won over 30 industry awards in the past four years which is testament to the quality and excellence of our products but also the calibre of our employees and it is on this strong record of success we want to continue to build.”

Sales & Marketing Director Michael Doran explains “this is an exciting step for Dunbia in terms of driving our innovation strategies and ensuring we continue to meet and exceed customer demands. Customers are savvier than ever and expect the best quality food at the best prices and this latest investment will help shape our plans to deliver on these expectations across the three species. We have a clear vision and understand innovation leads to business success and this drives our strategic outlook ensuring we remain a supplier of choice.”

This latest investment, as well as the recent launch of their new graduate programme ONE360 highlights Dunbia’s commitment to attracting exceptional people and positioning itself as a leading food company with growth aspirations based on its values of quality and integrity.


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3 Simple Steps to Build Habits that Stick

Following through on new year’s resolutions,  heading in the right direction, meeting goals, or making creative shifts requires the ability to build sustainable, congruent habits. While self-discipline, willpower and a growth mindset all play a role in making your dreams and wishes come true,  it’s habit formation that makes the process easier.

A habit is an automatic tendency, behavior or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.  It is formed through regular repetition and is a natural consequence of how the human brain works. Healthy habits keep you on the path of worthwhile pursuits, despite obstacles and setbacks.

Whether you seek to finish an innovative project, make time for daily exercise, develop an essential skill or just get more sleep,  you will benefit from building habits that trigger positive change and continuous progress.

Follow these 3 simple steps to build habits that stick:

1. Start small. Having Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) can be highly motivating, but moving toward them often involves taking incremental steps. Likewise, to implement a new behavior that you want to become a habit, start with a small, doable action from which you can build momentum. As Leo Babauta of Zen Habits says, “Make it so easy you can’t say no.”

Need to create a writing habit that will help you complete your sci-fi novel and become a published author? To start, you could commit to writing a page or for 15 minutes each morning. Then, after this becomes ingrained, add another page or an additional 15 minutes. Keep building on the practice until you’re up to a chapter or two-hour writing blocks a day (or whatever maximum you can handle).

Start with super small actions that you can expand upon as they become habitual or routinized. Your forcing yourself to write a chapter or for two hours, right off the bat, won’t work. Instead, you’ll likely find yourself checking emails, updating your social media posts, scrolling through online news feeds or giving in to other distractions to alleviate tension or boredom.

Depending on who you ask, it usually takes 21 days, 28 days or 30 days, to form a new habit. In one 2009 study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, a University College London research team found that it takes an average of 66 days until an action becomes automatic.

The researchers recruited  96 participants (a statistically insignificant number) who were interested in forming a new habit such as eating a piece of fruit with lunch or doing a 15-minute run each day. Participants were then asked daily whether their behavior was “hard not to do”or could be done “without thinking.” The study found that on average, the “plateau of automaticity” was reached after 66 days.

Despite the research studies, there is no magic number of days to form a habit. Some behaviors are harder to adopt than others. It’s much easier to write an article than to finish a whole book. Eating a salad for lunch each day is less challenging than completing a daily, one-hour workout at the gym.

For most people – no matter how long it takes to form a habit – starting with a small action is more effective than going for bold changes at the outset. In Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done, Jon Acuff suggests you cut your goal in half or double the timeline to avoid the perfectionist, now-or-never mentality that stops follow-through.

To incorporate mindfulness meditation into my evening routine, I started with 15 minutes.  To implement a tai chi practice into my morning rituals, I began with just 10 minutes. Shooting for 30 minutes or 1 hour would have led to failure in making them into daily habits. A regular practice, even for a minimal amount of time, provides significant benefits that I would not otherwise get if I didn’t do it at all.

Lower the bar and reduce your expectations if you’re having trouble making consistent, lasting progress. Set yourself up for success by taking small actions you can readily accomplish and will give increase your sense of control.

2. State your “if-then” plans.  Positive thinking helps you learn from failures and recover from setbacks. But it’s not enough to get you where you want to be, as  Gabriele Oettingen, psychology professor and author of Rethinking Positive Thinking,  Inside the New Science of Motivation, points out.

Oettingen discusses a four-step process called WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) to  think about potential obstacles, contrast them with your dreams and goals, and design a plan to overcome them to attain preferred outcomes.

In one research article, Oettingen and her colleague, Peter Gollwitzer, explain that making if-then statements is a powerful way to create a desired future behavior or outcome. They state, “While goal intentions (goals) have the structure ‘I intend to reach Z!’ with Z relating to a desired future behavior or outcome, implementation intentions have the structure ‘If situation X is encountered, then I will perform the goal-directed response Y!'”

Using an if-then format, you specify plans on where, when and how you want to act  in certain situations. Oettingen and Gollwitzer note, “For instance, a person with the goal to reduce alcohol consumption might form the following implementation intention: ‘And whenever a waiter suggests ordering a second drink, then I’ll ask for mineral water!'” This helps to close the gap between having goals and reaching them.

If-then statements establish patterns that prompt healthy behaviors and responses to specific situations. They are based on critical cues (opportunities or obstacles), such as your emotional state, the time, your location/environment, and the preceding action, which are linked to the goal-directed response.

When faced with the critical cue, you have a pre-planned, automatic (habitual) response to deal with it. For example, instead of telling yourself “I will get enough sleep everyday,” you could say, “If it’s 9:30 p.m., I’ll start winding down to go to bed by 10 p.m.” Rather than commit to “I will maintain a clutter-free home,” you could specify, “After dinner, I’ll clear out the junk mail.”

Oettingen has a related WOOP app designed to help you fulfill your wishes and change your habits with if-then plans. The process is based on environmental triggers and current routines you can use to build a new habit or to add to an existing one.

3. Suck at it.  Don’t be in a rush to become an expert or a master; embrace the beginner’s mind, in which there are many possibilities and nothing is all figured out. If you miss a day or two of taking an action that you want to become a daily habit, just get back to it.  No need to count this as a break in your streak.

In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg states, “Some habits yield easily to analysis and influence. Others are more complex and obstinate, and require prolonged study. And for others, change is a process that never fully concludes. But that doesn’t mean it can’t occur.”

Even when you fall short of your ideal behavior or preferred outcome, getting things right 5%, 20% or 50% of the time is overall better than 0%. By cutting yourself some slack, you get to continue your efforts rather than abandon them at the first slip-up.

Over time, and with sustained effort, you can make better informed decisions on whether to continue the action or habit. If it’s not truly purposeful or enjoyable, you can not only suck at it, but you can give it up altogether.

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If you have trouble fulfilling resolutions or achieving goals, try these 3 simple steps to build habits that stick and will help you make sustainable progress without beating yourself up.

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How digital distractions drain your productivity

Digital distractions can make you feel productive and responsive, when in fact you’re just engaging in mindless, insignificant tasks. While digital technology broadens your access to information, makes communication easier, and provides other advantages, it often pulls you away from your true priorities.

For the most part, productivity means getting the most important things done, efficiently and effectively, while feeling satisfied with your progress and cultivating personal freedom for yourself. With this in mind, here’s how digital distractions drain your productivity:

Weaken your focus muscle

Paying attention to the task at hand is required to start, tackle and complete it. The ubiquitous presence of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and 24/7 online access erodes your ability to fully attend to one thing, concentrate, and work through problems, especially when they’re complex and require deep thought.

In January 2017, the Pew Research Center released fact sheets showing about 77% of Americans own a smartphone; nearly 73% state they have broadband service at home; 69% of U.S. adults use social media; nearly eight-in-ten U.S. adults own a desktop or laptop computer; and about half own tablet computers.

With digital technology at your fingertips, quick answers and instant gratification are expected. Over time, without consistent training and regular exercise, your focus muscle weakens immensely. And when faced with a difficult problem or averse task that needs to get done, you’ll be more tempted to look to your digital devices for a quick fix.

The brain’s prefrontal cortex craves novelty. The dopamine high you get from checking emails, text messages, social media and other digital information creates a feedback loop that encourages you to lose focus and seek external stimulation. The effects are sub-par results, more mistakes, and a prioritization of low-value busy work over high-value intentional work.

Encourage the counterproductive practice of multitasking (switch tasking)

Doing more than one thing at a time  – commonly known as multitasking – is often viewed as a strength and skill. Companies misguidedly expect their employees to prioritize multiple projects and manage two or four or six tasks at once.

Although technology allows different processes to occur simultaneously, the human brain processes only one thing at a time, sequentially. As a result, juggling two or more tasks at one time — especially when they each demand high focus — is counterproductive.

In The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World, neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley and psychologist Larry D. Rosen point out the brain has a limited capacity to pay attention, which makes it impossible to focus on two or more completely unrelated tasks at the same time.

You can do multiple, related tasks toward one outcome, such as when you drive a car, make breakfast, or attend to other simple routines. You can also background task very well, such as watch a movie while you exercise on the treadmill or listen to classical music while you cook. But when it comes to high-attention tasks — such as replying to emails while participating in a conference call, or texting while listening to an audio book — the best you can do is switch between tasks at rapid speeds.

In a University of California – Irvine study, researchers found it takes, on average, up to 20 minutes to refocus on an activity after being interrupted by email or another minor distraction. Each time you divert your attention from one task to another, you add to the time it would otherwise take you to complete it.

As your brain takes in new information on the second task, your attention becomes scattered and you lose your primary focus on the first task.  You then have to catch up on the information you missed or the thought process you abandoned to fully get back to the first task. Plus, attention residue from a prior unfinished task affects your performance on the new task.

Even if you consider yourself a super multitasker, you are still more productive when you attend to one thing, take a break, and then move to the next.

Reduce your brain power

Strong cognitive abilities allow you to be truly productive in creative projects or high-value assignments.  In Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, molecular biologist John Medina explains how digital distractions bombard the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for exercising willpower, goal-setting, decision-making, planning, making moral judgments, and carrying out other executive functions. He breaks down the process into four steps:

Step 1- shift alert. The prefrontal cortex acts a switchboard in alerting the brain to shift attention. Blood rushes to this region of the brain when you’re about to start working on task #1, such as writing a research paper.

Step 2 –  rule activation for task #1. This includes a two-part message. The first part is a search query to locate the neurons needed to carry out the task. The second part encodes a command to rouse the neurons, once found.

Step 3 – disengagement from task #1. While you’re working on task #1, there’s an interruption related to task #2, such as a text message from a friend. Because the rules for writing the research paper and replying to the text message are different, your brain has to disengage from task #1 before you can attend to task #2. Blood then rushes to the prefrontal cortex, alerting the brain to shift attention to the second task.

Step 4 – rule activation for task #2. The two-part message for rule activation to attend to task #2 is triggered. After the switch is completed, you may then address the second task.

Because these four steps have to occur in sequence each time you switch from one task to the next, your productivity dips when you give in to digital distractions.

Researchers found that persons who engage in heavier media-multitasking (i.e. toggle between many different websites, apps, programs or other digital stimuli) generally perform worse on cognitive control tasks and exhibit more socio-emotional difficulties. They tend to have less grey matter in certain parts of the brain, which serves to process information and is linked with intelligence, as well as thought and emotional control.

A neuroscientist at Stanford, Russel Poldrack, found that learning new information while being distracted causes the information to go the striatum (a region of the brain for storing new procedures and skills), but not to the hippocampus (a region of the brain for storing new facts and ideas, which makes information easier to recall or retrieve). In short, digital distractions negatively affect your memory.

Impair mental wellbeing

The constant stream of emails, instant messages, text messages, social media notifications, and online news produces information overload and mental fatigue. The fear of missing out (FOMO) keeps you hunched over your smartphone instead of attuned to the present.

Heavy media-multitasking, like switching from one app to the next, produces the stress hormone cortisol and the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline.  One study found that smartphone overuse is linked to depression, anxiety and sleep problems.

In Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Sherry Turkle discusses how technology affects your capacity for solitude and development of empathy, which are critical for forming and sustaining human relationships. But in this digital age, you’re more likely to use the train ride or bus commute to consume more information on your electronic device, rather than think or reflect quietly. Instead of enjoying a face-to-face conversation on your break, you clear out your email inbox and scroll through news feeds.

Expanding connections through social media is not the same as building deep relationships and honing real friendships, which help to reduce stress and anxiety.  When your mental wellbeing is compromised, it’s harder to commit to and work on challenging projects.

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Avoiding and minimizing online distractions are necessary to get the right things done, with better results and in the least amount of time. To gain control over your digital device usage and online media consumption,  read 5 quick tips on dealing with digital distractions.

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5 quick tips on dealing with digital distractions

Digital technology puts information at your fingertips and keeps you connected with the rest of the world. But it also drains your productivity, distracts you from your highest priorities and slows progress on your major projects when it’s overused. It’s easier to update your Facebook page, watch YouTube videos, and check emails than do deep, creative work.

Here are 5 quick tips on dealing with digital distractions:

1. Get clear on what you really need to accomplish. If you neglect to design your day around your most important tasks, you’re more likely to seek the dopamine high that comes with consuming information online, posting on social media, and reacting to notifications on your phone.

Define which areas allow you to use your greatest strengths and tap into your key interests. Figure out where you derive the most long-term satisfaction and contribute the highest value. Curate the information you consume. Engage only with content that jives with your top areas of interest, and unsubscribe from content that doesn’t serve your highest priorities. By focusing on what really matters, you avoid going down the digital rabbit hole that leads you astray.

2. Put technology in its place. With digital devices, you can get turn-by-turn directions to where you need to go, send a quick message to a friend, and listen to a favorite podcast during your commute.  These are great modern-day conveniences to have. Use technology to help you execute on your priorities, but don’t let it dictate where you place our attention.

Processing emails is rarely the most critical use of your time. Resist the urge to respond to or read every single one of them as they hit your inbox. Surfing the Internet  and scrolling through news alerts on your break time feeds overwhelm and clogs up your headspace. Instead, take a walk, meditate, drink some water, or be with nature to truly decompress.

3. Turn off notifications.  The pop-up messages and sound alerts you get each time a text, or email comes in is bound to distract you from your real work.  Forget about checking it or replying to it within seconds or minutes. By end of day or next day is usually more than enough.

To reduce digital temptations when you need to be focusing on real work, remove automatic alerts and disable push notifications from social media.  Try online filters and website blockers like FocusMe (paid service), Freedom (paid service) or StayFocused (free service for Google Chrome users).

4. Have specific time blocks to go digital. Be intentional about when you check your emails, watch online videos, scroll through web pages, and engage with social media. Make it as hard as possible to reach for your digital devices at any time of the day. Avoid them first thing after you wake up (when you ought to be gearing  for your most significant projects), and right before bedtime (when you ought to be winding down and clearing your mind).

Before you start high-concentration work, close your web browsers and keep your smartphone out of sight – preferably in another room – with the Do Not Disturb mode on. (You can set it up so the most important calls still get through.)

Respond to emails and go online during chunks of predetermined time blocks on your own schedule. That way, you stay responsive and connected without being bombarded by digital distractions throughout the day. And carve out off-grid time, such as an entire Sunday, when you’re not responding to emails, surfing the Web, tweeting or retweeting, or liking posts on Facebook. Put away your digital device when you need to give undivided attention to the persons in front of you, such as when you’re having dinner with your family, meeting with a client, or engaging in conversation with a friend.

5. Track your technology use. Being aware of how and when you use your electronic devices is key to dealing with digital distractions. Do you know how much time you spend online in a given day? RescueTime and Toggl are among the time trackers available.

You might find that you are flooding your brain with useless trivia, fueling inner negativity by keeping up with the daily news, and wasting time on seemingly urgent things that are really non-essential. Perhaps you go digital to procrastinate because you don’t know where to begin with significant projects, or to alleviate boredom because you’re overqualified for your job. Or you might find that you use technology mostly as a tool to get important things done. Either way, it doesn’t hurt to do an audit of your technology use.

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Move through fear

One of the most common phobias known to mankind is the fear of public speaking. Also common is the fear of heights. Both fears used to stop me from participating in certain activities.

One day, I decided to face my fears head-on. I didn’t necessarily get rid of the fears altogether. Fears come and go. Sometimes the fear is there, and sometimes it’s not.

But I discovered firsthand that you can take effective action regardless of your fears. Fear serves a strong purpose. You can use it to your advantage.

Fear of public speaking

I used to dread even the prospect of public speaking. I thought it would be terrifying to step into the spotlight. Who wants to have a bunch of eyes staring at you – watching your every move, witnessing you trip over your own two feet, and noticing you stumble for the right words? Despite constant prodding from teachers and social pressure from classmates, I managed to escape joining the debate team in high school.

When I started college, I decided it was time to face my fear of public speaking. I was majoring in communications with an emphasis in public relations. How could I do this line of work if I was afraid to speak in public?

So, I took an introductory speech communication class. As it turned out, I loved it. By getting up to talk in a room full of people, over and over, I gained skills and confidence I didn’t have before. I ended up completing a minor in speech communication as part of my undergraduate studies.

I now speak before audiences on stress mastery, finding focus, and other professional growth topics as a life & career strategist. I also present oral arguments before appellate judges and represent clients at court hearings as a lawyer. I would not have these opportunities if I were still crippled by fear of public speaking.

Yet, irrespective of my experience, I can still get nervous when I speak before an audience. It doesn’t matter that I enjoy oral arguments before appellate judges and feed off the adrenaline that comes with speaking before large groups. Fear has a funny way of showing up when you least expect it.

Last Wednesday, as a Faculty Mentor and instructor at the University of St. Thomas law school, I spoke on networking before a small group of 16 second-year law students. It was an 8 a.m. class. When I woke up in the morning, I was looking forward to it.

But 5 minutes before I walked into the classroom, I began to have racing thoughts: Did I prepare enough? How would the students receive me? Would anyone show up? Would the interactive exercises teach them anything? Despite having some self-doubt and feeling a bit nervy, I walked in and had a great time with the students.

Fear of heights

As for my fear of heights, I learned to truly embrace it by skydiving! Ok, it was tandem skydiving. But nonetheless – audacious – wouldn’t you say?

A couple months later, I was invited by my sister and her friend, an expert climber, to go outdoor rock climbing. I myself had very limited climbing skills. I had only done indoor rock climbing at Vertical Endeavors a few times. But since I had recently jumped out of an airplane, I figured that outdoor rock climbing would be a piece of cake when it came to dealing with heights. Boy was I wrong.

When we got to Taylor’s Falls, I enjoyed climbing up the steep cliff and seeing the beautiful views from way above. It was the rappelling down that posed the greatest challenge.

Rappelling is a climbing technique that allows you to do a controlled descent. It involves your sliding down a rope on a cliff face to get back to flat earth. Sometimes it’s the fastest, easiest and safest way to get down.

On the surface, rappelling seems much simpler than climbing up a cliff. But it can be very nerve-racking and dangerous. It includes creating anchors, tying knots, managing the rope, rigging the rappel device, and using safety back-up systems to ensure safety. When rappelling, you need to focus, use good judgment, and lean into the descent.

I freaked out when I learned that I would need to rappel down from the top of the cliff. I felt like I was going to die. My legs were complete mush. My palms were sweaty. My heart was racing. My stomach was churning. Minutes felts like hours. Then I finally took a deep breath, leaned back on the rappel rope, and descended into the unknown.

Here are some things I learned about fear and how to move through it:

Fully experience the fear.

When fear arises, you naturally want to get rid of it and everything that comes with it: the physical symptoms (e.g. pit in your stomach, wobbly knees, sweaty palms) and the self-sabotaging thoughts (e.g. I’m a wuss. I’m not good enough. I can’t do this.)  Driving out your fear or willing it away is usually impossible. It’s easier to just be with it. Make space for it. Tap into it as a source of fuel for action. Let it be your guide.

Observe, with genuine curiosity, the thoughts and feelings that accompany your fear. Let go of your judgments and preferences. Bring your fear into light and into your consciousness. Investigate it. Learn something big or something minute – about yourself and about the fear itself.

Keep your sense of humor.

When I was first instructed to rappel down from the top of the cliff, I felt like crying. I took it as a serious, life-threatening decision. But then I recalled I had recently jumped out of an airplane.

What made the difference? On the airplane, before I jumped, I was relaxed. I was smiling, laughing, and joking around with my tandem master and fellow skydivers. So, to deal with the fear, I began to play around and have fun with it.  Next thing I knew, I was rappelling down – despite the wobbly legs, sweaty palms, racing heart, and churning stomach. I accepted the physical symptoms as part of the adventure.

Be present.

Fear often arises from your memories about the past and projections of the future. I tripped over my tongue the last time I gave a toast! I could crack my scull on the side of the cliff with one false move!

When you find your mind racing with negative thoughts, come back to the present moment. You don’t need to spend tons of energy trying to change your thoughts or think positive. Just let the thoughts come and go without hooking you.

Start by counting your breath. As you breathe in, count 1, and as you breathe out, count 1. Repeat 10 times and then return to 1 again.  Focus on the pure sensation of your breath.  Notice the rise and fall of your shoulders, rib cage, and abdomen. Most times, your breath will become quieter and deeper. Even if it doesn’t, that’s fine. Simply noticing your breath helps you to be present.

Instead of hiding from or fighting the present moment, be with it.  The now is when you have the most power. Once you realize this fact, you tend to calm down.  You gain clarity. You decide what you want to do or what you need to do. And you do it.

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5 ways to recharge

5 ways to rechargeRound-the-clock productivity, extensive to-do lists, and overscheduled days can put you on the fast track to burnout. Fierce progress toward goals can be followed by your hitting the wall with a big thud.

Burnout often feels like depression, but it’s not the same. It cannot be managed with therapy or medication. Behavioral shifts are necessary to restore your energy and recharge your spark.

Burnout starts with highly driven, nonstop activity. Fueled by the desire for accomplishment, you override your body’s need for rest with caffeine, sugar, pure will-power, or stress hormones (e.g. adrenaline and cortisol).

But eventually, your body’s natural rhythm wins out. You begin to feel irritable, restless, and exhausted. With your physical and hormonal reserves depleted, you become more prone to stress-related illnesses. (Headaches, ulcers, insomnia, high blood pressure, and heart disease are among the many.)

Today, after several weeks of intense, perpetual activity, I had an overwhelming need to take it easy. I woke up at 10 a.m. with a splitting headache. Having a cold didn’t help either. I texted my friends, Kat and Steph, to say I wouldn’t make it to brunch. Then I went back to bed and slept some more.

When I woke up again at 1:30 p.m., my headache was gone and my cold symptoms had subsided. I had slept for a total of 13 hours. Many things I had planned to do didn’t get done. But that’s okay. I couldn’t have done them effectively when I lacked the energy.

Whether you’re dragging or you’re burned out, here are 5 ways to recharge:

Sleep. Getting enough shuteye is critical. While I would not recommend 13 hours of sleep daily, I needed that amount today. Sleep helped me deal with my headache and cold symptoms. It restored my energy so I felt well enough to write this blog post.

Research shows that most people need seven to eight hours of sleep to feel fully rested. When you’re burned out, you need more – perhaps up to ten hours plus frequent naps. Allow yourself to get the rest you need. Let go of the guilt. There’s a big difference between being lazy and being tired.

Shed your should-do list. If you put too much pressure on yourself to produce and create, you could wind up with mediocre work. Or you might just plod along with nothing to show for it.

Go with your instincts. Do only what you must do or want to do. Forget about what you think you should do.

Indulge in quiet time. Turn off the TV. Disconnect from the Internet. Shut down your smart phone.  Give your brain a rest from external stimuli and information overload.  Keep a notebook or an electronic device to jot down creative ideas or random thoughts that clutter your mind.

Take a walk around the lake, in the park or down the block. Be with nature. Embrace the space. Meditate and reflect. Notice your breath and slow it down. Practice savasana (pronounced “shah-VAHS-anna”).

Engage in self-care.  Take in food that is loaded with nutrients, fiber and antioxidants. Eat your veggies and fruits. Drink pure water. Exercise for the sheer joy of it. Reconnect with your loved ones (family members and friends you likely neglected while you were busy striving for your goals).

Get in touch with your natural rhythm. Stress is inherent to leading a fully engaged life. But burnout is nature’s way of telling you that you’ve been pushing yourself too hard and too long.

Skip the latte (caffeine), Oreos (sugar) and other artificial stimulants. Get in touch with your natural rhythm. Tune in to the ebbs and flows. Neutralize intense creation and productivity with deliberate rest and renewal.

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Putting reactive work on the back-burner

Customer service reps, tech supporters, air traffic controllers, police officers and firemen are expected to tackle urgent issues as they arise. Their work is largely unplanned.

While you might have a better handle on planning your work, you can still find yourself putting out fires and attending to other people’s priorities on any given day.

It’s hard to focus on important, high-value, creative work when you’re busy handling reactive work.

Your boss stops in your office with a problem that is urgent to him, but seems trivial to you. But you’re expected to solve it right away and drop what you’re doing.

Your business partner sends you an email with a major concern that she wants handled now. You feel compelled to get on that immediately, even though you were on a roll with another project.

Your client calls to complain about an issue that is really beyond your control. You stay on the phone to try and relieve her stress, when she would be better off talking with a friend or therapist.

Reactive work is a trap. It never ends. In this age of constant connectivity and instant communication, it’s easier to act on impulse than on purpose.

Meeting last-minute requests, replying to emails, and answering telephone calls as they flow in can give you a false sense of productivity and professionalism. Attending to seemingly urgent things can leave you terribly behind on your most important tasks.

Some reactive work is necessary and beneficial. You just can’t let it eat up your time to the point where you neglect important work, which requires creativity, commitment, persistence and follow-through.

If you want to put reactive work on the back-burner to focus on real work, here are a few tips:

Accept that you will ruffle feathers.  If you stop responding to every demand that comes your way, you will be met with complaints from those who want you to attend to their priorities, not yours.

But you can’t do great work if you’re constantly jumping from one urgent matter to another. People who scream the loudest don’t always deserve the most attention. Resist the temptation to please everyone

Take a hands-off approach.  Do you need to attend to impromptu requests yourself? Could others solve the problem or find the answer without your input? Are there systems and processes you could set up to deal with reactive work more efficiently?

Teach and guide others how to do things themselves. Discourage them from depending on you to solve their issues. Resist coming to their rescue every time they fail or have a setback.

Do your most important work first. Many start their work day by reading emails and listening to voice mails. But this can lead you away from your true priorities. You could wind up processing and addressing inquires all day long without getting any real work done. At least set a timer to prompt you to move on to more significant tasks.

Spend the better part of your day on creative work, not busy work. Block out time to do real work when your energy is at its peak and when there are fewer distractions

Make a realistic plan. At the end of your day, decide on the single most important task that you need to do the next day. Schedule it on your calendar. Make sure to initiate it or complete it as planned. That way, no matter what happens, you will accomplish at least one thing that matters to you.

Pare down your to-do list to the top three things that you can reasonably commit to getting done. You will stress yourself out if your to-do list is too long and you try to do everything on it.

Reflect on your progress. Pause purposely. Observe with curiosity. How is your day going? Are you doing the things you set out to do? If not, what are your obstacles? How can you overcome them? What will you need to put aside to do your real work?

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When you spend too much time on daily firefighting and attending to others’ needs, you can lose sight of your top priorities. Strive to put reactive work on the back-burner so you can focus on important, high-value, creative work that satisfies your own agenda.

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Energy deregulation in Washington DC has allowed consumers to choose their energy provider. Unlike before, they now have other options than to get their energy just from the utility. The main purpose of deregulation was to introduce competition in the energy market. As more and more suppliers entered the energy market, they started competing against each other in order to get more customers.

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EDGEFIELD – Mrs. Teresa Yount Culver, age 46 of Edgefield, SC, passed away Monday, July 31, 2017 at the home of her parents on Jonesville-Lockhart Hwy. Union, S.C.

Mrs. Culver was born in Augusta, GA., October 11, 1970, a daughter of Cecil and Jimmie Bates Yount. She was a graduate of Jonesville High School and attended Spartanburg Technical College and USC-Aiken.  She was formerly employed with Crouch Hardware in Edgefield and was a member of Gilead Baptist Church.
Surviving in addition to her parents are two daughters, Jessica Dunlap and husband Drake of Greenwood and Taylor Culver of Edgefield, two sisters, Sheila McBrayer and husband Grady and Kelly Bagsby and husband Mike all of Waynesville, NC, and four nephews.
Funeral services will be held 3:00 PM Thursday, August 3, 2017 at the S.R. Holcombe Chapel, Union, S.C. conducted by the Rev. Sam Davis and Rev. Sal Barone.  The family will receive friends from 2:00 to 3:00 PM prior to the services at the Funeral Chapel.
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