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The gift of a crappy first draft

The deadline is looming. The ticking clock is getting louder by the minute as you sit there watching the cursor flash like an indicator on the blank page. You need to write, but the words just aren’t coming. You concentrate harder as if to will the words out of you. But nothing. The cursor goes on flashing.

Sound familiar? That my friend is an unfortunate case of blank page paralysis. It’s when the stress and pressure of needing to write blocks your creativity and flow and leaves you with, well…nothing.

We’ve all been there, and as a perfectionist who has made a living from writing, I know I’ll be back to revisit this dreaded place sometime soon. The good news is, though, that there is a way to navigate yourself out of it and the map you need comes in the form of a crappy first draft.

Are you feeling a little sceptical? That’s alright. Let’s delve into this further to look at why a crappy first draft can help you get the words flowing out of your head and onto the page. But first, let’s look at what a crappy first draft is.

What is a crappy first draft?

A crappy first draft is where you get all of your thoughts down on paper without judgement, order or structure. It’s your writing brainstorm. Spelling, grammar and punctuation don’t matter (it’s meant to be crappy after all) and no editing is allowed until the draft is complete as this can inhibit your creative flow.

So, now that we’re all on the same page let’s look at why the crappy first draft is one of the best gifts you can give to yourself as a writer.

It takes the pressure off

While some levels of stress can make your creativity soar, a lot of stress can make it plummet. Knowing that you aren’t doing the final version but rather a crappy first draft that only you will read, can take the pressure off. Once this pressure reduces, you are in a better position to start.

It gets you started

Like many things in life starting is the hardest part. When the pressure is on, we can make the task so much bigger in our minds. A crappy first draft gives you permission to suck and start without judgement or correction. Once you start, it easier to keep going.

It helps you find your flow

When you’re focused on perfection, you’ll more than likely try to write from start to finish. But the start may not be the best place for you to start. Stay with me here. When I write, whether it be a blog post, speech, email or web page, I’ll often start in the middle then go back and write the start, end and headline.

Start where the inspiration strikes. Don’t try and persist through the areas that haven’t come to you yet, start where you need to then you’ll get into the flow.

It allows you to order your thoughts

Often when we go start to finish, we become stuck on a specific structure to our writing. The crappy first draft allows you to step back after you’ve written it and work out the right order to your writing. It gives you the space to evaluate the most important messages (and ditch the not so important messages) to create a better, more persuasive piece.

So, the next time you are staring at that flashing cursor on the screen, and the pressure is on, permit yourself to do a crappy first draft. You’ll find, as I have, that it’s a great way to ease the pressure and let the creativity flow.

The power of your customers discomfort

In business, we’re told to identify the problem we solve to appeal to the customers we serve. But focusing on the solution to the problem often results in skipping a crucial part of the sales process that makes your pitch more persuasive – letting your customer feel their pain.
In sales and marketing, we need to let our customers experience the pain and discomfort of the problem before we get them out of it. Why? Great question. Let’s look at the three reasons why discomfort is a key part of your sales process and your customers buying decision.

1. Discomfort tells your customer that they have a problem

While there is a select group of people that are highly motivated by pleasure and rewards, if we were to talk generally about the human race, most of us will move faster away from pain than towards pleasure. We don’t like to be in discomfort; in fact, we’ll do a lot to stay out of it.
Emotional eating, retail therapy and big nights out are just a few of our methods of choice when it comes to numbing the pain and discomfort we feel. But to create change, to want a better way, we need to feel discomfort. Otherwise, we carry on in a blissful state of ignorance, unaware of a problem or unaware of how big it really is.
Discomfort is a key driver of change. It tells us something is wrong, and it needs to be fixed because this uncomfortable feeling has got to go. We don’t learn, grow, stretch or solve problems without dipping our toes into the pool of discomfort first. It gives us a reason for change and the motivation to make it.

2. Discomfort tells your customer that fixing this problem is a high priority

Let’s get real here for a moment. There are loads of problems your customer faces daily. So, what makes the problem you solve more important than any other problem they are facing today? What makes your problem the problem they need to spend time, money and energy on right now?
Discomfort. Your customer’s level of discomfort is directly related to the level of priority they will place on their purchase decision.
When your customer is in enough pain, they will come to you. Granted you need to do your marketing right so they can find you, but when they are in this state, they will be actively searching to resolve their issue. While this illustrates the need for discomfort in the buying process, these aren’t the customers we’re talking about right now.
We’re talking about the people who you want to buy your product or service that aren’t at that ‘please solve this painful problem for me right now’ buying stage. These are the customers you need to take supportively into a place of pain and discomfort, so they are motivated to get themselves out of it.

3. Discomfort makes your product or service a ‘want’ over a ‘need’

While having a product or service that is a ‘need’ sounds ideal, you actually want it to be a ‘want’. Think about it for a moment, you need water to hydrate your body, but you want that coffee to wake up. What is the stronger driver?
A ‘need’ is often born out of a sense of obligation, we know we need to do it, so we do it – or should I say eventually do it – and this is the key, there is rarely a sense of urgency with a ‘need’. A ‘want’ is born out of a desire to get closer to something or away from something. It is more time-sensitive, most times immediate, and there is a level of excitement or nervousness that drives you to act.

How to get your customer to feel discomfort – without shutting them down

There is a fine line between getting your customers to feel discomfort and pushing them into other big negative emotions like anger, guilt and shame, or negative thought patterns like I’m a failure. This is not the direction we want to take them in – nor is it a direction you want your brand to be associated with.
I should also be clear that we don’t want to be unethical with this tactic or use it to manipulate people into buying. The art of persuasion, like many things, can be used for good or bad, so it is important to have the right intentions – and your customer’s best interests at heart.
What we want to do, as mentioned above, is to get your customers to a level of discomfort where they know that:
  1. There is a problem
  2. The problem needs to be fixed
  3. They want to fix it
We do this by practising empathy, calling out the problem and vividly painting their current reality.
So, I want you to step into the shoes of your customer for a moment. For this exercise, imagine one specific client, it could be your ideal client or a past client you’ve loved to work with or that you felt was a great fit for your company, product or service.
Now I want you to answer these questions with them in mind:
  • What is happening for your customer – or not happening for them?
  • How is this problem hurting their life or business?
  • Where are their areas of frustration and inefficiency?
  • What is this problem holding them back from being, doing or achieving?
  • What are the risks of leaving this problem unsolved?
From these answers, you can now start to talk about the problem in a way your customer can relate. Be descriptive and practice emotional intelligence and compassion by calling out how it is likely making them feel – frustrated, tired, overwhelmed or concerned.
Now, I want you to notice that we’re not calling out those destructive, spiralling emotions mentioned earlier (anger, guilt or shame). The emotions I’ve mentioned are temporary emotional states that let us know a boundary has been pushed, that something isn’t right or that we are off-balance in an area of our life.
As a general rule, when I’m trying to get a customer to the state of discomfort we are talking about, I won’t talk about the problem longer than two paragraphs. These will be short paragraphs too – but persuasive ones.
By the third paragraph, I transition into the ‘what if’ scenario or the ‘why you couldn’t resolve it before now’ approach to get the customer focusing on resolving the problem, not wallowing in it.
As you can see, getting your customer to a level of discomfort can be incredibly useful within sales and copywriting. But you do need to exercise caution.
If you need help in bringing discomfort into your messaging, or you want us to look over how you’ve incorporated it into your marketing material, then get in touch, we’re always happy to help.

How to use bridging phrases to get your message across

Whether you are in a media interview, investor pitch, sales meeting or speaking in front of a crowd, you need to know how to handle questions and get your point across calmly and effectively.

But how do you get back on topic when a question leads you down a different path? Or when an interviewer has different intentions to you? One way is by using a bridging phrase – but beware not all bridging phrases promise an easy way to cross back over to your key messages.

So what is a bridging phrase?

A bridging phrase helps you transition from one topic to another seamlessly (if done correctly), making them valuable for any business owner, spokesperson, salesperson or professional to have up their sleeve to use when the moment requires.

The first part of the sentence needs to acknowledge what has been said or asked while still allowing the opportunity to change the subject or add information. The second part of the bridging phrase provides the chance to change the message while sounding as though you are about to deliver valuable information. In other words, you want a sentence that will help you bring the conversation back to what matters to your target audience. Here are some examples:

While it has been that way…
People have said that but…
Yes, I agree though would add…
I’m not sure that is the case, let me tell you why…
We/I take a different approach…
While that has been public opinion…
That reminds me of…
While we are on the subject…
I wouldn’t say that, but what I would say is…
Let me put that in context…
To put this in perspective…
That is a common misconception…
What is more concerning is…
What I believe is…
It has been my experience that…
I have found that…
What many people don’t know is…
What you may not be aware of is…
What people need to know is…
What our customers have found…
What this new research suggests…
The heart of the matter is…

While it sounds simple, mastering the art of bridging can take a lot of practice. As you converse today, look at how you naturally change the subject. Chances are you may say one of the following:

“Keep in mind that…”
“Chances are…”
“That said…”

Granted not all will be appropriate in a professional setting but it is essential to be in touch with your authentic voice. When you are, you can start experimenting with bridging phrases that sound like your natural voice or at least feel more natural to you.

Beware of bridging to avoid questions

If you want an example of someone using bridging phrases to avoid a line of questioning, listen to a journalist interviewing a politician. You will no doubt hear a few of their favourite bridging phrases like:

“What the most important point/issue here is…”
“What we need to remember is…”
“What we need to consider is…”
“Before I answer that I need to explain…”

When someone uses a bridging phrase to avoid a topic, it usually comes with no (or minimal) acknowledgement of the question asked. It is also undeniable that they are trying to spin things in a different direction – and generally for self-serving purposes not for the value of the target audience. While this approach can help to get some points across there is a high chance the journalist or interviewer will hit the issue harder in the next question they ask.

While your customers may not press you like a journalist if you bridge to avoid their questions you can lose trust and credibility in their eyes.

Try reframing the question

If you come across loaded questions or more confronting objections try reframing the question in your mind to still acknowledge and answer it, but  give an answer that is more aligned with your messaging and interests.

For example, if a customer was to question “How can you justify the price of your product when [your competitor] only charges $X?” You could reframe the question to “What value can you provide that is over and above what [your competitor] offers?” You will still answer their question but from a more powerful and positive position.

The bottom line is you need to be prepared

To be able to bridge topics effectively you need to be prepared. Know what you want to get across, plan for questions and objections, have some bridging phrases ready and practice reframing questions and answering them from a more positive perspective.

Five reasons to call your customers regularly

The way to succeed in business is to be constantly in touch with your market. The moment you lose touch with them or start making business more about you than your customers is the time you risk becoming irrelevant.

While business can get busy, and email can seem like a quicker option, nothing beats picking up the phone and engaging in conversation. Don’t think you have the time? Here are five reasons you should be making the time to call your customers regularly.

1. Uncover needs and trends

Businesses and people change over time. What they once valued or needed may no longer be valued or needed. The only way to prevent yourself from losing customers to competitors or becoming irrelevant in your industry is to be in contact with your customers and find out what is happening in their lives and businesses.

The more you genuinely care and want to help, the more they will open up to you about their struggles, worries, frustrations and challenges. This gives you valuable insight into the minds and needs of your customers and helps you find or create the right solution for them. It can also help you identify trends, and market opportunities as similar struggles and needs appear through your discussions.

2. Upsell products and services

As you uncover needs you will also uncover opportunities to upsell (increase the amount they spend), cross-sell (get them buying more) and resell (keep them coming back).

A customer won’t always think of you as their needs change and may not even be aware of the other products and services you provide. Talking to them over the phone gives you the opportunity to educate them on all of the different solutions you can provide.

3. Gain testimonials and case studies

Another key benefit of staying in touch with your customers is that you get to know the results they are achieving with your products and services. Customer testimonials and case studies are incredibly valuable in your sales process because they prove how you can help.  This proof reduces the risk felt by potential customers and gives you powerful marketing messages to use.

As you are talking to your customers, casually ask them how your product or service has helped them. More often than not your customers will be flattered you value their opinion and be happy to give you a testimonial.

4. Identify improvements

Some business owners fear their customers’ feedback, so much so that it prevents them from following up after purchases. But the feedback your customers share with you, whether it is positive or negative, is the key to building a better business.

Your customers, who have experienced your products and services firsthand, will provide priceless insight into the quality, affordability, customer service and benefits you offer compared to what else is available in your industry. And if you choose to listen, help you create greater products and services that are more competitive and relevant to your market.

5. Build relationships

Never underestimate the power of a trusting business relationship. You have already invested time, money and energy into getting your customers; why not do everything in your power to keep them as well?

People want to be valued for who they are and not just how much they spend with you. A quick phone call to see how they are going is a great way to build a relationship with your customers and inspire loyalty and trust.

These days so many businesses have an agenda when they contact their customers. However, you leave an indelible mark when you call just to see how they are going.

Four unexpected places to strike marketing gold

When it comes to crafting winning marketing messages you can often find inspiration in the most unexpected places.

To help you strike marketing gold, here are four places to start looking to uncover marketing messages and product or service developments.

Frequently asked questions give you an insight into what is important to your customers, the potential limitations of your products and services, the features or elements customers don’t understand and what may be missing from your marketing messages.

If you keep getting the same question numerous times and there is a positive answer, try to identify if there is a key selling point you can draw out of it. If not is there an innovation you could make that will fill the need and give you a competitive edge?

Nothing causes us to stand up and listen like a “no”. Though in order to learn from each “no” the important question to ask is “why?”

Was it because they couldn’t see the value? Was it the price? Did it lack a key benefit, feature or inclusion? Was it the sales message or process? Was it just this particular customer (one “no”) or are changes needed to suit the needs of your larger customer base (more than one “no”)?

Examine the scenario yourself and solicit feedback, it could be as simple as needing to change your message to demonstrate your value from a customer’s perspective.

Objections are often seen as the first step towards rejection but it’s not the case. A customer who is objecting is still engaged. They are still interacting, listening and evaluating. Objections aren’t a “no” they’re a “not yet” or “I need more information”.

Just like frequently asked questions, objections uncover the priorities of your target market and, when you listen closely, can give you the information you need to customise your sales pitch so they see the value for them personally.

They can also show you what case studies and testimonials you need and what information you should include in your marketing material and sales process to overcome objections before they’re even verbalised. By doing so you’ll show your customers you ‘get’ them.

While this is a more obvious place to find marketing gold, if you’re like most businesses it’s unlikely you are using them to your full advantage.

While they can help you ‘prove’ your value through your marketing material and overcome common objections of customers (provided you get the right testimonials), they can also tell you what to prioritise in your marketing message.

Your customers may love a particular product, service, feature or result more than those you are currently pushing and chances are what your future customers love about you, will be the same thing your future customers will want from you.

You can also uncover the true frustrations of your customers through your testimonials. Often you will solve a problem your customer didn’t know they had. Testimonials are a great way to capture the relief and give you the gift of hindsight for your next customers.

Have you found marketing gold in any unusual places?

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Have you ever gone out to make some images and were sure you had your tripod with you? Because you knew you were going to need it and you knew your efforts would not be very successful if you didn’t have it. Then you get to the location only to find you don’t have the mounting plate with you? I have to admit that I did this. Yep, I left the quick release mounting plate for my tripod at home! It is bad enough not bring your tripod but it is really frustrating to have a tripod that you just can’t use. André, a photographer friend of mine, and I went to Washington DC to do some night photos near the Lincoln Memorial. When we got out of the car and started getting setup I found that I did not have the mounting plate for my tripod. I had done some photos in my backyard a few days before and I had removed the mounting plate from my camera at my desk when I downloaded my images. My tripod lives in my car so I don’t forget to pack it for a shoot! So, with no mounting plate, I had a tripod that I couldn’t use.

When you forget your tripod, or the mounting plate for your tripod, all is not lost. Be creative, as photographers we are creative beings so don’t let something like wanting to shoot at night and not having a tripod ruin your evening. Improvise, find some way to support your camera so that you do not need a tripod. Leave some home made bean bags in your car to help support your camera. They are dead easy to make. Take a zip-lock bag fill it 2/3 full of coffee beans or some other dried beans and you are in business! You can also use rice if that is easier to come by. They don’t have to be very heavy, they just have to prop up your camera. I told a class about this and one of the students made everyone in class a bean bag. Very cool!

Even without my tripod, and no bean bags, I got several nice images from that night including the one below. I used my lens cap and camera strap to help support my camera. By propping up your camera using just about anything that comes to hand you can get by without a tripod. Once you have your camera stabilized proceed just as you would with a tripod. Use your camera’s self-timer or, if you didn’t forget it as well, your cable or remote release.

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For instance, I raised a rescue cat whose affinity for water was so great that, if he wasn’t granted access to the shower while it was running, he would cry incessantly until he was let near the water. And despite popular belief (and a trove of evidence to the contrary),not all cats hate water. Allow me to loop in some animal experts to debunk this erroneous assumption.

Animal Planet tackled this issue on its pets blog. “Scientists contend that cats’ dislike of water comes from house cats’ owners shielding them from the elements since the earliest periods of domestication and from their ancestors — wild cats in Europe, Africa and China’s desert cat — whose limited experience with water did not require adapting and evolving to deal with it,” they write. They add that some big cats tend to stay out of water to avoid large water-dwelling predators like crocodiles. Cats also don’t need to bathe very often because they’re self-groomers.

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[Posted April 21, 2016] The Supreme Court issues four published opinions today. I’m happy to note their brevity; the longest one is just eleven pages.

My readers no doubt know about Code §8.01-335, the discontinuance statute that allows trial courts to weed out long-dormant litigation. In JSR Mechanical, Inc. v. Aireco Supply, Inc., we learn today whether reinstatement is mandatory or discretionary.

The trial court discontinued a stale case in early 2014. Eleven and a half months later, the plaintiff filed and served a motion to reinstate it as provided in the statute. The court convened a hearing 364 days after the date of the discontinuance order. The paperwork was all in order, but for reasons we’ll probably never know, the court refused to reinstate the case.

The plaintiff persuaded at least one justice to take a look at the matter to address the first-impression issue of whether reinstatement is mandatory or discretionary when a plaintiff properly moves for that relief. The justices today unanimously determine that there’s no discretion involved; if the plaintiff jumps through the hoops, he’s entitled to reinstatement.

The court analyzes the statute, noting that it says that a discontinued case “may be reinstated.” But viewed in context, the court concludes that this is one of those instances where may means shall. The statute doesn’t contain the phrase “good cause.” That language was added in 1997, then quickly removed two years later, so the legislature was aware of the issue. And the presence of that phrase in dozens of other locations in Title 8.01 suggests strongly that its absence here means that discretion isn’t involved.

Limitation of actions

In Haynes v. Haggerty, the court takes up the application – or not – of the statute of limitations for the tort of sexual abuse of minors. That statute now provides that the cause of action accrues on the child’s 18th birthday, or when a health-care professional first communicates a diagnosis of abuse to the patient.

In this case, the plaintiff asserted that the defendant abused her when she was between the ages of 14 and 18. She reached 18 in 1975, but was told of the abuse by a therapist in 2012. She filed suit in 2014.

But the delayed-accrual statute wasn’t in effect in 1975. Back then, it was two years after the plaintiff’s disability (i.e., her status as a minor) ended. When the legislature enacted Title 8.01 in 1977, it excluded from its operation all causes of action that had accrued before that date, so this new provision doesn’t apply to this claim. The justices therefore affirm the trial court’s decision to sustain a plea of the statute of limitations.

One quick note on the justices’ approach to this question: the trial court had ruled based on the defendant’s due-process right to the limitations period. He had a property right in that defense when it arose, and the trial judge felt that the legislature couldn’t constitutionally deprive him of it by legislation. The justices take a statutory approach, described above, instead since they don’t decide constitutional challenges when the case can be resolved by statutory interpretation.

Evidence and pretrial procedure

This heading has two components because Mikhaylov v. Sales decides two discrete issues, each important in its own right. This is a suit for assault and battery.

Mikhaylov was originally charged with sexual battery and abduction, but in general district court he agreed to plead to an amended charge of assault and battery. The court found him guilty on that plea. Sales, the victim of the assault, filed a civil action in circuit court on the same conduct.

Sales asked the circuit court to grant summary judgment on the issue of liability, since her assailant had pleaded guilty to the crime that was the basis for her suit. Mikhaylov wanted to describe to the jury what he felt were extenuating circumstances that led him to plead guilty. The court declined to enter summary judgment expressly, but it did something that had virtually the same effect: it ruled that Mikhaylov would be barred from denying at trial that he committed the assault. The court felt that allowing him to do that would amount to a collateral attack on his conviction.

During the trial, Mikhaylov actually did deny that he had attacked Sales, but the court instructed the jury to disregard that testimony. The jury returned a verdict for Sales.

On appeal, the justices note that the only way for the conviction to bar relitigation would be on judicial estoppel grounds. But judicial estoppel requires identity of parties – the same litigants in the former suit as the current one. It’s well-established that a complaining witness isn’t a party to a criminal prosecution; the moving party is the Commonwealth (or the locality in the case of prosecutions under ordinances).

Because of this difference, the justices unanimously rule today that the previous conviction is not a bar to relitigation of the underlying assault claim, so Sales is still going to have to prove that Mikhaylov assaulted her. By statute, she’ll be able to introduce the guilty plea into evidence when the case is retried, but Mikhaylov will be allowed to try to convince the jury that he didn’t really mean it.

I promised you a second issue. Sales offered medical evidence at trial to show, among other things, that she would need future medical care because of the attack. Mikhaylov objected to this part of the doctor’s testimony because Sales’s expert-witness disclosure said nothing about future medicals.

On this issue, the trial court did a curious thing. Most trial judges I know would sustain that objection, based on the John Crane v. Jones doctrine. This judge noted that Mikhaylov hadn’t moved before trial to exclude evidence of future medicals, and he apparently felt that the failure to file a motion in limine amounted to a waiver, so he allowed the undisclosed evidence.

If that ruling puzzles you, join the club; I’m already a member. The Supreme Court reverses this ruling, too, holding that the pretrial scheduling order required disclosure and Sales didn’t provide it. That order states that undisclosed opinions “will not ordinarily” be admitted into evidence.

Every good litigation attorney will recognize the weasel-word ordinarily in that sentence. If they aren’t ordinarily admissible, doesn’t that make it a judgment call for the court, which can allow the evidence in extraordinary cases?

If so, that’s an engraved invitation to skirt the rule. After all, all of your cases are extraordinary, right?

Okay, I’ll stop kidding around; though I suspect I generated several hundred knowing smiles just now. The justices have never defined the boundary between the ordinary and extraordinary case, and they decline to do so here. But they do go so far as to rule that the failure to make a motion in limine does not constitute a waiver of an evidentiary objection. And there’s no other plausible explanation for the admission.

The court thus remands the case for “further proceedings consistent with” its opinion. That language portends that Mikhaylov’s victory on the expert-witness issue is likely to be short-lived. On remand, I can practically guarantee you that Sales will promptly file a supplemental expert disclosure for the doctor, laying out his opinions on future medicals.

Real property

Okay, I’ll admit that I fudged the header for this section slightly. I did that because if I’d used the more accurate title, Mineral rights, you might have skipped over to the next section, since mineral cases aren’t in your portfolio.

Well, there is no next section; this is the court’s final published opinion of the day. And you’ll want to know about Dye v. CNX Gas Co. to get the answer to the burning (sorry) question: Is natural gas a mineral?

I’ve lived my whole life in the flatlands. I was born in northern Indiana, which his flat; I’ve lived here in Tidewater since the age of three, and the only promontories around here are landfills. My law practice has never included anything remotely classified as mining cases. So this is a new topic to me.

But it isn’t new to the Supreme Court; there’s a rich lode (there I go again; I swear I won’t do it anymore) of caselaw on mining disputes. This one stems from a suit by the successor to the grantor of a severance deed, granting unto CSX’s predecessor “all the coal & other minerals” contained in certain land in Russell County. The question in this litigation is whether CSX can extract natural gas based on that grant.

As a life-long flatlander, my initial thought was, “No, because minerals are rocks, and a gas isn’t a rock.” Guess what? I was wrong. Virginia is one of a solid (now, don’t accuse me of pun abuse; I have plausible deniability on that one) majority of states that hold that a conveyance – or a reservation – of mineral rights includes the right to petroleum, which is a liquid, and natural gas.

If you’re still unconvinced, here’s what Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed., has to say: “any of various naturally occurring homogeneous substances (as stone, coal, salt, sulfur, sand, petroleum, water, or natural gas) obtained usu. from the ground.”


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Shop for One on a Budget

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Diets and budgets are as individual as each person using them.

Giving suggestions on how to shop for one on a budget is challenging, but we've covered the basics here so that you can adapt any lifestyle to be budget conscious.

Part of the reason it's challenging is because no two people consistently like the same things. Plus, cooking skills and budgets vary greatly, and some may have special diets for things like diabetes, or other health issues. Some people only eat all organic, or try to eat as much organic as possible. Others prefer to eat prepared or processed foods.

Understanding Why and How to Shop Smart

What's considered healthy to one person may not be to another.

It helps to know where your money is going and what you are spending it on. Every month, save all of your receipts and review them to see how much you have spent. Pay attention to what you are spending your hard earned money on.

Did you buy that $5 cup of coffee from the local coffee shop? That is part of your food budget. You could probably make that same cup of coffee at home for less than half of what it costs at the corner shop. Seeing what you actually spend your money on helps you to eliminate frivolous and impulse buys that can ruin your budget. When planning your menu and shopping items, think about what you can prepare with your choices. For example, a single person can get several meals from just one bird.

Meals From One Rotisserie Chicken

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    You can eat part of the roasted chicken.
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    You can make a chicken salad with another part of the bird.
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    You can prepare chicken Alfredo with some.
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    Alternatively, you could make chicken & dumplings, curry, tacos, soups, Tetrazzini and many more dishes.
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    Then you can use the carcass to make broth, freezing it to use for another time.
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You'll also want to prevent food waste by organizing your refrigerator and pantry. Store your perishables so that they are in the order that you will use them, hopefully as soon as possible before spoilage, and learn to cook from scratch. This will help you avoid buying convenience food, which always costs more. If possible, also try to have one or two nights of meatless meals, or use meat as an addition to meal, rather than as the main course, since meat can be pricey.

How to Shop on a Budget for One

Because everyone has diverse tastes and budgets, no one plan works for everyone.

However, by following these steps, you can keep spending to a minimum, while still eating healthy:

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    Plan your meals
    Start off planning simple things that you like and know how to make. Plan a menu for seven days; include all meals, snacks and drinks. Try to use what is in your pantry for your menu. From your menu, then plan a grocery list of the foods you'll need to purchase.
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    Shop around for great deals on food and produce
    Research the stores in your area with the lowest prices. Many use local grocery store flyers for sales. Others will have web sites with prices, deals and printable coupons. Sometimes you can have the coupon on your phone. Coupons are money saving if they are applied to something you use. If they aren't for something you normally use, then you might get tricked into an advertisement. Remember, many coupons are just advertisements to trick you into buying things you don't need, and just save the one's you'll benefit from.
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    Have your grocery list with you
    Don't leave home without it! When you have your grocery list with you, it helps to ensure that you stick to your plan and not buy unnecessary items. With your list, cross off the items as you put them into your basket. Use a calculator while shopping so that you can see how much you are spending as you shop. If you go over your budget, then you'll have an easier time figuring out what to give up so that you remain within your spending limits.
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Tips and Suggestions for Budgeting and Saving

Keeping your shopping order will mean less budget stretching, and more relaxing.

  • Pantry: Keeping your pantry stocked with staples that you frequently use, prevents running to the store at the last minute, and you will always have something to eat.
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  • Places to shop: Find out what is available in your area in addition to chain grocery stores. Some areas have grocery outlet stores, Asian markets, roadside stands, and some of the smaller specialty stores may have good deals that are worth checking out.
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  • Compare prices: Pre-packaged and bulk-bin items may have a difference in price. With bulk-bins you can buy as small or as large an amount as you need.
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  • Soups: You can make soups with leftover vegetables, meats, and beans. If you are not going to make soup right away, freeze your leftovers, and then add them to soup when you're ready to prepare it.
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  • Freeze fruits and vegetables: They can be frozen in single servings before they spoil. You can use them in cooking meals, fruit smoothies, fruit crisps, etc.
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  • Dry legumes: Dried beans can be soaked the night before, drained, then cooked, drained again, rinsed and frozen in 1 or 2 cup servings for later use.
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  • Freeze Bread: Bread thaws quickly, so you can freeze what you don't use right away and it will stay fresh. You can make French toast, pancakes and lasagna; and freeze it in single serving portions.
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  • Spoiling: Eat things that spoil quickly first, spinach or leafy greens are good examples.
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  • Re-grow vegetables: You can re-grow green onions and celery on your window ledge. Using a small cup size glass or jar, saving about an inch of the green onion bulb with roots, place in glass of water covering roots. The green tops will re-grow and you can continue to cut them for your use. Change the water every 2-3 days. You can do the same with the bottom of celery, save about an inch of the bottom and place in water, the roots will sprout and the celery stalks will grow from the center.
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  • Cost Sharing: Ask friends or family if they will split the cost of larger packages. This way you can all save, while enjoying great meals.
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If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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I had to make a couple of phone calls, both medical-related.  One to my psychiatrist try to resolve the question of where I can have my blood test at the moment because most hospitals are either not doing blood tests at all or are only doing urgent ones; the alternative is to travel to a hospital quite some way away.  The other call to the GP because I have a suspicious mole on my back that I’ve just noticed – itchy and I think new, although it’s hard to tell, as I have a lot of skin blemishes.  I’ve had two moles removed in the past and they were fine, but it’s more anxiety-provoking now with Mum being treated for cancer and with COVID disrupting everything, leading to autistic “new thing” anxiety.

I was experiencing very strong social anxiety before phoning.  I generally would experience that before phoning anyway, but it seemed worse than usual.  I really think lockdown has set me back regarding social anxiety.

I spoke to the psychiatrist’s secretary.  She went to speak to the psychiatrist and phoned me back to say I could have the blood test done in September, which was what the GP originally wanted.  Hopefully things will have changed a bit by then.

As for the GP, I was on hold for a long time and then was told that non-emergency appointments are only dealt with at 8.30am.  I suppose I could have known that, as that was sort-of the pre-COVID system (new appointments were only released at 8.30am and 6.30pm, which is a really awful system on so many levels, particularly when dealing with people who may not be keeping straightforward hours), but it wasn’t clear from the surgery website.

It feels like almost every interaction I have with GP reception staff ends with me feeling stupid.  That’s an exaggeration, but does it happen a lot.  I think a lot of the receptionists at the practice are just bad-tempered and I internalise their mood and turn it against myself.  I do dread contacting the surgery now, which is not good.  It took a huge effort to phone today; I can’t imagine how it will feel tomorrow.  The doctors are really nice there, so I don’t want to change practice, but getting past the “gatekeepers” can be a challenge.  They mess up prescriptions and the like a lot too.  Coincidentally, a friend posted on his blog to say that even pre-COVID, a lot of doctors’ receptionists seemed to be trying to stop anyone from seeing a doctor, which is sadly my experience too.

Aside from the hour or more that I spent doing that, it was a good day.  (It didn’t take me an hour to phone, but it took a long time to psyche myself up to doing it and to calm myself down afterwards.)

I worked on my novel for about an hour and three quarters.  The writing flowed easily for the first hour, but the second part was harder, and I ended up procrastinating online.  I think I should try to split my writing time into two chunks with a break in-between in the future.  I did write well over 1,000 words, which was good.  I did another fifteen minutes or so after dinner too, to get up to two full hours, which was also good.

I went for a walk after that.  I found I was ruminating on being single and the fact that my therapist said that I should widen my dating pool to include less religious women as otherwise I was likely to struggle to find someone kind and understanding enough to cope with all my issues.  This may be true, but I have noticed that, since breaking up with E., who was a lot less religious than me, some (not all) of my religious anxieties have reduced.  I feel a lot less of a sense of inner conflict about how religious I am/should be.  So I’m a bit wary of dating someone else less religious.   That said, frum (religious Orthodox Jewish) women seem not to like me at all, so maybe I’ll have to date non-frum women.

I found I was sinking into despair about this and quite consciously tried to change my thoughts to think about my devar Torah (Torah thought) for the week.  I wrote that when I got home, or at least I wrote a draft.  As is usually the case, I’m not brilliantly happy with it.  In particular, there was one Midrash (rabbinic expansion of the biblical text) that I think I interpreted correctly, but superficially; I felt there were depths to it that I could not reach.  Then I quoted the Medieval commentator Rashi, but couldn’t find his source; the references given didn’t seem to be correct.  It’s frustrating, but at 500 – 1000 words a week, my divrei Torah are never going to be exhaustive, so I shouldn’t feel too bad.

My partial regret for the day is only managing twenty minutes of Torah study, but that is in addition to spending an hour or so researching and writing my devar Torah, so that’s really not bad for one day.

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  1. I’m sorry you dealt with a rude receptionist over the phone. I find that people are generally much less kind over the phone(or on-line) than they would be to our faces. The dating advice seems sound, but if it makes you feel less comfortable to date a non-frum woman, then it may not provide the secure and caring relationship that you’re seeking. A dilemma. My daughter also spotted a suspicious mole(thanks to a photograph that I took), and we’re waiting on the result of the biopsy. She has a new baby and lots of other stresses, so this is not needed at the moment. 😦

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    1. I find these receptionists can be pretty blunt in person, to be honest. To be fair, I have so much social anxiety in these situations that maybe I interpret them as being ruder than they are.

      It’s not so much that dating a non-frum woman makes me less comfortable and more that I would be worried about maintaining my religious level and how we would fit in to a religious community.

      I hope your daughter is OK.

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  2. Something I did once which you may like is 4gs. Every night wrote 5 things grateful for that day, 5 good things I did, a couple glitches, a couple manageable goals.

    The GP system is nuts….

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    1. Interesting. I’ve been writing things I’m grateful for. I might add in good things I did and goals. I do have a habit of setting goals that are far too big for me, though, so I need to be careful with that.

      It is nuts!

      1. The goals is meant to be really feasible. Like if I chose 3 goals for today it would be 1. Get dressed. 2. Journal for 5 minutes (aim for 15 but make it doable) and 3 hmm…. hmm. Make brownies.

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  3. Re: GP — it’s important you have an appointment soon if you have a suspicious mole. And if they ask if it’s urgent you should say yes! What about writing your GP a note and posting it at the surgery — say you have not been able to get through on the phone and you would like an urgent telephone appointment for your suspicious mole. You might need to take a photo of it as well. I have often resorted to writing to my GP when they are particularly inaccessible (which they are at the moment).

    Re: rude receptionists — you’ll probably find you are not alone if you google your surgery feedback comments on NHS Choices. These can be quite an eye-opener!

    Re: dating someone less religious — of course it is important to find someone who shares your faith. However, it might be a good thing if she is a bit less “religious” than you, if that means more relaxed. You may have a tendency to become overly obsessive about religious observance and a more laid back outlook might help. (Out of interest — are your parents as observant as you are?)

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    1. I think when the said “urgent” they meant COVID or something else that might be immediately fatal – the receptionist explicitly said that a mole was not considered an emergency.

      I will see if my Dad can phone to get me an appointment tomorrow.

      My parents are not quite as observant as I am. That has led to tensions over the years, particularly when I was younger, which is why I have not been so keen to date women who are less religious.

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Small pho restaurant in the strip mall on the northeast corner of 7th & Vermont.

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Vietnamese-run Vietnamese restaurant serving pho, egg rolls, banh mi and soybean milk.

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6 edition of Bebekah found in the catalog.

  • 195 Want to read
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Published by Infinity Publishing .
Written in English

  • General & Literary Fiction,
  • Fiction - General,
  • Fiction,
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  • The Physical Object
    Number of Pages140
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL7922999M
    ISBN 100741416107
    ISBN 109780741416100

    God promised Abraham he would be the father of a great nation. In order to enjoy that privileged position, he obviously had to have a son, and we have traced the struggles of faith that finally brought Abraham and Sarah their son. His birth was the highlight of their eventful and exciting walk with God. What happiness Isaac brought to their home!

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The general sentiment about European cars—yes, including the otherwise mass-market Volkswagen—is that their routine preventive maintenance service costs higher than those of comparable Asian models. That’s true for the most part, which scares the budget-conscious car buyers away from German, French, Italian and Swedish brands.

Even the latest batch of China-sourced cars from Volkswagen Philippines—competitively priced as they are—can’t shake off the “expensive to own and maintain” perception. The Santana (P686,000), the Lavida (P1,171,000) and the Tiguan (P1,648,000) all have reasonable and actually tempting price tags, but not a few people online have expressed concerns about costly PMS.

Perhaps it’s for this reason that the distributor is offering customers free first-year or 10,000th-kilometer PMS for the Santana, the Lavida and the Tiguan. But that’s if they reserve their brand-new unit at the following Volkswagen mall events:

  • SM City Cebu – July 3 to 9
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Volkswagen vehicles follow a yearly (or every 10,000km) PMS schedule. The distributor points out that this is more cost-efficient than the 5,000km interval that others implement.

Volkswagen Philippines is obviously hoping that this promotional offer will somehow allay the market’s prevailing worry about the higher pricing of after-sales service for European cars. If you’re seriously considering any of the above-mentioned VW models, we suggest you take advantage of this promo.

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Vernon is the founder and editor-in-chief of VISOR. He has been an automotive journalist for 25 years. He became one by serendipity, walking into the office of a small publishing company and applying for a position he had no idea was for a local car magazine. The rest, as they say, is rock and roll. He writes the column ‘Spoiler’.


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Leaders know that the workplace is a second home for almost all employees. It is where they spend most of their days and the better part of their years. Some employees take the stress and anxiety from their jobs home, which can cause challenges in their personal lives. A place where a person spends so much time and energy; should be a place of respect, support, and care. There should be an environment of personal and professional growth.

The importance of creating a people-centric organization cannot be stressed enough. Businesses that put their people first have reported a growth in employee productivity as well as increases in profits. In this live broadcast of Let’s Humanize The Workplace, Vivian Acquah, the workplace wellness advocate, discusses the significance of putting people first at a workplace.

Workplace Wellness Definition

When questioned about her definition of workplace wellness, Vivian said:When it comes to workplace wellness, everybody has different needs and values. I see workplace wellness as a holistic way of keeping people sustainable and helping them maintain a balance between their physical, mental, career, social, financial,  and environmental wellbeing.”

In this session of her live broadcast of Let’s Humanize The Workplace, she interviewed two experts: Clare Moore and Mark Williams from People First. Clare is an experienced communications professional, working in Human Resource Management. She has a genuine passion for what she does and is excited to see how technological development can enhance a workplace environment.

Mark, on the other hand, is making tremendous efforts in rehumanizing the workplace. He is working on building enjoyable technology that helps managers improve the well being of their employees. Both Clare and Mark work at People First, a cloud-based HR management platform that helps businesses manage their HR administration by connecting people.

Ingredients For A People-Centric Company

To create a people-centric company, it is of major significance that managers encourage and motivate their employees. At any workplace, there needs to be a balance of power between leaders and their employees. It needs to be acknowledged that both parties bring something valuable to the table and are equally important to the company. Moreover, to encourage workplace wellness, managers can carry out wellness audits to ensure that their employees are taken care of and get the support they need.

As Clare Moore says: “Employers need to keep in touch with their employees and know when they might not be at their best emotionally or physically.”

Furthermore, people tend to change over time. As they continue to grow, their goals and dreams do so too. Employees should be provided with opportunities that help them grow and achieve their ambitions. Their issues need to be addressed, and their needs should be met.

Mark Williams, when talking about supporting changing needs, says: It is about respecting the different needs that people have and different values while giving them a menu of what they can choose to help work on.

People First Leader

Perhaps one of the essential attributes of a healthy and efficient workplace is a great leader. The question that arises is, what is the definition of a great leader? A noteworthy leader has several qualities. They are someone who employees can go to in their time of need. They are a person that people can trust with their professional as well as personal lives.

Clare Moore states, “A leader is somebody that can motivate and inspire people to work towards a common goal.

A leader needs to be able to take the initiative, always be energized, ensure effective communication throughout the organization, be committed to their cause, and be someone who gets things done.

Not putting people first creates several problems; one of the worst problems is burnout. Employees find themselves emotionally and physically drained by their jobs. Working in a toxic environment causes them to become disengaged. Employees need motivation and recognition to be more productive. Not feeling valued at the workplace has adverse effects on morale and productivity.

Prevent Workplace Burnout

“Not being appreciated, or doing something that is below your values,  being hard on yourself,  being a perfectionist, or being in an environment that you always have to deliver. And never have time to recharge and have no work-life integration; that’s when people start to burn out.” – Vivian Acquah’s take on workplace burnouts.

One way to help employees who are overtaxed is following the NBA’s practice of ‘Load Management.’ As the name suggests, load management refers to one managing their ‘load’ or stress. While for NBA players, it means monitoring their physiological stress, at a workplace, it can be implemented to help employees manage their physical as well as psychological stress. Employees can constantly observe themselves and recognize signs of distress to get the support they need from their employers.

A difficulty that managers may find themselves dealing with often is how to know about the wellness of your employees if they are not sharing with you. As a manager, it is not easy to recognize when an employee might be going through a personal issue if they do not share it with you. You may see signs of pain in the mistakes they make at work or the decrease in their productivity or when they call in sick more often. Vivian Acquah gives a solution to this problem: “We need to have some real conversations so that we can get to know the people we are working with.

Trust In The Workplace

There needs to be an environment of trust in the workplace. Trust is not something that happens instantly. It takes time to build trust in a relationship, whether it is personal or professional.

As Vivian Acquah says, “A must-have ingredient within a company is trust.” To build trust, an employer needs to engage with his people. Employers also need to trust their workers too. “You’ve got to be consistent; you’ve got to be honest. And you’ve got to trust your people to do their job,” says Clare Moore when discussing how trust is a mutual understanding at the workplace.

For a business, a healthy work environment brings a multitude of benefits. When employees feel well, they are doing a job that they love and are allowed to be themselves at work; they will become content, productive, and efficient workers. Talking about the benefits of workplace wellness, Vivian Acquah says, “If your employees are advocating about how good it is at that company, you’ll see that you’ll spend less money on recruiting. To see that the people are staying longer and reflecting well on your clients.

We live in a world where information is vital. It spreads like wildfire. A company that does not show employees that they care is telling the world that they do not care for their employees. Such a company is highly likely to lose its best talents and gain a notorious reputation. “You can have a brand with the biggest name, you can give people salaries, but if people don’t feel like you care for them, they are going to talk,“-said Vivian Acquah discussing the impact of not putting your people first.

The Future Workforce

The next generation of the workforce is mindful of who they chose as their employer. They are aware of the importance of their wellbeing and want to work to live rather than live to work. “Before it was companies who were choosing and they were picky about who they wanted to hire. But now the employees have the choice,” says Vivian Acquah about how tables have turned.

When asked about her thoughts on Simon Sinek’s quote, “Leaders are not responsible for the results. Leaders are responsible for the people who are responsible for the results.

Clare Moore said: “If you nurture your people, they’re going to deliver for you.” This shows that companies need to consider the time and resources they spend on workplace wellness as an investment since it brings results. It leads to happier employees who ensure the satisfaction of customers.

The Place Of Technology

The global technology-led environment has although made people more remote and distanced, and it is all about how we use technology in the first place. Technology ought to be utilized to make things better for people at the workplace, where they feel energized when they leave their workplace and are more connected. Ending the live broadcast on a helpful note, Mark Williams talks about how People First is an organization that helps other companies create an environment of engagement and connectivity through software and technology.

He says, “There’s a lot of things that employees could and should do. It’s just challenging to scale. And that’s why we do software to make sure that if you want to have that kind of culture, then you can scale it relatively easily.”

What kind of actions are you or your company taking to putting people first in the workplace?

Connect via LinkedIn: Clare Moore, Mark Williams & People First or via Twitter: Clare Moore, Mark Williams & People First

Related episode:

Women of Color Secure A Seat At The Table

HostVivian Acquah
As a Workplace Wellness Advocate, Vivian advises managers on how to keep their team members healthy, happy, and safe by using a holistic approach called workplace wellness. She is also the digital strategist for this live stream production.

This live stream will be broadcasted via LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube & Twitter/Periscope simultaneously. Involve your audience by using live streams! Would you like to know more?
Feel free to send a 📧 via LinkedIn or [email protected]


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