SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

A five hour workday can boost the productivity of a company in great ways! Want to know why? Well read this article to find out. Read full content Not only is a five hour workday stress relieving, employees are able to produce and put out better quality of work. Read to find out more reasons as to the benefits of a five hour workday and its ability of boost a company’s productivity standards. 1. It gives time to reenergize Energy is one of the most important things an employee or worker can have. A five hour workday is just the right amount of time for one to accomplish tasks without feeling overworked and getting everything done as well. 2. There’s more time to focus on other things Focusing on what you must  as opposed to what you have to is a better mindset. A five hour workday enables exactly this. An employee must be focused on his work especially if the key for him is to be productive! A five hour workday helps a person focus on what must be done. 3. Everyone prioritizes...

Pretend play or make-believe play (the acting out of stories which involve multiple perspectives and the playful manipulation of ideas and emotions) reflects a critical feature of the child’s cognitive and social development. The values of suchimaginative play as a vital component to the normal development of a child. Studies have demonstrated cognitive benefits such as increases in language usageincluding subjunctives, future tenses, and  adjectives. Psychologist Sandra Russ (2004) identified a number of different cognitive and affective processes that are associated with pretend play. Her research dealing with play involves  fantasy, make-believe, symbolism, organization, cognitive integration of seemingly separate content, and divergent thinking (the ability to come up with many  different ideas, story themes, and symbols). Pretend play allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings, and the modulation of affect, the ability to integra...

The capacity to notice the distress of others, and to be moved by it, can be a critical component of what is calledprosocial behavior, actions that benefit others: individuals, groups or society as a whole. Dr. Eisenberg, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University, draws a distinction between empathy and sympathy: Empathy is experiencing the same emotion or highly similar emotion to what the other person is feeling. Sympathy is feeling concern or sorrow for the other person. The ingredients of prosocial behavior, from kindness to philanthropy, are more complex and varied. They include: ·          the ability to perceive others’ distress ·          the sense of self that helps sort out your own identity and feelings ·          the regulatory skills that prevent distress so severe it turns to aversion, and ·  ...

How much of their leisure time do teenagers devote to reading? Not much. According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, teens read for pleasure, on average, just six minutes each day. Why? Attitudes toward reading are one factor, but not the only factor. (Consider that, because we’re talking about reading the child freely chooses, she must not only like reading, she must like it more than the other available choices. I’ll have more to say about that on Friday.) Attitudes toward reading peak in early elementary years. With each passing year, students’ attitudes towards reading drop. It’s not hard to see why that might happen. For most children, learning to read is rewarding; it’s a sign of getting older, of gaining a skill that older siblings and friends possess. The emphasis in those early years is on understanding and appreciating stories. But consider how reading changes in the mid-elementary years and beyond. c 4 c   Hig...

c 4 c   A friend of mine has been going through the very lengthy and detailed process of testing her son for Attention Deficit Disorder. As I listened to her explain the symptoms, many sounded like my daughter. One expert describes this kind of brain as choosing what is most interesting instead of what’s most important. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sent my daughter to turn off her light or grab a jacket, only to find her reading a book in the hallway because she forgot what I’d asked her to do. Her last report card read something like, “Amazing writer but practice actually turning in the work so that you can get credit!” So I looked for information regarding the disorder and found that (while I don’t think my daughter has ADD) many of the suggestions for dealing with the difficulties stemming from it would benefit any child, especially one with focus troubles. Parents can apply a few basic strategies to help thos...