How to be Smarter: People learn how to talk to you by what you teach them is an acceptable way to talk to you. If you someone speaks meanly to you, and you don’t ask them to stop, you are teaching them it is okay to do so. You make the rules for your life, [...]
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How to be Smarter: Making a decision is climbing a diving board. Realizing you have a choice to make is walking up to the ladder; figuring out your options are the steps of the ladder; considering each option’s pros and cons is walking down the board; standing at the end of the board is the time [...]
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How to be Smarter: Relationships with upstanding, decent people should be celebrated and shared, not hidden. If you are embarrassed to tell your mom who you are dating, it is probably a bad idea to be dating them. How to be Prettier: The longer you can sit with your hands under the dryer at the [...]
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How to be Smarter: When you first get in the ocean, the water is usually really cold and uncomfortable until you duck your head under. As soon as your head is under, the water usually starts to feel warmer. Sometimes when you first try new activities, jobs, or majors, they can be really cold-feeling and [...]
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How to be Smarter: During reviews at work, it can be helpful to ask your boss on ways you can improve your job performance to convey your investment and interest in the future of the company. This concept of asking for feedback on how you can improve can also be applied to your relationship to [...]
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How to be Smarter: If you’re lying about something important, you will be found out. And if you’re lying and the truth is never found out, it means the issue was unimportant and there was no need to lie to begin with. How to be Prettier: As I write this, I’m lounging around in this [...]
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How to be Smarter: It is almost impossible to make fun of your hometown without making fun of the people in it. The people who shaped, loved and helped you grow up–not just your parents but neighbors, elementary school teachers, family friends–they all helped. Making fun of your hometown doesn’t make you look “cool” for [...]
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How to be Smarter: If you are stuck and can’t think of ideas for how to celebrate a milestone, think back to what you did when you were little. Did you celebrate your tenth birthday at LaserQuest–why don’t you do that for your 10 month with your beau? Was your kindergarten graduation party ladybug-themed–why not [...]
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How to be Smarter: Sometimes people who are rescuing you are doing it by letting you rescue yourself. How to be Prettier: If you can’t get motivated, feel overwhelmed or are not happy, changing a little piece of your outfit can often change the day. In your work desk or school bag, keep a fun-colored [...]
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How to be Smarter: The more unexpectedly harsher someone is with you is usually directly proportional to the number of personal issues they are dealing with that are unrelated to you. How to be Prettier: Stocking stuffer for a best friend–great girlie touch to a formal work outfit, or to layer on with gold bangles. How [...]
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How to be Smarter: Extremely addicting geography game (Photos of the World is my favorite level). How to be Prettier: I bought this bag a few months ago as a gift for someone; when it came in the mail, I quickly ordered one for me. The version I ordered was pink/black, which is sold out [...]
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Two years ago today, the first SP&A post hit the web. For the first two months, I told almost no one, but by month 5, I noticed my readership slowly growing. 8 months in, I switched hosting services for a cleaner layout; 10 months in I added merchandise and starting growing the Twitter and Facebook page; 13 months in there [...]
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