Sentences with phrase «minutes of it if»

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The classic Marshmallow Experiment of 1972 involved placing a marshmallow in front of a young child, with the promise of a second marshmallow if he or she could refrain from eating the squishy blob while a researcher stepped out of the room for 15 minutes.

If you have a big meeting coming where you need to impress, it might be worth your while to spend a couple of minutes practicing power postures beforehand.

For what it's worth, most IHOP posts get hundreds, if not thousands of likes and retweets; last Tuesday, on National Pancake Day, the brand was mentioned 160 times per minute on Twitter according to Rebelez.

If you are giving a talk at a bread - making club or a nuclear symposium, know that this rule of presentations still works because we tend to tune out from anything after seven minutes.

If there's one thing parents of newborn babies lack, it's free time — the kind of time you'd need to, say, spend 30 - plus minutes on hold trying to cancel an unwanted subscription.

If this gives your investors angst then have 5 minutes every hour of device time.

If you find yourself feeling depleted of energy, take a five - minute break to inhale and exhale deeply or take a walk outdoors.

If people can watch a 3 - minute video instead of reading a 500 - word blog post, they will.

Plan the meeting for that time, even if not in blocks of hours, half hours or even tens of minutes.

A few minutes of shut - down is better than nothing at all, so don't get discouraged if you can't dedicate a proper 30 minutes or full hour.

If those are your reasons for not improving your cardiovascular fitness, check this out: New research from McMaster University shows that ten minutes of stair climbing — ten minutes that includes warming up, cooling down, and recovering between sets — measurably improved cardiovascular fitness.

So maybe if we had a floating platform out off the coast of the USA, off the coast of New York, say 20 or 30 miles out, you could go from, you know, from New York to Tokyo in — I don't know — 25 minutes.

But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear of failure or previous setbacks of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or write) about past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.

«The amount of business you can lose if one of your key sales managers is tied up on the phone for 45 minutes is remarkable,» Vaill says.

If you have a lot of stress, it's 15 - minutes that could save your life.

When I was brought up, if I ever said anything ill about someone, my parents would put me in front of a mirror and make me stand there for 10 minutes and say how badly it reflected on me.

(Or, if you're like me, do you just want to stop feeling embarrassed by your inability to remember the names of people you met five minutes ago?

People are going to fiddle on the Internet regardless of what you do — so if you catch someone using the Internet for personal reasons for a few minutes, don't crack the whip.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

Zafar suggests searching LinkedIn for people with the expertise you need, then sending a straightforward e-mail requesting a few minutes of their time: «Typically four out of 10 people will say yes if you approach them honestly, correctly and with an interesting topic.»

If you're in the business of billing your clients per hour or in 15 - minute increments, then Harvest might be just the solution you're looking for.

«If you fall asleep in less than ten minutes, this is a sure sign you're significantly sleep deprived,» says Dr. Michael Breus, author of Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4 Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health (Dutton, 2006).

If we also add scheduled time for exercise, meditation (even 10 minutes a day), and grocery store trips instead of running to the vending machine, we can take the wellness we pay attention to while on vacation back to work with us.

Attend an Open Call where you will be given the opportunity to do a 1 - minute pitch of your business / product / idea to a member of the Casting Team — just like you would as if you were on the show.

Mix a good amount of the vegetables or fruits above, with a bit of honey to sweeten if needed, and you'll obtain a hearty serving in about 10 minutes.

If you can do three rounds of this and feel like, «That was hard, but if I really grind and hold on, I can get through 10 minutes,» then great: Do the 5/5 with the thrusters at 95 poundIf you can do three rounds of this and feel like, «That was hard, but if I really grind and hold on, I can get through 10 minutes,» then great: Do the 5/5 with the thrusters at 95 poundif I really grind and hold on, I can get through 10 minutes,» then great: Do the 5/5 with the thrusters at 95 pounds.

«If you were to go on to UberEATS in many of the markets now, we'll be one of the early recommended restaurants, just because the operation that we run now we can actually get from order to delivery in under 30 minutes,» CFO Kevin Ozan said in January.

But if you can, build in 15 minutes at the end of the day to put everything back where it belongs.»

If Twitter can manage to average a mere 500,000 viewers per minute for its broadcasts — which is about a 10th of 1 percent of its total active user base — that would constitute a success, said Phil Davis, CEO of PhilStockWorld.com and PSW Investments.

If Trump is indeed repeating the same three stories in the span of 10 minutes, it could be an indication of impaired short - term memory, Michaelis said.

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

And although no solid estimates of recharge time are available, Porsche claimed in 2016 that if fast recharging stations were built, its 2019 Mission E car battery could charge to 80 percent from flat in around 15 minutes.

Do you know if your basement is flooding while you're out of town, or if someone jimmied your front door and might be making off this very minute with your brand - new pricey air - quality monitor?

Among Houston's suggestions for a better break are quick bursts of creativity like «draw or color (especially if you think you're not artistic)» and «three minute dance party!»

«Steve, of everyone I've known in life, could be the most avid proponent of some position and within minutes or days if new information came up you would think he'd never, ever thought that before -LSB-...] He was a pro at this,» says Cook.

«If you commute an hour each way, you're losing 26.5 minutes of sleep each day and 2.2 hours a week,» she says.

If the Trump Department of Justice is saying «we're now going to look at vertical deals as potentially anti-competitive,» you're going to see all kinds of investment bankers and all kinds of others go «whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.»

Ask if they'd be willing to get on a 15 - minute call with you so you can share in more details how you can be of service to them.

Even if your workout is just 20 minutes, you should get some sort of physical exercise in the morning.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

But the next minute you look at reinvesting in that infrastructure it's going to be intimidating compared to the cost of the cloud, because the cost of the cloud is plummeting so fast that if you're going to go replace your server farm with a new server farm, you're looking at money that might buy you 10 years worth of cloud service, which would get you through yet another generation of on - premise replacement.»

If your days feel monotonous and this hits home, one key to turning things around might lie in the first 10 minutes of your work day.

Employers may be able to get more out of workers if they're not allowed to check email for the first 30 or 60 minutes of the workday.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to schooIf one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to schooif you'd like to go back to school.

So in other words, No, don't build yourself an Internet hotspot tie, even if it seems like the only way to get your kids to put down Clash of Clans for ten damn minutes.

If you mention you're best friends with Mark Cuban within the first two minutes of a conversation, you might as well be saying, «I'm trying to impress you right now so you think I'm important.»

If the makers of these videos would only take a few minutes to put themselves in the viewer's shoes, this problem could be easily fixed.

Even if your plan excites initial interest, it may receive only a few minutes of attention to begin with.

If you can't make it to the gym until later — set a timer for at least seven minutes and rotate between bodyweight squats and pushups or just dance (here's a favorite song of mine).