Sentences with phrase «on making a habit of it»

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For instance, studying the cooking and wardrobe habits of Indian mothers - in - law and daughters - in - law helped Lindstrom and his team make recommendations for how to design the packaging of a breakfast cereal and understanding the isolation of rural and suburban North Carolinians trapped in a car - centric culture sparked his recommendation that a local grocery store chain should double down on its feeling of community by emphasizing its homey roast chicken offering.

A cookbook is a nice way to make sure they can get off on the right foot post-graduation, maybe eating some vegetables and enjoying the activity itself rather than relying on the same cheap eats out of habit or lack of know - how.

You create a habit of taking chances on yourself and making bold choices in service to doing what you love.»

Successful leaders don't make a habit of dwelling on the negative; they look for an opportunity to put a positive spin on things.

While sometimes I employ these moments to catch up on emails or watch a movie, I also make it a habit to stop by one of the many airport convenience stores.

Make it a daily habit to write in a journal, get on a writing schedule to simply just write what comes to mind or wherever your imagination takes you or use any other methods that may work best for you in the pursuit of developing your creative potential.

She considers Nest Labs» Internet - connected thermostats as being a type of robot that can sense changes in its environment like rising temperature and then make adjustments based on a person's personal habits, even though those thermostats don't have arms or heads like people expect robots to have.

«Make a habit of anchoring every day with clear intentions for two things: what you will focus on and how you want to engage people.

Because of PDVSA's habit of paying late, sanctions that limit its ability to issue debt hit the «core of how PDVSA works, which is with arrears,» or payments made on debt, Palacios said at the Columbia event.

In any case, if you get in the habit of asking yourself a few of the following questions before making a «big» purchase, you can easily remove some spending on items that don't add to your long term happiness and financial goals.

No matter if it is hardware (which many rumors are pointing to), a replacement UI for existing devices (which makes sense from a data capture point of view), an enhanced app (after all they are constantly iterating their mobile code base), or a mixture of all three, the key factor for Facebook here is to capture as much data as possible on Facebook users» mobile habits.

While many entrepreneurs still come out of an ayahuasca experience with old habits and patterns intact, the entheogen is providing spiritual guidance to a group of capable individuals seeking to make the world a better place rather than focusing solely on profits.

Making a new budget, based on an analysis of your cash flow and spending habits, is a good place to start.

In the end, successful people know the importance of having effective, healthy winning habits, and they work hard on creating, building and cultivating winning habits to make their success a reality.

The full guide is packed with 36 pages of information on how creativity works, how to overcome the mental blocks that all artists face, and how to make creative thinking a habit.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

You don't want to get in habit of relying on merchant cash advances since its higher cost can make it very difficult to manage future cash flow.

Consider the effects of inflation and any changes in your spending habits in the next few decades — if you plan on traveling, moving to a new home, or even relocating, it's likely that you will need extra funds to make those dreams come to life.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Employers can support employees during the holidays by encouraging them to focus on one priority to make daily progress, educating them on the benefits of healthy habits and introducing company - wide competitions to get everyone on board, and reminding them to unplug, relax, and recharge.

Also on the ORM front, we had a client who made a habit of causing controversy just to get brand mentions and links.

While the Dashboard shows how you're doing on all of your goals & habits, Daily Goals makes it easy to focus on the next step to take.

If you have a habit of covering expenses on the company credit card, or are taking out more and more loans to make ends meet, chances are you should be refocusing your efforts on being debt - free and not purchasing the plush commodities you've always wanted as a business owner.

Well, if you make a habit of announcing information like that on Facebook, it won't take much for a hacker to figure out the answer to your security questions — especially if your Facebook account has no privacy controls.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Each day of the year, this simple guide will help you focus on one essential aspect of your walk with God and show you how to make it a habit.

I try not to make a habit of agreeing with degenerate, spiritually depraved atheists (I'm kidding) but on this I wholeheartedly concur.

The parishioner who can not meaningfully experience this deep dimension of forgiveness may fall into a habit that Gregory calls «immoderate affliction «26 — forever overemphasizing one's deficits, always being too hard on oneself, seemingly making it impossible for God to forgive.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

During the 1990s corporate America developed a habit of predicting quarterly earnings — something accomplished by the people in the financial management of public companies guiding allegedly independent investment analysts to a consensus on how much the company would make in the next quarter.

Christians are those who refuse to make peace with the world, who declare war on it by realizing that «the habits of our speech must be disciplined by the God found in Jesus Christ.»

«I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security... More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: «Give them something to eat.»»

This book has made me a better writer because it has helped me identify which of my work habits are helpful and which are destructive, when it's best to take a break and when it's best to press on, what color to paint my office (blue!)

Decisions about biblical meanings are not made on the spot, but result from the growth of habits and convictions.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

These guys have a bad habit of making major, kingdom - wide decisions based on personal offense and whims, and should not be crossed.

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

Relationships that are in the habit of on - again, off - again are likely made up of negative behaviors that aren't just going to disappear with a simple break.

His off - the - cuff speaking habit led him to make extreme statements on sensitive subjects (such as nuclear weapons) that alarmed foreign policy experts, but his partisans viewed such outbursts as evidence of his authenticity.

For Christians, the presence of the Household Codes in Scripture must be considered in light of Jesus, who made a habit of turning hierarchy on its head.

It is therefore to make use of human artifice, to possess certain habits, beliefs, and so on.

Having then secretly made ready this habit, while her parents thought to have married her, her father having promised her to a rich French merchant, she prevented the time, and on Easter evening, having cut her hair, put on the habit, and slept a little, she went out of her chamber about four in the morning, taking nothing but one penny to buy bread for that day.

Grace can not be understood as habits and acts, and the Aristotelian notion that the repetition of good acts makes anyone who performs them righteous turns St. Paul's theology on its head.

«For many years, we have been much in the habit of resting our claim on the general order of submission to authority, of decency, and order, of respecting precedents long established, instead of appealing to that warrant, which makes us exclusively God's ambassadors.»

The key is to appreciate the fact that the antinomies are not necessary but of man's making: «They did not come from the things themselves but from an automatic transfer to speculation of habits contracted in action, and what a careless attitude of the intellect had done, an effort on the part of the intellect could undo; this for the human mind would be a liberation» (CM 71).

During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

In the spirit of making healthy eating more of a habit & everyday occurrence rather than short strong bursts of «being good» followed by falling off the wagon, I am always on the hunt for delicious snacks and meals that are easy and fun to incorporate into daily life.

I really needed to chill out on the mid-morning purse pastry eating habit of mine so I decided to come up with something - on the healthier side - that I can make and keep around for a mid-morning snack.

Oh, I forgot to comment on this strange habit of Danes;) when I was a child I often had (semi-dark) bread with chocolate as an afternoon snack, and nothing could make us happier.

I'm currently changing my eating habits and this will go on my list of things to make.