Sentences with word «wandering»

She enjoys music festivals, movies (both good and terrible), a strong cup of coffee, wandering around bookstores, and she supports the Oxford comma.

Afterwards, I began to do some wandering myself to have chats with some of the sales team members.

They might lack appropriate content to last the length of the sales cycle, or simply fail to notice leads wandering off the path.

AND: At least one military base is warning service members against the dangers of wandering into unauthorized areas while chasing Pokemon.

Wandering the streets of Mumbai I find myself uncharacteristically drenched.

The primary difference, we found in the posterior cingulate, which is involved in mind wandering, and self relevance.

Others who voted for one of the two conservative parties are wandering around like Li» l... Continue reading →

Is it present in the moment, or wandering to your to - do list?

Conroy noted that last month, a 95 - year - old Vernon senior was found unfit to stand trial due to severe dementia after his roommate at a seniors care facility died following a physical altercation, and just this week a retired nurse living with dementia in a North Vancouver care home died after wandering away from the facility in freezing temperatures.

One paper, «Lost in the Sauce,» by Michael Sayette at the University of Pittsburgh and coauthors, reported that people under the influence are more susceptible to mind wandering, which could be helpful in some scenarios but harmful in others.

She had volunteered for Clinton's 2000 Senate run — «wandering in off the street,» as a former Clinton adviser later put it — and here she was, at 42, a U.S. senator herself despite being completely unknown to most New Yorkers.

As I watched, I heard references to people on roofs, people getting into attics, people wandering around on overpasses, people not being allowed to have guns in the Convention Center, which was going to be used as a shelter.

Cambodia's second - largest city (home to around 250,000 people) doesn't feel at all like the capital, Phnom Penh; in fact, wandering around Battambang, I felt as if I had traveled back to the early 20th century.

Friends used to drop by the West Wing when they had time to kill, wandering to the Oval Office to say hello; now they must have an official appointment — and a clear reason — to visit.

The rules come as the airline carries about 700 assistance animals each day that the carrier says are increasingly misbehaving by wandering the cabin, defecating or even biting passengers.

This is reassuring in light of reports that more than 95 per cent of the population experience daily periods of mind wandering.

If you think of the job of mutual - fund and hedge - fund managers as «investing in public companies,» then, yes, this sort of wandering looks bad.

You are going to find yourself idling on a fine website like Gizmodo or wandering through some store like Target or Best Buy, and you are going to remember you need to buy a gift for a loved one.

«Digital control of motors, brakes, and steering helps avoid collisions from the front and sides, as well as preventing the car from wandering off the road.

We kept hoping they would find him wandering around in shock,» Janice Stroud told the station.

[UPDATE: Initially, reports stated that the dog was a survivor of the mudslide, but in fact he made his way to the area recently after wandering away from home.

But for minor, day - to - day decisions (for example, whether to take this flight or that flight, or try this jam or that one), mind wandering may be a less onerous way to sort through the options than careful deliberation — and chances are you'll be just as satisfied with the outcome.

It turned out that those who chose posters using mind wandering generally liked and valued their selections as much as those who deliberated over their choices in a more controlled way.

A sample of research exploring certainty in advice giving, boundary conditions for growth mindset effects, polygenic scores and criminal offending, and strategic modulation of mind wandering... More

For example, wandering around the world of content marketing like Alice wandering in Wonderland is hardly the way to succeed.

At first, employees thought it was good, dumb fun — but later in the week, sources said, the dinosaurs wandering around all day started to interfere with work.

Once upon a time, however, such an activity required driving to your local video store and physically wandering the aisles, waiting for inspiration to strike.

It works like this: Prior to posting a video on YouTube through the company's dashboard, clients pick suggested tags and an optimized thumbnail image aimed at catching more wandering eyes.

«And yet even when people are thinking about something neutral, they're still considerably less happy than when they're not mind - wandering at all.

There are still plenty of alpha - male risk - takers in a company gilet wandering around New York and Greenwich, Connecticut.

But for minor, day - to - day decisions (for example, whether to take this flight or that flight, or try this jam or that one), mind wandering may be a less onerous way to sort through the options,» the post notes.

If you're someone who easily gets distracted, this app can be a great way to redirect your focus when your mind is wandering.

If I am wandering the streets of Milan, I can text my agent and ask them to guide me to a location that has great cafes outside so I can sit and take it all in.

This is so difficult especially if you want to use your google maps feature, but there is something magical about wandering aimlessly.

In recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of water.

That's because aimless mind wandering is associated with unhappiness; it's better to concentrate on, say, a specific piece of music, a TV programme or a task,» PsyBlog notes.

If you find your mind wandering, just return to the task at hand.

«The authors concede that mind wandering is probably not suited for making weighty decisions, such as whether to convict a defendant in a trial or to go ahead with a medical procedure.

«You will feel less uncomfortable if you have a plan and you aren't just [sic] wandering around trying to figure out what to do,» he said.

«Back then, I think a lot of people were kind of wandering around in the desert trying to figure out what to do with these things,» Park says.

By contrast, creative and critical thinking are enriched by mind wandering, by rest, and by sleep: things you do best on your own.

Pokemon Go, released last week, has quickly become a cultural phenomenon, with people wandering through every major city peering into their smartphones to catch virtual monsters projected onto the real world through their camera apps.

Whether it's a flea market or a farmer's market, wandering from booth to booth is a fun way to get to know one another.

And hypothermia doesn't only strike sinking - ship victims and 19th - century fur - trappers wandering in the wilderness.

What matters, in these cases, is that someone on your team is brave enough, vulnerable enough, to use a sentence that starts with, «The story I'm making up right now is...» The idea is to reach the truth as quickly possible, instead of wandering around with your made - up explanation, which more than likely consists of your own shame triggers, and has little relation to reality.

His preferred approach, as outlined in his 1982 bestseller, In Search of Excellence, involves lots of «management by wandering around,» but there are less conspicuous ways to monitor customer - facing staff.

When I asked her to tell me about her business I could feel my eyes glazing over and my mind wandering to the buffet table without my body in tow.

My best ideas come when I'm not in the office, so I often spend the day wandering around Vancouver.

When I think of ghost - town stores — the sort I'd flee after absent - mindedly wandering into them — I usually picture Future Shop.

Sensors installed around the home monitor motion (tracking, for example, if the resident appears to be wandering or fails to rise from a chair or bed and how often doors open and close); check room temperature; and allow remote reporting of blood pressure, pulse, weight, and other health indicators.