Positive Habits, Personal Development
“I am a firm believer in the power of positive habits. It's so
easy to point at the clouds and say, "This is where I want to be."
Anyone can do that. The challenge is to get your hands dirty and do what you
need to do each and every day in order to turn those dreams into a reality.
1. Keep your first promise of the day.
The first promise all of us make to ourselves every day is what
time we're going to get up. And you know what? A large majority of
us break that promise. The alarm goes off. You hit snooze. And without
even meaning to, you've already started the day on the wrong foot. You made a
promise the night before that you decided not to keep.
Get in the habit of practicing making a promise to yourself and
keeping it. This is about more than just "waking up." This is about
the habit.
2. Dress for success.
Look good, feel good.
Part of your morning routine should involve embodying the energy
you want to bring into the world. This has less to do with "looking
professional" and more to do with getting yourself in a positive frame of
mind. When you feel comfortable in your own shoes, you carry yourself with a
different energy. It's the energy that matters.”
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Foreign Policy, North Korea
“It is
time for the U.S. government to admit that it has failed to prevent North Korea
from acquiring nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles that can
reach the United States. North Korea no longer poses a nonproliferation
problem; it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. The gravest danger
now is that North Korea, South Korea, and the United States will stumble into
a catastrophic war that none of them wants.
The world has traveled down this perilous path
before. In 1950, the Truman administration contemplated a preventive strike to
keep the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear weapons but decided that the
resulting conflict would resemble World War II in scope and that containment
and deterrence were better options. In the 1960s, the Kennedy administration
feared that Chinese leader Mao Zedong was mentally unstable and proposed a
joint strike against the nascent Chinese nuclear program to the Soviets.
(Moscow rejected the idea.) Ultimately, the United States learned to live with
a nuclear Russia and a nuclear China. It can now learn to live with a nuclear
North Korea.
Doing so will not be risk free, however.
Accidents, misperceptions, and volatile leaders could all too easily cause
disaster. The Cold War offers important lessons in how to reduce these risks by
practicing containment and deterrence wisely. But officials in the Pentagon and
the White House face a new and unprecedented challenge: they must deter North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un while also preventing U.S. President Donald Trump
from bumbling into war. U.S. military leaders should make plain to their
political superiors and the American public that any U.S. first strike on North
Korea would result in a devastating loss of American and South Korean lives.
And civilian leaders must convince Kim that the United States will not attempt
to overthrow his regime unless he begins a war. If the U.S. civilian and
military leaderships perform these tasks well, the same approach that prevented
nuclear catastrophe during the Cold War can deter Pyongyang until the day that
communist North Korea, like the Soviet Union before it, collapses under its own
weight.”
Elections
WNYC:
“The New York City Board
of Elections is admitting it broke state and federal law when it improperly
removed voters from the rolls ahead of the presidential primary last spring,
including more than 117,000 voters in Brooklyn.
That’s according to a
draft consent decree announced Tuesday— nearly a year after the Board was sued
in federal court for violating the National Voter Registration Act and state
election law.
The Brooklyn voter purge
was first reported by WNYC just days before last spring’s
primary election.
As a part of the settlement,
the Board agreed to a series of remedial measures that will be in place at
least through the next presidential election, November 2020 — pending court
approval.
The deal restores the
rights of improperly purged voters and establishes a comprehensive plan to
prevent illegal voter purges in future elections.”
Travel,
Children
“Kids may say the darndest things, but they’re actually quite predictable.
According to a psychologist, most kids younger than 12 can only wait 49 minutes and 47 seconds before asking the dreaded four words: “Are we there yet?”
On long-haul flights, this means that parents are likely to experience hours of boredom with their children — unless they come prepared.”
Breast Cancer
“In the
U.S., at least 250,000 new cases of invasive breast
cancer will be diagnosed in women this year, according to the American
Cancer Society. So, when it comes to screening for that cancer,
there are a number of options to consider.
Dr.Karthik Ghosh, director of the Mayo Clinic Breast Diagnostic Clinic Clinic Breast Diagnostic Clinic, says mammogram isstill the best test to screen the breast for women an average risk of breast
cancer."It has really been one of the long-standing tests, with a lot of research showing that there is a decrease in mortality."Dr. Ghoshsays the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women 40 to 49 consider screening after discussion with their health care provider. For women 50 to 75, mammograms should be performed every other year. Dr. Ghosh adds there can be downsides to a mammogram, which include callbacks for further testing, false positives and the anxiety related to those events.”
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