If you love gadgets, you should be able to use them to the fullest. It doesn’t matter where you are and what you intend to do. If you love your phones, your tablets, and your laptops, you should be able to avoid all the worst-case scenarios with just a push of a button. This is what they are made for after all. If you plan to travel, you’ve probably booked a flight or a Silverstone taxi through your smartphone, to avoid all the hassle of buying tickets, hailing a taxi, and getting trapped in traffic.

But you can do more, lots more. And if you’re a globe-trotting career lady, your smartphone is a better friend than diamonds. So here are a few tips to maximise what you can do with your phone:

1. There are more things you can reserve online

You can reserve places to stay or where to dine online. Planning where you’ll eat on your first day somewhere is essential when travelling. If you’re not the type who is picky about what you eat you can even look for 24/7 convenience stores using an online map. As for places to sleep, of course, you rarely show up at an inn or hotel without a reservation. You can do this on your tablet or laptop. But if you don’t have either, you can also use your phone.

2. Online banking can be done on your phone

The most beautiful thing about technology these days is how your mobile phone or tablet can now double as a pocket PC. Mobile banking is far safer than ever with banks releasing their own apps through the Apps Store or Google Play. Be careful only to get apps from official distributors, as some apps might be fake and can easily steal your sensitive information.

3. Use your phone as a wallet

Some places, like the US or Japan, allow purchases through Bitcoin and other electronic currency forms. If you want to travel safer, why not try travelling with less physical cash on you? The only downside is if you somehow lose both your phone and other gadgets that you use to reach the internet. Having your phone with you at all times is an excellent way to prevent losing it.

4. Remember that you can track your devices

But, say, you lost your bag where you kept your tablet, and you have your phone with you. If you set up your tablet so that you can track it with your phone, that wouldn’t pose too much of a problem.

Another thing you can keep track of your phone is your home’s security. If you’re single and travel a lot, your house may be left vulnerable for a long time. Thankfully, there are security services that offer 24/7 monitoring via a camera system that you can monitor by using your phone.

There’s a lot of things you can do with your gadgets, so if you own one, you should make full use of it.

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Do you think professional liability insurance isn’t necessary to you because you are a yoga instructor? Read here to find out how it could actually help you!

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Many people might think that being a yoga instructor should be quite zen, however it is not all stretching and soothing chants. People often forget that there is a business side to it all and that side needs maintenance. This means covering all sorts of ‘fun’ topics such as insurance.

Would a yoga face some sort of professional risk which a policy such as professional liability insurance could dig them out of? Absolutely. The easiest way to show how a yoga instructor could face some sort of professional risk is through some hypothetical scenarios. Let’s take a look at some such scenarios and how we could potentially solve them now.

Client Injury

You are nearing the end of a yoga class and everything is going well. However, when you move into one of the cool-down positions, one of your students pushes to far and hurts themselves attempting a position they were not ready for.

They, of course, blame you for what might actually be a common yoga injury and head off to the hospital. A few days later you receive a medical bill for them which you are unable to pay.

Studio Damage

The vast majority of yoga instructors do not have their own space. Instead, they choose to rent a room in a larger building and this means that everything in the room is not yours but you may have to pay for it if you do not care for it properly.

For example, you might not notice your water bottle tip over during class. By the time you try to clean it up, you realise it went over the expensive sound system dock in the corner of the studio and fried it. When the owner of your studio finds out, they will angrily give you a bill to replace it.

How Professional Liability Insurance Can Help

Both of these scenarios end with a bill that most yoga instructors could not pay by themselves, no matter how successful they happen to be. What do you do in this scenario? If you sell your business to be able to afford to pay the bills, you then won’t have a livelihood to return to. Luckily there is a solution which can help; professional liability insurance.

This policy will help to cover you in the even of the scenarios above. By making a claim with your insurance company, you can receive the financial help you need to be able to pay off the bill. What’s more, you will be able to return to your job quickly and easily.

Shop around to find the best affordable yoga insurance policy for you. The best policies will allow you to cover a whole host of different problems and fully protect you against anything that could head your way.

Of course, this means that you can then get back to doing what you do best. As much as you love your job, you cannot neglect the business side of it. Just as you must remain balanced in a position, you can learn to balance the fun of yoga with the necessary business practices like sorting out your insurance!

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“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life…

Live in the moment, live in the breath.”

 

– Amit Ray, author of “Om Chanting and Meditation”

Search for “stress quotes” online and you’ll be inundated by hundreds, if not thousands, of them. It will possibly become a little stressful if you decide you need to read all of them, as if you would find the one at the end of the rainbow which was going to magically do away with any stress you might be feeling right now.

Here’s another one…

“Keep calm and carry on.” A personal favorite, like the one above.

This one, however, began life as a motto over in Britain during World War II. If you look at the history of the place back then, you can understand it must have been a pretty stressful place to be when the sirens started wailing, forewarning you of the massive bombs that were about to start dropping around your head, and that you had to get yourself down an air-raid shelter as quick as your legs could carry you.

It’s intention was this: to emphasize that problems are better solved when people are (and can remain) calm and collected.

This quote clearly can also apply to the recovering alcoholic or drug addict, and I should know.

Having spent most of a young life abusing meth and alcohol, recovery has been a long and challenging road to travel for me, and I still walk it everyday over 9 years later. However, I got the help I needed when my parents finally took matters into their own hands and drove me into the next state to a drug and alcohol rehab facility.

My name is Andy, and I’m now a 30-something entrepreneur with my own business. Just as importantly, I’m as clean and sober as the day I left the rehab, a drug and alcohol addiction recovery facility in Idaho, that gave the tools to recover and continue recovering from my addiction. Many of those tools were about dealing with stress, which, as you can imagine, is one obvious way for an ex-addict to relapse.

Here are a number of simple lifestyle changes you can make today to deal with any stress effectively, and making it much less of an issue as you embark on your journey towards addiction recovery:

Breathing Deeply

Simple stuff, but it works, believe me. As you breathe, concentrate on using your whole diaphragm rather than just your chest. Your stomach should rise as your lungs fill from the bottom. In this way, you are stimulating your vagus nerve, one of the cranial nerves that connect your brain to the rest of you.

Stimulating this nerve provides a relaxing response.When this happens, the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, levels of cortisol are subsequently reduced, and a brain damaged by severe substance abuse can actually begin to heal.

Sleeping Soundly

Never underestimate the value of a sound night’s sleep. In order to maximize your chance of a good, deep sleep, you must be made aware of those factors that contribute to healing rest. Such sleep factors range from reducing any naps you may take, limiting your caffeine intake throughout the day, establishing set times for your meals, and creating a positive bedroom ambiance, eg. softer lighting.

In addition, but one of the most important, stay away from blue light screens an hour before bedtime. By blue light screens, we’re referring to televisions, computers and even mobiles. Doing this can help to relax your eyes and your mind.

Eating Healthily

Dietary advice is not something that can be applied in the same way to every individual. However, there are basic guidelines that recovering addicts can use to eat healthier meals and snacks. If you have known food allergies, you should always actively avoid those foods so you do not stress your body. Furthermore, you should stay away from junk food, except for occasional exception, where it can become soul food.

 

All healthy, balanced and nutritious diets have fresh fruits and vegetables at their core, as well as healthy grains and protein sources. Additionally, a couple of simple rules need to be followed:

• Avoid eating until you are full, and
• Avoid giving in to every temptation for food

Socializing Positively

Time was, socializing for me was just another way to feed my addiction, to get high and to get drunk (or too get both). Very quickly, it became less about enjoying the company of others and more about feeding my ever-hungry addiction.

Early in my recovery, I learned that I needed to choose my friends carefully. Believe me, people you thought were your friends are like those people who slow down when there’s been an accident on the highway – they love to see blood, as long as it’s not theirs. Friends who did not take my commitment seriously soon realized that I made excuses not be be with them, and that even included some of my own family members.

Instead, I sought out friends and family who understood what I was going through and who could support my vow to remain alcohol and drug-free for the rest of my natural. If a recovering alcoholic focuses on more active forms of social involvement, such as dancing, sports, or volunteer activities, they’ll be less stressed about the environment that they find themselves in.

Exercising Actively

The benefits of a healthy lifestyle far outweigh the possible drawbacks – not enough time, blandish food, etc, etc. Excuses. As an addict, I know plenty about them. Staying clean and sober is far easier when an exercise regime is included in your stress management.

One clear benefit is the increase in endorphins after exercising. These endorphins reduce pain receptors and also trigger positive feelings in your body, providing a kind of natural high, and a safe one at that.

The feeling of well-being that accompanies exercise is the best alternative to the negative and damaging effects of drugs and alcohol. Setting and reaching your new goals of running or working out will also improve your self-confidence. It doesn’t have to be confined to a local gym either – try to walk every day outside for the relaxing effects of nature and fresh air.

Meditating Quietly

Whether you regard it as meditation, prayer, or mindfulness, the ability to be still and to reflect without interruption is absolutely vital to reducing stress. These moments of silence is when we are most in touch with our inner selves – our aspirations, our challenges and our hopes.

Mindful meditation provides benefits that are essential to your stress management. A little more biology now. The part of the brain that regulates levels of stress and anxiety is the amygdala, and by practicing meditation, you are positively affecting this function. Meditation can also stimulate the hippocampus, which controls your memory and your learning ability.

For many recovering addicts, myself included, meditating equals calmness – a pretty important quality if you wish to remain stress-free during recovery.

And Living Well…

These 6 tips to managing your stress effectively as you recover from addiction will reduce your anxieties about your life and your future. So, by following what’s written here, you are giving yourself the very best chance of a successful recovery. This stress management program is designed to take the burden away from any mundane stress, so recovering addicts can keep their focus on staying clean and sober.

What are your experiences regarding stress management? What particularly works for you? Please let us know with a comment below. And remember, “Keep calm and . . . carry on,” as they say.

 

The thought of recycling things might make you frown because you are too lazy to do it. You feel that it is an additional responsibility that you don’t need to do if you can throw your waste products in a bin. You try justifying your actions by making excuses. These are among the most common reasons to avoid recycling, and what you need to do to change your ways.

It is inconvenient

Yes, it is true that recycling can be inconvenient. When you are outside, it is not easy finding a bin that is for recyclable materials. At home, you might be too lazy to segregate all the items for disposal. To change your mind, you need to imagine how much worse it would be if your home gets flooded, and you have to pick all the pieces up. If you feel inconvenienced by recycling, it will be more difficult when you start feeling the impact of global warming.

There is no space at home for recycling

It is another lame excuse to avoid recycling. When you want to recycle, it does not matter how much space you have. You can try to recycle the things that you can still use. You can keep all the items that are still useful in a storage room. If you don’t have one, you can buy a large container. You don’t necessarily have to reuse these items if you don’t think you can. Instead, you can ask a debris removal company to come over and pick up the trash. You can decide how often they will pick up the items and request them to come more often if you have an issue with space.

You don’t see any difference anyway

You might think that your actions don’t have any significant impact, but you are wrong. If everyone practices recycling, it can significantly reduce the number of items in landfill. It also reduces carbon emissions. Fewer resources will be necessary for the creation of new things that you need each day. Some of these resources are depleting, and if you don’t recycle, you will have nothing to use in the future.

Recycling is difficult

Perhaps, it is the lamest excuse of all. How is recycling difficult when you only need to put the items that are still useful in one container? You can pick the things that you might want to reuse. You can keep the others in one area until you are ready to use them. Again, you can find junk removal companies to help you deal with trash. They will collect the items and decide how to use them. You will partner with them and ask them to come to your place when it is time to pick up the trash. How difficult can it be?

Now, it is time for you to step up and change your ways. The world is only getting worse over the years because of our inability to properly segregate waste. Forget what other people are doing, and focus only on doing the right thing.

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Even if lots of people in the United States and across the world believe in climate change, it is difficult creating meaningful policies to effect change because there are people in office who object. The United States government even pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement even though many Americans support it, because the current president is against it.

There are also some excellent bills to protect the environment that are currently in the House of Representatives in the U.S. but are not moving forward because several people in power are voting against the bills.

Therefore, if you believe in climate change and you want action right now, the first thing you need to do is to choose people who believe in climate change to be in a position to create meaningful legislation. You need to vote out of office those who are still skeptical of climate change and are objecting to any bill that could help save the environment.

When more representatives believe in climate change, it will be easy for some environmental protection bills to move forward.

Politicians can have a change of heart

When the message from the people is strong, it is difficult for politicians to vote otherwise. For instance, there was a time when even former president Obama was against gay marriage. Eventually, his views evolved because he saw the loud voices from across the political spectrum and racial divides, supporting people’s right to marry. Even some of the most conservative politicians have had no choice but to take a step back because they know it is a lost cause.

The same thing can happen with climate change policies. It might seem challenging to enact real changes now because people in power remain steadfast in their beliefs. Climate change is also not among the most pressing concerns in the minds of American voters when they head to the polls. Compared with national security and healthcare, environmental protection is way behind. However, if it is a priority for many Americans, and their voices keep growing louder, real policies could happen.

Don’t wait for the next election

Although you can show your voice as you head to the polls, the sad reality is that elections don’t happen all the time. Once in power, you need to wait for another two years or so before replacing the wrong guy.

You need to act now and start the changes at home. For instance, instead of waiting for the local government to respond to waste management and segregation issues, you can do it at home. You can teach your kids how to be responsible for dealing with waste. You can tell them how they can reduce waste products. You can also show them what items to recycle and in what ways these things can be reused.

Another thing you can do is hire a debris removal company to come over and pick up your trash. They know what to do with what they collect, and you know these things will be going to the right places.

It is frustrating to see the inaction among government officials, but you can’t wait for them.

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