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'Tiny Habits' Are The Key To Behavioral Change

Want to start a new habit? Think small. That's the counterintuitive idea in BJ Fogg's book, Tiny Habits. Fogg explains that making small behavior changes requires just a little motivation and lots of celebrating — and can lead to big change.

Changing our behaviors can feel like a monumental task. We pressure ourselves to go big or go home. Not surprisingly, these big expectations are often unrealistic, and that’s a recipe for disappointment and self-criticism.

Instead, we should think small — as in tiny behaviors that can become habits. The idea is to make these behavior changes so small that they’re easy to do, according to BJ Fogg, a behavior scientist at Stanford University and author of the new book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.

“It’s easier to create habits and change than most people think, and it’s faster than most people think,” Fogg says. “It can even be fun, if you do it in the right way.”

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Harry Styles: Lights Up (Live)

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What’s your strategy for watching TV?

That might sound like an obvious question. (“Turn it on?”) But there will soon exist so many high-profile streaming services that the concept of watching TV — and how to do it without breaking your bank account — will be redefined.

Apple TV+ debuts today with episodes from nine original series and plans to release much more. Disney+ will come out within two weeks. In fact, over the next six months or so, at least five major new streaming services will debut, bursting with original shows, reboots and well-regarded reruns. They will serve an audience where 69 percent of people have at least one streaming subscription, with the average consumer subscribing to three. (If you just want to see the costs and features of each streaming service, you can scroll to the bottom or click here. To see what an average menu of services might cost, click here.)

It’s a new TV universe, one where you, the viewer, have never had more power to choose what you see. But there’s so much to choose from that it can feel overwhelming. Frustration and “subscription fatigue” are growing. Even if your pocketbook can handle signing up for every streaming service, you can’t possibly watch all the programming.

How To Pick The Streaming TV Services You Actually Want

Photo: Jim Corwin/Photolibrary/Getty Images Plus

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Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento, Mexico by cedanoarq

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Everyone needs this sketch in their life

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Someone talk to me about a plot problem in The Good Place!

How does Eleanor have all these memories of Chidi from before the last time their memories were wiped? I know Michael showed her a few on the playback thingy, but it wasn't that many! Where is she finding this stuff? It's bugging me y'all. Did I miss something?

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Favorites of the week

Sipsby tea subscription box - I got a really good flavor in the box this month. I didn't think I would like it but it surprised me: blueberry basil.

Board Game Republic - local cafe with 800+ board games where the waiters can teach you how to play.

New episodes of The Good Place on Netflix. Also that Netflix sends personalized emails about shows I watch

Tator tot casserole - I was a little worried about these ingredients together but it was really good https://www.momontimeout.com/the-best-tater-tot-casserole/

Psychedelic art exhibit

Jaipur and Hive - 2 player board games we bought after we went to the cafe. They're a good blend between strategy and chance.

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Knowing what to recycle is confusing. And with 11,000 recycling programs in the U.S., it varies from one community to the next. Learn more with our interactive feature.

Plastics: What’s Recyclable, And What Becomes Trash

Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR

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Tears captured in beautiful microscopic images reveals their unique nature

A Dutch artist created the amazing images in a bid to see if different triggers -such as eating a chilli or chopping onions- created different looking tears. ‘I decided to start an evening of experimenting with my close friends,’ wrote Maurice Mikkers, the photographer. 'I asked them to cut onions, eat hot peppers, look in to a fan or cry because of sadness or happiness. To see if there was a resemblance or difference in the structure of forming tears, I took images of every tear drop under the microscope.’ Scientifically tears are divided into three different types based on their origin. Tears contain oils, antibodies and enzymes and fall into three categories: basal, which are released continuously to keep the eyes lubricated ; reflex, which occur in response to irritants such as when chopping onions or when getting poked in the eye ; and psychic, triggered by emotions. Scientists have identified that different types of tears are made up of distinct molecules. For example those caused by emotions contain hormones which act as a painkiller and are released when we are stressed. 'We are all familiar with these ways of crying, but how do they look microscopically? Is there any difference? Science says that every tear has a different viscosity and composition,’ said Mikkers. 'Nevertheless they are beautiful to look at.’

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Different tears under microscope

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“Yesterday we found an encyclopedia from the Late Victorian era, which means sort of before they invented electricity and when they had cars but not so modern ones.  It’s quite a long encyclopedia.  And it’s very heavy and has brown spots on the pages.  Gramble said not to read it in the car cause I would get sick and dizzy but I did it anyway and I got sick but only a little bit.  I discovered a lot of facts that aren’t facts anymore.  I discovered two extinct animals.  One was sort of like a sawfish except it had hairs instead of spikes on its nose.  The other was sort of like a T-Rex except it had four legs like a dog.  When I become an archaeologist I can discover my own dinosaur bones.  Gramble showed me how to dig very carefully and dust off your discoveries.  Yesterday we went on a treasure hunt with our metal detector.  We were hoping to find a pound or maybe an old Roman coin, but instead we found a tent peg and Mum called it rubbish and made us throw it away.” (London, England)

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throwback to my ladies 500 years ago who knew how to fuckin party

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(2/2) “He hates when I tell this story.  But he saw me for the first time in Home Depot, and he was way too afraid to talk to me.  So he got my name from a friend and sent me a message on social media.  We got pregnant one year after we met.  Fabian did everything for the baby: every meal, every feeding, every bath.  And you can absolutely tell.  Their connection is undeniable.  Just the way he looks at her.  So much awe and love.  The exact same way he looked at her on the day she was born.  He has a James Earl Jones style of parenting.  I’m always so high-pitched and chirpy, but he’s smooth and monotone and deep.  In the weeks after my cancer diagnosis, I kept noticing that he’d sit in his car after pulling into the driveway.  I’d hear the music turn off.  But he’d take several minutes to come inside.  So one day I walked out there and found him crying and praying.  He was trying to get it all out so he could be strong when he came inside.  I have girlfriends that question how their husbands feel about them.  But I never do.  Never have.  Because he lets me know every day.  He calls me every single lunch break.  And he still looks at me the exact same way that he did when we walked down the aisle.”

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We are officially responsible for a 1 billion dollar loss to Verizon let’s all give ourselves a round of applause

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SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich (b. 1781, Neuruppin, d. 1841, Berlin)

Stage set for Mozart’s Magic Flute 1815 Gouache, 463 x 616 mm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Ed. Orig.  Lic. Ed.