A Wonderful Time Management App: Trello
Using a time management app is one of the easiest ways to get more of something we wish we all had: productivity. Here is a time management app continually rated among the top time management apps on the market, all with the goal of making you spend less time planning and more time doing.
Why we choose it: Developed over ten years ago, Trello is used by more than 25 million people. No matter how you prefer to track projects and time, Trello always allows you to easily see who is doing what at a quick look, so you'll never drop the ball on an important project.
What we offer
*Videos to instruct you to use the app.
*Easy to connect with other tools you already use.
*It's for general project management only and big projects are difficult to deal with on it.
*Limited free offerings.
Every group member is on the same page, so it's easy for you to keep track of the process of the project you are working on.
Trello has a lot to offer, including unlimited storage. Users can choose to pay $13 a month (you can get a 15% discount if you buy the yearly plan) to fully take advantage of the app.
With companies such as eBay and Fender on its user list, Trello is able to work for a wide variety of teams and projects, syncing(同步)between different web servers, mobiles (iOS and Android), and desktop apps (macros and Windows).
I am not sure how many years ago it was, but I still had a cassette player(盒式磁带放录机)at the time. I was tired of television and was in the mood for music. I pulled out one of my favorite cassettes. It started to play but before long the music stopped. I opened the player and saw the tape in the cassette was all pulled out and twisted. I tried to fix it, but it was already broken beyond repair. I frowned. I didn't want to risk another of my cassettes with a tape eating machine, but I really wanted some music.
Then I noticed my ancient record player in the corner. I walked over and dusted it off. I pulled out an old record of my mom's that my Dad had given me after she died. I turned on the record player and gently put the record on the turn- table (唱机上的转盘). "Pop!" "Crack!" went the record for a second as I put the needle down. Then a beautiful melody from my childhood started to play. I smiled and started to do my house work. The sweet songs I grew up on touched my soul. I felt the music coming out of me. I started to sing letting my weak voice join in joyously with the music. I even dared to dance a little while I did the dishes. "This is how life is supposed to be!"
These days all my music is on CDs. My daughter says I am behind the times. She says I should buy a cellphone and download all the music I want. But instead, I think I will dust off those old records again, put them on that record player and start to sing along.
We all have music within us just waiting to get out. Don't let your music die within you then.
Share your song with the world. And don't forget to dance a little too.
What does your dog do if you lie down on the floor and put your arms or legs out straight to exercise? Does your dog come to your rescue in the same way as if you fell down, or realize you mean to do that? Researchers in Germany carried out a series of experiments to see whether dogs understand if humans do things on purpose.
For their study, they had 51 dog owners drop off their pets to the laboratory. First, the dogs learned that a human experimenter would feed them treats through a gap in a glass partition(隔断). And the researchers designed two situations, which were known as "unwillingness vs. inability". In the "unwillingness" situation, the experimenter held the food in front of the dogs but didn't give it to them on purpose, often teasing(戏弄) them before pulling it away. For the "inability" situation, they had two conditions, one where the person seemed clumsy( 笨拙的 )and he appeared as if he were trying to give the treat to the dogs, but it fell down. In the other, the gap was enveloped and the pet couldn't get the treat.
In all of these experiments, the experimenter left the treat on the floor in front of the dogs, and the dogs were easily able to get to the treat. How quickly they got back the food depended on the specific situation. The researchers predicted correctly that the dogs would wait longer to go to get the treat if they thought the experimenter didn't want them to have it, while they went to get it quickly when the treat was meant for them. "They probably understood that --This guy is not very skilled but he wants to give the food to me." Brauer suggests.
Bräuer says that there could be other factors that led to the dogs' such performance in the experiments. Although she thinks the findings are important, Bräuer says she is looking forward to what other scientists around the world will say.
Have you ever spent half an hour searching the Internet which, as you find out afterwards, lasted three hours, or opened a book shortly after breakfast and a little while later noticed that the room was getting darker?
Most people can remember experiencing such a state. Your mind wasn't wandering; you were totally focused and concentrated on that activity, to such an extent that you were not even aware of yourself. Psychologists call these fully absorbing experiences flow states, which were discovered and named by a world-famous psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. His celebrated book Flow: The Psychology of Happiness became an instant best-seller, making its way to the top self-help classics.
The state of flow happens under very specific conditions -- when we encounter a challenge that is testing for our skills, and yet our skills and capacities are such that it is just about possible to meet this challenge. So both the challenge and the skills are at high levels, stretching us almost to the limit. If challenges exceed skills, one can become anxious. If skills exceed challenges, we usually become bored. Neither of these two cases result in flow.
What is also interesting in flow is the almost total absence of emotions during the actual process.
One seems to be almost beyond experiencing emotions, most likely because the awareness of self is not present. Mihaly himself is also very much aware of the potential negative impact of the flow. One philosopher once describes his own experience of flow: "When I get totally involved in the conversation, I am not aware of myself, the world around or the passage of time. Sometimes, I may become addictive to that existence, unwilling to cope with other daily routines of life, like forgetting dinner, and saying goodbye to my children. "
Much meaning can be conveyed clearly in our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.
On a bus you may look at a stranger, but not for too long. And if he senses that you are staring at him, he may feel uncomfortable.
The same is true in our daily life. If you are stared at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is anything wrong with you. Eyes do speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. If a man stares at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to look away from her, his intentions are obvious. He wishes to attract her attention, and let her know that he is admiring her.
However, when two persons are engaged in a conversation, the speaker will only look into the listener's eyes from time to time to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking. If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking as if he's trying to control you, you will feel awkward. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim. He wrongly believes that looking straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication.
Actually, eye contact should be made based on a specific relationship and situation.
A. On the contrary, it will give him away.
B. Do you have such a kind of experience?
C. That's what normal eye contact is all about.
D. Actually, continuous eye contact is limited to lovers only.
E. After all, everybody likes to be stared at for quite a long time.
F. But things are different when it comes to staring at the opposite sex.
G. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel annoyed at being stared at that way
Early in my teaching career, I heard countless excuses from my students for not having their homework. Many of them were made up and1. And, yes, "the dog ate it" was one of them. As time passed, I was 2 of hearing "I don't have my homework because … " "No excuses. No 3!" I, out of anger, 4 my eighth graders.
Then, one afternoon, Anthony 5 me and said shyly, not taking his eyes off the floor, "I know you said it doesn't 6 why we don't have our homework done, but my dad moved out and my mom waits tables at night, so I have to 7 my little brothers. " Feeling shocked and 8 for him, I put my hand on Anthony's thin shoulder. "Why are you just now telling me …?" I stopped in mid-sentence. I knew why. So I 9 the question, "Would it 10 if you stay in my classroom after school and work on it before you go home?" He nodded.
The next day, I 11 to all my students that I'd offer an after-school study hall. Anthony was the first student to 12. Before long, I had a room full of eighth graders who stayed to work on their homework. I soon had a large collection of "I don't have my homework because... "13 like Anthony. All were very 14 . Most importantly, I learned that "I'll 15" works a lot better than "No excuses".
Chinese scientists have (success) collected seeds of several plants at an altitude of about 6, 200 meters on Mount Qomolangma, (set) a new record for plant seed collection at the (high) altitude in China.
The mission (lead) by the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species (GBOWS), national database for the collection and preservation of wild species.
"The mission is a new (explore) and an attempt to collect high-altitude germplasm resources, is useful for protecting biodiversity and checking climate change impact the globe. " said a researcher.
The collection team went to Mount Qomolangma twice this year to conduct plant diversity (survey). The seeds (collect) were preserved for long-term storage after drying, cleaning and counting in GBOWS.
The frightening day of our diving test was here. Our parents thought we were lucky to have an Olympic-size swimming pool at the school. My mom stressed that the swimming pool was one of the best in our city. But I didn't feel happy about it at all. Instead, I felt afraid of the swimming pool. It was mainly because I was terribly shy.
I was so shy that I always sat at the back of the room in class so I'd not be called upon to read. As for the present physical education class each Monday morning, I would work my way to the back of the line forming at the diving board so I would not have to practice the dives.
Now, it was another Monday morning — the morning of our diving test. My blood ran cold when the teacher Ms. Robbins announced that we would be graded for our final on the most difficult dive— the jackknife. And she added, "This diving test is important. The one who fails has to spare time in the following Monday mornings to practice diving in this swimming pool and attend this test again. "
My body kept shaking with fear as the line to the scary diving board shortened. As I watched, each student seemed to perform the challenging dive effortlessly. And shortly I would have to attempt something that I had never even practiced before.
Then I remembered someone telling me that when you picture yourself doing a skill over and over, it's just as effective as physically practicing that skill. So I watched carefully as each classmate jumped at the end of the board once, added a jump for height, folded their body in half to reach for their toes(脚趾), and finally straightened out like an arrow for going into the water. After carefully watching for a while, I was actually in a state of surprise, because all of a sudden I realized that it was possible for me to perform these four steps of diving.
Eventually all classmates except me finished jumping. The teacher announced that it was my turn.
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With my heart knocking wildly, I walked down the diving board towards its end.
Knowing I failed, I climbed out of the pool, embarrassed.
