the unbearable notice is; that you've to make up your mind to be the difference and not the other way round else people will misjudge you even though you're not that person.
As the city goes dark coming from a blue town, people breaking laws and creating obstacles for others, who are willing to pay the ultimate price. Talk is a novelist.
I had a choice between two movies about jungle cruises this weekend. First, there’s Disney’s Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt in a big-budget adventure based on the classic Disneyland amusement park ride.
“Jungle Cruise isn’t the first Disney film to be based on a theme park ride, and I daresay it won’t be the last.”
INSIDERNOTES
Seeing the throwback characteristics of Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise, folks are quickly applying the “swashbuckler” label, calling upon the good juju of Michael Curtiz, George Lucas, Stephen Sommers, and Gore Verbinski that came before him.
That understandable descriptor fits a bit like a slightly oversized hat. The chapeau in question is…
Whenever I have to refill my car with gas, pick up shampoo and conditioner, or purchase new cleaning supplies, doing so always feels like a chore.
However, there is one weekly errand that I actually look forward to doing, and it is none other than grocery shopping. I still try…
One of my absolute favorite things about owning a group fitness gym is the camaraderie. When you work out together, you get to know each other, and in a way, end up on a fitness journey together.
“Watch carefully, and you can also see the ups and downs someone may be going through.”
INSIDERNOTES
After all, everyone is in there giving 100% to become the best version of themselves. The energy that creates is powerful.
One thing that used to baffle me is watching someone giving major effort and being super consistent in their workout routine, but that physical transformation seemed elusive for them.
There are a million reasons why this could be happening and far be it from me to speculate. Over the years, however, the same recurring theme came up: food choices.
You have to ignore the temptations, or you will continue to sabotage yourself.
1. Plan Ahead: First, plan your entire week to know what you’re going to eat.
2. Shop The Perimeter: This has been a common trick for a while now, but most stores line the outer perimeter with generally healthier food.
3. Keep The Basics: Get a good stock of grocery staples at your house and make sure you never run out.
“If you feel like there is no hope and are convinced the grocery store will always win, I’ve got promising news for you.”
INDIDERNOTES
The stores gave you an out with online ordering! This means you can build an order with only the items on your list, know exactly what your spending, and voilà! Your groceries will be ready for you to pick up curbside.
So see what you gonna do ok, If you walk into the store hungry, you will want all the things. Caution is thrown to the wind, and you’re borderline hangry, so everything sounds fabulous.
Since your bookworm is signaling that you need a meal right now, you’ll be drawn to quick and easy meals which shouldn’t be what’s on your plan.
Now, if even entering the parking lot is too much temptation, some areas will deliver your groceries straight to your door!
That’s right – you place an order online, but instead of a pizza delivery showing up or your Amazon Prime order, it’s healthy and smart food choices all from your list! That’s using technology for good.
I’ll set the scene. Here I am at one of my first post (ish)- covid girls dinner party. I think it was a French theme, put on by my friend Liz. While chatting away, I mention that I work as a finance coach. As per usual, this drums up some conversation and questions.
This evening a new question popped up: ‘But Genevieve, how do I stay prepared. The future gives me anxiety and I find it hard to prepare for things I don’t know are coming.’
“I don’t have a crystal ball and even the expert psychics in New Orleans can’t tell you exactly what financial obstacles and opportunities will be available in the future.”
GENEVIEVE
The question becomes, how do we prepare for the unknown? Will I snag that 7 figure job? Will my parents need my help? Will I finally buy that farm to house all the dogs I want to rescue? Will I be able to take a 6 month tour of the world? So many questions and very few answers.
It’s said that living in the future gives you anxiety and I agree. That’s why my strategy is all around covering the basics and providing flexibility for the future. This is something I recommend to clients too.
Seven Ways to be financially secure;
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Here are the following steps, below,
1. Have enough cash on hand for emergencies.
2. Focus on your health. If 2020 taught us anything it’s that being healthy = being wealthy.
3. Insure your physical assets. Take it from a lady whose lived in 3 hurricane strike zones- stuff happens when you least expect it.
4. Start with your goals now because- newsflash- you can always tweak them later.
5. Have more than one income stream. If you’ve lost a job you’ll understand. If you haven’t, learn from those who have.
6. Insure your non- physical assets. If you’re investing, how can you create a safety net?
7. Have access to funds. Yes, I mean credit.
Let’s dive into these items and figure out how we can ditch the anxiety around money and start living for today.
From the time you enter high school, college (and a four-year university in particular) is often presented as the end goal.
Once your junior year rolls around teachers, peers, and family members start throwing out a barrage of questions your way: are you looking at colleges yet? which ones have you visited? what’s your personal statement going to be about? what do you want to major in? when do you start applications? what about sororities? how about roommates? My head is spinning thinking about it.
“In 1636, European colonists (as the story usually goes) founded “New College,” now known as Harvard University.”
JULIA KRAMER
High school is a microclimate, making for a confusing experience, at the end of which you’re supposed to be “grown.” It acts as a small town, where everyone knows everything, news spreads like wildfire, and everyone is talking behind each other’s backs.
It’s a place where good influences and bad influences collide to form the person you will enter the “real world” as.
Back then, colleges were attended by wealthy Puritans who would inherit family business and go on to be leaders of the new world as proper, well educated Christians. So from the beginning, college was associated with greater success and wealth.
“I’m not here to deny that anyone with a college education will likely earn a significantly higher salary than those who don’t.”
INSIDERNOTES
But don’t worry it gets worse.
If you’re like me and genuinely interested in learning more about the world or god forbid making it a better place, be prepared to drown in debt, working a minimum wage job until you die (just kidding…sort of).
After I received my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara (not because it was “easy” but because I was passionate about the subject), it was not lost on me that my 40 thousand dollar degree would get me nowhere.
I’ve been a victim of racism for most of my life. This has given me the intuition and hindsight to infallibly detect the type of racist one is dealing with.
First, there are the Empathetic racists. They call you up whenever there’s a racist incident reported on in the media. They demonstrate alongside you at Black Lives Matter protests, they talk about how shocked they are at open displays of racism.
“They work to ensure that everyone is treated fairly. They work toward a better world for humanity.”
GETREVUE
The Supremacist racists are those that believe that white people are superior to black and brown people. They categorize all nonwhites as sub-human. In fact, they dehumanize black people to better abuse them.
They feel threatened by what they say is “the big replacement”: a white extremist theory that says that black and brown people are willfully trying to out-populate white people.
“Without the iPhone cameras filming, these people will kill black people whenever they have a chance.”
GETREVUE
So the reality is that racists can belong to one or several of the above categories. Some can be Supremacist racists and Sadist racists at the same time.
Others can be Empathetic racists and Fetishist racists. Cross-pollination occurs across these categories all the time, but whatever the racist, they are harmful and sometimes life-threatening to black and brown people.
Almost after 2 years of original release date, Disney+ is going to bring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt’s family-friendly movie Jungle Cruise to the theaters this summer.
“Out there is not funny. It’s everything and has nothing to do with you but, you’ve come to seek vapor in the badland.”
As like other movies Mulan, Raya, and The Last Dragon, Black Widow you can easily enjoy this film from home only. This is because Disney+ has officially announced that the movie is going to hit the streaming platform on the same day as theaters.
Ergo, this is the reason why filmmakers have decided to ask for $30 from all the viewers of this film.
DISNEY
You should not expect to stick with the Premier access strategy of Disney in long run. This is because Deadline has reported that Disney+ is thinking to revive the theatrical business.
Meanwhile, the upcoming movie Jungle Cruise will be available for the Disney+ subscribers at regular subscriptions after a certain time period.
DISNEY
Ever wondered what it would be like if you combined Werner Herzog’s ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ (1972) with John Huston’s ‘The African Queen’ (1951) and transformed the result into a two hour long kid’s movie? No, neither have I and I would’ve doubted any rational or sane person would ‘ve either.
SA it seems that the execs at Disney are in no way rational or sane people because that’s exactly what they’ve done with ‘Jungle Cruise’ (2021), which is only appropriate as this movie feels neither written nor directed but constructed solely from studio diktats (‘Jungle Cruise’ is based on a Disney theme park ride ⅞ studio memos go floating by).
See screenshots below,
So that’s Jungle Cruise’ — a two hour, incomprehensible, unnatural affront on every single level that cost $300 million to make and market.
Nigeria’s number one Starboy, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid or Big Wiz has revealed one of the kind of people in his DM, who are sliding in for Tickets to access his forthcoming Made In Lagos Tour.
Big Wiz took to his Insta-story to share a screenshot of a lady offering him Blow Job in exchange for two tickets. The mysterious lady slide into Wizkid’s DM with the message;
See screenshots above,
Between September 10, 2021, and January 22, 2022, Wizkid will perform in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Minneapolis, Colorado, Nevada, California, Washington, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Ontario, and Quebec.
Wizkid has approved Naira Marley’s proposal to name every 30th of May as “Marlians Day” in Nigeria, shortly after Naira Marley announced the proposed date on Twitter.
Her husband, identified as @ajmoney001 on Instagram, took to his page to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
On Instagram, he shared a photo of himself kissing his wife, with the caption, “My wish on our anniversary is that our love will never be seized. It will be wider than the sky, grow higher than Everest, brighter than the Stars, stronger than the Diamond and warmer than the Sun.
“Happy anniversary Ajmoney, Tega loves you.”
INSIDERNOTES
Happy anniversary from Biggie’s house
Tega, as a contestant on the ongoing show, also mentioned her marriage anniversary to her fellow housemates.
Teasing Whitemoney, Tega said, “White wants to make me a special delicacy on my anniversary.”
During the fashion show, Angel, who was the host of the event, got tongues wagging with the lacy see-through mini dress she wore without underwear.
Her father, who is also her Instagram handler, as she earlier revealed, praised his daughter for her outfit, saying that Angel’s dress depicted body positivity.
“During the Truth or Dare game, Angel also kissed Boma and Saga passionately while her love interest, Sammie, looked on.”
INSDERNOTES
On Monday, Cross had revealed to the housemates that Angel had walked in on him having his bath and she stripped and had her bath in the same place.
On her first night of the show, she cuddled with Sammie, an act that got people talking and led to a potential ‘ship’ between them.
The horrific and heartbreaking scenes at Malaysian hospitals are akin to a disaster movie. An overwhelmed healthcare system and overworked medical staff have struggled to cope with the exponential growth in COVID-19 admissions.
Canvas beds have been put up in hospital car parks, several patients have had to share the same oxygen canister, and some life-saving procedures had to be performed on hospital floors. Doctors have reported that whole families have been admitted together to hospitals and some have died together.
“Now, I just have no emotions, it is what it is … death has become so frequent that you become numb,”
ALJAZEERA
To keep up with the rising death counts, bodies have had to be stacked up on trolleys and pushed to the morgues. Volunteer undertakers have been handling nearly 30 times more bodies than they did last year.
Malaysia’s biggest COVID-19 fear was becoming a mini-India and unfortunately, it has come true. Its daily infection and death counts per capita surpassed India’s peak. At the end of July, Malaysia’s daily cases per million people stood at 515.9 and its daily deaths per million were at 4.95; by contrast, at its peak, India reached 283.50 cases and 3.04 deaths. The country also has the highest per-million cases in Asia, and one of the highest per-million deaths in Southeast Asia.
“This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a country once deemed the role model in handling the pandemic”
ALJAZEERA
Malaysia celebrated as local transmissions reached zero for a few days, garnering praise from foreign experts, academics, and organisations such as the World Health Organization. The Malaysian government’s swift actions to implement a full-scale lockdown, invest in testing and medical facilities, and deploy proactive communication with the public resulted in fewer cases than in the rest of Southeast Asia.
Malaysia’s director-general of health, Dr Noor Hisham, was given the highest civilian honour and was named alongside the US’s Dr Anthony Fauci and New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield as the top health officials in the battle against COVID19.
Every night, Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.
Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania.
A newly built Tolou Keur garden in Boki Diawe, within the Great Green Wall area, in Matam region, Senegal.
[Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]
He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of such gardens – known as “Tolou Keur” in Senegal’s Wolof language – that organisers hope will boost food security, reduce regional desertification and engage thousands of community workers.
“This project is incredibly important,” said Kamara, finally at home after a night spent at the bakery followed by 10 hours of cultivating edible and medicinal plants in the garden.
The project marks a new, more local approach to what is known as the Green Wall initiative, launched in 2007, that aims to slow desertification across Africa’s Sahel region, the arid belt south of the Sahara Desert, by planting an 8,000km (4,970 miles) line of trees from Senegal to Djibouti.
The wider initiative has only managed to plant 4 percent of the pledged 100 million hectares (247 million acres) of trees, and completing it by 2030, as planned, could cost up to $43bn, according to United Nations estimates.
ALJAZEERA
Self Sufficiency
By contrast, the Tolou Keur gardens have flourished in the seven months since the project began and now number about two dozen, said Senegal’s reforestation agency.
Three months after a garden is completed, its agents begin a series of monthly visits over two years to assess progress.
Project manager Karine Fakhoury said it was important that local people felt fully engaged: “This is not an external project, where somebody comes from outside and tells people what to do. It is something entirely indigenous.”
The gardens are partly a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ALJAZEERA
Senegal shut its borders early last year to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, cutting imports and exposing rural communities’ dependence on foreign food and medicines.
“The day people realise the full potential of the Great Green Wall, they will stop these dangerous migration routes where you can lose your life at sea,” he said. “It’s better to stay, work the soil, cultivate and see what you can earn.”
Technology fuels productivity growth but tight labour markets provide the spark for this growth because firms typically need to make better use of technology when hiring new employees is not possible.
The tight labour market conditions that can spur productivity growth tend to be localised and so economies benefit in different ways and at different rates.
Policymakers should view tight labour markets as both a risk and an opportunity to see productivity grow.
The idea that technology drives productivity growth is both a commonplace and a common frustration. Economies operating at or near the technological frontier have long seen sagging trend growth rates despite marvellous technology – from artificial intelligence to bioengineering to robotics – proliferating at breakneck speed.
This matters because productivity, or output per input, pays for higher wages and is the foundation of long-run prosperity. In that sense, it matters most in rich economies where higher productivity growth would allow political debates to shift from (re-)distributing a relatively stagnant economic pie to sharing a growing one.
Technology is critical to productivity growth, but tight labour markets provide the spark to fuel this growth.
Philipp Carlsson Szlezak
So how can cyclical tightness spur productivity growth? Which types of economies are set to benefit from this relationship? And why should policymakers see tight labour markets as both an opportunity and risk?
Understanding the spark of productivity growth
Availability is often not enough to prompt broad adoption and utilisation of technology – integration can be costly and there may be implementation risks. It is often easier for firms to continue to grow with the next incremental hire.
The charts below back up this observation. The chart on the left correlates more than 60 years of US business investment (relative to its 5-year average) with 5-year productivity growth. If simple availability and investment in technology drove productivity, we would see a relationship, but that is not the case.
The fuel of productivity growth is global, but the spark is local
While the frontier of technology can diffuse around the globe through trade and global value chains, the labour market conditions that provide the spark for adoption are far more localised. This means that productivity growth may diverge in countries with similar technological capabilities.
Rapid tightening – or loosening – of labour markets can occur as the byproduct of strong cyclical dynamics (such as the recovery currently underway). Or it can happen as the result of the structural organisation of local labour markets. In other words, economies have different capabilities when it comes to harnessing the nexus between labour market tightness and productivity growth.
Consider the difference between Europe and the US, two advanced economies that operate at the technological frontier. The US is set to benefit from a tight labour market as the lack of easy labour is already forcing firms to invest and reinvent their businesses and processes. This will underpin not only faster growth, but also allow workers to claim a growing share of output.
Balancing the risks and benefits of tight labour markets
Ignoring the benefits of tight labour markets could come at a cost for policymakers and executives. Take once more the US economy. It is on a path to achieving higher output in 2024 than was once expected pre-pandemic, i.e. “overshooting” its old trend path. Owing to strong and sustained fiscal stimulus, the rapid return to labour market tightness has been framed as an inflationary threat. Often a picture is painted of an impending wage-price spiral and a Federal Reserve falling behind the curve and smothering the cycle once forced to raise rates to reign in price growth.
The benefits of a hot economy, as outlined above, represent as much a macroeconomic opportunity as a threat – two dynamics that need to be balanced. Part of this balancing act is acknowledging that tight labour markets push productivity growth and thereby can expand an economy’s capacity. This would actually narrow the dreaded overshoot, even as economic activity remains strong.
There are several ways to memorialise a milestone birthday. Chef Annuradha Toshniwal, a home chef from Mumbai, turned 70 last month and released a cookbook to celebrate her birthday. Titled 70 Unlocked, the scrapbook-style collection of recipes features dishes that she perfected through the multiple lockdowns. Along with options for mains and snacks, there is a selection of refreshing drinks, cold and warm soups, fresh breads and quick desserts.
There are 111 recipes and Toshniwal has paid attention to the one ingredient most crucial to urban kitchens: time. Most of the dishes—be it the roasted pumpkin with mango soup, Bihari-style eggplants or tamarind rice—will take no longer than 30 minutes to prepare.
“It is the magic ingredient that makes desserts in a jiffy and adds a wonderful creamy finish”
ELLA OLSSON
She devised a clever time-saving hack for making desserts by using tinned sweetened condensed milk. It thickens sweet treats within minutes, doesn’t call for addition of sugar and gives a nice creamy finish. With Lounge, she shares two easy dessert recipes from her book that contain the magic ingredient—condensed milk.
Baked yogurt
LIFESTYLE
Serves 4
Ingredients
1 cup yogurt
1 cup condensed milk
1 cup cream
For baking, pick a six-inch mould or four small ones, like ramekin bowls.
Method
1. Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2. Pour the mixture into greased moulds.
3. Bake at 180 degree C for 15-18 minutes. Please keep checking. It should not be overbooked.
2. Cool and serve topped with any fruit.
Kalakand
LIVEMINT
Serves 4
Ingredients
8 tbsp milk powder
2 tbsp yogurt
400 ml condensed milk (1 tin)
1 tbsp lemon juice
100 gm crumbled paneer or ricotta cheese
Method
In a bowl, put the milk powder, yogurt and condensed milk. Mix well.
Microwave for 1 minute. Give it a gentle stir.
Add 1 tbsp lemon juice. Give it a gentle stir.
Microwave for 1 minute.
Mix in the crumbled paneer or ricotta cheese
Refrigerate for a few hours.
Serve chilled
Toshniwal has self published the book and it can be bought on the Instagram account @70Unlocked.
I know he was already confirmed as a genetic “strandcast”, but that didn’t necessarily confirm he had Palpatine’s DNA in him or was part of Palpatine’s cloning experiments with his own body.
One of the biggest problems overarching in the divisive films is the sheer existence of Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis). From the start, it appears that Snoke’s only real purpose is to function as a placeholder until Kylo Ren/Ben Solo (Adam Driver) can kill him and take up the mantle of “Supreme Leader” himself.
Although many Star Wars fans already presumed that Snoke was a failed Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) clone, Star Wars has just officially confirmed this information for the first time, in a new post on StarWars.com.
Another user going by KingAdamXVII noted that this gives more concrete information about how Snoke came to be than we previously had:
Surveillance start-up Paragon has reportedly found a way to break into a host of encrypted smartphone apps. The Israeli firm, which was established in 2019, claims to have discovered a way to break into encrypted messaging apps remotely. The applications reportedly at risk from the start-up’s encryption busting techniques include Gmail, WhatsApp, and Facebook as well as Signal and Facebook Messenger.
But while details on Paragon remain thin on the grounds, executives have spoken about the secretive firm’s offerings on condition of anonymity.
“As of yet, Paragon reportedly doesn’t have any customers.”
EXPRESS
But while details on Paragon remain thin on the grounds, executives have spoken about the secretive firm’s offerings on condition of anonymity.
One exec said Paragon only sells its spyware products to countries that respect fundamental rights, freedoms, and adhere to international norms.
Journalists, lawyers and human rights activists have reportedly been targeted by the Pegasus malware.
EXRESS
While an investigation discovered a leaked list of 50,000 targets – including world leaders such as French president Emmanuel Macron – that were targets for the Pegasus spyware. A CEO for the NSO Group has denied the accusations.
Speaking to Forbes about accusations NSO was involved in any attempts to hack French officials, Shalev Hulio, the CEO and co-founder of the NSO Group, said: “It’s definitely not related to NSO; it’s definitely not related to Pegasus. This is what I can confirm.”
The divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, cofounders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, was finalised on Monday, a court document showed.
The couple filed for divorce on May 3, after 27 years of marriage, but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. They said at the time they had reached an agreement on how to divide their marital assets.
No details of that agreement were disclosed in the final divorce order filed on Monday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, United States, Reuters news agency reported.
“The couple filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage, but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.”
Aljazeera
The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50bn over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease.
Bill, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, and Melinda, an author and businesswoman, had announced their decision to separate in early May in an identical statement posted on their individual Twitter accounts.
Nigeria’s Olamide continues his run from the impressive new album UY Scuti with this latest single, “Julie.” The romantic jam sees the Nigerian heavyweight expanding and exploring his flow over a Caribbean-tinged beat. “This song is me telling my woman that I know I’m crazy and not 100% perfect, but the kind of love I get from her is so amazing I’m willing to surrender everything,” Olamide says. “I wanted a mixture of that Caribbean feel just to take it away from the regular afrobeats vibe.”
Adekunle Gold feat Lucky Daye ‘Sinner’
2nd
Nigerian Afropop star Adekunle Gold comes through with his brand new single “Sinner,” the latest taste from his upcoming album due this fall. In “Sinner,” Adekunle goes in over a historical story of love and lust. “Weirdly, I was thinking about King David and Bathsheba’s sexcapade and thought it’d make a beautiful song,” he mentions The Marcel Akunwata-produced notably features Lucky Daye.
Omah Lay ‘Understand’
3rd
Omah Lay, one of 2020’s breakout artists, comes through with his new single and music video for “Understand,” an ear and eye-grabbing affair produced by beatmaker Tempoe.
Falz ‘Mercy’
4th
Here’s a new addictive tune from Falz , produced by Sess The Prblem Kid. “Mercy” is some impressive stuff here as Falz goes in over a stuttering beat.
Lady Donli ‘WILD’
5th
Lady Donli returns with the new 6-song EP, WILD. The collection of tunes features highlights like “Searching,” a smooth concoction produced by GMK.
Fireboy DML ‘Peru’
6th
The buzzing Fireboy DML rolls through with the new single “Peru” which follows up his excellent album, Apollo. The Shizzi-produced track, Fireboy’s first official single of the year, is yet another earworm from the constantly rising Nigerian artist.
Ayo Jay ‘Paranoia’
7th
Ayo Jay, who you probably know from “Your Number,” drops another addictive jam in the shape of “Paranoia.” He goes in over Caribbean-influenced beat in this highlight off his latest 5-song EP, Wonder Shall Never End.
(CNN) Grown+ups tend to recall their adolescence as a highlight reel (or maybe, in some cases, it’s a lowlight reel): the first leg or face shave, the first kiss, the first bra, the first ejaculation or menstruation, and the first time you walked into a room and were treated like an adult.
It can flip quickly through our brains, a series of events — part humiliating, part liberating — accounting for one of our greatest stages of metamorphosis. Perhaps it’s the trauma that has compressed the experience. Or maybe it is that, once the final product — our adult selves — is realized, it is hard to trace it back to the starting point.
This long journey of adolescence becomes more manageable for all parties when we see it as slow and unique to each person.
CNN HEALTH
Parents need to start talking about puberty earlyBut for those going through it, adolescence is a long journey, beginning far before we might anticipate it and ending long after. And the variability from kid to kid is enormous. It’s possible for a group of friends to collectively spend close to 15 years in adolescence, with an early bloomer beginning at age 8 and a late one not wrapping things up until their early 20s, said Dr. Richard J. Chung, an adolescent medicine specialist at Duke Health.
A very rough timeline
Some kids begin puberty in late elementary school. Girls can start as early as 8 and boys as early as 9, timing that’s considered “precocious puberty” in both cases, Chung said. Other kids begin puberty as late as high school. For girls, the latest age tends to be around 13, and for boys it’s 14. The whole process can take between two and five years, though psychological maturity can take longer.
For boys, the first sign is testicular enlargement, which is gradual, said Chung. With girls, the first sign is what doctors call “breast budding” or small bumps under the nipple.
Both of these are triggered by hormones, and are followed by a series of physical, emotional and cognitive changes, including body hair growth, as well as changes in muscle and fat mass. Two of the most notable milestones are the beginning of menstruation, or menarche, in girls and the beginning of sperm production, or spermarche, with boys.
Chung said parents may be inclined to attribute their children’s psychological changes to the hormones causing these physical changes, but the relationship isn’t always clear cut.
Almost everyone in life starts out their careers with bigger incomes than their bills, however over time, they amass so many bills that their bills overtake their incomes. From this point forward, only 15% of working professionals will reverse the equation, and from this 15%, only 4% reach the point where their incomes become not only bigger than their bills but also bigger than their financial goals. Moving your income above your bills, and being able to maintain financial stability without salary is the first level of financial success you must achieve. This success is called financial independence.
However, lifting your income above not just your bills, but over your current and future financial needs is the highest level of financial success, and this success is called financial freedom. This means that financial independence is all about achieving today’s success and comfort, while financial freedom ensures that you maintain that level of success throughout life.
“So how do you achieve financial freedom or make your income bigger than your goals?”
NAIRAMETRICS
The answer is simple.
But first, I’ll show you the price that you must pay. Every prize has a price, and so does your next level success.
There are three prices to choose from. The first is the price of growth and discipline. For you to move from your current level to the next, you need growth in skills and the discipline to take action. This price has a worthy purpose, and it is one that you should pay. This is also the cheapest price you would ever pay for success. The second is the price of procrastination.
This is where you delay taking action until you have only a little time left. To achieve the same goal, you must then take extreme action that results in deeper pain. Also, chances are high that you may not achieve all that you set out to achieve. The third price is the price of regret. This is where you delay taking action until you run out of time and can no longer avert the consequence.
The only thing left when you are at this stage is to endure the consequences of your inaction, and the regret price is the most painful price to pay.
NAIRAMETRICS
To lift your income above your goals, you need three other components. The first is time, the second is relationships and the third is income earning platforms. Skills without the time to apply will generate no income. Skills with time but without relationships will produce no income. And the skill with time and relationships but without a platform to earn income, will still lead to no income. Thus, the only way to truly earn an income is to have skills, time, relationships, and platforms working for you.
Your job has these four components. First, you have the skills to help your employer make money, that’s why you were employed. Next, you also invest your time to offer this skill, then you offer it within an income-generating relationship, and finally, you earn income through a job platform.
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