Action and exposure are the best ways to conquer your fear. Keep the mind busy on what you can do, and your mind won’t be able to get into the primitive brain. Parenting matters Often, we can connect our feelings of fear to a particular source. But at times, our fears make no sen...
and find the motivation to start. I’ll include two helpful articles at the end of this post to get you started. Take an hour to read them, along with a few other recommended resources on our site—but don’t spend too much time...
It looks a bit “naked” for now, but I prefer to add the titles later as an HTML element. I’ll show you how to do it when we get to Dash. Feel free to uncomment the title update in the example (line 30), to see how it displays. With this code, we just created our fir...
Method #2 – Hold On To Your Pants Or rather, have your pants hold on to your shirts. Pants do so much of the leg work (pun intended) in keeping shirt tucked in, yet receive so little credit. In fact, there’s a secret weapon that some pants have in their “back-pocket”— rubb...
In some cases, action breaks up dialogue, but the same character is speaking. These will be marked with an extension that indicates the same character is continuing to talk (see extensions below). Dialogue Dialogue is the most importantpart of a screenplay. It is the majority of a what's ...
In these pics I’m sewing with one of my husband’s old hanes t-shirts, and with stretchy knit, which I absolutely adore. Don’t you just want to snuggle up in it? So now you’ve got your fabric. What else do you need to start sewing knits?
There is some gear that makes sewing with jersey knit fabrics much easier, but you don’t need all of it to sew with jersey. Let’s go through it and I’ll tell you what’s not absolutely necessary and what’s a must-have.
Listen to upbeat music while working. Give yourself a reward after you complete the task. 2. Procrastination Cause: “I am overwhelmed” Use a “divide and conquer” approach: Break a large task into separate, short-term, easy-to-achieve segments. ...
To conquer anxiety, we try to be perfect. We try to write something that we know everyone will like. We brag and we use big words and we sensationalize. The problem is, it doesn't work, and it's a stupid way to deal with writer's block for two reasons. 1. You will never be ...
If you’re a blogger, at some point you’ve probably gone toe-to-toe with an Internet troll -- "a person whose sole purpose in life is to seek out people to argue with...over extremely trivial issues." If you haven’t had this delightful experience yet,