How to make Fridays more fun in the summer

How to make Fridays more fun in the summerHow to make Fridays more fun in the summerWhat a classic summer feeling Friday rolls around and all you can think about are your weekend plans, but you have a heap of work to do, with no chance of leaving early in sight.Heres how to make the last day of the work week better - even if Summer Fridays are a total afterthought at your company.Eat something fun for lunchWhether you pick up food from a new restaurant while on your lunch break, or pack something you actually want to eat in your lunch bag, make an effort chow down on something you love on Friday.You can resume eating thesame old, boring salad next week, but for now, you should do something to get the weekend off on the right foot. So why not now?Just make sure its something that wont make your blood sugar spike, and then plummet.Explore a brand new spot on your walk outsideTaking breaks for walks outside are essential during a packed day, but hanging out for a little while in a loca l patch of greenery youve never been to before can really shift your perspective. Think of it this way as long as you have Google Maps, you have nothing to lose.Finding local gems can be a fun hobby when you just want the week to be over already - just be sure to set a timer in case you get carried awayListen to a podcast or audiobook that makes you laughTheres nothing like taking the edge off at work by listening to something hilarious. Its an easy way to lighten up the mood.But if the podcast or audiobook you want to listen is too funny to listen to at your desk, take it on your walk around the area, or listen to something thats more serious, but still takes you to a good distribution policy mentally.Go to happy hour at a bar thats a local favoriteThis one could possibly score you points with your team at work - its a way to bond, and possibly get to know people you dont work with often.So ask your coworkers ahead of time about bars in the area that people love,take the initiati ve when it comes to setting plans, and head out at the end of the dayJust dont make it a free-for-all when it comes to the alcohol - after all, research shows that binge drinking during happy hour can impact both your sleep and work.

The one choice all wildly powerful people make

The one choice all wildly powerful people makeThe one choice all wildly powerful people makeWhere do deeply powerful people source such certitude? How are they so sure? About themselves. About their choices. About their path. You can feel the power in a person. It feels like assurance, not perfection. It feels like hope, not delusion. It feels like vulnerability, not self-deprecation. It feels confident, and knowing, and sure. But it also feels comfortable for you to be standing in the sunlight of such assuredness.Powerful people, which isnt about authority or leadership or success or status (although it can often go hand-in-hand with all of unterstellung things), show their power because theyre able to show you yours. Powerful people, time and time again, show their power in one clear way. And every time they do its a lesson in what we can do. And the lesson is a decision. And the decision is clear. Its simple. But it sure aint easyChoose yourselfIts how youll find your power. Its h ow youll build your power. And its how youll continue to to stay rooted in that power.Choose yourself when it hurts. Choose yourself when you feel weak, because the choosing will make you strong. Choose yourself by using your voice. Choose yourself be speaking your truth. Choose yourself by trusting yourself. Choose yourself by backing yourself. Choose you by showing up. In a lineup of millions, pick yourself every time. Bet on yourself every time.When you have the choice to choose yourself or to put anyone, any feeling, any situation, or any thing ahead of what you want, what you believe, what you desire, choose you. In all the situations that are hard, that are heartbreaking, that are confusing, that are unsure, ask yourself one simple thing, What would it look like to choose myself? And then go do that.But let me tell you, choosing yourself may not feel powerful at all. elend right away. But it will, eventually. You must keep happening for yourself. You must keep choosing yoursel f. Because she wont ever let you down.This post was originally published on MaxieMcCoy.com.

Why Millennials are getting arrested more than Gen-Xers

Why Millennials are getting arrested more than Gen-Xers Why Millennials are getting arrested more than Gen-Xers Millennials get blamed for many things. They’ve apparently killed the retail industry, obsess over their phones too much and are disconnected with their managers - and now are getting arrested more than their predecessors despite committing fewer crimes, according to a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University.In the study  published in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Millennials are more likely to get locked up than other generations before them due to the rise in policing and increased targeting of smaller offenses.Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more!“The idea that there’s a direct link between committing a crime and having contact with the criminal justice system is essential to public policy, political rhetoric, and criminology, and the assumption is rarely questioned,” said Vesla Weaver, the study’s author.“However, our study found that there is a loosening relationship between actually committing a crime and being arrested for the Millennial generation, something that was not true for the previous generation, Gen X.”Researchers examined data collected from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of more than 8,000 young adults who were asked about self-reported crimes committed and their experiences with the criminal justice system. The study used responses from thousands of people between ages 18 to 23 between 1979 and 1997. Those two groupings were purposely picked due to changes in policing and lesser crimes becoming more prevalent in recent times.Millennials had contacted police more than their Gen-X predecessors, according to the research, despite the Gen-Xers reporting more offenses. Only 10% of young adults in 1979 were arrested despite over 50% saying they committed at least one crime. A quarter of the same age group in 1997 was arrested while only 15% reported committing at least one crime .Drug use was not classified as a crime in this study.Millennials who reported being arrested without committing a crime was significantly higher than those before them. Seventy-percent of the 1997 group reported being arrested without offense, which was far higher than the 18% who reported the same in 1979.The study also found a rise in black men who were arrested with no offenses: 419% were more likely to be arrested at the start of the 21st century compared to non-offending blacks of the prior generation. There was a 31.5% higher chance black men were arrested compared to white men of the same generation who didn’t report any crimes.“We have only begun to understand the transformation of criminal justice as it related to actual crime. But we hope to have nudged scholars in relevant fields toward greater recognition of the shifting crime contact link,” the study concludes.You might also enjoy… New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy Strangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds 10 lessons from Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule that will double your productivity The worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs 10 habits of mentally strong people