This filter-feeding shark moves through its habitat eating krill, plankton, jelly fish, shrimp, and copepods. Yet most plankton is found near the surface, so it is something of a mystery how Megamouth manages to find enough to eat.

What does the Megamouth shark eat?

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Deep Sea: Megamouth Shark

To measure blood pressure, your doctor uses an instrument called a "sphygmomanometer," more often referred to as a blood pressure cuff. The cuff is wrapped around your upper arm and inflated to stop the flow of blood in your artery.

What is the instrument used to measure blood pressure called?

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The nervous system of the starfish is very simple...there is no brain and there are not even any ganglia to coordinate movement. The nervous system is characterized by a nerve ring that surrounds the mouth. A radial nerve branches off of the nerve ring and extends to each arm.

Do starfish have a brain?

Neuroscience for Kids - Invertebrate Nervous System

In 1899 the bobbing pin came into wide use as the hairstyle known as the "bob cut" or "bobbed hair" took hold. It was invented in Paris by Robert (Bobby) Pinot. As foreigners caught wind of his invention, the hairstyle gained momentum and the pin became known as "Bobby's pin."

Why is a bobby pin called a bobby pin?

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Bobby pin - Wikipedia

<ul><li>Self discipline is one of the most important skills to learn in life. </li><li>By having the ability to control your feelings, emotions, what you do, you are more likely to be successful.</li></ul>-By no means it is easy

Why Is Self Discipline Important? 

Learning how to gain self discipline is a game-changer! The following five steps will help you on your journey:

How To Develop Self Discipline? 

In an ideal situation, you can do anything you wish whether you feel like it or not. But that's not possible if your starting from scratch. First start with something small like drinking water every morning or practicing gratitude, start small. Your consistency will build confidence in your ability to follow though.

1. Be Consistent With Small Habits. 

What distracts you? What are your temptations? Maybe you are well aware of them. Chances are you many not able to fully cut them off, you still can reduce them. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">By decreasing the number of things that can derail you, your energy and effort are spent on important tasks</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Removal is one of the main keys to improving self-discipline because it allows you to have better control of your habits.</li></ul>

Reduce Distractions Or Temptations

Eating nutritious food, drinking plenty of water, exercising, and getting enough sleep makes a massive impact.<ul><li>If you’re not taking care of your health, improving your self-discipline will be challenging.</li><li>When you’re health is in check, you’ll feel better. Although you still have to complete the tasks ahead of you, you’ll go in feeling good.</li></ul>Another aspect of health is taking breaks. Being self-disciplined doesn’t mean you’re working 10 hours a day without taking a break<ul><li>Schedule a time to relax, catch some fresh air or catch up with friends. Never over work your self</li></ul>

Taking Care Of Your Health

Having support is essential. It can be friends, family or even a online group<ul><li>Not only will they hold you accountable, but they’ll also encourage you to continue developing your self</li><li>Things won't always be smooth sailing. They’ll help you get through the tough times, discomfort, and temptation to take the easy way out.</li><li>Your support system needs to have people that genuinely care and want you to succeed.</li><li>It may be difficult to find the right people, but it’s worth doing.</li></ul>

Get Support. 

You're not going to be perfect. Building self discipline is a life long journey. You can get better at it but perfection? That's impossible.<ul><li>When you experience failure, get back up and keep going.</li><li>It’s also important to forgive yourself, don’t use failure as a reason to stop.</li><li>Don’t be too hard on yourself. New things can be difficult. Naturally, you’ll want to stay in your comfort zone.</li><li> Applaud yourself for your commitment to building self-discipline and keep going.</li></ul>

Get Back Up, And Keep On Going! 

<ul><li>Self discipline helps make progress and active goal</li><li>It's may not be easy but most definitely is worth it</li></ul>

Conclusion:

Self discipline is not doing what you don't want to do, but it's self love. You love your self that much that you will do what you need to do. (Hope that made sense) 

Self-discipline is the ability to control your feelings and what you do even if you don't feel like doing it. Learn how to do it.

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How to Improve Your Self-Discipline (5 Ways That Work) - Next Level Gents

Courage gives us strength. Courage opens doors. Courage saves lives. Courage helps us grow in small and big ways. Everyone from a college graduate entering the workforce for the first time to a world leader running a country must act with courage, not just once but repeatedly. Being courageous is a key component of strong leadership. But what exactly is courage, and how can we access it?

What Is Courage? 

Like so many complex psychological human characteristics, courage can be difficult to nail down. On the surface, courage seems like one of those “I know it when I see it” concepts. Here is the seven traits of courageous people.

How To Be Courageous

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Intentionality: Be intentional, say no when necessary and be mindful about working on what matters most fosters courage.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Purpose: A person who has strong clarity on their “why,” and who intentionally aligns their actions with their calling, has a higher likelihood of overcoming fear and achieving courageous goals.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Curiosity And Openness: Be curious and open about new things and opportunity</li></ol>

Seven Traits Of Courageous People

4. Commitment: Be consistent on your goal, vision (Why?), no matter what challenges and obstacles your facing right now. It will boost your confidence as well as courage. 5. Embracing Risk: Courage requires taking intentional risks. And the bigger the risk, the more courage it takes (and the bigger the outcome can be). Never afraid of taking risks.

6. Adaptability: People who are able to adapt to change, embrace feedback, navigate new environments and un-learn the human tendency to lean toward comfort and predictability demonstrate a higher capacity for courageous decision making.7. Acceptance: The sooner you can embrace what is and let go of expectations you've attached to particular outcomes, the faster you can navigate life with more courage.

These traits exist within all of us to varying extents. Courage lives within us, even when we don’t feel brave. Courage is not only a noun but a verb. Anyone can "courage" a scary next step, courage their integrity, courage their future. Choosing courage as an action leads to personal growth and positive change. One way you can tap into courage at any time is to ask yourself, “How can I courage this moment?”

The Bottom Line

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Leadership & Management

The Psychology Of Courage: 7 Traits Of Courageous Leaders

Many of us find ourselves wanting to change other people in our lives. It might be a partner, a family member, a friend, or even a coworker.We have judgement around what is going on with them and believe that they should behave in accordance with our thoughts of what’s good for them.We believe this person has a problem and we want to solve what we see as the issue.But the truth is, we cannot change another person, and attempting to do so actually harms the relationship. This is another important part of minding our own business and allowing others to mind theirs.

Mind Your Own Business: Why You Can’t Change Other People

As a substitute for working on ourselvesWhen we’re trying to change other people, it’s often because we have our own healing to do. We might think it’s easier to change another person than to change ourselves. Trying to help another person is not a substitute for doing our own work. Our reactivity to that person’s behavior is likely our own unconscious issues coming up. It may feel easier to project onto another person and distract ourselves than face our own problems.

Why We Want To Change Other People

We may also want to feel like a hero for helping someone else to boost our own self-image.We might be attracted to someone because we believe that person is wounded and we can help them. We might believe we can love someone out of their issues and that this will heal us or help us feel better about ourselves. We also believe that that person will love us for saving them.This can also happen the other way around, where you have a wound and someone comes into your life to rescue you. Unfortunately, we can’t heal others, others can’t heal us.

To feel like a helper

Sometimes, people expect others to be able to heal them when they don’t want to take responsibility for healing themselves.Another person’s dysfunction is not about love or a lack of love. It’s about their woundedness; perhaps past traumas, addictions, or other factors.You can’t love someone out of their problems, and trying to do so is a recipe for disappointment. It’s inflating your own self-importance in a setup for more problems. We can think we’re being selfless, but we often have a hidden agenda. We want to be the one they’re leaning on and have an excuse not to do our own work.

Because others expect us to

Ultimately, one has to heal oneself. No one can do this work for another person.Let’s take a broken leg: A doctor can set the bone, prescribe medication, and guide the healing process. Other people can support that person while they heal by taking care of driving, shopping, and other tasks, but ultimately, the person is responsible for doing things that will help their leg heal like keeping their weight off of it, physical therapy, and following medical advice.It is the same with mental or emotional wounds. A person has to heal themselves, and they have to choose to heal. And this is not easy.

Why You Can’t Change Other People

Ultimately it is up to the other person to decide if they believe there is a problem, and if they want to do anything about it. If they do want to change, we can support them in their decision, but they must do the actual work.You can’t change other people, so do yourself a favor and stop expecting yourself to be able to. It’s hard enough for us to change ourselves. No one else can change us, and we can’t change anyone else.

Unreasonable Expectations

While we can’t heal someone, we can support them as they heal. Support verses EnablingSupport means that you care about the person and can offer love while they’re in the process of changing. For example, if you want to support a spouse in their recovery from alcoholism, support may include offering to watch the kids while they go to therapy or AA meetings (that they have chosen to attend) and listening to them on their healing journey.On the other hand, enabling means that you take responsibility, make excuses, or cover up for their behavior.

The Difference Between Supporting and Enabling

As always, the first step is noticing. Notice if you are trying to change or control someone. Are you more invested in their healing than they are in healing themselves? Are you using manipulation, anger, or other forms of control?Are you relying on someone else to heal you? Are you looking for a knight in shining armor to rescue you from your problems?The first step is always awareness and consciousness. Once you’re aware and conscious, you can ask yourself why this is a problem in your life? Until then, it’s hard to focus on changing your own behavior to promote your own growth.

Are you minding your own business or trying to force your agenda on someone else?

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”-Leo Tolstoy “If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.”-Lao Tzu “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”-Rumi

Quotes on Change

We cannot change other people, and attempting to do so actually does far more harm than good in the relationship and for our own selves.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Mind Your Own Business: Why You Can’t Change Other People - The Art of Living Consciously

Sea foam, also referred to as ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (proteins, fats, dead algae).

What is the foam on the beach?

Sea foam - Wikipedia

Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts"). Peanuts, along with beans and peas, belong to the single plant family, Leguminosae. Legumes are edible seeds enclosed in pods.

Do peanuts grow underground True or false?

Many people are surprised to learn that peanuts do not grow on trees like pecans or walnuts. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.

When it comes to eating peanuts and any peanut product, including peanut butter and peanut oil, the research is clear: peanuts improve your health.

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Peanut Health and Nutrition Research

"Another reason people aren’t specific about their visions is that they’re caught in a trap of wishful thinking. Their dreaming doesn’t go beyond vague ideas of what they would like to do “someday.” Yet dreaming is only the beginning of vision. We should have wills rather than mere wishes. In other words, instead of wishing that things would get better, we must make concrete resolutions. We have to say, “Things must get better, and here, specifically, is what I’m going to do about it.

WHY PEOPLE ARE VISIONLESS  

Many people’s visions never take specific shape because they can’t make up their minds what they want to do in life. The only decision they make is not to decide. Prolonged indecisiveness is a vision-killer, and it also drains the joy out of life. I’ve noticed that the most miserable people in the world are those who can never make a decision. The Bible expresses their situation well: “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8 kjv, emphasis added). Indecisiveness carries over into all areas of life. A person who is indecisive is unsettled; he’s on shaky ground."

LIVING WITH INDECISION 

Sometimes, we know what we should be doing, but we’re hesitant to take that first step. We always intend to do it, but we never do. Instead, we make excuses, such as “When my life gets less complicated,” “When I feel more confident,” or “After I pray about it more.”

Making Excuses 

They’re always beginning something, but they never finish anything. For example, they have books they’ve never finished, yet they keep starting new ones. Nothing in the world feels as good as reading through to the last page of a book because then you know that that book is in you and no one can take it away from you. Everything you leave unfinished will discourage you from completing other projects. The unfinished has a way of haunting your life."

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A common reason people aren’t specific about their visions is that they’re trying to do too much. Their problem isn’t that they’re hesitant about getting started, but that they’re running around attempting too many things. Even though they are constantly constructing something, they’re actually building nothing at all because they never complete anything.Why does this happen? Because most people make the mistake of believing that the main goal in life is to stay busy. Yet this way of thinking is a trap. Busyness does not necessarily equal progress.

Trying To Do Everything 

For example, if you think you have had a string of bad luck in life or that you are an unlucky person, you will probably not make the effort necessary to make your vision succeed. You may think, “Why bother?” This type of reasoning can undermine your entire life, destroying your desire to achieve your goals. You must realize that you are not defined by your past or confined by external factors."

Blaming Bad luck 

Discover the Life You Were Meant to Live! You were born with a unique purpose and meant to do something in life that only you can accomplish. In this study guide companion to Myles Munroe's eye-opening book, The Principles and Power of Vision, you will explore deeper insights into your purpose and thought-provoking questions for personal application to your life. Designed for either individual or group study, this guide will help you to: Dig deeper into proven biblical principles Expand your knowledge of the issues at hand. Enrich your understanding of God's truths. Apply the material to your particular life circumstances. Fulfill your true purpose and potential in life. The most important thing we can find out about ourselves is the purpose for our existence. As you progress through the time-tested truths and principles of vision in these pages, you will come to understand your life's purpose, discover how to make your dreams and hopes a living reality, and find a new passion for living.

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Discover the Life You Were Meant to Live! You were born with a unique purpose and meant to do something in life that only you can accomplish. In this study guide companion to Myles Munroe's eye-opening book, The Principles and Power of Vision, you will explore deeper insights into your purpose and thought-provoking questions for personal application to your life. Designed for either individual or group study, this guide will help you to: <ul> <li>Dig deeper into proven biblical principles</li> <li>Expand your knowledge of the issues at hand.</li> <li>Enrich your understanding of God's truths.</li> <li>Apply the material to your particular life circumstances.</li> <li>Fulfill your true purpose and potential in life.</li> </ul> The most important thing we can find out about ourselves is the purpose for our existence. As you progress through the time-tested truths and principles of vision in these pages, you will come to understand your life's purpose, discover how to make your dreams and hopes a living reality, and find a new passion for living.

Myles Munroe

The Principles and Power of Vision

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