by | Jun 26, 2019 | Fitness |
Despite them being incredibly important, our ears are often one of the parts of our body that we forget to look after. Whether you’re too busy focusing on other areas of your health or you simply don’t know how to take care of them, ears and hearing difficulties are at the bottom of most people’s lists when it comes to their concerns. If you are worried about the health of your ears and how you can help prevent hearing loss, you’re definitely in the right place. This blog post is designed to show you how you can protect your ears and your hearing, in six easy tips:
Make Sure You’re Using Ear Plugs Around Loud Noises
If you are exposed to loud noises, whether it’s regularly or a one-off experience, it’s important you’re thinking about how you can protect your ears. Although there are certain experiences where you won’t want to wear earplugs, you need to consider whether or not it is going to be damaging to your health. Going to a couple of gigs, for example, won’t be damaging to your health unless you’re constantly standing right next to the speakers. If you use loud machinery for work, you will definitely want to consider wearing earplugs. To buy earplugs, you can visit this site here.
Give Your Ears Time To Recover
If you’re working with loud machinery or attending gigs, you’re going to want to give your ears to recover each and every time. Although they won’t recover instantly, giving them a chance is the best thing you can do.
Use Your Headphones At A Low Volume
For those that use headphones on a regular basis, your phones have a volume warning for a reason. Make sure you’re not exceeding the recommended volume and if you do, ensure it is only every once in a while. If you are concerned about the volume level on your headphones, consider asking someone for advice. You may find that you have gradually been affected if you’ve been listening at the highest volume for long periods of time and you may need to use hearing aids in the future. To learn more about hearing aids and insurance, you can click here.
Protect your ears and save your hearing.
Stop Using Cotton Swabs In Your Ears
Although you may think it’s good to clear out the ear wax in your ears, cleaning it out with cotton swabs is bad for you. No matter how much you want to clean out your ears, it is dangerous to be sticking anything into them, let alone a cotton swab that could perforate your eardrum. If you want to clean your ears of excess wax, there are services available that do it in a safe and professional way.
Try To Keep Your Ears Dry
Keeping your ears dry at all times is difficult, but doing your best to stop water getting in them should be one of your main priorities. Whether it means wearing earplugs when you go swimming or avoiding activities where you need to go underwater, you should be doing everything you can to keep your ears safe.
Go For Regular Check-Ups At Your Doctors
Finally, to ensure your ears and your hearing are always in good health, make sure you are going to your regular doctor’s check-ups.
Do you struggle when it comes to looking after your ears? What can you do to ensure they’re in good health all the time? Let me know in the comments section below.
by eviehodge1549 | Jun 23, 2019 | Giveaway |
Hello Wonderful People,
I pray that you are having an awesome and wonderful today.
Have you ever noticed that the weekends do not seem to be peaceful or restful anymore? Life can get so busy during the week that you have to push so many household tasks and duties to the weekend. Then you send all of your time on the weekend trying to catch up and get everything done that there is no time to relax, to do anything fun, or spend quality time with your spouse. Well, you are not alone. I often believe that the only way that I can make time for the important things in my life is to put on my calendar and plan for it.
Many times we can also get like this with our spiritual life. We have so many things during the day or over the weekend, that we forget to make time for God. I believe that a strong foundation in God and His word will help us through any situation that comes against us. However, that strong foundation does not just happen. It comes from reading and studying God’s word, taking time to learn it and to apply it to our daily walk, and teaching others what we have learned.
If you are struggling to keep on track with a daily reading plan, it would be a good idea to add it to your daily planner or on your to-do list. And if you are struggling to find a good Bible that will help you establish that strong foundation, I would recommend the CSB He Reads Truth Bible. The CSB He Reads Truth Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible’s original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture’s life-transforming message and to share it with others. The Bible also features a One-Year Reading Plan for the man who wants to read the entire Bible; timelines, maps, and infographics to help comprehend the difficult passages of scripture.
Giveaway Winner!
In partnership with LEV3L Digital, we recently hosted a giveaway where one of our readers to win his or her own copy of the He Reads Truth Bible. We selected the winner at random, based on the order in which the person commented on the post. And the winner of the giveaway is
ANITA D.
Congratulations Anita!! Yeah!! We will be in contact with you so you can receive your very own copy of the He Reads Truth. If you are looking to purchase your own copy of the Bible, it is available online at Amazon, LifeWay and other stores. The Bible retails for $49.99.
Be on the lookout for our next giveaway! Coming Soon!
by | Jun 18, 2019 | Fitness |
At the beginning of every year, we may find ourselves promising new year’s resolutions. You might want to improve your money situation or get a better job. But for many, the resolutions are solely focused on health, fitness, and getting a body that you are happy with. Some people forget, and then reignite this focus towards summer. Wanting the bikini or beach body, whatever that may be. But, it shouldn’t just be a one time focus. Getting lean and healthy is a great way to live your life, all year round. So here are some of the ways that you can get a healthier lifestyle starting today.
Think about your diet
When people think about their diet, it might be for one reason, and that may be to lose weight. While, of course, it’s important to maintain a healthy weight for your height, it shouldn’t be about losing the pounds fast for materialistic reasons. A diet should be developed with your health in mind. This is why crazy diets often work in the short-term, but never last beyond you actually doing the diet. Your body needs all of the food groups to nourish itself in different ways, which is why you need the likes of carbohydrates for energy, protein, and other vitamins and minerals. It’s all about balance, which is why it’s best to ensure that you eat a variety of foods, and even enjoy your treat meals and sweets in moderation.
Find an exercise you enjoy doing
Too often people jump right into a fitness regime, purely to lose weight or increase their fitness levels, but the enthusiasm can fade after a while. The biggest reason for this is that you don’t enjoy the exercise you are doing. It’s vital that you have passion and enjoyment from it or can see the benefits you are getting which will ultimately encourage you to keep on going. Try out different things. Look at workouts on Youtube, try alternative exercises like joining pilates classes or consider yoga. Maybe even join a gym if you like the environment, or just heading out for a run a few times a week. Find something you enjoy doing, then stick with it. You will find it much easier when you see the results, and actually look forward to the exercise.
Don’t forget about your mental well-being
Finally, too many times we can neglect our mental well-being, but this is just as important as all the physical stuff. Our mindset can determine everything we do. The food we eat and the exercise, or lack of, that we take and implement into our lives. Having a negative thought process is just as bad as not eating the right things and failing to exercise. So take better care of your mind and feel the difference it can make. It is important to identify exactly where you are at mentally, so work out if you are more negative or positive, and then build upon it. Negative thoughts can be overcome by actively making them positive. It can feel forced at first, but as you develop new habits of positive thinking you will begin to see the difference.
Let’s hope that these tips help you when it comes to a healthier lifestyle.
by | Jun 17, 2019 | Blogging / Technology |
Millions of people now call themselves content creators. And, actually, it is pretty cool. So many of us have found a creative outlet that makes them happy that they can spend time on and enjoy. Sharing our lives, or simply our ideas with others – it is a great feeling.
It’s even better when you get feedback about it. Telling you how much they love your content. And, it is not so much about them, but it is about the connection that you have created.
But how do you create content worth talking about? Is there a magic formula? Kind of.
Create content that brings you joy.
Ideas
The first thing that you should do is begin to build a list of topics that you want to share. You already know who your audience is, and you have probably been creating content for years. But with the access, you now have to all of the analytics, you can go further.
– Think about who they are. Create something for them.
– Consider when your work usually gets shares or engagement.
– Is it tailored? If 99% of your audience lives in NYC, then perhaps Bancock’s best takeaway isn’t going to get the traction you’d like.
Make your headlines catchy and informative. It’s not easy to write a great headline.
Authentic
You have a voice already, even if you are still working on it. So, while it wouldn’t be prudent to assume you will be the only one with the idea you want to talk about, your voice will make it unique to you. You should always consider if what you are saying has value or can add to the conversation.
Length
Some agencies will swear that an 8-second clip is ideal. But if what you are sharing needs longer – then let it have that time. The content you are making will be catered to your exact audience, so you know that they will enjoy and engage with it. Of course, don’t make a 60 minute when a 40 minute one will do, but don’t cut yourself short either.
In some ways, we are immune to the short snappy videos now, and longer ones attract more attention – and more often shared to the intended audience.
Positive
This one might sound a little forced. But, Jonah Berge and Katie Milkman released a paper called “What Makes Online Content Go Viral” and in it, they stated that positive emotional responses to content were more likely to get a share. Of course, people will share what makes them angry or up too. But, most often they will share happy things. So when curating your content aim for the happy stuff.
Visuals And Music
This is what really pulls the content together. Adding the right music can feel challenging, using a site like https://stockmusic.net/royalty-free-music/genre-christmas for Christmas content can make it so much easier. And you can use unsplash to source festive images. Likewise for summer, spring and to help provoke an emotional response.
The final tip would be to not give up on what you are doing. If you are enjoying creating the content and find it relaxing, then keep going.
by eviehodge1549 | Jun 16, 2019 | From the Heart |
The Saint Louis Blues are the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions!!
For most people, that means nothing. You may be thinking, who are the Blues?!? What is the Stanley Cup?!? But if you are a Blues fan, winning the Cup means everything. For the first time in its 52 year history, the Blues won the National Hockey League championship. Hockey may not be America’s pastime or its favorite sport, but you would never know that if you lived in or around Saint Louis. Saint Louis is often described as CardinalNation, but right now, you would have to say that the Cardinals are taking the backseat to the Blues.
photo from St. Louis Blues Facebook page
I will admit, I am not the biggest Blues fans. Heck, I am not the biggest hockey fan. Growing up, I watched the baseball and football Cardinals on TV and knew nothing about the Blues. It was not until I moved to Saint Louis more than twenty years ago that I learned about hockey. I did not know the difference between a floor check and a cross-check, but that didn’t stop me from going to my first game with my future wife.
I would describe myself as a casual fan. I don’t live and breath sports like some of my friends. I don’t subscribe to the cable packages so that I can watch all of the games. I haven’t even been to a game in more than ten years. But when it comes down to it, I am a hometown fan. I will check the sports headlines to see if Blues won or not, and then check the standings to see how the playoff chase is going. I don’t keep up with the players and their stats and how they compare with the teams.
And this year was no different. I knew that the Blues were supposed to be a great team. But when they fired their coach and were sitting in last place I knew that this was not going to be their season. But still, I would check the headlines for the scores and check the standings. I noticed something different after the first of the year. The headlines mentioned a Blues winning streak that had taken them out of last place and moving into playoff contention. The winning streak topped out at eleven and suddenly people were talking about making the playoffs. All the while, the people of Saint Louis never doubted their chances.
When the playoff began, the Blues were the hottest team in the League although many people (outside of Saint Louis) doubted if they could win the Stanley Cup. By making the playoffs, I turned up my attention to the team. I always want my hometown team to win it all, even if I didn’t know the difference between a Parayko and a Pietrangelo. I began to watch the playoff previews, to learn more about the players and I realized how special this team was.
And, after four tough series, the Blues prevailed and are now Stanley Cup champions. And Saint Louis could not be happier. I never knew how much Saint Louis loved hockey and their Blues. An estimated 500,000 turned out for the Championship parade in downtown Saint Louis.
photo from KMOV Channel 4 – the rally under the Gateway Arch
I will be sharing more about the Blues and their run for the Stanley Cup in another post, coming soon. If you are a Blues fan, let me know what was your greatest memories of the championship and what it means to you.
*~* JAY *~*
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