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Individualized Lifestyles (sociology and concepts) for your own Lifestyle Management as you gain new knowledge;

Tools to help your research into potential for key political mistakes to have been made by your natural parent(s) unbeknownst to them at the time of your birth;


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This content is sourced in part from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and we are sure that Jim's work at putting all of this "out there" has precipitated various groups. 

It is 100% factual that the early American government figured out how to permit a form of slavery opted into by its newfound commercial citizen token person... one who checked the incorrect check boxes as needed.

 

10,000 Ft Overview

Sincerely it is doubtful that you were taught how to leverage your multiple trusts, all to the benefit of yourself, in the same manner that your LEGAL STATE has been doing on your behalf per your parent consenting you into the demotion of your standing from first class American creditor to second class foreign debtor. See this inset (Fig 1) graphical depiction of that which are taking place in your names.

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"Lifestyle" is defined as the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture... especially the household. Lifestyle lends a dynamic to everyone there.

Big new world out there

The term "lifestyle" was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in his 1929 book, The Case of Miss R., with the meaning of "a person's basic character as established early in childhood". The broader sense of lifestyle as a "way or style of living" has been documented since 1961. Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors. Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individual's demographic profile, whereas intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual such as personal values, preferences, and outlooks.

 

Famous Jimmy, coined a new phrase

The phrase "lifestyle management" was coined by Jim Homyak during 1990 as he created his business plan for Household Dynamics, a ubo; a Minnesotan free range business with intent to help people. During that time Jim had been using all available library resouces to detemine no other previous author had ever used that phrase, "household dynamics" and so Jim began this as his new brand name and trade name, as held in Trust. At later points in time the phrase saw usage in, a)  reference to 'factory daughters' in impoverished countries, and b) a book written by William Lord, a school professor which does not present concepts similar to Jim's work. Jim used the wording in a website he built and ran during the years 1995 to 2003.

As a start-up business, Jim did not fully recover economically from key mistakes made in early attempts at business start-up.  Knowing what he knows now, the current opportunity looks very brite, as becoming just in time for projections of growing need.

A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban metropolis. Location is important even within an urban scope. The nature of the neighborhood in which a person lives affects the set of lifestyles available to that person due to differences between various neighborhoods' degrees of affluence and proximity to natural and cultural environments. For example, in areas near the sea, a surf culture or lifestyle can often be present. Imagine it.

How about there becomes a new way to generate a system for yourself?

 .....doing so, lends to your 

Individual identity

Let's say, for the sake of being helpful for yourself, that you want to fight recession while still focusing on what you love... 

..here then we can think about Recession Fighters, which is a series of self-help carried by Jim since 1992, now viewing over at the Unruly States of Affairs web portal that Jim created.  Here are some links and so forth:

 

Save With A Family Buying Club

 

Key Take-aways:

1. Our entire family, those who would be open-minded, can join together to form a buying club.

 

2. But in order to get started, we will need to meet together and formulate our questions and answers.

 

3. Here are some questions I propose:

 

a. Why should we start a buying club?

 

b. What are the different structures of such an organization?

 

c. Who else, besides our family, wants to be in the buying club in order to save money?

 

d. What type of product (foods, seeds, house wares, vitamins) do we repeatedly buy?

 

e. Who can we buy these types of products from?

 

f. How do we collect member orders?

 

g. How often do we place an order?

 

h. Where do we receive deliveries and split bulk items?

 

A lifestyle typically reflects an individual's attitudes, way of life, values, or world view.

 

Therefore, a "lifestyle" and one's own way of conducting [it] is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity.

 

Not all aspects of a lifestyle are voluntary. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.

 

Understanding all of this in the early stages of our development helped us in creating our tagline... "You wouldn't trust this to just anyone".  These are your own household dynamics at play in life.

 

The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society. For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller ecological footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. 

 

Some commentators argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.

 

Lifestyle may include views on politics, religion, health, intimacy, and more. All of these aspects play a role in shaping someone's lifestyle. In the magazine and television industries, "lifestyle" is used to describe a category of publications or programs. In Household Dynamics, "lifestyle" is used to describe all the categories within the household and how we prepare ourselves to take care of everything responsibly.

 

History of lifestyles studies:

 

Three main phases can be identified in the history of lifestyles studies:

 

1) Lifestyles and social position

Earlier studies on lifestyles focus on the analysis of social structure and of the individuals' relative positions inside it. Thorstein Veblen, with his 'emulation' concept, opens this perspective by asserting that people adopt specific 'schemes of life', and in particular specific patterns of 'conspicuous consumption', depending on a desire for distinction from social strata they identify as inferior and a desire for emulation of the ones identified as superior. Max Weber intends lifestyles as distinctive elements of status groups strictly connected with a dialectic of recognition of prestige: the lifestyle is the most visible manifestation of social differentiation, even within the same social class, and in particular it shows the prestige which the individuals believe they enjoy or to which they aspire. Georg Simmel carries out formal analysis of lifestyles, at the heart of which can be found processes of individualisation, identification, differentiation, and recognition, understood both as generating processes of, and effects generated by, lifestyles, operating "vertically" as well as "horizontally". Finally, Pierre Bourdieu renews this approach within a more complex model in which lifestyles, made up mainly of social practices and closely tied to individual tastes, represent the basic point of intersection between the structure of the field and processes connected with the habitus.

 

2) Lifestyles as styles of thought

The approach interpreting lifestyles as principally styles of thought has its roots in the soil of psychological analysis. Initially, starting with Alfred Adler, a lifestyle was understood as a style of personality, in the sense that the framework of guiding values and principles which individuals develop in the first years of life end up defining a system of judgement which informs their actions throughout their lives. Later, particularly in Milton Rokeach's work, Arnold Mitchell's VALS research and Lynn Kahle's LOV research, lifestyles' analysis developed as profiles of values, reaching the hypothesis that it is possible to identify various models of scales of values organized hierarchically, to which different population sectors correspond. Then with Daniel Yankelovich and William Wells we move on to the so-called AIO approach in which attitudes, interests and opinions are considered as fundamental lifestyles' components, being analysed from both synchronic and diachronic points of view and interpreted on the basis of socio-cultural trends in a given social context (as, for instance, in Bernard Cathelat's work). Finally, a further development leads to the so-called profiles-and-trends approach, at the core of which is an analysis of the relations between mental and behavioural variables, bearing in mind that socio-cultural trends influence both the diffusion of various lifestyles within a population and the emerging of different modalities of interaction between thought and action.

 

3) Lifestyles as styles of action

Analysis of lifestyles as action profiles is characterized by the fact that it no longer considers the action level as a simple derivative of lifestyles, or at least as their collateral component, but rather as a constitutive element. In the beginning, this perspective focused mainly on consumer behaviour, seeing products acquired as objects expressing on the material plane individuals’ self-image and how they view their position in society. Subsequently, the perspective broadened to focus more generally on the level of daily life, concentrating – as in authors such as Joffre Dumazedier and Anthony Giddens – on the use of time, especially loisirs, and trying to study the interaction between the active dimension of choice and the dimension of routine and structuration which characterize that level of action. Finally, some authors, for instance Richard Jenkins and A. J. Veal, suggested an approach to lifestyles in which it is not everyday actions which make up the plane of analysis but those which the actors who adopt them consider particularly meaningful and distinctive.

 

Health and Wellness

 

A healthy or unhealthy lifestyle and a lack of commitment to general wellness will most likely be transmitted across generations. According to the study done by Case et al. (2002), when a 0-3-year-old child has a mother who practices a healthy lifestyle, this child will be 27% more likely to become healthy and adopt the same lifestyle. For instance, high income parents are more likely to eat more fruit and vegetables, have time to exercise, and provide the best living condition to their children. On the other hand, low-income parents are more likely to participate in unhealthy activities such as smoking to help them release poverty-related stress and depression. Parents are the first teacher for every child. Everything that parents do will be very likely transferred to their children through the learning process.

 

Adults may be drawn together by mutual interest that results in a lifestyle. For example, William Dufty described how pursuing a sugar-free diet led to such associations: 

 

I have come to know hundreds of young people who have found that illness or bingeing on drugs and sugar became the doorway to health. Once they reestablished their own health, we had in common our interest in food. If one can use that overworked word lifestyle, we shared a sugarfree lifestyle. I kept in touch with many of them in campuses and communes, through their travels here and abroad and everywhere. One day you meet them in Boston. The next week you run into them in Southern California.

 

Class

Lifestyle research can contribute to the question of the relevance of the class concept.

 

Media culture

The term lifestyle was introduced in the 1950s as a derivative of that of style in art:

 

"Life-styles", the culture industry’s recycling of style in art, represent the transformation of an aesthetic category, which once possessed a moment of negativity [shocking, emancipatory], into a quality of commodity consumption.

 

Theodor W. Adorno noted that there is a "culture industry" in which the mass media is involved, but that the term "mass culture" is inappropriate: 

 

In our drafts, we spoke of "mass culture." We replaced that expression with "culture industry" in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art.

 

The media culture of advanced capitalism typically creates new "life-styles" to drive the consumption of new commodities:

 

Diversity is more effectively present in mass media than previously, but this is not an obvious or unequivocal gain. By the late 1950s, the homogenization of consciousness had become counterproductive for the purposes of capital expansion; new needs for new commodities had to be created, and this required the reintroduction of the minimal negativity that had been previously eliminated. The cult of the new that had been the prerogative of art throughout the modernist epoch into the period of post-war unification and stabilization has returned to capital expansion from which it originally sprang. But this negativity is neither shocking nor emancipatory since it does not presage a transformation of the fundamental structures of everyday life. On the contrary, through the culture industry capital has co-opted the dynamics of negation both diachronically in its restless production of new and "different" commodities and synchronically in its promotion of alternative "life-styles."

 

 

What’s a Prosumer and Are You One?

The Rise of the Modern Consumer
May 7, 2018, Spencer Phade

There has been an increasing trend for products and services to be adaptable or customizable to a customers' specific needs or preferences. 
With many types of products, [such as a house and everything inside] it has even become the norm for consumers to expect, and even demand, some degree of customization if they are to consider purchasing.
 
This has given rise to the age of the prosumer.

 

See also

 

References

  1. Lifestyle from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
  2. Lynn R. Kahle; Angeline G. Close (2011). Consumer Behavior Knowledge for Effective Sports and Event Marketing. New York: Routledge. 978-0-415-87358-1.
  3. Online Etymology Dictionary
  4. Spaargaren, G., and B. VanVliet (2000) "Lifestyle, Consumption and the Environment: The Ecological Modernisation of Domestic Consumption", Environmental Politics 9(1): 50-75.
  5. Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and self-identity: self and society in the late modern age, Cambridge: Polity Press
  6. Lynn R. Kahle, Eda Gurel-Atay, Eds (2014). Communicating Sustainability for the Green Economy. New York: M.E. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-3680-5.
  7. Ropke, I. (1999) "The Dynamics of Willingness to Consume", Ecological Economics 28: 399-420.
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  9. Berzano L., Genova C., Lifestyles and Subcultures. History and a New Perspective, Routledge, London, 2015 (Part I).
  10. Ponthiere G. (2011) "Mortality, Family and Lifestyles", Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32 (2): 175-190
  11. Case, A., Lubotsky D. & Paxson C. (2002) "Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient", The American Economic Review 92(5): 1308-1334
  12. William Dufty (1975) Sugar Blues, page 204
  13. Bögenhold, Dieter (2001). "Social Inequality and the Sociology of Life Style: Material and Cultural Aspects of Social Stratification". American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 60 (4): 829–847. doi:10.1111/1536-7150.00125.
  14. Adorno [1963] p.98

 

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Personal Life

Humans have traditionally lived within family-based social structures and in artificial shelters.

Personal life is the course or state of an individual's life, especially when viewed as the sum total of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity.

Apart from hunter-gatherers, most pre-modern peoples' time was limited by the need to meet necessities such as food and shelter through subsistence farming; leisure time was scarce.

People identified with their social role in their community and engaged in activities based on necessity rather than on personal choice. Privacy in such communities was rare. Such people became "prosumers" lomg before that word was coined. 

The modern conception of "personal life" is an offshoot of modern Western society. Modern people tend to distinguish their work activities from their personal life and may seek work–life balance. It is a person's choices and preferences outside of work that define personal life, including one's choice of hobbies, cultural interests, manner of dress, mating, friends, and so on. In particular, what activities one engages in during leisure-time defines a person's personal life. For instance, a typical American has about five hours of leisure time per day, more than half of which is spent watching TV. Religious authorities, moralists, managers and personal-development gurus have seized on the concept of an individual life as a fulcrum for potential control and manipulation.

That's why people are itching for something just like Household Dynamics and the Lifestyle Management home system we propose.

After a few years of considering this every day back in 1987 through 1990, James Homyak started to create drawings and system designs which seemed to be early-stage block-chain concepts.

People in Western countries, such as the United States and Canada, tend to value privacy. Privacy includes both information privacy and decisional privacy; people expect to be left alone with respect to intimate details of their life and they expect to be free from undue control by others. Generally speaking over the entire modern era, the people have lacked the privatized tool and resource to satisfy these needs. The entire "system of government" has never included such a porposing of information technology.  Why is that?  The power brokers haven't wanted to lose control of the people. 

 



Self 3

Self 

The most well-adjusted and mature people understand "The Self" as they seem to be in touch with their abilities, strong suits and areas that could use improvement as a self-proclaimed work in progress. 

Biology

noun
  1. a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.
    "our alienation from our true selves" 
adjective
  1. (of a trimming or cover) of the same material and color as the rest of the item.
    "a dress with self belt"
verb
  1. BOTANY
    self-pollinate; self-fertilize.
    "a variety that selfs itself loses lots of vigor in the progeny"  

THE NATURE OF THE SELF - courtesy of the free Google Sites content creator - author unknown

Psychology of Social Behaviors

 

  • William James (1890) defined a basic duality of the self: it is both the known, “Me,” and the knower, “I.” In modern terminology, the “Me” is the self-concept, or content of the self—our knowledge about who we are, and the “I” is self-awareness, or the act of thinking about ourselves.

  • Gallup’s studies examined whether animals have a sense of self by looking at their reactions when placed in front of a mirror. He found that the great apes seem to have a sense of self—they recognize that their image has changed when anesthetized and a red dye is placed on part of their face. Dolphins showed a similar response. A similar test used with human infants suggested that self-recognition develops at about two years of age.

  • Other developmental studies show that the concept of self evolves from being concrete and focused on observable characteristics to being more abstract and focused on psychological characteristics during the course of childhood and adolescence.

A. Functions of the Self 

  • Researchers have found that the self serves both an organizational function and an executive function.
  1. Organizational Function of the Self

    • We use self-schemas, mental structures that help us to organize our knowledge about ourselves, to organize our knowledge about ourselves. People use computers for this but as of 2021 there have not been any fully integrated home systems put to the task of facilitating individual self-governance -- this is a void to fill now that the platform is available in Open Source Code. 

    • Markus (1977) and others have found that we are more likely to remember information better if we relate it to ourselves. This is referred to as the self-reference effect. Integrating information with our self-schemas helps us organize it better and connect it to other information about ourselves, which makes us more likely to remember it later.

  2. Self-Regulation: The Executive Function

    • The self also serves an executive function, regulating people’s behavior, choices, and plans for the future. According to the self-regulatory resource model, self-control is a limited resource and people have a limited amount of energy to devote to self-control and that spending it on one task limits the amount that can be spent on another task.

B. Cultural Differences in Defining the Self

  • In many Western cultures, people have an independent view of the self, focusing on their own internal thoughts, feelings, and actions; in many Asian and other non-Western cultures, people have an interdependent view of the self, defining themselves in terms of relationships with other people.

  • Singelis (1994) developed a scale to measure these two senses of the self (sample items are given on p. 129).

C. Gender Differences in Defining the Self

  • Research suggests that women have more relational interdependence, focusing more on their close relationships, while men have more collective interdependence, focusing on their memberships in larger groups.

  • Cross and Madson (1997) point out that this difference starts in childhood and persists into adulthood. Women focus more on intimacy and on cooperation with a small number of close others, while men focus more on their social groups. In line with this, Gabriel and Gardner (1999) found that, when asked to describe an emotional event in their lives, women described events involving personal relationships while men described events involving social groups.

  • It is important not to overemphasize sex differences, as for the most part, there is a vast overlap in the psychological makeup of the sexes.

 

KNOWING OURSELVES THROUGH INTROSPECTION

  • Intuitively, we recognize that introspection, the process whereby people look inward and examine their own thoughts, feelings, and motives, is one basis of self-knowledge. However, people do not rely on this as much as we expect, and even when they do introspect, they may not recognize why they feel or act the way they do.

A. Focusing on the Self: Self-Awareness Theory

  • Csikszentmihalyi and Figurski (1982) conducted a study where participants recorded their thoughts whenever a randomly-timed beeper sounded; thoughts about the self were surprisingly infrequent.

  • According to self-awareness theory, when we do focus attention on ourselves, we compare our current behavior against internal standards and values. When we become aware of a discrepancy, we attempt to reduce it by changing our behavior to match. If we cannot do this, we will find self-awareness very uncomfortable.

  • Because self-awareness can be unpleasant, we may be motivated to “escape the self” by engaging in drinking, binge eating, sexual masochism, suicide attempts, or spiritual practices such as prayer or meditation.

  • Self-awareness will be pleasant when we meet or exceed our standards.

  • Self-focus can also keep us out of trouble by reminding us of our sense of right and wrong. Several studies show that people are more likely to follow their moral standards when self-aware.

 

B. Judging Why We Feel the Way We Do: Telling More Than We Can Know

  • Many of our mental processes occur outside of awareness—we are aware of the final result of our thoughts, but not of the process by which we got there. However, when asked to provide an explanation for why we have the opinions we do, we easily come up with a reason. Thus, introspection may not lead us to the true causes of our feelings and behavior, but we’ll manage to convince ourselves it did (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977).

  • Diary studies that track people’s moods show that, although people have strong causal theories about the causes of their own feelings and behavior—for example, thinking that factors like the amount of sleep the previous night influence their moods—these theories are generally wrong.

  • Nisbett and Wilson (1977) conducted a study in which participants viewed a film. For half of the participants, a “construction worker” buzzed a power-saw outside the room during the viewing. Although the participants (and the researchers!) thought the noise would influence evaluations of the film, it didn’t do so, demonstrating a faulty causal theory.

  • In another Nisbett and Wilson study, participants asked to rate pantyhose at a shopping mall were influenced by the position of the items on the display table; however, participants did not believe that this could affect their responses.

  • In introspecting, people do not rely only on their causal theories; information about past behavior and thoughts before making a decision are also important. Nonetheless, introspection does not always yield the right answer about why we feel the way we do.

 

C. The Consequences of Introspecting about Reasons

  • Wilson’s work has shown that there may be a downside risk to introspecting about reasons when making decisions—namely, we may come up with inaccurate reasons. We may sometimes convince ourselves that these incorrect reasons are correct. This leads to reasons-generated attitude change: attitude change that results from thinking about the reasons for one’s attitudes. People assume that their attitudes match the reasons that are plausible and easy to verbalize. This may be problematic when the “right” reasons (e.g., for why you love someone) are hard to verbalize or inaccessible, and incorrect reasons are easy to verbal or accessible. The attitudes expressed immediately after doing a “reasons analysis” may be temporarily altered by the results of the analysis, and thus do not predict future behavior or attitudes very well.

KNOWING OURSELVES BY OBSERVING OUR OWN BEHAVIOR

  • Bem’s self-perception theory states that when our attitudes and feelings are uncertain or ambiguous, we infer these states by observing our behavior and the situation in which it occurs.

  • We are especially likely to infer our feelings from our behavior when (1) our initial feelings are weak or unclear, and (2) we think about why we have behaved the way we have and decide that it was our free choice.

  • In other words, we are using the same attributional principles described in Chapter 4 to make inferences about our own attitudes.

 

A. Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation

  • Intrinsic motivation is the desire to engage in an activity because we enjoy it or find it interesting; extrinsic motivation is the desire to engage in an activity because of external rewards or pressures.

1. The Overjustification Effect

  • According to self-perception theory, extrinsic rewards may hurt intrinsic motivation. When we are rewarded for engaging in an intrinsically motivating activity, we may now place too much importance on extrinsic reasons and assume that we are doing the behavior in order to achieve the extrinsic reward. This is known as the overjustification effect.

  • For example, Greene, Sternberg, and Lepper (1976) rewarded 9-10 year-olds for playing math games. After the rewards were terminated, children spent significantly less time with the games than they had before they ever got rewards.

  • There are conditions under which the overjustification effect can be avoided: (1) when initial interest in the task is low, as opposed to high; and (2) when one uses performance-contingent rewards that are based on how well a task is done and which provide information and positive feedback rather than task-contingent rewards that are given for performing a task regardless of how well it is done. However, even performance-contingent rewards must be used carefully, because they can backfire by making people anxious about being evaluated.

 

B. Understanding Our Emotions: The Two-Factor Theory of Emotion

  • Schachter (1964) proposed the two-factor theory of emotion: that emotion results from first perceiving physiological arousal and then finding an explanation or label for that arousal.

  • In a study by Schachter and Singer (1962), participants were given an injection of either epinephrine (adrenaline) or a placebo upon arriving at the lab. They were told that the injection was a vitamin that affected vision and were either told the actual effects that epinephrine has or were told that they might experience some symptoms, but not those produced by epinephrine. Participants were then placed with an angry acting confederate in a waiting room (for half the participants; the other half were placed with a euphoric acting confederate). The dependent variable was the emotion felt. Those participants who (a) had been given epinephrine to induce arousal and (b) were NOT told the symptoms that the injection would make them experience felt more angry (or more euphoric) than participants in the other groups.

  • An implication of this theory is that people’s emotions are somewhat arbitrary, depending on the most plausible explanation for arousal. Thus in their experiment, the researchers were able to prevent people from becoming angry by proving a nonemotional explanation for why they felt aroused, and they could make Ss feel a very different emotion by changing the most plausible explanation for arousal.

 

C. Finding the Wrong Cause: Misattribution of Arousal

  • Misattribution of arousal is the process whereby people make mistaken inferences about what is causing them to feel the way they do. Many studies have demonstrated the misattribution of arousal to emotional states that was demonstrated initially by Schachter and Singer. For example, Dutton and Aron (1974) had a woman approach men who were crossing a scary bridge or who had had a chance to rest on a bench after crossing. Those men who were crossing the scary bridge when approached by the woman and asked to complete a questionnaire were more likely to call her and ask her out.

D. Interpreting the Social World: Cognitive Appraisal Theories of Emotion

  • Attribution is not the only means by which we learn what we feel. Appraisal theories of emotion hold that emotions result from people’s interpretations of events, even
    in the absence of any physiological arousal. Your view of (1) whether the event had good or bad implications for you and (2) your view of what caused the event are particularly important determinants of experienced emotion.

  • These theories differ from Schachter and Singer’s theory in the importance of arousal—according to these theories, arousal does not always come first; cognitive appraisals alone are a sufficient cause of emotion.

  • When people are aroused and uncertain where this arousal comes from, Schachter and Singer’s theory may apply, but when they are not aroused, cognitive arousal theories may apply. Both theories agree that one way people learn about themselves is by observing events, including their own behavior, and trying to explain those events.

 

USING OTHER PEOPLE TO KNOW OURSELVES

  • What others around us tell us about ourselves is a very important source of self-knowledge.

  • Gallup’s ape studies show that social contact is critical to the very development of a self-concept—only those apes raised with others passed the “red dye” mirror test.

 

A. Knowing Ourselves by Comparing Ourselves to Others

  • We also come to know ourselves by comparison to other people. Festinger’s (1954) social comparison theory is the idea that, when objective criteria for self-evaluation are not present, we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves to other people

  • When do people compare themselves with others? When there is little objective information available.

  • With whom do we compare ourselves? Gilbert and Mussweiler suggest that initially we compare ourselves to everyone, and then we seek an appropriate comparison. Similar others provide the most appropriate comparisons.

  • When our goal is to find out information about ourselves, we are likely to engage in comparison to others who are similar to us on the important dimension.

  • Sometimes we engage in upward social comparison, comparing ourselves to people who are better than we are on a particular trait or ability, in order to assess our own abilities. We may look to experts to set the standard of excellence, but it is often more useful to compare ourselves to someone who is similar to us.

  • We also use social comparison to boost our egos; in this case, we are likely to engage in downward social comparison, or comparing ourselves to people who are worse than we are on a particular trait or ability. For example, Wood et al. (1985) found that cancer patients used downward comparisons to make themselves feel more optimistic about the course of their own illness.

  • Another way we can feel better about ourselves is to compare our current performance with our own past performance, another sort of downward comparison.

 

B. Knowing Ourselves by Adopting Other People’s Views

  • Under some conditions people adopt the views of close others according to Coonley’s looking glass self. We may even adjust our views when we meet someone for the first time, if we want to get along with the person. This is called social tuning: the process whereby people adopt another person’s attitude.

  • In a study by Sinclair, Lowery, Hardin & Colangelo (2005) participants matched their views toward those of a likable experimenter and reacted against the views of an unlikable experimenter thus showing that we tend to automatically adopt the views of people we like and automatically reject the views of people we do not.

 

IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

  • Through self-presentation we attempt to present who we are, or who we want people to believe we are, to other people. Self-presentation occurs through our words, nonverbal behaviors, and actions. Impression management occurs when we consciously or unconsciously orchestrate a carefully designed presentation of self to fit a particular goal or need in a social interaction.

  • Goffman developed a theory based on a dramaturgical model which uses the theater as a metaphor for social life.

  • Ingratiation is the process whereby people flatter, praise, and try to make themselves likable to another person. Ingratiation can backfire if the other recognizes we are doing it.

  • Self-handicapping is creating obstacles and excuses for ourselves (in advance of a poor performance) so that if we do poorly, we have a ready-made excuse. People self-handicap either by behaviorally creating obstacles (e.g., drinking the night before an exam) or by citing verbal excuses.

  • One downside risk of self-handicapping is that it may actually cause the poor performance that is so feared, as we come to believe our own excuses and exert less effort on the task.

 

A. Culture, Impression Management, and Self-Enhancement The impression management strategies that people use differ considerably from culture to culture. Research seems to conclude though that the desire to manage the image we present to others is strong in all cultures, though the kinds of images we want to present depend on the culture in which we live.

 

All of this being said, now imagine a fully functioning "self-to-self feedback loop" where you benefit by new abilities to self-govern inside of your private household. This is an exceedingly dynamic opportunity.

 

 

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Professional Life

From the Nancy Rubin online portal on April 23, 2020, by: Washija Kazim. 

Now imagine having her concepts built into your home system!

 

More often than not, our work seems to take priority over everything else in our lives. As a result, the desire to achieve everything and be professionally successful leads to neglecting ourselves. But creating a perfect work-life balance is critical for our mental health and overall wellbeing. This balance, however, is not created in a day. Instead, you need to embrace habits that will help you improve your personal and professional life.

Whether you are someone who is just starting out, an entrepreneur, or a manager, you get to pick the habits you form. These habits don’t affect you solely, but also the people you work with. And most importantly, your habits not only shape and improve your personal life but also help a great deal to improve your professional life.

 

So if you are someone who is unsatisfied with your job or someone who feels like their life lacks purpose, it's getting to be time for a change, eh?

Here is Washija's set of habits that you need to develop to turn things around for yourself.

  • Make a decision - 
    Instead of going with the flow, decide on who you are as a professional. Think about where you want to take your career and how you see things unfolding for you in the upcoming years. Create some long term goals and map out a plan that will help you achieve those goals. This is one of the best ways to improve your personal and professional life. Creating a road map will give you a purpose. Take one step at a time every day to reach closer to your goal.

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  • Stay in touch -
    Creating a few meaningful and long-lasting relationships in your professional life is a great way to increase your circle. Simply staying in touch with these people can go a long way for your mental health. Since they are in the same profession as you, they understand the needs of your career and it is always good to have people you can talk to.

  • Listen -
    It is easy to get caught up in your own life and stick to your own thoughts. But it is important for your self-growth to open yourself up to new ideas. This way you can learn new things by simply interacting with your colleagues. If you remain closed off, people will eventually get drained of trying to deal with you. You don’t want to come across as a stubborn person who is resistant to change. These traits will not get you far in your career growth.

  • Learn to unplug -
    We live in a world that has a constant need for staying “online” and connected. It is crucial to take some time off and “unplug” from your work. This practice could be as simple as not checking your work email before bed. Or taking some time out to meditate. Or maybe reading a book while commuting from work. These little things are bound to have a positive effect. The dual channel A/B system running inside "AweSum!" gives you a private  A-Side that can be ofline and still power your goals. Your powerful and connected B-Side can almost always be online for you and serve to give big tech the notion that you are active in a session with their servers. Soon this will make them all ask themselves, "Hey! Where'd everybody go?!!!"

  • Look after yourself -
    One of the most basic habits to improve your personal and professional life is taking care of yourself. Eat right, drink plenty of water, exercise, read more, meet new people, learn new things, etc. Implementing this will not only help you grow more confident but also give you the necessary mental peace and strength to succeed professionally.

  • Ignore the hate -
    Life is too short to let people get to you. There will always be a chunk of people who will be glad to see you miserable and fail. People can get involved in office politics, or even go as far as sabotaging your career. It is easy to get sucked into this pattern and lose focus on your personal goals. But all it will do is bring harm to your well being. So do not waste your time and energy on such people. Just ignore the hate and do your best.

  • Networking -
    Networking is as essential for your professional career as building a strong skill set. Try to step out of your comfort zone and seek out people for networking. There are many people who love to impart their knowledge. Approach such people for mentorship and guidance. Surrounding yourself with like-minded people is great for your mental health and your career. Hence, this is a great way to improve your personal and professional life.

  • Stop Comparing -
    This point cannot be emphasized enough. Stop comparing yourself to everyone else. The fastest way to kill your own happiness and fall into a pit of self-doubt. It is intriguing to look at someone you knew back in school who is now a huge success and compare yourself with them. But all you will end up doing is feeling incompetent about your work. So instead of comparing yourself with others, focus on your own work plan and stay focused on achieving your goals.

  • Always keep your word -
    Every time you promise to get work done or meet a project deadline, make sure you follow through. Do not make false promises and then disappoint the people you work with. You want to come across as someone who is trustworthy. It is better to promise less and deliver more instead of promising too much and then failing to deliver the same. People will like to work with you when you have a record of delivering and keeping your word.

  • Be positive -
    It is so common to come across people who complain out loud to everyone about their job. Be a refreshing change and stay positive. Even if your job has you overworked, be positive and greet people with a smile. A friendly handshake, a pat on the back, or a simple compliment will go a long way. It will make you come across as a warm person that people want to associate with. Having a positive outlook, in general, is the best thing you can do for your overall well being.

Implementing a work-life balance can mean different things to different people. After all, we all have different commitments in our lives. Not everyone will want to divide their work-life exactly in half. But implementing these habits can definitely improve the overall professional and personal welfare of individuals.

Washija Kazim is a content developer at Receptix. She’s an avid reader and has a keen interest to develop content that adds value to users. Washija has been writing on topics of education, job search, career advice and related areas for the last 3 years.

 

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Your various jobs should be something important to list in chronologic order somewhere for future reference. Some people use Linked-In to keep such records. Some people use their resume to keep such information. 

But now with "AweSum!" you can easily make that chain of work history right here in this category. 

Click the new button abutton to create an entry for each place you worked or create one entry where you type in everything you have.

You can even draft a letter to your workplace to communicate your important discussion topics that really should be put in writing.

 

 

 

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Health and Wellness Management

Living your best life possible, needs to include your taking into consideration what is necessary for your balanced physical and mental health. As well, your emotional well-being is important at every stage of life.

When mental health difficulties arise for you or a loved one, you are not alone. Getting adequate support has also become easier over the years. Cleaning toxins from your body is now possible too.

As you ontinue to learn more about your lifestyle and wellness management basics, you can always retain the knowledge and store your decision making about what you learn -- just so you don't forget.

 

"AweSum!" can be there for you!  Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Diet Tracking - 

    Five tips for eating as healthy as possible:

    1. Using that old family cookbook, or your research via the "AweSum!" system Lifestyle Pages to help in determining your ideal home diet.
    Find a diet that fits your lifestyle: Calorie Counting, Low-Carb, Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian and more. Some people have become very successful by learning their blood type and taking on what is known as "the blood type diet" and this makes a lot of sense if you think about it. 

    2. Set Your Expectations
    Choose your desired weekly weight loss rate, target date, and source of calories like fat, carbs, and proteins. Do this inside your self-to-self feedback loop. 

    3. Journalize Your Meals and Exercise
    Use "AweSum!" to track your food, aid in your grocery list, your physical activities, and nutrients. Use your barcode scanner. Build on your daily journal ahead of time for better planning and scheduling. 

    4. Acheive Your Milestones
    Track your daily progress, check your weight loss forecast, and receive ongoing advice and feedback. Learn more about vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients in your diet and make better choices.

  • Weight Management -
    Every body is unique, but it is important to know what a healthy weight is for you, and maintain it - this decreases the risk of chronic conditions.

  • Fitness Tracking -
    Physical Fitness and exercise is important for your health: to keep your body and mind healthy. There are many ways to incorporate physical activity into your daily routine.

  • Stress Management -
    It is natural to feel stress, anxiety, grief, and worry sometimes. There are healthy ways to cope when you feel stressed so that your health is not affected.

  • Doctor/Dentist/Specialist Selections -

    Five tips for choosing a new primary care physician:

    1. Determine Which Doctors Are “In-Network” -- and for some of you, that means a doctor (or Dentist, etc.) that will accept Medicare, Medicaid and/or state Medical Assistance (MA).

    2. Find a Doctor, Dentist or Specialist with Expertise that Meets Your Health Needs

    3. Ask for Referrals from people you meet and from practitioners you visit with

    4. Think About Logistics of how you will make your round-trips to office visits

    5. Visit that Doctor to get familiar with their level of empathy

  • Medical Records - 
    Who has ever heard of being the responsibly party for your own medical records?
    How about a simple way to own it all -- and you simply bring your records on a thumb drive to your clinic visits for convenient sharing?
    We're going to introduce a simple way to do this as means to keep you in control of your medical records and your medical privacy.

  • Insurance Data - 
    There are 77 insurance datasets available on data.world. Find open data about insurance contributed by thousands of users and organizations across the world.
    By planning ahead of time you should be able to cause your revolutionized household to save huge on being insured across the board.
    Maybe one day we can help you to become privately indemnified. Stay tuned to that. 

  • Mental Health - 
    Mental health includes your emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how you think, feel, and act.
    It also helps determine how you handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
    Now put "AweSum!" to work in making yourself heard and remembered. 

  • Emotional Well-being - 
    According to Psychology Today, the definition of emotional well-being is “the ability to practice stress-management techniques, be resilient, and generate the emotions that lead to good feelings.”
    In your own home you should be able to develop your intentions to beat oppression caused by a larger than life government presence in everything you want to do. 

  • Nutrition and Supplimenting - 
    A balanced diet is essential for our physical and mental health to stay healthy. Moods and feelings can be dependent on the nutrients, vitamins and minerals in our diet.
    Scientists have determined that so many Americans are deficient in key vitamins such as Vitamin D3 and minerals such as Boron, Selenium and Magnesium.

  • Getting Everything in Writing -
    Make sure your doctor documents everything you talk about as well as any medication or treatments they prescribe. Wait for the front desk clerk to update your *thumb drive
    If you complain about an ache or pain and your doctor dismisses it or decides it doesn’t need to be investigated, have them write that down, too.
    Many malpractice cases involve delayed diagnoses or misdiagnoses, which can be hard to prove in court without notations in your medical records acting as evidence. 

    * The use of Thumb Drives for your person medical records has not been developed yet -- besides existing in the plans of Homyak's Virtual Systems for "AweSum!"

 

 

 

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Family Planning

Large global geo-political governing bodies want to bestow upon our society their world view as to how humanity should be governed in our households. We can help!

Family planning is when you decide what is best for your family. Take steps now to make sure everyone is healthy and happy today and down the road.

This category should help you manage these areas of knowledge, as well as others, identified by the available empirical evidence to support core parenting practices and child outcomes.
It is worth noting that our research base regarding the association between parental knowledge and child outcomes is much smaller than that on parenting practices and child outcomes.
For many years, our founder has researched how to make a difference for families inside the household. 30 years ago the concepts we are seeing in "AweSum!" were then considered to be 30 years ahead their time.

  • Parenting - 
    Parenting is multidimensional. To respond to the varied needs of their children, parents must develop both depth and breadth of knowledge, ranging from being aware of developmental milestones and norms that help in keeping children safe and healthy -- to deciding when to have children -- to understanding the role of professionals (e.g., educators, child care workers, health care providers, social workers) and social systems (e.g., institutions, laws, policies) that interact with families and support parenting.

  • Recording - 
    Now that the information technology is nearly freely available due to the prevalence of Open Source Software we find it easy to perform rapid application development to create what is known as "patient-held medical records" which can now be accepted by care providers. It has been suggested that "patient-held medical records" could play an important role in monitoring the continuity of health service use. Researchers in northern rural Malawi investigated a method for using patient-held records – they devised a so-called family planning card – to collect contraceptive data. Their approach captured real-time data that was privately recorded by over 36,000 women and taken to their care providers as the basis of a prospective longitudinal data set. Such a data set would make it possible to study the continuity of contraceptive use and their subsequent switching of methods and could serve to validate cross-sectional estimates of contraceptive use. Methods of contraception is one example of the power families can have when their home systems become available.

  • Medical Insurance - What is Pregnancy Medicaid? - 

    Medicaid is a government-sponsored health insurance program for low-income families who have no medical insurance or inadequate insurance. All states offer Medicaid or a program similar to Medicaid to help pregnant women receive adequate prenatal and postpartum care. Medicaid also offers health insurance to seniors, children, and people with disabilities. Who is eligible for Medicaid? The general guidelines for eligibility for Medicaid are set by the Federal government; however, each state sets up their own specific requirements for eligibility and these can differ from state to state. All States are required to include certain individuals or groups of people in their Medicaid plan. Imagine in the future that Household Dynamics could become your ultimate insurance brokerage to help streamline that whole process.

  • Personal Accountability - 
    When it comes to family planning goals, a crucial element often missing from the discussion is that of personal accountability. Accountability is fundamental to effective self-government and successful home-based business. But we often neglect accountability in regards to our own ambitions. Practicing personal accountability isn’t easy, but if you embrace it, the effect can be transformative. Using your home terminal often will help to equip you in these areas. Having the ability to tell yourself where you've been and where you want to go as a family without over-powering big government stepping in where they really no longer need to be.

  • Financial Aspects -
    Apart from knowing what it takes to avoid unwanted pregnancies, family planning must take into consideration the financial aspects as well. This is working in conjunction with the many aspects of how you want to plan into the future -- so that your family could sustain financially and lead a comfortable life. In terms of financial planning, there are agencies that can help you although you need to be fully committed and motivated to get started in the privacy of your own home by starting with your great new means of organizing your efforts.

  • Mother-Baby Package -
    The basic objectives of the Mother-Baby Package are neither new nor controversial — they are considered the ‘four pillars’ of Safe Motherhood:

    1. Family planning to ensure that individuals and couples have the information and services to plan and space pregnancies;
    2. Antenatal care to ensure that complications of pregnancy are detected as early as possible and treated appropriately;
    3. Clean/safe delivery to ensure that all birth attendants have the knowledge, siwills and equipment to perform a clean and safe delivery;
    4. Essential obstetric care to ensure that essential care is made available to all women who need it. 

  • Resource-constrained Households - 

    It is imperative to make family planning more accessible in low income settings. There needs to be a more conservative approach besides the Planned Parenthood organization. The poorest couples have the highest fertility rates, the lowest contraceptive use and the highest unmet need for contraception. It is also in the low income settings where maternal and child mortality is the highest.

    A greater autonomy in Family Planning based on powerful household data systems and device applications (our App) can contribute to improvements in maternal and child health, especially in low income settings where overall access to health services is limited.

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    Five critical steps can be taken to increase nation-wide access to family planning within resource-constrained households:

    1. Increase your knowledge about the safety of our proposed family planning methods.
    2. Ensure quality contraception is genuinely affordable to the poorest families.
    3. Ensure an unimpeded supply of contraceptives by making family planning a permanent line item in household budgets.
    4. Take immediate action to remove barriers hindering access to self-governed family planning methods.
    5. Help Household Dynamics to get into production with our genuine household innovations for all walks of life.

 

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Financial Planning

Financial planning is an ongoing process that will reduce your stress about money, that will support your current needs and help you build a nest egg for your long-term goals, like retirement.

Financial planning is important because it allows you to make the most of your assets, and helps to ensure that you meet your future goals as accurately as a spreadsheet driven approach can be.

  • Insurance Planning - 
    Insurance planning is a vital component of your comprehensive financial plan -- to include evaluating risks and determining the proper insurance coverage to navigate those risks.
    The chances of recovering partly or fully are assured by having the proper mix of insurance coverages. Within a short amount of time using the "AweSum!" System, you can build a solid position on what it means to be adequately covered.

  • Investment Advice - 
    Use "AweSum!" to create and maintain the documentation you will need to approach an Investment Advisor -- where you put this in writing and physically mail it out -- as one of your first steps. There appears to be an Investment Advisor officed in nearly every sizable strip mall in America.

    Putting your investment correspondence on paper is what these people do. Everyone gets mail but how many of us simply pick up the phone? You can too. But know this: Certain business people have stated that a phone call is treated as if it never happened. Documentiary evidence can be your strong suit once you put to use all of the writing templates available in "AweSum!" to help you choose a financial advisor such as Edward Jones. Each stage of your life is an opportunity for a new chapter that you get to write. Whatever your next chapter looks like, "AweSum!" can be there to start you out and back you up. Hit the ground running with actionable plans and personalized strategies unique to your financial story right at home where you can think things through and compare your options.

     

  • Accounting Practices - 
    Imagine the day when you sit down with your two essential professionals on your financial team. As you are sitting with your financial advisor and your accountant you realize they are blown away by how well prepared you are. Some financial advisors have in-house tax specialists, but at other times, it's up to you the client to find your own accountant. But now that you can easily pop into your accounting applets inside "AweSum!" and put together amazing documentation (and seemingly endless numbers) that helps you balance it all out to make ends meet.

  • Auditing Yourselves - 
    Think of your annual financial audit as your DIY genius at work:

    Examinng your spending and savings habits, your financial goals, your investments and your budget, and figuring out what you can massage into place to stay on track or even get ahead in the twelve months of the coming year is where you begin when your powertools are sitting at your fingertips. Use your history to approve of your future. 

    Brake things down into your five-step DIY financial audit. Read up on Jennifer E. Meyers, a certified financial planner and president of SageVest Wealth Management in McLean, Virginia.

    Together, we’ll help put your finances in order before the seasons change. One of the best things to remember as you are doing your DIY audit is that your savings is virtually synonomous to a long-distance run that requires commitment and endurance versus a simple sprint to your mailbox on a rainy day.

  • Making an Interactive Budgeting Habit - 

    Before "AweSum!" gets built in to your new home or carefully built in to your remodeling project, you'll have to go ahead and explore the plethora of budgeting apps, software and other tools right there through your device. There are scads of tools for budgeting. We can imagine you'll reach your wits end as you explore and compare budgeting apps and tools -- clamouring to find what works best for your budgeting style while keeping all your vital knowledge secured on a hopefully trustworthy piece of externally governed info-tech..

    For example, Mint's digital app syncs up with your bank and credit accounts to track spending and help you meet goals. For a simple, interactive online budget spreadsheet, check out PearBudget. Some people are using Google Spreadsheets but that certainly gives big tech all their inroads to ascertaining who you are in today's world.

    Still wa have some people who are totally comfortable with staying offline and using the "envelope method" to monitor their cash by dividing their piles into separate paper envelopes, each earmarked for a certain spending category. Most of these people reason that there are too many digital online techniques where these all come with the concern of you ending up not actually owning your own data.

    And, of course, there's always your trusty Excel spreadsheet, where you can log income and note spending. "AweSum!" solves all of that and best yet, "AweSum!" creates itself for you as you get started in your Work Area by making a new project.

 

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Home-Based Business - Your Administrative Office Right At Home

Take some time to write your own plans in these areas. Take some time to add new household or lifetyle content everywhere that you see this button: new button a

  • Telephone - 
    More and more people are turning off their land-line service and opting to make their cellphone the primary mode of voice communications. 

  • Fax - 
    Lots of people have one or two of those nifty multifunction "all-in-one" machines to due your typical faxing. Even though faxing has been around for decades we still see it very busy in most office settings. 

  • How to keep Household Records - 
    Use technology systems to help you start any kind of organization where connectivity and communications are essential. You also can keep good filing methods on par with your basic file cabinet and hanging folders which can easily be labeled per the topic or enterprise with whom you correspond with. Some people have a pile here and a pile there, in which case things tend to get messy and to fall behind in the goals of proper recordkeeping. 

  • Why you should do more Printing - 
    We know that ink-jet style printer ink is outragiously prices often times adding up to a higher price than the actual printer. The real trouble is that we fall into commercial dishonor by not writing back to enterprises who write to us. By putting your correspondence in writing you actually can strengthen your standing and stay in control of any exchange. 

  • Administrative Routines - 
    Imagine finally creating your own ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD where all your appropriate declarations can be made -- and the thousand pound elephants come off your back. As time goes on, HD will publish preformatted administrative templates for you to adopt into your routine. 

 

 

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Education • Vocational • Collegiate • Home School

 

 

 

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Home Energy Consumption

 

  • Household Waste reduction - 


  • Recycling Routines - 


  • Electric Co-generation - 


  • Low Voltage Direct Current -