 sense of achievement and reward, and can make us feel good.
This could include things like learning a new language, going rock climbing, or learning a new hobby. For me this has included trying to learn a new language (I say trying because I did get somewhere, but not that far! But I enjoyed it while I did it!). Duolingo is an awesome free app for language learning that also makes it feel like a fun little challenge. I also find learning new things like graphic design tools and tips rewarding. Or sometimes I might do something a little less challenging like knitting or drawing :)
3. Relaxation:
This one is pretty obvious - most of us know what relaxation means! Relaxation helps to restore positive emotions, reduce stress and help the body to recover. Relaxation also can help improve your health.
Relaxation, however, can mean different things to different people. You can practice relaxation by focussing on the mind, like doing mediation or progressive muscle relaxation. Progressive muscle relaxation is something I teach to my clients a lot. This includes basically focussing on one muscle at a time and tensing and releasing that muscle to help fatigue it and also really learn what it means to fully feel relaxed within the body.
Relaxation could also mean doing things like yoga, stretching, doing a light walk outside or listening to music.
4. Control:
This essentially means that we need to be able to choose our after work activity in order to recover our bodies. When we feel in control we generally feel higher levels of psychological wellbeing and less distress. When we don’t have control, however, we tend to feel stressed and experience lower self worth, which can be associated with anxiety and depression.
This makes sense to me. It sucks when we feel we “have” to do something after work, especially something we don’t want to! Perhaps an example of this could be meeting up with people for drinks or dinner, and even though you like them and know you could have a good time, feeling that you must go and that you can’t cancel can reduce the overall sense of control. This is even harder for parents, as they do often have less control - maybe picking up their kids from sport, preparing dinner or making school related projects.
While having control every night might not be possible, it is more important to have an overall sense of control. So while we might need to pick up kids, perhaps we could control what we watch on TV later that night, or even what we make for dinner. And we don’t have to have control every single evening in order to recover- this just needs to be more often then not.
5. Pleasure:
In a recent research article they found that another key element of recovery was pleasure. It makes sense - we need to feel good in order to recover properly. Experiencing pleasure during the evening can help us recover not only that evening, but even throughout the next work day. And pleasure can also help to undo cardiovascular damage from negative emotions! So it’s pretty important.
This one is kind of an overarching element that needs to take part in each of the above. So finding pleasure because we are detaching is important. If we are sitting and doing a detached type of activity, like watching TV, but sitting there wishing we weren’t, then we probably aren’t finding it pleasurable and therefore it won’t help us recover as much. Or if the mastery is becoming too challenging, or too frustrating then our pleasure is reduced. This certainly has happened to me when trying to knit or draw - sometimes it is really fun and enjoyable and I feel a sense of achievement, but other times it can start to feel really frustrating and then I am definitely not feeling a sense of pleasure!
What to take away:
In order to properly recover - to increase our productivity at work and look after our health - we need to practice detachment, mastery, relaxation and control. Not every single one needs to be present every night as we might have a preference for one style (detachment is probably my favourite!) but we do need to make sure this happens more often then not. And to really get benefit from those things we need to make sure we are experiencing pleasure.
Basically in order to feel good, we need to feel good! Sounds good to me :) Do we need a better reason!?
What do you think? Do you prefer one type over another? Let me know!FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Broward County school board members met on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, and they were scheduled to discuss the superintendent early in the afternoon.
The board voted to fire Superintendent Vickie Cartwright on Nov. 14 after former member Daniel Foghanholi’s motion. She had only been on the job since February.
On Tuesday, the new members had an opportunity to vote on whether or not the Nov. 14 decision stands.
“The drama and uncertainty has been embarrassing and it has nothing to do with kids, teachers and staff and it has everything to do with politics and destabilizing this district and it’s wrong,” said board member Sarah Leonardi.
Five of the eight members decided that it does not, and that Cartwright would keep her job as superintendent.
“We cannot punch a hole in the ship because we have an issue with the captain,” said school board member Jeff Holness.
“I understand what the spirit with intent of transparency is, and what happened on Nov. 14th did not meet that,” said board member Allen Zeman.
On Oct. 26, Torey Alston, the former chair, told Cartwright she had 90 days to prove herself. School board member Lori Alhadeff is the new chair.
“I like Dr. Cartwright, I think she is a very nice person, however I think it’s incumbent upon this board to realize when our superintendent is over her head,” said Alhadeff, who was one of the three to vote not to keep the superintendent.
“I’ve kept my focus on the daily operations of this district and ensuring that we are making the right decision in the best interest of our students,” she said.
Cartwright inherited issues raised on a grand jury report that prompted Gov. Ron DeSantis to disband the prior school board.
The board’s next meeting is scheduled for Jan. 24 and at that time they will review how the superintendent is doing. They also voted to continue a national search for a possible replacement.
The future of Broward County School Public Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright is still unknown.
Newly-elected and re-elected Broward School Board members have selected a new chair and vice chair—and both are women who lost family members in the 2018 Parkland school shooting.The first examples of the saqinamas in the Eastern literature that deal with entertainment assemblies where alcoholic drinks and their associated elements in their real and metaphorical meanings appear in Arabic literature. This type, which gained an independent feature in Persian poetry, has taken its place in Turkish literature since the 14th century. The 16th century poet Lâmiî has also included many saqinamas in his masnavies. In the masnavies of the poet, firstly, the saqinama pieces which contribute to the content attract attention. These parts are the main elements of the entertainment assembly depictions and are often encountered. Secondly, some saqinamas of Ferhâd u Şîrîn and Veyse vü Râmîn, especially at the end of the episode, reflect a consistent property of narrative. The poet skillfully used the saqinamas in chapter transitions. Finally, the contribution of the saqinamas of Lâmiî's masnavies to the harmony draws attention. The saqinamas that started out addressing the saki and the mutrib revealed a harmonious expression with exclamation and epiphoneme literary arts. All this shows that Lâmiî's masnavies have a special feature in the genre of saqinama.
Saqinama, Lâmiî Çelebi, Masnavi.It can't be something that someone decides to do just because they want to end their lives. The reason they want to do this is probably a good one but there would need to be some kind of entourage (health professionals, psychologists, family if there is any) to make sure the decision is the right one for the patient and he/she is not doing this off the top of their heads.  

You hear stories of doctors giving cancer patients six months to live and 10 years later they are still alive and reasonably well. I do understand that not everyone wants to go through the hell that is chemotherapy but the decision should not be taken lightly and should be seen from every angle.The Museum in a Box (MIAB)is a collaboration between CIT and Nano Nagle Place and targets the primary school SESE history curriculum which addresses skills in communication and storytelling with respect to learning about the lives of people in the past and is also being used for educational activities delivered locally in Nano Nagle Place.
Through workshop led activities in small groups children learn about Cork in the 18th century. Workshops involve activities where children collaborate as ‘historians’, playfully narrating their interpretation of unfamiliar objects from the period. They also develop a factual understanding of how people lived in the past based on clues and documentation facilitated through the MIAB. The MIAB is augmented with digital technologies which allow the physical objects in the box to be scanned for clues. The travel case contains an embedded computer which adds to the playfulness of learning activities for those involved in the workshops. It also simplifies the development of new multimedia and game-like learning content for future workshop applications.
The alignment of the project to programmes in CITs Media Communications