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mammallama if you have energy how did you find your adhd dr? I know I could use one but I'm trying to fight the inertia of getting a dr because of all the experiences of previous medical professionals not listening to me. thank you for reading!

Hey, I've got a little energy! You get my one level seven spell slot for the day lol

I am very fortunate that I have a primary care doctor that takes my concerns seriously and pointed me in the direction of my current specialist. I also have two very wonderful best friends with ADHD who gently slid my wig back and told me "go get tested, you sound like me". I recognize not everyone is lucky to have doctors that listen to them so this answer will be based off of my limited experience and local healthcare in my state in America, so please keep these as general suggestions! And I know it's hard to advocate for your own health, trust me I get it lol, but please stick with it. It's worth it to get the answers at the very least so you can start adjusting.

So if you have a PCP try asking them for places that are in your insurance network that could help you get tested/write you a referral letter if needed. I would suggest first looking for a behavioral therapist that specializes in diagnosing ADHD (like mine does) and treatment. I can't get actual cognitive behavioral therapy from them but they help me keep track of my ADHD and navigate my medication stuff. The extra special thing about my doctor is she was also diagnosed as an adult, so she truly understands to a certain degree of what I'm dealing with. Looking at her during my first visit was like looking into the future of the person I can be with the right help. Having a doctor that has what you have is incredibly valuable.

If you can't find a specialist, I would suggest looking for a psychiatrist that specializes in diagnosing and treating ADHD. You can also get diagnosed by a psychologist but I don't think they can actually prescribe medications? But either of those professionals will be able to test and diagnose you!

If you have trouble networking, my therapist suggested looking on Facebook (I know I know) for local/state groups that can help you connect with doctors in your area. You'd be surprised at how ready people are to help others find the care providers they need! You may not even have to ask, there may be a list of medical professionals that you can look over.

I will warn you that depending on where you go it's going to probably cost a fair amount. Even with my therapist's office taking my insurance my testing was still over 400 bucks, but in the end it was worth it for me. I will also warn you that some testing can be quite lengthy from what I hear, taking multiple sessions depending on the professional you're seeing. My testing and diagnoses took a little less than three hours and that's why I'd suggest looking for an ADHD behavioral therapist first. They know exactly what they're looking for and know you're there specifically for that test.

Another tip I can give you is frame your reason for testing as simply needing answers to improve your quality of life. Have that in writing. Don't even mention medication other than "I would explore that if you deem it a viable option for treatment." Getting medication right now is difficult if not downright impossible for some of us, so I would frame your needs on getting yourself picked up and put together. That's really what you need first anyways. Answers.

Be warned ADHD may also come with a side of fries (other general disabilities like OCD/OCD tendencies, anxiety, depression, ect ect that are often the result of untreated ADHD).

ADHD is legally considered a developmental disability and protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Know your rights!

In the meantime I always suggest taking a look through https://www.additudemag.com/ for information about symptoms and research and all that stuff. This is a trusted source that my therapist's office shares with all of their patients! The articles are kept up to date as new research is made available and is laid out in such a way that it's easy for people with ADHD to read and navigate. It's also a great source for parents that have kiddos with ADHD, so pass that around if you know someone who's struggling!

I do hope that your past experiences with poor doctors won't keep you from seeking testing. I can promise you not all of them are like that, and I hope you can find someone who will listen to you and take your concerns seriously!

[rezllen]

Hi! I saw you at my first furry convention AnthroNW, I really look up to your art! I'm a young aspiring artist, I really strive to sell at conventions and all stuff relating to that. I hope you don't mind me asking, but do you mind giving tips on what college to go to/ how you started off to get where you are now? Thank you!

Hi there! I’m really happy to hear that you like my stuff and I always think it’s really cool when others want to sell their art at cons! I def think it’s a really good way to learn a lot of skills as both an artist and business person and def encourage you to give it a shot when you can! <3Putting this under a read more since it’s sort of long, but I hope this helps you!

I went to a community college in the Seattle area called Bellevue Community College for an AA in animation/graphic design. Bellevue was one of my favorite schools I’ve attended and had a really good sense of community and great classes. I honestly miss that school a lot! I also did a course at Evergreen State College in non-fiction media/documentaries, and eventually studied game design and animation at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Seattle. Scholarships helped a ton and I ended up working on multiple jobs to get through the various courses, but if I had to pick only one of the colleges now that I can look back on those experiences I def think that the community college was best for me. It felt a lot more financially accessible and had great facilities that I was also able to balance more easily with self studies and learning through my own projects. I still enjoyed those other schools though! I did a lot of original character tournaments and comic competitions at this time as well on the side which I def think helped my ability to plan for projects.

College is def a thing where a lot of factors contribute to how it works out for others and your millage may vary. I know some people who never went to college or dropped out and are still very happy with their choice and I know other people (like me) benefited from the environment. I personally benefited most from access to tools, classroom environments to help me manage my adhd, and the connections I made in school, but those connections can also be made by participating in art communities, meet ups, events. Community College is a safer way to experiment with the idea of “is college right for me?” instead of applying to a big name school like scad and having more money anxiety, especially if the school isn’t a fit for you. Community College allowed more flexibility for me to learn and grow.I actually started doing cons because while I was going to school at Evergreen I was working through bad anxiety/depression, saw there was a small on campus convention and decided to try it to try to force myself out of my shell. I personally believe that starting at a really tiny low cost event to sell at was great for me because it was a good learning experience with low financial risk. I had only 3 prints designs, 3 buttons designs (and only 10 of each and 2 size variations), home made stickers printed on matte paper from staples, and took commissions at that con. (you can still find those old as hell prints and buttons on this blog actually lol).The experience went well enough where it encouraged me to try vending at other events. My ability to socialize improved a ton and it helped to get me out of a bad creative funk I had worked myself into. I was starting to think about other ways to do merch and was becoming way more involved in a community and it helped me a ton on a personal level.Something that I personally learned about cons that I sometimes worry about when I see others starting out is that it’s okay to not burst out the gate with expensive to make merch. Selling at cons is a lot of trial and error about what does and doesn’t work for you as a vendor. There have been plenty of times where I’ve been like “oh this merch idea is GREAT” and then it barely moves LOL. That is okay, that is totally normal! It’s all part of the learning process. That being said I think building up your stock is important and starting with lower cost to produce is a good way to test what sort of designs do and don’t sell before dropping a ton of money on something super expensive that may be hard to earn the money back on right away.Another thing with cons, is to remember to always be kind. Your peers in artist alley are your co-workers and collaborators. There’s people I turned to in artist alley when I first started vending to ask for for help who grew as friends and we now help each other a ton and also just enjoy hanging out. There’s been points where I’ve been in tight spots with emergencies during cons where people I’ve met who have also been tabling have been able to come through to help me or vise versa. The friends you make are super important! If you’re looking for sources on groups to discuss vending with, artist alley international on facebook is a really good starting point and there’s another blog co-run by a friend of mine on this site called howtobeaconartist that I cannot recommend enough.Best of luck on your journey! I believe in you and am willing to answer questions you have if any pop up in the future! \o/

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160 - Stop all That Apple Leaking - With Guest Brittany Smith

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave and Warren they are joined by Brittany Smith. Apple wants to call the police on leakers unless they reveal sources..There is a must update to iOS14.7.1 and watchOS 7.6.1 to fix security bugs. Tunein Radio partnered with iHeart Radio and now has the content on Tunein we review podcast apps and media. Siri won’t have some 3rd party developers including ride sharing services plus more. 

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News

Apple Q3 Earnings results were announced this week and we discuss how they did with links below we referenced. 

Apple Reports 3Q 2021 Results: $21.7B Profit on $81.4B Revenue, New June Quarter Records

Apple's Mac and iPad Sales Continue to Surge in Q3 2021

Apple posts $81B quarterly results: Charts – Six Colors

Apple's Services Revenue Reaches $17.5 Billion in Q3 2021, Setting New All-Time Record

Ongoing supply constraints could affect iPhone, iPad in September quarter

Apple Expecting iPhone and iPad Supply Constraints in September Quarter

Apple Saw Double Digit Growth in iPhone Upgraders and Switchers in Q3 2021

Apple Says Don't Buy AirTag Replacement Batteries With Bitter Coating

GarageBand for iPhone and iPad Gaining All-New Sound Packs From Top Artists Like Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga

eBay Adds Support for Apple Pay on its Website

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Important to update now with this security vulnerability. Apple releases iOS 14.7.1 with fix for Apple Watch unlock bug, more and Apple Releases watchOS 7.6.1 With Security Updates

Beta this week. iOS 15 Beta 4 was released this week. Public Beta was released too. 

Everything New in iOS 15 Beta 4: Safari Tweaks, MagSafe Battery Pack Support, Notification Updates and More

iPadOS 15 Gains macOS Monterey's Redesigned Safari Tab Interface

Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of iOS and iPadOS 15 to Developers

iOS 15 Adds Built-In Relaxation Sounds Called ‘Background Sounds’

Has the panel used Live Text yet?

  Looks like Apple is going to reduce the 3rd party apps ability to use Siri including asking to get a Uber. iOS 15 to Limit Siri Functionality With Third-Party Apps

Apple is demanding that a chinese leaker reveal their sources or they will be reported to the police. Does Apple have any rights with this? We debate this and do we really follow these leakers closely anyway? Apple Demands Leaker Reveals Sources Under Threat of Being Reported to Police

Media / Podcasts apps. We talked about Pocket Casts being bought previously well there are other services partnering for content. TuneIn and IHeart Radio announced a partnership that will add the 850 iHeart Radio stations on TuneIn. TuneIn and iHeartMedia Partner on Strategic Technology and Content Distribution Deal What are the differences of the 2 apps? Other apps like Audacy (formerly radio.com) has all the CBS radio stations and they do not share their content anywhere else. All 3 of these apps also have podcasts (including ours) listed too so you are seeing a trend here. They all have ads too with TuneIn and iHeart offering a premium subscription with no ads. 

The Google Podcasts added a cool feature providing suggestions at the bottom of items that were discussed in a podcast. 

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ADHD & Freeze Response

Future ADHD

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Do People With ADHD Have a Harder Time With Monogamy?

Do people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a more difficult time being monogamous? Are they more inclined to be in sexually open relationships?

Sex therapist Ari Tuckman just published a book titled ADHD After Dark that explores these questions, as well as how ADHD impacts people’s sex lives and relationships more broadly. For this book, Tuckman surveyed more than 3,000 people who were in relationships in which one partner has ADHD and the other doesn’t in order to better understand when these relationships work—and when they don’t.  

One of the things Tuckman’s survey revealed was that persons with ADHD were more likely to have participated in both consensual nonmonogamy (i.e., being in some kind of sexually open relationship) and nonconsensual nonmonogamy (i.e., cheating or infidelity). Persons with ADHD also expressed more interest in having an open relationship compared to their non-ADHD counterparts.

I thought these findings were particularly interesting, so I asked Tuckman what he thought about how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship. Below is an excerpt from our discussion (you can listen to our complete conversation in this podcast). Note that this transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Justin Lehmiller: You mentioned how persons with ADHD expressed more interest in consensual non-monogamy and also that they had a harder time maintaining monogamy in the sense that they reported having been more likely to commit infidelity. This made me wonder whether polyamory or other forms of consensual nonmonogamy might be particularly well suited to persons with ADHD.

But, at the same time, it could be a double-edged sword. Something like polyamory could be a challenge for people who have time management issues, right? When you have more relationships to manage, that's obviously going to take more time. So I’m curious: do you have any thoughts on that, or any insights into how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship?

Ari Tuckman: First of all, I love the fact that you've kind of done a deep dive into this. I think it's an interesting thing and I think that you're absolutely right that, on the one hand, to effectively manage polyamorous relationships requires a lot of communication and coordination. Simplistically speaking, this could be a challenge for folks with ADHD. It's hard enough for them to keep one partner happy, let alone keeping two or three or more happy.

And there is the risk of that sort of hyperfocus, which when you're a kid might be on Minecraft. But as an adult, there's the risk of hyperfocusing on that new, awesomely interesting partner to the exclusion of your older or more familiar partner(s). So that would require much more direct communication. And much more assertiveness on the part of the longer-term partner to say: “You know what, I love the fact that you're having a great time with that new person, but I'm kind of feeling neglected right now. So, I'm not going to yell at you about it. I'm not going to be passive aggressive. I'm just going to speak my words, and we need to make sure that you and I are spending time together as well.”

“To do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship.”

I have zero data to back this up, but it's possible in some ways that folks with ADHD might do better with certain kinds of consensual nonmonogamy. I'm thinking, in particular, that guys with ADHD who have much higher sex drives than their non-ADHD female partners might do better in more of a strictly sexual nonmonogamous relationship rather than a more intimate, polyamorous arrangement. I think there's less complexity in that case. It might meet the higher-desire partner's needs while ensuring that the lower-desire partner doesn't feel constantly hounded and pushed to have sex that they're not really in the mood for.

That said, I think to do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship. These couples in particular really need to be doing a lot of things well to even consider doing this. But I do think it's a viable option for some.

Justin Lehmiller: You've just laid out some really fascinating hypotheses! As someone who studies consensual nonmonogamy, now I'm really interested in taking the role of ADHD into account in how these relationships work and how people navigate them. I've previously done research looking at how people's personality traits, attachment styles, and so forth are linked to satisfaction and success in consensually nonmonogamous relationships, but not ADHD—at least not yet. That's something I definitely need to look at in the future!

Ari Tuckman: I think it's an interesting overlay on top of everything that you've already mentioned. I also think it’s interesting that my survey showed that folks with ADHD were more likely to have infidelities, including the physical, nonemotional hookups as well as the more emotional, affair kind of arrangements. Either way, we all know how devastating that can be. So the goal is to stop the nonconsensual nonmonogamy and, instead, to either have really good monogamy or to have really good consensual nonmonogamy. It's all about the fact that—whatever it is—it should be consensual.

Listen to my full conversation with Tuckman here to learn more about how ADHD affects people’s sex lives and relationships.

Want to learn more about Sex and Psychology ? Click here for previous articles or follow the blog on Facebook (facebook.com/psychologyofsex), Twitter (@JustinLehmiller), or Reddit (reddit.com/r/psychologyofsex) to receive updates. You can also follow Dr. Lehmiller on YouTube and Instagram.

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Check out more of my interviews with sex researchers and therapists in these posts:

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: An Interview With Dr. Lori Brotto (VIDEO)

Interview With The Sex Researcher: Dr. Nicole Prause

Interview With The Sex Researcher: Dr. Zhana Vrangalova

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Do People With ADHD Have a Harder Time With Monogamy?

Do people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a more difficult time being monogamous? Are they more inclined to be in sexually open relationships?

Sex therapist Ari Tuckman just published a book titled ADHD After Dark that explores these questions, as well as how ADHD impacts people’s sex lives and relationships more broadly. For this book, Tuckman surveyed more than 3,000 people who were in relationships in which one partner has ADHD and the other doesn’t in order to better understand when these relationships work—and when they don’t.  

One of the things Tuckman’s survey revealed was that persons with ADHD were more likely to have participated in both consensual nonmonogamy (i.e., being in some kind of sexually open relationship) and nonconsensual nonmonogamy (i.e., cheating or infidelity). Persons with ADHD also expressed more interest in having an open relationship compared to their non-ADHD counterparts.

I thought these findings were particularly interesting, so I asked Tuckman what he thought about how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship. Below is an excerpt from our discussion (you can listen to our complete conversation in this podcast). Note that this transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Justin Lehmiller: You mentioned how persons with ADHD expressed more interest in consensual non-monogamy and also that they had a harder time maintaining monogamy in the sense that they reported having been more likely to commit infidelity. This made me wonder whether polyamory or other forms of consensual nonmonogamy might be particularly well suited to persons with ADHD.

But, at the same time, it could be a double-edged sword. Something like polyamory could be a challenge for people who have time management issues, right? When you have more relationships to manage, that's obviously going to take more time. So I’m curious: do you have any thoughts on that, or any insights into how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship?

Ari Tuckman: First of all, I love the fact that you've kind of done a deep dive into this. I think it's an interesting thing and I think that you're absolutely right that, on the one hand, to effectively manage polyamorous relationships requires a lot of communication and coordination. Simplistically speaking, this could be a challenge for folks with ADHD. It's hard enough for them to keep one partner happy, let alone keeping two or three or more happy.

And there is the risk of that sort of hyperfocus, which when you're a kid might be on Minecraft. But as an adult, there's the risk of hyperfocusing on that new, awesomely interesting partner to the exclusion of your older or more familiar partner(s). So that would require much more direct communication. And much more assertiveness on the part of the longer-term partner to say: “You know what, I love the fact that you're having a great time with that new person, but I'm kind of feeling neglected right now. So, I'm not going to yell at you about it. I'm not going to be passive aggressive. I'm just going to speak my words, and we need to make sure that you and I are spending time together as well.”

“To do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship.”

I have zero data to back this up, but it's possible in some ways that folks with ADHD might do better with certain kinds of consensual nonmonogamy. I'm thinking, in particular, that guys with ADHD who have much higher sex drives than their non-ADHD female partners might do better in more of a strictly sexual nonmonogamous relationship rather than a more intimate, polyamorous arrangement. I think there's less complexity in that case. It might meet the higher-desire partner's needs while ensuring that the lower-desire partner doesn't feel constantly hounded and pushed to have sex that they're not really in the mood for.

That said, I think to do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship. These couples in particular really need to be doing a lot of things well to even consider doing this. But I do think it's a viable option for some.

Justin Lehmiller: You've just laid out some really fascinating hypotheses! As someone who studies consensual nonmonogamy, now I'm really interested in taking the role of ADHD into account in how these relationships work and how people navigate them. I've previously done research looking at how people's personality traits, attachment styles, and so forth are linked to satisfaction and success in consensually nonmonogamous relationships, but not ADHD—at least not yet. That's something I definitely need to look at in the future!

Ari Tuckman: I think it's an interesting overlay on top of everything that you've already mentioned. I also think it’s interesting that my survey showed that folks with ADHD were more likely to have infidelities, including the physical, nonemotional hookups as well as the more emotional, affair kind of arrangements. Either way, we all know how devastating that can be. So the goal is to stop the nonconsensual nonmonogamy and, instead, to either have really good monogamy or to have really good consensual nonmonogamy. It's all about the fact that—whatever it is—it should be consensual.

Listen to my full conversation with Tuckman here to learn more about how ADHD affects people’s sex lives and relationships.

Want to learn more about Sex and Psychology ? Click here for previous articles or follow the blog on Facebook (facebook.com/psychologyofsex), Twitter (@JustinLehmiller), or Reddit (reddit.com/r/psychologyofsex) to receive updates. You can also follow Dr. Lehmiller on YouTube and Instagram.

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Check out more of my interviews with sex researchers and therapists in these posts:

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: An Interview With Dr. Lori Brotto (VIDEO)

Interview With The Sex Researcher: Dr. Nicole Prause

Interview With The Sex Researcher: Dr. Zhana Vrangalova

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Do People With ADHD Have a Harder Time With Monogamy?

Do people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a more difficult time being monogamous? Are they more inclined to be in sexually open relationships?

Sex therapist Ari Tuckman just published a book titled ADHD After Dark that explores these questions, as well as how ADHD impacts people’s sex lives and relationships more broadly. For this book, Tuckman surveyed more than 3,000 people who were in relationships in which one partner has ADHD and the other doesn’t in order to better understand when these relationships work—and when they don’t.  

One of the things Tuckman’s survey revealed was that persons with ADHD were more likely to have participated in both consensual nonmonogamy (i.e., being in some kind of sexually open relationship) and nonconsensual nonmonogamy (i.e., cheating or infidelity). Persons with ADHD also expressed more interest in having an open relationship compared to their non-ADHD counterparts.

I thought these findings were particularly interesting, so I asked Tuckman what he thought about how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship. Below is an excerpt from our discussion (you can listen to our complete conversation in this podcast). Note that this transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Justin Lehmiller: You mentioned how persons with ADHD expressed more interest in consensual non-monogamy and also that they had a harder time maintaining monogamy in the sense that they reported having been more likely to commit infidelity. This made me wonder whether polyamory or other forms of consensual nonmonogamy might be particularly well suited to persons with ADHD.

But, at the same time, it could be a double-edged sword. Something like polyamory could be a challenge for people who have time management issues, right? When you have more relationships to manage, that's obviously going to take more time. So I’m curious: do you have any thoughts on that, or any insights into how persons with ADHD might fare in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship?

Ari Tuckman: First of all, I love the fact that you've kind of done a deep dive into this. I think it's an interesting thing and I think that you're absolutely right that, on the one hand, to effectively manage polyamorous relationships requires a lot of communication and coordination. Simplistically speaking, this could be a challenge for folks with ADHD. It's hard enough for them to keep one partner happy, let alone keeping two or three or more happy.

And there is the risk of that sort of hyperfocus, which when you're a kid might be on Minecraft. But as an adult, there's the risk of hyperfocusing on that new, awesomely interesting partner to the exclusion of your older or more familiar partner(s). So that would require much more direct communication. And much more assertiveness on the part of the longer-term partner to say: “You know what, I love the fact that you're having a great time with that new person, but I'm kind of feeling neglected right now. So, I'm not going to yell at you about it. I'm not going to be passive aggressive. I'm just going to speak my words, and we need to make sure that you and I are spending time together as well.”

“To do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship.”

I have zero data to back this up, but it's possible in some ways that folks with ADHD might do better with certain kinds of consensual nonmonogamy. I'm thinking, in particular, that guys with ADHD who have much higher sex drives than their non-ADHD female partners might do better in more of a strictly sexual nonmonogamous relationship rather than a more intimate, polyamorous arrangement. I think there's less complexity in that case. It might meet the higher-desire partner's needs while ensuring that the lower-desire partner doesn't feel constantly hounded and pushed to have sex that they're not really in the mood for.

That said, I think to do consensual nonmonogamy well, you have to be doing a lot of things really well in your relationship. These couples in particular really need to be doing a lot of things well to even consider doing this. But I do think it's a viable option for some.

Justin Lehmiller: You've just laid out some really fascinating hypotheses! As someone who studies consensual nonmonogamy, now I'm really interested in taking the role of ADHD into account in how these relationships work and how people navigate them. I've previously done research looking at how people's personality traits, attachment styles, and so forth are linked to satisfaction and success in consensually nonmonogamous relationships, but not ADHD—at least not yet. That's something I definitely need to look at in the future!

Ari Tuckman: I think it's an interesting overlay on top of everything that you've already mentioned. I also think it’s interesting that my survey showed that folks with ADHD were more likely to have infidelities, including the physical, nonemotional hookups as well as the more emotional, affair kind of arrangements. Either way, we all know how devastating that can be. So the goal is to stop the nonconsensual nonmonogamy and, instead, to either have really good monogamy or to have really good consensual nonmonogamy. It's all about the fact that—whatever it is—it should be consensual.

Listen to my full conversation with Tuckman here to learn more about how ADHD affects people’s sex lives and relationships.

Want to learn more about Sex and Psychology ? Click here for previous articles or follow the blog on Facebook (facebook.com/psychologyofsex), Twitter (@JustinLehmiller), or Reddit (reddit.com/r/psychologyofsex) to receive updates. You can also follow Dr. Lehmiller on YouTube and Instagram.

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Check out more of my interviews with sex researchers and therapists in these posts:

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: An Interview With Dr. Lori Brotto (VIDEO)

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Back in 2018 Joyner Lucas revealed that he would release his debut album ADHD in the near future. Well… it’s a hop, skip and a jump away from 2020 and the formal follow-up to his 2017 mixtape 508-507-2209 still hasn’t surfaced, save for the single “10 Bands.”

Well, getting a head-start on the annual Thursday Night Song/Album Drops-Slash-Blitzkrieg, he has shared the title track from the project. No longer on Atlantic Records, one can only wonder when the album will drop. Either way, listen below.

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Becoming Well-Known: Your Plan to Becoming a Recognized Expert : Social Media Examiner

What could you achieve for your business and yourself if you were more well-known? Could you reach and help more people with your message?

To explore how to become a recognized expert in any industry, I recorded a special episode of the Social Media Marketing Podcast.

I share a method that works for becoming well-known—regardless of what industry you’re in. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a plumber, an ADHD expert, or a B2B or B2C.

What I’m about to share with you will greatly increase the likelihood that you’ll succeed, reduce your risk of failure, and accelerate your success. Are you ready to hear what I have to say?

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Why Me?

Why is Michael Stelzner talking to you right now about becoming well-known?

In the mid-1990s, I started my own creative agency. We did everything from copywriting to market research to corporate identity, which included logo designs, website design, product marketing, and market research. We served mostly high-tech companies by assisting with all of the creative aspects of getting their message out there. We were just like every other agency on the planet in the 1990s.

In the early 2000s, I pivoted to focus on a specific kind of writing. I started a blog called Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers and I experimented with ways to get my message out. I started writing for other people’s blogs that were much bigger than mine, like Copyblogger and MarketingProfs. My message started resonating with a lot of people—and most of those people were writers and marketers.

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I started a website called whitepapersource.com. No, it wasn’t a source for getting white paper. Instead, it was kind of a precursor to Social Media Examiner. It was a place where you could learn how to craft and market with white papers. Before Facebook groups, there were forums. We had a forum where hundreds of people would come to discuss various topics around the idea of white papers.

In 2006, I wrote and self-published a book called Writing White Papers, which sold 10,000 copies. Many people referred to me as the world’s leading expert on this topic. I had a lot of big businesses as my customers: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, FedEx, SAP, Qualcomm, VeriSign, Dow Jones, and Monster. They were all lining up to work with me and I was able to raise my rates. I was set. If I had wanted to do this for the rest of my life, I could have.

Then, in 2009, I pivoted again. I decided to go behind the scenes this time and create a movement that wasn’t about me. Instead it was about helping others. Social Media Examiner basically started as a website with how-to articles.

Part of what I did in 2009, and have done over the last decade since I founded Social Media Examiner, was to really pour myself into helping other people become well-known in the industry that we’re in. I privately advised, coached, and mentored a lot of people you probably know, including Amy Porterfield, Mari Smith, Sue B. Zimmerman, Molly Pittman, Natasha Takahashi, Pat Flynn, Marcus Sheridan, Joe Pulizzi, Roberto Blake, Ray Edwards, Owen Video, Carlos Gil, John Lee Dumas, and Leslie Samuel.

I worked with a lot of these people when they were just starting out in their careers, and with my experience, I helped them become very well-known in their various niches.

A little more than 7 years ago, I launched the Social Media Marketing Podcast. All of a sudden, I became well-known again. To this day, the Social Media Marketing Podcast is probably one of the things I’m most known for.

So why am I qualified to teach how to become well-known? I have become well-known in two different industries: writing and social media. Also, I’ve helped a lot of other people become really well-known. I feel like I’ve got some wisdom to share so I’m going to do that now.

But before I do, I want to give you a little warning. If you want to become well-known, this isn’t a “fame and fortune overnight” kind of method. You’re going to have to do the work. That might be a little scary but I’ve met enough of you—in person at Social Media Marketing World and over the years—to know that work doesn’t scare you. I also know that you know that all valuable pursuits require work.

So if you’re willing to put in the work that I’m about to share with you, it’s going to make your path to becoming well-known so much easier it’s not even funny.

Why It’s Important

The decline in organic reach that we’ve seen on the social platforms over the last couple of years has made it increasingly harder for us to get our content and message out there because the algorithms’ job is to suppress that content. This method allows you to rise above those algorithms by leading more people to talk about you one-on-one and share the amazing content that you’re creating privately over DMs.

We operate in a world of digital distraction. There’s a lot of research that shows that we’ve never been more distracted. We have all these different devices with lots of different opportunities to distract our brains. When you’re well-known, you don’t have to compete with all of that because people seek you out. They want to listen to what you have to say. That allows you to get above the fray and distraction.

The truth of the matter is, because of the internet and social media, we have a lot more competitors than we’ve ever had before. But here’s the good news. What I’m going to share with you will allow you to rise above your competition because they won’t be doing it.

The DREAMS Method

If you follow my DREAMS method, it will help your dreams of becoming well-known convert to reality.

It’s a step-by-step process. You’ve got to go through each piece of this process one after the other, just like walking up a set of stairs. If you follow it, it’s going to radically reduce the risk of failure and accelerate your growth. It really does work.

This is where you’re going to create a super-clear vision of who you want to become and why—and what could be holding you back.

Think about depicting as creating a drawing or visual storyboard of your future. What do you want to achieve? Do you want more revenue? Do you want to help more people? Do you want to achieve personal goals like recognition, acknowledgment, or acceptance?

Do you want to speak on more stages or make more podcast appearances, or maybe get a book deal? What is it that you want that you wouldn’t even dare tell your closest friends or even your family because you know they would pooh-pooh your ideas?

Think about it for a second. What do you really want?

Once you figure out what you want, the next step is to imagine what kind of roadblocks you might face. This is especially important because if you anticipate what kinds of challenges you might run into and prepare for those challenges, you can route around them.

Michael Hyatt refers to these roadblocks as “limiting beliefs”: beliefs that limit our abilities. Michael says you need to take these limiting beliefs and reframe them, restating them as “liberating truths.”

For instance, one of the challenges you might be thinking about is, “I don’t have time for the work that would be necessary for me to become well-known.” You can reframe that as, “I make time for everything that’s truly important to me.”

And you know that’s true. If your family is important to you, you make time for them. If your business is important to you, you make time for it. If listening to this podcast is important for you, you choose to make time to listen to it when you know you could be listening to something else. Reframe that time challenge as, “I make time for everything that’s truly important to me.”

Another thing that a lot of people struggle with is the idea that there are too many competitors. I want to give you a podcasting example. If you pull up the Apple podcast directory and type in the phrase “real estate,” you’re going to see tons of real estate podcasts from people you’ve probably never heard of before. You could look at that and say, “Wow, there are dozens of them. Too much competition. No room for me.”

Or you could reframe it as this liberating truth, “There’s a lot of people interested in this topic and thankfully people have gone before me and proven this.” Said another way, “Others have already justified that a market exists; therefore, full speed ahead!”

My good friend Cliff Ravenscraft says another really great thing about reframing competition: “No matter who’s out there, there are some people who will never respond to anyone’s voice but mine.” Make that statement personal. There are some people out there who will never respond to anyone’s voice but yours. That’s a great way of reframing that roadblock.

How about fear? Fear is a biggie. I think we all face it. I like to think of fear as my green light. I reframe it to say: “When I’m scared, that means I need to move forward.”

Joseph Campbell, the author of The Hero’s Journey, has an amazing quote. He says, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” If you were standing in front of that cave and you knew for a fact that everything you wanted was inside, would you go in? Some people wouldn’t but some would. If you knew with absolute certainty that it was in there, why wouldn’t you do it? Of course you would. That’s how we’ve got to rethink fear.

How about, “I don’t have a plan. I don’t know how”? Here’s a great way to reframe that: “It’s not essential to know how. I believe it’s possible and that I will find a way.” I often refer to “how” as “the how weeds.” We get stuck in the how weeds and we never get out. Don’t worry about the how. Move into it and just know you’ll figure it out.

Here’s the other good news. I’m giving you a plan, a framework that you can follow. By the time you’re done listening to this, you’ll have a little bit more understanding of how you can do this.

Another important question to ask in the Depict phase is: What makes you special? Some of you may have no idea what makes you special—so ask other people. What are you known for? What are you an expert in? What makes you special?

I also want you to ask yourself: If you could overcome your limiting beliefs—the roadblocks that we just talked about—what could you achieve? What could you achieve if you just stepped into it? How could this achievement transform your business and your life?

I’m going to give you a quick example. I dream of teaching more people how to become well-known. My own roadblock is that while I’ve done it behind the scenes for a select few, I’ve never done it in public. I’m not known for this thing that I’m talking about with you. I reframed this in my mind to say that I have all the knowledge I need to teach this. I know that I can teach this because I’ve done it. And it doesn’t matter whether I do it one-on-one or one-to-many; I know I have everything I need.

What could I accomplish? The ripple effect of helping other people like you achieve your desires of becoming well-known could be absolutely enormous. I could change the world through people like you.

In the Research phase, you want to discover exactly what the struggle of your target audience is. Which of their challenges can you solve? And what about your competitors? What makes them amazing and what are their unique specialties and strengths?

Research is super-important but everybody seems to skip it. Then they wonder why things don’t work. Research is critical.

There are two sides to research. The first is researching your audience. Who exactly do you want to reach?

You might be thinking, “I want to reach people like me.” While that may be true, don’t assume that they’re just like you. Chances are pretty good they’re actually quite different from you because there’s no one else just like you.

If you know who you want to reach, try to figure out what their struggles are. What are their frustrations, and which of those can you help with? No matter what topic you want to be well-known for, you can’t possibly help everyone with every little piece of that big topic but you can help with certain aspects of it. That’s where you want to be intellectually honest with yourself and say, “Okay, these are the struggles they face. These are the ones that I’m uniquely equipped to help with.”

How do you know what their struggles are? Ask them. Talk to people. I did a little research project in a Facebook group for the Social Media Marketing Society. I asked people, “Do you want to be well-known in your industry? (And it doesn’t need to be related to the social marketing space.) If so, I’d like to talk to you.”

I had 77 comments. I selected about 10 people, did interviews with each of them, and had the interviews transcribed. After I transcribed them, I started tracking certain phrases they said, certain words that kept coming up over and over again.

In the process of interviewing these people, I realized that only a few were actually the target market that I wanted to reach. So I knew I needed to do more. I went out and surveyed people. In our case, because we have a lot of customers, I targeted about 270 of them. I sent them a really detailed survey mostly consisting of open-ended questions like, “Why are you interested in becoming well-known?” “Has becoming well-known been a struggle? Why?”

This is where the solid gold came out because I started noticing certain kinds of struggles that they were facing and the kinds of words they were using. I started making a lot of notes and documenting everything I discovered.

Another part of the research phase is to understand your competitors. Who are your competitors? Who are they targeting? What are their strengths; what makes them awesome?

For instance, some people have compared me to Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary’s amazing strength is that he’s always out there engaging with thousands of people every single day. Because he’s on the front lines talking to so many people, he has insight that most marketers don’t have. He’s creating content at a level that no one can possibly keep up with.

His strengths are that he’s a content machine and he’s always aware of new things, experimenting a lot with new tech and new social platforms. Who is Gary targeting? I think Gary’s targeting a very aspirational audience. I think a lot of people he speaks to are younger individuals who desire to make a name for themselves. That’s what makes Gary special.

Now if you were competing with Gary—which I don’t think I am—how could you be different? That’s an important question to ask yourself. In this phase of the process, you really want to document who your competitors are, what their amazing superpowers are, and who they’re targeting.

Then maybe you could say to yourself, “All right, I’m targeting someone slightly different,” or “I have different superpowers and I’m talking about slightly different things.” Maybe you’ll begin to wrap your mind around the fact that you can coexist in the same marketplace.

This is where you take all of the messaging that came out of your research phase and put it to the test. You want to make sure that you’re in front of the right audience and your messaging is correct. You want to keep running experiments until those certain right signals happen and you start hearing people say, “Oh my gosh, I love this. This is absolutely amazing.”

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In this part of the process, it’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to fail. The goal here is to take the research you discovered about your audience and what their struggles are. Then begin using that language and experimenting with messages targeted at your ideal audience. You want to run what I call “low-friction experiments.” To visualize this, you might do a poll on an Instagram story or you might start a discussion in a Facebook group.

Like a good researcher, you’re looking for certain kinds of signals. Are you hearing the word “love”? Are people saying, “Oh, my gosh, I love this! This is amazing,” or is it ‘crickets’, with no one saying anything? This is really important because if no one is saying anything, then either your message is off or your audience is off, and you’ve got to try to retarget to a different group. Just keep running experiments until you find what works.

This is where you begin to think about your own talking points. You now come up with your own methodology, like my DREAMS method. You identify the stories that you’re going to tell, whether they’re your own or other peoples’, and then you begin to work out your content strategy. You decide which medium is best for you: spoken word, live performance, edited videos, or the written word.

To augment means to make better or improve. This step of the process involves taking those messages that made it through your Research phase and developing them into something greater. You can develop core talking points in this phase of the process, like: “Who exactly am I for?”, “The unique problem I help them solve is (blank),” and “What is my solution, simply stated?”

In the Augment phase, you really want to focus on a phrase that I like to call “desired outcomes.” What’s the desired outcome for your audience? What do they want most?

I’ll give you a quick example. Social Media Examiner helps millions of businesses (that’s who we’re for: businesses) discover how to best use social media (that’s what we help them solve: how to best use social media) to connect with customers, drive traffic, generate awareness, and increase sales (these are the desired outcomes).

I’ll say it again. Social Media Examiner helps millions of businesses discover how to best use social media to connect with customers, drive traffic, generate awareness, and increase sales.

Develop your own core talking points. That way, everybody knows exactly if you’re for them and what they might achieve or gain if they were to participate in whatever it is that you’re doing.

The Augment phase is also a great opportunity to do something exciting. Have you ever noticed that some of the most well-known people in any industry have come up with their own methods? To illustrate, Gary Vaynerchuk has “jab, jab, jab, right hook.” Those of you who are Gary Vee fans know what that means. It’s give, give, give, and then ask.

A lot of other people have published books or talked about their processes and methodologies. They’ve figured out a plan to describe it in a way that’s super-easy, kind of like what I’m doing right now with this DREAMS method.

In the Augment phase, you want to come up with your own method or process that is unique, easy to remember, and makes a lot of sense.

Using the Augment phase, you also want to come up with some stories that you can tell. For example, in 2009, I went to a trade show and interviewed (on video) a guy named Scott Monty, who worked for Ford Motor Company. I asked him, and lots of other people like him, questions about social media because I knew nothing about it. They helped me understand a lot more. I produced those videos and my audience watched them and loved them. I’ve been telling variations of this story over and over again for the past 10 years. What stories could you tell?

The benefit of stories is that they help people quickly understand a concept. Stories provoke an actual physical response. Our brains absolutely love stories. A good story releases the hormone cortisol, which helps us make memories. And what do we want as marketers? We want to be remembered. Dopamine is also released. That allows us to lean in and be engaged.

What do we talk about all the time in marketing? We want to create engaging content. And oxytocin is released and that helps us with empathy and connection. We always talk about wanting to make great connections.

I love this quote from Ira Glass: “Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” So figure out a way to tell amazing stories. They don’t have to be your stories; they can be other people’s stories. But you’ve got to figure out how to tell them.

In the Augment phase, you’re also going to begin working on your content and your social strategy. You’re going to have to create content. This is where you’re going to have to think about which medium makes the most sense: the written word, spoken word, video, or live video. That’s the Augment phase.

This is when you begin to make content—and you now know that it’s going to be awesome because you’ve put in all the work. This is when you can do it without having to start from scratch by leveraging the platforms of others.

This is the exciting part of the process that everybody seems to jump right into. They go straight from a depiction to making, and everything falls apart because they haven’t done all of the crucial steps in between.

This is where you begin to make a name for yourself by making sure you show up on a regular basis with great content. I’ve been doing this with this podcast. I’ve been playing clips from videos that I’ve been creating. This is my way of making sure I show up. It’s my signal to you that this is something I’m familiar with and I know something about. Of course, I’ve been publishing these videos all over the place. They’re out there on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

This is so important. This is why all of this stuff begins to come together. This is why you’ll greatly increase your likelihood of success if you follow this method. When you get to this point in the process and you’ve worked through all of those other steps, you’re going to know exactly who you want to reach and what their struggles are. There’s not going to be any guessing.

You’ll have done your research. You’ll have experimented with your message. You’ll know which messages are going to resonate. You’ll have developed your talking points and your process. All of this is going to make it so much easier when you get around to leaning in and actually making the content that you know is ultimately going to connect with people.

Now, in this phase of the process, you also have to decide where you’re going to publish your content. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to go out and create something from scratch. You can leverage other people’s platforms, which is amazing. We’re going to get to more of that in just a second.

Remember the competitive research that I talked about earlier? I want you to go back to your competitors at this stage of the process and see where they’re publishing content.

For instance, Gary Vaynerchuk is releasing a new podcast called the WeeklyVee. He also was recently on the CMO Podcast. He tweeted about it and he said it was a great experience. So if I wanted to be in front of his audience, I could experiment with audio content—or maybe I’d let Gary have the audio content. Maybe I’d figure out a way to leverage my skills—maybe the written word—and I’d go out there and write content for that audience.

In this phase of the process, when you’re making content, it’s really good to go back to those competitors and figure out where they’re showing up. That can really streamline things.

You might have the gift of gab so podcasting might be a place you want to lean in on. What’s great about podcasting is there are lots of interview-based podcasts that you can show up on.

As an example, Rich Brooks has a great podcast called the Agents of Change. He interviews a lot of experts on that podcast. You can study the Apple podcast directory, see which podcasts in your industry do interviews, and try to get yourself on those podcasts. That gets you in front of the right audience and can give you a huge accelerant.

Maybe you love showing up on video. You could partner with some of your peers and do story takeovers. Lots of people do live video shows on LinkedIn and Facebook and you could be a guest on those shows.

Maybe the written word is your specialty. You can go write for other blogs. Social Media Examiner is just one of many multi-author blogs where we’re always accepting guest writers. If you check out Medium, they’ve got huge publications like Mission.org, where you can try to publish your content in front of their gargantuan audience.

What about speaking? Many people aspire to be like our solo speakers on stage at Social Media Marketing World or other large events but how about just starting with webinars? How about partnering with other people and doing joint webinars? I’ve been on webinars where I’ve just been interviewed.

If you do an event, how about being on a panel? Being on panels is great because there’s much less friction. You’re not the one doing all of the talking. You have an opportunity to listen and add more value instead of having to come up with original content. What about moderating panels? These are incredible opportunities that can get your feet wet.

Now, in the Make phase, as I mentioned, you can do audio, video, written word, and live performance-based content. I really want to encourage you to just do whatever type of content that’s best for you because the truth of the matter is that it’s very rare to have the ability to do all types well. You probably want to start with just one area and lean in on that.

Next, start tracking your performance. If you’re at a live event, watch to see whether people come up to you afterward to ask questions. Watch to see if people leave the room. If you’re on a webinar, see whether people leave comments. If you’re on someone’s podcast, give a call to action at the end. Then see if anybody reaches out to you or encourage people to connect with you on the social channels with their questions.

Track what works and what doesn’t because if you get no response, maybe you were in front of the wrong audience or maybe your message was off.

Okay, so far we’ve talked about Depict, Research, Experiment, Augment, and Make. Now the last letter in DREAMS is S, for Sync. This is when you build out those strategic relationships and you begin to take things to the next level.

This is where you begin to work with other people. You may even begin to work with your competition. At this point in the process, if you’ve been making content for a little while, you’ll have gained some traction and start to be recognized by your peers. You’ll have opportunities to naturally work with them and partner with them.

To illustrate, Derral Eves has an event called VidSummit that’s a competitor to Social Media Marketing World. I’ve been a speaker there multiple times. Derral and I don’t see each other as competition. Instead, we see each other as friends, even though we both have events with some of the very same speakers targeting very similar audiences. We’ve figured out how to add value to each other’s lives and audiences for a triple win: it’s a win for him, it’s a win for me, and it’s a win for the audiences.

This Sync phase is an advanced part of the process. Identify people you would love to collaborate with. This is where going back to look at those competitors is so valuable. Don’t think of them as competitors—think of them as potential future collaborators.

I recommend going to events held by competitors and collaborators. For example, I’m friends with Jim Louderback, who’s the CEO of VidCon, a gargantuan 70,000-person conference in Anaheim. We figure out ways to support each other.

Reach out on social media and make a video or provide some value to these peers of yours or get them involved with your content creation. Figure out a way to add value at this stage of the process.

In my second book, Launch, I introduced a concept called the elevation principle. It’s a simple formula: great content plus other people minus marketing messages equal growth. You all know what great content is. The “plus other people” part is where you can begin to collaborate and partner with other people. The “minus marketing messages” means don’t promote anything.

I think of marketing messages like flaps on an airplane. When you’re coming in for a landing, those flaps come up, and it slows the airplane. If you want to be more well-known, you need to try to strike out those marketing messages because your goal is to just get out there and be more well-known. That’s how you can achieve growth.

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Every single phase of this process is a module in the course, and each module has many sections in it. There are videos, worksheets that you can do, and you’ll be live with me at the end of every single week.

This is a 6-week course and it’s going to be absolutely amazing. You’ll have all of the audio and the transcripts. We’re going to have an exclusive Facebook group and I’m going to give you lifetime access. When we launch this course, if you get in now, you’re going to be in forever. As the course continues to improve over time, you’re in and you’re in for good.

I want you to think about what you could achieve if you didn’t have to hustle and grind. What if you didn’t have to work so hard to be in front of an audience just for minutes on social platforms? Instead, you’d have people out there constantly evangelizing for you.

If you think this is super-exciting and super-interesting, I want you to go to becomingwellknown.com. That’s where you can see more details about this course, and I’ve got everything mapped out there for you. I hope you decide to join me.

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Ehrlich’s classmate at Dartmouth, heads up South American operations. “After 10 years and exponential growth, it was readily apparent that there were only so many hours in the day and so far that I could scale the organization,” Mr. Ehrlich said. “I saw a tremendous amount of potential still within the sector, not just for the next year or two, but far beyond. It was clear to me that bringing on both very talented individuals that could complement my own skill set with their own knowledge base that they bring, as well as just the horsepower to drive the various teams.” Mr. Ehrlich added that scaling up the Verde Farms brand has led to the addition of a marketing team and a sales department so that face-to-face meetings with customers can continue. “We’re also putting more time and attention on social media, including Facebook, on promotions and merchandising from the shelf out,” he explains. “So there are a lot of different things that we can bring to the table to make not only ourselves successful, but our customers and hopefully, consumers when they bring the product home and eat it at the kitchen table.” Verde Farms also relocated to a new space that is double the size of the former office to accommodate the company’s growing staff; foster product development and enhance client services. “Even outside of our senior management team, our employee base has grown considerably over the last few years, and I expect that to increase,” Mr. Ehrlich said. Verde Farms aspires to be the leading brand within the grass-fed beef category, Mr. Ehrlich said. But the company also is working toward a beef production system that doesn’t rely on feedlots for cattle.

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Fitness For All Levels And Shapes

Many people want to get in shape, but think that it's hard to accomplish. You must keep in mind that education is key if you are the meet your objectives. Use the information here and it can help you get fit. Work out on lifting weights for no more than an hour. Muscle wasting happens within an hour. Keep your weight training under an hour. If you are using weights, begin with smaller weights first. The smaller muscles in your body get tired out before the larger muscles, so begin with lower-weight dumbbells and then move up to tougher-weight machines. That what, as you work out, you will achieve bigger muscles then your delicate muscles could take a break. The frequency of your workouts depend on exactly what you are trying to achieve. When looking to increase muscle size and strength, you need to not use a strength training routine on a daily basis. If you want your muscles to look sharp and defined, you should schedule more strength exercises. Track everything you do throughout each day. Write down every exercise you do and every morsel of food you put into your body. Also, note the weather every day. This will help you monitor the things that affect how much you exercise. If you choose not to exercise for the day, explain your reasons in your journal. Your pace when riding your bike should stay between 80 and 110 rpm. This will keep the strain off of your knees and allow you to ride further before you reach fatigue. If you don't want to invest in a digital device to put on your bike to keep track of your rpm and mileage, you can use simple math to figure your rpm. Count how frequent your right leg rises in 10 seconds. When you have this figure, multiply it by six. The sum you come up with is the rpm you are currently maintaining. People who play racquetball and tennis have found an easy way to strengthen one's forearms. Use a large sheet of newsprint to cover a flat surface. Work at rumpling up the whole newspaper for half a minute. Use your dominant hand. Once you have repeated this exercise two times do the same action one time with your other hand, then switch to the dominant hand again and do it two times more. Avoid over exercising when you become sick. Your body is already battling to heal itself during these rough moments, and the additional strain isn't advised. Your body will not be able to build muscle and endurance during this time. This means that you should stop exercising until you feel better. While you wait, consume plenty of nutritious foods and make sure you get a lot of rest. Now that you've reached the end of this article, you should have an idea of how you'd like to go about getting fit. Remember there is more information to learn and that the only way you're going to see any type of true progress is if you apply all that you know. Start with the knowledge you have accumulated and build on it as you go. Before long you will see positive results.

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If we can get there first, we can seize that opportunity and if we don't somebody else will." One of his key roles as Climate Change Minister was to get New Zealand to a zero emissions economy by 2050.  "We do have that leadership position in agriculture around the world and it's not just a matter of preserving that position, but about how do you maintain that in this changing world that we are in," he said. Shaw said the government would continue to support organisations such as the Global Research Alliance and Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium. That funding had to continue if scientists were to find solutions. He also thanked the farmers in the room and said they had done a "great job". "The progress I have seen in the last few years I think has been remarkable." Agriculture was the sector most exposed to negative effects of climate change and the summer New Zealand had just experienced showed that, he said. New Zealand's emissions profile gave him hope that farmers could do something about it. Methane emissions were up by 5 per cent on 1990 levels and emissions per unit of production in agriculture were down 1 per cent per year over the past 10-15 years. "What that suggests is that you can bend the curve." He emphasised that reducing emissions was not just about the agriculture sector and rhetoric about a divide between urban and country distressed him. "If we allow that to take hold and if it continues, then we are simply going to continue the argy-bargy that we have had for the last couple of decades. "This is about all of us and everybody has their part to play." Auckland city is the source of 20 per cent of New Zealand's emissions and that had to change as well. E. coli levels in cities were at multiple levels of what is seen in rural rivers.

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Curious About Vitamins And Minerals? Read On

Vitamins and minerals, or lack thereof, can make a huge different in your health. Multivitamins, taken regularly, can boost immunity and provide energy. The key is getting the right supplements daily. Use the following tips to make sure that you find something that works for you. Make certain you are getting enough vitamins to allow your body to recover from working out. This will allow your muscles to recover more quickly and provide you with the essential nutrients you need to stay fit. Learn how minerals and vitamins react with each other before taking any combination of them. For instance, iron can be hard to absorb because of calcium. If you take an iron supplement, avoid ingesting dairy for at least half an hour before or afterwards. The first step to proper nutrition is eating a balanced, healthy, whole foods diet. Fruits and vegetables are the best things to add to your diet. If you can't do this, you should try supplements to get some your vitamins and minerals. Any supplement which includes oil must be ingested with a meal. Vitamins K, A and E are among those vitamins that need to be taken with food. They are best absorbed when consumed along with fat. Iron is crucial to red blood cell production. This helps to transport oxygen through the body. Due to menstruation, women need iron supplements in higher doses than men. If you frequently feel exhausted and have difficulty breathing, you might have an iron deficiency. Riboflavin or vitamin B2 is found in bananas, green beans, popcorn, dairy, and asparagus. Too little riboflavin, also called vitamin B2, can cause cracked lips, scaly skin, and reduced hemoglobin and red blood cells. This important vitamin can reduce the risk of cancer, cataracts and anemia. We may want to eat as healthy as we can but it's hard on a budget. When you take vitamin and mineral supplements, you help your body rid itself of the fats many foods contain. This will help in digesting foods full of preservatives and Whey Protein chemicals as well. Getting enough vitamins and minerals is growing in importance. Many foods in the grocery stores are over-processed, which leads to the depletion of many nutrients. Gain these nutrients from a good multivitamin. If you have reached menopause, prenatal vitamins are not a good idea. Women sometimes take these supplements, even if they are not pregnant, to improve the appearance of their nails and hair. For post-menopausal women, these vitamins contain too much iron. Vitamin C can be found abundantly in citrus fruits as well as other fruits and vegetables. Supplements can be taken if your diet is not rich in vitamins. Vitamin C is known to reduce the risk of catching colds, as well as speeding up the recovery time when one is sick. In addition to the known benefits, vitamin C is known to help with mental focus for those who have been diagnosed with ADHD and more importantly, dementia and Alzheimer's. Now, you should be better prepared to give your body the nutrients it needs to stay in optimum condition. It can be tough to shop for supplements when you have no idea what to look out for. However, the information from this article makes it much easier to understand.

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Rick Horrow's 17 Unique Happenings in Sports in 2017: Top Storylines, Iconic Events, Interesting Brands, Hot Trends, and More

By: Tanner Simkins @TannerSimkins

  L.A had a big year in 2017 - Olympics, Chargers, Rams, and more.  Here we focus on LA 2028: Los Angeles was awarded the right to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in late July, bringing the Summer Games back to the United States for the first time since 1996. This will now mark the third time that the City of Angels will host the Olympics, following its turns in 1932 and 1984. In an unprecedented move, Paris was simultaneously announced as the host in 2024 by the IOC. According to WDTN, Los Angeles’ plan is to create a “New Games for a New Era” by utilizing the area’s existing infrastructure to successfully orchestrate a low-risk, financially responsible, and sustainable Olympics. The first official bid was announced back on September 1, 2015. Upon being officially granted the right to host, United States Olympic Committee Chairman and U.S. IOC Member Larry Probst said, “Today is one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic movements – and it’s one we’ve been waiting to celebrate for many years.”

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria impacted communities across the country. According to Facebook, their digital community rallied to help those in need by raising more than $20 million in the biggest fundraising effort for a single crisis in 2017 on Facebook. J.J. Watt and others helped raise over $20 million for areas affected in Texas. Other notable and inspiring aid storylines were uniquely powered by sport, social influence, and tech.

From the tragic shooting to O.J. Simpson being released, Las Vegas had a year to remember in 2017. The Las Vegas Knights became the NHL’s newest team this year, starting their inaugural campaign at the brand new T-Mobile Arena right off The Strip, and the NFL’s Oakland Raiders announced their planned departure to Las Vegas. The Raiders are planning to leave the Bay Area in 2020 if everything goes according to plan following a 31-1 vote in favor from NFL team owners. The team is banking on a $750 million public contribution toward their new 65,000, $1.7 billion domed stadium. The public money is expected to come from an increase in hotel room tax in the surrounding metropolitan area. Meanwhile on the ice, the Golden Knights have had an incredible amount of success through their first stint of games, sitting tied for first place in the Western Conference after 33 games, including an impressive 14-2-1 record at home.

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor dominated media headlines for months leading up to their August bout in Las Vegas. In the end, undefeated and undisputed boxing champion Mayweather came out on top in what was coined “The Money Fight.” The switch from MMA to professional boxing was a risky one for McGregor, but appeared to pay off financially. According to the London Telegraph, Mayweather’s guaranteed purse going into the fight was $100 million and McGregor’s was $30 million. On top of that, Mayweather’s projected earnings from pay-per-view is anywhere in the range of $150-200 million, bringing his total profit from the night’s work up to $300 million. Some reports have the total take up to $400 million. The fight at T-Mobile Arena lasted a full nine 3-minute rounds plus 1:05 of the tenth round before the fight was called off. Mayweather finished his professional boxing career 50-0, and some sources project his career earnings to be as much as $1 billion in total.

Bitcoin was a money making machine in 2017. Bitcoin and any of the other 800+ cryptocurrencies are digital-based currency and are not controlled by a central authority such as a government or bank. Supporters praise its use in secure transactions over the internet via the blockchain, a technology that records cryptocurrency transactions chronologically in a public digital ledger. If you invested $75,000 in Bitcoin one year ago instead of buying a luxury vehicle for example, that same stake would be worth about $1 million today. Naturally, athletes with disposable income are fueling the craze even more and adding to the viral nature of the trend. Also interesting: sports organizations like the Sacramento Kings accept BitCoin as payment at their facility.

The latest youth craze in classrooms and on sporting grounds are fidget spinners. These are brightly colored, hand-held trinkets that spin, have buttons to push, or otherwise keep hands occupied. The aptly named fidget spinners are supposed to enhance concentration, reduce anxiety, and stimulate learning. The devices aimed to curb ADHD have gone viral on social media this past year for everyday non-therapeutic use and sports marketing staffs across the country have tapped into the trend. Here’s one example: One manufacturer, SpinnersOnly, has licenses in the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA and at the peak of the craze had all their products on backorder.

The total solar eclipse featured the path of totality in North America, so naturally sports across the country were caught up in the excitement. During this celestial event, the longest period when the moon completely blocked the sun from any given location along the path was about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979. The first point of contact was in Oregon and covered the center of the country until total eclipse ended near South Carolina. From there, the lunar shadow left the United States, but the process left us with many images and memories from sports. The NFL’s Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers, and others ended practice early and handed out glasses to watch. The MLS Whitecaps wore eclipse-themed jerseys at their game, and other similar natured storylines took place.

Topps found a way to again reinvent the card business as its ToppsNOW brand sold over one million cards, giving fans access to the best moments in baseball, the UFC, and MLS the day after those moments happened. How impactful is ToppsNOW? The day after Shohei Ohtani signed with the Angels, the company sold 17,000 cards of his press conference alone.

The Drone Racing League took another step toward mainstream sports business conversations in 2017, adding big time investors, expanding their relationship with ESPN, and creating new streams of revenue like licensing. They will continue to evolve with new tech, fan engagement, global venues, and partners in 2018, which will keep them on the “must watch” list for the future.

Ever-growing popularity with the sport, a new commissioner, owners with deep pockets and a digital first mentality has put the National Lacrosse League, aka box lacrosse, into the growth column at the end of 2017 and into 2018. Expansion in key markets like New York, Dallas, and San Francisco, an intriguing take with Native American athletes (they have more than any other sport in the U.S.), and the explosion of indoor play on the college and high school levels across the country makes NLL a candidate for comeback league of the year for 2017-18.

Despite the departure of Keith Dawkins to FIRST TEE, Nickelodeon's Nick Sports had a breakout year, from bigger relationships with all the major sports to special events around Super Bowl, The NHL Winter Classic, and the ever-growing Kids Choice Sports Awards. As the channel looks to engage with a new audience, sports will be as key going forward as it was in 2017.

Run by two former Nebraska football players, the Opendorse platform takes several thousand elite athletes, tracks all their social relevance, and pairs them with brands. An infusion of investment money and growing partnerships with the leagues and teams have made them a “must look” for companies that want to marry social, athletes, and activations together for big ROI.

Growth company XTech has revolutionized, mostly by word of mouth, the next area of focus in protective padding: shoulders and legs. They custom design lightweight, shock resistant, waterproof, malleable pads that are now the rage in the NFL, elite colleges, and high schools. Who requests them? Odell Beckham and Von Miller, among many. Who doesn’t? Aaron Rodgers and Jameis Winston, both who suffered serious shoulder issues wearing the old fashioned, and unregulated, bulky plastic pads.

Online education leader EVERFI focuses on teaching, assessing, and certifying students in the critical skills that real life demands. Their digital course offerings address the issues that put pressure on students and their families and traditionally have not been taught with common standards or quality. They made sports headlines in 2017 by partnering with with major sports leagues, teams, foundations, athletes, and entertainers. EVERFI enhances communities and education programs, like STEM for example, at no cost to schools by partnering with organizations big and small.

Lavar Ball and the Ball family seemed to always be in the media in 2017. Whether it was oldest son Lonzo Ball being a top pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA draft, youngest son Melo Ball routinely dropping close to 100 points in his high school games, the founding and growth of Big Baller Brand, Lavar’s headline-grabbing antics, the family’s reality show, middle son and UCLA forward LiAngelo being arrested for stealing while in China, then news of Melo and Gelo going pro in Lithuania, and now talks of Lavar founding a junior pro league for top high school prospects as an alternative to college, 2017 seemed to be the year of the Ball family.

Social protests in sports, the Kaepernick effect, and kneeling continued in 2017. Early in the NFL season, President Trump said NFL owners needed to fire the “sons of bitches” who “disrespected the flag.”  After that, the loudest response came from a long list of current and former NFL players who took to social media to criticize the president for his comments. RISE, founded by Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, is an organization doing what it can to ease tensions. RISE is dedicated to harness the unifying power of sports to improve race relations and drive social progress led by an unprecedented alliance of professional sports leagues, organizations, athletes, educators, and sports professionals that uses sports to promote understanding, respect, and equality. Also of note: a new FOX Sports television show, "The Power Sports" presented by Group One Thousand One, delves into conversations with industry thought leaders to understand how different sports and business organizations are creating grassroots opportunities to engage youth and help drive positive social change.

2017 was a major step forward for women’s rights. International Women’s Day was the No. 1 most talked about moment in 2017, doubling from last year, with people around the world talking, sharing, and posting in celebration of women and related issues. The Women’s March in D.C. and satellite marches across the country, "leaning in," fight for equal pay, and the "Me Too" movement also moved the needle. Many sports organizations got in on the action; the LPGA’s Indy Women in Tech Championship presented by Guggenheim Life is a strong example, bringing attention and investment capital to the goal of increasing the participation of women in the STEM and tech workforce.

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Hi to all my hopefully future followers! I wanted to go ahead and put up my first post to introduce myself and kinda tell you a little bit about me.

Currently, I am 28 years old and living in MD as a Freelance Graphic Designer. I also do some data work for a company out of Delaware called Dealer Rewards. Graphic Design has been a passion of mine since High School (when I found out what it was), but I have always been into drawing and art. While working for Dealer Rewards, I found out they didn’t really need a lot of designing to keep me busy, so I decided to go a different route. That is when I started learning Java Programming, I tell you that it is an amazing skill to have and I admire anyone who can do it well. The feeling you get when you put code together and it just... works, such a rush! Unfortunately for reasons I believe I can’t disclose, I have had to find a 2nd source of income. I have ADHD come to find out, which explains why I couldn’t sit down and focus to learn the Java. Now I am medicine and it has helped me focus quite a bit, but I didn’t learn enough to keep with the programming. So I went back to what I know best, Graphic Design. 

Being out of the Design game for this long can really discourage you, especially when you seen some of the new tools and the work people are putting out. People these days are just making amazing works of art and it has been hard for me not to go into a depressive slump and ignore everyone around me. For a few years I have been working with Adobe CS6, which is amazing by the way, but I couldn’t use all the cool new features that Adobe was putting out without the CC programs. As of yesterday, I am not in the CC community and it has lifted my spirits exponentially! I haven’t been this excited and smiling this much for a long time. I have done a few designs here and there for family and just finally got a new logo job for an actual company! I can’t wait! 

I will be adding up pics of my work and anything else I may feel worthy of putting up. So if you want to see some of my work, feel free to follow!! 

This is my Facebook Page, go give it a like!

But this is the end of my first blog post, I am off to the first hockey session of the year! Thanks for the read! 

-Kevin