Ways To End Procastination

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Ways To End Procastination

Maybe you think you do your best work under a looming deadline, but that’s likely not the case — it’s probably just when you finally kick things into gear. Did you know the average American only works three days a week? However, you can reduce stress, avoid making unnecessary mistakes and streamline your career (and life) if you nix your bad procrastination habits. Easier said than done, right?

It’s never too late to address bad habits. Here are a few surefire ways to ditch procrastination for good so that everyone (your family, spouse, boss and friends) are much happier:

1. Learn the triage prioritization method

Name a few things that you do while procrastinating. It might be watching TV, perusing Facebook feeds or even emptying the dishwasher, when you really need to be working on that report. Just like a medical professional, everything you do should be dictated by a triage method of prioritization. What’s most pressing, but also what’s important (as in there will be trouble if it’s not done) and only takes a few seconds? Plan your moves accordingly.

2. Be realistic with time

This is arguably the toughest for a procrastinator to fix, but you probably don’t realize just how much time a task will take — even if you’ve been having the same commute for years. However, focusing on time and giving yourself an expanding buffer is crucial. For a month, write down exactly how long it takes you to complete each task. You’ll be surprised.

3. Institute a rewards system

Procrastinators often want instant gratification, and doing things they don’t want to do (like making the bed) isn’t offering that. To satiate that need, give yourself a rewards system. For example, if you do X tasks by X time, you “earn” an extra 15 minutes of scrolling through celebrity gossip sites.

4. Get held accountable

If you have someone who can hold you accountable, such as a roommate or co-worker, give them a list of what you hope to succeed and ask them to check in with you. However, try to get someone on board you don’t easily want to take advantage of. Otherwise, you may either come to resent them or they’ll basically have a brand new (unpaid) job on their hands.

5. Write down the side effects

Every day, write down the negative side effects that happen when you procrastinate (with pen and paper). Include how it impacts you, your family and friends, your work and your stress levels. Forcing self-reflection can force you to make changes when all else fails. Plus, it’s a reminder that your actions, or lack thereof, are making a difference in the lives of others.

6. Get counseling

This might sound extreme, but the reality is just about anyone can benefit from a routine mental checkup (just like with any other part of their health). A therapist or counselor can help you get to the root of your procrastination issues, be one of the people who holds you accountable, and help you make positive changes for good.

It’s not easy going from procrastinator to type-A, but it can make a fantastic change to your life.

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Twitter adds Support for Sharing URLs via Direct Messages

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Twitter adds Support for Sharing URLs via Direct Messages

Twitter on Tuesday has once again added support for sharing URLs via direct messages (DM).

The Twitter support page till Monday had a message noting that the company is updating its backend and infrastructure when describing the lack of the URL sharing ability in direct messages, reports The Next Web.

According to the firm, the backend work was required to help stop spam links that could end up flooding users’ direct messages.

Notably, Twitter has a limit of 250 direct messages per day (including sent and received) per account, and users beyond this limit cannot send or receive any more direct messages in one day. The social networking company can also suspend the ability to send direct messages for users who try to send duplicate messages to multiple accounts – both of which are methods to stop spam.

“Sending duplicate DMs to multiple accounts may be flagged as spam activity and can result in you not being able to send a DM for a short time. You may need to wait at least 30 minutes without any attempt at sending a DM before you’ll be able to do so again,” notes Twitter support page.

Meanwhile, the TNW report also says that Twitter is expected to roll out private sharing of public tweets via DMs this week.

Last week, Dick Costolo, Chief Executive, Twitter, had said that some new private messaging features would be introduced in the current quarter.

“I strongly believe private messaging virality is important to our long term growth,” Costolo said, a reference to when online content goes viral or is popularly shared.
Costolo noted that some of the Executives said the company needed to do a better job helping new users understand how to use the service. An upcoming “instant timeline” will quickly provide new users with content without requiring them to search Twitter for individual users to follow.

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Five Dead in Jerusalem Synagogue Attack

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Five Dead in Jerusalem Synagogue Attack

Two suspected Palestinian men armed with axes and knives killed up to five people and wounded four in a Jerusalemsynagogue on Tuesday before they were shot dead by police, Israeli media said, the worst such attack in years.A spokesman for Israel’s ambulance service told Army Radio medics were treating nine people, five of them critically wounded. Israel’s Zaka emergency response team said there were a number of fatalities at the scene.

Israeli media said four or five people had been killed.

“We are viewing this as a terrorist attack,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Media reports said one of the attackers was armed with a gun.

Violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories has surged over the past few weeks.

Five Israelis and a foreign visitor have been deliberately run over and killed or stabbed to death by Palestinians in the past month. About a dozen Palestinians have also been killed, including those accused of carrying out those attacks.

Residents trace the violence in Jerusalem back to July, when a Palestinian teenager was burned to death by Jewish assailants, an alleged revenge attack for the abduction and killing of three Jewish teens by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank.

The summer war in Gaza and a row over access to a Jerusalem compound sacred to Muslims and Jews alike have also been triggers for violence.

Source and Original Content by Christian Today

Emotions Flow Freely as Thousands Turn Up at Bahamas Faith Ministries International for First Sunday Service Since Crash

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Emotions Flow Freely as Thousands Turn Up at Bahamas Faith Ministries International for First Sunday Service Since Crash

Although prominent evangelical pastor Myles Munroe told the world that he had prepared his children to live without him should he die, his daughter, Charissa, and son, Myles Munroe Jr., couldn’t hold back their tears as they faced his former congregation for the first Sunday since his untimely death with their mother, Ruth, and seven others in a fiery jet crash two Sundays ago.

Kevin Harris, spokesperson for the Bahamas Faith Ministries, which the renowned evangelical pastor and motivational speaker led before his death, told The Christian Post in an interview Monday that attendance at the church exploded Sunday with supporters who had been rocked by the tragedy.

“We had an overflow. We had to bring in [a] tremendous amount of seating. Thousands of people turned up,” said Harris.

One 20-year member of Munroe’s church, who asked not to be identified, told CP that the mood inside the church Sunday was “somber.”

“It was a sad mood,” explained the member. “Everybody was saddened by what happened. There was tears and everything.”

A video posted to Facebook from the service shows a few minutes of Munroe’s son addressing the church during that service before blacking out to a voice-only recording.

Post by Agatha Bernett Christie.

“I was gonna prepare a speech, but as I was getting ready this morning I just knew that I was coming to talk to family,” Myles said, struggling with tears. “I figured I would just speak to family. It’s been the hardest week for my sister and I and my family, and everyone else that has been affected; and it’s because of family why we are able to stand here today,” he continued…Read More

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Pro-Life Catholic Priests Refuse Court Ruling on Birth Control

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Pro-Life Catholic Priests Refuse Court Ruling on Birth Control

A pro-life group of Catholic priests is refusing to obey a court ruling that it must provide birth control for employees as part of health insurance plans.

The United States DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim from Priests for Life that it should be exempt from the Obamacare legislation on grounds of religious freedom. A three-judge panel said that the regulations “do not impose a substantial burden on the Plaintiffs’ religious exercise.”

A statement from the national director of Priests of Life and Gospel of Life Ministries, Father Frank Pavone, denounced the judgement as “absurd”.

“Priests for Life will not obey the mandate! Not today. Not tomorrow. Now ever!” he said.

Father Pavone also told the Washington Times that “To ask a group of priests to cooperate in the government’s plan to expand access to birth control and abortion-inducing drugs is about as contrary to religious freedom as you can get.”

However, Judge Nina Pillard said that organisations that wish to opt out of the Affordable Care Act (AFA) are able to do so via a letter or two-page form in which they express their beliefs.

“Religious non-profits are excused from playing any role in the provision of contraceptive services, and they remain free to condemn contraception in the clearest terms,” she added…Read More

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Church of England Gives Final Approval to Women Bishops at General Synod

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Church of England Gives Final Approval to Women Bishops at General Synod

The Church of England today gave the final seal of approval to women bishops, following the passing of legislation by the General Synod in July.

At the Synod’s meeting this afternoon at Church House, an amendment which states that “A man or woman may be consecrated into the office of bishop” was written into Canon Law following a final show of hands.

Six officers signed the instrument of enactment before members of the Synod. The House of Bishops is scheduled to meet immediately after the close of Synod today.

Archbishop of York John Sentamu prayed for unity within the Church following the motion being carried.

It has been branded “an historic” day by Rev Sue Booys of Oxford, who gave the opening address.

The legislation was approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords last month, and has also already received royal assent.

In a speech before peers in October, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby commended the move as “long overdue”.

“Over the past 20 years many women have given outstanding leadership as vicars, archdeacons and cathedral deans. Now for the first time, every post will be open to them,” he said…Read More

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Hosting of Muslim Prayer Service by Washington Cathedral Condemned by Franklin Graham

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Hosting of Muslim Prayer Service by Washington Cathedral Condemned by Franklin Graham

The first Muslim prayer service ever hosted at Washington’s National Cathedral, a landmark Christian church in the US capital, was interrupted on Friday by a lone anti-Islamic protester and drew criticism from leading conservative spokesman Rev Franklin Graham.

Admission to the service was by invitation only and security was tight. It was designed to highlight the need for religious tolerance and for people of faith to reach out beyond their religious boundaries.

The protester, a woman from Michigan who declined to give her name, shouted “leave our churches alone” and “Why can’t you worship in your mosque?” “Jesus Christ is on that cross over there,” she yelled. “Get out of our church. Leave our church alone.”

She was removed from the service by a minister and by cathedral police. After the service, outside the church, the protester said she was not arrested, and was not harmed in the altercation. She did not explain why she disrupted the service.

“I didn’t do it for myself,” she said. “I did it for the Lord.”

Graham, son of evangelist Dr Billy Graham and one of America’s foremost Christian leaders, warned of the danger of obscuring the uniqueness of Christ when he wrote on his Facebook page: “It’s sad to see a church open its doors to the worship of anything other than the One True God of the Bible who sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to earth to save us from our sins. Jesus was clear when He said, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’ (John 14:6).”

In an address during the service, Ebrahim Rasool, the South African ambassador to the United States, who is Muslim, gave a sermon that preached religious freedom and condemned Muslim extremists as a dangerous threat to the world.

“They invade lands, behead journalists, execute civilians and declare war on anyone different to them,” he said.

Rasool and the National Cathedral’s Rev Canon Gina Campbell organised the service, with help from the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, Muslim Public Affairs Council and The Nation’s Mosque.

Campbell welcomed the religious gathering, saying the Washington National Cathedral was “a place of prayer for all people”.

“Let us stretch our hearts and let us seek to deepen mercy for we worship the same God,” she said.

Source and Original Content by Christian Today

Gay Couple Files Complaint Against Pastor

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Gay Couple Files Complaint Against Pastor

Two homosexuals who attend a United Methodist Church (UMC) in Winston-Salem, N.C., have lodged a complaint with Methodist officials against their pastor for not marrying them. Although same-sex marriage became legal in North Carolina last month, the UMC, like most Christian denominations, does not permit clergy to perform same-sex weddings or ceremonies.

Green Street United Methodist Church announced the complaint against its senior pastor, Kelly Carpenter, during a press conference Nov. 12. The couple, Kenny Barner and Scott Chappell, say that by refusing to marry them, Carpenter is violating the UMC Book of Discipline’s requirement for pastors to “perform the work of the ministry” and refrain from “gender discrimination.”

The couple’s Oct. 30 complaint stated they had been “victimized by Reverend Carpenter’s adherence to United Methodist Church rules,” and that the denial of a church-ordained marriage had caused “great spiritual harm to us both.”

The move appears to be a coordinated effort by the couple and the pastor to challenge UMC rules. Barner and Chappell are active members of Green Street Church, and Chappell is listed on the church’s website as executive director of one of the church’s social service ministries.

Barner is chair of the church’s leadership council, according to United Methodist News Service. The church openly advertises its inclusion of “LGBTQ” members and has, since 2009, been part of the Reconciling Ministries Network, a group of activist UMC churches seeking to change church policy toward marriage and ordination of gays…Read More

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Christians in Mississipi Targeted by Gay Rights Campaign

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Christians in Mississipi Targeted by Gay Rights Campaign

An LGBT rights campaign specifically targeting Christians has been launched in Mississippi, sparking anger from church leaders.

Under the banner ‘All God’s Children’, an ad is being run by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) which encourages churches to welcome gay people.

It features a 61-year-old self-described “Bible-believing born-again Christian”, Mary Jane Kennedy, who tells the story of her son coming out as gay.

“Nothing in my life had every prepared for that. I said, ‘What’s going to happen? This is going to tear our family apart. Your daddy will die.’ It’s hard to talk to somebody and tell them something that’s going to break their heart. And it was the first time in my life that I’ve seen him cry,” Kennedy says in the clip.

“One of the main things that I want to happen, is to open the arms of Jesus Christ to people that have been pressed out of the church; we’ve closed our doors to people who need us the most.

“God calls us to love each other…Read More

Source and Original Content by Christian Today

Remains of One of Britain’s Oldest Churches Discovered

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Remains of One of Britain’s Oldest Churches Discovered

The remains of one of the oldest churches in Britain have been excavated for the first time in more than 100 years.
The sixth-century St Piran’s Oratory near Perranporth in Corwall was first discovered at the end of the 18th century. It was the subject of two archaeological excavations in 1835 and 1843 before being encased in a large concrete structure in 1910 to preserve the fragile ruins. A number of skeletons, including one of a large headless man and a woman with a child in her arms, were found at the site.

The structure was removed in 1980 and the site was buried in sand because of continuing problems with vandalism.

Now a team of 90 volunteers under the auspices of the St Piran’s Trust has dug out the site by hand.

Ian Saltern, company secretary for St Piran’s Trust, told the BBC: “It’s in a better state than we could have hoped for. The preservation is pretty good for a building that is more than 1,000 years old.”

Open days for the public will be held on 22 and 23 November.

St Piran is the patron saint of tin miners and his flag, a black cross on a white background, is the emblem of Cornwall. He is said to have come from Ireland, where he was lashed to a millstone by heathens and pushed over a cliff; however, he floated across the Irish Sea to Cornwall, where he became an abbot at Perranzabuloe. He was a great preacher and his first disciples were a badger, a fox and a bear.

The story of St Piran is retold in a drama on the dunes near the oratory on the Sunday nearest to 5 March, St Piran’s Day, which is widely celebrated across the county.

Source and Original Content by Christian Today

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