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Yo naci en Fairfield Connecticut y eso impacto mi personalidad. Por ejemplo Fairfield dio me la oportunidad a ser trabajador porque a los escuelas, amable debido que los personas buenas en la ciudad, y dedicado a causa de los personas cerca de mi.

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Cuando era un nino, yo pase mucho tiempo con mis padres y como resultado, ellos tenian un gran impacto en mi vida. Durante mi tiempo con mis padres, ellos tambien ensenaron los valores de trabajo a mi. A causa de mis padres, soy trabajador en muchos aspectos de mi vida.

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"Isn't divorce less of a big deal for kids these days?" A colleague's wife asked me this question as we hiked down Parkman Mountain last summer, while taking a break from an academic conference. She asked the question after she learned that I studied American families. "After all," she added, "we're more accepting now of all sorts of families."

My hiking partner's theory was this: because kids in nontraditional families are less likely to feel ostracized or stigmatized nowadays, they are also less likely to be harmed by family breakdown than they would have been a half-century ago.

Her view is increasingly common. Many people, especially well-educated, left-leaning people like my Maine conversation partner, think marriage and a stable family are less important for children and adults in the contemporary world than they once were. Either because they adhere to progressive ideas about family diversity-the notion that love, not marriage, makes a family-or the individualistic belief that flying solo is just as good as flying with a copilot while raising kids, growing numbers of Americans now discount the value of stable marriage for children.

For instance, from 2006 to 2020, the share of adults who said it is "important" that unmarried couples who have had a child together "legally marry" fell from 76 percent to 60 percent, according to Gallup. This trend was especially pronounced among well-educated liberals, according to the 2022 American Family Survey. Only 30 percent of college-educated liberals aged 18-55 said "children are better off if they have married parents," as did only 36 percent of American liberals without a college degree. By contrast, more than 70 percent of conservatives-especially college-educated conservatives-took the view that marriage matters for children. But in general, Americans, and especially the most privileged liberals, increasingly discount the value of married parents.

No doubt these attitudinal trends are shaped in part by the progressive family ideas coming from the academy and media. Discussing the end of her marriage, University of San Francisco professor Lara Bazelon recently wrote in the New York Times that divorce is "liberating, pointing the way toward a different life that leaves everyone better off, including the children." Her article is one of many such essays that mainstream media outlets have published recently.

But hiking down the Maine mountain that summer day, I gently rejected this kind of thinking, noting to my interlocutor that my reading of the social science tells us that a stable, married family still gives children a leg up in life. I was thinking of surveys of family scholarship like this one from the Brookings-Princeton journal, Future of Children, reporting that "most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms." This week an important new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, by Brookings economist Melissa Kearney, underlined this conclusion. In the book, Kearney, who also teaches economics at the University of Maryland, conveys "mounds of social science evidence [showing] how the odds of graduating high school, getting a college degree, and having high earnings in adulthood are substantially lower for children who grow up in a single-mother home."

If anything, Kearney and the Future of Children's conclusions may undersell the value of a stable, two-parent family for kids today. Evidence mounts that the value of marriage and a stable family life for children is not only enduring but increasing. In the last year, a number of studies spotlighted the tightening link between family structure and the educational, social, and economic welfare of America's children. For instance, a new report from the Institute for Family Studies by Wendy Wang, Spencer James, Thomas Murray, and me shows that the benefit of hailing from an intact family rose across generations, from baby boomers to millennials. We found that a 14-percentage-point gap in college graduation between intact families and non-intact families among boomers grew to 23 percentage points for millennials. Our results parallel a study published last October by economists Adam Blandin and Christopher Herrington on college graduation trends from 1995 to 2015, which found that "family type has become an increasingly important predictor of college completion over time."

These findings complement other research telling a similar education-related story earlier in the life cycle for kids. A study headed by Kathleen Ziol-Guest at New York University exploring the link between family structure and "educational attainment"-how many years of schooling children complete-found that from the late 1960s to the 1990s, this link grew stronger: "the estimated [negative] relationship between the single-parent family structure variable and educational attainment more than tripled in size."

The family-structure gap dividing children and young adults is also growing on the financial front. A recent study from scholars at Peking University and New York University found "children who lived in single-headed families experienced greater increase in childhood income volatility" from the 1970s to the 1990s, meaning single-parent families and their children were subject to greater income swings in the 1990s than earlier decades even as the study found no increase in income volatility for children raised in two-parent homes. Income volatility matters because it often translates into families having less money to cover important costs such as rent, food, or child care; in the words of the study's authors, Airan Liu and Siwei Chang, it "can also stress parents and compromise their ability to provide high-quality child care."

Likewise, the new Institute for Family Studies report found that the advantage associated with being raised in an intact family for young adults' odds of reaching the middle class or higher as thirtysomethings has grown in recent generations. For boomers who entered their thirties around 1990, coming from an intact family boosted their odds of reaching the middle class or higher by 16 percentage points. By contrast, millennials who entered their thirties in the last decade and grew up in a stable family saw their odds boosted by 20 percentage points. We again have yet more evidence that, at least for some outcomes, the advantage of being raised in a stable, married family may be growing for today's children and young adults.

Why are studies showing that the benefits of marriage and a stable family for children today are larger than in the past? Is it because marriage is increasingly the preserve of educated and affluent Americans, thereby skewing the results? Well, no. The studies referenced above control for factors like race and parental education, and still find a premium associated with being raised in an intact family. So that's not likely the story.

Three other factors seem more likely explanations. First, dads are more involved in their kids' lives than they used to be. This means children in married families generally have the benefit of more fatherly attention today than they did a few decades ago.

Second, as more married women work, the financial benefits of marriage for kids continue to rise. This means married parents can devote relatively more money today to the rising costs of parenthood-from tutoring to travel sports to tuition for college-than can parents in nontraditional families, especially single-parent ones.

Third, a new study published in Demographic Research indicates that couples are initiating divorce or family breakups for less serious reasons than in the past, which means that more kids today are exposed to "low-conflict" family dissolutions (where the relationship breaks up for reasons unrelated to domestic violence or recurring fights). "Unfortunately, these are the very divorces [and breakups] that are most likely to be stressful for children," because they seem relatively incomprehensible or unneeded to kids, as family scholars Paul Amato and Alan Booth noted in their book A Generation at Risk. My Maine conversation partner would undoubtedly be surprised to learn that the evidence continues to mount against the theory that family instability is not "a big deal for kids these days."

What we have, then, is a troubling family irony unfolding in the United States. On the one hand, Americans-especially well-educated liberals who dominate the discourse and policy related to family life-increasingly discount the value of marriage and stable, two-parent homes for children. On the other hand, the actual benefits of marriage and a stable family for kids appear to be mounting. What's especially ironic is that the very group of Americans most likely to deny or minimize the value of marriage- college-educated liberals-are much more likely to enjoy the benefits of a stable family life than are less-advantaged Americans.

The scholars, journalists, and policymakers who drive so much of our family discourse and policies today ought to notice this new family science and bring it to broader attention-in schools, media, and other venues. Doing so might not only reverse the devaluation of marriage and stable family life among the public at large but also increase the odds that more mothers and fathers will give their kids the benefit of being raised by married parents.
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Un cosa importante en mi vida cuando era joven eran los deportes. Por ejemplo, yo juege futbol, baloncesto, y beisbol.

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Los eventos en mi vida cambio mi personalidad ahora. Porque a todos a mencion antes de eso, soy quien soy.

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Yo tengo un buen grupo de amigos a causa de mi ciudad y los deportes. Yo paso mucho tiempo con mis amigos y ellos hacen a mi mas feliz. Tambien, mis amigos apoyan a mi cuando estoy triste o cuando tengo mucho estres.

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Ahora, a causa de mi ciudad, soy determinado. Un ejemplo que representa eso es que yo trabajo mucho en la escuela para ir a una universidad buena porque mi escuela dio mi muchas oportunidades. Un otro ejemplo es que yo ejercicio mucho para ser mas saludable.

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First, let me explain why this post is all about how determined are you to succeed?

The topic of last week's blog ' How you can develop your personal brand in five easy steps ' stirred lots of debate primarily driven by the question 'What are people saying about you when you're not in the room?'

Whilst some of the conversation banter included characteristics which I most definitely couldn't write about here(!) the majority of the debate was asking 'what would you WANT people to be saying about you? '

Which leads me back to this post and the question 'how determined are you to succeed?'

You see, determination and your will to succeed kept getting mentioned time and time again as a winning trait. A trait people wanted to be known for. And it came down to this. Your personal brand is practiced not so much in words but as in attitude and actions. And determination is certainly not an attitude you can ignore.

Without determination, grit, perseverance - whatever you want to call it - you won't go far. Obstacles, challenges, people and life events will block your path - some intentionally and others by accident.

That resounding determination, that self-belief to keep going, pressing forward towards your end-goal comes from within. How determined are you to keep going?

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get backup' Vince Lombardi

One of my personal favourite stories to demonstrate this is that of Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, the man who gave us Rocky, Rambo, and a number of the most celebrated movie characters of all time. Stallone not only played the eponymous character in each of those movies, he also wrote every script and directed some of them.

Today he is Hollywood royalty; a man whose name opens doors and who commands respect.

But life wasn't always so kind to him. His slurry speech and droopy visage are the result of a forceps accident at birth, and though they've become trademarks for him, they were extremely challenging obstacles for a younger Stallone.

His parents fought, he spent part of his childhood in foster care, and was expelled repeatedly from schools as a result of what was deemed a difficult attitude.

In later years, having turned his hand to acting, he found himself constantly rejected causing him (thankfully, as fate would have it), to turn his hand to writing scripts. Not that it helped him at the time. His scripts initially received no greater enthusiasm than his acting attempts and he and his family lived in poverty, struggling even to find enough to eat.

Then one day in 1975, Stallone saw a boxing match on TV between Chuck Wepner and the great Muhammed Ali, in which Wepner took a major battering but kept coming back for more. It was just the underdog story Stallone was looking for, and he began to dream up his signature character: Rocky Balboa.

Twenty-four hours of focused writing gave him the script that is so beloved today . . . but once again, absolutely nobody wanted it. By this time, he was so poor he had to sell his best friend . . . he stood outside a liquor store with his beloved dog and offered it for sale for $50, giving him some very temporary relief.

And then it happened! Or almost, anyway.

The poor, hungry, desperate Stallone was offered a massive (for its time) $100,000 for the script, potentially solving all his problems in one fell swoop. He insisted that he wanted to play the role however, and when they declined, this man, with his back against the wall, turned it down. Yes, you read that right.

A few weeks later, they came back with a higher offer. He insisted once again that he act out the role and once again, the offer was rescinded. The offer came back again and again, and eventually topped $400,000, but Stallone refused to sell it unless he could also play the part of Rocky. Eventually, the investors relented but with one very stiff caveat: they would offer only $25,000 if Stallone played the lead role because they didn't want to take the risk. He accepted and went straight back to the liquor store to reacquire his dog.

I know, you're thinking that this can't be real, but I assure you it is. Wait for it though, it's going to get even crazier.

Stallone waited outside that liquor store for three days before he saw the guy who bought his dog. He offered him $150 for it. The guy declined. He offered more and more and more, and eventually he offered the guy $15,000 and a role in the movie. The guy and the dog are in Rocky.

The following year, 1977, Rocky won the Academy Award for best picture and at the awards ceremony, Stallone read out all the rejection slips he had received. The film cost $1,000,000 to produce. It grossed $225,000,000 at the worldwide box office.

Stallone's story is one of outrageous levels of commitment to his dream, vision, and goals and of pure grit, determination and will to succeed. You can make your goals a reality, depending on how strong your will & determination is to do so.
The strength of your determination is what will move you towards your end-goal.
There are many stories of successful people who started out with nothing or very little but they were all determined to succeed in their chosen field.

Think of a time when you were able to accomplish something that wasn't so easy to do. How were you able to do it? What did you do differently? What made you keep going? That, right there.... is determination in action.

I love the saying if Plan A doesn't succeed, remember there are 25 other letters in the alphabet. Just keep on working through letters B-Z if you have to.

Whilst the journey along the way or even the end result may not have been what you originally had in mind, you got there in the end, on the path you were supposed to be on.

If you feel like you're struggling at the moment or things are feeling 'heavy' and your determination levels are not where they need to be, remember these tips;

1. Don't give up - obvious I know but you don't know how close you are to where you need to be. It could be just one more 'setback' away.

2. Be thankful for the 'No's' as they are getting you closer to your 'yes's. Why - because it's creating clarity and passion in what you're doing by either helping you hone and polish or dig a little deeper. The 'No's' are getting you better at what you do, preparing you for the 'yes's'.

3. Whatever your end goal, break it up into manageable steps. Take the small successes as they come, you'll draw on these as you hit your next challenge.

4. Be prepared for set-backs, in fact, accept they will happen. Remember Vince Lombardi's quote "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get backup'

5. Keep your vision and end-goal in mind, whatever it may be. This is driving your will and determination to succeed.

If this post resonates with you and you're kicking a$$ out of your challenges, setbacks, or obstacles then I think you know the answer to the question how determined are you to succeed? You can safely bag this as a winning trait of your personal brand!

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Soy amable porque aprendi mucho valores de mis padres. Ademas, yo tengo un familia y amigos buenos que no son un malo influencia.

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If you think being a happier person isn't in the cards for you, that joy is simply out of your hands, there's some serious behavioral neuroscience that will change your mind for good (literally). Yes, some people seem to have been born happy. Yes, others are better at "choosing" happiness, even when things are hard. And still others have the brilliant capacity to feel lousy, but then bounce back and feel happier again in no time at all.

Some of this can be chalked up to winning the genetic lottery. According to the 2022 World Happiness Report, some lucky people really are naturally happier: "[Thirty] to 40 percent of the differences in happiness between people is accounted for by genetic differences between people...Some people will be born with a set of genetic variants that makes it easier to feel happy, while others are less fortunate."

Really, though, it's far more layered than that, and the differences between individuals' unique happiness levels are best explained by a "complex interplay of....genetic predisposition and his or her environment," the report notes.

But even outside of our DNA and external circumstances, we all have the power within us to be happier.

"We tend to believe we'll be happy when certain conditions are met, when we've achieved this or that, but that's a common myth," says Elissa Epel, PhD, professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, researcher and co-creator of The Big JOY Project, and author of The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease. "We don't have to hope that we'll feel better someday. We have more control than we think. We can take the reins and discover what we can do now-small things that can boost feelings of joy or content."

The Power of Habits to Feel Happier

You can be happier without a magic personality transplant. But how? "Choosing" happiness is one way of thinking about it, but that makes it sound easier and more immediate than it is for most folks. It's not usually as simple as flipping a switch. (Try telling someone with clinical depression that happiness is a choice and see how far that gets you.)

Increasing feelings of joy and happiness in a sustainable way lies in the power of habits.

"Habits are formed when we repeat behaviors. [They] get embedded in our neural wiring, in the basal ganglia," Epel explains. Consciously adopting habits and very mindfully paying attention to their pleasant effects harnesses the power of an existing, positive reward system in our brains. "When a behavior triggers a positive emotional response, we're likely to remember this and do it again," she says. "Awareness of how something makes us feel good can help us develop new positive habits."

More specifically, Epel's research for and findings from The BIG JOY Project have uncovered that micro-habits are the true key to boosting happiness (and making it last). Practicing bite-sized, actionable, realistic, everyday behaviors and activities can, with a little consistency and commitment, actually rewire your brain to feel more joy, be happier, and move through the world with more positivity.

"Findings from neuroscience, psychology, medicine, public health, and other fields increasingly confirm what life experience and spiritual traditions have been telling us for thousands of years: that joy can begin within us when we choose to do even a tiny action in the direction of joy, and make a habit of it," she says.

According to Epel, researchers refer to temporary moments of joy as "Hedonic happiness." These are pleasant states of emotion that feel great, but "are not a sustainable source of joy." But happiness that does last is called "Eudaimonic happiness," and includes deeper feelings of belonging, a sense of personal value, meaning and purpose, and learning and growth, she adds. Fleeting feelings of joy on their own don't last, but Epel says we can use them as "building blocks toward more sustainable well-being"-we can turn Hedonic happiness into Eudaimonic happiness by making a (healthy) habit of it.

Habits to Boost Happiness, According to Neuroscience

The BIG JOY Project is the largest-ever citizen science project studying joy, created by researchers (including Epel) from 17 universities. Informed by research that's found the most effective activities for boosting happiness long term, the project is a digital experience that offers mini, science-based actions to train the brain to create and maintain joy more quickly and easily.

Below is a list of joy practices that The BIG JOY project provides. They're "very brief activities we can try in order to train our brains to access joy more quickly and easily-and for longer," Epel says. "When we face adversity, we can return to the exercises that will direct our brain to a place of peace and a more sustainable source of joy that is not as easily swayed."

Do 5 daily acts of kindness.

"Can you try to do five kind acts for others?" Epel asks. Think about gifting someone else with their own mini moment of joy. Send your friend a funny text message, call your grandfather, write a positive comment on an Instragram post, pick up a piece of trash, bring your doorman a latte. No need for big gestures (or price tags) here.

Focus on gratitude.

How? Make it concrete: Write it down, say it out loud, think of it first thing in the morning. "Make a list of things you are grateful for, small and large," Epel says. "Gratitude is an antidote to stress. We can set ourselves onto a more positive trajectory for the day if we start the morning with gratitude. When you wake up, think of something you're grateful for."

Experience nature every day.

Go outside every single day and let the natural light, sounds, smells, and surroundings lower your stress and lift your spirits. "Get outside and notice the views or urban greenery around [you] by opening up all of your senses and moving in a mindful way," Epel says.

Reframe negative events to find a silver lining.

Bad things happen, and they will keep happening. Acknowledge the pain, the inconvenience, the anger ( no toxic positivity here). But then work hard to "shift your perspective [by] finding the benefit within a daily hassle," Epel says.

One helpful modification if you're feeling particularly stuck in your pessimistic ways (remember, that's just a habit you can break!), start even smaller: See if you can shift your perspective to find something more neutral about a setback or grievance. That situation stunk, but can you tolerate it? Will it pass? Have you gotten through something similar before?

Capitalize on positive events for others.

This goes along the lines of showing kindness toward others, but it's really about listening and being present for your loved ones. "Solicit and actively listen to stories about what's going well in other peoples' lives," Epel says.

Affirm your most important values often.

If our actions and life decisions don't mesh with our deepest values, unhappiness is rarely far behind. Remind yourself of what you value most in the world, then take stock of whether or not you're living for them. Epel suggests, "rank the importance of four core values and write a brief account of how they show up in [your] life." Return to this list of values often to help you make hard decisions, to steer yourself back toward contentment, and ultimately find more purpose and happiness in everyday life.

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