Since the late 1980s, clever marketing caused body washes and shower gels to outperform traditional solid bars of soap. However, the shift toward using personal care products with fewer chemicals and leaving behind less waste has caused bar soap to regain popularity.

Figuring out what is best for you

<ul><li>Bar soap. A bar of soap is a solid chunk of cleanser traditionally made by mixing oil (coconut oil, palm oil, and olive oil) with a liquid (water), and an alkali (sodium hydroxide, known as lye). Today, most soap bars are made using synthetic forms of traditional soap ingredients.</li><li>Shower gel is firmer and gel-like with added fragrance.</li><li>Body washes are liquid cleansers that use mild surfactants. Body washes tend to be thinner and creamier than shower gels.</li></ul>

The difference between bar soap, shower gel, and body wash

<ul><li>If you have dry skin and prefer a liquid cleanser, a body wash may be better as it's more hydrating and moisturising than shower gel.</li><li>Those with naturally oilier skin or who live somewhere hot or humid may want a shower gel or traditional bars of soap.</li><li>People with sensitive skin may opt for a body wash, as it has a lower pH level than traditional bar soap.</li></ul>

How to pick the best cleanser for your skin

There's no right or wrong answer: Just figuring out what's best for you.

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Should You Use Shower Gel, Body Wash, or Bar Soap?

Influence is one of those buzzwords that’s often associated with the top echelons of leadership or with a talent for sales or marketing.No matter what field you work in or how senior your job—entry level, middle management, director, C-suite—you rely on influence to do your job. Naturally if you’re a boss, you’re influencing staff to perform and behave in line with your vision and expectations. But if you’re an entry-level employee—you may not be aware of how much influence you use to teach your colleagues the best ways to communicate and collaborate with you.

You’ll Need to Use Influence in Any and Every Job You Have

Because telling is the quickest way to wield influence, it’s well suited for emergencies and regulations. It’s authority driven, or top-down, meaning it’s usually distributed from higher leadership down through lower positions (from CEO to staff, from manager to direct report, and so on).Telling may be expedient, but in cases other than those necessary regulations, it’s surprisingly ineffective, as most people do not like being told what to do.

Influence Type 1: Telling

At work, as in life, change—even if we say we want it— is difficult. Selling is a way to get buy-in and support for a new idea or culture shift. Whereas telling stops at a declaration of the what, selling digs into explaining the why (like why this strategy will work or how it’ll benefit everyone) in order to persuade others to get on board and, hopefully, excited. And it can occur from top-down, bottom-up, and laterally.

Influence Type 2: Selling

If you’re trying to make a big decision, you might reach out to a trusted friend for their perspective. But even though your friend may have fantastic advice, you’re ultimately in charge of whether or not to use it. Consulting at work uses the same principle: It’s a collaborative process based on conversation and co-creation, in which one party has the authority to make the final call.Consultation is a very effective type of influence because it creates a sense of partnership and teamwork, and because one person has the final say, it also doesn’t require everyone to hash things out randomly.

Influence Type 3: Consulting

When an old problem persists, a company is thrown a curveball and there’s no precedent for how to handle it, or a team is tackling something new or different, it’s a good time to collaborate. And workers at all levels can exercise their leadership by providing the structure to communally <a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/problem-solving-skills-workplace-job-search">problem solve</a>.

Influence Type 4: Collaborating

It’s essential to pause and first identify the outcomes you’re looking for. Do you want to get buy-in for your idea? Get a boss to treat you differently? Implement a more effective way for your team to work together? Then, knowing your audience and using the guidelines above, select the right mode or combination to manifest the outcomes you’re looking for.

Use As Required

Because you’ll need ‘em, no matter what kind of job you have or how senior you are, according to a leadership consultant.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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4 Types of Influence and How to Use Them at Work

Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which you feel like you don’t deserve your accomplishments. You might feel like you don’t belong, don’t deserve your success, or are “out of place.” You might even be constantly worried others will expose you as a fraud.People with impostor syndrome are unable to internalize success.It can affect anyone—from professionals to students to highly accomplished and successful people.

Impostor Syndrome

It is a type of imposter syndrome that focuses on how something should be done—they want 110% from any project or assignment, each and every time. When these standards aren’t met, however, impostor syndrome kicks into gear.
Impostor Fix: To overcome your perfectionism, try the “Good Enough Quality” Method. It’s better to hand in something that’s good rather than strive for the best. Perfectionists want to spend more time preparing, so you’ve got to break that cycle with action.

The Perfectionist

This is the equivalent of a fixed mindset. Natural geniuses think they should always be smart, be fast learners, or excel at everything they’re taught.
They have a tendency to look at the pros in their field and wonder: _Why am I not there yet? _They often don’t realize there’s a mid-stage process called learning that takes beginners to the pro level, so when faced with setbacks, they usually question their own competency.
Impostor Fix: To overcome your genius complex, try cultivating a growth mindset - the belief that with effort, you can improve your abilities, skills, and talents.

The Natural Genius

Experts strive for more—more knowledge, more experience, and more awards. Experts strive to be perfect because they want to please others. They feel like an impostor because there’s always someone better out there.
Impostor Fix: Experts should recognize there’s never an end to knowledge! So instead of always accumulating more knowledge/skills, try to accumulate them only when needed. This means focusing 100% on accumulating one skill instead of dividing your attention to learn everything.

The Expert

The Rugged Individualist believes they can do everything themselves and prefers to do things without asking for help. They believe asking others is a sign of weakness.
Impostor Fix: The problem of not asking others may be because you haven’t found the right people. Ask yourself: “Who are the top 5 people I spend the most time with?” If they are dream builders and not dream crushers, then you’d naturally want to learn from them.

The Rugged Individualist

The Superwoman or Superman loves to take on more responsibility. They have a hard time saying no and often work harder than their peers. A superwoman or superman often juggles many tasks at once, even to the point of over-exhaustion.
Impostor Fix: If you’re running in super mode, you’re almost always also a people pleaser. You want to impress, and taking on extra responsibility is your idea to get there. You have to understand why this happens and interrupt this cycle.

The Superwoman/Man

This is a way to change your self-talk to guide your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors:
<ul>
<li>Choose an anti–impostor syndrome phrase - a positive affirmation or your own personalized phrase that helps you break out of impostor syndrome. I.e: "I got this!"</li>
<li>Choose your safe space where you’re free from distraction.</li>
<li>Choose a mental image. Every time you think of this image, you’ll be reminded of your own unique expression. Repeat your phrase while visualizing your image. Try this for just a couple of minutes twice a day. </li>
</ul>
In time, your brain will become more hardwired to believe your own thoughts.

Deal With Impostor Syndrome: The Coué Method

Get a piece of paper and a pen and write down everything about you that you are trying to hide: your most ridiculous beliefs, the worst parts of your character, and all the things about you that make you feel like a fraud.
While this exercise won’t help get rid of these bad things, externalizing them can help you put them into perspective and feel better about them. It will feel like a weight off your chest.

Deal With Impostor Syndrome: “Go Mad” for 30 Minutes

Writing therapy has proven to be a great remedy for impostor syndrome.
<ul>
<li>When you are feeling those self-doubts, you can pull out a journal and write about 5 things you are grateful for. Or take a screenshot and save the picture in a folder labeled “Success File.”</li>
<li>You can also capture your proudest moment of the day or any small wins you’ve accumulated. This gets those positive juices flowing.</li>
<li>When you’re trying to make progress with your impostor syndrome, you could also have a file for uplifting things. Write about what other people have said about you and records of your accomplishments.</li>
</ul>

Keep a Success File

If you’re constantly checking social media, you may be unfairly comparing yourself to others.
A digital detox is when you unplug and get off social media and email for some time—say, 10 days. You can do it from home or even on vacation if you’re a remote worker.
After coming back from a digital detox, you might notice you compare yourself to others less and feel happier.

Digital Detox

The Dunning-Kruger effect is when you think you already “know” everything or brush off other people’s advice. People who experience the Dunning-Kruger effect are super confident and even arrogant—but the fact is we’ve all probably experienced this effect at times.
For example, an engineering student may decide to skip studying for a test because they think they already know the answers—only to fail miserably since they were underprepared.

The Opposite of Impostor Syndrome: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Steps to overcome the feeling that you don't belong where you are, and you only got there through dumb luck.

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The Imposter Cure

Do you feel like an imposter? I’m here to help! In this article, I explain what is imposter syndrome and how to overcome it.

The 5 Types of Imposter Syndrome (And How to Overcome It!)

While it is always important to be authentic when presenting, a virtual presentation is akin to a stage performance. Your "stage" is now a small virtual box. Therefore, your energy level, as well as your gestures, should be more pronounced than they normally would be if you were delivering the presentation in person. Virtual fatigue is real, and this will help to keep your audience alert and engaged.

Be theatrical

Think about what you can do that will be visually stimulating to your audience. This could include things like wearing bright colors, having a fun background, or even having props. If you give presentations to the same audience on an ongoing basis, think about how you can change it up.

Bring the fun

The most sought-after speakers are not just subject matter experts now. They are those that can deliver personality. Even if it is mainly one-sided, as a speaker you want to be as conversational as you can be. This is not the time to tone down your personality traits but rather to amplify them to maintain interest.

Be informal

The attention span of people is short. Your lecture-style delivery should be short as well. Try not to talk without interaction for longer than 15-20 minutes before having a scheduled question or activity. Not only will people tune you out but often you are competing with other distractions and obligations they have at home as well.

Say less

As there are more options going forward for hybrid presentations, attendees may have the option to attend in person or to attend virtually. If your attendees are split, make sure you are acknowledging and interacting with those that are not there live and in person as well. For example, during Q & A make sure you take questions from both the live audience and the virtual audience so that neither segment feels left out.

Don't leave some attendees behind

The content we choose, the way we deliver our messagem and the tools we need have all changed during Covid. Here are some tips to help you present better.

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The most effective productivity systems are actually quite simple when you dissect them. But we keep searching for life and productivity “hacks” because doing so ironically makes us feel productive.&nbsp;If you spend an entire day reading articles about productivity, you’re not actually being productive. The only way you find out if something works for YOU is to implement it and see what happens.

Finding The Right Productivity System

What you do the day before matters just as much as what you do each morning. Finish each day by writing the 5 most important things you want to get done tomorrow and start each day by working those 5 things. You can also schedule those 5 things on your calendar. It doesn’t matter as long as those 5 things get done.If you give yourself a basic framework for your days, you’ll be much more likely to pack your days with useful work that adds value to your life.

Planning Your Day the Night Before

The first hour of the day is one of the most critical. It sets the tone for what the rest of your day will be like. If you spend the first hour of your day distracted by pings, buzzes, notifications and dopamine, the rest of your day will be pretty much the same.&nbsp;When you plan the day the night before, there’s no guesswork as to what you’ll be doing when you sit down to work in the morning.

The First Hour of Your Day

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Why Planning Your Day the Night Before Drastically Increases Your Productivity

Warren speaks about all the free money we've all been getting access to because of a health crisis. "If the world turns into a world where you [governments] can issue more and more money and have negative interest rates over time — I’d have to see it to believe it, but I’ve seen a little bit of it. "Can you keep doing what we're doing now? The world has been able to do it for now a dozen years or so [since 2008]. We may be facing a period where we're testing that hypothesis that you can continue it with a lot more force than we've tested it before."

How Money Works Defies What We Know About Money

Inflation is when prices go up and the value of your money decreases. Inflation is really a hidden tax on your money.Warren has put his firm’s money in gold and treasury bills (lending money to the government). Over time, treasury bills are terrible investments, but Warren is comfortable doing it in the short term.

Inflation Is Taking Hold

Negative interest rates can be bad for you. It means you have to pay to store your money. It also means the bank may face severe financial trouble that leads them to go out of business. The banks have insurance to deal with such an event, but the deposit insurance will be useless if the problem is too big. Unfortunately, many people fail to understand this and assume they will be saved without any negative consequences. However, we're in unexplored territory and don't know how it will affect us.

Negative interest rates

Many retail investors are buying stocks using Apps like Robinhood. While billionaires like Warren exit stocks, normal people believe they are smarter than the pros or trading bots. Investment firms use high-frequency trading to beat the average investor. Then the same firms are front-running retail Robinhood investors. In simple terms, it means their data tells them what retail investors are doing so they can take advantage of them.

The poor are being robbed by the rich

Despite the world we live in of record unemployment, health crisis, and protests, stock markets are beating record highs. It could be a disaster waiting to happen. Another Iconic billionaire investor, George Soros, called the stock market a bubble. "investors are in a bubble fueled by Fed liquidity," he says. Either businesses haven't been affected by the health crisis, or we are seeing a bubble that's about to pop.

The stock market bubble

Free money is given away through economic stimulus, but the large amounts of money printed mean the velocity of money are down (how many times one dollar passes through many people's hands.) When large amounts of money are created but not spent, when that money eventually is spent, it can lead to large amounts of inflation that devalue the money you've worked for.  What you can do about the change in how money now functions is to be cautious in the short term with your money and investing in assets.

Be cautious in the short-term

Warren Buffet is considered the most successful investor in history, making it worth listening to him. Buffet said these two lines:“The [US] debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.”“You better own something other than debt.”He explained that the government keeps on printing money to pay their own debt. However, we need to understand what it means for our investments, assets and savings.

Lending an ear to Buffet

Watching Warren Buffett completely change what he believes about money in a matter of months has been fascinating. He is considered the most successful investor in history, so he’s worth listening to…

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Warren Buffett’s Recent Explanation of How Money Now Works Is the Most Important in History

For those who have never heard of this topic before, here’s a quick intro <ul><li>Async/await is a new way to write asynchronous code. Previous alternatives for asynchronous code are callbacks and promises. </li><li>Async/await is actually just syntax sugar built on top of promises. It cannot be used with plain callbacks or node callbacks. </li><li>Async/await is, like promises, nonblocking. </li><li>Async/await makes asynchronous code look and behave a little more like synchronous code. This is where all its power lies. </li></ul>

Async/Await 101

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6 Reasons Why JavaScript Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)

<ul><li>First of all, you must have a basic knowledge of the Java language for Android Development.   </li><li>Set up Android Studio IDE of Android Development on your PC or Laptop.</li><li>Take a course or any book on Android app development with which you think you are comfortable. Being comfortable with the course or with the book is very important.</li></ul>

Getting started with the Android Development

<ul><li>Understand the Activity Lifecycle as having the knowledge of the activity lifecycle is very important when it comes to building a bug-free application.</li><li>Understand the Fragment and its lifecycle. It is primarily to support more dynamic and flexible UI designs on large screens, such as tablets.</li></ul>

Understand Lifecycles

<ul><li>Learn how to debug your Android application as it is the single most important skill for any developer. Android Studio provides a debugger that allows you to do so many important things.</li><li>Know about the navigations, tasks, and back stack. Android Activities are the logical construct of the screens that we want a user to navigate through. The relation that each Activity holds with respect to others is very crucial for a good user experience.</li></ul>

Debugging and Navigations

<ul><li>Understanding the Context In Android Application. To develop a better Android app, we must know what context is? Context is almost everywhere in Android Development and it is the most important thing in Android Development, so we must understand to use it correctly.</li><li>Learn about threading in detail. As the Java Virtual Machine allows an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently. We must know how to take advantage of a multi-threading environment correctly.</li></ul>

Context And Threading

<ul><li>Learn how to handle the configuration changes. Some device configurations can change during the runtime such as screen orientation, keyboard availability, and when the user enables multi-window mode. We must know how to handle these changes.</li><li>Know about the 3rd party libraries. We have </li></ul><a class="idea-content-link" href="https://mindorks.com/android/store">Mindorks Android Store</a><ul><li>Understanding the Android Core. Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread are Android’s way of solving the problems of asynchronous programming. </li></ul>

Configuration, 3rd Party Libraries, And Android Core

<ul><li>Learn about the tools to get the metrics of memory usage, CPU usage, and etc. There are a few metrics that you should measure continuously while android application development.</li><li>Learn about creating Custom View. To develop a better Android app, we must know how to create custom views.</li><li>Always focus more on learning techniques not so many frameworks. This helps in the longer run.</li></ul>

Memory Usage and Custom View

<ul><li>Holding reference of objects that are not required anymore is a bad practice, freeing object’s reference after being served is helpful for the garbage collector to kill that object, that eventually helps yourself in memory leaks issues. If you keep objects reference unnecessarily, it only leads to memory leaks. Learn how to detect and fix the memory leaks in the Android application.</li><li>Learn about the performance patterns in Android applications. How to improve the performance of your application.</li></ul>

Objects Reference and Performance Patterns

<ul><li>Understand Bitmaps. As it takes a huge amount of memory, can lead to OOM easily. Users love content! Especially when the content is well-formatted and looks nice. </li><li>Learn about Android Jetpack. It is built to make app development fast. It is the next generation of Android components that brings together the benefits of the support library, backward compatibility and immediate updates to a larger set of components. Android Jetpack manages activities like background tasks, navigation, and lifecycle management, so you can eliminate boilerplate code and focus on what makes your app great.</li></ul>

Understand Bitmaps And Android Jetpack

<ul><li>Learn how to apply proguard in an Android application. It is a tool used to minify the code, obfuscate the code, and optimize the code which reduces the size of the application.</li><li>Read about the security tips to build a secure Android application.</li><li>Know about the Android Useful tools. These tools make the development fast and our life easier. Do not forget to explore and use these tools.</li><li>Read others' code. This is the best thing a developer can do and learn to code in the best way. I</li><li>Know about the Android development best practices.</li></ul>

Android Tools and Applications

<ul><li>Learn Git. It is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people.</li><li>Know how to improve your code with lint checks.</li><li>Know about the Gradle Build Tool.</li><li>Contribute to open-source projects. </li><li>Know about Continuous Integration. It ensures that your code is building on a server that is not your own machine. Use CI like Jenkins, Circle CI, Travis, and etc.</li><li>Become more productive in android with android studio plugins.</li><li>Always be updated with the new technology in Android. If you miss it, you simply miss it.</li></ul>

Git, Integrations and Plugins

<ul><li>Know about database and SQL.</li><li>Know about the REST.</li><li>Learn about APIs.</li><li>Learn about the content providers. They are used to share data between the applications. They provide mechanisms for defining data security and for encapsulating the data.</li><li>Learn about RecyclerView Optimization.</li><li>Learn about the caching implementations.</li><li>Learn about optimizing network request frequencies.</li><li>Learn about the Android Sensors, GPS, Acceleration.</li><li>Learn about location and maps.</li><li>Learn about battery improvement.</li><li>Understand the app launch time and work on to improve it.</li><li>Know how you can reduce the APK size.</li></ul>

Learning the core of the Android Development: Other Tips

blog.mindorks.com <ul><li>Android Jetpack is the next generation of Android components. It manages activities like background tasks, navigation, and Lifecycle management.</li><li>Learn about MVP architecture. </li></ul>

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