I’m Tracy Au and I have a 2 year diploma in Professional Communication from MacEwan University. I am an aspiring screenwriter, so this blog is used to promote my writing and attract people who will hire me to write for your TV show or movie.
I post a lot of articles about jobs, entertainment (TV, movies, books), news, and my opinions on it. I also write about my daily life. I have another blog promoting my TV project at www.thevertexfighter.blogspot.com.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
"Beware the big new- year's resolutions"/ "The HUMAN desire for transformation"
These are job articles, but also self-help articles.
Dec. 30, 2016 "Beware the big new- year's resolutions": Today I found this article by Seema Marwaha in the Globe and Mail:
There’s something about the promise of a new year that convinces so many Canadians that things can be different.
Maybe it’s the tendency to over-indulge at gatherings. Or maybe we simply have more time to reflect during the holiday break. Whatever the reason, the new year is when most of us resolve to change our bad habits and start fresh.
“I watch multiple screens right before bed time, with Netflix and social media open at the same time,” says Lauren Hayes, a mid-20s communications professional.
“I know it’s bad for my energy levels and sleep. I wake up much more refreshed when I don’t do it. My goal for 2017 is no screens before bed.”
But, using Jan. 1 as a starting point for a new lifestyle might actually be a bad idea if a goal is unrealistic.
Setting lofty goals can lead to feelings of anxiety, reduced self-worth and set you back, rather than put you on the year-long journey of self-improvement.
“People unintentionally sabotage themselves by setting unrealistic goals,” says Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University and author of Still Procrastinating? The No Regrets Guide to Getting it Done.
“If your goal is to lose 40 pounds, you are unlikely to succeed. But if you set out to lose four pounds every two months, that is much more doable,” he said. “Breaking down a larger goal into baby steps is much less discouraging. If you fail, you fail small and can reset.”
Toronto-based fitness expert Dustin Pym says gyms get an annual influx of new year’s resolution-ers who will eventually give up.
“The average person who joins a gym Jan. 1 goes for three to five weeks and then doesn’t come back,” he says. “We call it tourist season.”
Part of the reason for this, according to Pym, is that people try to flip a switch from good behaviour to bad.
“People are gluttonous over the holidays. The average person puts on five pounds during the holiday season and feels crappy at the end of the year. The plan is to go from 0 to 100 per cent in a day? Well that’s impossible for almost all people.”
Pym himself is guilty of this. He used to resolve to cut down on social drinking every new year and was never successful at it, partly because of how alcohol-rich the holiday season was.
Hayes also admits that her screen habit is much worse right now. “Just knowing I was going to make the resolution has been a licence to binge over the holidays,” she says.
Sasha High, a physician and obesity medicine specialist in Mississauga, says setting aggressive, unrealistic health goals can set people back significantly for the entire year.
“People who were sedentary in November and December and then suddenly decide to start kickboxing class in January can end up either discouraged, demotivated or even worse, injured.”
High says a big part of her job is to help patients set realistic weight management goals. Instead of focusing on a large goal with a one-year timeline, start with small, measurable goals within a short time frame, she says.
For example, saying you want to get in shape is too vague. You can’t quantify it or create a specific target or goal around it. However, saying you want to go to the gym two more times a week for the next month is specific enough that it becomes achievable.
It also helps to be accountable to friends and family – or the public, if you are brave enough.
“Even before the days of social media, when you make something you want to do public, it is much more likely to get done than something you keep private,” Ferrari says.
Jun. 12, 2017 "The HUMAN desire for transformation": Today I found this article by Harvey Schachter in the Globe and Mail:
Tara- Nicholle Nelson unknowingly started her career in transformational marketing when she was nine years old. Her parents owned a gym, where women often pursued fitness through the then- popular and empowering Jane Fonda workout program. She would also hear them talking about diets as well as the fulfilment they planned and achieved in clothes purchases and travels. They were transforming their lives, repeatedly, as consumers.
She studied psychology in university and then in her early career posts saw similar patterns. As a real estate agent, she realized she wasn’t selling homes but helping people to make major lifestyle decisions that would change their lives. As a consultant for MyFitnessPal and later as chief marketer for the calorie tracking app, the transformational thread continued.
“People crave to live better – to be healthier, wealthier and wise, to be better people – and companies that will help them do that will win,” the consultant, based in Oakland, Calif., says in an interview.
We have lived the past 30 years in the Age of Oprah and many self- help gurus promising transformation. In their illuminating 1999 best seller, The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore showed how society had moved from economies based, successively, on commodities, goods and services, and how the best businesses were then focusing on developing unique experiences for customers. As businesses jumped on the experiences bandwagon, less attention was paid to the authors’ comment that already on the scene was the next stage, the Transformation Economy, in which people would pay not just for the experience but for their life to be transformed. They pointed to fitness coaches, who, unlike fitness clubs, promise specified improvements, and some management consultants who were taking a fee based on the success of the changes they help to implement.
Ms. Nelson has built on that in her new book The Transformational Consumer. And if your first instinct is to shrug it off as a hippie granola niche appeal, not for your business, she says her survey of 2,000 consumers in the United States found 50 per cent use digital or real- life products at least three times a year to achieve a goal of being healthier, wealthier or wise. If you sell alcohol, tobacco and firearms, maybe you don’t have transformational consumers, since those don’t make people healthier, wealthier and wise. But otherwise, she says your clients are probably looking for ways to be better through your product or service – to transform themselves or their business.
Garbage bags, for example, are not transformational, you might think. But tell that to the person who recently enthused to her about buying some large construction ones to get the clutter out of his life. “You need to look at products through the lens of problems customers are trying to solve, which may be transformational,” she says.
While the number of people trying to transform part of their life is large – 54 per cent of people, for example, in her survey say they are trying to eat better – she identifies a group that plunge continually into self- transformation efforts, often with four projects at a time. She identifies five core characteristics they share, remembered by the acronym HUMAN:
H for healthier, wealthier andwise: They pursue joyful prosperity. They crave to fix, or heal, dysfunction. The most common goals are losing weight, escaping debt, getting out of physical pain, no longer being depressed or anxious, or quitting a terrible job or “firing” a horrible boss.
U is for unending: They see life as an unending series of personal disruption campaigns. They believe everything about life is always on the table. “They believe they can change anything in their life and know that changing behaviours is a prerequisite to making those life changes,” she says. M is for mindset: They epitomize the growth mindset popularized by psychologist Carol Dweck. Indeed, she says they have an “extreme growth mindset.” They aren’t oblivious about the difficulties, knowing it will be hard. But they pursue and persist. A is for action: They have a bias toward action rather than just dreaming. “Everybody wants to be healthier, wealthier and wise. But transformational consumers are always doing something toward that,” she says. N is for never- ending: They are in a never- ending quest to find the products, services and content that support their behaviour changing goals.
This transcends demography. It’s a mindset, and it’s widespread. “Post- Oprah, we have several generations of people intent on transformation,” she says, urging you to rethink what you sell to tap into this trend and learn more about the transformational consumer.
Jun. 17, 2019 The Power of Focus: I have been reading this book. It's labeled business/ self -help. There is a chapter called "Asking For What You Want" which is about selling and closing the sale.
Jun. 17, 2019 Bradley Snyder: He is a Paralympian. I was going through my old news articles and I found this "Paralympian talks tackling adversity" by Lakshimi Gandi the Metro on Mar. 2, 2015. He is blind and swims.
He says: "Dwelling on the negatives, dwelling on the stress, dwelling on the uncertainty- none of the are going to get you anywhere. Focus on the positives, focus on personal development, focus on the upsides." I'm going to put this in my inspirational quotes. Dollhouse quote: I wrote about this before where on the TV show: "You can't always predict or control the consequences." Hopscotch restaurant closed down: I attended a job interview at this vegetarian place in Jan. 2019. Now the place closed down in Jun. 2019. Brass Tracks cafe: Does anyone remember that I wrote about this? I attended a job interview in Jan. 2018. I walked by the place in Aug. 2018, and it closed down. Job search: The above quotes apply to my job search. I have to write about it so I can deal with it and move on. I can't dwell on the uncertainty of this new job of a new restaurant that has opened. I can not predict or control if this job will last. I can do my best and work hard. However, I can't control if people will be eating at my restaurant. Harvard Rescinds Parkland Survivor's Admission After Racist Messages:
Kashuv, an 18-year-old high school senior who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School early last year, posted a photo of a purported letter from Harvard withdrawing his admission.
“After careful consideration the [Admissions] Committee voted to rescind your admission to Harvard College,” the letter reads. “We are sorry about the circumstances that have led us to withdraw your admission, and we wish you success in your future academic endeavors and beyond.”
Here is the lesson Mr. Kashuv needs to understand. His right to free speech only protects him from the government preventing him from saying what he likes. It does not absolve him from responsibility for what he says or judgement of private citizens and institutions from hold him responsible for what he says. Jun. 18, 2019 "Alaskan teen Cynthia Hoffman allegedly murdered by friends for money": Today I found this article by Antonia Noori Farzan in the Star Metro. It's disturbing, so you may skip it: According to court documents obtained by the Daily News, Brehmer had formed an online relationship with a man who called himself “Tyler” and claimed to be from Kansas. He had convinced her that he was a millionaire, and offered to pay her $9 million or more to “rape and murder someone in Alaska,” then send him videos and photographs.
It wasn’t until later that Brehmer learned that she had been catfished, prosecutors say. All along, she had been sending photos and videos to “Tyler,” not knowing that his real name was Darin Schilmiller — a 21-year-old who lived in Indiana instead of Kansas, looked nothing like the photo he had sent her online and wasn’t a millionaire. When first questioned by police on June 6, two days after Cynthia’s body was found, Brehmer allegedly claimed that the three teenagers — Cynthia, McIntosh and herself — had gone to Thunderbird Falls to take pictures of each other wrapped in duct tape. She said that she had no idea that McIntosh planned to shoot the 19-year-old.
Jun. 20, 2019 "Model could be fined for wearing 'offensive' dress: Vietnamese model, Ngoc Trinh, arrived at the 2019 red carpet screening of "A Hidden Life" wearing a backless look consisting of a black thong bodysuit with a halter-neck top and black swirl embellishment, paired with a sheer black skirt at the front and back: https://ca.style.yahoo.com/model-could-fined-wearing-offensive-125800336.html
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As a man. I love it. Of course this puts my mind in the wrong place that I could get in trouble if my wife could read it. Would I let my daughter wear it ? Not a chance.
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Why bother wearing anything?
My opinion: It was like she was wearing a swimsuit. I thought it was too sexual and not tasteful. However, she can wear whatever she wants. Mon. Jun. 17, 2019: It was warm and sunny so I read the newspaper outside. Tues. Jun. 18, 2019: I worked. Wed. Jun. 19, 2019: It was cold and raining all day, so I stayed at home. I called my friend Dan L. and we chatted about movies. Thurs. Jun. 20, 2019: I thought my friend Cham had a day off and called her, but she didn't. I then went out to Staples and recycled some pens and calculators. I was stir crazy from being stuck at home yesterday that I had to go out. I also bumped into my friend Jessica. The highlight of the week: Summer 2019 TV shows: There are 4 written summer shows. Grand Hotel: I saw the pilot this week. It was average. I will watch it for the mystery of the woman who went missing. "A look at the professional and personal lives of people working at a family-run hotel in Miami Beach." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7671068/?ref_=rvi_tt Blood and Treasure: I saw the first 2 eps and it was a fun adventure show. I will record it and watch it. The Inbetween: I saw the first 2 eps and I thought it was dark, intense, and kind of scary. I will watch it. Instinct: This show will come out with a 2nd season on Jun. 30. It's a cop show where they solve mysteries. Other TV shows: Mary Kills People: I saw the season 3/ series finale. There are 6 episodes each season. It is a solid and good Canadian show. You can check out the pilot. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6236572/?ref_=rvi_tt Scott Cavalheiro: He plays Det. Hull on the show. He was in a few episodes in the 1st season, and he got more of a role in the 3rd season. He stood out to me. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3352293/?ref_=rvi_nm Veronica Mars: This show is rebooted. They were on for 3 seasons. I liked it when it was on and I was in my early 20s. Then years later, they bring a movie. I thought it was average. It was the same style of writing, but I have changed. I saw the show and the movie. If I can access the reboot, I would watch it. It says it's on Crave. Robert Pattison as Batman: He seems an average fit for the role. I like Christian Bale in the Dark Knight movies, because I like the writing in it. I haven't seen Ben Affleck as Batman yet. I didn't really see him as a fit for the role. However, I have to watch him in it before I can make an assessment. https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2475331/zack-snyder-seemingly-gives-robert-pattinsons-batman-his-approval https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8890226/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2 Jun. 15, 2019 "Don't fear missing out. Enjoy it": Today I found this article by Harvey Schachter in the Globe and Mail. This is a happiness article too. It's about living your best life. I copy and pasted the whole article onto another post:
Palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware drew attention to the top five regrets people have when dying:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
"30 predictions in history that came true": These are mostly sci-books:
3. President “Obomi” (1969)
Predicting that the United States would someday have an African-American president? Not that impressive. Predicting that the United States would have an African-American president a full 40 years before it happens, and picking his name as “President Obomi?” Well, now you’ve got our attention. Stand on Zanzibar, an award-winning 1969 science fiction novel set in 2010, was just two letters off the real future president’s not-so-common last name. How do you begin to explain that? Author John Brunner also predicted DVRs, satellite news, terror threats, and legal marijuana. But we still can’t get over that “President Obomi” character.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smart-living/30-predictions-in-history-that-came-true/ss-AADdewz?ocid=spartandhp#image=4 Yahoo mail complaint: It was back in Jan. 2019 and they told me that after Jan. 31, 2019, they will remove Basic email to the New email. Now it's Jun. 2019, and then they moved to the new email. Now I notice that I can't bold, change fonts or color in my emails so you don't know which parts I liked and stood out to me the most. Unless you go to my blog and then you can see and read it clearer.
Jun. 22, 2019: Now I see that I have to "switch to the newest email" and then I can see all the bold and fonts. The Bodyguard Poster: It's not Whitney: The poster for the 1992 film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston features Costner’s titular bodyguard carrying Houston’s pop star Rachel Marron out of a nightclub after a riot breaks out at one of her shows. There’s only one catch — that’s not really Houston in the shot.
“That wasn’t even Whitney actually,” Costner tells EW. “She had gone home and that was her double, and her head was buried into my shoulder, which was appropriate anyway. She was frightened.”
2 hours agoWhy bother wearing anything?
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