General business related things Jeff Cassman cares about
City vs countryside? Open vs closed-minded people? How does personality and place interact to affect life satisfaction?
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The main thing people look for in a partner.
People tend to look for the same personality type in a partner over-and-over again, research concludes.
One of the main things people look for is a similar personality to themselves.
So, extraverts prefer other extraverts, agreeable people prefer other agreeable people, and so on.
However, it is more than that, the researchers found.
There is also a lot of similarity between a person’s ex-partners.
One of the advantages of having similar partners is learning how to deal with a particular personality type.
Ms Yoobin Park, the study’s first author, said:
“In every relationship, people learn strategies for working with their partner’s personality.
If your new partner’s personality resembles your ex-partner’s personality, transferring the skills you learned might be an effective way to start a new relationship on a good footing.”
The conclusions come from a study of 332 people.
Researchers compared the personalities of their current partners with those of their past partners.
They were asked how much they agreed with statements like:
The results showed that people tend to have a ‘type’, said Ms Park:
“It’s common that when a relationship ends, people attribute the breakup to their ex-partner’s personality and decide they need to date a different type of person.
Our research suggests there’s a strong tendency to nevertheless continue to date a similar personality.
The effect is more than just a tendency to date someone similar to yourself.
The degree of consistency from one relationship to the next suggests that people may indeed have a ‘type’.
And though our data do not make clear why people’s partners exhibit similar personalities, it is noteworthy that we found partner similarity above and beyond similarity to oneself.”
In some circumstances, though, sticking to the same personality type all the time can be damaging, said Ms Park:
“So, if you find you’re having the same issues in relationship after relationship, you may want to think about how gravitating toward the same personality traits in a partner is contributing to the consistency in your problems.”
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Park & MacDonald, 2019).
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Read on for our in-depth review of Printify, covering its pros, cons, pricing, services, and use cases, to see if Printify is right for you.
Printify is an all-in-one print-on-demand solution for dropshippers. Ecommerce platforms can integrate with Printify, making it a snap to add customized merchandise to your online product catalog. A customer places an order and then the production company gets notified to produce the product, fulfill the order, and ship the items directly to the consumer. It’s as easy as that. Ecommerce retailers never have to touch the products, but can still offer customized items to their customers—making Printify one of the best ways to start a print-on-demand business.
It also represents a fast and affordable way to order other types of customized merchandise. For example, businesses can rely on Printify for creating branded corporate apparel or accessories. It’s also a way for schools and sports teams to place bulk orders for students, athletes, and fans. You can even use Printify to order custom items in bulk…
Leaders often ask about ‘holding people accountable’. What they sometimes mean is, “How can I pressure resistance into compliance and still be a nice person?”
Accountability increases resistance when it’s coercion wrapped in cotton candy.
Being ‘held accountable’ sounds like working at gunpoint. It doesn’t have to be that way. Accountability isn’t arm twisting.
Make yourself accountable to…
Shift your thinking from external coercion to internal drive.
High performers love being held accountable. They enjoy achievement. They look for weight to carry. Responsibility means work matters.
One of my clients occasionally CC’s himself when he emails the supervisors he leads. He files his copy of the email in his follow up folder.
His team knows when he CC’s himself he’ll follow up with them in the near future.
If you use the CC-method:
Holding people accountable in healthy ways makes work meaningful.
Mastering the Art of Creating Accountability
How to Hold People Accountable
Cotton candy image comes from A Person Holding a Pillow
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Correcting this disorder in diabetics would benefit them as well as many anti-diabetes drugs.
Poor sleep can be a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, research finds.
Poor sleep quality, or changes in circadian rhythms caused by night-shift work, have been linked to alterations in insulin levels.
Other signs of type 2 diabetes include feeling thirsty all the time, losing weight, going to the toilet a lot and even blurred vision.
When poor sleep continues, the body makes less insulin, a hormone that allows the body to use glucose (sugar) as energy.
Blood sugar level is regulated by insulin and so depletion of insulin can lead to type 2 diabetes.
Moreover, poor sleep through the night increases levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol.
Cortisol weakens insulin productivity by increasing the blood sugar levels and the consequence is too much sugar pumping into the bloodstream.
High blood sugar, which is known as hyperglycemia, is a sign of developing type 2 diabetes.
High blood glucose levels can harm the blood vessels resulting in nerve damage, poor vision or even blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and stroke.
Studies suggest that people with diabetes who have poor sleep have higher insulin resistance and so more difficulty in managing the disease.
Dr Kristen Knutson, the lead author of a study published in the journal Diabetes Care, said:
“People who have a hard time controlling their blood glucose levels have a greater risk of complications.
They have a reduced quality of life.
And, they have a reduced life expectancy.”
This study monitored sleep duration and quality in diabetics.
They also reported if they suffered from any sleep disorders like sleep apnea, snoring or insomnia.
Their results showed that diabetics subjects with poor sleep had 82% higher insulin resistance compared to those who had diabetes, but were normal sleepers.
Dr Knutson said:
“For someone who already has diabetes, adding a sleep treatment intervention, whether it’s treating sleep apnea or treating insomnia, may be an additional help for them to control their disease.”
Improving sleep is a powerful intervention — it can be as effective as common drugs for type 2 diabetes.
Professor Eve Van Cauter, co-author of the study said:
“This suggests that improving sleep quality in diabetics would have a similar beneficial effect as the most commonly used anti-diabetes drugs.”
Diabetes is predominant in the US and it is increasing rapidly worldwide.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2015 more than 100 million US adults were suffering from diabetes or prediabetes.
The study was published in Diabetes Care (Knutson et al., 2011).
I didn’t think it was a big deal. We assumed these were typical results for those who focused and did the work.
The gaping mouths and the bulging eyes were our first clues. My next clue should have been when one podcaster told me he gets 50 to 100 pitches a week and he chose ours. Finally, reality set in like a bolt of lightning striking fifty feet in front of me. The words still rumble in my head like fading thunder echoing through the sky:
“I’ve never known anyone who booked 53 podcasts in two months.” – Ryan Deiss
When Ryan said that from the stage at the M3 Mastermind, I finally realized my wife had done something extraordinary. This was no surprise.
She is an amazing woman. Anyone who read her CaringBridge journal in 2021 already knows that. TLDR: The doctors gave up on me and told her to “pull the plug.” She didn’t. She prevailed. I’m alive.
Craig & Karen Andrews, December 2021
So, in March of 2023 I asked her to come to my rescue again. This time it was much lower stakes. I asked her to get me booked on podcasts.
Guesting on podcasts is a way to expand your own audience. According to ListenNotes, there are more than three million podcasts. The podcast hosts did the time consuming work of building their audience. And as a podcast guest, you get nearly effortless access to that audience.
Guest interviews are a great way to build your authority. Almost every host launches the podcast episode talking about how awesome you are. Their audience trusts them… and now their audience – the podcast listeners – trust you.
Your guest podcast interview will drive business and opportunities. Our 90-day rolling pipeline report tells that story best. “FTO Deals”, our discovery call metric, is up 700% compared to the prior 90-days when we weren’t guesting on podcasts.
“FTOs Sold” means we closed a new client. That’s up 400% compared to the prior 90-days. And we expect that to rise further because most of the discovery calls haven’t happened yet.
Fill your pipeline by being a podcast guest
Our podcast focus started within this 90-day view. Most of the podcast episodes are scheduled to go live in the next couple of months. And yet we’re seeing triple-digit 90-on-90 growth on our most important metrics.
Look closer and you’ll see another hidden nugget. Double-digit lead growth drove triple-digit opportunity and sales growth. That’s what authority does for you.
If you’re running out of ways to unleash an instant triple-digit firehose on your business, then read on. I’ll show you how we did it.
Be careful when you curse adversity…
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The Ultimate Pursuit of Leadership: One leadership pursuit is more important than any other.
Quiet Quitting – 5 Questions that Confront Quiet Quitting: People who show up to give the minimum harm themselves and it’s not just disadvantaging their career.
7 Questions to Create Brag Time: Bragging is good when it’s invited. Leaders serve team members by providing brag time. Give it a try.
Culture Shock: The Most Important Habit of a Great Manager: This post is based on my conversation with the chief scientist at Gallup. One highlight: How to have a meaningful conversation. The answer is easier than you might think.
4 Questions that Guide Your Most Important Conversation: The most important conversation you have is the one you have with yourself. But don’t let your mind wander.
I wish you well,
Dan
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Adopting this diet reduces a substance in the body that is connected to heart disease and heart attack risk.
Going on a plant-based diet reduces the risk of coronary heart disease risk, research finds.
This is because the consumption of animal products causes some damage to the gut microbiome.
The gut flora or gut microbiome is a complex system in which micro-organisms, including bacteria, live together and work in harmony.
These microbes are important and help our immune system and our metabolism in order to convert food to energy and absorb nutrients.
When we eat animal products such as red meat, as part of the digestive process gut bacteria produce a substance called trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO).
TMAO has been shown to increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and heart attack.
Changing to a vegetarian or vegan diet and maintaining it would diminish the TMAO levels in the body.
A study of 760 healthy women over a 10-year period found that high levels of TMAO in the blood increase the odds of CHD.
Participants who were omnivorous and had elevated TMAO levels were at a 67 percent greater risk of CHD.
For every additional increase in TMAO there was a 23 percent increase risk of developing CHD.
But the research team noticed that by changing the dietary pattern to higher intake of vegetables and cutting down animal foods TMAO levels were considerably reduced.
Dr Lu Qi, the study’s senior author, said:
“Diet is one of the most important modifiable risk factors to control TMAO levels in the body.
No previous prospective cohort study has addressed whether long-term changes in TMAO are associated with CHD, and whether dietary intakes can modify these associations.
Our findings show that decreasing TMAO levels may contribute to reducing the risk of CHD, and suggest that gut-microbiomes may be new areas to explore in heart disease prevention.”
The study was published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Heianza et al., 2020).
