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"Insider Tips For Healthy, Wealthy & Happy Living..."
Even with the best of intentions, many of us find it challenging to keep new healthy routines going. In today’s Service For Life! ® Free consumer newsletter, you’ll learn some tricks to help make sure you won’t backslide into old habits.
You’ll also learn about how to stay safe when using rideshare services, tips for protecting your business’ reputation from negative reviews, and a few easy ways to give your home’s bathroom a spa makeover–plus fun facts, a trivia challenge, and lots more.
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Brain Teaser…
There’s a place on our planet that could be called a cold shape. Do you know where it is?
(See page 4 for the answer.)
How To Stick To Health Routines
While plenty of people aspire to be diligent about healthy routines, it often feels easier to stick to old habits—we’re so comfortable with the routine we already know. To break out of a rut, many people need a leg up. So, here are some tips to help you stick to a new fitness regime or nutritional plan.
1. Meaningful Motivation: It’s important to understand your own psychology when trying to stick to any new routine. Determine your motivation: the reason (or reasons) you want to start a new health routine. It can be helpful to put your “why” into words or pictures and post it in a place you’ll see it every day for constant reminders of your motivational message.
2. Habits or Routines? Habits are individual actions (like brushing your hair), whereas routines are made up of habits (your morning routine might include brushing your hair, taking a shower, and getting dressed) that, often, we do without thinking. When establishing a new routine, it’s useful to break each routine down and identify the habits that you’ll be adding or adjusting.
3. Achievable Goals: Give yourself benchmarks that you’re almost certain you can meet. For example, if you want to exercise more, perhaps your first goal is simply to walk around the block every day for a week. Success begets success. Small victories lead to much bigger ones.
4. Mini-Mind Games: Make it harder to make excuses than to stick to the routine, even if that means playing little games with yourself. For instance, if your running shoes are in the bedroom doorway or your yoga pants folded atop the coffee maker, it’s harder to skip a morning workout.
5. Accountability: Studies show that we’re much more likely to stick to a health routine if we’re not going at it alone. Find a workout buddy who has similar goals, like a running partner. It’s not only motivating to know you’re accountable to someone other than yourself, it’s fabulous to celebrate each milestone with others who are on the same path.
6. Track Your Progress: Change can be so slow that it’s all but impossible to notice progress. When starting a new health routine with a specific goal in mind, it’s incredibly useful to track your progress each day so that you can see just how you’re doing over time—and give yourself a pat on the back. Write your workout plan and completed tasks down or try an app like Fitness Buddy.
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4 Rideshare Safety Tips
Whether you’re traveling in a new city or just need to get across town at home, rideshare services (like Lyft and Uber) are an increasingly popular choice. With the large numbers of rides across the world, most of us have heard stories of accidents and crime occurring during rideshares. Luckily, most of these incidents are preventable by keeping the following safety tips in mind.
- Make ride requests indoors.Whether you’re requesting a ride at night or during the day, it’s safer to make the request before you go outside. If possible, wait indoors until your ride arrives.
- Confirm the ride before getting in the car. Make sure the car’s make and license plate match the ride match from the app. Ask for the driver’s name, and ask them to confirm your name.
- Sit in the back seat. It’s a personal car, not a taxi, but being in the back seat affords you access to two doors so you won’t risk getting into or out of the car near a busy lane of traffic.
- Utilize the app’s trip sharing feature. Both Lyft and Uber have a trip sharing tool in their safety options. Trip sharing sends the driver’s name, photo, license plate number, and car location with the person of your choice so someone knows where you are and who you’re with.
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Spa Bathroom Makeover Tips
Treating yourself to a spa day is great, but it’s not really feasible to do that every day—no matter how much you might need the spa after a long day of work. Here are some ways to transform your home bathroom into a spa-like environment, making it much easier to indulge your spa desires whenever you like.
- Declutter surfaces. Minimalism in the bathroom is more conducive to a spa-like experience. Decant essentials (like liquid soap or cotton balls) into pretty containers and stash the less lovely stuff (like toothpaste and deodorant) in a drawer or cabinet.
- Add organic features. Lots of plants can make a bathroom feel lush, and opting for bamboo accessories (like bath mats, bath caddies, and shelves) is an instant spa look.
- Upgrade your towel game.Invest in high quality towels (all in white for a serious spa look) and consider installing a towel-warming rack for maximum luxury.
- Pay attention to scents. It’s easy to add the calming aromatherapy many spas offer to your own bathroom with essential oil diffusers or natural candles in a relaxing scent.
Secure Messaging Apps
There are plentiful options for messaging services, but not all of them are truly secure. Here are a few messaging apps that adhere to stricter encryption protocols.
Signal: https://signal.org/en/ (Free; iOS and Android) Signal is the best-known secure messaging app, boasting end-to-end encryption for text messages, video calls, and voice calls. There’s a desktop version, too.
Wickr Me: https://wickr.com/ (Free; iOS and Android) Wickr’s personal use app features end-to-end encryption for texting and voice calls, and there’s a paid business version (Wickr Pro) for things like video calls and group calls.
Wire: https://wire.com/en/ (Free; iOS and Android) Wire has end-to-end encryption for texts, voice calls, video calls, and some Dropbox file sharing, plus it’s easy to have multiple accounts (for personal and business use).
Managing Bad Reviews Online
Running a business can be challenging, especially in an era when customers can leave reviews online in so many different places. A 2016 Harvard Business School study of the impact of Yelp reviews on revenue showed that one truly awful review can cost a business tens of thousands of dollars, while five positive reviews only count for a 10% revenue increase. So, let’s look at how you can increase positive reviews while minimizing the negative impacts of bad reviews.
- Read your reviews. Go where your customers are. Have a business presence on all the review sites, including Yelp, LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook, and then read all your reviews. You can also set up alerts (such as Google Alerts at google.com/alerts) to be notified of new reviews on sites you aren’t familiar with. Set up an alert with your business name and see what pops up.
- Look for patterns. When similar issues come up in multiple negative reviews, it’s an opportunity to identify systemic problems, improving your business in the process.
- Often, a sincere apology is all it takes to turn an unhappy customer into a happy one—especially if you offer a free service or product to demonstrate a policy change.
- Address complaints. Don’t just apologize for a mistake or problem—you must actually fix it or the cycle will start over again with another customer. Make sure to reply to each review as well. Even if there’s no satisfactory outcome, others will see you made the effort.
- Request positive reviews. Ask your happy customers to leave positive reviews for you whenever possible. Even if one negative comment remains unresolved, if it’s only one amid dozens of positive reviews it carries less weight.
You won’t always be able to satisfy everyone, particularly as some of the negativity may come from so-called “trolls” who are just trying to stir the pot. In some cases, when a negative review is inaccurate or defamatory, you can request that it be removed by the review site. Keep in mind this is only for reviews that are genuinely inaccurate—not for negative reviews you simply don’t like. It’s illegal in the US to impose penalties of any kind for honest reviews (per the Consumer Review Fairness Act).
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Guess who won last month’s Trivia Question? I’m pleased to announce the lucky winner of last month’s quiz. And the winner is…drum roll please: Shawna mughafe was the first person to correctly answer my quiz question.
Who was the first female singer inducted twice to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
a) Aretha Franklin b) Pink
c) Mariah Carey d) Stevie Nicks
The answer is d) Stevie Nicks. Nicks was first inducted in 1998 as part of the band, Fleetwood Mac. So let’s move on to this month’s trivia question.
Only one U.S. President was born on July 4 (Coolidge), but three Presidents died on July 4.Which ones?
a) Adams, Van Buren, Harding b) Adams, Jefferson, Monroe
c) Monroe, Pierce, Nixon d) Jefferson, Tyler, Truman
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Brain Teaser Answer:
The Arctic Circle
Real Estate Corner…
Q: Do I have to hire a professional stager or can I stage my home myself in order to sell it?
A. There’s no doubt that staging your home creates a great first impression, makes pictures pop on the Internet, and will boost your sales price. First, consult with your REALTOR®. You can certainly do the staging yourself if you have the time and energy. Here are the key things you should do:
- Clean the inside and the outside from top to bottom. You may just want to hire professional cleaners to do this part.
- Remove clutter, extra furniture and personal items so your potential buyers will “see themselves” living in your home.
- Paint the walls a neutral color to appeal to the broadest base of buyers.
If you don’t have time and you canafford it, hiring a professional stager is an excellent alternative. Professional stagers have inventory and can bring in furniture and decor that will make your home stand out from others on the market. Ask your REALTOR® for recommendations.
For more tips on staging, ask for my Free Consumer Report “4 Steps To Stage Your Home For A Fast Sale.” I’ll send a copy right to you. Do you have a real estate question you want answered? Call me at 909 731 5374. Perhaps I’ll feature your question in my next issue!