Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Economy

After chosing my theme, I realized how difficult is to understand some news about Economy. You will see what I'm talking about. The challenge for this week is to take a look in some news websites and to select 3 related news. So I chose one about crisis and the other two about growth/development. Here we go:

The first one is from THE GUARDIAN, and it's about the Euro crisis.
This article tells us how a country can transform other, I mean, how one can carry down another.
It says: "In a day of turbulence in the currency markets when the euro plunged more than two cents against the dollar and share prices fell heavily in Europe and North America, expectations mounted that Portugal would quickly follow Ireland in calling in the International Monetary Fund and the European Union."

The second has a link with this one I just talked about. Both of them tells a relation between the countries and the IMF. This article is about the increasing on Greece Economy.
What we know is that Greece was in a deep crisis, but, as the news explain, even though is small, there's a hope for growth. "The IMF predicted Greece's economy will begin turning around in 2011. Wage and price inflation are beginning to moderate, 'setting the state for improvements in competitiveness' it says."

The last is a article from San Fransico Chronicle and it's about a expansion economy even with a high unemployment rate in U.S.
In a paragraph it says: "Growth will strengthen over the next three years, but not enough to bring unemployment back down to more normal levels of around 5.5 percent to 6 percent, according to the Fed's forecasts. At best, the Fed projects 3.6 percent growth in 2011, and 4.5 percent growth in 2012 and 2013."

The best article, in my opinion, is the third one, because it didn't get away from the main point. It is where the others sin. There's a long text for each one, I got tired reading them. And they have almost the same focus, the difference is that they don't refer to the same country. What I want to say is that we could do only one text, clearer and objective.

For now, this is it.
See ya, Xoxo

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How to erase the stressful part of your day

Hello again :D
Well, when I was thinking about what to write here today and it started to play a song on my mind: "I want to break free" from Queen, don't ask me why, but maybe we can give other meaning for this song. Whatever. We are here to talk about stress. So, have you ever heard someone saying "Hey, calm down, just breath!" or "Breath and count from one to ten!"? Okay, we both know that's just work when you got angry with someone or something in that moment. Then, the question is: what can we do to relieve our stress?

I coudn't find an easy answer, like those ones we love, just saying just do that and that and you'll see the results. I just found some tips and you can follow them to think when you are going to bed "Today was a good day, hope tomorrow gets better". Before we start, we have to remember that Stress is an emotional answer for the damages caused by the outside world, so my suggestions are based in how you can turn it off.

The first one is to Read a Book! I swear, is that simple. Sooner or later you will be so connected to the story and then we be distractive enough to forget some bad things. It would be my first choice, I like to read. The next is a habit to create, prepare the things you gonna use in the morning before you sleep and wake up 10 minutes earlier. The 10 minutes earlier are for a little work out, you gonna be more prepared for your day. Organizing your stuff you'll be more convinced that you're not forgetting anything.

You can also play some sports. Just choose one, anyone. It can be as simple as walking around or riding a bike. Just laugh and don't forget to smile. Try to say NO more often, it works. Go for a trip with some friends and talk a lot about everything. Drink just a little bit and dance all night long (but, please, don't use drugs!). Adopt a little dog or cat and enjoy all the friendship you can have and sing in the rain or even on a karaoke.

The most important is: never ever stop! In my opinion, if you forget to live you might get crazy. So, don't try it. Just remember your days as a kid, with no resposabilities and fears, and do it. Do all the things you want to. As Bob Marley used to sing "Don't worry about a thing, 'cause every little thing is gonna be alright..."

That is it :D
I hope you enjoy each second from your stress relieved.


Xoxo.


Tuesday, November 9, 2010


Hello there :D
Guess what, I'm late with my text...but here I'm, to talk about Nightmare. Of course you know that is the bad dreams you have. First of all, you gonna dream when you are relaxing, more than that, when your body and mind are relaxing, it was proved that EVERYBODY dreams, you can forget but you dream. So, now lets come back to nightmare, people also has bad dreams, doctors says that something relate to three quaters of drea
ms are the bad ones.
Normaly when someone has a nigthmare he/she wake up quickly and can't come back to sleep for a while. This happens because, maybe, the person was dreaming with something that she is afraid of, so this kind of dream contains some terror and dangerous situations, she can't sleep again because that still in her mind. You probably know how it feels like.
Nowadays there are lots of researchers interested in this subject, but there isn't a real definition for nightmares. They could only prove that nigthmares are not common to adult, being more common in children over 5 years old.


There are some websites that offer basic explications for these bad dreams, I'm not so convinced about what we can trust. It's really simple, you just have to make a link with your life, and then you find the answer by yourself (the thing is: so why there are doctors that still doubting if there is a solution on internet?). "Dream with bad things mean that you are afraid of something in real life and you need to resolve this problem. If you dream that you are stuck, it is because you are stuck in a situation in your life". Ok, good, so if I dream with a constipation? I'm not creative enough to create an answer, anyway, I'm trying to say that nightmares are to complex for you just guess. It is studied by psychologist and psychiatrits, happens on the subconcious, so lets be sensible, believe only with you see the researches.

Xoxo