Hey everyone, welcome back for an all-new Cookie Run Kingdom episode. So, we're going to talk about the ranking of all cookies by position, but before that, if you want an updated Cookie Run Kingdom content, please hit the subscribe button down below. Hey guys, so we'll start off with the rear cookies with our Rank 16 cookie which is Beat Cookie. So, she is a common cookie ranged and for her skill, she actually just deals 60% damage from afar. So, her skill is called Hunter Sense and it has a 12 second cooldown for that skill. At Rank 15 for the rear cookies is Angel Cookie. So, specialty is of healing and when you take at her, take a look at her skill. So, Celestial Light cooldown is at 15 seconds. It's actually just a pure healing spell of 50% of her own attack. Now, to our Rank 14 cookie, we have here Clover Cookie. So, Clover Cookie is a rare type of cookie. She is of support type and for her skill, she removes all debuffs from party members and applying a buff that resorts HP. So, basically, she removes debuffs from your party and also gives them buffs. So, healing, 12% of attack for every one second over five seconds of heal. So, although impressive, her heal is not that long, so she's placed at Number 14. So, at Number 13, we have here Blackberry Cookie. She is of rare variant and she is actually of magic type. So, let's take a look at her skill. So, her skill is basically rushes through the ME formation and increases the party's critical strike chance. So, deals damage as well at 17% and a 10% crit chance for 6 seconds. Again, most of these cookies are actually good but there are better cookies actually right in front of them. Okay, for our Rank 12 cookie, we have Gumball Cookie. Gumball Cookie is of rare variety and his class is a Bomber Class. So, Bomber Class is mostly, what do you call this, shooting out AOE damage on the battlefield. So, let's take a look at his skill. So, it's artillery. So, basically, for artillery, causes area damage and decreases the enemy's moving speed. So, it slows them down, slows down their advance and I don't think it slows their attack speed but it slows them down going towards you. So, damage dealt is at 264% and a minus 20% on attack speed for 60 seconds. I stand corrected. It actually decreases their attack speed for 6 seconds and the cooldown of the spell is at 13 seconds. That is why he is actually at Rank 12. So, for our Rank 11 rare cookie, we have here Pancake Cookie who is again a rare cookie. Stilo Play is actually ambush and let's take a look at his skill. So, take an acorn. Cooldown is at 15 seconds. So, flies forward and throws acorns for a wide area damage and increases party's attack speed. Damage dealt is 40% plus 20% attack speed for 6 seconds. Again, gives buffs and deals AOE damage ambushes because he comes from the back or from the rear of the party. So, for our Rank 10, we have here Sparkling Cookie. So, Sparkling Cookie is of epic variety. So, he is also of healing and let's take a look at his skill. So, it's Sparkling Cocktail Cooldown of 13 seconds. So, basically heals two allies with the lowest HP and increases critical strike chance. Okay, he only heals two allies with the lowest HP and usually he gives them as well critical chance. So, healing of 139% of his attack. So, skills with his attack going up. So, for our Rank 9 Cookie, we have here Mint Choco Cookie. He is actually of epic variety. More or less he is actually of a support for the rear and let's take a look at his skills. So, basically he just heals HP of the squad and increases their attack speed as well. So, that is what he is for. Again, these cookies are basically weighed because of the numerous lines or abilities within their skill. That is why actually he is at 9th because attack speed is also good and the healing of 79% is also good. So, for our Rank 8 for the rear, cookies we have here Cherry Cookie. She is a rare variety. She is actually a bomber. So, she actually shoots AOE, shoots from the rear for AOE damage to the enemies up front. So, her skill is actually huge Cherry Bomb. It has a cooldown of 16 seconds and more or less if you can read between the lines. So, she deals area damage and stuns enemy for 2 seconds. Actually, this stun here is actually valuable that she is actually just second to Tiger Lily Cookie in terms of stun. They are the only two cookies that have stun so far in this game. So, for our Rank 7 for the rear cookies, we have here Pomegranate Cookie. So, she is support type and let us see her skill. So, it's called Pomegranate. So, basically what she does is heals HP over time for a whole squad and increases the attack power as well. So, this is good in also support and also to increase their attack skill. So, she is now placed at Rank 7 for the rear cookies. So, for our Rank 6 Cookie for the rear cookies, we have Vampire Cookie which is of ambush type and let us take a look at his skills. So, it's called Vampirism. Skill cooldown is at 13 seconds. So, what he basically does is he turns into a bat and attacks the furthest enemy, restores some HP for each regular attack that he does. So, he's basically a specialist which looks after or goes after the weakest or the furthest enemy at the back and goes in for the kill. At the same time gains HP once he deals damage to that opponent. He is actually placed right now at or he is ranked at number 6. So, we're actually right now in the top 5. So, this is Rai Cookie. He is actually our ranked 5th for the rear cookies. So, he is of epic class and in terms of type, he is of range type cookie and also for his skill it's called Final Showdown. So, the cooldown is 15 seconds. So, shoots at the enemy with the lowest max HP several times and increases his attack speed. So, basically, he's similar to Vampire Cookie but he actually does this from afar and shoots the furthest cookie at the back and he increases his attack speed. He's like more or less an assassin from beyond but more of a multiple shot assassin for the cookie. So, he is now at rank 5. So, for our ranked 4th cookie, we have here custard cookie the 3rd. So, he is the king of the cookies. So, he is of rare variety. He is also of healing and what he does, let's check let's check out his skills. So, his skill is King's Faber. So, cooldown is 16 seconds. So, basically what he does is heals two cookies with the lowest HP and also casts a barrier for those cookies but it doesn't you know it doesn't stay that long but it's actually okay because he supports the two lowest HP of your cookies in your team. He's actually one of one of the cookies that I've used for quite a while for about more than a week until I got Herb Cookie but actually he is still a good healing cookie with heals and also HP for his teammates and I would actually recommend if you have him try to use him while you don't have Herb Cookie. So, for our 3rd ranked cookie in the rear, we have here cream puff cookie. So, she is of epic and she is of support type. She is actually the recent cookie that dropped uh after the update. So, she can be found or she can be um she can be acquired through the guild. There's a gacha for the guild so you have to grind that down to get more tokens for the gacha for the guild and she's only available through that but as for her skill so she basically deals damage over time in a large area and restores party's HP. So, while she's doing damage, she actually heals your party. So, she's actually good. She's a good support. Um the only problem with her is that her cooldown is at 18 seconds so it takes a while for her to to go around for another heal and another attack but she actually deals good damage and she she also deals good heal at 40% of attack. So, you have to just have to scale her attack. So, for our 2nd ranked cookie for the rear, we have Tiger Lily Cookie. So, she's an epic so she's of ranged uh variety or or class um but one good thing about Tiger Lily Cookie is of her skills. I've been using her for quite a while. Actually, I'm still using her right now for most of uh most of um the PvE content because I find that she actually is good in mobs for her skill because her skill is basically charges forward causing damage through a nearby enemies and stunning them. She actually rides a tiger, a butter tiger to do this and stuns them. Uh basically the stun is for 3 seconds and also increases her attack speed for 10 seconds. So, this is actually what makes her good. She actually attacks from the rear but on some occasions, she jumps to the front to stun um the enemies on the front. So, this is actually good. She's actually very good in terms of holding your opponents for 3 seconds. Again, she's the top um she she is the top in stuns because of the 3 second duration and also of what she does as a ranged attacker and also for her attack speed for 10 seconds. And for our number 1 ranked cookie for the rear, we have here Herb Cookie. So, Herb Cookie is of epic type. So, he is actually of healing as well. And let's take a look at his heals. So, there's a lot of hype actually around Herb Cookie. I just recently used them. Again, I was using custard cookie before but when I actually used him, I see why he's that good. So, his skill is more healing when standing near sprouts and removes all debuffs for your team. Okay. So, it's called Sunny Garden. It just has a cooldown of 17 seconds but again, as long as they're there near um near the what do you call this near the ground where the where there are some what do you call this some sprouts, they will actually be healed. So, he turns the ground into a wonderful little garden removing all debuffs and storing some HP for the whole party. So, standing near sprouts and restores HP. So, basically you can scale his healing um when you increase his attack. So, his healing is actually pretty much good. 30% every 1 second over 5 seconds when standing near sprouts. So, all purify all debuffs as well. So, this is actually very good for him and he's really a great support for your team. So far, he is actually the best healer. The second would be probably be a custard cookie and the rest of the cookies would you know be uh at the back of them. You can actually use both herb cookie and custard cookie in your lineup. It's actually good um this would entail a different type of lineup like damage over time and probably a defensive front. So, basically herb cookie right now is tops among rear cookies. Okay. So, we're going to start now with our middle position cookies with wizard cookie who is ranked 12th for the middle cookies. So, wizard cookie is actually of common variety. So, he is actually a magic class and let's take a look at his skills. So, his skills is simply a damage um dealt with a this is actually a magic lightning storm that moves forward dealing damage over time to all enemies within range. So, it's it it looks like a circle that deals damage over time. So, that is how simple his damage is. So, he is placed at rank 12th. So, for our rank 11 for the middle cookies, we have here ninja cookie. So, ninja cookie is basically um an assassin because he is of ambush class. So, let's take a look at his skills. So, his skills is swift strike. So, cool down of 11 seconds jumps in the air throwing sure can twice causing a small area damage. So, damage dealt. So, again, he is of ambush class and this is just what he does. He does um um damage with a small area. That is why he's placed at rank 11 for the middle placed cookies. Okay, for our rank 10th cookie, we have onion cookie. The onion cookie is of rare variety. She is of support and she is actually the cookie that doesn't perform any regular attacks. So, basically what she does is lowers enemies attack power. So, that is actually what she does and um the higher the fear level, the more power for the skill. So, she is placed at uh rank 10 for the middle placed cookies. So, for our rank 9 for the middle cookies, we have adventure cookie who is of a rare variety and uh who is also of ambush class. For his skills, we have here rope master. Cool down is a 12 seconds. So, basically what he does is appears behind the fastest enemy in attacks uh then incapacitates them. So, damage dealt is 410 percent. So, and shackles them for 4 seconds. So, more or less, they cannot probably move for this one um and they stay where they are. So, so for our rank 8th for the middle cookies, we have here octopus cookie. She is of rare variety and of a bomber class. So, again, bomber class is more on shooting AOE uh range towards um the enemies on the battlefield. So, for her skill, she has unstable formula. So, for alkymus cookie, she has a poison damage over time damage. The higher the stage, the wider the the higher the stage, the wider and the greater the effect. So, that is actually her skill. The problem with her is that she actually takes a lot of time in terms of cooldown and I've seen her in action. She's a bit on the slow side and um uh for me, I think there is a better cookie to do poison damage over time for the enemies. So, for our rank 7 for the middle cookies, we have here carrot cookie. So, she is of rare um variant and she is of a support class. Let's take a look at her skills. So, for her skills, it's called carrot harvest. So, 19 seconds cooldown. So, what she does is shoots an area damage cards and increases the party's defense, restores HP per each card collected as well. So, she doubles as an attacker and also as a healer um as long as you pick up the carrots that have been and also she increases the party's defense as well. Okay? So, as long as you collect the carrots again that she drop, then uh she can restore some of the HP. So, this is she's actually a good cookie um to bring um the problem with her again is her cooldown. So, a cooldown of 19 seconds but she is good enough if you don't have better cookies to put um in the middle part of your team. Okay, for the rank 6 for the middle cookies we have here um the of epic class um chili pepper cookie. She's actually of um uh she is actually the skill of ambush and let's take a look at her skills. So, she's basically um uh uh her skill is called cheap shot. So, it causes areas damage to the mo to the rear most with force track. So, the final strike is always a critical damage strike. So, deals 52% damage. So, she's actually again an assassin um aim to take out the rear. So, she's good because um I tried to use her before in terms of reaching the farthest cookie that you have in the rear for their enemies. She can actually deal damage and take them out um if your other team members cannot take those cookies out. So, for her she is at rank 6 for the middle placed cookies. So, here we go with our top five. So, starting with rank five snow sugar cookie. So, she's of epic type and she is of magic class. So, in terms of her skill so, it's called blizzard. So, cooldown is a bit long for 20 seconds but she actually summons a snow king that causes a snow storm dealing air damage over time and frozen enemies suffer from lower attack speed.  So, for our rank four cookie we have here latte cookie. So, she is actually a new cookie that drop as well in the new update. So, in terms of um type she is of epic and four class. She is of magic class. Let's take a look at her skills. So, care for a latte that's her skills. So, cooldown is 15 seconds. So, conjures a glyph attracting enemies to its center and deals damage uh and and dealing damage and silence. Okay. So, draws every every enemy to the center dealing damage as you go near the center. Actually, you you there's already damage dealt uh at the outside but as as your enemies um go towards the center the damage is actually greater and actually it it gives them silence as well. Okay. So, damage over time and the greater damage in the center. That is why she is so good at rank four. So, for our rank three middle cookie we have here poison mushroom cookie. So, she's she's of epic type and she is of a bomber class. Um this is actually I'm going to say this that she is the top poison damage over time dealer for this game. I've seen how very potent she is in the game and in in terms of her poison damage. So, she gives poison damage over time over a large area and actually her range is also far. So, she could really do so much damage as the enemy cookies run towards your front liners. So, basically she's very good. Um I've seen her with a team that is pretty much very defensive and she does a lot of damage. Again, you put her with two healers or with even with one healer but with a good frontline team. Um she is actually going to shine as your main damage dealer. Um all you have to do is make sure that she survives and her cooldown for skill for poison cloud is not bad as well at 15 seconds. Um if you got if you have her guys you use her for your middle placed cookies. Okay. For our second rank cookie for the middle we have here one of the stars of the game which is express espresso cookie. So, she's of epic type and she is of magic class. So, I'll show you guys why she is very very good. So, she actually conjures up a giant uh were with area of damage and pulls the enemy towards the center. So, the big uh and the the the final burst damage is the biggest. So, and also once the once she deals the final burst damage it also interrupts skills of your enemies. So, that's how good she is. She actually pulls them very very you know very strong towards the center that actually you can delay your opponents charging you and she is actually very good in terms of defense offense um very very all around uh cookie for the middle middle um type. So, I would suggest if you know if you didn't have a chance to get her in her banner try to get her for your team for the mileage. Um she's very good. I already have her three star. I actually got her um from the banner and she has been in my team ever since. One of the best cookies as a middle placed cookie. Okay, for our top cookie for the middle we have here licorice cookie. So, he's of epic type and he is of magic class for the middle. So, why is this guy so great? Okay, I'll tell you this. I'm going to show you his skills and from this far he really has three skills in sorry three abilities in this skill. So, someone say black lining that deals damage that's one and someone's servants as well to fight for him and also increases your party's defense by 20. So, that is how great licorice cookie is. So, not that bad as well. He has a 14 second cooldown for this skill. So, he is actually one of the top if not the top cookie for the middle placed cookies. So, um if you have licorice play him even if you don't have that much copies he is actually a very good support that is very all around. You pair him with for example espresso cookie um they will actually give your uh you know give your enemies a headache but again he's one of the top because of number one is a short cooldown for his skill and three abilities for his spell alone. So, that is why licorice cookie is our top ranked middle placed cookie. Hey guys. So, we're actually near the end of this video last but not the least we have here the front uh placed cookies. So, we start with our number 12th ranked cookie which is strawberry cookie. So, he's of common type and he is of defense class. Let's check out his uh her what they call this her skill. So, it's don't come near. So, cooldown is a bit good but it only deals 21% damage. That is why she is at 12th ranked for the uh front placed cookies. So, here we have our 11th ranked front based cookie. So, we have here muscle cookie. So, he is of common type and he uh he is of charge class. Let's take a look at his uh skill. So, he is actually uh he has actually muscle king power with a cooldown of 10 seconds but again he does only deal 81% damage for his skill. That is why he's placed at number 11 for your front placed cookies. So, for our 10th ranked front placed cookies, we have here the leading man of Cookie Run Kingdom which is Ginger Brave. So, Ginger Brave is actually a common cookie. He is uh he has a charge ability uh charge class sorry and for his skill. So, dashes forward and deals area damage to all enemies in his way. So, dealing 150% damage. So, um of all the common cookies for the front, he is actually of the uh she's he's actually the best but unfortunately this is only what he does. So, that is why he's placed at number 10 for our front placed cookies. So, for our 9th placed cookie for the front, we have here Purple Lamb Cookie. He is of epic type and of charge class. So, for the front so, for his skill. So, it's called Purple Tornado 12 seconds. So, basically it just does um area damage area damage over time. So, damage is 54%. Not really a good cookie um only deals damage um but it is only good because of its cooldown of 12 seconds. That is why he's in number nine for our front placed cookies. So, for our eighth rank cookie for the front, we have here Madeleine Cookie who is of epic type and of defense class. Let's go to her skills. So, basically what she does is she has immune she is actually immune to buffs for her skill. Restores own HP and does range attacks for the duration of the skill. So, she actually does buffs to herself immunity and deals a lot deals a great damage but usually the expectation for the front cookies they should actually be the ones to protect the other cookies not just protect themselves. So, for our seventh rank cookie for the front we have here Avocado Cookie. So, he's of rare type and of defense class. For a while I actually was using him and I think he was great as well but there are better cookies right in front of him but for his skill we have here um Battle Smithing. So, cooldown of 13 seconds. So, deals area damage increases attack power with cookie of the highest attack power. Okay. So, increases attack power of the cookie again with the highest attack power. So, it only gives buffs to one specific cookie but he does have an area damage for his attack. Again, he actually sustained me for a time but there are actually better cookies. That is why he is actually placed at rank seven for the front placed cookies. And for our sixth rank cookie in the front we have here Knight Cookie. So, he is a rare type and he is of defense um defense class. Okay. So, let's take a look at his skill. So, it's Cavalry Charge. So, it has 13 second cooldown. So, what it does is charges forward causing an area damage and taunts enemies. This is actually good because he is one of the one of two cookies who has taunt but he only has taunt for three seconds. The other one I'll share with you later for our top cookies. So, again, he's very good. He is a very good starter cookie for the front. So, you might as well use him while you don't have if you don't have any other good cookies. So, for our top five we have here rank fifth we have Princess Cookie. So, Princess Cookie is of rare type and his uh her ability is Charge. So, basically for her skill is Royal Swing. So, basically for a Royal Swing it deals area damage and decreases the enemy's defense by 15%.  So, she is very good. She deals damage and she decreases the defense by 15% for six seconds. That is why she is fifth rank of the front placed cookies. So, for our fourth rank cookie for the front we have here werewolf cookie who is of epic type and he is also of charge um um uh charge class. So, basically for her for his skill it's called transformation. So, what it does is takes his wolf form causing area damage in uh wolf form. He has increased HP as well and has a more powerful double strike regular attack. So, basically he's there at the front to deal massive damage to clear the way and to be a tank more or less um and probably bulldoze the opponents on the other side. So, he is actually there because of his high damage output and also his skill is has only a cooldown of 11 seconds. So, for our third rank cookie in the front, so, we have here kumiyo cookie who was actually featured in one of the events recently. So, she is of epic type and she is of charge class. So, let's take a look at her skill. So, her skill is called somersault which has a cooldown of 14 seconds. So, she transforms into a cookie causing so, she starts out as a fox and transforms into a cookie causing areas air diamonds and charming nearby enemies. So, seduction bonus damage during transformation. So, I actually have seen her in action. I haven't used her yet um but I think she has some utility in terms of her seduction and the bonus damage during during transformation is also good. So, that is why she is now at rank third for our front based cookies. So, for our second rank cookie for the front um more or less these two including the first um they can be switched you know whether first or second. So, but for me um dark choco cookie is at second. He is actually of epic type and he is also of charge class. So, in terms of his skill so, it's sword of darkness. So, what it does is inflicts a chain lighting on enemies that has lower defense by 20%. So, this is the guy that lowers the enemy's defense by 20%. That is why he is actually very very good and he is actually he's going to obliterate the your front enemies as long as he survives. So, very high damage damage dealt is at 340 uh 44.7% that's because he is already leveled up but actually he has high damage for a front um charge cookie and we go now to our number one. So, for our top cookie for the front we have here milk cookie who is an epic type and of defense class. Again um if you can see the trend in terms of skill most of the top cookies have different abilities in one skill. So, again milk chocolate um milk cookie is actually no different because he stands in the form of a line causing area damage taunts enemies okay. So, while the skill is active milk cookies, divine milk shield decreases incoming damage as well. So, very good in terms of um mitigating damage very good in taunting your enemies and overall a very good defensive line for your team. So, basically for milk cookie he is one of the top if not the top cookie again he may be interchanged with with with dark chocolate cookie but actually he is there because I chose him at number one because number one um the main the main uh function of the front is to protect the back and the middle or the rear in the middle and he does it very you know he he's very good at it decreasing decreasing damage of the enemies and also taunting them and he he actually has won a lot of games for me uh when I got him um together with dark chocolate cookie in the front okay. So, basically guys that is the ranking that I have for all of the cookies that we have you can actually um check your lineups now um which cookies you have which is better than the other again this is just my opinion guys so please bear with me if you have any comments on the video please put down put them down below also guys keep safe this is The Warden and I'm out


The Nassarwa State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress has rejected the sack of Governor Abdulahi Suleh by a governorship election petition tribunal in the state. The tribunal had on Monday sack Suleh and directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw its certificate of return and issue the same to the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state, David Ambogadu of the People's Democratic Party, reacting to the development at the APC Secretaryate in Lafya on Wednesday State Chairman of the party, Ali Ubelu said the party believes that the tribunal committed a monumental error in declaring the PDP candidate as the winner of the governorship election in the state. The Nassarwa APC further lamented that the facts and arguments presented by its legal team and that of INEC against the petition filed by Ambogadu and the PDP were overwhelming and incontrovertible and wondered how the tribunal arrived at its decision. The party therefore which is firmly rooted in law, facts and logic, this goes up, explaining our resolve to pursue the APC. The party says from harrasing and intimidating the people in the guise of celebrating the spirit of judgment. Dekoron and sense of responsibility should be employed to avoid breakdown of law and order in the state. Nobody has the monopoly of violence. Thank you very much.


Mae cymdeithasol yn gweithio'r cyflawn cyffredinol, ond yn gweithio'r cyffredinol, cymdeithasol yn gweithio'r cyffredinol, cyflawn cyffredinol, cyflawn cyffredinol. Felly, mae'r gweithio'r gweithio'r cyffredinol yn ei tynnu mewn cwmysig yn Lothian 3048, yn y cwmysig gennymintol, a o'n ymwyndio gyffredinol yn Ylchydig Llywodraeth Llywodraeth. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio yn gwleidio i ni gweithio'r cyffredinol. Caen Ceyliadau yn iawn gwneud ydyn nhw gafodd r in women's rights and in humanity. My motion pays tribute to this inspiring woman, surgeon, philanthropist and patriot, but also to the amazing group of women and girls, some of whom joined us this evening in Parliament, who like Elsie did not sit still, but have worked tirelessly to ensure Edinburgh and Scotland does not forget one of its most important women. I would like to thank all of them for the amazing work that they are doing, also those who have provided my colleagues and I with so many Elsie stories to prepare for this debate. I thank you too to my colleagues for supporting my motion and Minister Marie Todd for responding on behalf of the Scottish Government. It may seem odd that I, representing Argyll and Bute, am leading this member's debate to honour and recognise the achievements of Dr Elsie Ingalls with a statue in Edinburgh. Scotland is a village and, as I have said, Elsie's influence reaches far and wide, even to the beaches of Islay. It was a chance meeting with Thea Lorry on Calhomyn beach that I was drawn into this important project to remember Dr Elsie Ingalls. I am very grateful indeed for Jenny Minter who is giving way. Did she recognise that Elsie Ingalls is recognised and commemorated in Serbia and in France, but it is high time that we had her commemorated here in our nation's capital? I absolutely agree with the member and I would like to note that, in St Andrew's, where both he and I were educated, Elsie Ingalls' portrait was etched on the beach as part of Scotland's World War 100 commemorations. In Thea's words, Elsie's inspirational story is not just set on the battlefields of World War 1. Her battles included the fight to become a doctor and surgeon. She fought for votes for women and helped to establish the Scottish suffrage movement. But the philanthropic side of Elsie was her concern for the women and children from the poorest parts of Edinburgh for whom she set up a hospital on the high street. It's now time for Edinburgh to say thank you to Elsie Ingalls. As part of Scotland's World War 100 commemorations, I attended on the 29th of November 2017 a service at St Giles, marking 100 years since Elsie's funeral. It was a celebration of her life. St Giles filled with the joyous halleluia chorus as it had a century previously, a thanksgiving with triumph and hope. To begin at the beginning, Elsie was born in the Himalayas of India in 1994. Her father John Ingalls worked for the East India Company, but when he disagreed with the ruthless way that the company was run, he lost his post and the family returned to Edinburgh. Elsie finished her schooling in the city and then in Paris, all the time determined to become a doctor, supported to achieve her ambition by her progressive father. After qualifying at both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, she worked in women's hospitals in London and Dublin. When her beloved father was dying, she returned home to Edinburgh to nurse him, later acknowledging that whatever I am, whatever I have done, I owe it all to my father. Her deep concern for the way the medical services treated women led her to establish hospitals and maternity facilities for Edinburgh's poor, but Elsie also recognised that the only way women would gain true equality was through the vote, and tirelessly campaigned for votes for women. Elsie was 50 when World War I broke out. She knew that women could play an important role. She inquired at the War Office if doctors and surgeons would be permitted to serve in the front line hospitals, women doctors. It was then that the infamous words were uttered to her, my good lady, go home and sit still. Elsie went home, but sit still she did not. Instead she offered all female units to the Belgians, the French and the Serbs, who all gladly accepted. Elsie formed the Scottish women's hospitals, along with her friends in the suffrage movement, starting a massive fundraising campaign that was to run throughout the war. Writing to Millicent Fawcett, Elsie said, we get these expert women, doctors, nurses and ambulance workers organised. We send our units wherever they are wanted. Once those units are out, the work is bound to grow. The need is there and too terrible to allow any haggling about who does the work. Elsie finished her letter, and when one hears of the awful need, one can hardly sit still till they are ready. Individuals, communities, companies and countries all contributed beds, blankets, tents, ambulances, surgical equipment and x-ray machines, everything that a field hospital required. When women came back from serving in one of the hospitals on the front, they often went on to help raise more money by giving talks about the important work that they and their fellow women were doing. Women like Mary Struthers Drummond and Miss Lang Anderson from Appen, Nurse Green and Nurse Mary Richie Thompson from Tobermory, just four of the many women from Argyll and Bute. I know members across this chamber will be able to share the names of more of those compassionate and brave women who join the Scottish Women's Hospitals or nurse at the front. Elsie Ingalls was not content to manage the hospitals from afar. She wanted to be in the thick of things. She travelled extensively across Europe from 1914 to 1917 visiting hospitals. It was in Serbia that Elsie extended her main effort and where she served both in the operating theatre and in directing improvements in general treatment. She wrote, The Serbian division is superb. We are proud to be attached to it. I will read from one of Elsie's letters, included in the book Dr Elsie Ingalls by Lady Frances Barber. This letter was written in January 1917 to her niece Amy McLaren. I don't think the children in these parts are doing many lessons during the war, and that will be a great handicap for their countries afterwards. Perhaps, however, they are learning other lessons. We saw the crowds of refugees on their carts and the things they had been able to save and all the little children packed in among the furniture and pots and pans and pigs. This letter was written on an ambulance train near Odessa 105 years ago. Sadly, those words are mirrored by journalists today. On Sunday night, Channel 4 news showed a maternity ward in Kiev in the basement lay a Ukrainian mother with her newborn daughter. The father, like the name Victoria or victory, the mother Nadia Hope. I was struck by the similarity of this scene to those that Elsie and other women must have experienced in Edinburgh and Serbia over 100 years ago. Seeing the horror of war unfolding again, but also the outpouring of aid and support for the people of Ukraine, I found myself thinking, wondering what Elsie would have said. There is a story that, after Elsie Ingalls visited her first field hospital in France, she went to the Cathedral of Notre Dame. She suddenly felt as if there was a living presence behind her.  Afterward, she commented, I should like to know what Joan wanted to say to me. Elsie Ingalls is a living presence who deserves this recognition. Presiding Officer, I will finish by congratulating again the work that the team in the public galleries are doing to ensure that we never forget what Dr Elsie Ingalls achieved. I hope that Elsie will be able to stand beside Elsie's statue, feel her warmth. Feel her warmth and wonder what Elsie should want to say to them. I will sign off with the beautiful words penned by Scottish Poetgarus Stevenson for the Commemoration Service in 2017. Ms Mintle, you really are quite over your time. Can you please conclude? We are in the sun, and we would like to ask for your help, Ms Mintle. I now call Ruth Maguire to be followed by Sue Webber, who will be joining us remotely. Presiding Officer, I congratulate Jenny Mintle on bringing this debate to the chamber to celebrate and reflect on the incredible achievements of Dr Elsie Ingalls. Yesterday, we marked International Women's Day, where we celebrated women's achievements, raised awareness against bias and took action for equality. It is only fitting that today we celebrate Dr Elsie Ingalls by commemorating her achievements to raise awareness against bias and take action for equality. In a period when women were expected to be compliant in a masculine world, she challenged that and became a surgeon, philanthropist, patriot and leader of the movement for the political emancipation of women. From a young age, Elsie showed strength and resilience. Despite fierce prejudice from the medical establishments, she became one of the first women to study medicine in Scotland and, once qualified, devoted herself to improving the medical treatment of women. In 1894, she established aneddum from maternity hospital, staffed entirely by women, and at the outbreak of the First World War, organised all women ambulance units. After being told to go home and sit still by the war office, she refused. Instead, she raised funds and sent a medical team of 100 women to the front line in France to set up a fuelled hospital, followed by 26 hospital units in several countries. She herself travelled to Serbia to set up three hospitals. Today, perhaps because of Dr Elsie Ingalls, women are staple of front line medical roles. Elsie did not, however, confine her activities to medicine. It is no surprise that she became involved in the movement for women's suffrage, taking on the role of honorary secretary of the Edinburgh national society for women's suffrage. She said herself that fate had placed her in the vanguard of a great movement, for which she was described as a keen fighter. Through her involvement, her tenacity and influence continue to affect the lives of all Scottish women today. To echo words once used in describing Elsie by the First Minister, she demonstrated that women were capable of performing roles that they had been denied. In Serbia, she is remembered with respect and affection, where there are ffountains, buildings and memorials celebrating her life and legacy. In Scotland, with the closure of the Elsie Ingalls memorial hospital in 1988, there was a risk that she is consigned to history and almost forgotten. We must not let that happen. On the centenary for death in 2017, a campaign was proposed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Frank Ross, to erect a statue in her memory. Sadly, while there was a list of very notable supporters, the pandemic ground the campaign to halt. Just like Elsie herself, Fiona Garwood and Thea Lorry decided not to sit still and pursued a pandemic project. Picking up the mantle to fundraise and build a memorial in the name of Dr Elsie Ingalls, I would like to offer my congratulations to them both, as it is mastered support from notable organisations and individuals, including medical and nursing organisations, historians and particularly Edinburgh girl guiding. I would encourage everyone listening to get involved. I understand that there are a number of events on until 13 March, and I have included various afternoon teas across the city and girl guiding sponsored to sit still on the medals. Donations can also be made through the Elsie Ingalls website. Statues create a dialogue between past and present. Elsie's kindness, resilience, strength and determination make her an incredible role model for generations to come. I agree with all those who say that Dr Ingalls is truly a revered and treasured figure, not just for Edinburgh, but for Scotland. She deserves to be honoured. I now call Sue Webber, who is joining us remotely, to be followed by Carol Mawkin. Yes, thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I start by drawing the chamber's attention to my register of interests as a City of Edinburgh councillor? I want to thank Jenny Minto for bringing forward this debate, and I'm delighted to have the chance to speak in recognition of Dr Elsie Ingalls. We've heard a lot about Elsie's life and achievements today, and I'm sure we'll learn more. Born in India, she moved to Edinburgh at age 14 with her family in 1878 and attended the Edinburgh Institute for the Education of Young Ladies until 1882. She knew then that she wanted to pursue a career in medicine, and in 1886 Dr Sophie Jax Blake opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, where Ingalls began her medical training. In 1906, Ingalls launched the Scottish Women's Suffragette Federation, fighting not only for the women's vote but for equal rights in education and the right to her medical career. At nearly 50 in 1914, when war was declared, her patriotism led her to offer her services to the War Office, only to be turned away and denied. Ingalls suggested that the creation of medical units staffed by women, which could provide aid to British forces on the western front. However, she was rejected by the British War Office, Red Cross and the Royal Army Medical Corps, with the reason for rejection being that a women's role was at home. Not deterred, Ingalls fought to form independent hospital units staffed by women and an appeal for funds and support soon attracted more than just suffragette supporters. Funds poured in for the organisation, cottage women's hospitals for foreign service and both the French and Serbs accepted the offer of these all-female medical units. The first unit left for France in November 1914 and the second went to Serbia in January 1915. Ingalls went to Serbia in 1915 as the chief medical officer, but in the autumn, when Serbia was invaded and Ingalls hospital was taken over by the Germans, it was then interned until February 1916 when she was sent home. In April 1916, Ingalls became the first woman to be decorated with the order of the white eagle. Elsie Ingalls maternity hospital was established with surplus funds arising from the disbandment of the Scottish women's hospitals for foreign service, an organisation that had been formed by Elsie Ingalls. The 20-bed hospital opened in July 1925 and closed in 1988. My dad, sister and cousins were all born there, as well as countless other Edinburgh residents. Although it is now closed, it is yet another reason that a statue should be erected in her honour. Considering all those pioneering successes that medical trailblazer Elsie Ingalls had, it seems only fitting that a statue is erected in her honour in Edinburgh. There are, in fact, more animal statues than ones for women in our capital city. A long-awaited celebration in Edinburgh of our life and legacy is now under way to raise funds for a statue after a campaign launched five years ago to coincide with the centenary of our death and the campaign has been spearheaded by an Edinburgh branch of the Girlguiding movement. Tickets are now available for several events, which will kick-start a fundraising drive and it is hoped that 50,000 will be raised to pay for a statue of her, designed and erected on the royal mile. As a councillor for the city, I was delighted to be able to support the motion that was brought to the city chambers by Lord Provost Frank Ross endorsing the campaign for her statue. In conclusion, Dr Elsie Ingalls was a wartime heroine, a leading figure in women's suffrage movement and a founder of the Scottish Women's Hospital Service. I, like everyone in this chamber today, hope that her extraordinary life will be fittingly remembered. I now call Carol Mocken to be followed by Alex Cole-Hamilton. I thank Jenny Binto for bringing this debate to the chamber and welcoming those in the gallery. Indeed, it is appropriate that, after marking International Women's Day yesterday, that today we focus on a pioneering woman who has made such an important contribution to Scottish and wider society. Moreover, it is important that I put on record Scottish Labour's support for those across Edinburgh taking part in fundraising events that will hopefully secure funds for a statue for Elsie Ingalls, a fitting tribute indeed in her home city. The efforts of campaigners are wide-ranging, including events held by the Edinburgh branch of Girlguiding Scotland as part of a two-week effort that started at the beginning of this month, such as a sponsored Sit Still event, referring to, as we have heard, the suggestion that Elsie Ingalls should go home and sit still in response to her offer of a female operated hospital unit being opened in the western front. I am pleased that cross-party support for those events was achieved at Edinburgh City Council on October last year, as we heard, which further highlights the wide range of support for tributes to her trailblazing women. As we have heard, the importance of Elsie Ingalls' contribution throughout her lifetime cannot be understated. Although we are well aware of the national influence of Elsie, it is important as we stand at the bottom of the royal mile to recognise the importance of our contributions to this city, establishing medical institutions to educate and to practice. Elsie helped to create opportunities for women and girls across Edinburgh. Indeed, the important work went beyond medicine to being a strong campaigner for women's suffrage, a huge fight in the late 1880s and early 1900s, a fight that women would eventually win thanks to work of those just like her. That significant contribution went further than campaigning for women's right to vote, but, importantly, for equality in education and in the workplace. That shows the vision of Elsie aiming for equality of opportunity for women in politics and education and in whichever career she chose. Yet, who would have thought, Deputy Presiding Officer, that, over 100 years after her death, women across the world would still be fighting for equality in politics and such things? Let us hope that, in the near future, there are no more firsts and no more glass ceilings to break, but it is an afterminder that there is still work to be done. However, Deputy Presiding Officer, I must conclude my remarks without making reference to the international impact that we have heard about. When rejected by the War Office, when offering her services at home, she took them abroad and in the form of the Scottish Women's Hostel for Foreign Service Fighters, where she would assist those wounded by war, most notably in Serbia. In Serbia today, as we have heard, there remain several acts of homage to her, recognising her and those who worked in her hostel. In concluding, Elsie Engels was a pioneering Scottish woman who had significant impact and influence anywhere she went, really. Her contribution to the City of Edinburgh through medicine, Scotland through her contributions to the suffrage movement and internationally setting up hostels in countries impacted by the most awful violence of war. It is right that we commemorate her today and once again offer support to those who are fundraising for a statue in Edinburgh to mark the life and work of Elsie Engels. It is so nice to hear everyone talking in the chamber today. Thank you. I now call Alex Cole-Hamilton to be followed by Foisal Trowder, who will be the last speaker in the open debate. Thank you very much indeed, Deputy Presiding Officer. It gives me great pride to rise to support this motion today, and I congratulate Jenny Minter for bringing it forward. For such an excellent speech, I think that she really captured much of Elsie's life very well. I have been privileged to be involved in this campaign since I was first elected to this place in 2016. I want to recognise, I think, the works of many people that have been mentioned already. I want to say a particular mention to Ian McFarland, who has driven this relentlessly. Student medics, the Edinburgh Girlguiding Movement and many other campaigners who have been fighting to give Dr Elsie Engels her recognition in the capital, and we will support every effort to make this happen going forward. Arguably, as we have heard, the fight goes back to 1988, with the closure of the memorial hospital to her name and which was dedicated, at which point there seems to be any form of physical commemoration of this most important woman in the history of our city. We need to recognise those monumental contributions not just to medicine, not just to science and the suffrage movement but also to Scottish history. We have already heard today that it is difficult to give justice to the profound power that her life and legacy has. Not only was her work as a scientist outstanding, but the enormous obstacles that she had to overcome to carry it out and make her achievements even more so, we have heard already that when she offered her services to the army after war first broke out, she was simply told, my good lady, go home and sit still, which she rightly ignored and instead went on to provide desperately needed medical care for those on the front line. In the autumn of 1917, she became aware that she herself had cancer, which was sadly what she later succumbed to. At the time, political stability was collapsing around her in Serbia, hence she was advised by those close to her to go back to Scotland immediately, but she insisted on staying until enough civilians were evacuating, putting it herself in grave jeopardy by so doing. The story is particularly pertinent today because it resembles the reality of the hundreds of thousands of women in Ukraine doing exactly the same thing, fighting for the greater good in the face of danger. Most of us will never be lucky enough to face. Not only would her medical contributions have saved countless lives, she is also a pioneering figure in the suffrage movement, as we have also heard. She is described by her contemporaries as the Scottish groups what Mrs Fawr is saying is to the English. As we all know, the statue to Millicent Fawr calls to courage everywhere was erected just over four years ago today, so it feels fitting that a statue should be put up to join her Scottish feminist compatriot and a great shame that one has not been already erected. Here in Edinburgh, our statues are seriously lacking in female representation. Not only do male statues outnumber female statues by 12 to 1, there are also as many statues to giraffes in the capital as there are to women. That is preposterous to even to say out loud. That is not a phenomenon restricted to our city alone, in fact far from it. In the UK, there are more statues to individuals named John than there are to women. As laughable as that seems, there may be some that ask, why does that matter? It matters because a statue is not just a decorative object, but it defines the city in which it is placed. It inspires the people who inhabit those cities. It seeks to commemorate those who have given and sacrificed for the history of the towns in which they are located. The fact that we have so few statues to women is emblematic of the fact that, as a society, we do not value women's achievements nearly as remotely highly as we do men. The fact that we do not also has detrimental consequences. Studies have shown that when children are asked to draw a picture of a scientist, only 28 per cent of children will draw a female scientist. If children cannot even picture the concept of a female scientist, how is a little girl supposed to feel about becoming one? There are so many girls passionate about science, justice and the environment that is still not enough encouragement in our society to nurture that passion. I want to finish by saying that, as has been made abundantly clear already, we still have so much further to go in achieving equality, but erecting a long overdue statue to one of the most remarkable women in the history of our city in our country is a good start. Thank you. I now call Poitol Charger, who, as I said, is the last speaker in the open debate. It's up to four minutes, please, Mr Charger. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I would like to thank Jenny Minto for bringing this debate to the chamber. It is a pleasure to speak in honour and recognition of Dr Elsie Ingalls, who was a true pioneer of women's rights and medical service in this city, this country and across Europe. It is a fighting that we mark her life and work in the same way as International Women's Day, where we celebrate the role of women across the world. Dr Ingalls certainly made a difference to more of the world than many people of her era got the chance to. Much has already been said of her domestic activities and her work for the rights of women across Britain, both in terms of their ability to participate in society and their right to quality and dignity in their medical treatment. It is remarkable that Dr Ingalls was able to achieve so much when the odds of society were stacked against her. It speaks to her determination to do what was right. This is also notable in her service during the First World War, where the hospitals and medical teams set up aided elite groups in the most appealing condition. Her work in Serbia through war captivity and a typos epidemic has made her national hero there. As Dennis Keffy, former UK ambassador to Serbia noted, in Scotland she became a doctor, in Serbia she became a saint. I was particularly struck in light of recent events that one of Dr Ingalls' final journey was to Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, to aid suffering soldiers there. It is a sobering thought that we are once again sending aid to allies fighting in the same region. Dr Ingalls died a day after she returned to Britain and she never got to see the legacy that she had created for Omen in Britain and for medicine abroad. It is fitting therefore that we are finally discussing how best to celebrate that legacy. I pay tribute to those including One City Trust and Girlguiding Scotland who have been campaigning tirelessly for a status Dr Ingalls and to the Lord Provost, Frank Ross, who has personally campaigned this cause. I also pay tribute to the fundraising work of Fiona Garwood and Three Lowry, I think both are whom I believe are in the parliament today. Whatever the final form, I agree that it is time, Edinburgh recognized Dr Ingalls' life and work with permanent memorial. I also would like to note the initiative this month at Edinburgh Central Library, inspired by the LC Ingalls campaign to create a mural to highlight the Edinburgh's unsung Omen. I hope that through this efforts we'll soon be able to further the work of LC Ingalls and her fellow campaigners for equality and see that the Omen who have shaped our city and our nation are remembered at least as much as they are male counterparts. I was welcoming very much indeed our friends in the gallery today and it is indeed fantastic to see people back in the gallery after all this time. In terms of the rules, I would ask that you don't clap. I now call Minister Marie Todd to respond to the debate up to seven minutes, please minister. I want to thank my colleague Jenny Minto for lodging the motion and for bringing the pioneering work of LC Ingalls to the attention of this Parliament. I commend you for your excellent speech and, of course, for inviting us to celebrate the work of this remarkable woman. LC was practising medicine in a time when death and childbirth was one of the biggest risks that women faced. She saw that women's health, particularly in maternity care, needed specific focus and resource and the services that she set up in Edinburgh for women, particularly for poor women, were absolutely trailblazing in their time. After her death, the hospital bearing her name and recognising her deeds, the LC Ingalls memorial hospital was set up and many of our current Edinburgh residents were brought into the world in that very hospital until it closed its doors for the last time as a maternity hospital in 1988. As we know, it was during World War I that LC Ingalls came to real prominence. She was determined to prove that women could be equal to men in providing medical services to the armed forces. As we have heard, when she was told by the War Office, my good lady, go home and sit still, she did exactly the opposite. I would like to think that that spirit lives on in Scottish Women today. The Scottish Women's Hospital service that she established providing medical services right across Europe treating casualties in Serbia, in Belgium, in France and Romania and Russia, saved the lives of countless thousands of men and women who were caught up in the battles of the First World War and are still remembered in those countries today. Over 100 years ago, women nurses and doctors from all over Scotland packed their bags, boarded trains and went to work in these field hospitals following LC Ingalls to the front line. Their numbers included Louisa Jordan, who died in a field hospital in Serbia and whose memory we named our Glasgow coronavirus hospital in 2020 after. Many of those women would never have left their town before let alone leave Scotland and travel to the furthest reaches of Europe. We should continue to remember and celebrate their bravery and their success to this day. We have come so far since the days when LC Ingalls was practising medicine in Edinburgh. Healthcare has transformed in our country since those days, and next year we will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of our NHS, the first universal healthcare system anywhere in the world free at the point of need for all. The NHS made huge strides to eliminate inequalities in health, but there is still so much more to do, and we know that we still face the challenge of unequal health outcomes. As we recognise LC Ingalls' life and work and celebrate the creation of our NHS, it is only fitting that last year Scotland became the first country in the UK to publish a women's health plan, which aims to address some of those inequalities. The plan set out 66 actions to ensure that all women enjoy the best possible health throughout their lives. Actions include in providing a platform for women's health information and NHS inform and appointing a national women's health champion and a women's health lead in every NHS board. We have already started to implement some of those actions, including work to develop a women's health platform and NHS inform. In October last year, we launched the NHS inform menopause information platform. Through that resource we are busting menopause myths, highlighting menopause symptoms, options for care, treatment, support, mental health and much more. That is the first stage in the development of a women's health information platform, providing women with easy access to accurate and reliable information on women's health and services. We are also making pioneering changes in Scotland through the implementation of our best start programme, which is driving improvements in our maternity and neonatal services through the introduction of continuity of care in maternity and a new model of neonatal care. That best start programme has already delivered new maternity care facilities that provide midwife-led care and seen more women receive continuity of care in the introduction of more home birth services. It has also seen a move to delivering care closer to home through the development of community hubs and better use of technology and maternity care. Best start has also initiated changes to allow mothers and babies to stay together through creation of a transitional care wards through our neonatal expenses fund and through creation of community support for discharged babies. The work of the best start programmes aimed at improving safety and experience of maternity care for pregnant women and their babies, continuing the work that Elsie and Gils is so famed for in Edinburgh and throughout the world. I am reminded that last week in this Parliament Michelle Thompson led an incredibly strong and moving member's debate on international women's day, which recognised the achievements of women through history in Scotland, around the world and highlighted the impact of bias in women and girls the need to work together to achieve gender parity in society. Elsie and Gils was a woman's health pioneer. She was a pioneer for women's rights, but she stood up for suffering and injustice wherever she was and is credited with saving the lives of over 8,000 Serbian soldiers who were stranded in Russia in the complexities of the Russian revolution. As others have said, this is so relevant today in the face of the horrors that we are seeing in Europe where women in Ukraine are taking up weapons to fight for their freedom. I wonder how Elsie and Gils would respond to the injustice and suffering that are being inflicted on the people of Ukraine. I would like to think that she would have fought to make a difference in a war that will have a devastating and lasting impact on the men, women and children of Ukraine. I welcome the efforts of the fundraising campaign to honour her life, including the girl guiding sponsored sits still in the medals and support the combined efforts in the city of Edinburgh to commemorate her life with a statue. Elsie and Gils, what she stood for and the work that she did should continue to be remembered and celebrated and I commend this campaign and everyone who is involved. I will finish my contribution this evening with the lines of poetry that Jenny Minto mentioned. Where in sun and moonlight, flash of gunfire, my women's saving lives proved what's plain as day that we are equals, daughters, sons, husbands, wives.


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Welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives her clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. Welcome back to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes, practical tools to improve your mood and quality of life. Today we're talking about 10 ways to improve performance.  So we're going to talk about some things that you might be able to do to improve performance. First is get enough quality sleep. Any sleep is not good sleep. Quality sleep is when you're getting that good, deep, restorative sleep. So encourage your staff to learn about sleep hygiene. If you have an employee assistance program, have them come in and do a presentation on sleep hygiene. So people know that, you know, an hour before bed, they should have a blue light filter on any of their electronic devices, that they need to not take a hot shower right before bed because the body needs to cool down, that they need to create a sleep routine, for example. For more information about improving your quality of sleep, we have videos on our YouTube channel that you can review. So even though you can't control what your staff does, you can't educate them about how to get more rest. Another thing that you can do that can also help them get enough quality sleep as a supervisor, or even as an employee, set work life boundaries. Make sure that when you leave work, you leave work at work. And don't bring it home. Don't be checking your email at 10 o'clock at night. And as a supervisor, don't be emailing people at 10 o'clock at night because that can trigger a stress response that can keep people up past when they wanted to go to sleep. Ensuring your staff has enough quality sleep will help them have a better mood, better morale, and be sick less often. The second step is to eat well. That sounds pretty basic, but it's important because your body makes the brain chemicals responsible for happiness and concentration and everything else based off of the foods you eat.  Eating well doesn't mean eating, as my father would say, rabbit food all the time, necessarily. What it means is making sure that you're getting good quality proteins.  So that's not horrible to do. So eating well, one tip that I was told by a dietitian friend of mine is try to have three colors on your plate at every meal. That will help make sure that you're getting a variety of nutrients. Begin with the end in mind. When you have staff start a project or when you start a project, you don't want to just start and say, OK, I need you to do this today. You want to have everybody involved in the project on board and you want to have a vision of what the end looks like. If it's just you, you still want to have a vision of what the end looks like because that's your goal. And then from that goal, you're going to figure out the individual steps you need to do in order to get there. If you just start out with a kind of a loosey-goosey haphazard goal, then your path to get there is going to be loosey-goosey and haphazard. If you have a clear, defined goal, then your path to that goal will also be clear and defined and much more efficient. Know your temperament and know the temperament of the people whose performance you're trying to improve if it's not yours. Temperament varies for different people. Extroverts need to be around people. They crave interaction. They draw energy from other people. So putting an extrovert in a cubicle is not going to maximize their performance. Letting them work in a group is going to be more helpful. Letting them work in a work environment where there are seating areas, instead of having everybody at desks, that can improve performance. Introverts on the other hand are going to do much better in a cubicle with less distractions. A lot of introverts have difficulty switching gears and don't deal with distractions well. If you want to improve performance, you want to make sure that people can maintain their best focus. Extroverts also think things out while they talk. So if you put them by themselves in a cubicle, they may talk to themselves, but they're not going to be as effective as if they're bouncing ideas off somebody. So just think about temperament. The other part of temperament that goes with improving performance is knowing whether you're a judge or a perceiver. Perceivers love deadlines. They tend to do really well with order and structure. Perceivers feel very oppressed with deadlines. Now in work, as in life, we all have to have some sort of deadlines. A judge is going to create time limits and goals for each sub-goal. A perceiver is going to do better if you say, you know, by the end of the month I need these three things accomplished. That gives them a little bit more wiggle room in terms of how quickly they get things done and they don't feel quite as stifled. Synergize. Put people together who have opposing interests and skills and abilities. If you are trying to improve your health and wellness, for example, and that's not your strong suit, find somebody who is knowledgeable about that kind of stuff and pull off of their knowledge and they will probably pull motivation from you because you're really motivated and excited about making this new change. But synergy means using different people's skills to enhance your own. So think about your friends. Think about their different skills, their different tools, their different talents. What can they bring? How can you synergize? And you can even think about things like time management. So maybe one of your good friends is a stay-at-home parent and you're trying to get a promotion at work and, you know, it would be really helpful if that person could pick your kids up three days a week from school because then you wouldn't have to leave quite as early and you could work towards your goal. So, you know, if you can get them to do that, what can you do for them? And synergy is about give and take. Synergy is about balance and helping each other out to make the most of everybody's quality of life. Think about synergy within your own household. In my house, my daughter is extraordinarily structured. And I mean, she runs a tight ship, let me tell you what. My son is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. He is very fanciful. So the two of them can butt heads sometimes, but they also balance each other out really well because he keeps her from getting too structured and rigid. And she keeps him from, well, she makes sure that he gets his stuff done. So synergy can work in a household and it's important to recognize and play off of everybody's strengths. Improve communication. This is another really important thing, whether you're improving your own performance and you need to be able to communicate your needs and wants effectively, but you also need to be able to understand other people's needs and wants effectively. So if you're improving your performance at work, that's great, but you need to make sure it fits into your team because you probably don't work in isolation. So if you want them to give you certain things, you need to understand what they need in exchange. And for example, when I used to work as a supervisor at a mental health facility and I needed my staff to get their progress notes in at the end of every single day. And that is a huge task when you work in a residential facility. So that is what I needed and they could do it and they had to do it. However, what did they need from me in order to help them make that happen? So I was able to use my managerial powers to free up some time for them every day so they could get their notes done. So we synergized. Synergy can also be great minds think alike. When I would write grants, I am not a detailed person. I am the broad strokes person. I love creating the plans and doing the research, but when it comes down to writing the budgets and the nitty gritty details, I miss things. I know that's not my strength. So I would take, I would write the initial draft of the grant and I would give it to my partner who would review it and she was much more detail oriented and able to pick up on the stuff that I probably missed. So we worked well together in order to produce a really good end product. Improving communication going back to that one also means being willing to communicate. Some people won't ask for help and that is one of the greatest hindrers of performance. If you need help, ask for it. My son will do that now when he's working on something and he can't get it instead of asking for help, he'll try to figure it out on his own and it takes him 7, 8, 20 times longer to get it done than if he would have just stopped and gone, you know what, I need some help with this. So look at the reasons why you're not willing to ask for help. Improve your communication when you work with people and you need something or you're trying to communicate something. Always try to communicate it in the form of a win-win. If I can do this, this is how it will benefit you. Or if you give this to me, whatever it is that you need, this is how it will benefit you. So make it a win-win situation. Eliminate distractions. For some people, especially introverts, that means auditory distractions, visual distractions, a lot of introverts really like being either in a lab or in a cubicle where they can focus. And even for extroverts, we need to eliminate too many distractions like Facebook and other things that are going to pull their attention away from work. Now, they may be sitting in a lounge area discussing a project. That's not a distraction. But we don't want to have the discussion wander off into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles latest movie or, you know, where they're going to go partying for the weekend or whatever. Make sure we maintain a focus and eliminate distractions as much as possible. Encourage your team to visualize. And we talked about this back with goals. If they can visualize the end product, then they're going to be more excited to work towards it. When you're putting a puzzle together, you know, ostensibly, when you bought the puzzle, you're like, oh, this would be so pretty to put together. And or cool or whatever word you want to use. Once you get the puzzle, it comes in a thousand pieces. You need to continue to visualize the puzzle as you put it together in order to know where the pieces go, but also to help you stay motivated to get it done. Because you know that even though sometimes it doesn't seem like you can find a piece that fits anywhere, if you just push on through and and you're consistent, you will achieve the end result that you had hoped for. Set smart goals with deadlines and smart stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time limited. A smart goal that's specific means I'm going to say exactly what it is that I want to accomplish instead of quote, get in shape. I'm going to say I want to be able to run a 5k in under 30 minutes. That's a specific goal. Or I want to be able to squat 150 pounds 15 times. That is a goal and it's measurable because anybody can look at it and go, did she run a 5k in under 30 minutes? Did she squat 150 pounds so many times? Those are things that are measurable because you can see them and you can say it's either a yes or a no. Achievable is just what it says. Don't set goals that you can't achieve. I am never going to be able to squat 300 pounds or, you know, at least not in the foreseeable future, but probably never. So that's not something I want to set. I am not going to, at my age, suddenly become a bodybuilder. Not going to happen. What I can do is get in good shape for somebody in my age group, which also goes with realistic. Don't set goals that aren't realistic. Like if I said I wanted to win some sort of bodybuilding pageant. Well, I could theoretically enter, but I'm almost 50 and I'd be competing against people who are 20 and they've been working out harder and they're able to work out harder than someone in my age group. Yeah, I don't like admitting it. But as you age, you can't work out quite the same way you did when you were 20. So I need to be realistic about what my goals are and also realistic in terms of setting a goal that is in line with my priorities. Getting in shape is great. And theoretically, yes, I could become a professional bodybuilder at this age if I really wanted to. I know some. But that would mean quitting my job and pretty much living at the gym and not having time for the farm, not having time for my kids. So as far as realistic, becoming a bodybuilder at this age in life, at this stage in my life is not realistic. And T is time limited. We need to have goals that you're going to be able to do this by. And realism kind of plays in your time limits. For example, setting a goal that you're going to be able to run a 5K in under 30 minutes, two weeks from now, that's not realistic. Six months from now, that's realistic. So be realistic in terms of how quickly under the best circumstances even you could achieve that goal, but also where that goal fits in terms of all of the priorities and obligations you have in your life because you may not be able to devote unlimited time to it. If you're working with a team, still set smart goals with them specific. Let them know exactly what they're supposed to be doing. If you hand somebody a project and you say, I want to know how to get more clients in. Well, OK. What type of clients, how many clients, give me a little bit more to work with. So if they say, if the supervisor says, I want to know how to improve our base revenue by $15,000 a month. Now that's specific. And then the team can get together and brainstorm different ways to do that. Measurable $15,000 a month is a very measurable goal. You either hit it or you don't achievable. Now, depending on your team and the business that you're in that may. $15,000 a month may or may not be achievable. But set what's achievable for you. And generally, if you're looking at a month, you want to look at a 3% to 5% increase at most. That sets you up for success. If you set yourself up for failure, then you're likely going to get frustrated and lose motivation. Realistic, what can your team actually accomplish? Now, if they had $100,000 for marketing, then they might be able to increase your base revenue by $15,000 a month. But if they don't have that and they're working on a shoestring budget, what is realistic for them to achieve? And time limited. We keep talking in this particular example about a month. So that gives, that tells you when you're going to, what time frame you want to increase the revenue, but how long do they have to plan? Because they can't just start today and be bringing in an additional $15,000 a month by the end of the month. So make sure to give them time limits on this is your planning period. It needs to start this initiative, needs to start by this date, and we're going to take our first measure on this date. Create rewards, whether it's for yourself or for your team. There has to be rewards for accomplishing each step along the way to your goal. Learn why, not just what and how. So if you're changing a personal behavior, know what you're going to do, how you're going to do it, but also why you want to do it, because that helps increase motivation. The same thing is true if you're managing a team. You can tell them what they're going to do and how they're going to do it, but if they don't see the why, like in the example of me wanting my team to get their progress notes in at the end of every single day. Why is that important? It used to be at the end of the week by close of business on Friday. What was the change? Why is it now important to get that billing in by the end of the day? And that will help staff, even if it doesn't increase their motivation so much, it will still help them understand the reasoning behind it. So it's not just a willy-nilly change that's adding stress to their life. Create happiness in the workplace. This isn't that hard. Do silly things, have events, have monthly staff get-togethers. Put sticky notes on people's computer, just giving them an ad-a-boy or an ad-a-girl, or telling them to have a good day. It's not that hard to create happiness. Create happiness in your own life, too, to serve as a model for your staff. I would periodically bring in pictures of my animals and put them on my desk or have them available because my animals made me happy. But I tried to model as much as I could for my staff that it's important to be happy in order to be motivated and productive at work. So how can we create happiness and create competition and rewards? Now, I don't want it to be cut-throat competition, but people tend to do better if there's rewards and recognition for their activities. So encourage people to work towards a mutual goal. So whoever at the end of the month has the most positive client satisfaction surveys will get some sort of reward. Whoever at the end of the month has turned in their notes on time the most will receive some sort of a reward and make it a reward that they're really kind of excited to get. You can't necessarily give them a day off, but you can give them, for example, priority in choosing holiday vacation days or something. That gives you an idea of some different things you can do to improve performance in yourself and in your staff. So if you like this podcast, please subscribe on your favorite podcast app or you can join our Facebook group at docsnipes.com slash Facebook or find additional resources on our community at docsnipes.com. 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