There's our treasure in here. I didn't even look at this one. I'm so excited. You ready? All right, so I went to a garage sale and they had a bunch of dolls. Some of them were priced individually. Some of them said 50 cents a piece. So I asked her for a price for all of them and hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. She said $15. So I'm going to show you what I got. Really not. I don't know a whole lot about any of them. So it's going to be kind of, look them up and see this first one here. A lot of them are vintage. So this one's Mattel. I thought this one was Mattel. I don't know if that's an original outfit. It doesn't look like it, but I'm going to pop up screen shares of how I listed everything, but right now we're just going to kind of go through them and see if there's anything special here. For $15, I feel like it's worth the risk. She's got a belly button issue. Is it UNITA? UNEDA Doll Company 1966. Probably just a handmade outfit on her. She does have some cosmetic issues, but this one looks like another Mattel doll. So these two are probably the same here. This, it says Kamar, 1980, 1980 something. I don't know.  See if this gives us love is here to stay. Love is sharing. So a little plushy. Again, no clue on this stuff. Figured I would take a chance and see if we can all learn a little bit here. This is Laura and it says Knickerbocker. That's her outfit. It says 1978, Ed Friendly Products. So I don't know if the doll is Knickerbocker or if that's the same or not. So we'll definitely be googling her. This little gal, here's her face. Back of the neck is typically where you look. If you don't see something there, you can check the back. This is probably just unbranded Hong Kong little doll with a handmade outfit. This one feels, it doesn't feel like a Barbie. The head feels really inexpensive. No markings. See, you can tell. It's just a real cheap plastic. And I don't see any markings on her at all.  Her little panties hanging out there. This here, she's cute. I bought a bunch of dolls at another garage sale and I've sold one of them but the rest are just hanging out for now. U-D-C-O-I-N-G. Never heard of that. Google Lens might find some of these. This looks like Strawberry Shortcake but I am not certain. A.G.C. American Greeting Cards Hallmark 1984. I smelled it. It does not smell like a Strawberry Shortcake so Google Lens may help me with that one as well. This looks like, I think I've sold these before. What are they called? Pewees maybe? I could be wrong. Made in Hong Kong. I want to say maybe the foot. Nope. Okay, I might be wrong. I was thinking it was a Pewee, P-E-E-W-E-E but I could be wrong. I haven't sold a whole lot of them. I think this one is Strawberry Shortcake too and she is super, super cute. Have to check her out. This one kind of looks like maybe just another Hong Kong. Definitely vintage and fun. You know, it's a great way to learn when you buy things in bulk like this. It's very educational. Okay, so this one says you need a doll company, Baby Pewee. See? Baby Pewee, I was right but this one doesn't say Baby Pewee. That's weird. They look very similar, right? So I don't know. And they both got that line on their belly. I think they're both Pewee dolls but this one is jointed and this one is not. So maybe, I don't know, look how it's like the heads of different color. This one or our moves. If you guys see anything and you know what it is, feel free to drop it in the comments. I will probably have everything listed by the time I post this. 1964. I can't read what it says. Remco? Remco. This one's got a lot of discoloration happening. So again, when you buy in bulk lots like this, I could have just cherry picked the ones I wanted. It may have been cheaper, may not have. I don't know what it, I didn't add it up beforehand. I just asked her how much for everything. This one is Hong Kong SL. I don't know what SL is but you can see here it's got these little marks on it. So that's probably not going to come out. I'm not really sure what that is called but you see it on Barbie dolls sometimes. So we'll leave that one to the side. This is definitely another Mattel. I recognize the outfit. I think I had this doll when I was a kid. I recognize this little dress. This look at this little cutie. A lot of these are just going to be bread and butter and they'll probably take a long time to sell. But some of them may be good and may sell quickly. So 15 bucks. I feel like I can take the risk here. This one says Playmate. So any markings on them that's going to help you figure out who they are. Look at this one. Nothing there. The tag off here. This is definitely an old snap. Vintage snap. Oh I can't get it. I don't like the feel of that on my finger. It says Hong Kong. Evergreen. Evergreen? Never heard of that. She is smiling away. Look at them teeth. This is another Pee Wee doll I do believe. Hong Kong. Yeah I'm pretty sure these are all Pee Wees. Probably lot those up. They don't typically, if I remember, they're just a bread and butter.  How cute is that? Hong Kong. No other markings. Just Hong Kong. Makeup looks good. Look at this little guy. It's cute right? No markings. I just can't get over that smile right there. Look at that. And she's like, ooh wonder if she has a pacifier. Another maiden Hong Kong. This is another Mattel I do believe.  That is so stinking cute.  Look at her face. She's cute. This one says, oh what does that say? Um Hong Kong. Fran May maybe? You guys read that? Fran May. Google Lins might pick that up. This is just a little figurine that was in there. Is that a Pee Wee? He's bigger than a Pee Wee but he kind of has a Pee Wee face, doesn't he? Let's see. Maybe he's bigger. Hong Kong. No other markings. See like he's stained Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln dressed like this. Brown County folks. So this is probably just a folk art plush handmade deal. What's this one that's got a tag on it? It says Holly Hobbie's friend Heather. So we all know that some Holly Hobbie can definitely be a Bolo if this is or not. I don't know. I know vintage fabric is. I have a video on vintage fabrics. Uh she does have a little stain on her face. Let's see if we can find like a date. Oh this is Knickerbocker. I'm guessing it's probably vintage. Holly Hobbie's friend. Do a little research on her. This one I don't know. Looks um like some sort of generic Hong Kong. Just says Hong Kong. It's not a Pee Wee. You can see the difference. Japan on the feet.  This here says Bradley Dolls Korea. Miss May Bradley Dolls. That should be easy to look up. Guess and she'll just be a bread and butter. This little guy right here. Huh he's like a 1978 the first years. You guys it's a little uh squeaky toy. 1978. Can you believe it? That is like almost I'm almost that old. Okay Hong Kong Hong Kong. That's all it says. Feel like she could be something. Let's see. She's like one of those dolls that the hair grows you know but her hair doesn't grow. It's kind of what they look like. They have a ponytail and you can pull it out. Um this one says says something here. Let me see if I can get it to focus in Hong Kong. I want to see UD I think. Is that Unita Corp UD Corp? I don't know. Have to do a little more research on her. This is a Barbie brand. This is a little I don't know what she is. No marking. Okay what do we got here? Her little dress has something on it made in Hong Kong and it says I think it says playmates. Let's see who this is. This one says Mattel 1977 and then her back says 1976. So probably just a patent date. Um have to verify the actual date. This little lady is Hong Kong made in Hong Kong. So just another generic brand. You can see like the plastic mold lines. Her head's pretty sometimes the their head squeeze like see how this one squeezes. This one doesn't this one doesn't really either. Okay this look at her eyelashes. This one has a something. This is another Unita Unita. Not sure but it's a doll. There she is. Don't think this dress is original to her because it's way longer than our legs. Here is another one. This kind of it's got that plastic mold like the other one there made in Hong Kong. Same thing. This one her face paint must be missing. Hong Kong. Some of these may be a little tricky to work look up. Now this is what you call a sleepy eye doll. When she's up her eyes should be opened and when she lays down her eyes close. That's called sleepy eyes. I'm guessing most of you know that but just in case you don't. That's a good keyword to put into the title. This one just says Hong Kong as well on her back. This little princess here. Let's see if we can figure out what she is made in Hong Kong. Okay I got a few more things from this sale and I am going to bring them over and show you guys. I should have recorded while I was there but I was just so busy looking. Okay so this is the rest of the haul from that same garage sale. I ended up paying $66 for everything. So I did pay $8 for this only because that's a lot for me. I usually don't pay up for things. I did a video on arts and crafts and this Grumbacher brand is one that I kept seeing over and over and over that went high dollar. So fingers crossed this is going to be a bolo. I will pop up a screen share if I listed it because by the time I post this I will have these items listed. It looks like everything is in there and it's got this original thing here. I don't know. I'm really hoping it's going to be a big money bolo but I just am not certain until I look printed in Japan. But super excited about this one. I've been wanting to find some vintage art supplies because I love a teaching moment so stay tuned for that. This is a brand that I like to pick up. It is Heartstone. This is dated 1988. I have not found a heart bowl but I typically pick up Heartstone mugs. They're usually a bread and butter you know 10-15 bucks. But for a buck I think I can sell this. So I went ahead and grabbed that. This next item here I just I had to grab it. It was a dollar and I don't know if it's going to be anything or not but it has this little I'm guessing it's maybe hand painted it sure looks like it. But here's what it says. It says Italy and then it says 320-301. So I'm guessing a limited number were made. I was trying to use Google Lens while I was at the sale but I was not getting any reception. So I don't know. I figure for a buck it's got to be worth something right? So all right this one right here like caught my attention. I'm like look at Simmons, baby rose doll set? Like what is that? I had to figure out how to get this thing unattached. You have to like straighten it out and it locks. But look at this little doll. Oh my gosh it's got this itty bitty pacifier. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry but even if it's not a Bolo how cute is it? This is broken unfortunately. She's got her little teddy bear here but you can see it says collection of the master's Richard Simmons 2001. I don't know. It may be good. It may not. We got these little blocks down here. All's I know is it is really really cute. So got to look that one up. It might be resin. Not 100% sure what it is. But isn't it cute? It's got its own little carry case and everything. All the little outfits you can dress it. So cute. So we'll see. Four bucks is what I paid for that. Okay this caught my eye because again I just did a video on arts and crafts and I know that pencils and pens and different art supplies can do really well. And this says 1930s 1940s and I paid six dollars for all of these pencil pouches. Look how cute this is. It says happy school days. I don't know if it was 10 cents back in the day. So I paid six bucks for all of these but wait check this out. It's got this vintage ruler and this old eraser that's like hardest rock. How cute is that? So cute. All right let's see. I did look at the top two just to see if they had anything in them. This has some I didn't look at the I saw that there was stuff in it but broad haven. So some vintage crayons here. Eagle pencil company and then it's got this vintage ruler. So this says Eagle pencil company. So they're not in great condition but I just thought they were really cool. This one says lucky school kit and it's got these little crayons in it. I will probably just leave these in here and sell it like that. It kind of just adds to the just coolness of the item and this is Eagle pencil company as well made in the USA. So I did not look at this one while I was there and I did not look at this one. So what? Oh is there a treasure in here? I didn't even look at this one. I'm so excited. You ready? Just some crayons. Some used up crayons. Oh how does this... Is there something underneath? Oh it's a drawer. I'm really confused. What is that? Well we'll get that out of there. That's like broken or something. So I guess that just slides in. I really want to see if there's hidden treasure. Oh that's weird. It's like somebody's... Do you see those wood things in there? Just maybe to hold it up. Hold it in place. Okay so I don't know it's still cool. It's got this little pull right here so put a little bit of stuff in there. I thought it would go all the way to the end but it doesn't. All right so those are just kind of cool. I don't know if they'll be worth much or not but definitely something cool to look up. I did buy these. These were dollar each and the reason I bought them is because they are sealed and they are from a series and the series is Castle. This is the first and second season so depending on what they are valued at I may list them together or separately. I haven't quite decided. I used to watch that show. Okay now we're going to get into this bag of goodies. So bag here. All right I did pick up this. It's a Muffy which is a... Oh what do you call it? It's a bear and the reason I picked this up is because it's a Muffy Vanderbair. It's a new old stock. It's probably not going to be worth a whole lot. I might be maybe eight to fifteen dollars. We'll have to see. I'll pop up a screen share of how I listed it but it was fifty cents. This little guy I did pick up because it's hilarious. The tongue is out and it is so funny and cute. Again some things I look up some things I don't. I did do... I did look this one up. I can't remember what it's called now just because I was curious and I can't remember now so I will pop up a screen share to help you guys learn. See I looked it up there, had it in my head and I already forgot. So okay so we've got some jewelry down here. This I picked up because it was Halloween in nature and it is signed but I think it's Tana T-A-N-A. It's not perfect. It's got some scuffing here but I think I can still sell it so it's a brooch. It was two dollars. I did pay up a little bit more than I usually like to pay for jewelry. This one however was only fifty cents and it is marked Disney. Did not research or look these up. This one I paid two dollars for. I just thought it was really beautiful and different. I have... it's not signed or any... oh yeah I'm sorry it is signed LC. I don't think that's Lauren Conrad. I guess it could be. I know LC can be Lauren Conrad. I thought this was an older piece but maybe not. So I paid two for that. This one right here was two dollars and I did look at the back of it. I did look this one up. Comps were kind of all over the place but I figured I could make a little bit regardless. I will have to do more research to figure out value but it says far-fetched. That is the brand and again for two bucks I was willing to take a chance. I saw others in this brand but I did not see the dog in the back. All right this one is marked West Germany on the back. It's kind of got... I think it's called filigree. This is a scarf clip West Germany and I did pay two dollars and fifty cents for that. They're calling it a purse or hat brooch. I would call it a scarf clip but no idea. All right this belt buckle was three dollars and I bought it because of the nature of the deer, the bucks and it is solid brass. So I figured three bucks is a little more than I like to pay but it's brass and it's kind of got that hunter type style. So this I just thought was pretty and it looks really old. I have no idea. I'm hoping Google Lens is going to produce something for me. It is not signed but you can see right here how the pin goes past. That tells you that it's a vintage. It also has the old kind that doesn't shut. So this one doesn't stay shut very well but I'm guessing this is pretty old and it's just beautiful. So it's pretty interesting. That was two dollars. This next one here is also vintage. I believe it's mother of pearl and it's stuck to my it's stuck to my ring light. It says mother and it's got the birds behind it which I think are mother of pearl. Don't quote me on that. I am definitely not an expert on jewelry. I know very little about it actually but again it's got the vintage clasp on it and this has something on no I thought it had something on the backside. It doesn't. So that I don't know. I paid two bucks for it. I may have overpaid but let's see. Is there anything else? I did pick this up. It is Arbonne. It is essential oil and it's peppermint and I use that for my migraines. So that was two bucks. So that was definitely a win for myself. I don't know if this stuff expires or not but that's a personal purchase there but definitely probably would have some resale value for sure. All right let's go into this other bag here. One of the items broke as we were checking out so a little bummed about that but she gave me a discount. It is this vintage says key toy moves. It was marked down to three bucks and she gave it to me for a dollar because it broke. It's also cracked here. I didn't see that so that's a bummer. Made in Japan but the duck was attached. I can probably just take some glue and glue that back on or just leave it and let somebody else repair it. But super cute little plastic and tin toy there. So one dollar for that. I think that might be it. Yep that's it. So everything I got was $65. How do you guys think I did? And I'm going to start listing this stuff. Thanks for watching.


Within the banking tab you've got your first item is the banking This is where kind of like the bank feeds are located if you're under the business view. It's a little bit different It's under bookkeeping as We saw before it's under bookkeeping and then you've got your transactions up top and that's where your bank Transactions are it's already set up here because they have a few that have been set up already So that's that's where we'll go and we'll set them up here And then we've got our instructions to set it up usually the actual connection of the bank feeds It's pretty easy. That's not the difficult part of bank feeds the difficult part The people get messed up on is that they pull in all the information they get the connection, right? But then they have all this stuff in what I would call bank feed limbo And they don't know how to add it to the system They get overwhelmed at this point in time because they don't know the accounting system And so it's useful to first have a understanding of what's going on a little bit before But we can build it from scratch here. Even if if we don't so it's gonna say automatic income and expense tracking Save hours of work by tracking finances automatically You could see how it works with the video if you want number one connect bank or credit card to get started number two Review and add your transactions number three see how your business is doing so we can either upload Transactions that's the way we're gonna do it in a future presentations But most likely most people are gonna connect if this was their actual business now I recommend if you're following along with a practice problem with your own data That you download the data from the your financial institution the way we're doing here Which will show you in a future presentation and then we'll upload it If you're running this live and this is your you're on the go and you're following along to figure out How you're gonna set up the bank feeds then of course most people would connect directly to the bank Just make sure that you have your cutoff dates correct in terms of where you want to start Your your data that you're pulling into the system if it's a new company file It's pretty straightforward. You're gonna pull in all the information into the system But if you have a lot of back data, then the question is where are your bank feeds gonna start? Make sure you get that cutoff date lined up Sometimes that's easier to do by first downloading the data at least for the start and then connecting after that point Okay, so then they have a ton of different banks and financial institutions. It used to be That that only the big banks were kind of here and then but now all like a lot of banks are Included and even PayPal and whatnot is included here Which is really really nice because because PayPal used to be like an intermediary type of thing Now people are using PayPal is basically a bank they're paying a lot of the expenses through the PayPal and so it's nice to have that there as well so you can You can show more down here here to find your institution. You can type in up top whatever chase. Let's say Bank and then obviously you can go into your chase bank And then it says sign into the account start by connecting your chase bank account with into it The makers of QuickBooks and so on so then you've got your connection issue So when you go through the connection each financial institution might have a different verification process But most of them are pretty straightforward these these days So there's going to be an online verification you're gonna have to log into the account and so on to make sure that it's an accurate Connection and then you should be good to go worst case scenario You might have to call your financial institution and say that you're using QuickBooks online, but Usually it's pretty pretty streamlined for most of the big banks And it's more it's getting more and more streamlined for many smaller banks as well And then of course once that is done I won't go through that process now because we're gonna upload the transactions And I'll show you how to do that in a future presentation how to download the transactions from the bank how to get How to get this data file or a CSV file that possibly you can use to then upload to the system But once you do upload it then We will end up with the items in the the banking Transactions for for the bank feeds Such as this and we'll have our card up top and then all this information will be in bank feed limbo, which is what I called before So it's waiting for that added information Accounts to be assigned to Vendors and customers so it can then be used to pull into the creation of the financial statements balance sheet income statement or Used to verify double check the transactions We have entered for cash helping us with the bank reconciliation process


Hello everyone. Today we have a special guest, Alireza Salahey-Neyat, who is a part of our working group. He is going to talk about how to review and deal with peer review in academic publishing. Today I will not be the one moderating the talk. It will be Irene and she is joining us from Georgia. So could you please turn your video on? Let's see if it works. Yes, here is Irene. Hi, Irene. Over to you. Hi. Hello. Hello, we're both here. Very welcome, Alireza. Very, very welcome, Irene. The reason I'm not moderating is because Irene is actually a leader of our ethical publishing and dissemination working group. So the floor is yours, Irene and Alireza. So, Alireza, thank you so much for being with us today. We are really looking for your presentation. If you could share your presentation and present yourself. Sorry, Alireza, are you hearing me? You are muted. Oh, can you hear me? Yes, perfect. So thank you so much for being with us today, Alireza. If you could present yourself quickly. And here in Georgia, we are all looking for for your presentation. Thank you. I'm a researcher at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, and I'm also the head of Integrity Survey Integrity Group of ENI, and I have some experience in reviewing manuscripts. And I have some editorial experience working with different publishers and journals, including Sage as Bring Your Nature. And today we're going to talk about peer review and how to deal with peer review, which can benefit both potential reviewers and authors. So first, we will provide a brief history, the types of peer review and the recent developments, and then we will build upon and how a manuscript is reviewed, which can benefit both reviewers and authors, and each section of the manuscript should be evaluated. And the types of revision and examples of constructive feedback. And finally, how to become a reviewer and how to respond to reviewers' comments as an author. The goal of this presentation is to provide an outline of the important steps to follow when reviewing a manuscript with focus on the reviewers role in the peer review process. So first let's define what peer review is. Peer review and importance elements in the production of scholarly work is a formal system of examining scientific work prior to its publication. Referred literature defines the boundaries of scientific knowledge and serves as the mechanism for advancing the science. Does peer reviewers are essential partners with authors and journal editors to the effort to create and maintain the official record of the discipline. So here is a review of the history of peer review. William Hewill was an English polymath, scientist and young priest, philosopher and historian of science, who is regarded as the pioneer of peer review. As you can see, the peer review dates back to 1665 and over the years naturally it has been to different transition. Well, the modern form of peer review can be dated back to 1845 and different forms of peer review again. It was another important turning point was in 1991 where they use email and FTP servers for fully sharing unreviewed physics preprints. And plus one that's an open access journal also is an important turning point in peer review concerning the number of manuscripts that they publish. Because throughout history of peer review and academic publication, there have been different purposes for peer review at some points considering that the number of articles that could be published for quite limited how peer review was perceived was different. Launching plus one change that understanding because there are many mega open access journals that the mainly publish all and articles that can fit the scientific reader. A peer review is critical because it improves the quality of the published paper. It ensures previous work is acknowledged through the literature review and proper referencing and citations it determines the importance of the finding and their accuracy. It detects plagiarism and fraud, which is very important, and it plays a central role in academic career developments as how in many countries nowadays, even PhD students are required to publish in peer review journals before submitting in their dissertations and the same way that academic promotions from assistant professor to satiate professor also requires publications in peer review journals. Now the three main or let's say most common types of peer review is the traditional or single blinds in which the peer reviewers know the names of the authors, but the authors do not know the names of reviewers. Double blinds indicates that the reviewers do not know the name of the authors and the authors do not know the name of the reviewers. Open peer review refers to the type in which authors know who the reviewers are and the reviewers also know who the authors are. In some journals, if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the names of review reports are also published alongside in the article. Now, in addition to these three types, we have other types of peer review. We have the transparent type which refers to, which is very similar to the open review, and it refers to when manuscript is accepted for publication, the contents of the reviewers report is openly available. However, the name of the reviewers is not revealed at that point. Then we have interactive and collaborative type, which also is practiced by some journals, particularly in philosophy or life sciences, which usually refers to interaction between the reviewers or between the reviewers and authors to facilitate the review process. The process can be open or anonymous. Then we have post publication open peer review, which is operated by a journal that takes place after the manuscript is published. Then we have post publication comment thing, which means public comment thing that takes place on a published article. It can be anonymous. For example, pop peer or fully open, for instance, PubMed comments or facilitated by journal. Now, in this case, the difference is that the manuscript are usually have undergone the peer review, and after the publication is still the public can comment on them, which is different from post publication open peer review. Then we have preprint comment thing, and as you know that there are many preprinting repositories where authors can submit their work, and the public can comment on the articles that share in preprint archives or surveys. And again, commenting can be anonymous or open. They have also transferable type of peer review. Now, it can be anonymous, single blind, double blind or open, but it can be transferred allows the subject related journals to transfer the reviewed manuscripts. For instance, many large publishers can permit this that if you submit it to one of their journals, then they can accept the review for another. The example would be a spinal cord published by Nature and a spinal cord cases also published by Nature. And our example is triple blind when the entity and affiliation of authors is anonymized for handling editor well. Some journals are internal peer review, which is conducted by the editorial staff of the journal, for instance, very, very good journals like science, nature, nature medicine at this model, or even a smaller generals. And then we have Excel, which it would be the general focus of our discussion today, we're dealing editor in white experts in the field to peer review the manuscript and makes a decision based on the submitted review reports. I have to. Okay, I can see my screen. Well, here the criticism of the three main types, which is single blind, double blind and open. As you can see, the main advantage of single blind is that reviewers can criticize without any influence being exerted on them by the authors. And the disadvantage would be that it does not protect the authors from gender or any other sort of bias. And it is also a common peer review policy in many subject areas such as physical sciences. The double blind review. Of course, it's main advantage would be that the reviewers will not be influenced by who the authors are, for instance. And then reviewers know a paper is written by grad students, they may have certain bias towards it, or different sorts of bias depending on the authors, nationality and affiliation. The advantage would be that it's difficult in practical terms to fully anonymize authors and reviewers, although, still, it can be done, but because self citation, depending on a subject, and the presentation install this may happen. And it is also, it happens that sometimes the authors refer to work that the data for it is already available in certain repositories. It's also common in social sciences and new benefits. And we have the open type of review that is advantages to increase transparency and credibility. Of course, as an editor, I have experienced that even for journals with high impact factors that sometimes reviewers and not really provide good reviews, particularly when it's single blind or even double blind but then it's open. The name is revealed to the authors or we say that the content of the review would be published or example for frontiers journal where the names of reviewers will be published without publishing the content of the reviews. Generally, we have a different approach from reviewers in how rigor they would account in conducting the reviews, particularly when they favor revisions. Now, again, for rejection, they may stick to a couple of lines or a short paragraph or if it's a good paper and they want to recommend the acceptance still the same, but generally, they would do more work, particularly for revisions. So we can see the server results for the asked butters and reviewers that how they prefer different types of peer review for journals if they want to publish their own manuscript, or they are willing to to review for a journal that has this type of peer review. Every single blind and double blind are the most popular choices that are for authors submitting their own manuscript to a journal or for those researchers who want to review manuscripts for these type of journals. As you can see, open peer review is not very popular amongst researchers. Here are the reasons that why you should conduct peer review of course you can say that it's one social responsibility and academic duty. But in addition to that, it also helps you with your own research, reviewing many manuscripts over the time can also help you to write better articles yourself. This is also good for your carrier developments and awareness of new research studies before their publications and before your peer. There's also general interest in that area, which are amongst the grounds that in our surveys reviewers gave us. Now, according to surveys that we conducted. The reason for according to 93% of the participants that that playing a part as a member of the community was their chief reason for conducting reviews, and 83% also mentioned enjoy helping to improve the paper. 74% mentioned that cooperating orders reviewing work and to other reasons, as you can see that increase the chance of publication in the same journal or joining that journals editorial board. Different journals have different peer review process because they have different structures. Some journals have editor-in-chiefs and they have associate editors and they have editorial board is quite different. They have internal editorial members for peer review but generally speaking, this is the model that is practiced by many journals. So, after the author meets an article the journal the journal that you're a screens the paper for plagiarism, and for the content of the manuscript along with their aims and hope and then they send it to two reviewers or sometimes a tree but usually they send it to two reviewers. And then depending on your comments. The editor makes a decision for reduction or, you know, there was for more revision, they may request the third reviewer join. The paper could be accepted. So if you were invited to review any scripts. The third thing they should consider first is your availability. For instance, if you are too busy, you cannot conduct the review, it would be the best to reject it by accepting to review a manuscript while you know you cannot return it on time. You're not actually doing any favor to the editors or the authors because it would significantly delay the peer review process. Then it's your area of expertise. I'm not a medical doctor. I consider myself as a social scientist, but I reviewed for many medical journals. And the editors, they know that I do not have an MD or I tell them if it's the first time that they invites me to conduct a review for them. To tell them that I can merely comment on, for instance, certain areas on the research methodology or, you know, the results and the analysis, not the medical parts of it. Of course, I've published in medical sciences as well. It goes the same thing. Sometimes journal editors may invite people with expertise in certain area, for instance, a person to merely assess the statistics or data analysis of a manuscript regardless of their expertise in the topic itself. And then you should also disclose your potential competing interests, whether you've published with any of the authors in the past, if, of course, it's a case for open or single blind where you can see the names of the authors, whether you work with them in the same institution or previously worked with them or any personal relationships with any of the authors. Usually the journals review these things before inviting the reviewers nonetheless. Even if that happened, it's, you're required to disclose this potential conflicts of interest or competing interests with the editor and then they can make a decision, whether you still should review the manuscript or the competing interest prevents you from doing so. And again, it's a matter of confidentiality, which is very important. We want to say that how you can. Oh, sorry. How to review manuscript the first impression. The first question you should ask is that better the researchers original novel and important to the field and has the appropriate structure and language been used. Usually, this is the first step that the editors do but again, the reviewers should do the same. Then you review the title and the abstract. And you ask whether the title accurately reflect the research question in a study type. As a reviewer or editor, you should recommend, for instance, if it's a cases study, it should be reflected in the title. If it's a case of studying a certain country, again, they should do the same and avoid generalization. And about the abstract as you know, different generals have different guidelines and structures for the abstract some of them could be unstructured, which is very common in social sciences and humanities, or better it should be structured, which is the most common type in medical sciences. And whether it's really a summary or not. And does it include key findings, is it an appropriate links. Again, that depends on the journal guidelines and is anything presented in the abstract that wasn't described in the main paper. Then you review the introduction, that better it's effective, clear and well organized. Does it really introduce and put into perspective what follows and suggest changes in organization and point the authors to appropriate citations. And be very specific. Don't write the authors have done a poor job. You should be very specific about what went wrong and what you suggest and how they should improve it. The methodology, in my opinion, is the most important part of the research paper and actually that's where it can distinguish professional research from academic research. Can a colleague reproduce the experiment and get the same outcomes. Now, it's a very important question. So the authors are required to provide appropriate information, adequate information about their sampling, what they did, what was their theoretical framework conceptual framework and that are the sampling was appropriate and so on and so forth. And of course the references should be checked and the description of any new methodology is accurate if they claim to be so and could or should the authors have included supplementary materials. For instance, the data, they used and our researchers data. So you should check about the subject selection. Then it's about the validity, the ability to measure what you intended to measure internal validity and whether it has external validity particular even your conducting surveys. The reliability, as a reviewer is you should check the ability to measure consistency expect to see the same results if the if the research is conducted in a different setting, and in the kingdom of the reproductability. And then it's about reproducing the 50, which is the ability of the experiments to be duplicated and how validity and reproductability are checked. Samplings doesn't and you should see if it's clear how subjects or samples were selected and our eligibility inclusion exclusion criteria clearly stated. Now of course, even if they stated this sampling appropriately and adequately. Sometimes you need to advise the others that the sampling may not be appropriate. And they cannot claim certain conclusion based on sampling now deducted convenient sampling or group of for a population that they should have you for purpose for sampling, of course, you should tell them that the account research and conclusions due to their sampling. So is every subject or sample accounted for and can the sample set to be compared to other studies and can the sample set the generalized to the whole population. Again, you should check the sampling by us opportunity sampling for instance where only the most convenient subjects are available volunteer sampling that may share personality characters a strategy with sampling that refers to potential of selection by us in the defined sample groups and random sampling, for instance may result on balance demographic clusters. Again, even if a paper uses an appropriate sampling model that doesn't mean it essentially cannot be published and you should understand that if you use with sampling and sometimes methodology means that you should decide as a review or clearly recommended to the editors as reviewers that whether it's possible that these things be changed or not that of course everybody tries for control trials, particularly randomized sampling most appropriately but if for instance they conducted series of interviews or survey based on convenience sampling. And that it's the most it would be impractical or even impossible for the authors to change that they cannot because it requires them to conduct a new survey. If you believe that this cannot be done. In other words, you should recommend it to the editor that considering the fact that this is impractical dinner command that whether the paper still can be published with certain provisions or you believe that this is not published or in the Again, for results and discussion section you suggest improvements in the way that data is shown comment on the general logic and the justification of interpretation and conclusions, comment on the number of figures tables and schemes right This concisely and precisely which changes you recommend least separately suggest the changes in a style grammar and auto small changes. Note that you should not correct them yourself as a reviewer editor suggest additional experiments or analysis, if necessary, make clear the needs for changes or updates and ask yourself whether the manuscript should be published at all. But you should comment on the importance validity and generality of the conclusions request toning down of unjustified claims and generalization request removal of redundancies and summaries and again another thing that happens is that the same text that you can see in the abstract is repeated in in the introduction and sometimes the conclusion the same text, you should request to avoid redundancies and the abstract not the conclusion should summarize the study as for references tables and figures you should check the accuracy number and citations or appropriateness comments on the any footnotes. And you should also note that some journals do not have footnotes or end notes comment on figures their quality and readability. Also assess the completeness of legends headers and access labels check presentation consistency comment on need for color in figures. As you know, many journals are not online only so they have a printed copy they have an online copy. If figures are in color, they may amount for certain fees burden for the authors and you should comment whether it's necessary or not and if it's in gray scale. You should also comment better is readable or not. Now, when reviewing the manuscript, you shouldn't do these things if the language and grammar are such that the article is difficult or impossible to understand do not proceed with the review. If the manuscript can be understood but has many language and grammar issues do not try to fix this instead suggest to the editor that is need to have the manuscript edited, and do not spend time polishing grammar or spelling. However, do mention grammatical errors that affect proper understanding. After you review the manuscript. Now, you have to write it. First, remember you should be professional and courteous even if you want to reject the paper. If the authors made substantial errors in methodology, they made unacceptable claims still try to be professional and courteous. Read the whole paper and refer to guidelines before writing anything and use an appropriate structure for your reports first provide the summary of the strengths, weaknesses and overall contribution, then provide the major comments and finally minor comments. Remember that the objective is to advance knowledge. So here are examples of constructive feedback suggested areas for feedback or for instance acknowledge your understanding of the author's work in two or two sentence summary. Example of unhelpful comments would be that this article does not relate to the title or this article is confusing. So constructive comments would be like the article is a synthesized literature review of the use of text messaging to make patients with diabetes. The use of innovative technologies in managing these complex diseases is often unclear and varies, depending on the setting, and I commend the authors for attempting this project. If you have the opportunity to review this manuscript, then you will continue referring to their contribution the major comments you have on the methodology introduction, and then the minor comments feature for instance the changes in graphs the number of them, or even grammatical errors. Generally, it's suggested that the reviewers should first give the positive feedback. If you say nice job or nice article but need some editing, it would be appropriate to write something like this. This article is well written and the topic is of great significance given the recent controversies and debates on the topic in the literature. Readers and charts at great physical manuscript, please remember that the readership of the journal is international, so please clarify terminology so readers will understand your match. Again, in another survey that we asked editors that what makes good reviewers generally is that they provide a troll and comprehensive report. It's important that they submit reports on time. And they provide well found that comments for authors get constructive criticism. They demonstrate objectivity and provide a clear recommendation to the editor. So here's a question. I would like to ask participants. Who do you think is responsible for the ethics in publishing articles for instance do you believe that this is the ethics lies with the publisher, it's responsibility of the editorial team reviewers, authors, or funding bodies. Here in Georgia, how it is that they say all of them. I wonder what online participants have to say. Yes, in fact, they all are responsible for the ethics. For instance, many reviewers have the tendency or even editors have the tendency to believe certain ethical aspects of the paper, particularly when it comes to data. Then they have certain funding bodies for instance, if the manuscript reads that we acknowledge receiving funding from A and B and C, you believe that those funding bodies usually deal with the data. So the reviewers and editors are more forgiving, whether the data itself are duplicated, replicated, or manipulated. And you will focus more on the text itself that whether it's plagiarized, it's recycled or not. And we can see that the comments also suggest that everybody is responsible in this area. And again, I should also note that the editorial themes usually assess the manuscript using certain pleasures and detection software. But you should note that certain sort of misconduct, for instance, recycling cannot be detected by these tools. And that's why it is also the responsibility of reviewers to notice if there is any certain mismatch between citations, references, or hallucinations, which is a common thing by AIs if it's AI generated. And then they can recommend it to the editors that it requires further detection or is suspected. So it's an important question, how to detect research misconduct, whether you're a reviewer or editor. Now most publishers provide editors or editorial assistants with certain tools that they can check the manuscript against different pleasures and detection tools. But again, as I mentioned, it's about inconsistencies. For instance, you can't see whether there is inconsistency among citations and references, which would be a good tool. Whether you believe that there is certain incoherence in the text that may suggest certain parts could be copied from elsewhere. Or how an AI may write certain texts, for instance, it hallucinates in certain parts or they make inaccurate claims which doesn't make sense from a scientific perspective. Another part would be the data itself, of course. Now there are different types of plagiarism. As you know, but again, you should consider the types of plagiarism, their extent, originality of the copied material, the context, whether it's about referencing or attribution. Again, the intention should be considered utter seniority and language. Even before the rise of generative AI that many authors and students use nowadays since late 2022, which became quite popular. Even before that, many authors who wanted to publish in English, but they were not native English language speakers would usually ask someone else to help them. In such criteria, sometimes we witness that certain errors happened, but they were not intentional. Again, the seniority of the author is a different matter. That whether you should be more forgiving because if you believe that graduate students made some errors, for instance, this was a single paragraph, you have a different approach about how you should forgive them. Or better, it's done by a full professor. Now you can see the common forms of research misconduct in Iran. Again, but it can be applicable to other countries as well. In terms of citations, you can see that invalid sources is one example using secondary sources only is another. And in terms of texts, you can see that recycling is the most difficult one to detect the application is another form paraphrasing is very common repetitive research or Salami slicing is again another common type of misconduct particularly in medical sciences. Sometimes they conduct one survey, but they published the results in three articles, while it should be one. Again, in authorship, we can see that misleading attributions, and we have on ethical core contributions, including gift authorship ghost authorship. And in terms of data is very important to consider data falsifications data manipulation, including data fabrication, the application. They are very common article at once for a conference I received the manuscript that the authors conducted the survey, and I believe only 12 or 15 participants and they made a huge claim. I read the paper, and they were very unlucky because two weeks later from a different conference, I received the very same manuscript, and said that this time instead of 15 participants is was 150. So they definitely did not have a new population they didn't conduct a new survey. It was they just, you know, added a zero to that full of 10, and they resubmitted the manuscript so they were very unlucky that I was the review of their paper but these things happened. And as a reviewer or editor you should be very vigilant in detecting these things. So here's the case of study. And I would like that the participants provide your comments. It's a case of study for reviewer bias or competitive harmful acts by reviewers. And here's the case. An editor sent out the paper to Twitter viewers, one of them who gave the paper a favorable review and close the research letter on the same topic with in his view a better study design. He told the editor that the author of the paper had encouraged him to submit it during anything they both attended. He added that he taught its inclusion would make a good complimentary prof papers. The editor send the research letter to the two other reviewers who had reviewed the first paper. The papers designed was criticized by all three reviewers and the paper was rejected. The reviewer, the peer review of the research letter is ongoing, but is so far favorable. Did the editor act correctly in having the research letter reviewed as well? Is it fair to reject the paper but accept the research letter? An author sends an article to the journal and the editor assigned three reviewers to review the manuscript. One of the reviewers submitted a research letter, a letter to the same journal to be published and he explained that the author encouraged him to do so. Now, the letter is also peer reviewed. The research article is also peer reviewed. Now, the research letter has favorable reviews, which means it can be published. But the research article that was originally submitted is going to be rejected because of the criticism of the research design. Oh, it is here. They are asking what the research letter contains. Can you be more specific about the research letter? The research letter usually letters build upon articles. For instance, you have an article discussing media and information literacy amongst a college student in a certain city. And then you wrote a research letter addressing perhaps the general topic of, for instance, media and information literacy, or maybe you want to talk about, for instance, media and information literacy as a curriculum, something like that. So they are actually compliment one another. But anyhow, regardless of the topic, this is what was discussed during the coping. The reviewer had used his position by discussing the paper with the author. He should have not because it's a violation of confidentiality when the reviewer, the third reviewer mentioned that, you know, he talked to the author and, you know, the author knew that he is going to submit this. He should also have declined to review the paper due to the close association with his own research. The referee might review a paper badly because it is not in their interest to see similar published before their own. So again, this is a conflict of interest that maybe that's the reason that the original article was rejected. The paper should have perhaps been sent to review reviewers, although editors often select people in the same areas to review. And if it's a small area of research, the choice of referees can be very limited. For instance, you're an editor for a journal, you receive a manuscript with a certain case of study that they're going that there was a study, regardless of discipline. There was a case of study in a certain country. If you know amongst your reviewers or editorial board members, somebody who belongs to that country, you usually include them as reviewers. It's, it's very, it's a common practice. And for that reason, sometimes you have a small pool of referees that you can refer to. No harm have been done as the authors of the letter openly admitted his conversation with the author author and had been encouraged to submit it. And the editor was therefore right to review the letter in the usual way. So here's another case of study, but I will let you know that better. Our webinar was for 60 minutes or 120 if we took which kindly clarified ads. Oh, okay, so we're going to finish it in 10 minutes. I made a mistake. I assume this was 90 minutes. So it's 60. So I'm going to skip the second case of study. And the third, maybe we can review the fourth case of study. This would be an interesting one about the authors displaying bullying behavior towards the handling editor. It's also the case 28. It's similar to 8.17 of cold. A handling editor rejected the paper without review after consulting with a senior editor, which it happens. That's rejection. The corresponding author sent an appeal about two weeks later where he requested that the paper be given a second chance and be sent for peer review. He said that in case of a new decision to reject that review, the editor should provide a detailed response to a number of questions and comments raising the appeal letter. I mentioned that in order to illustrate the importance of this study, he had done a social media poll asking whether the paper in question was more relevant to the journal's readership than authors paper whose link he provided in the poll and that had badly recently been published in the journal. The appeal was also read by another senior editor and it was agreed to reject the paper again without providing any detailed explanation as the behavior was considered borderline bullying. This happened even for a conference. Six weeks after the second rejection, the corresponding author contacted the journal expressing his disagreement, disappointment with the decision and threatened a freedom of information request to access the correspondence between the editors that led to the editorial decision. Moreover, he suggested he would be writing about his negative experience with the journal. The handling editor perceived this as aggressive and litigious behavior and shared the correspondence with the head of the research section of the journal, responded to the author and copied the senior author in the correspondence. The senior author responded by acknowledging the inappropriate behavior of the author and promising to take action internally. So here are the question. Did the journal handle the case appropriately? Could something else or something different have been done? And how can this type of situation be prevented? Projections sometimes when no review was done. It was definitely the senior editor. I lost your voice, Rita. So we are discussing the case here. There's a perspective that they act inappropriately, the journal with the author, case of discrimination, right? Yes. And proper way was to authoritatively keep this kind of view. Because no reviewer where I ignored that I understood. It's a channel. So another topic that was discussed here is that opening the case to the committee to make the process more transparent. Sorry, we really need to wrap up now. Sure. So the answer is that in terms of what the journal could do to future situation. Well, basically I'm going to wrap it up because we think it takes time. In fact, this rejection is a common thing and a reviewer is not essentially a needed when the editor decides to reject the journal because depending on different journals as you know, which have very different acceptance rates, for instance, if you compare plus one, which is a well known journal with about 50% acceptance rate to compare it to, let's say international security to less than 8%. So this rejection is a common thing. You may reject the editors may reject the paper based on its aim, scope, general methodology flaws, because particularly for smaller journals when you want to refer the manuscript to reviewers, they have a smaller way of doing so. And it was also suggested that perhaps the journal should have involved the article authors, in addition to the senior author. And again, with the benefit of the hindsight it's possible that after the author had done the social media poll and was asking for more detail it might have been possible to deescalate the situation. So the recommendation that it was although it was declined, it was inappropriate and even irrelevant to conduct the poll, but the editors could provide more reasons that why the decision to reject the paper. Okay, already we're absolutely out of time now I'm afraid we really are because we need to we need to wrap up. I'll finish it in just this is the conclusion how to handle the peer review for others is that always address substantial in terms of size and sub time in terms of your analysis and arguments to the points. Answer politely answer completely do not ignore anything even if you disagree with them and serve with evidence. It's very important don't ignore any comments even if again you disagree with them, or if you believe that it was already answered even if your comments would revising the manuscript would make it longer than the required guidelines have handle all minor edits spelling mistakes and so on and so forth, and always be optimistic because then usually you know you're provided that means the paper. So if anybody has any questions. I think we're really out of time what I'd like to do Ali Reza is just is just ask everybody to give you a big round of applause for for an excellent talk. Thank you very much. And my apologies I assume that it would be 90 minutes not 60 minutes. Sorry, but if anyone has any questions if you want to put them in the chat now. We can, we can deal with them offline. So, thank you very much indeed it's a really excellent talk very interesting I've got some questions for you as well but we'll do them offline. Yeah, thank you very much everyone and our next webinar will be in November. It will be with Thomas as well talking about with and turn it in. You have the details shared soon in the net website, the recording and the presentation from this webinar will be made available at on the net website and our YouTube channel. So, please keep up with us for our next webinar. Thank you everyone. Thanks everybody.


If you ever deal with perfectionism, comparing yourself with other people and maybe a fear of showing up fully in your life and business. So in this video, I get to interview Krista O'Reilly Dabby Deghi. She is a joyful living educator and she talks to her clients in her content about quieting those voices of perfectionism, comparison, and fear so that you can really live into your purpose courageously and joyfully. So I'm looking forward to this conversation. Krista, thanks for doing this. Yeah, I'm really excited to be connecting with you finally, George, because I'm a fan of your work and your voice. Thank you. Thank you. So you have several Facebook pages and websites. Maybe you could just share a bit with the audience first, can give a background of those different websites and pages. Okay. I only have one website, AliveandProgress.ca, but I do run a few different pages on Facebook. I do like Facebook. It works really well with my natural strengths and how I like to connect with people. So re-branding Middle Age, Alive and Progress, and Slow Business on Purpose are my three Facebook pages. That's great. And tell us a bit about each one. Well, Alive and Progress really is the core of my work and my messaging, my mission in the world. I am very mission-oriented and although what I really want at the core is for other people. I use the term messy humans like me, who are strugglers. They wrestle hard. They may have had to choose like I have to live. So we may have mental illness or have to work really hard to guard our mind, body, health. Highly sensitive people, strong introverts. So people who feel like they don't necessarily fit easily into the world. I speak to those people to help them know that they're not broken. They do have what it takes and they really can build lives of purpose and joy in this world. So that's the core of my work and then re-branding Middle Age and Slow Business. They're fun for me because I love to learn and chat about ideas and they give me opportunities to kind of spin off a little bit. And so on re-branding Middle Age, we can talk about even some, you know, more like science, neuroscience or relationships like a lot of different things that relate to showing up with joy and curiosity in this middle stage of life. And then Slow Business on Purpose is just this tiny thread of my work at Alive in Progress which is specifically helping people create joyful, sustainable, purposeful businesses that align to their core values and leverage their strengths and help them really do the work in the world that they feel called to. Mm, wonderful. Yeah. And so when it comes to perfectionism, you know, I mean, well actually this relates to Slow Business. I'm actually really curious, how do you come up with the phrase Slow Business? What's the meaning there for you? Well I think over at Alive in Progress I always talk about doing life slow and steady. So this idea of showing up through fear, like whether we have, you know, like me, like I have struggled with chronic pain, I have an autoimmune disease, I have mental health, I have to, I don't know how to frame it but I work hard, let's say, to really live, to be in my life, to take care of my mind, body, spirit, health. And I have needed to almost embrace this truth that we don't have to hustle, we don't have to measure up or keep up. We can actually plod along and really carve out our own path and for me that's a slow and steady path. So I don't speak to people in business. I can't even do that because it's foreign to me. So people who are like rah-rah-rah and like hustlers and like go big and go hard or whatever, you know, they'll never come to me because I don't relate to that. But people come to me because there's something about my writing that helps them feel seen and heard. They feel safe. And if I can do it, if I can work through, like show up through fear, then they think, oh, maybe I can too. And so it really is about taking kind of the slower path and really like I care a lot and I think you do too because I listen to you. This idea that we're building lives, we're not just building a business. A business might be beautiful and so much fun and challenging but we're building a life. We don't have to race. Like, right? It's brick by brick. We can kind of plot along and it feels really hopeful to me and really that's the only way I've been able to accomplish anything is by making peace with this idea that I don't have to look like, be like, sound like anybody else. If I can't work because I'm, whether I'm hiding because my anxiety is super high or I'm dealing with crises in the family, which I've been walking through, I'm okay. It's okay. My business isn't going to disappear overnight and there's time and there's space. I like the gentleness of which you approach that in spite of anxiety, etc. So let's talk about that. You know, actually a client of mine just mentioned how she had a, well, this is not just this one. I mean, lots of us, there's an accident. Let's say, yeah, let's say you have a physical accident, whether it's something external or some diagnosis, whatever, and if someone is feeling vulnerable, what would be, you know, and they still want to, they're questioning, gosh, do I give up on my dream? What, yeah, how would you encourage them? Yeah, well, I think that ideally, like what's happened is we've sort of started to put down some routes before the accident, right, or the diagnosis. And so, you know, a lot of the work, so whether a woman comes to me because they want kind of more support in life outside of business and they're not building a business or somebody comes to me for business, 80% of the work is the same. And that is that we are putting down strong, healthy and hardy roots of self-awareness and self-compassion. That means telling the truth about who we are, what we want need in life. It means building some kind of purposeful and sustainable rhythms in our lives. It means understanding what, you know, the Pareto principle, like the 20% of habits say that really contribute the most to the kind of building this vision that we want. So we've done this work before. And then when we come into these really hard seasons, we find like I have, like I can just speak to it because I've literally been walking through the hardest season of my entire life. And this work to put down these roots, it anchors us in the storm. And also, you know, I was listening to you on one of your interviews. I can't remember if it was solo or not. And you were talking about these healthy habits that help us show up to our work, to our lives. Well, the same is that when we have done the work before to identify, say, the top 20%, well, all of a sudden it's not like we're recreating the wheel. We know how to keep breathing. We know what are the habits that keep us mind and body strong? What are the most important tasks to keep us showing up to our work, even if we have barely any time or energy? And so we, so maybe that's not the most productive season. But it's amazing how this year, the school year, I've had some of my highest income producing months. I've had beautiful opportunities. But while I couldn't really show up because I'd put down the roots, right? So, so I don't know how much further to go, but I would say that it's like it's not crazy, outlandish, like remarkable ideas. It's like this simple, practical, you know, kind of foundation, right? That I know you and I, I suspect both want people to hear. It's like you, you can do this, like, but we do the work with consistency and that kind of anchors us then when we go through these harder seasons. I love that. And do you want to share what some of your practices are, the things that help you put down the roots, or whether it's your own or you can suggest any practices that some of us might want to consider? Do you mean for putting down roots of self-awareness and self-compassion? Yes, yes, yes. OK, well, a little challenging, I guess, I'll just try to generate a few little ideas. So something I use a lot. It's so simple, but I use it a lot with women is because I work with women is something called a three to one practice. And it's just I like to bookend my days with gratitude. So, you know, as I wake up and when I go to bed, but the three to one practice, I recommend that people just do this at bedtime when you're just settling in for sleep. The three stands for three things I'm grateful for the two two things I did well today, right? So we're a lot of us have a mean inner critic. We totally see our flaws and failings. We have a very difficult time witnessing the truth that we also are showing up in powerful ways. We also are doing cool things. We also are, you know, learning to love ourselves well and tending to our families and so forth. So the two two things I did well today and one is one thing I could do differently next time. And that's not about judgment or criticism. It's actually about being gross minded, looking for joyful possibility, realizing that we always have power of choice in terms of how we respond or show up. We can't control circumstances, you know, control other people, but I choose my response. And so that one might be, let's say I got really triggered today by fear or to anger and I can kind of look back and say, OK, well, I see what happened. What could I do differently next time to create some space for me to be able to show up in integrity and not get triggered or bite so quickly? So so that's one little practice. I'm a huge fan of the Enneagram. I don't know. Are you familiar with it? Oh, yeah. Talk about that. OK. So I love the Enneagram and it's a tool that I use with my clients into varying degrees if they're interested. And and so it's just my absolute favorite personality kind of model, but is so powerful to help us really see like what motivates us and what triggers us. And, you know, to witness our greatest strengths and the that what is the change that we want to make in the world or the work that we want to contribute. So that is not a quick fix, right? But if people are interested, they can go to the Enneagram institute dot org, I think. But also I have some favorite Enneagram books that if people were interested, we could always share it when we post the video as we can share those. I think I'm going to stop there, George. You can ask for more if you want, but those are just two little two starting points, I guess. Wonderful. Yeah, it's wonderful. And the three to one is so easy to remember. It's a very nice, nice idea, nice exercise. So I hope people will try it. What about the practices in your business? And let's talk about, you know, a lot of a lot of a lot of us who are creating authentic, I call authentic business is that means showing up imperfectly, well, or trying to show up even with perfectionism. So I just got a question asked to me by one of my viewers, this is George, you know, I'm fine with writing and this is different for different people. Some people are not fine with writing, some people are. This person is fine with writing, but then he's hesitant about doing videos or when he shows up to do videos, he feels like, you know, it's not as smooth. It's like, you know, writing, you get to sit and think and in craft with videos. It's like, oh, you have to you have to talk and then in a way that's somewhat interesting for people interviews. I guess it's kind of the same thing, right? So how would you advise? Let's say how would you advise that person to, you know, like, let's say they want to do video, but they're scared and. Yeah, well, I mean, first, so it sounds like this person already has thought through like I'm a big fan of don't let's not watch what other people are up to or what the gurus or experts say we should be doing. Leverage your strengths, right? So self-awareness will help you identify your why what you what lights you up like your genuine strength. So first, we want to leverage that, right? But and so if you've done that work and you've decided that, yes, I'm a little bit afraid, nervous, but I also I still want to do video. Here's the biggest thing for me. I do nothing perfectly. I do. I am for good enough. That's actually my that's what I do. And I like not lying, not exaggerating. The only way I have been able to do my work is by constantly, like sometimes hour by hour, but certainly day by day, just releasing my grip and saying good enough done because George, I never think anything I do is actually good enough. Not one thing that I write, not one. Like literally I and also we're working within time constraints. It's like all I do is say this is what I have here. I'm going to offer this, but here's the thing. It depends on who you're trying to attract. I'm I'm totally real. Like if you read my writing, if you see me on video, I'm the same person. Like if we went for a walk together, I'm going to attract people who aren't looking for shiny, glossy, you know, like like it's almost like this glossy veneer. It's like I am so not that person. Like I wear flip flops. Don't wear make like I'm just I'm just like this like simple ordinary gal. And it's like you're going to be attracted to me or you're totally not. So my job is to actually offer my light, offer my gifts. And then I don't. And then I don't have to worry about your response to it. My job is offer and the people who need that are going to come to me. It has nothing to do with perfection at all. Or else I would not be in business like so. Yeah, so really, right? I see you laughing a little bit.  Why? Yes, I can, you know, like can I show up? Can I just make a can I make a bad video? Yeah, I think I can make I can do that. It's like I I have such a low bar for showing up. And once I show up and I think, you know, and I recall. I recall this video, this famous, I guess, quote by Ira Glass from This American Life, who said it's about taste. Like like in the beginning, he said in the beginning, which someone had told me, like, like, you know, we we we get into the work, we get into whatever work we're doing, because we actually have probably better taste in that field than the average person, let's say. And so we're interested in the work, you know, where we consume a lot of stuff in that field or whatever. And so we get into it. And then because we have we have good or better taste, we judge ourselves, especially the beginning, you know, or judge our own work, because we're not there yet. We're not we're not at the level that we want to be. And so it's so easy to judge ourselves. And so Ira says, you know, I was someone that told me, you just have to put in a lot of work, continually publishing, continually publishing until one day you you you get closer and closer to that to that taste. And so it's funny, because as I continue to make videos or do writings or create courses, as I consume other people's, it's like, well, it's like, there's even more I can improve, you know, and so it's like, I never quite get to my God, I'm amazing. It's like, this is so good. I mean, occasionally I might say that, oh, that's actually pretty good. But a lot of times, like, can I make a bad yeah, I can make a bad. And once we show up, I mean, once we show up, you know, it tends to be it tends to be OK. Right. I mean, did you agree? Like, once you show up and for yourself and and publish it. It's like, yeah, I mean, it's OK. It's like you said, it's good enough. And do you find are you are you surprised by people's reaction? To your offerings, to what you put out there? I'm not surprised any more. Yeah, I think I'm not surprised any more because I see how hungry people are for real. Yeah. And they're just people like me. They're just like, I'm hungry for real. I don't care about people who like have 18 degrees and all that. And like, I'm looking for kindness. I'm looking for compassion. I'm looking for people who are truth tellers. Like, and so that might even mean that you're just doing your thing and perfectly, be joyfully. It might mean that you're still searching.   So so I'm not surprised any more. I would say that. Do you feel like there are a lot of people out there who are looking for the truth tellers? Yeah, I think there are. Yeah. Yeah, I really think there are. And and it's one of the things that I want to keep encouraging clients with is that, like, I don't. So truth telling could be like another thing you've said in a video recently is that anybody who tells you that you can make X amount of dollars within these many months is not telling you the whole truth because we have no guarantees. Building businesses is hard work. And even if I talk about being gentle, which I totally believe in, it doesn't mean I don't show up with consistency. It means I plot along. Even if I disappear for a while, I tend to the needs of my family, whatever. It's like, I believe in doing hard things. I believe in consistency. I do. So, um, that wasn't the point, though. I've lost our train of thought. Oh, no, that's OK. And I actually am glad you brought this up because I wanted to ask you what practices in your business do you try to be consistent with?  So I am not quite like end of August. All I've been four years online. And so every year I started while I was homeschooling my youngest. I've gone through a lot of stuff. So every year has looked differently. And I believe in seasonal living. So I'm actually like, I encourage this like that. So so there isn't like one plan, you know, one rhythm. However, one thing I do consistently, consistently is right. So for the first three years, I had kind of the self-imposed rule where I would post once a week, except very like, you know, maybe I'd take a couple of weeks off in summer or something like that. But I would post Monday mornings that meet. And the reason it wasn't because I cared about growing a business. It was because I cared about showing up through fear. That was my the thing that was most important to me. So it was a commitment I made to myself.  And so what would happen is I might get to Sunday afternoon have nothing written because I've hidden or procrastinated. All of a sudden it's like, Krista, do your thing. You're honoring this commitment. And that's where it's like, hey, this is good enough. Maybe I had two hours. Maybe I sat there and like sweated for four hours, but whatever, it was going to get published. So that really forced me to loosen my grip on worrying about how other people saw me or my work because it was really about me doing my own healing, soul-stretching work. And I really care about this. And I really believe that everything that we do in business is going to call us to growth or you'll quit. You like it's like, we cannot give others what we don't own. We will absolutely be challenged and called to growth over and over and over again, right? If we're doing this work authentically, at least. And OK, so I also have a weekly rhythm. So I love seasonally, I kind of have this master rhythm and I kind of plot out like a lot of white space. Where will I write? Which days am I receiving clients? Because I pay attention to my energy levels. So for me, it's I'm a strong introvert. I don't function well when I used to have client calls every day. So now I only take clients like two and a half days of the week. I leave space for like walks and thinking and writing. And so I but I create a weekly rhythm. It's not like I'm tied to it, but it kind of sets the intention. And it also shows me that I've truly thought out my deepest in like intentions and priorities for this season. And and it needs to be reflected on there. And I well, I actually recommend that to other people too, right? They say, oh, I want to do this and this and this and this. I'm like, OK, show me on your calendar, on your weekly rhythm. Where does that fit? Where are you moving your body? Where are you connecting with your partner? When are you taking your child out for a coffee or an ice cream? Like, you know, we again, we're building a life, not just a business. I do I'm going to speak from the past because honestly, this school year has been so challenging that it hasn't looked like I want I thought it was going to. But but like last year, let's say something that works really well for me is using that weekly rhythm and then time blocking. So sort of like thinking about things that require like energy, right? So for me, if I'm connecting with somebody, I actually really do love connection, like real good deep connection. But it does drain me. And so as much as I love it, I'm kind of like buzzing a little bit after. And so I'm not going to be able to just flip right into sort of deep introspective work, right? So it's like a kind of look at things with that self-awareness, self-compassion and kind of bundle things together that have sort of required like energy. And so that means for me, like while some people use that can't remember what it's called, but like where they set the timer Pomodoro technique, 50 minutes writing, I don't function that way at all. I need lots of space. So if I'm writing, I need lots of space. If I am, I don't know, to like say, working on a project, it's like I need hours. So I give myself like these big time stretches of time to kind of go in and grapple and chew on ideas. And so so there's that. Now, this is individual, but, you know, the the Pareto principle, right? I can identify, I think it's harder for people in the get-go because they don't have experience. But like, say for me, I can look and say, what are my, what are the things that lead to not just growth, but, you know, attracting the right people and furthering my work in sort of this healthy way. And for me, for instance, guest posting is huge for me. So so then that needs to be a priority.  That we can kind of come alongside other people and help them identify these things that they may not realize. So let's say they're focusing on, you know, another person. They see somebody else like on a Facebook, constantly making beautiful images and then what, like even video, say, and that might work beautifully for certain people. But what they might need help realizing is, yeah, but to leverage your strengths and your voice, this other avenue might actually be far more like like in purposeful and also really feel good to you as a human. So so I've done that work for myself. But I also like because I like I don't think that we just I care about sustainable, right? Like so for me, having space to putter in my life, white space, time to connect with my inner circle or my husband, I drink water, I eat real food. Like I have these other sort of practices that are just second nature. So even when I kind of go into these challenging seasons, these things are on autopilot. Like I've built that habit. I know why it matters. And I don't have to like make a multiple like a million decisions every day. Because I just know I'm going to drink two liters of water. I'm going to go move my body. I'm going to, you know, so it's really good. I have just two more questions for you. The last one is how can people, you know, work with you? But you mentioned giving yourself a lot of white space for projects or for writing. How do you have that spaciousness and still publish and still ship or deliver or, you know, or press press go? Because I can see how people can give themselves a lot of white space and go, well, I just need more white space. I just need more time and it just keeps on delaying the actual publishing of it. What's your? Yeah, right. Fair. And I actually see that with a lot of my clients. It's like we we can't just have space. We also need these commitments. Like we know why we're doing something, kind of what we want. Why and then what are the practical steps that we're going to take? So I'm a huge believer in imperfect action. But that's critical for showing up through fear. We can't say we're not showing up through anything if we kind of just sort of stay in the pondering and dreaming phase. We actually do need to and that's where, like I mentioned, doing hard things. I think to be to build a business and to show up online and to serve people and love people, we are going to have to do hard things. And one of those hard things is publishing is hitting is getting stuff out into the world. So it's like, I believe in imperfect action that can be for some people, deadlines. It can be like when I was at my most productive writing, I had these two hour time blocks and I would just say, show up, you get her done. Like I do have some constraints. So sometimes it's a self-imposed deadline. Like I feel like this is so individual, right? Like based on the person and exactly what's happening in their life. But a hundred percent, I believe in imperfect action. And but that's directly tied to the idea that we started with around just loosening our grip and aiming for good enough because I can't do it all. Like if I care about if I focus on, well, what will other people think? Or it's not beautiful. It's OK, but it's not. It's like, I'll never do anything. So I just do the thing because because I want to learn to I want to grow and heal myself. And because I know that perfection isn't required to to to help other people. It's just not. But then also like I really believe in joyful possibility. Like I love this idea. One of my own things as a kind of a perfectionist and with this mean inner critic is learning to open up to joyful possibility. I I'm not in control and I don't want to be and I don't need to be. And so it's like I don't need to control the outcome. My job is just do the thing that's like calling my name and then see what happens. And it's not that I don't like I love my brain loves to understand. Well, why do people do that and how does that work and what's the strategy? I love all of that. But then I always filter it through my own wiring and then say, yeah, that's all cool, and it's not that we can't be very purposeful and even strategic. But the main thing is just do the work.  And so sometimes I think it's good for us to to just do things because it's fun, not because it's like, well, we need a client or whatever. So a quick example, is it OK if I do? OK, so this year, a very, very hard year, one of my former clients and I, we collaborated and we're doing this series of journals, their mindfulness, seasonal mindfulness journals. And she does this really sweet art I love. And so she's illustrated and I have these little reflections. Nothing is perfect about it. She's been walking through a really hard time in her personal life. I've been walking through a really hard time, but we just decided we're going to do this thing because it's joyful and because, like, it kind of keeps us moving forward in that. And it's like, I love that because I think it's OK for us to not always have like an outcome attached to something and just kind of play and like show up and get to stay curious and like, yeah. And so that's cool, very cool. So those who are watching, if they want to connect with you or work with you, what would you recommend? Come over to a life in progress.ca, learn a little bit more about me. I like it when people hang out for a while and get used to my voice before they even reach out and say, I'd like to work with you because I do feel like I only accept clients that I genuinely think I am the right person or potentially like I have something to offer you because I want you to get what you need, right? So I think usually that works best if people kind of hang out. They read my stuff because I'm not for everybody. A hundred percent. Like, I think there are people who really do not like my work and there are people who love it and so you come hang out, read a little bit, ask them questions if you want, and then it's pretty clear how you can reach out and get further support if you want it.  Yeah, and I'll be sure to put the link, but it's alifeinprogress.ca. It's not dot com, right, c a for Canada. So alifeinprogress.ca. So check that out. Krista, thank you so much for showing up, doing your work and showing up for us today. Thanks, George.