What's up, what's up guys welcome to today's class very excited to be cutting hair with you guys today I've seen all of you guys in the chat blowing it up I really appreciate all of you guys taking your Tuesday to hang out with me learn some hair cutting So that's what we're gonna do. So listen all you guys got to do is just share this class with whoever You whatever platform you're on so if you're on Facebook hit share if you're on YouTube Just take a screenshot share it on Instagram whatever you can do to try to get this show out to as many people as possible I'd really appreciate it. I Seen I saw a couple people in the chat There's a 10-minute countdown starting at 12 o'clock. So if you guys are watching you will you're on time So you're all good kelp. You're good Very excited again. We're gonna be cutting long hair today the great thing about Focusing on long hair while I got a long hair mannequin And normally they're kind of a medium length and and we try to call it long hair and it's not really long hair Today she's got pretty pretty long hair and thick hair So I want to show you guys some techniques to go through that and also, you know, just have some fun with you guys so Those you guys that are new What I want you to do is type new in the chat just so that we can all say hello There's a lot of OG's in the chat people have been watching this live for a long time They're becoming very popular very famous in the chat. So I love seeing all of them Consistently every single day in the chat getting involved. So here is how everything works. So the more you talk the better Get to know everybody say hello. Tell us where you're watching from all of that It spreads the word the more you chat the more Facebook likes to share this with other people the more people We can reach the more people you get in the room and the more friends we can all make So that's kind of the goal if you're an OG you've been watching us for a long time You guys know the drill if somebody asks where to buy these cool combs or clips or whatever it is That I'm using if people have questions, just please jump in there and answer them for me I can't always see and answer every single question that I see But if you do have a question type Q put it in the chat Just type Q then write your question that way as we see everybody chatting and going along you guys can see in the background I can see your chat from all over the place But if I see a Q then I know it's a question and I can try to answer it as quick as possible and That's pretty much it. So Let me see if I can get the Tuesday logo up here Where you at there, buddy? Where you at? Tuesday everything was going so smooth and now it's not Where is it there is There it is There we go. All right So if you have a question type Q put in your question and again just have fun get to know people I'm filming this as a tutorial video So I'm recording it so I can cut it up and make it a shorter video So today's all about you guys just answering your questions having fun and being a part of this day of filming We're live every single day at different times So if you guys don't have the FSE now app and make sure you download that Right here. I can pop that up on the screen You can get the app. It's free a hundred percent free So you download it you can become part of our community. You can share your work You can see Tessa's test his work on the front page of that But you can just share your work in our community and also that goes on to a website called stylist locator Com so if you're not a stylist and you're watching this and you're looking for a professional stylist that follows along with our Education then go to stylist locator.com put in your zip code and it'll pull up the profiles from the people within our community So we're building something really awesome here and so thank you to the stylist that are involved Thank you to the customers that are gonna go see them in the salons. I really appreciate all of you guys Doing that. All right Sweet and this is cool to Rebecca. Let me post that up there Rebecca's posting her Instagram I think that's cool, too. You guys get to know each other follow each other That's how we build this community bigger and bigger. All right, so Salon is in New Hope. Yeah. Yes, it is Jean Jean Gn Is it Gn? That's a cool name Um What have you been using on your skin looking smooth left? How loud just a joke serious question. Well, that's hilarious and Nothing But so I can't even say this anymore So basically at the first of the year me and my wife, you know, we we did the healthy thing We didn't even have a drink for like 30 days or something like that So I would say lack of Drinking and different things makes your skin look and feel better But I've been destroying it a little bit. So I got to get back to it, you know It is what it is, but thank you for noticing. I appreciate it. Um, what's up? UK Ireland my friend Ben Brown was in the chat as well. Love seeing him in there shout out to him Yeah, actually what's up good to see you I Love seeing some people that I haven't seen in a little bit Kathleen. Where's your salon? It's in New Hope PA Some hard-working people right down the hallway You'll see Brian from my salon here live tomorrow 10 a.m. Danielle from my salon live at 10 a.m. On Thursday They've got some really cool things coming up. You can actually this girl right here This is his pre-dawn for tomorrow. So he's gonna be going over how to do this color technique, which is super cool Uh Good job on him. So you guys should join us tomorrow 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. All right What do we got here sweet? All right guys Thank you so much very excited to get started. So let me pop over to the mannequin head now Like I said, this is a longer mannequin, which I'm super excited about. This is the Maddie I believe Maddie mannequin from pivot point. So She's super long.  So I'm gonna show you guys how I don't always Chop hair off that camera keeps moving on me. Um, I do not always chop hair off And I can cut hair and make it nice and long. There we go Sorry guys, I'm working with new cameras today as well. So we're trying to get used to everything new setup But I think it's looking pretty good All right, so let's talk about sectioning. We're gonna base this off a center part I hear that center parts are very popular nowadays. So we're gonna base this off of a center parting I want to open up the face. So how do we do that with layering? I want to start longer.  So You're in for a treat. You're in for a ride I love the t-shirt hair keep cutting I don't get it Fernanda, I don't get it All right Try razor today as well. Uh, yeah, I'll I'll throw in the try razor a little bit And also just to promote if you guys hang out. Maybe I will if you spend the day with me Give away a try razor to you guys, which is available on shop fse also Just a little heads up the velcro clips back in stock Um right here and they have the new fse logo and this is hilarious. I don't think jess is on here today, but Um, she just realized I saw in the chat yesterday that it says fse and our logo and uh, it's hidden So some of you guys may have never noticed but these are the new velcro clips They have the fse logo on them and they are available now I just got them up there right before we went live To purchase on the chat if you don't know what a velcro clip is I'll try to show you guys a little bit later when we get the hair dry All right Throw it all the way to scotland. I will don't don't you don't you tempt me this thing will fly like a frisbee I can throw it maybe not to scotland, but I can throw it pretty far and I will send it to scotland for you so uh Hang with us till the end and maybe that will happen Um, all right. Oh keep cutting it short for now. I got you. All right I will keep cutting it short But today we're going to focus on long hair because that's also a thing that we have to do and we have to Make it fun. We have to have a purpose behind it. So that's what we're going to do today Well, this cut worked for curly thick hair too. Absolutely Kathy looks like you've got some curly thick hair and some layers off the face Um, it looks like they even let me zoom in on your face a little bit But you didn't think that was going to happen All right, Kathy so This is actually kind of cool because this cut will actually go with you really well Um with that kind of curl effect But uh, I would have kept your layers a little bit longer And I think what happens is people cut layers shorter in thick hair and curly hair Because they think um, that's going to remove the weight and there's other things that you can do To not cut the layers so short to give your hair a little bit more of a modern feel Um without taking those layers too short. So, you know, we'll get into that as well Send to ireland. I will send to ireland Michelle, I will. Um, all right, let me see Ashley's laughing. So let me put her up here so I can make this smaller again Uh, I don't need those comments that big. There we go. All right I want a layered soft v cut Ashley's saying So maybe we'll do a v style haircut today. I had a question about that yesterday I think that's a cool idea. Um, if you guys have Uh, or want to send me a text Um, you could text me and let me know what you'd like to see in upcoming videos I love hearing that from you guys and I'll go through those texts every once in a while and just pull from it So if you guys want you could do that you could probably also text me a picture of your hair I don't know if that's how it works, but you could try it Um, and then just maybe we could build something around it. I don't know Maybe it would be a virtual makeover we could do So, uh, just send me a text<PHONE_NUMBER> Um, and just say hello and that'll get the process started and I'll text you Um, I should text when I go live. I forget every time, but we'll do it All right All right, cool guys. So let's get started again. Uh, I'll probably say that 45 times before we actually get started But here we go. All right, so Center parting. Um, now let's break down how we section hair. Let me see if I can List no, no, that will not work. Um See if I can get this over and it Can we Yes, we can All right, so one thing I want to talk about real quick before I get into this that's Pretty permanent there pretty permanent Let me grab a different one Shouldn't have left that on too long. We left that bacon for a while. All right, so I've got my head here. So what I want to do is I'm going to section this off So what we want to look for is how the hairline Moves so I want to draw my partings Along the hairline. These are going to be my vertical lines, right? And what that's doing is just separating I'm actually going to make sure that in the future I get a different camera angle on this. It's a little weird But um, if you guys look at this here I want to go straight up the hairline just like that and then straight fringe To separate the hairline there. This gives me three panels the fringe area the mid section and then the back Um, and that's how I want to separate it. So I'll show you guys on the head now Come back over okay so Let me turn her so when we section out the fringe what I'm looking for Is right where this hairline area is here. I'm going to work my way straight up and that'll take out the fringe So we'll work here And basically what this is doing is separating All the different densities of the head We'll go here down There we go So this will be my first triangle right here. We've got blurry So I'll twist that up and I'll do the same thing on the opposite side So we're just really taking out the fringe Now later on as you get better at haircutting or better at awareness during haircutting You can go ahead and not take that fringe out But if you're just learning uh, if you're in school or um, you know, just getting on the floor It's always good to separate everything out so that you can then Know exactly where you're at what you're working with at each at every any given time. I guess what I'm trying to say We'll comb that up and out and I'll twist it up in a way Into like a little Zulu knot. She's got super long hair here. All right. I'm just in a weird angle Sorry, I'm standing in front of you guys, but you can't do it the other way Let me slide our clip up underneath. So now we've got that fringe out of the way And now we're going to separate the front and the back spin this over And I'm going to draw a vertical straight down vertical line You got to be sure that when you take this vertical line that it is vertical and not slightly diagonal back Which is what we tend to do often because I really want to make sure that this entire panel that I have uh in the in the side or in the front is All going to fall in the front if I take a diagonal line like this Some of this hair is going to want to fall into the back and that kind of defeats the purpose so comb this hair over And I'm just going to slide my clip behind the ear Up and underneath which will separate my front and back Now I'm going to do the same thing On the opposite side here the line down to the hairline That and then I'll comb all this hair forward Out of the way so at the root nice and tight Nice and tight just like this and then slide your clip Up underneath and just hold it out of the way all right So that is our basic sectioning Now we're going to start working on the interior So let me spin a little bit so you guys can see all that hair here Wants to fall into the back so we've got that then you've got all the hair on the sides That wants to fall to the side. It's also the same density So we work with the same density of hair here until you get back here Then the hairline drops and it becomes thicker So all this back section is the same density as well. It's really important to understand that before you move forward because I'm not going to cut the back of the hair the same as I would cut the front They're just two different types of hair just like I wouldn't cut Thin hair the same as I would cut thick hair because they're just two different There's just two different styles. So So you need to separate the front and the back focus on the back How are you going to deal with the density? Do they have issues with it? It's thicker. What are you going to do with it? So All right, so I comb that down Now we're going to start working our layering And I'm going to work short to long and we're going to work the interior to the exterior So kind of from the interior out to the perimeter line So I'll spin her around the opposite direction like this And I'm going to zoom out a little bit There we go all right so Again interior to the exterior. So I'm going to take vertical partings straight down the center back And I'm not worried about that perimeter line So basically anything below occipital bone I don't even really care that much about until the end when I cut the perimeter. So what I'll do is I'm going to work through vertical I'm going to bring this hair straight out from the head Like this and now this is where elevation is going to play a really key role In how the outcome of this haircut is going to be so let's look at the different types of elevation and the round of the head So obviously in the crown the head is constantly curving away So what happens is we hold the hair out like this We go to cut it if I cut layers into this what's happening is this is at 90 degrees But then as I work up the head shape This piece right here at the very top is actually at about 45 degrees So I start graduating and when you start graduating the hair you start to build up a weight line So what I want to do is I want to actually Elevate The hair and I'm going to grab from occipital bone Which is right about here right in the head And I'm going to let that hair go down So I'm going to let it fall. I don't really care about that right now.  I needed to be straight out from the head. So I don't build up any weight lines I go here And now I'm going to cut Short to long And I'm just going to continue that line I'm not going to round off this layer I'm going to continue the line short to long. So pretending like this line just follows and goes off into the ground right So that's the first cut now I grab a section next to that And I'm going to bring it halfway From where it lives To the new section and I'm going to push the new section Halfway to Or the old section halfway to the new section. Does that make sense? Let me repeat that So grab the new hair pull it halfway to the old section grab the old section bring it halfway to the new They meet in the middle. We're going to have a traveling guide here Let down from oxypibone down Comb the hair up And then I see my guide right there and I go in and I cut and I just follow that line Continue it through Notice I'm combing away from my body That's just to keep the guide from pulling back So what I don't want to do I want to have a consistent line that rotates around the head What I don't want to do is constantly Pull because when you pull you're going to want to pull it past the word to to the guide when you push You're being more aware of where you're pushing to In my opinion All right So we're going to do the same thing. So now we're moving on to section three I'm going to take section three pull it halfway back to section number two or subsection number two Here we go oxypibone is there grab section two And then Elevate it out from the head So my last comb it's pushing away from my body I come up I see my guide and I cut short to long we'll go to the overhead real quick you guys can see that so Basically we had our first section right here straight down in vertical Section two came halfway back to section one section three halfway back to section two And then section four is going to come halfway back to section three so I go here push This up in the air make sure the tip of your finger is hitting that 90 degree point you can see that Nope It's all we got We'll go to the other camera for number five. Here we go section five back to section four halfway back to section four So it won't be quite into that corner. It'll just be halfway pushed there now The benefits of having The section the way that we do is that you'll never create a hole In the haircut the reason you won't create a hole is because all of this Is within the same density right so we talked about that right here if I section just to midpoint of the ear you'd have some of this hair It goes up into the hairline there and I would have pulled that into this section cut it So some of these layers would have sat shat shorter shat shorter They would have sat shorter in the Cut so you have to really be aware of your sectioning and how you're working through it So now we're going to do the same thing on the opposite side. My body position will stay identical. So what it was right here Just keep everything saturated And now we're going to work section one again And we're going to pull section two So the only thing that's about to change is how I comb so before I was combing away from my body to push the guide To the new section now I'm going to be pulling the guide to the new section because we're working on the right side So I go just like this We'll comb both sides to get it nice and tight at the root But then I comb that guideline back And work my way up and there is my guide And I cut that hair Comb again at the root release Work down my section come up and cut Just like that. So now I'll take section two a little bit of that Grab section three comb at the root Pull the hair towards me up The guide cut you can see this is pretty repetitive simple But it's just working through that traveling guide three four And then the last one section five All right, so that is the interior layers On the haircut now. We haven't cut the perimeter line yet So obviously you're still going to see that that needs to be cut But as we kind of zoom in here So you'll see right in here. This is all kind of weak and uncut So it's not going to look as healthy. We will go in and cut that towards the end of this cut Our focus is on these interior layers. You can see how these kind of look much healthier than the rest of the haircut And bouncy. There's no weight line. They just fall really really nice. So Um All right, so now we're going to move into the side sections Ashley, I'm glad you're liking the layers appreciate that All right, so now I comb the hair down again benefit of sectioning the way that we did is that All the layers are going to sit perfectly where they should and then this part we have not cut yet So they're not getting combined Imagine if some of this section happened to work its way back into this it would just kind of confuse everything so This sectioning to me is the the most basic way to go And it allows you to have way less errors in your cut because you really know where you're at what you're working on all right so now This is a combination of shapes. So when we talk about let me go here real quick It's a combination of shapes. So when we talk about moving Hair and pushing weight where we want it to go. We really got to think about okay So what what is our goal with this? Do we want it to move off of her face? Do we want it to move towards her face? Do we want it to sit kind of more balanced around the side of her head? How do we want those layers to look also when you have a client come in and they show you a picture Just look at that picture and assess it Do some of the layers start a little bit shorter and get longer towards the back Do they seem like they kind of sit balanced on the head and then that can kind of tell you What the client likes what they're going for and then you can make the decision Is that what works best for their hair type and their density and all of that? So When I look at This specific haircut I say well, it's thicker hair. That's the first thing We are cutting the less dense area. So there's only this much hair to work with So do I need a ton of elevation? Maybe not How do I want those layers to play? Do I want shorter layers around the face? And then you look at face shape So as I take a look at this client let me go Back here real quick. So When you take a look at your client And you look at her face shape, right? So obviously when they make a mannequin, they make the perfect oval face, right? But let's say that somebody has more of a rounded face. Well, what am I going to do with these layers? How do I Kind of Accentuate different things in a round face or to make a round face look a little longer So the one thing would be if she has a round face to not start her layers too low because what you'll see This is one thing I want you guys to and maybe this will be a good visual for you guys. Maybe not It's my first time, but if you look at Even my hands around her face like this, right? Um, that kind of makes her face like they kind of hug her face Then as soon as I start pulling this down, do you notice how her face starts to look smaller? So here face looks one way and then as my hands get further away from it And the hair gets straighter her face looks longer, right? So what you don't want to do With somebody that has a Long face well with a long face You want to do this because it's going to make her face look a little shorter if she has a round face You don't want to have the layers starting too low Because the lower this is or the longer this hair is the shorter it's going to make her face look It's going to take her chin and move it up So take a look at that if they have a long face go longer with the layering if they have a short face Then go Shorter with the layering so then you start working the layers in here And it's going to start kind of adding in a little filler make her face appear a little bit longer. So let's just say for instance with this haircut that She has a longer face We've done round face before so I want to focus on her having a Uh longer face Add a little bit of moisture again Both sides here We're going to cut both sides very similar because she has a center part so now How do we keep it longer around the face? Well, you're just going to cut it further away from the face That's the easiest way to say it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to spin her and now Cutting face frame is pretty simple, but there's different aspects of it that you have to think about so The first thing is As I cut it if I want to add more layering I have to lift it higher in the air if I want to add less layering. I keep it lower That's kind of the first rule.   Um, and actually I'm going to bring this fringe Area into this because it doesn't need to be separate Since I'm keeping all of it longer and I'm not cutting a fringe.  I'm going to go wide teeth of the comb keep the tension a little looser Bring the hair here and I'm just going to point cut my line Sometimes I like to just get this bulk out and then I could either re comb and adjust And point cut into it a little bit more Just to make it nice and soft There we go. Now it's falling a little bit further down on the face then What I'm going to do is I'm going to take another vertical parting And I'm just going to keep bringing that hair over to me Take a little bit out Around the temple area to keep some perimeter line in there I'll bring the hair over to me the opposite side of the chair See my guide and I point cut So another vertical section and you're just going to continue the same thing all the way through this head shape Into the back until you run out of hair to cut This will give you a start on that slight V Shape as well because you're making everything shorter and it's getting longer towards the center back Well, it's really just getting longer towards the back The most important thing we talked about this yesterday with cutting a V shape haircut Which this can be a V shape on the perimeter. It doesn't have to be either But one of the key things is removing that interior weight And removing the weight from the perimeter so you can easily Carve in that V shape and then make sure that your interior weight Matches the haircut that you're putting in so Just making sure that that weight isn't moving triangular and then you're cutting a V shape into it Just that doesn't make as much sense There we go point cut through Nice soft line And then we'll do one more section and we should be Pretty much running out of hair at that point Here these layers probably won't reach Get around the face You'll see there's not really much. That's our perimeter line Not really much to cut All right, so now take a look at the layers that we have created. I'm going to brush it and shake it Brush it out See those layers around there And again, we still haven't cut that perimeter. So we'll go in and cut that towards the end You can see these layers right here that are going to open up In the face All right, so let's do the same thing on the opposite side now And then we will be good to go so I cut this side of the head Over on this side.  We're going to pull our guideline from the opposite side So right in this fringe area like this And I'll grab just the tiniest bit from the opposite side I'll comb the rest of this away And clip it out. So I'm going to bring this over to me See my guide I'm going to point cut through the same thing Over to me Stationary guide So now once I get into The more bulk of the hair and into that temple area remember take a little bit that temple area out And then comb the rest Nice and clean at the root and bring it over to you on the other side of the chair Here we go section Move out the temple And then the last bit won't be much to cut just keep bringing it over Yeah, see not much Clean up there and you got your layers around the face So let's take a look at this here Where we're at so far So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to smooth her hair out real quick with a blow dry Because I want to cut her perimeter and I like doing that dry The reason I like to do that dry is because I really want to um See what part of her hair isn't healthy Especially on my longer hair guests that want to keep the length in their hair They just wanted a little bit of this movement and layering around the face But they want this length as much length as possible. What I'll do is I'll blow it dry nice and smooth Then cut only what needs to be cut off the perimeter and then I'll finish it with a little bit more round brushing and things like that So that's what we're going to do. We're going to go in do some blow drying Um, we're going to use paul mitchell Uh, this is So funny it's dodging So here we go. There we go. Paul mitchell hydro cream whip. We're going to be using that in the hair Um for some volume for some condition shine That so now I'm going to work this product through Her ends And mid shaft and then I'll go into the base This might be the best smelling product on the planet How do you dry and style long hair quickly? I'm about to show you Um, the quickest way that I know so first things first I put the product in I'm going to brush the product through I'm going to use my ergo paddle brush Um, also available on our online store. I'm going to brush this through the hair Make sure I get as much product on all the hair as possible You really want the product to saturate through Otherwise, you're not getting the benefit of the product on each part of the Blow dry Then what I'm going to do Is power dry her hair to get it about 80 to 85 dry Then I'll go in and start brush work because The the biggest key for power drying is not to make sure that you're not ripping the hair all over the place I'm going to work with my hands and just kind of work the the air down the hair shaft Keeping it in good condition, but also just trying to speed through the dry. So go here I'll just work some of this Air flow through the hair Especially hitting these underneath areas. That's kind of the the hardest part in a blow dry is Getting um, the client's hair dry underneath so then you can start your brush work It's easy to do brush work on the outside but underneath here where it stays pretty damp You just want to continue working the blow dry through So now I got that underneath pretty much dry now I'll go in and start brushing and smoothing that hair cuticle down a little bit more You can see how easy it kind of polishes out anyways So you can go through and rough dry instead of tugging pulling on the hair with a brush right away So now I'll go through i'm going to do some leafing which will be kind of consist of brushing the hair back diagonally and then lifting the hair out pulling tension On the hair just like this and then blow drying down that hair shaft So you'll see me doing that quite a bit all right, so now Sometimes I feel like when I'm blow drying I forget that I'm even live with you guys and it's kind of funny because now I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm live so We're We're working through so you guys can see the volume building up. She's got a ton of hair So what I'm going to do is now I'm going to round brush her hair But what I want to do now that it's 80 percent and 85 percent dry I'm going to go in with Paul Mitchell hot off the press This is a great product for Heat protectant so when the hair gets this dry you really got to put something in it to make sure that you don't damage Your hair or your guest's hair. So I'll put this in spray it throughout And then again, I will brush the hair through Just like this Really work that product. It's got a nice little medium hold It's definitely one of my all-time favorites from Paul Mitchell Is the hot off the press so brush that through the hair Then I'll go in with my round brush And start round brushing this to even polish it more So one of my favorite things about the ergo paddle or paddle brush and round brushes The round brush has tourmaline bristles it also has a much wider Um barrel, so let me show you Show you guys should have this ready all the time But let me show you guys the difference between like a regular round brush My black shirt Regular round brush and the ergo Round brush so you can see right here how much longer the barrel is And the handle is a little bit longer as well It's got a really nice grip to it and these tourmaline bristles they start off really firm But they're negative ion charge so when you start working the hair hair is positively charged So it's just like if you take a a magnet And you reverse each side so you have the positive and negative they start to kind of push each other away So what you're doing here is you're sealing that cuticle down using the negative charge of the brush So not only does it help smooth the hair better, but it helps blow dry the hair faster as well So i'm going to go in Uh, and i'm going to section just some of this top away because she's got so much hair I'm going to work the sides real quick with the brush Just over this over to so i'm going to just kind of brush look at the ends right now And then when I get done brushing them obviously i'm going to cut these ends yet So I still need to cut into those we're going to do that at the very end. That's why i'm polishing this up What makes the difference between using a big brush to medium brush? I'm assuming you mean width wise Width so here here's kind of a a common misconception about brushes. Let me actually go over here Common misconception about brushes is the bigger the barrel The bigger the volume Really, it's the bigger the barrel the smoother the more surface you get to work around the brush So you're going to smooth out so it's great for Thick hair longer hair hair that you're really working the smaller the brush the more volume you're going to get Because it's going to have a little more bend to it or the more curl you're going to get with it as well So, um, it really just depends on what you're going for if you have really long hair the the bigger around the brush is The more you're going to get just a smooth kind of smoothed out finish So this one's kind of their second to last on the size chart. So this is the 53 brush This one I like because It gives me a little bit of best of both worlds So in the longer hair I can still get some volume because I can really wrap this around quite a few times But at the same time I still get that smooth polish When i'm working on longer hair so There we go So these are the ergo brushes you can get them on our online store. Let me put that uh up here for you guys to see There we go All right, and what is today? So just so you guys a little heads up for you guys that are watching if you guys want to win a ring light I know this is kind of random, but um Minerva beauty who sponsors this show is giving away A ring light to some lucky person. So if you go to their website minervabeauty.com Ogs in the chat, please write that in the chat Go to minervabeauty.com right on the front page. I think you have until tomorrow Um, they're giving away a ring light. So you just got to enter to win But uh pretty awesome. So if you guys are looking for beautiful lighting that will make your clients look good in your pictures Go check that out I'm going to do a blow drying class on friday about building volume. So tune into that I'll go in with more detail more tips um on actual round brushing But really the key here is just to go and follow the brush and make sure that you don't go into the brush with the air You go over top of the hair so that you keep that cuticle nice and polished So there's a little tip for today. Make sure you tune in on friday 12 30 and i'll give you some more Always good to let the hair cool off Um, basically when you heat up hair you're breaking down bonds So as the hair cools and as the brush cools you can even blow cool air on there if you want It starts to set the hair in the formation that you've created So if you're looking to get that nice kind of smooth transition Um, then you need to let it cool as you work through All right Now i'm going to work into the back section here the underneath I'm going to clip some more of this hair away Work this underneath section Smo-mo, thank you so much So you guys might have noticed that I started rolling Uh towards the face as opposed to back off of the face This is how we cut it. So sometimes it's good to Um, give it a little extra volume right here, especially right in the front So I roll it towards the face kind of on base Roll there and then when I come back off of it, it's actually going to pop and give me a little extra volume and kick Into this section of the hair. So I'll mess around with that I'm gonna let that cool before I touch it, but you can already see how it kicks back off the face So anytime you want to create something Um to go a different direction you pull it to the direction you want it to move away from right?  That's kind of how all of this works so Now I'm going to go into this side Of the hair here And do the same thing same process Work the blow dryer to smooth this side and then we will once we get this side done Um, then I'll go in and cut. I'm going to put a little music on for you guys Uh, because sometimes you guys like that. So let's do it Uh Not that one this one This one's good All right, so Here's where we're at So I basically got A brush stuck in our hair. No, I'm just kidding. Um, you can see the layers The volume the movement. It's happening. Um, so I want to go in I want to cut the perimeter at this point Um, I'm going to take the brush out of her hair, but I just wanted it to cool You guys can see kind of how that starts to unfold. I'm not going to mess with it too much again Still want it to cool a little bit Um, I'm going to go through Work the perimeter now if you wanted If you wanted this client to have that v shape you could then now cut in the v shape um What where people make a mistake in my opinion is that they cut the v shape first And then try to fix it from there try to layer it or try to remove weight from there and it becomes way too heavy so If you wanted this to have a v shape you could already see When you take a look at it how It starts bigger and more layers and then it gets longer and longer towards the back So You don't have to it's not as literal as cutting a v in the haircut so we Did a more of a v shape towards the sides, but we did more of a rounded back Um, but you still can see how it gives you kind of that v'd effect within the layers So let me go in oh pulling things um So now what I can do is Because we only have to cut this perimeter. I'm going to kind of comb it out a little bit um Cut the perimeter So now I can go in and against the cape. I can actually Cut this perimeter the way that I want. So I look at the layers that I have in the front Here These are some shorter pieces So really I just want to connect all of that together. So I'm just going to start by working a line In the haircut now I would do this against her back if she had a back She doesn't So just cleaning that up Same thing here and just working That short to long point In the haircut turn her see that short to long feel And then we're gonna do the same thing on the opposite side Stamp in a little more of a v shaped appearance Come right here down Now if you really are concerned about this perimeter line You have a hard time visualizing it and just cutting it then my recommendation would be to straighten her fully Don't just round brush hit her with a smoothing iron and then you would uh You'd be able to see that line a little better I really want to give you guys an end result here that's got quite a bit of volume. So I didn't want to smooth it too much but I'm just there's When you have weaker ends because of interior layering It really allows you to just kind of cut that perimeter and not have to worry about it all right so Now I'm just going to do a little finished blow drying Now that I've got it kind of where I want it I want to round brush a little bit more of this forward smooth out some of it I'm going to hit it with a little bit more Uh hot off the press It is It'll give me a little extra hold on that. Well, that was interesting All right So now a little finishing spray This is alpui wild ginger anti-frizz Medium hold spray Okay, so now as I let this off and back Kind of unravel it a little bit Zoom in All right Now those pieces those are fun My favorite firmer hold hair spray just a couple couple of these This is there Just give me a hard time Just give me a hard time guys. What are we gonna do about this? Let me uh Turn upside down a little bit. Beauty of alive. We actually Does he even have a license? Saved yourself there. Thanks, Joanne. I did. I definitely uh definitely saved myself Let's see glue her down, man Oh That's funny. That's really funny. All right, you guys are the best. Thanks for laughing with me having a good time Uh, it doesn't always go as planned But you know, what are you gonna do battered and abused? That's not very nice cal She's fine. She's still smiling. I don't know if you guys noticed. Oh, she's not smiling I'm gonna put smiles on these things. Actually, that'd be really creepy if uh If they smiled Hair physician, I like that name Thank you very much I'd love to tie a squirming clients down. That's really funny You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Uh, so i'm not in the salon right now and still working towards license Do you need to be registered on fse? So Smo-mo I get this question a lot. So if you're a current student or apprentice In a salon you can sign up for a student membership Which doesn't put you on stylus locator But you still have to do a profile and wherever it says like to put your salon name You just put your school name Or apprentice salon whatever wherever you're working. So you just put that in there Angeletta Angelita. I like that name Um, thank you very much appreciate that Kathy. Thank you Um 86 year old hairdresser mother is watching your videos Nancy. That is the coolest thing that makes my day Um, thank you very much Thanks Adele appreciate it That's life in the real world so true That looks lovely couldn't deal with it on myself, but I look great on other people for sure. I get that get that Um, this is gorgeous. Do you normally have videos on your lives like this cut? So yes Well depend I try to put out some of these longer Haircutting videos. I do have I put them out quite a bit on my facebook and youtube um but yeah, so All different haircutting and all different live videos Um, all right My phone doesn't allow the app though It just loads. It's so sad um, Amelia Try deleting it and redownloading it because that has happened to some people um, I don't know what phone you have but um, it has been A problem for a couple people and when they redownload it it tends to help That's a workout. It was a workout. I agree. It's the most work all day I've probably burnt like 200 calories in that blow dry At least I can have a candy bar or something Um, you do long layers in the back and start the layers shorter in the front. Yeah, absolutely. Ashley. That's a great question You can uh for sure. Um, that's what it's fun about mixing up shapes. So we just did A combination shape class with the virtual cutting club Which is our zoom classes that we do every monday If you get become part of the app, you'll be able to become part of those zoom classes soon Um, we let people in So it was a paid thing now. It's not a paid thing, but we let people in Kind of slowly so uh, if you download the app eventually you should be able to access those classes um, but We talked about combination shapes. So like today we added a round shape There were both kind of versions of round shape, but you could also um Talk about the front as being more of a over directed kind of like he's still round because opening up the face But we're not really following the round of the head So we we combined different techniques to create a overall look You could change the back of that haircut and this is where I'm always trying to teach more the basics and why behind hair cutting than this is how you do it And you should do it like this every time you should always just take what i'm doing and say Oh, I like the way those layers look in the back. So i'll do that Technique or I like the way it was in the front, but I didn't really Uh, I don't need to do that back part on my client. They don't want those round layers in the back So you just kind of take it combine it use little bits of it. Um, maybe you just like the way I blow dry the front I highly doubt that but um just like the way that I blow dry the front and uh You know and then that's what you want to take from today as well. Uh, we'll see Can you drop the playlist so ashley? Um, I actually so I don't have a playlist, but I do use Epidemic sound for my music. So, um, what I'll try to do is next class. Um Try to provide a link so you guys can if you want it It's a subscription service, but it's all music that Is allowed to be used on video So it's independent artists. They put music up there And then I pay to have the rights to use it because I can't just use any music on my Lives, but they have such talented people on there that uh, you know, the music's pretty cool. So Um, Kathy, thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed the class today Kel could you do a curtain bang on the same cut? Absolutely That's another thing like you got to combine this you you look at this haircut could have any kind of fringe you want And I took the fringe out to cut the sides But that's because they were all going together if I was going to cut the fringe then I would have cut that fringe section differently Uh, and it was already sectioned out ready to go. So you can really decide what you want to do All right, so everybody good. Um Perfect style for my long hair Sweet V just for me Awesome. Kathleen love it um Thank you. Mel. Mel Annie. Mel Annie Mel Annie Thank you. Loving your videos though. Definitely hopes during lockdown. Yeah, so it's Hard to hear that people are still in lockdown. Uh, hopefully we're starting to Everybody's starting to get back to it a little bit. Um, but unfortunate that some people still are Um, so I can't get into the fsc until I resume with an apprenticeship I mean So here's the deal the benefit of the fse now app is for professionals to Get some training, but then to share your work that you're doing. Um, so That's kind of what the community is. Otherwise these lives the facebook lives the youtube lives are really Um, you know kind of what you're seeing on there as well You definitely couldn't do the zoom stuff because that's for professionals Um, you know, so it just depends on on your goals and where you're at Smomo, if you want to send me a message, I can really let you know if it makes sense But yeah, you should be in school To be in the app. It just doesn't make sense. Uh, if you're not so if you're in school Or training to be a part of school depends on where you live too Like in the us we have to go to beauty school to do hair in some places around the world You don't have to go to beauty school to do hair To become a hairstylist you don't have to so You know, so I never want to say like you have to be in school to do it, but You know, obviously Make sure that you Are trying to do this as a profession that that would make the most sense Um, all right, you know order from shop fse. Well, thanks so much kathleen. Appreciate that um Let's see And I didn't do anything so tomorrow I'm going to do a giveaway for the for the try razor on brian's class. We'll do that So if you guys tune in live tomorrow Make sure you do that and I'll give away A try razor on there if you guys would like to purchase one. This is our brand new tool the try razor It's a three sided razor that has a 20 So it cuts 100 of the hair 25 percent of the hair and 50 percent of the hair You can do a ton of different texturizing techniques You could do this full haircut with this thing just slide through the front And then you could cut the layers as well Just surface layer cutting. We have a ton of videos of it on our youtube channel. So check it out But it's 44 95. We ship it worldwide so you guys can get it on shop fse also Thank you to everybody that posted the manurva beauty website on here. If you go to manurvabeauty.com Right now I would just go now You can sign up right in the front of the website to win the ring light that we are giving away tomorrow To one lucky winner. So all you have to do is go on there sign up and then go follow them on instagram And you guys will win that as well. Um, all right What time tomorrow brian's gonna be on at 10 a.m This is the look that we're going to be doing so you guys can see he's gonna show you how to place the highlights And then how to tone it um to get that kind of Soft color melt look to it. So it's gonna be a really fun class It'll be from 10 to 11 a.m tomorrow morning eastern standard time. So make sure you're tuned in for that um What is the app called again? It's fse now. Uh, so let me see if I can put up The app here So if you go onto the app store on android or iphone You can uh, see just type in fse now. You should see it or go to freesaloneducation.com You can click on the front of that website and download it from there as well All right See any other questions from you guys? I think we're good. Yes 10 a.m tomorrow Um, louis, you're very welcome I think we're good I'm sure you not so long but celeb For 30 years. I've been following you religiously for years your talents Are beyond superb. I appreciate it. It's very nice. You guys look super happy Oh, I know who that is Jim, thank you very much. I appreciate that that means a lot. Um, I'm glad that you watched Yes, brian not brain. Yes kelp Uh, but thank you so much jim. I really appreciate that. That means a lot It means a lot that all of you guys are on here every day Or as often as you can be I know we're busy in the salon as well But that's why we're live all the time so you guys can be a part of it And I really appreciate you guys supporting it. Um, I have a lot of fun with you guys every day So thank you for being a part of the fse family Excited for tomorrow. Make sure you're here 10 a.m Eastern standard time and we'll have some more fun with you guys Enjoy your day. Have a great time. Be safe and I'll see you guys Next time. All right


So why don't we just collect, say, three questions to start and then I'll give the speakers some time to respond. And please, questions, not too long comments. Please. That's, okay. I'm Sylvia from Ghana. I work with the Institute of Stascale Social and Economic Research, ISA. I like the note on which you ended, that's to the last presenter. Elida is Elida only because of his people. Yeah. And to Abdullah. I believe you are from the north. You are an elite and you are advocating for your people, which is very, very good. But in my opinion, I think you shouldn't neglect or you shouldn't close your eyes to the marginalization. That happens in the south. Because all that I always say is that as citizens, we should learn to vote, not on ethnicity. We should get the people who can do the job.  So if we don't have a southern president, nothing is going to happen in the north. Or if we don't have a northern president, nothing is going to happen in the south. It's wrong. Until our leaders learn to have the national interest at heart. No matter where they come from, we are not going anywhere. Really, we are not going anywhere. So when you are appointed as a leader in the nation, make sure whether it is the south, it is in the north, wherever is to us, let it work for the interest of the country. Because yes, we have currently the situation in Ghana where Abdullah, I'm sure you know, we have a northern president at the moment. Fans that are supposed to go to the north for, I mean, poverty reduction are being misused. So will you tell me is because he's from the north or from the south? And the nature and the structure of all things happens, not from one leader to the other. It's been colonial. Colonials, during colonial rule, they came to settle in the south, build infrastructure in the south. Okay, so government, subsequent governments have been trying to bridge the gap between the north and the south. So let's work together as guardians, as one people that I believe in developed countries happen as much. No matter where they come from, they want to develop the nation at large. Thank you. Okay, thank you. I think the gentleman in the back here. Thank you. I'm Amarokon from UNDP. My first question is for Abdullah. You presented some figures for poverty in the north and northwest. It's one of the poorest countries at the same. You said those are the areas where you produce rice for exports. So something seems to be missing there. Unless, for example, there are some price controls or enclave economics like mining where you produce, but within limited group is producing the exports. So something is missing there. The second question goes to Beatrice on the trash collections. I'm wondering whether the trash collected are used for productive purposes, like, for example, producing fertilizer. There are several examples elsewhere where you can use trash for productive purposes, especially when the fertilizer prices are very high. Thank you. Thanks. The woman in the front here. Hi, I'm Katrin Rosner from GIZ. I have two questions. One goes to the fifth speaker. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you to the three of you. My question will be your conclusion or one of the things you said was, okay, in general, Sub-Saharan African institutions provide poor services and so on. I was just wondering if maybe not in this paper, but in one of your papers you looked a little bit at the distributional if-tracts of institution according to either if it's a research country or not, for example, or maybe we all know the research course theory. Does it have any effect on the distributional capacity of these institutions? And does the colonial past matter do institutions in French-speaking countries and British-formal colonies or Belgium, does that make any difference? I was just wondering. And then for Ghana, my question would be, what do you think that maybe because you mentioned, okay, the problem also is an ideological one that we can look at at some indicators that we have and it's working for donor organization. I know that very well. Often you have to fulfill some indicators for everybody to be happy. And do you think a shift away from the poverty line approach to more, okay, inequality indicators could also shift the idea first of donor organizations to second and also partner governments to a more equal distribution within the country as well. Great. Let's get one more question and then I'll give our presenter some time to respond in the back. Thank you. A quick comment and a question for Beatriz. Last year I attended a meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative. I'm not going to mention any names, but one person high up in the foundation in the initiative claimed that no mayor would be elected or re-elected because of trash collection. And you proved that that is wrong. And there are even some examples of the US history. New York mayors were re-elected or not re-elected on trash issues. So that shows that even people high up in the hierarchy in the donor community are not aware or downplay the importance of waste collection or waste management in general. It's a neglected issue. And also following up with the person from UNDP, yeah, are they trying to promote not only composting, organic waste, but recycling activities, paper, plastics, metals, and so forth? In many places that I've been, they're informal people already doing this. But are there formal efforts to promote this? Okay, thank you. Why don't we have responses from our presenters and we'll start with our first presenter. I have been listening to presentations and I really found some complementarity though. I gave very general views about institutional role. But point, I think at the last presentation they mentioned how important democracy, accountability, and that's linked to social contract. It's very public goods provision and how that is financed. That sort of engagement is needed at different levels. And what I found in Africa, nation-state building has been very difficult because that layer of structure, institution configuration was not there. And at the central level, leaders didn't have institutional structure to engage with domestic stakeholders. And in the particularly, initially I said, you know, leaders are personal, not the impersonal state structure was built. And then in the period of institution reforms which are instigated because of the crisis by international organizations, particularly World Bank IMF, that time government were signing dotted lines of reforms but they are not engaged domestic stakeholders. And to your questions, a lot of resource-rich countries, leaders didn't need to engage because they could manage to deal with transnational corporations and with other things, getting rent, mineral rent, natural resources, and not really their accountability was needed to get tax collections that they can manage predately getting their interests, their own political leaders' interests could be secured and no accountability. So issue is how to make, you know, at many levels, municipal level and all this engagement, coalition of people who are getting engaged in public goods and how to build and how to make that sustainable system, you need to get lots of ongoing and that is collective action organizations and they need that institution configuration and resource-based economies often they can bypass because they can get some other ways at the back of the room or under the table to get the political leaders to get by and now it came to the point even though African growth is a lot based on natural resources now younger generation is really no longer, you know, quiet about its accountability transfer and as you said, it's necessary to build a nation state and globalization requires strong nation state, market-based, corporate-led, finance-dominated globalization will not ensure, you know, inclusiveness. It is state, but not the necessary state, big central state, but it had to be built configurations from different so that voice could be heard. That is a sort of story and it's important, cause natural resource cause stories it's very much that it allows political leaders to bypass that important engagement with the domestic stakeholders. Sorry, I took a long time. Thank you very much. So, are you going to start? Yes, yes, yes. Thanks for your very insightful questions. I'm going to start with the second question that was directed to me, which is about resolving the puzzle between the north being the poorest and it being a major exporter of raised neighboring countries. I'm not sure you got the point I made clearly enough. The north, I mean I use that particular point in relation to an attempt to debunk the notion that the north is poor because it has bad geography and that it lacks agricultural potential. I mean which was one of the major reasons being advanced in excluding or in explaining the exclusion of those poorer upper regions from the minimum challenge account. In any case, when I said the north being a major exporter of rise, I am not talking of today. I was referring to the 1970s when the north used to export rice when Ghana became self-sufficient and rice as well as being able to export some substantial quantities to neighboring countries. So the idea of exportation is not in reference to the in fact today Ghana is a major importer of rice. We depend on rice imports and the question is why? As far as I'm concerned, it goes back to the issue of politics. It's about politics. It's about the power relationship between civil society groups, on the one hand, between government and between donors. You have a situation in which society organizations are pushing for lowering the rise import types. Government is in the middle because donors are not interested in that. In 2003, the rise import types was raised by the 2003 national budget to increase it from 20 to 25%. This particular law this particular bill was passed into law in parliament shortly, but it was implemented for only three days as a result of donor pressure. In fact, we never heard about that law. When the government announced that the implementation of that particular act was repealed, we never heard about it until 2005 when the cabinet or parliament was convened to appeal that law. And there's a lot of evidence to show that there was a lot of behind-the-scenes pressures from donor agencies, from the IMF on ideological grounds and so on. And also partly because most of the major importers of rising to Ghana are those doing account to the United States and so forth. Ghana is a very big rise market for the United States of America and so on. So it goes back to the point of politics that was raising. Coming back to Sylvia's points, let me start by noting that just colonialism, the problem of the North South inequality has to do with history partly. There are a lot of explanations. I mean, the interest that I am having is to indicate that those explanations are way fully inadequate and they cannot explain why the situation has persisted until date. The roots of it, historical, if you want to find out the origins of it, yes, colonialism matters. Ghana celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. We've been we're getting independent as far back as 1957. A lot have changed. Why hasn't that problem been resolved? That can be explained by virtue of colonial or historical factors as far as colonialism is concerned. That is one. Secondly, you made a point that I think I should correct that I'm an ordinary advocate for the North. Yes, I am an ordinary but I am not advocating for the North and in fact, I say Northern political elites are a major problem to the development of the North. There is no doubt about that and if you look at the conclusions I drew, I said that haven't marginalized regions being strongly represented in government is neither unnecessary nor a sufficient condition to resolve their developmental backwaters. In any case, when Ghana became a major exporter of rice in the 1970s, I was impressed. In fact, that was the only regime in which there was no Northern representation. But I think we need to distinguish between what is idealistic and what is realistic. The points about let us see ourselves as one blah blah and so on, I share in those sentiments but that is the idealistic aspect of the story. The reality is completely different and my interest was to add a political dimension to the explanation of spatial inequality. If you look at the political settlements framework, I mean facts and code distinguish between two broad types of political settlements. There is the primary political settlements which is about looking at the national level elites but there is also the role of subnational elites which in terms of secondary political settlements and it plays a part. I mean if you just focus on the North alone the North in itself is not a kind of a homogeneous place there are a lot of diversity and in fact there are a lot of power struggles among the three Northern regions. Why do sources have to be sent to the North? Even there are power struggles after whether it should go to the Northern region the Upper East region or the East or the Upper West region. So I am not in any way asked of an argument that the problem about Northern Guiness and the development is about sudden political elites far from that nor am I advocating for North. Sorry In one of your slides you mentioned that there is a coalition of the South against the North I saw it that's why I took the stance that let's get the people who can do the job not people who are from the regions I think I commend the President and the President and the President and I think I commend the President's government for the dust they've taken that we are not taking people from the regions to the regions we are bringing we are going to bring people from other regions to develop other regions that is fair okay let's two seconds I think you should probably look at the slides so they would probably upload them I don't see any North versus South coalition in Ghana in fact if you talk of coalitions in Ghana it is about whether you are an NDC or NPP it depends on which political party you belong to and Northern political elites will belong to the NPP consider themselves as more of NPPs than Northness that is the reality and that is why I see Northern political elites as being a part of the store or the problem so there isn't any Northern versus Southern I'm talking of dominant elites within a particular ruling coalition okay we can continue discussions after but let's give the final word to Beatrice super quickly since I'm standing between you and lunch and I'm responding to questions about trash which I think we can all agree is a problem there's no disagreement there so just quickly on two points the questions related to whether the trash that's being collected is being recycled or composted or if it's being sorted by metals cardboard plastics the answer is at the time that I did this study which was 2008 to 2009 no it was all combined trash that was being taken directly to an open air dump the instances in which it was being sorted were two and I know Martin you talked about one yesterday in your presentation which is scavengers like the idea that the individuals particularly in Maputo the trash density was the highest you had individuals living in the collection sites themselves so where the dumpsters were in the center part of town they'd be living there and taking the plastics out to sell them so you saw that type of activity and you also saw I interviewed Recicle which was a South African firm that came into the Maputo area and started to do this on a commercial basis so they were working with the city to start it on a commercial basis so those are the two examples in which you would start to see at least 2008 to 2009 some level of recycling occurring both at the micro level with those individuals living at the sites and then with this contract with Recicle which was a South African firm very quickly I just wanted to respond to the question about do colonial institutions and it was directed at Machiko myself do colonial institutions make a difference in Berra in Mozambique it does what you saw there in terms of 80% of the population is rural and what you saw in terms of the administrative structures at the sub-national level and how they were set up as colonial institutions to basically be able to control territory from predominantly what we would call urban areas and so even the way that the different heads of the departments were called and the way that the political structure was set up at that level that all came initially from the Portuguese so that is still in place today so I don't have anything else to add thank you very much thank you everyone this is obviously a really exciting set of papers so please come up and talk to our speakers take them to lunch continue your questioning thank you very much


Studies have shown that people with self-discipline tend to be happier and healthier. This is attributed to the fact that they spend less time debating on things to do and can make positive decisions easily. Also, unlike people who lack self-control, disciplined individuals barely have a cause to regret their actions because they are level-headed and do not allow their feelings or impulses dictate their actions. Thankfully, self-discipline is a skill and it can be learned. In this video, I will be sharing with you 13 simple steps to help you master self-discipline. 1. Prepare your mind. It is essential to understand that we are not born with self-discipline. Although it may be affected by temperament, it is a learned attitude which like every other skill requires self-will and dedication and daily practice and of course repetition. The focus that self-discipline requires is somewhat demanding but you must always fix your mind to be sure that developing it is what you want. The bigger the challenge or task, the more diligence needed to tackle it. 2. Be sincere to yourself about your weaknesses. The first step to self-discipline is for you to identify the areas of your life where you lack self-discipline. You may choose to overlook your flaws because you want to make yourself feel good. But if you must solve a problem, you must first own up to it and accept the challenge. You must look inward and ask yourself important questions so that you can ascertain the specific areas of your life that require self-discipline. Using finance as an illustration, you first have to determine what exactly your flaw is. Is it that you spend too much or you gamble or you are always lending to friends who do not pay back? 3. Get your whys. For everything you venture into, there must be a why. Your why is your motivation. Why do you want to be self-disciplined? Are you broke? Are you in debt?  Finding the necessity for taking action will motivate you to keep pushing even when the temptations are much. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, and I quote, He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. 4. Write down your goals and execution plan. What do you hope to achieve? How do you expect to make it? After being sure of your why, the next step is to identify a specific what. Break down into smaller what's and include your how. What do you intend to achieve if you pay attention to your finance? What measures can you take to achieve that set goal? How can you break down those measures into small and tangible goals? Set targets for yourself and identify actions you can put in place to reach those targets. 5. Form a new simple habit. It shows that it takes three weeks of consistency to form a new habit. Ask yourself, what new pattern do I need to develop that will move me close to my goals? Do I need to stop eating junk? Do I need to learn how to say no to people? Do I need to get a piggy bank and keep a specific amount daily? 6. Start with the end in mind. Starting up is usually overwhelming but having the end in mind and the benefits you will get if you complete your task will spur you to put more efforts. So always visualize yourself meeting your goals and reaping the rewards you will gain when you practice self-discipline. When you bear in mind that spending less would make you a millionaire in six months, you will be inspired to start saving daily. 7. Be consistent. Always do one thing a day that takes you a step closer to your goal. Consistency is essential because it is through it that the new habits are formed. If you are not consistent with your small goals, you will not be able to get your desired result. If you set your mind to put $10 in your piggy bank every day, keep to that. Don't skip a day, hoping to save $3 the next day. Be consistent with $10. 8. Avoid temptations. We like to convince ourselves that we have enough willpower to resist enticement but many a time when the temptations arise, we give in. For instance, a friend suggests that you go clubbing and volunteers to pay the bills. Well, you could decide to go to the party since you won't be spending, however it is much safer and better if you don't go. The fewer distractions you have, the more focused you will be on accomplishing your goals. Set yourself up for success by deaching unwanted influences. 9. Be patient with yourself. Take to heart the lesson from the tortoise and the hare. Slow and steady wins the race. The journey to self-discipline is usually a slow one that involves taking one step at a time. Getting impatient and trying to throw 3 steps will only cause you to have a mighty 4. Although at the end of the month you might get discouraged to see that you just saved $30 but then trying to increase your savings to $10 daily suddenly is drastic and may result in you getting too burdened and eventually getting tired of the whole discipline process. 10. Have an accountability partner. An accountability partner is someone who you will be accountable to and who will sincerely score your progress. Your accountability partner can be a friend but it must be someone who is willing to be sincere with you and who is emotionally intelligent and more mature than you are. Suggestively, your mentor will be a better partner than anyone else. 11. Don't sulk when you miss it. One reason why people fail to accomplish the goals they set is that whenever they miss it, they sulk. When you miss a day, do not feel bad. Yes, you can feel remorseful but let there be a limit. When you begin to feel terrible about yourself, you will lack the zeal to continue.  Learn from your missteps and forgive yourself.  12. Reward yourself. Be sure to reward yourself after every completed target. If you successfully stick to your goals for a while, then you deserve recompense. For every week that you stick to your budget, allow yourself a few dollar notes to splurge at the mall on Sunday. However, to avoid falling into the temptation of spending more than you bargained, leave your credit cards at home and carry cash only. Self-discipline is hard. Choosing yourself is an avenue to lure your subconscious into smashing the other goals. 13. Give yourself a backup plan. According to psychologist, a technique which boosts the human will power is called implementation intention. It involves planning to deal with a potential challenging situation you know you will undoubtedly face. Ask yourself, what if this self-discipline strategy does not work? Is there another move that I can make? Contrary to the perception of many, having a plan B does not in any way reduce your focus on your initial plan. It only gets you prepared just in case of uncertainties. Always bear in mind that if you cannot be a master of yourself, you cannot lead others and if you cannot lead others, your chances of being successful are pretty slim. Thus, your success level depends on how well you can control and coordinate yourself. Self-discipline is a skill. Learn it!


Today we'll be exploring Ed Puzzle. Ed Puzzle is a web app that can be used to create virtual assignments with video. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking in the pop-up cards in the upper right-hand corner. Here's how to get started with Ed Puzzle. First, go to edpuzzle.com and sign up with Google. I already have an account, so I'm going to tap log in. I tap sign in with Google. Tap my Google account. And it will log me in. Notice on the left-hand side, we have all of our content and the school that I've chosen to be a part of. In the upper right-hand corner, you'll see my settings and how to navigate Ed Puzzle. I'm going to start by adding my classes. To add a new class, you just tap Add New Class. And you can import your classes from Google Classroom, or you can create a new class. If you create a new class, you add your name, description, and just tap Classic. Or tap Google Classroom, and all of your classrooms will populate. I'm going to let that run in the background while we look at content. I'm going to search for a video. I could also browse the channels here if I was looking for something specific, or I could search by my curriculum. I already know what video I want, so I search for that one. And you'll notice that Ed Puzzle pulls up videos that teachers have already edited, so you see their names here. And then you see a number next to the time. That's how many questions they've added to the video. I want to start from scratch, so I'm going to choose the YouTube link. And then you'll see that I have the option to preview the video. I can go ahead and assign it, I can copy it, or I can edit. So I'm going to tap Edit because I want to add questions to make this an assessment. The first option that we get in the Edit feature is to cut it. So if your video, you'll see that this one's seven minutes long. If I need it to be a little bit shorter, I can always grab this bar here and make it shorter. You can only cut from the beginning and the end. You also have the option for voiceover. So if there's a part that you think is particularly confusing for students, or if you just need to add something, you can add a voiceover to your video. The most valuable part, though, for me is the questions. I think that this is really helpful because you can add questions to a video and make it an assessment. So I'm going to start at a specific point. So I'm going to add an open-ended question here. Notice that you have some editing options here. You can also do exponents and other language there, and you can add attachments or links or images. So there's lots of things that you can add to your questions if need be. So I'm going to go ahead and tap Save to add the question. You'll notice that it adds a little dot right here. That will take me back to my question if I need to edit it or trashcan it or add multiple notes or other things to it. I'm going to add one more question just so that you can see what that's like. So I want to add a multiple-choice question here. If I had scrubbed it to pass his answers there, I might put A, B, and then write out the answers. Notice you can add multiple choices here. You can add as many as you need to. And then you need to make sure that you mark which one is the right answer. So if B maybe is the right answer, you could do that. And you notice over here on the left-hand side, all of my questions are populating, so I can come back to them and edit if I need to. You can add as many questions as you want. And then once you're finished, you'll just tap Finish. Notice down here in the bottom right-hand corner, I get the option to assign this to my class. I can edit, I can duplicate, or I can delete. So I'm going to go ahead and tap Assign. All of my classes from Google Classroom would be populated here, and I would just select them. You also can get a link to your ed puzzle and share it with your students that way, as well as an embed code. I'm going to show you one last thing, and that's the grade book. The grade book will populate all of your classes here, and after your students finish, you'll have the ability to see how far they've progressed in the videos, and you'll be able to see if they skipped past anything. You also have the option to limit whether or not your students are able to skip any content. So make sure you mark that before you assign it. So again, that's how you use Ed Puzzle to help create video assignments. Thank you for watching. Be sure to like, comment, or reply to one of our videos to share or share this playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so that you don't miss out on the next episode. 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I'm gonna tell you right now what you need to do to put yourself in a position to win every single game you play is pretty basic. If you guys want to win as many games as possible and increase your chance of winning a national championship, here's exactly how you do it. On offense, you need to take the highest percentage shot possible. On defense, you need your opponent to take the lowest percentage shot possible. I know that's really basic, but think about that. If consistently every offensive possession you take the highest percentage shot possible and consistently every defensive possession, you make them take the lowest percentage shot possible. Do you know what the result is from that? You win. And you win consistently. I have the humility to know there's a very good chance. I'm not gonna say a single thing to you guys today that you don't already know and you haven't already heard. But I've been around the best players and coaches in the world for most of my life. And I realize that there's always going to be a difference between what you know and what you do. Each of you has to work every single day to close that gap between what you know and what you do.


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