This week on the anxious truth we're talking about how to learn to just do nothing which seems ridiculous, but it's really helpful So let's get into it Hello everybody, welcome back to the anxious truth. This is episode number 272 of the podcast We are recording in August of 2023 in case you are listening from the future I am Drew Lincellata creator of the anxious truth and host of this podcast This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety anxiety disorders and anxiety recovery So if you have just stumbled upon this YouTube channel or this podcast and you're struggling with things like recurring panic attacks or OCD or Goraphobia, this is the place for you I do hope that you find what we do here helpful in some way and of course if you are returning viewer or listener welcome back I'm glad that you're here this week We are talking to my friend OCD and anxiety specialists from Cleveland, Ohio Joanna Hardis Joanna has written a new book called just do nothing a paradoxical guide to getting out of your way and The themes in the book that Joanna has written will be very familiar to those of you who have followed this podcast or read my books or Follow along with me on social media and Joanna has taken the concept of doing nothing and Learning how to do nothing in response to scary thoughts or physical sensations And she's expanded it beyond just anxiety recovery Which is our context to really apply it to life in general Which it does and you'll see as we go into the interview with Joanna and talk about the book and the highlights of the book And the things the best parts that I think of the book You'll see that in many ways This is an interesting book because it can help you understand how your struggle with an anxiety disorder is Really very related to the struggles of just everyday people who will find that they are stuck or they you know Are overthinking or whatever it happens to be believe it or not People in our community often see themselves as broken But one of the cool things about this book that Joanna has written in her own friendly kind of humorous way Is that it really illustrates that like oh, we're not all that different than everybody else We just might be a little bit more extreme or in a little bit of a deeper rut So anyway, we'll bring Joanna on in a second just a quick reminder before I do that the anxious truth is more than just this Podcast episode or this YouTube channel head on over to my website at the anxious truth comm There is a ton of other stuff there including books that I've written Workshops and courses that might help you along the way to recovery a ton of free social media content There's also 271 other free podcast episodes before this one. There's a link over to the disordered podcast that I do with Josh Fletcher Which you can find at disordered FM. So anyway hit hit my website at the anxious truth comm Avail yourself of all the resources. I think they're helpful people tell me that they are so take advantage Okay, let's get Joanna on to Talk about her book and talk about the idea of just doing nothing in response to scary thoughts and scary sensations and just Unpleasant distressful moments, not just an anxiety, but life in general. I think you're gonna enjoy the interview. Let's get to it Joanna welcome. Thank you. Good to be here with you. How are you this morning? I'm well. How are you? I'm good So as I mentioned in the intro for those of you do not know Joanna Joanna is Joanna connected. I don't know you're in half two years ago I think it's been that long. Yeah somewhere in that neighborhood and uh, yeah I'm proud to call Joanna a friend and we've done a bunch of work together with some different workshops and things that we're doing Working on and more stuff coming and Joanna Wrote a book that I just freaking love. Thank you The book is called just do nothing the paradoxical guide to getting out of your way And if you guys have followed this podcast for any length of time do nothing is just one of my favorite things in the world So let's talk about that. Why'd you write this book? Well, and you were such a you were such a part of it because we were working on stuff professionally around distress tolerance and then uh, I had that personal experience, which is in the first chapter Where uh, I got ghosted And I it was this perfect intersection of a professional interest and then a personal experience of tremendous distress and it just kind of lit a fire in my belly about writing this book I didn't really have any intention. I had sort of always thought about writing a book But that was the getting ghosted. I think it was the personal experience and getting through that That was the impetus for doing it. Yeah. So that was really what kicked the whole thing off I mean, I was reading and I I read and I'm like, well, I didn't I didn't know that I didn't know that was the thing that started you going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was so good Which seems like it was just yesterday which blows me away because you wrote this book pretty quickly I know you didn't but it was fast. Yeah, it was fast. I had a fire. I had a fire in my belly to do it Let's talk about just do nothing and here's the cool thing about this book So if you're listening clearly you you might recognize you and maybe you already follow her on instagram Our content is very similar. We're always talking about Panic disorder, goryphobia, ocd, you know those things this book kind of goes beyond that This is not necessarily just an anxiety recovery book and it wasn't never meant to be exactly. Yeah Yeah I love how you've taken the just do nothing thing Which is the thing we talk about all the time in the recovery context and just brought it to the rest of life In a lot of ways, right because what I was struggling with and this is what you and I talk about a lot under the Umbrella of distress was there were just a ton of unpleasant and uncomfortable emotions that I Was experiencing, you know, there was disappointment. There was shame. There was embarrassment. There was Uncertainty, of course, there was worry and anxiety But there was also so many other feelings That went along with it, which I think is really common Under this umbrella of distress. It's the same process. Which is what we always talk about when we've done workshops and when we've talked about it It's the same process But you know, it's different feelings Yeah, so it isn't necessarily about getting through a panic attack or you know a wave of intrusive thoughts or something like that I mean, it certainly is those skills are applicable here Right What happens when you take that that sort of philosophy and that approach out of the recovery context and just stick it in the rest of life Exactly That's not new, you know, like I always find sometimes it's amazing people Hear this sort of thing and they're like wow, that's revolutionary and it's it's sort of not because we could trace this back thousands of years This idea Really, I did not know that we can yeah, so like this is thousands There are thousands. I mean if you can go all the way back into Taoism and Buddhism and I find this sort of acceptance type thing like hey, what am I going to do with this now that it's here? Quite a ways Or not trying to control things that we cannot control, which is one of your central messages here. Yes. Yeah, yeah So I just let's go to the distress part because for people listening That's probably the most interesting part right distress and distress Intolerance and learning to tolerate distress a little bit more and and we've actually done a workshop on this together That we're sort of retooling and we'll we'll bring it back, but I love when you wrote this was a case study, I guess or or a sort of a Power phrasing of a professional relationship that I'm sure you have permission I have to put that out there because oh she talked about a client No, no, no, Joanne is a highly ethical therapist. It's not a worry and uh Had to learn had to do distress differently Mm-hmm. That was one of a that was a fist pump moment when I read that she had to learn to do distress differently. Yeah, that looked like Um, and I can't remember the exact anecdote that you're talking about because I literally say that with every single person with whom I work That you have to do You know, you have to do whatever it is differently do dread differently do distress differently Um, so I say it all the time. So I don't even know that's right Yeah, the interesting about do do distress differently was the old like okay instead of immediately trying to fix this Oh, sure The the steps you check it listen. This is why we're such a good fit slow down I mean somebody should maybe write a book about slowing down. I don't know. Maybe someone already did Slow down take a step back and Respond to the situation not the emotion is huge. Let's talk about it. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes We talk about that a lot because oftentimes when we're feeling Insert whatever unpleasant emotion. I think for this podcast it's certainly going to be panic anxiety Fear worried out We're feeling it feels urgent.  Yeah It's like act with some intention and respond to the situation Which is really hard for people listening to this to do Absolutely Well, that's part of the just do nothing because our intention, you know, what's intuitive to us is to Do more and work so hard to get rid of that unpleasant feeling because it sucks so much But that you know, as we know only makes it so much worse Yeah And so what what actually is helpful in the long run is to learn how to ride those feelings out Let them be which is Would sound so easy, but it's so hard. Let them be let them pass And focus on you know, focus on what you can do in that situation Yeah, yeah, which is super important and it that's where the lessons are learned whether it's an anxiety recovery in life Like, oh, okay, I didn't have to fix this. I could actually sort of sail through it or navigate I usually were navigator all the time. Yeah Yeah, which works out really well But the issue with that I think a lot of people feel and I'm gonna move you on I'm kind of just walk you talk walk you through your own book like you need that but Feel free to yeah, you really made a good point too in and you know one thing a little bit at a time You know and you talked about that whole like new january 1st, man I'm gonna go to the gym. I'm gonna crossfit four days a week I'm gonna get up at five o'clock in the morning in journal Everybody has grand plans to fix everything all at once it never works that way it never does No, it doesn't who nobody does that No, everybody wants to do that, but nobody ever really does it Well, I think this is the trap though on instagram on social media They you know, that's what is promoted and I think Um, I don't follow influencers, but I think that what I hear is that that's what they promote, you know In all these extreme things. I mean I have clients who tell me about people that they follow And it's like oh well, we're going vegan. We're cutting out all this, you know gluten and dairy and we're meditating And we're doing gratitude and it's like come on because no one talks about what happens As you cut all that stuff out of your life When you start feeling all those uncomfortable feelings. Yeah, what happens now? Exactly because yeah And then that plan goes into the the gutter and you do talk a lot about like then that harsh Judgment negative judgment. I failed. I blew it. I didn't do it. Yeah Right one of the things a little at a time is a great bit of advice, especially with people listening today Okay, great. Drew says do nothing. Joanna says do nothing. She wrote this great book I'm gonna start doing nothing today. Well, that's cool, but you won't get it right right away And let let's go through those stages I did a podcast episode and I think I've revisited it to the stages of recovery and you used it the trans theoretical model of change Sure, you know walk people through that a little bit because I think it's it's so helpful to conceptualize it that way How do you make a change? We actually go through steps to do that. Sure. So the trans theoretical model of change Actually lays out Stages that someone goes through before they hit action So, you know, this is and this is the problem with new year's resolutions is that people just jump to action When there's actually this whole process It's you know, this the stages start with pre contemplation when you're not even thinking about a change Then it goes to contemplation when you're thinking about a change and you're weighing, you know the pros and the cons of the change And then and you sort of have that ambivalence and then you go to preparation Where you know, you're preparing for the change you're telling your support system You're getting, you know, you're you're getting accountability in place So it's not that you just jump to action. You're actually thinking about it You're preparing for it. You're getting you're thinking about okay, what's going likely to get in my way What can I you know, what supports can I put in place Before you even get to the actual action part Yeah, I'm a lot of people don't get that Right. Yeah, so they think they should just decide to do something different and boom They just do something different and rarely ever works that way Exactly, right. And then, you know, once you hit action, then it's maintenance Which is how am I going to maintain this? What do I have to do because I think a lot of people I know in anxiety recovery too They think, oh, well, I've done the exposures. I've done the things Now life Do I have to maintain this and when they when they realize that they have to maintain doing ritual prevention or they have to keep You know, they they can't just go back to avoiding things That's part of maintenance Yeah, which makes if you look at it that way if you're struggling now and you're trying to get started You're trying to move in a different direction with your anxiety or life in general as John's book is about You know, it's okay to be working through those stages and and they're not linear. You go back and forth between them Right. So you might go from, you know, sort of contemplation, which is kind of that. Um, whoops That's not what we want. I put the wrong thing up on the screen.  Nah, not for me. Not doing this too bad. Yeah, that's totally okay. Totally. Okay Absolutely I get a lot of people. I mean, I think this is what happens in therapy too. People come in They want action But then when you actually explain What's involved in making a change Then we often bounce back down to contemplation Yep. Yeah So that the person can understand. Okay. What are the active ingredients? What skills do you know? What skills would you need before you even jump to action? What barriers do we need to think about and then how do you prepare for that? It's actually much more involved than people People social media influencers You know, I I don't even know like the Figures on Instagram that just talk about all the changes they make would lead people to believe Yeah, that you just decide to do it So I think if you're listening today and you're in that point of recovery where you just keep Beating yourself over the head. Why can't I get this? I don't understand. I know what I'm supposed to do You're probably in that mode right now where you just haven't hit the point where there's a tipping point yet Right where you go consistently into action. So you vastly but everybody does that. Yes Everybody in their context is generally like no, I'm good. I'm fine I have my essential oils and I tap and I'm good and then that's not working So let me look for something else and you stumble upon people like Joanna and I and you start to think Maybe I will do that Maybe you get really revved up. Okay. I'm going to start preparing and then you find out what you have to do And you go all the way back to like no, I'm good back to the essential oils and the tapping like I'm not doing that Right, you know, this is so normal and it's okay And you know, you have, you know, I know from my own experience in therapy and doing You know exposure work You have to be the timing has to be right You have to have enough energy and in time and investment to put into doing the work Yeah, and sometimes the timing isn't right and that's okay And I don't want people to judge themselves if this isn't the time in their life that they can do that Yeah, there's so much good stuff in this book That targets that exact thing feeling like a failure if you fail I love how you put that stuff and beating yourself up and the negative judgment like It's easy to get into that. We all do it sometimes but Just note that you're not failing and it's okay to take a while to get there. Everybody does. Yeah to make a big change Right and also this idea of scaling So which I know you and I have talked about a lot in our workshops people Come in and they want the sexy stuff We'll want to be able to do the hardest stuff possible, which you know scaling wise is like they're eight Nine's 10 out of 10s, but you have to start With the easier stuff to learn the process to get you know to understand how To to do, you know to how to do how to do the process how to get these principles of just Doing nothing with the stuff in your head And doing the behavior differently And I think that's hard for people. It is hard because everybody we know where the biggest restriction is in life I you know my family wants to go on holiday or vacation and I can't go so can you tell me how to do that? Yes If you're showering with the door open in a bathing suit because you're afraid to do it the way you used to start there Right start right away with the biggest thing, right? Yeah, and I think you might argue that like Applying the principle of doing nothing with the scary stuff in your head Do it in the least threatening context first before you go to what you think is threatening anyway Absolutely Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So you can get some confidence that you understand It's the same process In your head how we interact with our thoughts how we interact with feelings. We don't like and bodily sensations. It's the same process it's just You know, some things are scaled much higher. They're much more difficult Yeah, but if you practice the little things you will have a some footing to stand on when you go into the more difficult situations Exactly. Yeah You head on a couple other things. I want to get through some points here. We don't want to go too long and try to limit No, totally Don't do the good stuff. Keep talking. That's why you're here. Um, I love the part Where you talk about this whole chapter called don't think just do Which is a very valuable advice But at the same time people are going to hear me say that and like she wrote what Like how am I supposed to not think thinking of course? I have to think before I do You have to think you have to plan you have to what if that's what keeps me safe So I'm I'm going to laud you for that don't think just do and then let's let's talk about what I know Is going to be the objection to that if somebody read that Well, and a caveat is Every chapter the first part every chapter starts with something that annoys me That's true. That was pretty clever too.  That's like a um, it's like You know, it's one of these sayings that we say That is like means well, but it's terrible advice. Yeah, ungrosely oversimplified Exactly And it's one of my pet. It's one of my thousands of pet peeves so That is the premise so that was something that annoys me when when I've seen things that say Don't think just do. Yeah So I start out with why this doesn't work Yeah, because you talk about the difference, you know thought and thinking let's go down that road But why why does it not work to just water it down to don't think just do Because you know, it's impossible. Yes, of course the money is in changing our behavior There is no doubt. However, we also need to learn how to interact differently with our thoughts Because you are gonna think exactly. Yeah, so I'm telling you don't think just do is So misguided it's misguided. It's like choose a positive thought or no bad thoughts or just good thoughts. It's like We it's reductive because we have to learn While we can't we can't control what thoughts pop up We do have to learn how to interact differently with them And yeah, of course the the important thing is is that we do actions that move us in the direction that we want to go But we can't just ignore thoughts Yeah, because they're gonna appear. So I hear it a lot in this community where people will ask I just can't seem to get into a I need something I need to get into a positive mindset from my recovery Right, right. That's another one. I so Joanna has thousands of pet peeves. I've probably heard 112 of them So I'm looking forward to the other 900 But uh I think that that whole like I need to get I can't seem to get it out of this negative mindset And really what you're writing about here is well, you can learn to treat that negative mindset in a different way You don't just change it like let me think positive thoughts or I'll just drop the negative thoughts. You can't do that Doesn't work. Yeah, I mean I think certainly if you're the exception that can like great this, you know, you probably don't need the book But for for 99 percent of us it doesn't work That's just not how it works and we have to be able to act our way into different behaviors And by doing that our mindset is likely to shift Yeah, but only after right you stop interacting so intently and urgently with that negative mindset if you're right And then negative, right? Yeah. Yeah, you can do and we can bring back to the title of the book You can do nothing with that negative mindset and act in opposition to it.  Yes. Yeah. Yeah Let's talk about You know the difference between a thought there's there's two things here because I think this gets into meaty stuff I want to go over the difference between a thought and thinking and then the statement that you made Which is insight is highly overrated. That was a jump out of the chair and yes moment also So let's talk about our skewed relationship and by the way, this isn't just people with anxiety disorders This is almost everybody deals with this problem Where we get this overreliance on thinking we confuse having thoughts and thinking and then we think that thinking is the best thing ever Yes, yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. What's the difference between thinking a thought and thinking? Well, a thought is just you know, it's an experience It's you know, it's it's like an experience that happens in our head We have a thought we often don't control what thought may pop up in our head Or it may be triggered by whatever situation Thinking is the behavior That's the action of engaging with that thought Yeah So you could have the thought You know, I think I use in the book something like oh this peach looks delicious Thinking would be oh that peach looks delicious And maybe you know, I saw a recipe in the new york times and you know, I think i'm gonna make that recipe tonight But what if my kids don't like that recipe and what if I burn the cob? Like that's thinking it's an active process of paying attention and engaging with a thought In that case, you know, and what we might call a negative context Like now I start to build a negative narrative around the peach. I want to use the peach, but I stink at it. I'm terrible I'm gonna ruin that I mean that also happens You can also engage positively or actively in thinking in a positive sense like oh I remember when we went peach picking when I was a kid Farm and it was great. So it goes both ways Is not just negative exactly It's still that active process of engaging And like getting lost in some kind of like story about the peach of whatever it is Yeah, which sometimes happens automatically too. We daydream we wander our minds when that's normal But at some point you would say oh, wait a minute. I I have things to do I can't go down memory lane with peaches today Oh, I'll come back to that later. Right and then you move away. You do nothing with the thought of the peach I'm going to stop working with the peach doll right now Yeah, right now where I say insight is so overrated. I mean, I think look There are a lot of therapies Certainly when I got divorced Having insight into processes was so helpful But I get a lot of clients that come to me who have been in talk therapy for years And they're trying to understand the why That they're having a panic attack about Their kids being in an auditorium in a middle seat of their kids play And the why of it and where did the roots of this and it's like they are, you know, they they are You know deeply troubled that they've wasted so many years And money and time and energy Trying to figure out and get to the root cause another pet pee youth that people searching for the root cause Of something that you know is has probably has so many things that that impact it Yeah, and I think in that situation insight can be there's that I want to dig for the root cause There's also I need to know as much as I can about everything around me So that I can predict and control and know what's going to happen And people might argue like yeah, but insight is a good thing and like you said when you went through your divorce Yes, there was insightful moments that really helped you In the context of this particular podcast Thinking sure thinking is a really useful tool. It's amazing that we can do it We need it like that puts us at the top of the food chain Insight could be super helpful, but those things go off the rails Sometimes they go into a place that they're never meant to be and they become counterproductive that right So it's insight right digging for insight, especially when someone's struggling with an anxiety disorder Or obsessive compulsive disorder where you're shining so much spotlight on Whatever the trigger of the situation is you're just you know marking that over and over to your brain that this is Important, yeah, and it's just reinforcing to your brain. This is important So you're getting more worry about it and meanwhile no behavior is changing Because as you're sitting in the therapy office and I know these therapists are well intentioned But talking about it and trying to understand the why of it It's just like the hole. It's like you're digging a deeper hole Yeah, and some of that is there's two things I want to touch on here One is it's the idea that I have to somehow do something with the experience in my head I have to do something with my thoughts and feelings and internal experiences before I can act But but really that's not necessarily true. That's why I just do nothing is kind of a You don't have to deal with that internal experience in order to change something No, yeah, you don't have to engineer a state of being internally and work with your thoughts and feelings before you do a thing That's not that's a miss. That's a misconception. We don't have to understand Exactly the reality is you're you're prone to having a panic attack at your kid's play Whether you like it or not, that's what is so You know what you want to you know, you don't have to understand it Like that's what is and fighting it by trying to understand it and change it and blah blah blah That's where I want people to do nothing is is trying to Change it and fight it. Obviously we want to change how we react and respond To those sensations when they come up And to the thoughts, but I don't you know, so that's where I want people to do something differently But I want people to do nothing with the thoughts about why is this happening? Does this mean I don't love my kid does this mean I'm a terrible mother Does this mean I'm not as good as that much? Those are the kinds of things that I want people to do nothing with those kinds of thoughts Sure. And the thing that's so awesome that I love how you expanded this concept beyond just anxiety recovery It really becomes a matter of degree.  I'm so far. I'm so different than my friends and family But really and truly when you read Joanna's book, you get the idea that like I'm not that different They often have the same problems I do. I just have them to a greater degree for now Yeah, so they're in the same loops they might be doing in the age in the same maladaptive thinking behaviors and Stopping behaviors and all those things just you're doing it. Maybe more than they are now Right, you're not all that different from the person sitting next to you in the movie theater Absolutely not. Yeah, like as I point out in the book. I mean we're similar ages None of us grew up knowing how to ride out uncomfortable feelings, which I think is the root of Of this is how to interact differently with distress. None of us grew up knowing how to do that So we've all you know, we've all Have our bag of unhelpful learned behaviors to get rid of distress It's just for some it's become a pattern It may get in the way of Doing what you either need to do or want to do or who you want to be Yeah, so it's interesting to see people will probably buy your book because they're just feeling generally stuck in life But they're the same principles that somebody who's dealing with ocd or panic disorder might follow. It's amazing I think it's it's a really encouraging thing to me. Yeah My brain isn't broken. I'm just in a deeper rut than those guys are. Okay, that's that's a different story, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, my clients will say, you know, I want to buy the book and I'm like, you know, what's in the book We've been doing what's in the book. This is to show every like Your masters of like doing your distress differently. This is for everybody else that doesn't know how to do it yet Yeah, or the whole, you know, you talk about that that you're a trans trans theoretical model change the preparation phase often includes Reading and more reading and more reading and sometimes people in this community get stuck in that So, you know, people might say, well, why are you talking about another book? I mean, believe me, I can have 10 authors a week on this podcast I'm only going to talk about a book that I think could be genuinely helpful. And yes Joanna and I are friends because I know she's generally helpful and I respect her professionally So You know, what does the book do? Is it going to cure you?  This is not just about my ocd or my panic disorder This is sort of life, which is encouraging. I think it's a nice feeling Speaking of feelings, we'll sort of wrap it up with this because I think it's super important We could talk about this for two hours Feelings as a fallback was another great thing that you talked about in the book I think it's that thing where like we fall back on how we feel how I feel must be the must be my indicator of what truth This of what real is I will use my feelings as my gauge For everything problematic Well, not if you're a reality tv producer Emotional reasoning is the fuel of reality tv I've never felt this way about anyone. So I'm going to marry you after two days That is one of the greatest statements. I'm not going to hear anything better this week Emotional reasoning is the rocket fuel of reality tv. Yeah, I mean But for the Rest of us It probably doesn't work. And I don't think it works so well for reality tv because I don't know how many of those couples are still together but That is so common for people in this community too. They get so tied up But it feels but I feel like if I feel it strongly it must be important Yes, or it's a sign. I get the and look I've done it too This is probably how I got involved with that guy ghosted me It was there were signs like it says this is a sign that I'm supposed to do this Or how I feel is a sign that I'm supposed to do this or not do this We can't especially if you have a history of anxiety Disorder and anxiety disorder you struggle. We can't trust how we feel It's just not an accurate gauge or the person who finds that even if they don't have an anxiety disorder They'll call themselves an over thinker. I'm paralyzed by overthinking. Yeah Well, a lot of times it's because you rely so heavily on your emotional state to guide you that it leads you wrong Sometimes we can feel some pretty powerful stuff.  It's amazing, right? Very good. I I think it's great. I mean, I really enjoyed the book. It's not it's not going to take you 10 years to read this book It's for me Joanne if you listen to Joanna today, that's how the book sounds. She's just a very friendly writer too, which is really great Um, but yeah, it's it's really great. I I think it's it's worth checking out I mean, I I enjoyed it. I appreciated being able to read it the thing that I really Didn't it's funny because you've talked about some of this stuff in the chats that we've had But it was interesting to see you mentioned Virgo signs here Who is here talking about all this very almostoic, you know Daoist, buddhism type very practical philosophy for doing nothing with life And don't look at your emotions as a sign and you literally started the book with a mention of how many Virgo signs you have in your star Chart and I'm like, come on. This is so good That is why you don't exist in your life. And I think that's tremendous Right. That's why the book is like so thorough because I have so many Virgos to explain it And so I have to be so detail oriented and perfectionistic. It was great This is this is not supposed to be in the same book, but it is and I'm here for it I have to put it someplace So good. Yeah, right. Thank you my friend. I appreciate you coming on Thank you for having me. Yeah apps anytime anytime How can people find you? I'll put it up on the screen if you're watching on youtube Um, certainly at my website Joanna Hardis.com. There's a tab that says just do nothing and They can go to that tab they can find and find information about the book. They can also on my website There'll be links to my social media. They can do it there Yeah, that's all good And I will give you copies to give away to your audience. Oh, that would be great So we'll figure something out to do together So if you send me some copies, we'll do something to give them absolutely that will be a fun activity to do together Um, I will come back as always as I do at the end of every podcast episode I'll wrap it up and I'll give you guys links to get to Joanna Also, if you go to the anxious truth.com slash two seven two all of Joanna's links will be there. Awesome See you. Thanks for coming by. Oh my gosh. Thank you. It's always fun.  I hope you enjoyed hearing from Joanna today I always enjoy when I get a chance to chat with her whether it's professionally or personally Joanna's good at what she does. She's well trained. She's experienced. She's ethical. She's friendly She's accessible and she's never peddling snake oil You're never going to hear that sort of stuff on this podcast or this youtube channel So if you want to know more about Joanna, you want to get to her social media or check out her website or check out this book You can go to the anxious truth.com slash two seven two I will have full show notes from this episode including links to all of Joanna's stuff If you're watching on youtube, you can check out the links in the video description I'll put them there for sure and you can go check her out. Tell her I said hello if you do Buy the book. Don't buy the book. I'm sure she would say the same thing If nothing else, hopefully this 30 minute conversation has maybe taught you something or you had fact You can take something out of it that is useful today and as you go forward in your recovery journey That is it. That is episode 272 the anxious truth in the books again special thanks to my friend Joanna hardest for taking the time to come and talk to us And uh, that's it. 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A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver, the Lone Ranger. The masked rider of the plane fought crime and criminals throughout the western United States. And hi-yo silver became the battle cry of justice on the frontier. The honest settlers realized that without law and order their new homes would never be safe. And they gave the Lone Ranger all the help they could. They were powerless to act, but they made sure that the news of any injustice reached the masked rider, and he never disappointed their confidence. Return with us now those thrilling days when the West was young and adventure lay at the end of every trail. The Lone Ranger rides again. Lee Padre at the Spanish mission was a great friend of the Lone Rangers, and at one time he stopped every traveler who passed the little chapel and gave them a message. I would like to speak to the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger, Padre? Yes. If you should see him, ask him to come to me. I have heard of more injustice in the Gold Hills. The people there need the Lone Ranger again. I will let the word be spread. The Padre wants the Lone Ranger. You see him? Tell him. Get out. Get out. By word of mouth, the message was spread among the pioneers. The ranch is a half-breed and even the Indian tribes. Until finally a great white horse raced from the north carrying the masked rider. Come. Where'd it reach me, Padre? I hear many stories of unfairness, Amigo. It is a friend of yours who lives in trouble. A friend? Who is it, Padre? A gold miner named Bixby. Caleb Bixby and Sarah? Yes. They may lose their mind. But Padre, that claim jumper who tried to take it away from them is in prison. There is another. The man who runs the bank. Oh. He holds the mortgage just as he does on many other claims. I understand. It has been a hard year for many people. They are unable to repay their loans and they lose their land to this greedy man. But Padre, that isn't the code of the West. This state can't be made great by such methods. But banks have got to help people over the lean years. It is true, Amigo. That is why I sent for you. I do not know what you can do. But perhaps if you call on this banker, you can persuade him to be lenient. What's his name? His name is Taylor. Padre, I left signs along the trail for Tato. He'll see them and come here. Tell him when he comes that I'll be waiting for him. Thank you, Amigo. Come on, Silver. We're heading for Warsaw County. There you are, Sherry. They couldn't do nothing to me for that. Shucks, there ain't no law against killing the snake. And besides that, self-preserving is the first law of human nature. Save your win, Caleb, and chop that wood. It's self-preserving to keep your roof over your head, ain't it? I reckon so. All right, then. Taylor's a snake in the grass, ain't he? Chop that wood.  Because you can't. Fine business for a fellow that owns a good mine like me, chopping wood. If things was only different so I could operate that mine and give them help, and one thing and another, we'd be rich. Well, it's been a hard year, Caleb, and you won't get no place complaining about it. Taylor's plumbing earnest about foreclosing them driving us out. I never see the man as ornery and disagreeable as he is. Caleb, if you don't button your lip and stop your tongue from wagging and tend to chopping that wood, there ain't going to be enough fire to boil a pan of water for coffee. Well, I ain't lost the claim yet, and I don't aim to. What you figure on doing? I ain't licked yet. What you go to do, Caleb? I got an idea. You just wait.  Well, your blood's due for heating up, then, because there it comes. Huh? Tall gone. Just when I was working up an appetite. Your appetite ain't never suffered none as I could see. Burn it up! Well! Don't drag back on them rains so hard. Can't you see you're hurting that horse? It's none of your business, Sarah. And look at the bit you're using. Dad, rat your tailor. You treat a good horse same as you do, folks, at all your money. Now what do you want here? I got a mortgage on this place, as I suppose you know. Ain't anyone in town that don't know it? Well, what about it? Five thousand dollars. That's the sum. Might as well be a million. Sam's due tomorrow, Caleb. Tomorrow, six o'clock in the evening. Gonna have the money? No, no, no. You don't know? What do you mean you don't know?  You want a new mighty bag to file pay-up or not, don't you? Don't matter to me if you do or not. You will pay or it'll take over your goldmine. And not a whole lot sooner have the mine than the cash. I know that. I'm going to get that cash for you by the time that mortgage comes due, and you can count on that. You ain't getting it. You're just talking big, that's all. Now listen to me, you sort of ball-headed, hop-nosed, stove-in coyote. I don't have to talk big. If Caleb says he'll have the cash for you tomorrow evening, at six o'clock he'll have it. Don't believe it. I don't care to believe it or not. Now get off my land. Just thought I'd remind you that's all, Caleb. I says get. Well, get. But I'll be back tomorrow evening and I'll have the sheriff with me.  Get up there. This man I ever hear, dawg. He's an ordinary pole cat. Linden cash. Making us think he'd be fair about it. Same as other bankers out in this part of the country are. He's double-cost for Hula Wachow County, Sarri. I know, Caleb, but I don't think you can do much about it now. I'll get the cash all right. Well, you're going to get it. I'll tell you when we get inside the house. You'll go along in now. Sarri, I'll be right with you. Well, move fast, Caleb. We've got company heading this way. Company? Linden cash. This is our mask for you. Hold us over. Oh, boy, oh. Landstakes alive, stranger. You're as welcome as a man can be. Caleb, take care of the horse before you come in. I will. I sure will. It's an outright honor. I've been hearing a lot of things about conditions here, Caleb. Well, there's plenty to hear. You come on inside now. Stakes alive. It's been a long time since we've had eyes on you. The Padres sent me here. He told me about a banker by the name of Taylor. I don't know what the Padres said, but he sure don't know the right words to tell you what sort of quitter Taylor's turned out to be. Is it true that he's going to foreclose on your goldman? I reckon so. Unless we get $5,000 before six o'clock tomorrow evening. He does hold the morgues then. He sure does. My junior is good to see you. Be careful like Kindlewood. It slips, sir, to be honest. But anyhow, mister, she can. How have you been, Caleb? Oh, just thinking about the way Taylor's been taking the gold claims away from folks does things to my innards. I declare I ain't had a good appetite since the first heard about him. Is the mortgage he holds legal? Gosh, I don't know. I suspect it is. He made a lot of promises to me when he let me borrow the cash, but he didn't put him in writing so I can't hold him to him. I'll have to pay him $5,000. Can you pay it? Nope, but I know where I can borrow it. I just had a letter through the mail last week from an old part of mine, a critter I grub-staked once, and he struck it rich. He wants to let me borrow the cash to pay off Taylor. Caleb, you can't borrow from somebody else. Who shares so? You won't be no better off that way. No, he won't lose the claim, will he? He's got a heap of money, and he knows this claim. He's willing to let me borrow now and pay back when we get the ore out.  But, Caleb, isn't there a chance that he did put some of the promises in writing? I don't think so. Haven't you a copy of that mortgage? No, we only signed one. He got the mortgage and me the cash. When I give the cash back, he gives the mortgage back, that's all. I see. We're glad you come here, mister. Maybe you can do something to show Taylor he ain't doing the right thing to folks around the Gold Hill. I'm going to look around, Sarah. You may have been so greedy that he stepped outside the lawn drawing up his mortgages. Anyhow, whatever you say, I've got to get ready for a ride. A ride? A ride to where, Caleb? I've got to see Jim Barton over to Red Pine. Red Pine? That's a powerful long way from here, Caleb. I know it is, but I've got to see him. I've got to start tonight so I can get back here by the more evening with the cash. Is he going to lend you the cash? Yeah, he written said for me to come and get it. I figured it would be better for me to go myself and to try to send someone. Ain't no one you can trust, except in maybe the masked man. I'd better go myself and leave the lone range of free to sort of look around town and see what he can find. I'll get ready now if you'll excuse me, Mr. You go right ahead, Caleb. I'm going to look around town for Tatto. He's to meet me. In the cafe that evening, Taylor met Squint. They met in the cafe that evening. Squint. A man who did a great number of odd jobs for him. Squint had a way of learning things and told the banker that Caleb's getting the cash from Jim Barton at Red Pine. You know that because I've seen a letter he got from Barton last week. Dang it. I figured I'm getting the claim. I hate to lose a chance to foreclose. Well, what are you going to lose it for? What do you mean, Squint? Shucks. You didn't even let him get that cash? No. Caleb's riding for Red Pine tonight. He'll be coming back tomorrow afternoon, late. Hey, go on, Squint. He'll have him rubbed on the way back. It would be $5,000 a Jim Barton at Luz and Bixby would still lose a range. Meaning? Meaning that if you've got the range, you'd be satisfied and I'd be willing to run a risk for that much cash. Half the cash, you mean? Half. Otherwise I'll manage without you.  Yeah. Could you waylay, Caleb? Yeah. Then why not? Then you'll wait till he's on the back trail and carry the cash to get him. Yeah. Let him collect from Barton and he can answer any questions Barton wants to ask. It's broken country between here and Red Pine. You won't need the dart to protect you. Shucks, no. There's plenty of hiding places. I suppose you do it then. Hey, Taylor. Yeah? That Redskins been watching us close.  Of course not. How could he hear what we said? He's leaving anyhow. He sure didn't like the way he looked at us. The only other part of the matter would be you losing this money. Tonto here plenty. Tell him to ask a friend when we meet him. Maybe meet him. Plenty soon now. Get him up, scoundrel. Tonto met the Lone Ranger. He came into town from Caleb Bixby's home. He quickly told the masked man of the conversation between Squint and Taylor. We could prevent that hold up, Tonto. It would be impossible to prove that Taylor had anything to do with this. That's right. I want to have a look at the mortgages, Taylor Hose. If he's done some crooked dealing there, we can see him jailed for that. If not, we'll have to find some way to link him with the robbery of Caleb Bixby. How you see paper? I'm going to Taylor's office. You getting office tonight? We can get in all right. Come on, we'll go there right now. Well, Taylor's still at the cafe. Get him up, scoundrel. Come on, Silver. Took but a few moments for the masked man and Tonto to reach the bank and gain entrance through a window. They found the mortgages filed in the drawer and put them in the drawer. Yes. Here they are, Tonto. We'll have what I want in just a moment. That's good. There's half a dozen of them here. I suppose every one of these people will lose their land when these fall due. Bixby, this is the one. You got them? Yes. We'll take it with us. Look it over where there's more light. Maybe it's no good. They'll soon find that out. Stand right where you are. What? Mr. Law speaking, Mr. You stand still.  The curtain falls on the first act of tonight's Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments with our story. When the Lone Ranger and Tonto entered Taylor's bank to examine the mortgage he held on the Bixby claim, they were surprised by the sheriff. The lawman struck a match and lit the lamp on the banker's desk. You're staying where you are. You're covered. Came to have a look at you, fellas. We're not crooks, sheriff. Not crooks, eh? You spoke in here for the fun of it, I suppose. They're masked you're wearing. That's a part of the joke, eh? What have you got there in your hand? A mortgage. Put it on that table. Let me get him. No, Tonto, back. But him? This can be settled peaceably, Tonto. Make another sudden move red skin and I'll drill you. One moment. Well? I said we weren't crooks. We've been here before. You may have heard of us. Well, likely I have. I know most of the crooks around these parts by name. What are you doing in here? Looking these mortgages over, especially the one Taylor holds against Caleb Bixby. Oh, what for? You should know, sheriff, if you have the interest of your county at heart. Taylor's been foreclosing the minute the mortgages he holds a do. He's a vomit, all right. When he granted these mortgages, he made promises he never intended to keep. In fact, those were verbal contracts that he's illegally broken. He was careful, however, never to make those promises in front of witnesses. I've heard talk. No, he can't be held to them. But he may have overstepped himself. He may have drawn up these mortgages illegally. That's what I'm here to find out. I wish he had. I wish there was a way to jail that fella. We'll see. Let's have a look at these. Yeah. This is the one for the Bixby mine. You should know something about legal forms. Enough, I reckon. This mortgage made the 10th day of March, 1872. Oh, that seems to be an order. It's been signed by two witnesses, as well as Taylor, like knowledge by Caleb. Oh, it's legal enough. Dead reddit. These others appear to be the same. All in first-rate order. No gone, why couldn't Taylor have slipped up somewhere? We can't use these against him, sheriff. Blast it. There's only one way out. Yes. Unless you know about it, the better. Tonneau. Hey, we need to drop him. You grab me, or I'll take your gun. But I can't. I'll leave it just inside the window. You can get it when you leave. Hold on there. You're born to uphold the law. Your duty to jail is rendering the bank. We don't intend to be jailed, however. You're the first fellas I ever got to drop on that got away from me. Out the window, Tonneau. Don't lose faith in me, sheriff. Our methods are different, but our purposes are the same. Justice. You double-crossers, you trick me. I'll fix you. Come back here. Hey, they're gone. Better mid in the engine thinks I didn't notice him all set to grab me. Dog gone with them fellas here. Things in Warshall County are going to hum. My gun. Oh, there it is. I reckon I'd better make out like I put up a fight. A couple of shots or... Done my duty. Can't nobody say it didn't fire after them fellas. Now, I reckon a better just sought a slow like over to the cafe and announced that I chased a couple of intruders out in the bank. I wonder what the Lone Ranger's aiming to do. The sheriff returned to the cafe with the announcement that he had driven two outlaws from Taylor's bank. Taylor relieved his think he had suffered no loss. Praise the sheriff for his vigilance. Too bad them pole cats got away from me, sheriff. But being as it was two to one again, yes. Ain't to blame for it, you reckon. At least, I am thanking you for running them off. Yeah, I done that all right. I'll walk over to the bank and see about the window you say they bust it. Come along, squint. I wonder who them fellas was, Taylor. Yes, sneak thieves, most likely. But if they'd had blasted and parted with them, they might have blown the safe and got cleaned away. That dirty crooks. What are you laughing at, squint? Nothing much. Just the idea of you calling them crooks. Funny about that. I reckon you wouldn't see the point. That's your bae. No need to ride just to go to the bank, though, is there? You ain't going to the bank. That was just to get you away from the sheriff. You're going to ride on that job we was talking about. Caleb Bixby? Guess so. Yeah, there ain't no big hurry. Hurry enough. I don't want you wailing in close to town. You can get out of ways. Catch him when he's coming through the hills. You'll have plenty of cover there and there ain't much chance of things going wrong. I reckon. And before you get started, squint, there is one thing I won't understood. Eh, what's that? You ain't touching that cash you take off in him. You're bringing it straight to me. Ain't half of it mine? It is, and you'll get it. But you'll get it when I give it to you and not before. Yes, Abby? Oh, I don't see what's going on. Squint, you're a good man for the things that I need you for. But the only time I'm a trustee is when I can see you. And even then, I've got my suspicions. Sucks, I wouldn't do nothing, Taylor. Men see that you don't. Get that envelope that the cash will be in and bring it right straight back to me. Now you get it. I bet I got your word you're dividing. Eh, you have. Then you can take my word I'm relieving Bixby of that cash.  Get on there. Taylor Bixby rode the red line. Received $5,000 in cash from Jim Barton and set out on the return trail. He had been riding for less than an hour when he heard a distant shout. Well, I heard somebody calling. Must have been from around the bend. Taylor! Leap on cat is the mask man. And Tato. And that's Jim Barton. Hi there! Hold on, Caleb. What's wrong? Hello, hello, hello. What's going on? What's going on? What are you fellas doing here? We've been trying to catch up with you ever since you left Red Pine, Caleb. What for? Jim Barton here. I thought he might have made a mistake. You got that envelope with the cash in it? Sure, right here. Let me have it. Were you, Caleb? Oh, no, Jim. You ain't going back on that loan, are you? Golly, you promised. Don't be alarmed. Nothing like that, Caleb. You see, I had two envelopes were almost alike on hand when you called. After you left, I got to wondering if I've given you the right one. Oh, is that all? Well, let Jim have the envelope, will you? Sure, sure. Here it is. Golly, for a second, you had me scared. I was afraid maybe Jim might have changed his mind. I found he couldn't spare the cash or something. And I sure wasn't looking forward to telling Sarah about it. Well, I reckon we had our ride for nothing. Is that the right one? It is. Here. Thank you. Well, Caleb, you'd better be getting on. You've still got quite a ride ahead of you. Jiminy, it is getting late. I'd better hurry home. Goodbye, fellas. But further on, Caleb was hauled a second time. A man with a drawn gun in his hand and his features concealed by a bandana spurred his mount from the cover of a rock and locked Caleb's way. Reach! Right up there! Reach for the sky. This is a stick up. Keep your hands away from the shooting iron, mister. Hey, Radick, you can't... Hey, dear brother, I won't tell you any good to talk.  It all depends on how you look at it. Now don't make a move if you want to get back to your claim alive. Caleb returned home and broke the news of his loss to Sarah. As evening approached, they sat on the porch of their little cottage waiting with all hope gone. And on top of everything else, I owed Jim $5,000. Oh, silly. I don't know why it is. When I get hard luck, it all comes at once. Nothing you can do about it, Caleb. You'll just have to get a job with some sort working for somebody. I'm sold. I don't know who'd hire me. You've got to pay Jim Barton back that money. Look, look under, Sarah. This is the end. There they come. Banker Taylor and the sheriff with him. He ain't taking no chances on not getting us out. No, Banker Taylor don't take no chances. Losing the ranch is bad enough, but owning Jim Barton $5,000 is... is... Oh, drat it, Sarah. Nothing you can do, Caleb. Oh, there, Caleb. Oh, there. Good evening, Sheriff. I reckon we know what you're here for. I'm sorry, Caleb. Go and go and sorry.  I can't pay you, Taylor. Oh, can't pay you? No. Ain't that too bad? Well, I reckon there's just one thing for you to do then. You'll have to clear out. We're ready, Mr. Taylor. Sorry, I'd like to give you more time on your loan, but cash is scarce right now, and I can't take no chances. He ain't taking no chance. This claim is worth a heap of money. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have lent you the cash on it in the first place.  Get rid of these people. No one's positioned here. Take your time, Taylor. No, we'll clear out. Not so fast, Caleb. All right, so be it. Come along, Tuttle. We've been around and back at the house waiting for you. Why, there's Jim Barton, too. Poor these men. I reckon we'd best wait and see what'll happen now. What do you mean, see what happens? Suppose, Taylor, you produce the mortgage before you and the Sheriff turn Caleb out. Mortgage? All right, sure, sure. If you have a mortgage... I got it, right here. Yeah, be bringing along all right. There. Sheriff, take that mortgage and examine it. He can look at it all he wants to. It's legal. And there ain't nobody can say it ain't. Sheriff, is that mortgage initials? Let me see. Jim, what initials are on the mortgage? You'll find my initials there, Sheriff. J.B. Uh-huh, that's so. But what do you mean? Sheriff, I think you heard that Caleb was held up while returning from Red Pine. Yeah, I got the report. It was reported that cash was stolen from him. It wasn't, however. That mortgage was taken. Oh, yeah, it was taken. It was the cash it was stole. Why don't you recollect? You was with Jim when he stopped me on the trail to make sure he'd give me the right envelope. When we stopped you, Caleb, we changed envelopes. You handed Jim the one with the cash. He'd put the mortgage in another envelope just like it. That was the envelope you got back. Don't pay no attention to that, Mash, fellow Sheriff. Wait a second. There's something funny here. Strangely, you say the mortgage was stolen from Bixby? It was. Then how'd Taylor get it? That's just it. The fact that he's got it proves he hired squint for the holdup. He thought Caleb would be carrying cash. It would enable him to pay the mortgage.  Well, you'll see if it is. Traeger, can you prove it was the mortgage that was stolen? It was necessary. Jim will go to court and testify. He initialed that mortgage and gave it to Caleb. I think any jury would take his word for it. Then why didn't Taylor do something when he found out it wasn't the cash that Caleb had on him? What could he do? He had to show the mortgage in order to take over the ranch. Even if he did suspect it was a trap, he could do nothing. The mortgage hasn't been out of my bank since it was signed. Sheriff, if you remember what happened in the bank last night, I believe you'll know just when the mortgage was taken. Well, I'll be switched. I said things was going to home and they did. Now, look here, Sheriff. Taylor, the loan ranger fixed up a trap and you fell into it. You can argue all you want. But Jim Barton's word will go a long ways and then he'd court in this part of the country. And I reckon when I get through working on squint, we'll have confessions of plenty. Here's over. Oh, and seas. I don't know what to think. I never figured on nothing like this. Now you don't have to pay back no money to Jim Barton. But the mortgage still isn't paid off. If Taylor wants to force the terms of his mortgage, he can do so. But I think a lot of people in court would be glad of the chance to get even with him. He may need a few friends. Look, look, let me talk. You stay on here, Caleb. Stay on as long as you like. Pay back the cash when you're able. There's been a big mistake here. Give me a chance to sort of make a few frames. You better work fast, Taylor. Then we don't have to get out. No, no, no. Stay here. Friends just saved our house and mine, Frank. He sure did. And turned up a couple of first-class crooks that's been in our midst for two blame-along-a-time. Ready, fellow? Now wait. I'm not ready. Wait a second. I want to tell you. Hello, Silver! This story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


Hi friends welcome to my channel I am Arpita Karwa and in this video we are going to talk about a very important topic and that is how to avoid silly mistakes in UGC net examination. So friends a lot of students come to me and tell me that they have prepared very well for the exam and yet on the day of the exam they made some silly mistakes because of which they did not score well and after noting these questions I did a lot of research I spoke to toppers as well as students who unfortunately did not clear net. After speaking to them I was able to compile a list of things that separate winners from losers. So towards the end of the video I am going to talk about a very very powerful tool using which you can avoid making silly mistakes and lose precious marks in UGC net because of those silly mistakes. In the beginning of the video I shall be talking about some methods using which you can prepare for the exam more efficiently and I am also going to share two bonus tips at the end of the video on how you can score 25% more marks in the exam with the same level of preparation. So let's begin the first important tip that I will be talking about is switching from a complex to a simple plan. Now friends I have seen a lot of students who make a very complex study routine they plan to practice mock test for one hour study two hours then one and half hours they will do British literature two hours they will do paper one and so on so forth. They make a timetable where they incorporate three subjects in one day. So if you look at these complex study routines you will be able to find that such routines are never sustainable even in life in general some people are over ambitious they decide to have four new year resolution before the new year even begins so on first of January they pledge to exercise control their addiction sleep on time study for three hours in the evening and so on and if you look at it we find out that it is very very difficult to either to something as complex as this we cannot do so many things simultaneously and that is the reason why most of us fail to stick to our plans because it looks very very complex. One major thing that is associated with the complex routines is the mental setback that we have when we fail to follow the routine we have set it leads to self doubt I am not smart enough I am not talented enough I am not hard working enough. This low level of confidence doesn't help one go ahead in life. So the bottom line is make a very simple achievable plan all great leaders have always set smart goals smart stands for specific measurable achievable realistic and timely. The achievable part is very important for making smart goals friends always ensure that your study routine is very simple if you decide to study for four hours then ensure that you will focus only one subject for two hours and then for next two hours you are going to practice with the mock test that's it don't complicated now let's move on to the second point which is the right way of making notes now if I am asked to summarize how you should revise the syllabus before UGC net I would summarize it by just using one word that is quickly your revision should be very quick and this can only happen when you have the habit of making short notes it is very important for you to understand that note making is a crucial step in the preparation journey the right way of making notes is when we keep in mind that these are notes that will that we will use later for revision and we have to ensure that the notes are in such a way that we will be able to revise it very quickly for example if you look at my website and online courses that I offer for UGC net you will see that there are about 850 lectures that we provide there are approximately 300 lectures in our online course for only British literature now it is 100 hour long project so you need to devote 100 hours to cover important writers of British literature so what you need to ensure while revising is that revision of these 100 hours of lecture should happen in not more than 10 hours that means revision should happen in one tenth of the time and as you revise it multiple times you will notice that the revision time will be reduced from one tenth to one hundredth so revising the same syllabus that took you 10 hours initially will now take just one hour so always keep this in mind that your note should be made in a way that you are able to revise the topics in one tenth of the time friends another important thing that you must keep in mind while making notes is to always include mistakes that you make in the mock test there's an old Chinese proverb that says the faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory it simply means that even though our memory is very strong we cannot rely on it as strongly as we can depend on something we have pen down what we write on paper is what will always stay with us on the other hand we often forget what we try to store just in our memory I'll make you understand this with a quick example if you think that you have a very strong memory then let's do a small experiment pause this video for a moment and try to remember what you ate for lunch one week back on the same day do you remember it see if you can't remember what you ate seven days ago how do you think you will remember what mistake you made in a mock test two months ago and what might happen is that you will end up making the same mistake on the day of the exam so that is the reason why I'm advising you to take note of the mistakes you make while doing the mock test and write those mistakes in the revision notebook so that every time you revise a topic you also look at the mistakes that you were making and how to rectify them I'll give you a very personal example I recently got married and now I'm learning how to cook every time I'm making a new dish I make mistakes it's not that the dish is perfect on the first go and every time something goes wrong I write down that mistake in my recipe book so along with the recipe I also write down the mistakes so that next time when I'm going through the recipe before making the dish I also go through the mistakes that I've made in the past and after four five times of making the same dish and avoiding those mistakes I achieve perfection so friends it is important to write mistakes with your notes that will definitely help you in your exam now before we move on to the next point here is something that I want to share if you are preparing for UGC net paper one or paper two I have an amazing news for you we've recently launched a brand new animated 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opinion mock test are a very effective way of revising also apart from simply taking the mock test it is equally important to analyze the mock test when you analyze the mock test you understand what went wrong and you try to correct your mistakes next time friends I've seen that most students get disheartened if they score less in the mock test and they just stop taking the mock test to not lose their confidence but the idea behind taking mock test is not to get disheartened but actually to not focus on the score at all your focus should be on the mistakes that you made instead analyzing those mistakes writing them down in the revision notebook revising those mistakes and ensuring that next time you don't make the same mistake is the key to success if you focus too much on the score you will either get disheartened or become overconfident with your level of preparation I also want to give you two simple tips when it comes to mock test the first is that whenever you take a mock test for UGC net develop the habit of sitting for three hours and take the test of paper one and paper two in one go more students simply take the test for 50 minutes or 30 minutes try to solve 20-25 questions and then leave the rest of the questions for the next day friends that is not right you have to ensure that you sit for three hours to develop the habit of solving all questions on the day of the exam so that you don't feel as if something new is happening and you are unable to sit in one place in front of the computer screen for three hours another important thing that I would like to give regarding the mock test is that you must try to take the mock test during the time in schedule of the actual exam if you know in which slot your exam is going to happen for example in the morning from 9 to 12 or in the afternoon from 2 to 5 ensure that you give your mock test around the same time so that you program your biological clock accordingly the reason I'm advising this to you is because like you must have noticed in your day to day life we eat sleep almost at the same time every day so if you have the habit of having your lunch at one o'clock every day you will feel hungry automatically as soon as the clock strikes one or if you have a habit of getting up at the same time in the morning you will wake up around that time even if you don't puts the alarm on this happens because our biological clock is designed in such a way that if we do something repeatedly during the same time it gets embedded in our body clock so try to give mock test around the same time so that on the day of the exam it's easier for you to concentrate now friends I'll come to the point you all must have been eagerly waiting for I'm going to talk about the master strategy you can adopt to avoid silly mistakes to get to the strategy let me first take you to the root cause of the problem like I always do let us see why silly mistakes happen with the help of a simple experiment done by a scientist so there was a scientist who selected some people who knew how to cycle and divided them into two groups he asked group one to ride the cycle on a one foot broad road and then he asked group two to ride the cycle on a 15 feet high wall which was also one foot broad so both the roads were one foot broad now you will be amazed to find out that the people who were riding the bicycle on the road were able to ride it in that one foot broad area but the people who were riding the bicycle on a high wall were not able to ride the bicycle most of them either fell or they stopped riding the bicycle or they just gave up in the middle only a few could reach till the end and when the scientist asked the second group of cyclist why they could not complete the task he found that those people were afraid of falling from a great height and because of that anxiety they got disturbed they were not able to concentrate and they were not able to ride the bicycle which was otherwise very easy for them to do so what causes the silly mistakes to happen silly mistakes usually happen when you don't focus on the question flashing on your screen but worry about other things friends do remember the scene from Mahabharat where Guru Dronacharya is teaching archery to all the princes and ask them what they see in front of them somebody says that they see a beautiful feel someone says that they see a tree another person says that they see leaves on the tree but it was only Arjun who said that he only sees the eye of the bird and nothing else that means his focus was only on what he wanted to achieve so whenever you are taking UGC net mock test your focus should only be on the question that is displayed on front of your screen you should not focus on things like what if I am not able to clear net what will my parents say my relatives and friends would make fun of me I would have performed better if I would have studied more etc friends our brain has limited energy so we must give all the energy to the questions in front of us so what you should be your thought process instead you must only think about the question that is displayed on the screen and you should aim to solve maximum number of questions in the exam adapting this mindset would solve most of your problems and then you would succeed in not just avoiding silly mistakes but also in solving most difficult questions now friends it's time to look at the two bonus tips bonus tip number one focus on solving easy and medium questions in every paper you will find three kinds of question easy medium and difficult so the first bonus tip that I would want to give you is to focus on solving only the easy and medium difficulty level questions instead of focusing on difficult level questions first most of the time students think that they can clear the exam only by solving the difficult questions but if you look at the pattern of the question paper you will see that 80% of the questions fall in the category of easy or medium and only 20% are difficult now we know that the candidate needs about 65 to 70% marks to clear UGC net so if you are able to handle easy and medium questions well you have a fair chance of qualifying UGC net while also having the scope of getting 15% of easy and medium questions wrong so whenever you take mock test don't judge your performance based on the difficult questions that you solve your focus should be on assessing the level of confidence and accuracy with which you can solve easy and medium difficulty level questions it is not even necessary to focus on difficult questions to clear net exam now we come on to the second bonus tip the second bonus tip I want to give is to stop preparing for UGC net with a group of students who only aim at solving the paper quickly your focus should not be on your speed instead it should always be on solving the paper accurately the reason is that different exams are set in different manners if you take a look at UGC net exam you will see that it actually test how accurately you remember things it doesn't test your speed because you get a lot of time to solve 150 questions so even if you are taking longer to solve one question you will still have ample time to finish the paper so you must read the question multiple times before solving it this will reduce the chances of making silly mistakes hence you should focus on solving the paper not with speed but with accuracy if you are looking for UGC net MA entrance PhD entrance PGT TGT exam updates then I would request you to follow me on Instagram and Facebook you could find us on social media platforms using our username at the rate Arpita Karwa we regularly post study tips free study material on our Facebook and Instagram page more over every Sunday we also share quick revision reels on these pages which will help you to revise important topics in less than 60 seconds if you found this video helpful then please like this video by giving it a big fan thumbs up and also share it 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Hello dear learners, welcome to today's program. I am Dr. Pallavi Gugoy of Krishna Kanta Handic State of University. Today I shall be taking up unit 12 of remedial grammar and we shall be discussing glossary from clause to irregular verbs. The course is Foundation Course in English semester 1, block 2. So, let us quickly begin. First I shall begin with the table of contents where we shall be discussing the learning objectives followed by deduction, glossary, clause to direct speech, glossary ellipses to irregular verbs and questions to check your progress followed by the references. Learning objectives. After going through this particular video, the learner will be able to define various grammatical terms from the provided glossary with relevant examples. Clauseary from clause to direct speech. Clause. It refers to a group of words which form a syntactic constituent. In English the most central grammatical constituent of a clause is the verb. This verb and all its possible noun phrases, preposition phrases that the verb must occur with constitute the clause. A clause forms a simple sentence. For example, I shall not go or a part of a complex sentence. For example, if it rains, I shall not go or a compound sentence. For example, I shall not go but you must go. Clef sentence. A clef sentence is a sentence which has been divided into two parts each with its own verb to emphasize a piece of information. Clef sentences usually begin with an it clause. For example, it was John that or who came yesterday. If we want to focus particular attention on certain information in a sentence, we can also use a what clause. For example, what I need is a good holiday. Sentences using this pattern are referred to as cedar clef sentences. Comparative. It is a form of an adjective or an adverb which is used to highlight comparison between two things in English. The comparative is formed with the suffix er that is er or more. Example, strong er, stronger that is or more beautiful. Just to give you an example that is. Compound word. It refers to a combination of two or more words which function as a single word. For example, self-styled is a compound adjective. For example, he is a self-styled leader. Blackboard is a compound noun. For example, please clean the blackboard. Conjugation. It refers to a way in which a particular verb changes tense. For example, past, present and future. Person. For example, first person, second person and third person and number. For example, singular and plural. Conjunction. It is a word clause that refers to an item or a process whose primary function is to connect words or other constructions. A distinction is made between coordinating conjunctions for example and or but and subordinating conjunctions. For example, because, when, unless etc. Also refer to as coordinators and subordinators respectively. Certain types of adverbials are often referred to as conjuncts. For example, however, hence, rover etc. Contraction or contracted forms. It is a term that is used in the context of fusing a sequence of forms so that they appear as single forms. For example, I have is contracted to I have. That is I with an apostrophe I have. I am is contracted to I am. That is I am with an apostrophe as you can see in this particular presentation. Countability. Countability is a term used in the grammatical classification of nouns and contrasts with uncountability. Countable nouns are those nouns that take the plural suffix. Besides, these nouns can be preceded by articles in a noun phrase, construction, for example, a book. On the other hand, uncountable nouns normally do not take plural suffixes. For example, water or information. Determinant. It is a word class in English grammar whose main role is to co-occur with nouns to express a wide range of meanings. The determinants include articles, for example, a and the possessives, for example, my, your, his, her. Demonstratives, for example, this, that, these, those, quantifiers, for example, some, any, much, many, little, a little, the little, few, a few, the few. And WH determinants, for example, what, which. Direct speech. It refers to speech that is written by using the exact words of the speaker without any change. The direct speech is put within quotes. It contrasts with indirect speech where the exact words are modified by reporting verb, pronouns and adverbs and sentence forms and no quotes are used. Glossary ellipses to irregular verbs. Ellipses. It is a term used in English grammar to refer to a sentence which for reasons of economy or style is modified by removing a part of the sentence which is recoverable from the context. For example, John, when did you come? David, yesterday. The complete sentence of David, I came yesterday, is shortened to provide only the word yesterday, which is the new information in this context. Gender. It is a grammatical category used for the analysis of word classes, displaying contrasts such as masculine, for example, boy, man, bull, key, etc. Feminine, for example, girl, woman, cow, she, etc. Neuter, for example, child, it, etc. Genitive. It refers to the forms that nouns and pronouns can take to express possessive relationship by means of inflections. For example, a boy's shirt, a girl's hostel, a tiger's tail, John's book or any other such examples. Idiom. It is a term used in grammar to refer to a sequence of words which functions as a single unit. The expression blow one's own trumpet is an idiom. The individual meaning of each of these words do not help us to get the idiomatic meaning of the sequence as a unit. Imperative. Imperative is a term used in the grammatical classification of sentence types and usually seen as contrasting with declarative, interrogative and exclimatory sentence types. Imperative sentences are in the form of a command. For example, pick up the letter or request. For example, please close the gate. Irregular verbs. Irregular verbs refer to a category of verbs that are distinguished from the category of verbs known as regular verbs. Irregular verbs form their past tense and past participle by a change of vowels. The following are a list of a few of the verbs of this category. You can see the present form that is the present tense, past tense and the past participle tense. To give you an example begin, begin, begin. So now you understand? Another example could be break, broke, broken. Kling, clang, clung. That's another example for you. This brings us to the end of this particular video. Let us come quickly to the questions to check your progress. Starting with question number one, define the term clef sentence. Question number two, state the difference between conjugation and conjunction with relevant examples. Question number three, define the term direct speech. Question number four, what are the meaning of the terms gender and genitive? Question number five, what are irregular verbs? Give examples. I hope you'd also go through the BA English graduate cell learning material that is a SLM, a foundation course in English, block two unit 12 semester one. Thank you dear learners.


Young African leaders initiative alumni under the umbrella of the public affairs section of the United States Council General Legos gathered to discuss result-oriented means to carry out their project in different sectors and communities in Nigeria's development. Jacinta Obyuku has more. Since inception in 2010, the reception is the first time all the three components of Yali alumni, Mandela Washington Fellowship Regional Leadership Center, and the Yali network will gather to harness the value of volunteerism and the strength of alumni network towards supporting youths to create positive change in their communities. It's an investment in the future. It's an investment in the future of Nigeria. It's an investment in the future of your lives, the potential of your lives, the promise that all of you hold inside you, the promise that you hold inside all of the passion that you have, the promise that is really a part and parcel of this program. This is the section to bear their minds, the things that think will be more result-oriented and some of their challenges. With the interactions between the alumni members and executives of the U.S. Consulate and embassies enhanced and encouraged, it could be a very good way for us to go. It could be a very good sort of encouragement for us as young people. If the U.S. Consulate can somewhat institutionalize the process of that knowledge sharing, I think a lot more people can benefit from organizational sustainability, financing the organization and so many things. If we have like maybe once in a year or twice in a year MWF or Yali Network Expo where the U.S. vision brings the best of the best that they have, we don't know what can actually happen in terms of relationship business-wise and some other things, so that's what I'm looking at. U.S. Consulate General believes this meeting will go a long way actualizing the core values of the program. What came out of this discussion, and I'm very glad we had it, is that we need more collaboration among all the different alumni, so I mean now it's 2021 so we're in year 11 and so we need to really make sure that we have so many alumni and they're spread all across Nigeria, so we need to find ways really to bring them together. First of all to build others we have to build ourselves and to build ourselves we have to understand each other and that's why we are here today, to understand each other so that we can build others. The thrust here is the support in youth-led sustainable development that centers around enhancing the capacity of young people, we will enable them develop and implement their own solutions to global challenges. Jacinta Obuco for PLOS TV Africa.