Before you attempt to banish a bad thought, consider what it could teach you. Negative emotions can help you pinpoint problems you need to address. What follows are three major types of negative thinking - and how you can use them for good.

Feelings of Inadequacy

Recognize it: I suck at my job. I don't have any good ideas. It's just a matter of time before I'm fired.

Overcome it: Maybe you do suck - at certain tasks. Sometimes our negative thoughts are true, but don't accept that until you look critically at the evidence. Some people excel in group meetings, while others shine when they work alone. Figure out which environment suits you better. Still struggling? Maybe you and your job are simply a poor match. Find another job - quickly. Researchers at the University of Texas found that negative employees stick around in dead-end jobs longer than their confident colleagues do.

General Pessimism

Recognize it: I'm going to be late for my flight and miss the meeting. There goes the account. There goes my year-end bonus. My wife is probably going to leave me.

Overcome it: Don't deny your worst-case-scenario thoughts, but focus on specific things you do have control over. This will help keep your anxiety from spiraling out of control. It might also extend your life: research in the journal Psychological Medicine linked high levels of anxiety in your twenties to higher rates of death from illness later in life.

Self-Esteem Issues

Recognize it: The brunette at the bar didn't return my smile. She's ignoring me like every other girl. Oh, God, I must be hideous.

Overcome it: Once you start generalizing your problems, it's hard to stop. When you feel a sense of heaviness in your body, focus on what just went through your mind. Then stop the cycle by breaking the problem into manageable pieces: did she even see me? Is that a ring on her finger? Do I have snot hanging from my nose? If you look at the situation in this way, you won't become overwhelmed so easily.

Sandra Prior
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/the-power-of-negative-thinking-706215.html

1. I strongly recommend that you get a dog crate which is the right size for your puppy. It should be just big enough so he can turn around in it and lie down. This will become his den and the instinct of a dog is not to soil his den. So, you can use this instinctive behaviour to make the house training process a bit easier.

2. You need to introduce your puppy to the crate and build a positive association with it. This you can do by using small tasty treats as a positive reinforcement. Give him treats near the crate and gradually lure him into the crate with them. Once he is used to going inside, shut the door very briefly and then gradually shut it for an increasing time. If you give him a food dispensing toy while he is in the crate, he will be quite happy for a time.

3. Once your puppy is used to the crate, you should leave him in it whenever you cannot pay full attention to him. This will prevent any danger of him peeing or pooing in the house. When you take him out of the crate, you should take him outside in case he needs to relieve himself. A rule of thumb is that you leave your puppy in the crate about an hour for every month he is old.

4. When you bring a puppy home and need to house train him, you should understand that it requires close attention and is a full-time job for a few days. Try to arrange it for a weekend or whenever you can be at home for at least a couple of days.

5. There are times when you should, as a matter of course, take your puppy outside since he is likely to need taking out at these times: when he wakes up, before he goes to bed, whenever he gets excited, after a play session, after a training session, after he eats, after he drinks and after he has a nap. Until he is three months old, he may need also to be taken out once during the night.

6. When you take him outside to do his business, keep him on a leash and don’t encourage him to play. Just watch and wait.

7. Whenever he pees or poos outside, you should give him lots of praise and attention.

8. If he does have an accident in the house, make sure you clean it up with hot biological washing powder solution or an enzymatic cleaner. Normal cleaners will not get rid of the smell to the puppy’s nose and he will be attracted to the spot again.

9. Dogs are creatures of habit, so make sure you follow a regular routine with your puppy.

10. When you see him get into position to do his business, give him a “command” such as “Get Busy”, so that the command becomes associated with doing his business. When you have done this for a week, you can take him outside and give the command to see if he responds. If he does, give him lots of praise or a treat. If he doesn’t respond, continue the association process for another week before you try again.

Ken Morgan
http://www.articlesbase.com/pets-articles/ten-tips-for-house-training-a-puppy-712918.html

I tried to help my son back track through his text book so that we could discover the principals that he was supposed to be applying together. I tried to look up online guides so that I could connect the dots and figure out what the examples were looking for. I really looked for any solution that I could find, but it just was not clicking.

I took chemistry when I was in high school, but it seemed that his work was written in a different language altogether. What could I do? I was really stumped. What was worse was that each day that went by that I could not help him was another day that I was failing my son. I needed a specialist for this problem.

Of course the idea of a tutor crossed my mind. We live in a rural area, so it was really difficult to find someone locally, and nobody really wanted to travel to us without charging us through the nose for mileage. The next logical step that I could think of was online tutoring. I had heard of it, and though I had my doubts, it was time to take the plunge. I asked some of my friends about it; however I did not get any satisfactory replies. Some even scared me more, saying that lots of people do fraud on the Internet and advised me to do proper research before hiring a tutor. Their concern seemed to be genuine and that made me even more apprehensive about it. However I couldn’t afford to risk my child’s future for my apprehensions.

I checked around online and found the TransWebTutors.com site. After reading about the thousand hour minimum experience that their online tutors had, twenty four hours availability, and the range of the subjects that they cover, I felt that they were worth a try. I asked my son to try out the live tutor for an hour and then tell me how he felt about it.

About an hour and a half later, my son came back to me and told me that he was really absorbing what he was covering with his tutor. He said that the live help from someone that knows the subject was just what he needed to help him understand where he was missing the mark. Though he was not yet completely at home with chemistry, he was much more confident in the assignments he had completed for class the next day.

When he came home from school, he did something he had not done since he was seven. He came into the kitchen with his chest out, pulled a magnet off of the freezer, and stuck his homework to it. I came over to see what all of the ruckus was about. He had gotten an 83 on his homework assignment. He asked me if he could get same tutor’s help again that night, and I told him that he could go on any night that he felt he needed to.

If there is one thing that is worth investing in, it's your child's education. Their future depends on the skills that they learn early on and pull from as adults. I am confident that I have done the best that I could for my son, and I have officially gotten my job back as the in-house problem solver.

Craig White
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/how-can-you-help-when-you-dont-understand-736708.html

Isn't it weird that when you reach a certain age, everyone automatically assumes it's time to go out and get a job?

Just because everyone assumes it, does not necessarily make it such a good idea. In fact, it's a downright dumb idea in my opinion.

Why?

Because…if you're intelligent enough not to pick your nose in the better sort of company, save your best burps for when you're half in the bag with your best friends, and can manage to stay awake long enough to finish a ham sandwich; you're probably better off working for yourself. Why sell yourself willingly into slavery just because other people think it's a good idea?

While getting a job sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen, and getting paid for it might have seemed like a good idea at the time it's probably the stupidest way to earn your daily crust. The problem with this scenario is you only earn an income when you're sitting at that desk staring at that computer screen. Do you really think it's a reasonable and intelligent use of your resources to only get paid when you're working?

Take a look around you.

Do banks make money only during business hours? Why should you only earn money for the hours you spend at a physical place of work? Does anyone really care how much time you spend at the office? I bet the only people who care are the minions in charge of you, the bean counters and the people who call themselves your bosses. The guy who owns the company you work for probably spends his time on the beach worrying about not getting unsightly tan lines. He doesn't have time to be concerned with how much time you spend slaving away earning him money. He's too busy enjoying life.

Imagine having to consciously breathe all the time. If you had to concentrate on breathing all the time you wouldn't have time for anything else. (By the way, If you don't believe me - take up scuba diving. Until you learn to breathe comfortably underwater you don't really have time for anything else. It's only once you can stop concentrating on staying alive that you start to notice the beautiful stuff around you.) And it's only once you can stop worrying about meeting your next mortgage payment, or gas bill or whatever, that you can start enjoying life.

Once you start to earn enough as a wage slave to start enjoying your life  - it's too late. Your life is over. Or do you think that life is going to give you a whole bunch of second chances at the age of sixty-five? Think you'll be able to stay up all night at a party, sleep with the hot chick you met on the beach, and be ready to surf all day the next morning - at the age of sixty-five?!

Nope, you'll probably fall asleep during dinner, never see that hot chick all night and be ready for a nice nap on the beach the next morning. That is if your pension check covers more than basic foodstuffs. Which it probably won't. You might have to eke out your food supply with dog food the last few days of every month. Depressing thought, isn't it?

And if you think it can't happen to you, think again buddy.

Your life has only so many hours, why spend all of it working? Don't you rather want to spend that time experiencing all the beauty that life has to offer? Play with the kids, take the dog for a walk, go skydiving - whatever!

Don't you think it would be better if you didn't have to concentrate on living from one paycheck to the next? If you got paid even when you weren't working? How about getting paid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year - every year?

Hell, why not? Your plants don't grow only when you look at them, do they? Why should your bank account be any different?

While lots of people start out on the income for idiots lifestyle, there is good news: You don't need to keep on doing it forever. The whole system has been set up to fool you into thinking that it is the only way to make a living. It's not! The key is to realise that your time and your income shouldn't be joined at the hip. The value you offer people cannot be measured in time. If you provide something of value to people who are willing to pay you for it, they won't care how much time you spent on creating it. All they care about is whether or not what they are buying is worth what they are being asked to pay.

Intelligent people create systems to create their wealth for them. Investing money wisely will ensure that it earns you an income 24/7. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates an income. The beauty is that once you've started it, it can run irrespective of whether you look after it or not.  From then on, you can invest your time in fine-tuning the system to increase the income you already gain from it, or start something new to provide another, additional income. Working for someone else merely means you are maintaining one single source of income for yourself. Pretty dumb if you ask me. Also pretty suicidal. How does it feel to be at the mercy of some schmuck who can cut off your entire income with two words? 'You're fired' Great. Now what?

It will take some time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating system. However, you don't have to start everything from scratch. Lots of the stuff you need has already been done. You just need to adapt it to your particular circumstances. In other words you have to find you niche.

Once you get going, you won't have to spend so much time making someone else rich just in order to support yourself. You can take the wife to dinner, and earn money while you're eating. If you're a workaholic who enjoys working long hours and you want to keep on doing it, knock yourself out - no one will stop you. If, on the other hand you just want to surf every day, as long as your system continues delivering on its promises, you'll still get paid.

Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, it's something that people learn. Whether from their parents or from some college doesn't matter. The point is that they learnt how to do it and so can you. How long it takes you is immaterial because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well learn something in the meantime and emerge at some future point as the owner of an income-generating system as opposed to a being a wage slave until you retire or pass away, whichever comes first.

And the great thing is that you've got nothing to lose by giving it your best shot. You can start working at generating an alternative income (or incomes) in your spare time with the security of an assured income from your job to pull you through. If you start something that generates a few hundred bucks a month towards your retirement fund you're already going in the right direction.

E Jonas
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/income-for-idiots-701066.html

Throttle and collective pitch of the main rotor blades is mixed together. As you advance the "throttle" stick of the radio controller, not only is the engine power increased, but the pitch of the main rotor blades is also added collectively to make the helicopter go up. Ideally, the proportion of throttle and rotor blade collective pitch is mixed so that the rotor head speed is always the same.

The tall rotor blades are there in the first place to counteract the torque created by the engine power used to turn the main rotor blades. Without a tail rotor the helicopter would just keep spinning around out of control. The pitch of the tail blades is controlled by you in order to tell the helicopter which direction it "faces."

 The fore aft cyclic control changes the pitch of the main rotor blades only at one point around each 360 degree revolution of the rotor blades in cycles or cyclically. When this happens the helicopter will "nose up" or down in order to move the helicopter forward or backward. The axis about which the helicopter "noses up" or down is called "pitch" axis.

The left-right cyclic is the same as described for fore-aft cyclic except that the pitch of the main rotor blades changes at a different point throughout each 360 degree revolution in order to "bank" the helicopter to the right or left. The axis about which the helicopter banks is called the "roll" axis.

Imagine all this going on around 1,6000 times per minute! If this seems complicated, don't worry. You don't really have to understand it because the controls will do their job and the helicopter will fly with or without your technical knowledge of how they operate. You get to do the fun part!

ansky