September 2011
2 posts
I only had a digital point and shoot in college and i rarely used it. Then I got a hand-me-down DSLR camera from my sister 3 years ago and it’s only within this year that I start to take photography more seriously.
The camera I have is a Canon Digital Rebel Xti, I think it first came out in 2005. Since then Canon came out with Xsi, T1i,T2i,T3i, almost every 1-2 years there’s a new...
That’s a great photo Huan, how long have you had this hobby? I felt like since way back into high school, I have wanted to pick up a good camera and try to learn photography skills. If you don’t mind me asking, what type of camera do you use and what would recommend for someone that is trying to get into photography?
-Imad
August 2011
7 posts
Perspective Please
HGTV is one of my guilty pleasures; from Property Virgins or the design shows, I watch them all. However, there is one show that irks me which is House Hunters International. I mean I love to see all the different places they look for houses but it’s more the problem I have with the people that are on the show. The ones I hate to see are home buyers looking for houses in any tropical place. I...
Goal Setting
Interesting read from both of you. I will share my own personal story about trying to gain weight. It's a goal of mine for the longest time but I had made some progress this year. I was able to gain weight successfully after many tries by employing couple of methods that Imad mentioned. 1. let others know about the goal you're trying to set, which creates a support group and accountability. 2. having the resource to spent more money on food and a convenient gym where I could lift weights. 3. weight myself before the start of the goal and monitor my weight gains every week or so to track progress. The fact that I was monitoring my weight makes me become aware of how much I eats and leads me to eat more. 4. create realistic goals: my goal is only to gain ten pounds by the end of the year which equates to less than a pound a month.
I think another important thing is that the behavior is sustainable in the long run. There are so many ways to accomplish a goal but in order for it to be sustainable, it comes down to whether or not you can keep the behavior after the goal is met. For example, there's so many methods for people to gain or lose weight and no one method works for everyone. It takes knowing yourself and some research to find out what proven methods works and then devise a plan that one can truly follow and stay with.
- Huan
Goal Setting
Specific Goals
Goal setting is something I’m intimately familiar with as I do it all the time for my clients and myself. I would like to start of on a note of agreement with Dr. Halvorson in that more specific goals are more likely to be accomplished than vague goals. However, I can’t really comment on her work as a whole as I’m not familiar with it. I would also like to add that the advice...
Self-Management
Hi Frank,
Thats a great idea. I think I will write something about goal setting related to research on it and than I’ll try my hand at a larger, more all encompassing self-management procedure.
Imad
Art of Goal Setting
Hey Imad, love the idea of group blogging. So as my first post, I thought it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what tactics help you to achieve a long term goal (1 year/New Years Resolution). I’m sure many of you made some resolutions for 2011 and probably are struggling to achieve them (except of course for the Psych grad students among us who have some inhuman qualities). This...
Welcome!
Hello everyone, I know the people I have invited have already been subjected to my long, often never ending spiel about how I want to start a shared blog so we can keep the momentum going so I won’t repeat it here.
What I did want to say was that the only suggestion I would make is to post anything you wish, this blog has no particular topic or direction. The only thing I personally care...