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Fresh Start Effects and Pathmaking

A new month, a new season, and another opportunity to use the Fresh Start Effect to make a big change in your workplace, organization, or your life #psychology #change

The shift in seasons or a new page on the calendar can be an ideal moment to instigate change. The Fresh Start Effect demonstrates that you can engineer opportunities for transformation at any time — simply harness the power of your calendar. “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now”  The Internet (many wise people) The quote above underscores two fundamental…

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How to Handle Procrastination

Source: James Clear.

The Two Minute Rule by David Allen

- best for small tasks such as chores and smaller work tasks (sending emails, sharing feedback, etc)

- Small wins mindset

1. The two-minute rule aims to banish procrastination and help people accomplish small tasks.

2. Here’s what the rule says: if you can do an action in two minutes or less, tackle it at the moment — and don’t delay. This has the potential to deliver long-term benefits.

Temptation Bundling

- habit stacking method

1. Temptation bundling is a concept that came out of behavioral economics research performed by Katy Milkman at The University of Pennsylvania. Simply put, the strategy suggests that you bundle a behavior that is good for you in the long-run with a behavior that feels good in the short-run.

2. Only do (what you love) while doing (what you’re procrastinating).

Eg: only do (pedicures) while (answering work emails).

Only (watch your fave tv show) while (ironing your clothes).

The Ivy Lee Method

1. At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.

2. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.

3. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.

4. Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.

5. Repeat this process every working day

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Riverdale 7x12 Thoughts

This two boys opening, where Archie and Reggie are obviously on a bisexual journey

Leave Julian Blossom in a coma tbh

Especially how Clifford wants to blame Reggie like bro your stupid kid did the thing

I think Archie should sock Clifford Julian-style bc honestly Clifford could not take Archie

Sheriff Keller really is the worst version of himself in season 7 like he is so much worse at Sheriff-ing

Juggy defending Ethel from going back to the sisters like just kiss her already omg

Alice is absolutely insane omg the way she is just like my mother where she acts like she isn't a fucking asshole

Honestly if she was gonna like fake adopt Ethel she should've given her Betty's room

The way every episode is like Archie having to ponder while someone (Reggie, or the gays) are going through it like he is a fool but like I love him anyway but

the storytelling choices

It truly never occurred to Veronica she could break into her own home like?

OMG Mrs. Thornton is so dirty for just reading Archie's poem out loud and then naming him as the author to the whole class

GIRL WHY

Archie looking so pressed while she reads it is the same energy I had when I had to sit through my own play being read at a showcase

KEVIN THINKING IT WAS CLAY WHO WROTE IT

Push him out the window

Additionally, tho, has Archie broken bread with Kevin and Clay over the gay things??

Sports where we're really saying bulldog brother in distress

this stupid comic book thing I need to know what Francis Dupont Werthers is DOING

Am absolutely loving that Ethel is actually getting story ???

Even tho like LET HER LIPS TOUCH JUGGY'S

Or another boy (or girl w/e)

Not Julian tho

That fucker

Honestly Archie should also punch Uncle Frank for being stupid

Betty looked so upset when she thought Archie and Reggie were coming over

Old white men wanting to go back to the old days??? Always a red flag

Clifford is really out here threatening to kill Cheryl as if he did not kills Jason 65 years ago in the future or whatever

Omg my friend had to tell me the song was from South Pacific and now that I know, I'm having a very visceral memory of the time I was in South Pacific (as the only non-singing part tho lmao)

There were a lot of gross men in that bc they could sing (and I mean the actors not the like characters tho...)

The choreo is so much better in Riverdale tho

Even if it involves Kevin

Like could Clay kiss a hot man? Idk

Betty getting a gay ex boyfriend like? Good for her. But like get rid of Kevin

Veronica is so thirsty and I'm so into it except when she's being a predator to out gays (to herself)

Dilton having a huge dick tho is my absolute favorite throwaway detail like yes

HUNGOVER AND STARING AT DILTON

Is this thing where Mrs. Thornton is suddenly like the teacher is bc she's the one who's gonna be accused of communism

Is that happening next week with the outings? Eek

The comic boss dude being like immediately ready to have Ethel draw like yes I love it

He's dead I mean literally you killed him lol

Very pleased we actually get to see Mary working part time at the dress shop

The way they speak to her like she is the one who curates the dresses being sold

I simply don't understand why we have to have Brett Weston Wallace but we don't also get Donna like give us Donna!

Let the boys kiss while they do the dishes

Justice for Ethel!!!

Is Jughead still drinking powdered milk or is that gone now that the milkman is dead

I better see a canon kiss between Betty and Veronica in a future episode or ELSE

THEY ARE IN LOVE

Love only getting Polly in name tho I'm sure we'll have to deal with her at some point this season

Betty is also the ultimate ex-girlfriend

MARY ANDREWS GO AWAY

LET THEM KISS

Okay tho Mary then reading the riot act to Alice, who is completely unbothered lmao

They will legitimately drag anyone to Riverdale but never Katy Keene give us KATY

I heard the good word from the bird

Jughead is wise beyond his years??? Somewhere in there is a memory of the future!

Veronica called Betty ;-;

These boys are going to WRESTLE

Just let them kiss my god

Archie asking Reggie to wear his dad's patch

BOYFRIENDS

Like Reggie knows Archie likes to write poems

Write him a poem

Also are we gonna have to see Archie at the Dark Room lmao

Ugh okay next week is gonna be a full trip I am not ready

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THE DESILU DAIRY

Milk!  It does a sitcom good!

The Desilu Dairy is in business providing milk, cream, and yogurt to the Queen of Comedy!  Mooo!

At their Chatsworth Ranch, Lucy and Desi had a dairy cow named the Duchess of Devonshire. Devonshire Cream is a clotted cream dairy product produced from North Devon Cattle in Cornwall and Somerset England.

“The Elves” (1949) ~ Liz (Lucille Ball) and George (Richard Denning) arrive home from vacation to find that someone has been ordering strawberry ice cream from the milkman every day, and the pink trail leads to the doorstep of their new neighbors.

Upon arriving home, the Coopers notice that their porch has been painted white. Upon closer inspection, they realize it isn’t paint - but milk. Their ‘milk card’ has been tampered with to order strawberry ice cream while they were away - yet none is found. During the early part of the twentieth century, dairy products were usually delivered to homes, rather than shopped in a market. The milkman was part of daily life. Housewives would leave notes (or cards, as above) to request items outside their standing delivery order: Milk, eggs, yogurt, butter, and ice cream, were all offered. It was not uncommon to see back porches with milk boxes and or empty bottles ready to be returned to the dairy.  This service has all but disappeared in favor of supermarkets.

“The Sleigh Ride” (1949) ~ Mr. Negley the mailman decides to use his motorcycle to pull the holiday sleigh, but the load proves to much and the milkman’s old horse is pressed into service. Unfortunately, the horse stops at every milk stop on his route. In the days before milk truck delivery, the dairyman in rural America would deliver dairy products by horse and wagon.  

“The Gum Machine” (1949) ~ When George finds the cream for the coffee has soured, he insists Liz tell the milkman about it - stand up for her rights. The milkman arrives, delivers the milk, and then leaves. Liz chickened out. George calls him back to tell him Hogan’s Frolicking Milkmaid Cream was sour. The milkman (Hans Conried) says that Mr. Hogan will take it out on the cow!  He gives them free items instead of losing their business.

MILKMAN: “You see, we can’t afford a radio program!”

“Valentine’s Day” (1949) ~ When Mr. Negley the butcher storms off, Katie the maid (Ruth Perrott) isn’t too bothered. She has a date with the milkman instead! She’s written him a poem which she left it in an empty milk bottle.

I love you, dear, don’t be surprised. Leave two quarts of homogenized!

“The Gossip” (1952) ~ When Lucy overhears a juicy story about Grace Foster running away with the milkman, Ricky bets her she can’t go without gossiping. To win the bet, Lucy enlists the milkman and a jealous Mr. Foster in her scheme. 

MILKMAN: “He’s after me!  All my milk’s gone sour!” 

Bobby Jellison played the milkman, the “cottage cheese Casanova” and “cow juice peddler” (as Bill Foster calls him).

MR. FOSTER: “From now on, we drink goat’s milk!”

“Lucy’s Bicycle Trip” (1956) ~ The gang bikes from Italy to France and takes shelter in a barn for the night. For breakfast, the farmer brings them bread and cheese, but the milk must come from the cow!  

Lucille Ball was able to produce one good stream of milk from the cow, but she didn’t think the lights caught the stream enough for it to show on camera. Writer Madelyn Pugh later said, 

"It was the mangiest cow I’d ever seen. I went down to the set, and Lucy said, ‘You wrote it, YOU milk it!’” 

Lucille Ball shared the cover of a March 1960 issue of “The Police Gazette” with a cover story claiming that “Milk Can be the Drink of Death”!

“Together For Christmas” (1962) ~ After trying in vain to share their holiday traditions, Lucy and Viv decide to go back to traveling to their respective relatives for the holidays. Lucy says she left a note for the milkman. 

Until the end of the 1960s or so, most suburban homes had daily milk delivery, which involved leaving milk bottles on the porch (sometimes in a milk box). If a customer did not wish to have milk (or other dairy products) delivered that day - or for a period of days - it was standard procedure to ‘leave a note for the milkman’.

“Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton” (1965) ~ Newton sings an ode to his dairy cow, “Bessie the Heifer,” a 1951 country-western novelty song.

Bessie turns up again in the final recording studio sequence - with all Newton’s other farm animals. 

“Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight” (1965) ~ On a lunch break at the health farm, Lucy and the Countess realize if they want a drink with lunch, they are going to have to milk a cow. 

To calm Bossie the cow while Lucy milks her, the Countess hums “The Blue Danube”. Lucy punctuates the downbeat with squirts of milk from the cow’s udder.  

“Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50?” (1968) ~ Van Johnson sings “Happy Birthday to You” to Ethel - the prize dairy cow of a Texas oil tycoon. 

“Lucy the Shopping Expert” (1969) ~ Lucy teaches Kim about getting the best deals in the grocery store. In the dairy aisle, Lucy loses control of the nozzel on a can of whipped cream. 

“Lucy’s Lucky Day” (1971) ~ Lucy goes on a game show named “The Milky Way to Riches” that is sponsored by the Dover Dairy. 

When Mr. Larson the milkman (Billy Sands) rushes in with good news, Lucy teases him by guessing that Elsie the Cow had triplets. Elsie was the cartoon cow mascot of the Bordon Dairy Company from 1936 until it went out of business in the mid-1990s. Larson tells Lucy that she has won Dover Dairy’s customer of the year and will receive a free pint of raspberry apricot yogurt every week for a year.

“Lucy and the 20/20 Vision” (1971) ~ In order to pretend to be surprised by Harry at the door, Lucy acts as if she was putting out the milk bottle. At the time, rural delivery of milk and other dairy products to residential homes was common. In order to ‘recycle’ the milk bottles, homeowners would put the empty bottles on the porch at night, so the milkman could take them away early the next morning. A famous example of this was seen in the closing credits of the primetime cartoon sitcom satire “The Flintstones” (1960-66, inset photo).

“Lucy, the Other Woman” (1972) ~ Lucy's milkman has a crush on her but his angry wife (Totie Fields) thinks Lucy is having an affair with the dairy deliveryman. Herbie Faye plays Lester Butkus the milkman. According to the insignia on his hat, he works for the Cloverleaf Dairy. This means that in the year since “Lucy’s Lucky Day” the Carter family has switched dairies. 

Mr. Butkas brings Lucy a free pint of banana fudge yogurt, adding to his wife’s conviction that he’s sweet as cream over Lucy.   

The Butkus living room. A milkman lives here! 

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You can’t just slap a little ointment on it and expect it to clear up forever…”(Katy MIlkman)

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It's Attitude not Altitude ... Always a Learner!!

What is the last thing you learned? Habits are like shortcuts — they’re things we can do quickly and without thinking because we’ve done them so often they’ve become automatic, says behavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania.One important feature of habits is that they’re triggered by cues in our surroundings, says Wendy Wood, a social psychologist at the University of…

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Temptation bundling: combining what you want to do with what you should do

The positive benefits brought about by good habits often take a long time to reap. So the hardest problem in behavior change is this: the costs often occur in the present, while the benefits are far in the future. For example, the benefits of exercise are intangible and take a long time to HE Tuber show up, but the gratification of sitting around eating junk food is immediate.

Imagine it’s two o’clock in the afternoon on a Saturday, you’re lying on the couch, you’ve finished watching an episode of your favorite TV series on Aiyou Teng Mang, and you’re about to click “continue watching,” but you remember you’re supposed to go to the gym today— — Complete a physical exercise program at least 2 times a week. What would you do in this situation?

Temptations fill our daily lives, such as playing mobile phones, playing games, and eating sweets. When faced with the difficult choice between "what to do" and "should do", we usually choose the former.

Are there ways you can develop good habits while reducing the guilt and wasted time associated with tempting activities? Researchers such as Katy Milkman of Wharton Business School and Julia Minson of Harvard University have proposed an ingenious method - they call it "temptation bundling . " This concept bundles "want" activities that are immediately satisfying (watching the next episode of your favorite show) with "should" activities that have delayed benefits and require willpower (going to the gym).

To bolster their theory, they also conducted motivational experiments: using engaging audio novels (a "want" activity) coupled with exercise (a "should" behavior). Participants were randomly divided into three groups:

Control group: Participants received a $25 gift card;

Experimental Group 1: Participants had access to an iPod containing four audio novels of their choice, but they could only listen to them in the gym;

Experimental Group 2: Participants had access to an iPod containing four audio novels of their choice, but they could listen to them at any time.

As predicted by the temptation bundling insights, participants in Experimental Group 2 went to the gym 29% more frequently than participants in the control group, and participants in Experimental Group 1 went to the gym 51% more frequently than participants in the control group. This increase highlights the effectiveness of the commitment mechanism, which completely limits what you "want to do" to what you "should do".

Understanding the power of temptation bundling, we can use it to promote a variety of beneficial behaviors, not just exercise.

 For example, if you realize that you lack the willpower to eat healthily, you can make it a rule that you can only watch your favorite shows while eating healthy foods; if you always procrastinate on housework, make it a rule that you can only listen to your favorite shows while doing the dishes or laundry. Audiobooks. If you realize you lack the willpower to do something beneficial, create your own "temptation bundle" by pairing it with a complementary thing you want to do.

Similarly, we often see this strategy in business, such as the point malls of various apps. After completing tasks to earn points, the points can be exchanged for attractive physical goods.

4. Remove barriers: Make action without resistance

There is a common and easy-to-understand formula: Action = Momentum – Resistance. In addition to the above three incentives to continuously increase motivation, we can also reduce resistance to action and make action smoother and longer-lasting.

Not only are you lazy if you don’t want to go to the gym, but it’s also expensive to get a card? By providing free gym benefits to employees, employees’ exercise frequency increases, their living conditions improve, and their work efficiency improves.

Energy conservation and emission reduction are always slogans, but household energy consumption remains high? Energy bills and energy saving and emission reduction tips are regularly provided to every household, making it easier for ordinary people to participate.

Is it too cumbersome to confirm your address and credit card account number when ordering online? Decades ago, the father of Amazon e-commerce innovated the "one-click input" of last information. Customers only need one operation to make subsequent shopping smoothly. This method is also widely used in up-and-coming e-commerce platforms.

4. Example application: Understand incentives to make negotiations easier

Negotiation is an important form of interpersonal communication, and psychological tactics play an important role in the negotiation process. Incentives are a means of motivating the other party to actively participate in negotiations. By giving the other party certain benefits and rewards, we encourage them to cooperate more actively with us.

Imagine that you are about to change your job in another city and urgently need to sell a house ($850,000) you own . During the negotiation process with buyers, how can you master motivational skills to achieve negotiation success rates and pricing goals?

1. Anchoring and Adjustment

Before and after a suitable buyer comes along, the first step in selling your home is to make an offer. That puts an anchor on the negotiating table: a price that’s high enough to surprise the buyer ($900,000), but reasonable enough to give the buyer a chance to make a counteroffer adjustment.

By extension, the same applies when negotiating with HR on salary: it should not be too low, which would appear to indicate a low sense of value; nor should it be too high, which would end the negotiation directly. It is best to base it on the market price, with a floating range.

2. Contrast effect

A sufficiently high and optimistic first offer not only serves as an anchor for buyers, but also serves as a reference point for every subsequent offer and the final sale price. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, and everything that comes later in the negotiation will be compared and contrasted with your first offer. We call this automatic comparison the contrast effect.

To demonstrate this effect in action, let’s look at another example from the real estate world – renting a home.

This is a common technique: After hearing the renters' needs and budget, the housing agent will first show them houses with poor conditions within the budget, which the renters are very dissatisfied with; then they will show them houses with good conditions that are far beyond the budget. The renter likes the house, but the price is not suitable; in the end, he will show him a house that is a little over the budget, but the conditions are in the middle. At this time, the renter often agrees to increase the budget, accepts the house and signs the contract.

Why didn’t the agent show the third type of house at the beginning? In fact, the main reason is the contrasting effect of price and conditions. In contrast, the third type of house has become the best choice in a relative sense, regardless of whether it is the best choice in an absolute sense.

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Choiceology Podcast: Can We Learn To Make Better Choices?

One of my favorite podcasts is Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick. Recently, she's been promoting a podcast from Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab? My reptilian brain immediately thought of a podcast where listeners were bombarded with investment options and the lure of incredible returns, if, of course, you use Charles Schwab.

The name of the podcast was Choiceology. I decided to listen for a few minutes to get a good laugh.

I haven't been this wrong since I predicted that Tom Brady wouldn't retire until he was Medicare-eligible.

Choiceology is not about investments, but about making better life choices. See the subtle connection to investing through Schwab? But I admire that complexity and subtlety.

The podcast, which began in 2018, explores the lessons of behavioral economics, exposing the psychological traps that lead to expensive mistakes. 

That's a mouthful. What does that mean? Let me explain. In the October 21, 2019, episode -- Take The Deal! -- Choiceology looks at a Deal Or No Deal TV contestant who forsook a guaranteed $333,000 payout to chase a larger prize. During the episode, host Katy Milkman talks about the concept of framing a decision a certain way can alter decisions. 

That's where Choiceology excels -- in illustrating the myriad ways that our decisions on things big and small are often affected by unseen forces that are inside us. These forces have names like loss aversion, attribution error, and even decision-making based on our current physical state. NOTE: Try to get a morning court date because in the afternoon, judges tend to hand down harsher decisions.

Choiceology is teasing out why we do what we do. The guests are often academics, but thanks to the host, she keeps the conversation balanced -- not too much treble or bass, not too much psychobabble and talking down to listeners. This is not Dr. Phil.

Speaking of the host, Katy Milkman is a perfect choice to share stories of irrational decision-making—from historical blunders to the kinds of everyday errors that could affect your future. Nice goin' Schwab.

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, student achievement, vaccination and discrimination. 

Milkman co-founded and co-directs the Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2021 Milkman was named one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers and the world’s top strategy thinker by Thinkers50. The New York Times also named her bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be one of the eight best books for healthy living in 2021.

Katy Milkman is the former president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, a TEDx speaker, an APS Fellow, and has published dozens of research articles in leading academic journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her findings are regularly covered by major media outlets.

Yet for all Milkman's impressive credentials, podcast hosting requires a unique skill set that you can receive via numerous academic degrees. That's where Milkman excels. She's astute at framing and explaining the premise of an episode, and is a "natural" at interviewing the guest experts and keeps them from going into "academic mode."

Unlike some academic podcast hosts, Milkman oozes sincerity, agreeableness, and a command of the podcast flow. She likes the Captain of the Titanic, who was prescient enough to steam away from the glacier. Milkman wants listeners engaged, and she works hard to place us into that state of thoughtful reflection.

For example, in the December 2, 2019, episode, Milkman interviewed Duke Professor and psychologist Dan Ariely and Northwestern University professor Dean Karlan, who also founded StickK, a website and app that helps people commit to achieving goals using contracts and real goals.  

In the episode, Milkman deftly narrates the battle between long-term goals and succumbing to the temptation of short term only rewards. Milkman uses the twin examples of Odysseus, who avoided the tantalizing but deadly songs of the sirens, and author Victor Hugo, who procrastinated so long on completing The Hunchback Of Notre Dame that he was forced to cleverly devise a method to overcome his own dithering.

In its episode archive, Choiceology can admit to tackling topics such as separating correlation from causation, predicting the likelihood of rare events, overweighting raw numbers and neglecting their relative value, and how bias often leads us to make mistakes.

Choiceology "seasons" seem to run about six episodes twice a year, with each episode being released every two weeks. Milkman values listeners' time because episodes run about 35–40 minutes.  

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Home Care Services: Keeping Seniors Healthy In A “Post-Pandemic” World

With the worst of the pandemic now behind us, it’s time to focus on the future. Whether your loved ones are looking to get back to normal life or pick up some healthy new habits to come back even stronger, our home care services make it easy to thrive in the post-pandemic world.

Read on to learn 3 ways we’re keeping seniors safe, healthy, and happy as they emerge from isolation and reintegrate into the Madison community, or call (608)-315-2378 to speak directly with a home care service coordinator near you.

Implement Healthy New Habits With Home Care Services

Research by the AARP shows that the beginning of any new phase—be it the resumption of post-pandemic life, the day after a milestone celebration, or the change of the seasons—can serve as a powerful psychological motivation to jump-start new habits. This is known as the fresh-start effect, and it’s one silver lining we can take from the pandemic.

Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of the new book How to Change, describes the post-pandemic period as a “momentous, collective fresh start that has all the features you need if you want to jump-start change.”

If you want to take advantage of the fresh-start effect to implement a healthy diet or lifestyle change for mom and dad, our home care services can help. As part of your regular home care service, we can:

Help implement daily exercise by transporting your loved one to the gym, setting up home workout areas, accompanying them on gentle walks, and providing motivation and safety monitoring

 

Help seniors quit smoking by monitoring daily smoking, reducing or restricting the purchase of cigarettes, purchasing smoking cessation aids, connecting seniors with the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line, and providing daily encouragement

 

Help implement healthy diets by taking care of all of the shopping, cooking, and clean-up, so your loved ones can enjoy fresh and healthy meals with fast food convenience

 

2.    Get Seniors Comfortable Socializing With Home Care Services

After a lengthy isolation period, during which most peoples’ social needs were not being met, many seniors’ social skills and/or comfort levels have fallen off substantially.

If your loved ones need help reintegrating into their social circles and activities after a long time away, our home care services can help. Not only do we provide companionship care, which keeps seniors’ social muscles in-shape and eliminates the risks of loneliness and isolation; but we can also make them comfortable getting social with their peers by:

Finding COVID-safe social events for seniors to attend or take part in online

Accompanying your loved ones to local events and senior center programming to help break the ice

Coordinating visits with friends and family and/or assisting with hosting

Enforcing COVID-19 safety protocols in group settings where infection risks could discourage seniors from participating

 

3.    Simplify Senior COVID-19 Boosters With Home Care Services

One of the best ways to keep your loved ones safe and healthy in the “post-pandemic world” is to ensure their vaccinations are up to date. And with Always Best Care by your side, that’s easy.

As part of your regular home care service, we provide full support with COVID-19 booster appointments, including:

Assisting seniors with vaccination bookings and schedule reminders

Providing transportation to-and-from the vaccination site

Ensuring all necessary identification and paperwork is on-hand

Enforcing COVID-19 safety protocols while indoors at the immunization center

Waiting in the observation area with your loved ones after they receive their shot

Alleviating post-vaccination symptoms, and more

 

Get A Free Quote On Home Care Services In Madison, WI

Since 1996, Always Best Care has been a leading provider of personalized home care services to help seniors live life on their terms. Today, Always Best Care Madison is bringing the same custom care solutions to help seniors thrive in the “post-pandemic world.”

To book a free consultation and get a quote on any custom home care service plan, you can:

Call (608)-315-2378 to speak directly with a home care service coordinator near you

Email madisonwi@abc-seniors.com with questions and schedule availability

Fill out our short contact form to book your home care service consultation online

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Earth Day Psychology

Earth Day is a call to action, but how do we actually do it and what do we do? This post looks at the psychology of earth day change. #change #earthday2022

Earth Day provides us with an opportunity to reflect on our place on this planet. The planet needs action not just reflection. Lessons from psychological science can help us convert good intentions into planetary health. Beginning in 1970, much of the world recognizes April 22nd as Earth Day. The event was established as a means to raise awareness and demonstrate support for environmental…

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We're So Fucked: Caused by Present Bias and the Hacks We'll Need to be Less Fucked

We’re So Fucked: Caused by Present Bias and the Hacks We’ll Need to be Less Fucked

As part of our ongoing series We’re So Fucked, Ye Olde Blogge is explaining the psychological reasons behind our collective wickedness. Today, we’ll be relying on the work of Katy Milkman and her colleagues as published in her book, How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be as heard on the podcast, Hidden Brain hosted by Shankar Vedantam. In case, you have…

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HELLS LUCY!

Lucy & Motorcycles

Lucille Ball was a motorcyle fan. She owned Hondas, Suzukis, and a Harley Davidson. In her personal ife, she rode on the back of Clark Gable's motorcycle. Lucy reluctantly gave up motorcycling after she hit a curb and her bike fell on her.

A GIrl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) ~ Dot (Lucille Ball) disapproves of ‘Coffee Cup’ (George Murphy) riding a motorcyle. 

DOT: That’s how angels are made. 

“Liz the Matchmaker” (1949) ~ In this episode of Lucille Ball’s radio series “My Favorite Husband” Liz (Lucille Ball) is worried about her maid Katie’s romance with Mr. Negley, the postman (Jay Novello), because he always takes her to a drive-in theater on a motorcycle.

“The Sleigh Ride” (1949) ~ Mr. Negley decides to use his motorcycle to pull the holiday sleigh, but the load proves to much and the milkman’s old horse is pressed into service. 

“Safe Driving Week” (1950) ~ Liz and Marge (Elvia Allman) are pulled over by a motorcycle cop for driving too close to the curb. The policeman insists on driving their car away from the curb, but runs over his own motorcycle in the process!  Marge and Liz drive away, leaving the motorcycle cop in tears, clutching only his handlebars. 

This visual gag was brought to life on “I Love Lucy” in....

“Ricky Sells the Car” (1955) ~ Doubtful that Ricky will spring for their train fare home, Fred purchases an antique motorcycle. He weighs it down with all their belongings, just like the Pontiac in “California, Here We Come!”  The Mertzes are even attired in vintage leather riding outfits!  Viewers who know their motorbikes guess that it is a Harley-Davidson Model DL 750cc from about 1929.

LUCY: Ethel, are you seriously considering going all the way to New York on a motorcycle?  ETHEL: Well, Fred gave me a choice and this beats hitchhiking.

Oops! The sound of the motorcycle crashing happens before it is even off the screen. Also, Fred’s dialogue in this scene has been noticeably re-recorded because of the noise from the crash. In the above screen shot you can see the wire that pulled the motorcycle backward.  

“Lucy Hunts Uranium” (1958) ~ The Ricardos and Fred MacMurray get pulled over for speeding by a morotcycle cop. 

“Lucy Drives a Dump Truck” (1963) ~ And this policeman (Richard Reeves) drives a three-wheeled motorbike. 

“Lucy the Meter Maid” (1964) ~ A hybrid vehicle, Lucy drives a Cushman Minute Miser Truckster. These vehicles were especially created for traffic police who checked meters. 

“Mr. and Mrs. aka The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour” (1964) ~ Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon travel across the German border driving a Vespa motor scooter searching for Bob Hope. 

“Lucy in the Music World” (1965) ~ Lucy’s neighbor Mel Tinker (Mel Torme) keeps his 1962 Honda Dream motorcycle indoors. The question is - how did he get it up the stairs?

“Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (1966) ~  A motorcycle zooms by Lucy Carmichael selling maps to the movie stars homes. This time it is the driver who is old, not the motorcycle.  As the old lady races off, Lucy shouts “Say hello to Steve McQueen!”  Two of McQueen’s favorite things were racing and motorcycles. He famously rode a motorcycle in 1963’s The Great Escape.

“Lucy in London” (1966) ~ Lucy Carmichael and Anthony Newley get around mod London any way they can - including motorcycle and rocket-shaped side-car.

The special was shot on location in London. Ball and Newley did the driving themselves! 

“Viv Visits Lucy” (1967) ~ Trying to track down a Danfield boy, they go down to the Sunset Strip dressed as ‘hippies’ and go into a biker bar.  The Police Officer’s motorcycle is a 1958 Harley-Davidson Duo Glide. 

Several other motorcycles are also parked on the street during the scene. Hamburger Hovel is home of the ‘Biker Burger’!  

“Lucy Gets Involved” (1968) ~ Tommy Watkins (Phil Vandervoort) rides a white 1962 Honda Dream motorcycle. It was previously seen parked inside Mel Tinker’s apartment in “Lucy in the Music World”.  

Yours, Mine & Ours (1968) ~ In the Lucille Ball / Henry Fonda film, the neighbor boy’s motorcycle is run over by the Beardsley’s station wagon.  

“Lucy and the Diamond Cutter” (1970) ~ Craig talks to Steve on the telephone about a part for his motorcycle. It turns out to be an air horn. Motorcycles don’t usually have air horns! Oops!

“Lucy the Skydiver” (1970) ~ Craig takes up spear fishing while Kim joins a motorcycle club. When Lucy sees her daughter in a motorcycle helmet she asks if she’s playing for the Rams football team. Lucy says she doesn’t want Kim to be another Steve McQueen.

“Circus of the Stars II” (1977) ~ Lucille Ball is the ringmaster and Peter Fonda performs a daredevil motorcycle stunt on a high wire. 

In a taped segment singer / songwriter Paul Williams goes skydiving. Once he alights (just outside his circus ring target) Williams and a dozen men waiting for him on the ground mount motorbikes and zoom away through the desert.

“Lucy Moves to NBC” (1980) ~ Scotty Plummer (Scotty Coogan) wants a motorcycle for his 18th birthday. He even tries to pawn his prized banjo to buy one. 

1999 ~ Postage stamps from Republic of Turkmenistan feature Lucille Ball in a diner with Carmen Miranda and Humphrey Bogart, looking at Marilyn Monroe standing outside next to a motorcycle. 

2020 ~ A Lucille Ball impersonator at Universal Studios Hollywood poses in the sidecar of a Royal Enfield motorcycle. The Royal Enfield brandis the oldest global motorcycle brand in continuous production.

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