Attaching a proposal to a cold email might also do the magic!

Ten tips for writing your research proposal

1. Follow the instructions!

Read and conform to all instructions found on the council website. Make sure that your proposal fits the criteria of the competition.

2. Break down your proposal into point form before writing your first draft.

Based on the total length of the proposal, decide whether you will have headings/subheadings and what they will be (e.g., Introduction, Background Material, Methodology, and so on).

These headings can be selected based on the advice given in the specific award instructions. For each section, lay out in point form what you will discuss.

3. Know your audience.

Describe your research proposal in non-technical terms.

Use clear, plain language and avoid jargon.

Make sure your proposal is free of typographic and grammatical errors.

Remember that, at every level, adjudication committees are multi-disciplinary and will include researchers in fields other than your own.

Therefore, follow the KIS principle – Keep It Simple!

Reviewers like it that way.

I separated when my son was little. He was three years old and suddenly I was a single dad with a life to build for him.

That first Christmas, I made big productions of doing Christmasy things together.

The first was the tree lighting in Rockefeller Center.

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It was past his bedtime, so I taped it. The next night, we baked cookies and watched it together.

A few nights later, it was more cookies and Rudolph.

Another night, we went to get hot chocolate and look at Christmas lights.

We called them Christmas Fun Nights.

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The next year, we watched the lighting of the tree again. And then we did all of those other things too.

They were excuses to just do something together in the Christmas spirit.

Christmas Fun Nights were now a tradition.

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We had done them 10 years in a row before this year.

I cherish them. But that's me. I am a malomar: hard outer shell, marshmallow center. I'm sentimental as shit.

You don't always know how much your kids share in your sentiments though. And my son is 13 now. *Things change*

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Since COVID hit, to make it as easy on my son as possible, he just splits time between his homes. Spends a few days in one and then spends a few days in the other.

It's flexible. We just sort it out week to week. Easy.

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every teenager, open this

you’re doing better than you think you are. i’m proud of you, keep going, you’ve got this!🙂

don’t change so people will like you. be yourself & the right people will love the real you

be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it

worrying about things in the future doesn’t stop them from happening. it just takes away your happiness today

Some learnings I've learnt living in these here pandemic times:

1. Everyone should have access to the internet during a pandemic. Oh, and funny hats.
2. These past ten years the dust bunnies under my sofa and bed have been pretty busy building thriving little towns and villages.

3. Screaming into the abyss is a real thing. My neighbour just doesn't get it.
4. If you want really nice weather all summer long, just declare a pandemic lockdown.
5. Amazon will pack two lightbulbs into a microwave-sized box. Can confirm.

6. Right wing politicians really don't like not being in front of people. Which is kind of weird, since they don't seem to like people.
7. Sometimes I find myself wondering if the person who invented the salad bar sneeze guard back in olden times truly knew what they were on to.

8. I started counting and measuring stuff I never counted before. Just because I'm bored and it takes my spit 26 seconds to hit the ground from the bridge near my place.
9. My shoes are exactly one foot long. Which is kind of a spooky coincidence, right?
10. Chipmunks are punks.

11. My old doggo Finn had it right all along. Sleep. Eat. Walk. Pee. Poop. Play. Watch ball bounce down the stairs. Repeat. I'm still not sold on all the butt sniffing though.
12. If you really set your mind to it, you can make a ham and cheese sandwich exactly 17 different ways.

You can always keep track of things like your money and solve certain real-life problems by putting things in an equation and then resolving them.

Knowing the algebra is something that people should do to achieve it to find a good job and for success in college, as well as life. Learn mathematics such as algebra and arithmetic now because as time passes, it becomes more difficult to learn things.

Imposter Syndrome 101

What if, I’m not good enough? What if, I try it and fail? What if, I speak up and say something dumb? Surely, I’m out of my league here.

Sound familiar? That annoying inner-voice is more common than you may think.

Here’s Imposter Syndrome 101...

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1/ First, what is it?

Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which a person doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Essentially, you attribute your success to dumb luck and/or believe it is undeserved.

2/ A pair of psychologists, Suzanna Imes & Pauline Clance, first noted this phenomenon in the 1970’s while observing 178 high-achieving women.

Inexplicably, the women had convinced themselves they were not that smart, instead they had simply fooled anyone who thought otherwise.

3/ Initially, Imes & Clance believed this ‘imposter’ feeling was exclusive to women.

They theorized that since women were (wrongly) stereotyped as less capable at the time, these high-achievers rationalized their accolades by concluding it was all fake or perceived.

4/ In the time since researchers have established imposter syndrome can affect us all.

And, as many as 7 out of 10 of us have our own internal struggles with this self-defeating belief system.

As it turns out, high performers by their very nature are prone to imposter feelings.

The overrated and underrated series of tweets in one place.

(Will update it with similar thoughts overtime)

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[A THREAD]

Solving the problem is overrated.
Identifying the problem is underrated.

Finding peace is overrated.
Forming peace is underrated.

Examination is overrated.
Education is underrated.

Mind is overrated.
Moment is underrated.

Top 2020 Relationship Lessons From Solomon Buchi. PART 1

1. No matter how much you love a toxic person, no amount of love can repaint the red flags.

2. It’s one thing for someone to show toxic traits and they make effort to change after you call them out, and it’s another thing for someone to have a consistent toxic pattern. Run away from the latter.

3. Trying to save a toxic relationship or trying to change an abusive person is a trauma response. It’s a way of feeling better by repressing your own trauma by playing SAVIOR for others.

4. Believe people when they show you who they really are. Many times what we call “giving people benefit of doubt” is our way of disrespecting our own boundaries with a delusional belief that they’d change.

5. Don’t ever get into any relationship without defining it. No matter how casual it is, set boundaries, know what you’re doing. Don’t assume the other person knows what you want because you spend long hours on the phone or you share stuff. Define it verbally.

99% of young men lack proper guidance..

Want to live a badass life?

Then continue reading.

[ 7 Changes Young Men can make to Become Absolutely Unstoppable ]

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1 - NEVER CHASE WOMEN

Wanna know the #1 way to never get laid?

- Chase women.

You want women to come to YOU.

Become a high-value man and you will achieve this.

• Lift
• Read
• Make money
• Keep quiet while doing it

Most women have 20 different guys in their comments at all times..

“ Soooo beautiful 😻”

“ Let me take you outtt 👀”

“ Damnnnn 🔥❤️”

The thought of dating one of these guys makes women want to puke.

Work on yourself first.
The women will come... HA

2 - READ

Reading downloads information to your brain.

Doesn’t matter if it’s positive information or negative information.

Read something enough and it will become a part of your subconscious mind.

(My advice👇)

Pick 4-5 books and read them religiously.

Not once.
Not twice.
But a few times each year.

Taking action on a few books is far better than reading 100 books and not acting at all.

(A few of my favorites) 👇

Rare sappy personal thread. Four years ago today, I opened a restaurant, a dream I had had for years. Two years ago today, I closed that restaurant. I’ve just been accumulating thoughts since then, so here they are. 1/

My first thought is of my wife and sons. I regret the stress I put them through. I worked 70+ hours a week for about three years. My wife supported our family and my youngest was born just before the restaurant opened. I missed out on so many memories of his development. 2/

I got home between twelve and three o’clock any given night, and I think I can count on one hand the number of times I couldn’t answer the bell at six or six-thirty. I knew we had obligations, and we mostly met them, but meeting them took a toll on me. On my wife more than me. 3/

I never knew there was a “first year twenty.” I learned later that restaurateurs joke that you lose 20 lbs the first year opening your new place. I was lean when we started, so I wound up severely underweight. I am 6’3” and at the peak of it all I weighed just under 170 lbs. 4/

My motto in taking care of my employees was “the house always eats last.” It was a good metaphor, but I hardly ever ate. I drank. I knew the wakeup call was coming in a few hours, and I needed to decompress from the mania of the floor. 5/

Now Ministering: Pst Mike Nwangwa @mikeonwangwa
Topic: Gratitude, Faith, and Answer

Gratitude is the quality of being thankful. 1Thess 5:16,17 and 18.

#ChurchGRA #Gratitude #MyTurnToShine

You shouldn't only show gratitude when you receive something but also give thanks even when things don't go as planned.

#ChurchGRA #Gratitude #MyTurnToShine

There are times where there is no reason to give thanks, but that is the perfect time to show gratitude. In everything, give thanks.

#ChurchGRA #Gratitude #MyTurnToShine

God defines gratitude differently from the way we define gratitude. Man can deceive you with gratitude but God can not be deceived. God sees the heart; He sees beyond the surface.

#ChurchGRA #Gratitude #MyTurnToShine

Gratitude is the state of the heart. Some people would give anything to have your kind of life but they have no idea of the challenges you face. Be Grateful.

#ChurchGRA #Gratitude #MyTurnToShine

As I lie here awake having a mild panic attack about the coming days in the US, I’m remembering that just this spring I found out one of my new mom friends was a Q conspiracy theorist. It came as a complete shock. 1/

We connected early in the kinde year and spent many afternoons hosting casual play dates on the school playground bonding and chatting. Had a Christmas gathering together (2 actually). We bonded over a similar childhood 2/

So it was a complete shock when she sent me and two other moms in our group text a Q conspiracy YouTube video under the guise of, “let’s have hope this (Covid lies/Democrats being in charge) will all end soon.” 3/

I was FLOORED. I’m pretty open about my politics. Many moms and I chatted regularly after school about the stress of a Trump presidency or how much we loved Harris. She’d sat at my kitchen table and agreed with me on values. But this was 🤯 rhetoric 4/

At first I asked if she meant to send that video, and she confirmed she did. So I replied that I was a democrat and didn’t see how that message was overly positive. She told me she was “sad for you” that “you’re not willing to listen to the whole message.” 5/

#AYA

1. Precious Beloved Ones!

Each Moment That You Feel Love, Your Consciousness Expands In Light! In These Moments Of Expansion, You Are Becoming Your True Self!  A Being Of Light And Love You Will Always Remain!

I'm so angry that when I was a kid, all I knew about Dolly Parton was the size of her chest. And her hair color, I guess. Imagine taking all that talent and decency and goodness and organization -Imagination Library!!!- and reducing it, dismissively, to jokes about her appearance

I don't even know where that impression came from - movies? comedians? other kids? -but I remember it. And yeah, she hadn't done everything then that she has now, but that kind of proves my point: you focus on appearance, you miss what someone has done AND what they're capable of

AND she had already written Jolene and I Will Always Love You among many others. Why wasn't her main reputation, the first thing you learned about her, that of a major songwriter like Dylan or Paul Simon or ..?

(I know why)

this makes me furious because it's such a clear example of what our society is CONSTANTLY doing to women, people of color, fat people, disabled people, anyone who doesn't fit the image that we're sold of what power, cool, artist, genius, look like.

and because those people who don't fit get dismissed, we only see that narrow segment of appearances representing those categories, that image is reinforced over and over again. I hope it's starting to change, a little.

Thread - When in doubt, just move

In this thread, I'll discuss one of the major issues I had a couple of years back.

The issue of staying still when there's no reason to.

The issue of not actively doing something and thinking I could think my way out of problems.

Let's get into it.

I've always been thinking too much for my own sake.

I like to break down complex ideas, look at them from a bird's eye standpoint.

This is cool, but only to a certain extent.

It starts being very problematic when it comes to practicality.

What would happen is, every time I came around a roadblock, I would try to think harder (thinking that it would lead me to a solution)

It doesn't.

All it happened was I was left feeling more overwhelmed and with no answers.

This is what I would call "Living life passively."

When I look at unhappy people, there's usually a common denominator in them.

They're letting life happen to them.

They've settled for the "comfy" job, for the "stable" relationship, or they just straight-up haven't achieved jack shit and yet they don't do anything about it.

In 1746 in West Africa, a child is playing on the banks of a stream. He's trying to catch a moorhen. It sounds picturesque, but within seconds this little boy will be abducted. He will be shipped across the globe to North Wales. This is the story of John Ystumllyn.

#thread

He is taken far from his home, far from everything and everyone he knows. Eventually, he arrives in Ynyscynhaiarn, Gwynedd to work for the Wynne family. We don’t know what name his parents had given him, but the Wynnes named him ‘John Ystumllyn’ after their estate.

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If you’ve been watching #AHouseThroughTime you'll have seen the story of Thomas, a black boy who was a 'servant' of a family in Bristol until he ran away in 1759. Boys like Thomas often appeared in portraits and still-life paintings in this period.

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The paintings were displayed as status symbols to highlight a family’s wealth and connections to overseas trade. In 1754, John had his portrait painted. Presumably it hung in the Wynne’s home. A novelty in North Wales, he became known as Jack Du, or in English, Jack Black.

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When John arrived at Ynyscynhaiarn, he was possibly as young as 8, and ‘had no language other than sounds similar to the howling of a dog’. We can only begin to imagine how lonely and terrifying it must have been in a completely unfamiliar place with no way to communicate.

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I sometimes forget how great it was to grow up in a tiny town that was all of 2 miles wide in southwest Indiana. You could walk or ride your bike anywhere and be safe, never worried about traffic, you could easily get anywhere. You were surrounded by country you could get to...

with a quick bike trip which could turn into a massive trip. My best friend in 9th & 10th grade and I would ride 20 miles from home sometimes, just getting lost, no idea how to get back home, not worried at all.

No worries of a job at that age, and no worries we would be in any danger. No cell phones in 1993, so no distractions. Just kids having the time of their lives. We used to spend the night at his aunt's house, who was cool as hell.

I remember one time she took us to get lunch in Evansville, "the bif city" 30 mins away. We followed that with a movie, a 2 hr trip to the arcade/batting cages, then a second movie that night. Crazy to have no responsibilities but to enjoy life.

She was probably in her late 20's or early 30's, very nerdy, but very cool to us, and a genuine friend even w the age gap. She was awesome, as was his mom who would stay up til 1AM to watch scary movies with us every weekend.

*Thread* - (e)motion

Manipulate Energy, leverage emotions, & defeat low energy

Emotion = energy in motion

You don't own feelings, they are not who you are

Just like you don't own radio stations you tune into

Feelings are signals of the amount of energy around you & flowing through you

If you are feeling low energy it means high energy is unfamiliar to you

Depression = Repression

It's a lack of expression - cells, brain, body

Energy is not flowing

If you were to:
- Exercise intensely
- Do something creatively stimulating (socializing, writing, producing)

Dopamine would light up
ATP would begin producing

Heart rate would go up
Blood flow would increase

Nervous system would be active
Oxygen would be flowing to the brain & through the body

"Ask and you shall receive"

Until demand is seen you will not be supplied what you need

We are wired to conserve energy

If you inhale too much
You'll FEEL a need to exhale

Things that are frustrating to here as an autistic person

A thread

The classic

”You don't look autistic.”

Cool, I wouldn't have guessed you were neurotypical from your appearance, but here we are

“But you’re so normal”

Yes that’s because I mask to make you feel comfortable.

Like do you want me to stop making eye contact or would that be too much for you?

“Everybody is a bit autistic”

Ummm.....just no.

You’re either autistic or not

It undermines the struggles autistic people face in our society.

It’s also just dismissive.