Article: For most people, it will probably be easiest to have the needle threader in your dominant hand. If you're right-handed, for instance, you'll hold the tool in your right hand, while left-handed sewers will use their left. You’ll have much more coordination that way, which will allow you to focus on manipulating the small items you’ll be working with.  Make sure you’re gripping the needle so that the eye is pointing upwards. Those with unsteady hands may find it helpful to stabilize the needle using a pincushion or piece of cork. The larger object will hold the needle in place while you're threading so that you won't have to. It may take a few attempts to get the two pieces lined up correctly. Push the threader until the needle rests in the shallow groove next to the base. This will keep it from accidentally slipping out.  If you’re having trouble getting the threader loop through, turn the needle slightly so you can see the opening a little better. You may need to push the threader gently to force it through the eye of a smaller-sized needle. The wire threader loop will give you a much larger target to aim at. Once you’ve got the thread inside, pull the loose end to continue feeding it through. Needle threaders take the imprecision out of threading by working in reverse. Instead of guiding the thread straight through, the threader allows you to anchor it in place, then pull the needle around it. Pull the loose end back on itself so that it runs alongside the length of the thread. Gather up both ends between the thumb and forefinger of your free hand. Be sure to create enough length to keep a secure grip on the folded thread. You’ll load the threader the same way whether you want to work with single or double thread.
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Hold the threader in one hand and the needle in the other. Insert the wire threader loop through the eye of the needle. Guide the end of the thread through the threader loop. Double the thread over on itself.
Article: "Settings" is the grey gear icon--it should be on your iPod's home screen. This is located right underneath the "General" tab. Auto-brightness brightens or dims your display based on how much ambient light your iPod detects, but it's a huge battery-drainer. This will dim your display. You can adjust your display brightness at any time from the quick-access menu, which is accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
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Open the Settings app. Tap the "Display & Brightness" tab. Slide the switch next to "Auto-Brightness" to the "Off" position. Slide your brightness adjustment all the way to the left. Close your Settings app.
Article: You should view your side business as a laboratory for your main career.  In other words, whenever possible – and especially if your side business is related to your main career – use your side business as a forum to try new strategies, projects, or techniques. For instance, if your main career involves designing sets for films and you take up a side business designing set pieces for the theatre, try out some new strategies that you might not try at your main job. If your side business is more tangential to your main career, look at general skills or strategies that you could bring to your main career.  For instance, if your main career is running your car washing business and your side business is a hot dog stand, both will require advertising.  You might try to use a more robust digital marketing strategy to promote your hot dog stand, then use the lessons you learned to better promote your car wash. This website will be used to explain to people your services, and you can also showcase your work along with testimonials. Create profiles on relevant social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. You can connect with potential customers within these networks, and also potentially find partners and other opportunities. If your side business is in a field related to your main career, you could advance your main career by referring clients from your side business.  For example, if your main career is in marketing and your side business involves drafting write-ups of new products, you could suggest to your client that they hire you (or your marketing firm more generally) to develop the new product’s advertising campaign.  You could, of course, also use your side business to develop new contacts in your main career even if the two are not closely allied, but it will be more difficult, and happen only in cases of extremely good luck. For instance, if your main career is running a dry cleaning business and your side business is running an art dealership, the two lines of work have little in common.  But it is possible that you might encounter a customer at your dry cleaning business who, in conversation, mentions that they are in the market for art.  At this point, you could suggest to the customer that they purchase some from you. In your side business, institute systems to collect feedback about your performance or work.  The more closely your side business aligns with your main career, the more valuable this feedback will be. For instance, if your main career is teaching English and you take on a side business working as an English tutor, you could ask the students you tutor to fill out a detailed evaluation about what they liked or didn’t like in their lesson, then incorporate that feedback into your primary teaching career. If your side business is less directly related to your main career, look for feedback that is more broadly transferable.  For example, if your side business is selling cupcakes and your main career is selling cars, both involve communicating with prospective customers.  You could ask customers at your cupcake business what part of your sales pitch drew them in, then apply that feedback to your role as a car salesman. If you found that feedback really benefited your side business, you might work to implement a more robust feedback system in your main career. With a side business, you will probably be taking more chances than you do in your main career.  These greater risks hold potentially greater rewards, but they also have greater potential for failure.  But even if your side business doesn’t work out or goes through a rough patch, you can advance your career by learning from these mistakes and failures. For instance, perhaps the company you work for in your main career wishes to develop a commercial space in the same complex that your side business was/is located in.  If you’ve had a bad experience with that space because it was too far from other businesses, you could save your company a lot of trouble by advising them about the shortcomings of the space.
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Try new ideas at your side business that relate directly to your main career. Try new ideas at your side business that relate tangentially to your main career. Create a website so that you have a hub for you to market your side business. Develop new contacts. Seek highly relevant feedback. Seek generally useful feedback. Learn to see failures as opportunities.