Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Time yourself. Revise your pitch. Tweak your pitch for each new situation you're in. Don't practice too much. Ask friends to listen.

Answer: Once you have what you feel like is a good draft of your elevator pitch, time how long it takes you to say it out loud in a conversational manner. Set a timer on your phone or computer or just by looking at your watch, and see if you can share everything you need to in 60 to 90 seconds. If it takes you longer than 60 to 90 seconds, don’t just speed up. If you speak too quickly while you’re giving your pitch, it will become obvious to your listener that you’re giving them a canned speech, and they’ll likely lose interest. Once you’ve said your pitch out loud a few times, you’ll want to revise it. It might be too long, which requires streamlining some of the information you include. You should also continuously update your pitch to include new experiences and skills or changing goals. You won’t be giving your elevator pitch to the same person in the same situation every time you give it. Make sure you practice your speech before each new event or situation and tweak it to match.  For example, if you’re at a career fair, you’ll want to emphasize goals that relate to getting a job (or changing jobs) and the skills that make you an excellent new addition to an existing team. If you’re going to a networking event that might help you expand your client base, emphasize the goals related to customer retention and the skills and accomplishments that will attract new customers to you. Although you should practice enough that you can comfortably share everything you want to say within your time limit, you shouldn’t over-practice. If you do, your pitch will end up sounding rehearsed and, even worse, you could sound bored when you’re saying it. You should know what you want to say but it should also sound fresh. Once you feel comfortable with your pitch, ask at least one of your friends to listen to it and offer feedback. They can help you determine if you’re speaking too quickly, if you sound too rehearsed, and if you’re engaging.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Find a mental health professional. Be prepared for feelings of resistance. Test the validity of your fears. Discover what triggers your anxiety. Educate yourself about your condition. Keep a journal.

Answer: Research indicates that mental health therapy is an effective treatment for IAD . Ask your doctor for a referral for a counselor in your area. If you don't have a doctor or would rather find a counselor on your own, the National Board for Certified Counselors has an online directory. If you’re convinced that you have a serious medical issue, you may find it insulting to sit and talk with someone who is telling you that you aren’t capable of accurately perceiving your own body. But if you want to overcome the fear and anxiety that is causing you so much emotional turmoil, you need to trust someone who understands your condition. Allow yourself to feel uncomfortable. Part of your treatment will involve forcing yourself to stop monitoring your physical symptoms, something that may fill you with anxiety if you’ve been closely attending to your symptoms for weeks or months.  Invariably, this process will cause you some discomfort. Much of your treatment will hinge on challenging your thinking. You might be asked to stop taking your blood pressure or feeling for lumps on your body, and your therapist will push you to examine the fears that underlie your worries about your health. You must resist the temptation to fall back into a pattern of obsessive self-monitoring. Remind yourself that this uneasiness is evidence that the process is working and that you're making progress. You're not going to get better without making some significant changes, and the change process is always going to be difficult on some level. In some cases, anxiety actually creates physical symptoms such as stomach distress, so part of your counseling will involve learning about what makes you particularly vulnerable to being overcome with worry about your health.  You may feel more anxiety over perceived symptoms during times of stress in life. Working with a therapist will teach you to identify the signs so that you can stop those negative thoughts before they consume you. Attend all of your scheduled treatment sessions. Inevitably, there will be days when you don’t want to attend therapy, either because you’re feeling sick or you simply don’t think the counseling is making any difference. You must resist this temptation. If you don’t take your treatment seriously, it won’t work, and you’ll create a self-fulfilling prophecy. While hypochondriasis is less well researched than many mental illnesses, there is a body of research available if you do a little digging.  Read the accounts of people who have written about their hypochondria. There are numerous blogs and forums where people relate the stories of how they came to understand their illness and learned to manage it. Though you might not want to consider the fact that you’re one of them, reading their stories will help you identify many of the same thoughts and fears in your own life. Channel your anxiety into better understanding your disorder. No matter how much you research the physical symptoms that are causing you so much worry, it will never be enough to calm your mind. Instead, use the time you would have spent searching for evidence that your aches and pains are signs of your impending doom to read up on hypochondriasis. Writing down your thoughts will provide you with a record of your symptoms and experiences. If your symptoms repeatedly lead to nowhere, you will be able to provide yourself evidence that your fears have been unfounded all along.  When you're feeling anxious or wish you had someone to talk to, write down your thoughts instead. Are you terrified of experiencing physical pain? Have you watched someone close to you suffer with an illness and you're afraid that you'll go through the same thing? Where did those feelings originate for you? Exploring some of those bigger questions will help you uncover the thinking patterns that are underlying your anxiety.   Writing down your thoughts will allow you to track the progression of your symptoms and give you an opportunity to see what sorts of moods and situations make it more likely for you to enter the spiral of worry and anxiety. This can also help you identify your triggers. For instance, do you tend to start to worry during a particularly stressful time at work? Are you more likely to stay up late at night searching for evidence of your illness when you’re fighting with your partner? Once you can identify those triggers, you can start to manage them more effectively.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Open the Creative menu. Scroll down to the stairs section. Click and drag your preferred stair onto the quick-access bar.

Answer: Do so by pressing E (PC) or X (Xbox). You'll find every type of stair available for creation in Minecraft about two-thirds of the way down the page. These stairs include the following:  Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark wood stairs Cobblestone stairs Brick stairs Stone brick stairs Sandstone stairs Red sandstone stairs Quartz stairs Purpur stairs This bar is at the bottom of the screen; dropping the stairs onto this bar will make them equippable. On Xbox, just selected your preferred stairs, tap A, and tap A again.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Prune lime trees every year or 2 years depending on branch health. Aim to prune the tree in late winter if you live in a frost-free zone. Wait until late spring to prune the tree if you live in a frost-prone zone. Remove any remaining fruit prior to pruning.

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To help the lime tree grow as large and healthy as possible, you'll need to prune it regularly. Aim for a pruning schedule of once per year or once every 2 years. Inspect your tree in the spring to determine if it has dead, diseased, crossed, or tangled branches. If so, plan to prune the tree that year and if not, you can wait until the following year. If you live in a warm climate, you should prune the lime tree after harvesting the fruit for the season. The flowers that will produce limes for the next season will be visible, allowing you to easily decide which areas to prune. If you live in a cold climate, you should wait until the risk of frost has passed to prune the lime tree. Do an online search to find the average frost dates for your location, and wait until after this date to prune the tree so new growth isn't damaged by frost. If your lime tree has frost damage, wait until it has new growth to prune it. If you're pruning the tree right after a harvest, make sure no limes remain on the tree. Carefully pick off any remaining fruit so you can clearly see and access the branches for pruning.