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Empathy with another person conveys warmth, validation, and caring.  It is the foundation of healthy relationships, building upon listening and respect.  Empathy requires that we contribute our own similar experiences through conversation and reinforce values that we share with the other person.  When someone views you as empathetic, they are more likely to confide, trust, and hold you in esteem, the foundational pillars of a good relationship. Practice empathy, not sympathy: Sympathy is a feeling a sadness inspired when we hear someone else's pain and focus on our own similar tragedies. Empathy keeps the focus on the other person, attempting to listen to and feel her pain, unique from your own. Compassion requires self-analysis to examine the causes of our own pain and inspires unwillingness to inflict that same pain on others. It means supporting the right of others to thrive and be happy, even if we do not always agree with their views. At its base level, compassion is an act of kindness that reassures others that we find them worthy and valuable.  Try to enact compassion in your own life by:  Offer compassion to those who have mistreated you: Perhaps the hardest act of compassion is to someone we are tempted to believe does not deserve it.  The best thing to do is to put yourself in the other person's positions and imagine what events they have gone through that have produced the anger and pain they inflict on others.  Allow yourself to feel empathy for that pain, and channel it into kindness and tolerance for that person. Focus on common ground: People are more alike than different.  We all thrive on similar things — love, trust, support, belonging.  Just because these desires may manifest outwardly in unique ways does not mean that we are unalike.  When you find yourself dwelling on difference, try to shift your focus back to similarities by reminding yourself that, like you, this person is seeking happiness, known suffering, seeks safety, and is still learning about the world. Reciprocity is an important component of developing strong connections with others.Think of ways that you can lift a burden from the shoulders of another, if only for a moment. Showing you are there for someone and really care for them can help deepen your relationship.  Offer acts of kindness. For example, you babysit for free when a neighbor needs a night off from the kids, help a friend move, tutor your little sister in math. Do these things with no expectation of payment or reciprocity — do it simply as a kindness. Do something nice for others. You could give a gift or words of encouragement. Show support by lending a helping hand or offering to assist in some way. Share responsibilities in roommate or shared housing situations (such as cleaning and paying bills, etc).

summary: Empathize. Show compassion. Give back.


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When using PowerPoint slides you want them to actually help and raise the quality of your presentation, not simply exist alongside it. The best way to do this is to ensure that your slides do not simply restate what you are saying. You should not be reading from your slides. Really, you want PowerPoint presentations to contain as little text as possible. Having to read text will distract your audience, even if only unconsciously, from what you are telling them. With this in mind, keep your text to a minimum and present it in a way that is easy to read, such as a bulleted list. So, if you can't put all your information onto your slides, how are you supposed to tell your audience everything that can't fit into your speech? Handouts! Make a one or two page handout, for each audience member or for people to take at will, which contains a section for each slide or portion of your presentation. Here you can put extra information or key points of information that were included in your presentation. Graphics are what make a really engaging PowerPoint presentation. These can provide your audience with a new way of looking at what you are trying to tell them. They can provide information which may be difficult for you to convey in words, such as charts and graphs. You will want to be sure, however, that they actually add to your presentation and do not simply provide a distraction. With the above information in mind, you will want to be absolutely sure that you do not include unnecessary visuals or audio. Examples would include transition animations, clip art, sound effects, and cluttered templates or background images. These are the features which tend to make Powerpoint presentations boring, dated, and unhelpful. They distract audience members and add nothing to the presentation. They even hinder the audience's ability to absorb information.

summary: Streamline text. Give handouts. Use informative graphics. Cut unnecessary sounds and visuals.


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Create an account with a missing persons database, such as NAMUS. NAMUS, also known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, is a United States government funded website that allows law enforcement professionals and the general public to add and track missing person cases. Include basic details as well as photos and more specific information about the missing person. Provide as much information as possible that might help strangers identify the person you are looking for. Consider how they might look now as opposed to when they went missing. NAMUS allows account holders to make and print missing persons posters.  After you have created and printed some posters with information on your missing loved one, post and distribute these posters locally as well as in the areas where the person was last seen. Persistence is very important to finding lost or missing persons, so check your account daily and get involved in the website’s forums to connect with others who are going through the same thing as you are.
summary: Register with a missing persons website. Add a missing person case. Create missing person posters. Check back often.