INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Clearly outline your intentions, goals, and services. Identify the number of individuals you can shelter and whether you will offer a food pantry, pet assistance, or career counseling. Your mission statement can be anywhere from a few sentences to a few pages. Ideally, someone will donate a building to you. Otherwise, you'll need to pay rent, which can make it hard to run a homeless shelter. Drive around the neighborhood and check for abandoned buildings. You can find the owner by visiting the county assessor's office and checking tax records.  Also make requests for a donation through media, such as radio/TV shows, newspapers, and social media. You can only have a shelter in an area zoned for it, so check zoning laws as well. Your building should have bathrooms and working showers for the residents. Some homeless shelters have individual showers, but many have communal showers. When you visit a building, check the plumbing and confirm there is enough space to install showers. Decide whether you want to provide meals to your residents as well. If you do, there needs to be a working kitchen where you can prepare food. You'll also need space for residents to eat, which should be separate from the sleeping area. Talk to nonprofits in your area and discuss your interest in starting a homeless shelter. They might give you tips about how to get off the ground. They might also have funds you can use to defray start-up costs. Consult with religious institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques. Their values should align with yours, so they might be particularly eager to help you start a homeless shelter. If you can't get another nonprofit to fund you, you'll need to find funds on your own. This can be a challenge. You can apply for government grants, which you can find online. In the U.S., check grants.gov and usa.gov. Consider other sources of funding:  Friends and family. Show them your proposal in which you explain why you are starting the homeless shelter and how you will use the money.  Donors. People who don't know you might donate to the homeless shelter. They'll need some way to find you, so you might want to create a website. Set up the website so that you can accept Paypal. You need to jump through many hoops to start your homeless shelter. You'll need expert legal advice, which only a qualified attorney can provide. Although money might be tight, you should still look for a lawyer. Some lawyers are happy to provide services pro bono to nonprofits. Talk to a local attorney and ask if they know someone willing to work pro bono.

SUMMARY: Prepare a mission statement. Find a location for your shelter. Walk through the buildings. Partner with another nonprofit. Find financing. Get legal help.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: In standard guitar tuning, the strings are tuned EADGBE. Each letter corresponds to a string, from the low sixth to the high first. It's easy to remember this order with a fun acronym, like:  Every Angry Dog Gets Bit Eventually Evenings After Dinner Gertrude Baked Eggplant

SUMMARY: Remember standard tuning with a silly acronym.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Using imagery helps improve self-confidence. Try an imagery technique where you focus on achieving confidence. Visualize yourself as completely self-confident and accomplishing your goal. What are you doing? What Is going on around you? What does it feel like? Who is there? What you are thinking about? Goal-setting increases self-confidence because it makes us feel like we are working toward something positive. Focus on what goals you have for the current situation. For example, perhaps your goal in giving your presentation is to clearly explain your message, make sure you got your point across, and appear confident.  The more goals you achieve, the more confident you may become.  Think about the purpose of the activity you are doing. Ask yourself, “What do I want to get out of this?” Set specific goals for what you are about to do. Focus on achieving those goals instead of thinking about what might go wrong. A self-fulfilling prophecy is where you believe that something negative will happen, and then you end up influencing that negative thing to occur. For example, if you are so fearful of stumbling over your words, your anxiety about it could actually lead you to make this negative outcome a reality. If you think you are going to stumble, then your anxiety and nervousness increases, and your heart races, and then you cannot focus and you lose your train of thought. Instead of focusing on the negative, focus on what you do want to happen – to speak clearly and get your message across. Think thoughts such as, "I'm going to go in there and be confident, calm, collected, and get my message out." If you find yourself thinking negatively about the situation, try to find someone who will tell you otherwise. Successful people in the area in which you want to increase your confidence can serve as role models.  We can learn from others, treat them as our mentors, and emulate their success and confidence. If you don’t have someone readily available in person, you can call a friend to discuss the situation with.

SUMMARY: Use guided imagery or visualization. Be clear on your goals. Trust in a positive outcome. Get another opinion.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The pinky of your non-dominant hand, or top hand, should curl just below the end of the club. Place your dominant hand, or bottom hand, just below your top hand. Keep the club in the creases between your palms and fingers instead of in the middle of your palms.  For your bottom hand, your ring and pinky fingers should grip the club with the most pressure. For your top hand, your index finger should make contact with the most pressure. Your grip should be loose but well-controlled. Grip the club tightly enough to keep it secure in your hands, but keep your hands free of tension. Your non-dominant foot should be in front, or closer to the target. Position your back foot perpendicular to the target, and point your front toe slightly toward the target. Distribute your weight evenly on each foot, and keep your weight on the balls of your feet.  Center the ball between your feet. The ball should be far enough away from your feet that your arms can hang straight down comfortably. If you have to reach, you’re too far away. If you have to hold your arms close to your body, you’re too close to the ball. Bend over from your hips so your arms can hang down comfortably. Imagine a clock face; the angle between 12 o’clock and 3 o’clock is 90 degrees. To bend at the correct angle, your back should be just past 1 o’clock, or around the 6 minute mark.  Try looking at yourself in a mirror to gauge the angle of your hip bend. A good hip bend will allow you to rotate your hips and power your swing. Your body, the ball, and the target should all be parallel. Imagine you’re standing on train tracks. Your feet should be on 1 rail, and the ball should be on the other.

SUMMARY:
Hold the club with a secure, natural grip. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and knees slightly bent. Bend forward from your hips about 35 to 40 degrees. Square your shoulders, hips, knees, and feet with the ball.