Problem: Article: While you might be tempted to distance yourself from the key political players, it’s best to get close to them instead. This will help you understand what they do and what their current goal is. Do your best to stay on their good side. Additionally, use your inside knowledge to avoid work drama.  For instance, offer to help them with something or go to lunch with them occasionally. Be careful what you say in front of them. They can misuse your words against you. It’s important to know the informal hierarchy at your job. For instance, your boss’s secretary may have a low job title but probably has a lot of influence over your workplace. Pay attention to who seems to have authority in your office. Then, build a relationship with those who have influence. For example, you may notice that your boss’s mentee has a lot of influence even though they’re new. Invite them to lunch and offer to help them. more than you speak. Listening to what others say gives you more power than your might realize. You’ll know what everyone is doing and about any gossip that’s going around. Additionally, talking less will put you at a lower risk for oversharing something that you shouldn’t. While you’re at the office, try to listen more than you speak.  Since people like talking about themselves, this will also make them like you more. This doesn’t mean that you should avoid your coworkers. Make the rounds and greet people, but let them do most of the talking. You might say, “Hey, how’s the project going?” Spreading rumors isn’t the way to help your career. While it might seem to work for others, it’s a dirty way to get ahead. Additionally, it can easily backfire. Don’t trash your coworkers to try to make yourself look better.  Try to establish a reputation as an honest, fair person who doesn’t attack others. If you have a real complaint about someone, try to work it out with them. If you do find yourself a target of office politics, having good documentation can help you protect yourself. Save your email communications, document meeting minutes, and keep records of the work you contribute to group projects. Organize your documentation so that it’s easy to access. For example, you might type up meeting minutes and send it to your coworkers so that everyone has a copy. That way, if there’s a dispute later, you can pull out the minutes that everyone agreed to right after the meeting.
Summary: Get close to the people who play dirty so you know what they’re doing. Connect with people who have influence in your office. Listen Avoid bad mouthing your colleagues. Keep records of your work progress and communications.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Infidelity is often correlated with emotional distance between you and your partner, and one way to avoid the urge to cheat in the first place is to remain emotionally close. Is it possible that you and your partner had difficulty sharing emotions in the past?  In the future, learning to share your feelings effectively may open up the possibility of sharing with your partner your desire to cheat, before cheating. Consider talking openly with your partner in the future about your experiences and perspective on commitment.  To avoid making someone else feel attacked or hurt, start your sentences with “I feel that…” This makes it clear that you feel a certain way, and are not arguing or stating something as a fact. Give yourself permission to move on. Remember that you might feel sad or angry now, but you won’t feel this way forever. Don’t bottle your anger up inside, but address it. Work on letting go of the pain, while remembering the lessons you’ve learned.  If you are angry at your partner, but your partner does not know why, you should tell your partner. Resist the urge to throw the betrayal in your partner’s face during arguments. It will hurt your trust for one another and keep you both from moving past the betrayal. To move forward in your relationship, you must have a nugget of trust between the two of you. Don't look for clues or evidence that they are cheating again. Being able to forgive your partner and move past this hurdle will strengthen your relationship in the long run.  Trust your partner to uphold their end of whatever rules, boundaries, or effort you decided to put into effect. If you said so, trust them to bring up any issues they have. It may seem scary to trust someone to do exactly what they failed to do last time, but there is no alternative that leads to a trusting relationship again. Trust yourself. If you do not feel comfortable, figure out why. If you feel like you cannot trust the other person, address it instead of ignoring how you feel. Part of forgiveness is seeing your significant other as a whole person again, and in a positive light, rather than thinking of them just as someone who acted in a way that hurt you.  You want to see your partner as vulnerable and capable of being hurt, instead of thinking of them as malicious.  Exercises like role reversal and role play can help you empathize with the other.  Try thinking about the what it’s like to “be in their shoes,” or try speaking to each other as the other person.

SUMMARY: Express your feelings more frequently. Look past anger. Exercise trust. Empathize with your partner.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Locate a place on the gutters where a nail holds them to the house. It is best to place the ladder here because the gutter is supported best at the nails. If you place the ladder farther from a nail, the gutter is weaker and may crash.  If you can lean the ladder against the house’s main structure rather than the gutters, do this to entirely avoid leaning on the gutters. If you're putting your ladder up in a soft or landscaped area, put a piece of plywood underneath the feet. This will help keep the legs stable and minimize the risk of falls. Always wear work gloves for this process. Use a small garden trowel to scoop out as much of the debris as possible. If you don’t have a small trowel, find an empty plastic bottle with a sturdy handle. Cut the bottom and part of the side out to form a scoop.  Set up a large garbage can or a tarp on the ground for a place to dump the leaves as you clean. Throw the leaves on the compost pile if you have one, or discard them in the garbage. Be careful using a trowel over joints or downspouts, and too much force could cause damage to these connections. Lean to your right and left, scooping as much as you can without moving the ladder. Be careful not to lean so far that you get off balance. Ladder safety is always important. Since you can probably only reach a few feet to either side of the ladder, you’ll need to move it multiple times until you have removed all of the buildup from inside the gutters. This is the most time-consuming part of the cleaning process. Carry the nozzle of the hose with you up the ladder to the gutters. Use a sprayer attachment, if you have one, to increase the water pressure. Spray the gutters toward each of the downspouts to rinse remaining debris out of the gutters. It may take a while to wash all of the gunk out of the gutters, but it will be worth it to make sure future rain can flow freely through them. While the water is running, check each downspout to see if the rinse water is washing down through them. If there seems to be a blockage, use a stick, such as a broom handle, to push the blockage from the top to the bottom of the downspout. Leave the water running while you push to help move the blockage along. You may need a longer stick, depending on where along the downspout the blockage is.
Summary:
Lean the ladder against the gutters near a nail. Scoop out leaves and debris that are stuck in the gutters. Move the ladder to the next section and continue cleaning. Flush the gutters with a garden hose. Check the water flow through the downspouts.