Q: Read everything you can. Never stop learning about the market. You can even practice with virtual money before actually investing. Once you’ve begun investing, you will need to keep up with market developments and research in the industries in which you invest. Watch your company's’ competitors closely. This can feel like being in school all the time, so think twice about stock trading if you're not willing to keep a close eye on the market.   Read the company’s annual report as well as the one they file with the SEC. This will give you important information about where the company might be going, and hint at possible problems on the horizon. Read reliable sources of investment information like Standard and Poor’s reports, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg or Forbes. You’ll want to take some time just watching the market and learning how it works. Watch as stocks rise and fall, and observe the sorts of things which evoke market reactions. When you feel like you understand how the market works, then you can get your feet wet. Fully investigate their finances and make sure that they’re what they should be. Look for problems. If there’s a hint of trouble, seriously reconsider.   You will need to look at their earnings, sales, debt, and equity. Sales, earnings, and equity should be going up over time. Debt should be going down. You will also want to look at their price-earnings ratio, price-to-sales ratio, return-on- equity, earnings, and ratio of total debt to total assets. These will give you an even deeper feel for a company than just looking at earnings and debt. Safe investments are in those things which people need and will continue to need, things like oil, food, medicine, and certain technologies. The safer way to make money investing is to gain it slowly over time. Stocks which rise very quickly can fall just as quickly. Especially when you first start trading and you’re trying to understand the market, look for companies which have a long, stable history that shows no sign of faltering.
A: Do your research. Take time to get to know the market. Take a hard look at companies before you invest in them. Think about the product. Keep long-term performance in mind.

Q: When you eat too fast, you'll be swallowing air along with your food. This results in burping. Eating quickly may also be a sign of stress, which is connected to increased gas production.  Avoid this issue by sitting up straight, eating slowly, and chewing your food thoroughly. You should also avoid talking while you eat because you are unknowingly swallowing more air when you talk and chew. If you think you may have had a meal that might make you burp a lot, go for a stroll after you eat. Walking will help to move the food through your digestive tract and reduce the desire to burp. Avoid this problem by practicing good posture, sitting up straight when you drink. Drinking directly from a cup or glass will help prevent swallowing air.  You should also avoid switching quickly from hot to cold beverages (and vice versa), as sudden changes in stomach temperature can make you swallow more air. Bending over to drink from a water fountain results in swallowing air, leading to burping. Carry a water bottle, and fill it from a water fountain when needed. Drinking alcoholic beverages increase stomach acidity, leading you to swallow more air. It also increases the chances of certain birth defects. Medical practitioners recommend eliminating alcohol completely, especially during the initial stages of pregnancy.  If you feel that eliminating alcohol from your diet will be difficult for you, ask for help. If you don't feel comfortable talking to your medical provider about this issue, there are many anonymous helplines that you can call. Certain studies suggest that very light alcohol use in the latter stages of pregnancy will not result in harm. Light use means one to two alcohol units per week (one to two 5 ounce glasses of wine).  More than six units per day can result in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a lifelong pervasive developmental disorder. Smoking causes you to swallow air, which leads to increased gas and burping. In addition, smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of adverse outcomes for babies.  Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals. Many are toxic to you and your baby. As the baby's only source of oxygen is the air you consume, these chemicals have a huge impact on your baby's development. Ask your medical provider for help quitting smoking.
A: Eat slowly. Reduce the amount of air you swallow when drinking. Avoid alcohol. Quit smoking.

Q: Feeling anxiety about aging is completely normal, but your fear might be an unrealistic reaction to an experience or your conceptions of getting old.  Identifying why you’re scared of turning 30 may help you more quickly accept this milestone.  You might fear turning 30 because some people categorize it as “old.” However, with medical progress and longer life expectancy, thirty is no longer middle age.  You might fear turning thirty because it makes you feel like you should be accept more responsibility, act like an adult, or because you haven’t achieved everything you thought you would by this age.  Consider writing out your aging fears to help you realize that they’re not rational and accept your milestone. You can’t turn back the proverbial hand of time, so just accept—and welcome-- the fact that you’re turning thirty. Once you let go and recognize the inevitable, you may more easily accept turning 30.  Many others people in your life, including your parents and probably some of your friends, have turned 30 and survived. Know you will live through turning 30 and will probably enjoy the decade more than you did your 20s.  Take on the attitude that “30 is the new 20.” This behavioral tactic of framing the milestone to minimize its gravity may help you accept it more readily. Consider practicing gentle yoga and meditation to help stretch out your muscles. Doing these exercises can help relax and refocus you, and in turn may help you more readily accept that you’re turning 30.  Try doing gentle forms of yoga, such as restorative and yin yoga. These forms are specifically practiced to help stretch out and repair muscles and relax the body.  There are many different health benefits to meditation such as lower blood pressure, decreased anxiety and depression, less stress, and greater feelings of relaxation and general well-being.  Meditation can also help liberate your mind and allow you to let go of the attachment to things you can’t control.  Talk to your doctor before you begin any yoga practice to make sure you’re healthy enough to practice. This old truism has likely never been more accurate than today. With advances in health care and lifestyles, people are living longer and looker younger for longer periods of time.  If you take care of yourself by exercising, eating healthy, getting plenty of rest, and avoiding stress, your body may be much healthier than that of someone younger than you.  Societal pressures in the media often make aging look like a process of aches, feebleness, and inactivity. By keeping in mind Mark Twain’s statement, “age is an issue of mind over matter,” you may be able to not focus on the number of your age but how much you can do and how great you feel. Your twenties are a defining decade of your life that are filled with making life plans and getting settled. Think about what you’ve accomplished already in your twenties and how that can help set you up for another exciting decade in your thirties where plans may come to fruition. You can consider most major milestones in your twenties as accomplishments. For example, maybe you finished your education or started a family. You can use these accomplishments as starting points for goals during your thirties. Accept that there is going to be failure in any endeavor. Learning to embrace the failure and then move on can help you to age gracefully and accept the upcoming challenges of the new decade. The inability to accept turning thirty may begin with expectations you had for yourself. Letting go of unrealistic or unfulfilled expectations can help you create a positive environment and start your thirties out on the right foot. Accept that nothing is perfect. Imperfection adds character and letting go of any expectations of perfection will help you focus on the positive changes in your life. Every person is different and comparing yourself to other people can minimize your self-confidence, especially in an era when there is so much societal pressure to appear young. Focusing on yourself and not comparing yourself to others is essential to accepting your upcoming milestone. Don’t let societal conceptions of age or aging discourage you. With so much focus on celebrities who seemingly don’t age—mostly with the help of cosmetic procedures--  it’s hard to accept aging.
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Figure out why you are scared of turning 30. Accept that you’re turning 30. Practice yoga and meditation. Remember that age is just a number. Think about your accomplishments so far. Forget and move on from failures. Let go of expectations. Avoid comparing yourself to others.