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How to Stop Zoning Out
Do you have trouble paying attention during lectures or find yourself distracted while communicating with others? Does concentrating to complete a task take special effort? If you find yourself zoning out a lot in life, you have probably gotten negative f...
How to Lower Your Investment Fees
For investors, fees are an ever-present issue that can greatly affect your return on investment over time. Even fees that seem small can add up if you hold your investments for decades. Indeed, most advertisements for brokers or investment services will t...
How to Cope with an Invisible Disease
Invisible illnesses can cause many symptoms, such as pain or fatigue; however, because the symptoms are not visible to others, people may trivialize your condition or think you are faking it. Dealing with an invisible illness can be difficult. You can cop...
How to See How Many Miles You've Walked on an iPhone
Do you want to know how many miles you walked with your iPhone? The Health app in iOS helps you keep track of your walking and running distance in steps and miles. You can easily access your step count, miles walked, and even how many flights of stairs yo...
How to Make a Felt Activity Wall for Kids
Making a felt activity wall for kids is an easy and affordable project. To get started, measure the wall you want to convert into a felt activity wall. Obtain an appropriate length of felt and at several yards of felt in various colors. Apply the felt...
How to Help Your Teen Learn to Control Their Asthma
If asthma is not dealt with properly, it can develop into a very serious situation for your teen. In order to protect your teen, help them learn how to control their asthma. This starts with learning to identify the symptoms and triggers. Keeping a diary...
How to Flip Items for Profit Online
Flipping an item just means buying an item for a good price and selling it for more elsewhere. Generally, you buy items used at places like thrift stores and garage sales and sell them online. Some people even flip items for a living, making enough to qui...
How to Cope when Your Parents and In‐Laws Do Not Get Along
It can be very difficult if you and your spouse's parents do not get along. This can lead to awkward, often frustrating interactions. To cope, set firm boundaries. Let everyone know what behaviors are and are not acceptable. See if there's a way to find a...
How to Eat More Pulses
A pulse is an edible seed and part of the legume family that grows within a pod and includes a wide variety of foods, including beans, lentils, and peas. Pulses are a great source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein, particularly for those whose die...
How to Color Wash Furniture
Should you find yourself with a need to restore an old, lifeless piece of furniture but are bored with ordinary paints and stains, you’ll be happy to discover that there’s another option: a color wash. Color washing involves diluting a solid matte paint i...
How to Avoid Unhealthy Health Goals
Unhealthy health goals are all too common. Bad health goals often involve focusing too much on the outcome and not enough on the process of getting healthy. Bad goals include trying to lose a large amount of weight in a short time frame or training for a...
How to Sort Notes by Date Created on an iPhone
This wikiHow teaches how to change the Notes app on your iPhone so that notes are displayed in the order they are created, with the oldest notes at the bottom.
How to Treat Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited condition that causes high levels of LDL cholesterol (or "bad" cholesterol) in your blood from birth. High levels of LDL cholesterol put you at risk for a heart attack at an early age. Treating FH begins...
How to Treat Esophageal Diverticulum
Esophageal diverticulitis are pockets formed in your esophagus that can trap food and cause difficulty with swallowing. Most esophageal diverticulitis do not have symptoms, and they may not require any special treatment. That said, if your condition is se...
How to Handle People Rushing You Through Mourning
Coping with a loss is one of the hardest times in a person’s life. Unfortunately, when the people around you are insensitive to your pain, it only complicates matters. Feeling pressured by friends and family to move on after losing someone can cause you t...
How to Pack a Vegan Lunch for Work
Vegan lunches can be difficult. You don't want your lunch to be too voluminous, or be something that will take too long to prepare (or too long to eat). And in many cases, it has to be something that can sit for a few hours without being refrigerated. To...