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Conflict resolution is a peaceful way of trying to solve a conflict with resolution. Both sides in the conflict explain what they feel happened to cause the conflict. The person who listens to both sides is called the mediator（调解人）.
After both sides state what they think happened to cause the conflict, they discuss ways to solve the conflict. They try to come up with a "resolution" that both sides agree to.
Communication throughout the entire conflict resolution process is always exchanged in a calm manner without anger. Everyone attempts to use good listening and attending skills while people are talking.
If voices get too loud or it appears that someone is angry, the mediator's role is to address this and have the people treat each other with respect.
After various suggestions are shared in how to mediate the conflict, discussion centers on the best solution. Conflict resolution is used in many environments to help solve disagreements in a peaceful way. This is an example of how conflict resolution works in a school playground setting:
Someone says that a student pushed them on the soccer field.
The person accused as the "pusher" claims it was an accident.
The mediator takes the two people who are upset somewhere in a quieter spot and talk.
Each person describes what happened, and the mediator makes the matter clear to everyone by repeating what he heard.
The mediator asks for ideas to solve the problem and the two individuals（个体）offer solutions.
The individuals discuss the solutions and come to some agreement on the solution.
Conflict resolution can work in many settings and it can work with several individuals at once. In any event, it is worth trying to get at the heart of the matter by involving the individuals who have a concern. It encourages them to analyze what really happened, to share their feelings about the conflict, and to work together peacefully to solve the problem. Conflict resolution gives those involved a structure（框架）to use with a mediator to help reach an agreement. That is to say, it allows people to see a workable framework.
Time and money are precious resources that managed well can increase happiness. Many people think that money brings happiness while others think that time raises more happiness. As for me, I think people can get greater happiness if they use $ 40 to save time — such as by paying for housework to be done—rather than spending the money on material goods.
Psychologists say stress over lack of time causes lower happiness and contributes to anxiety. Yet, even the very wealthy are often reluctant to pay people to do the jobs they dislike. But people who spend money to buy themselves more free time are happier — that is they have higher life satisfaction.
Rising incomes in many countries has led to a new phenomenon. Many people get stressed over the daily demands on their time. Fewer than a third of individuals spent money to buy themselves time each month. They do things like buying lunches to be delivered to work, paying neighborhood children to run errands（差事）for them, or paying for cleaning. Some experts say time saving compared with material purchases increases happiness by reducing feelings of time stress.
In fact money can buy time. And it buys time pretty effectively. One reason is because time, relative to money, tends to be filled with personal meaning. Another reason is that time promotes interpersonal connection. Since both personal meaning and social connection are key to happiness, it makes sense how individuals spend their time.
As a result, can we rethink how we're using time? If we rethink how we spend time, and be more intentional on how we spend time, that may affect the happiness we feel.
I owned my own piano company in my thirties. Once, I received a postcard saying, "Please bring me a new piano for my little granddaughter. It must be red mahogany. I can pay $10 a month with my egg money." Of course, I could not see a new piano for $10 a month. No finance company would carry a contract （合同） with payments that small.
For months, I ignored them but the postcards were constantly coming to me. Out of curiosity, I looked the old lady up: She lived in a one-room cabin（小屋）in the middle of a cotton field and her little granddaughter was barefoot and wearing a feed-sack dress.
Finding a red mahogany piano on my little truck, I delivered it to her and told her I would carry the contract myself at $10 a month with no interest, and that would mean 52 payments. I was sure I had just thrown away a new piano. Incredibly, the payments came in, all 52 of them as agreed.
Then one day after 20 years, I sat in the Holiday Inn having a drink, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. I looked around, and there was a lovely young woman playing a very nice grand piano. I moved to a table beside her. She smiled at me, and when she took a break, she sat down at my table.
"Aren't you the man who sold my grandma a piano a long time ago?" It didn't ring a bell, so I asked her to explain.
She started to tell me, and I suddenly remembered. My Lord, it was her, the little barefoot girl in the feed-sack dress!
She told me her name was Elise and since her grandmother couldn't afford to pay for lessons, she had learned to play by listening to the radio. She said she had started to play in church, then in school, and had won many awards and a music scholarship. She had married an lawyer in Memphis and he had bought her that beautiful grand piano she was playing.
Something else entered my mind. "Elise," I asked, "It's a little dark in here. What color is that piano?" "It's red mahogany," she said, "Why?"
I couldn't speak.
Did she understand the full meaning of the red mahogany? The unbelievable insistence of her grandmother on a red mahogany piano when no one in his right mind would have sold her a piano of any kind? I don't think so.
But I did, and my throat tightened.
I do think that dieting does not work. What it does do is to make you uneasy about food. Imagine you are prepared to abandon your belief and imagine yourself like a slim person...how do you get there?
Focus on what you really want, not what you don't want. Imagine how you would like to be. See a big picture of yourself, looking fantastic in your bathing suit, how good would you be feeling?
Slim people eat based on how hungry they are and when lunch time or tea time or dinner time around; they don't just fill up their plate because the food is there. The next time hunger pangs （剧痛） strike, imagine you have a scale in your mind from one to ten. Check where you are on that scale before you put something into your mouth. You can also use the scale to judge how full you're getting.
Hunger is the only good reason for eating. Most overweight people have got into the habit of eating when they are not hungry. Many people have forgotten how to eat when they're hungry and most diets tell you to ignore pleasure and ignore hunger and they also tell you when/how much and exactly what to eat.
A. Recognize real hunger B. Don't watch TV or read books while eating. C. One means you're starving; ten means you're not hungry. D. Slim people eat based on how hungry they feel before a meal. E. Exercise is an efficient way of losing weight. F. Start by believing in yourself as a slim person. G. Get that great confident feeling by creating how you would like to be. |
This is really simple but I was caught off guard（ 措 手 不 及 ）. As my son and I were1 a restaurant today, I 2 the door for several older couples going in and out. Just as I was about to let it go, I saw someone coming around the corner so I 3. She saw my little boy and told me to go first. I told her to 4because I wasn't in any 5—we're still technically on vacation. 6, we'd had our lunch.
I've held doors 7 I was a kid because that's what my brother 8 me in and now I just do it out of 9 . Maybe people will say thanks, but most of them 10 blow past like the world 11 them something or whatever excuse they make for ignoring that 12.
The girl, however, 13 a big smile, saying "Thank you". It's a tiny thing and she probably didn't even14 its effect. But I could suppose she 15 appreciated it. It wasn't until she was in 16 and walking past that I found she was a beautiful girl, so I'm not the first person to open a door for her. I just got back from Florida, was dirty and 17 and hadn't even showered yet. I am 99% sure it had nothing to do with my 18. I can only assume she was actually 19.
Anyway, this probably wouldn't mean anything to most people but I valued her sincere20passing.
Once a man's wife adopted a dog. The woman loved the dog so much that she spent plenty of time playing him. It was obvious to the man his wife preferred the dog. With time going by, the man disliked the dog more and more.
Finally, the man made a (decide) to abandon the dog. So one day he drove the dog (mile) away from his home. He threw the dog in the woods and then returned to his car. soon after the car was started, it broke down. Feeling cold in the car, the man became (worry). He needed some help, butcars appeared and he could see no one nearby. Then he saw the dog (walk) towards him. The dog stopped by the car and barked. The man opened the car and let him in. The dog sat beside and kept the man warm. At last, a car came and the man (save). He went back home, with the dog, of course.
Once there was a merchant who had fine silks and rug（s a city on the other side of the desert (毛毯) to sell. He wished to send his goods to Abdul the merchant owned a large caravan（商队）of camels, and he employed many men. For many days, Abdul and his men had been preparing for the journey, because of the boundless desert with hot sand and the grass out of sight for miles. It required many camels to carry the merchant's goods, tents, bottles of water, firewood, bags of rice and some tools.
At last the caravan was ready for the journey. The sun shone steadily, making the sand so hot that no one could walk upon it in the daytime. So Abdul and his men traveled all that night. One man was the pilot. He rode ahead because he knew the stars, and he could guide the caravan by them.
They traveled night after night, resting during the heat of the day. Unfortunately, when the caravan started another evening, the pilot led the way as usual, but after a while, weary with many nights of watching, he fell asleep.
All night long the caravan traveled. At daybreak the pilot awoke and looked at the last star fading in the morning light. "Halt（停下）!" he called." The camels must have turned while I slept. We are at the place from which we started yesterday." Even worse, another man shouted, "The man with the camel carrying the rest water and firewood, who is walking at the end of our group, is gone!"
There was no water to drink. There was no firewood to cook the food. The men lay down with despair, "We are lost!"
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It seemed that only one person remained positive.
A shout of joy burst from the lips of the men.
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