Improving yourself starts out with challenging bad habits. Whatever it might be. You know you could do better without it. While some habits are worse than others, you’ll learn strategies that can break any habit.

1.Extinction - Discover whats reinforcing the habit and stop it. Ask yourself, “What makes me do this?”. Whatever it is, is what you need to suppress.

2.Alternate response - Try to get the same reinforcement from a different response. For example, if you smoke, try to get the same pleasure from doing something else.

3. Que’s & Antecedent - Narrow down the incentives that cause the habit.

4. Response Chain - Break the chain of responses that cause the habit. If you get the urge to smoke when your alone, avoid being alone. Then you’ll stop the chain of events that cause you to smoke.

5. Negative Practice - Associate the bad habit with something discomforting. If your bad habit is doing cocaine, imagine how your body will feel when your lungs start bleeding. You’ll start to see how your habit is hurting you. You can really have some fun with this one!

You can try just one method or multiple. The more you understand about how your habit works, the more you can focus on breaking it. One thing that might help you is a journal of your progress. This will encourage you to keep on going when you have the urge. Remember that asking your friends and family isn’t a weakness but a way of having encouragement to fall back on.
Good luck!

Okay this quick lesson is based on Vedic Math. Vedic Math is an ancient system of math that was discovered inthe early 1900’s by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji, i’m guessing he is of indian origin since the name “Sri” is given to men and women of the Sikh religion. Just as Mr or Mrs is given as a title in the english world.

Onto the trick. It’s quite simple. This lets you square numbers in and around 100 without a calculator. Awesome
Take a look

Ok, time for the super easy guide to y=mx+b. This one should be a breeze.Before we start, a little background just in case you’ve forgot.

1,They’re called linear because they represent straight lines on the Cartesian plane(x,y).

2. m = slope, or the incline of the line.

3. b = where the line hits the y plane.

Ok thats all you need to know. Onto the problem!

Go ahead and draw a small (x,y) plane.

Step 1: The first thing we’ll play with will be b. Start from the origin and go up 4 (0,4). Put a dot. If this was -4 we’d go down 4 instead of up.

Step 2: Now we’ll use 2x (mx) to find the slope. With this number, we’ll find out how far we’ll have to go starting from y. Put the 2 over 1 to make this easier. The numerator will determine how far up/down we go. The denominator will determine how far left/right we go.

Step 3: Depending on whether the numerator/denominator is positive or negative will determine what direction we go. Take a look at the black box , since 2 and 1 are positive, we’ll go up 2 and right 1. Remember to start from y, not the origin!

There we go. Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy!
Linear Equations continued coming up tommorow. As always, feel free to comment and check out the archives on the side.