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Hannah's Headlines - 5/8/2020

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Ways To Boost Your Mood During The Workday

This whole working from home thing has its advantages, like not having to deal with your commute or get dressed up every day, but there’s still that whole work part we have to do and that can get stressful. No matter how much you love your job, there are going to be days when you’re just not feeling it and that may be happening now more than ever, even while you’re working from your comfy couch. And when you’re feeling meh about work and need a quick fix to help get your head back in the game, try one of these to lift your mood.

  • Take a short walk- Stopping for a stroll in the middle of your workday gives you a trifecta of good: It can help increase creativity, boost your thinking power, and give you a much-needed break from sitting. Plus, an Iowa Statestudyshows going for a walk has a significant positive impact on mood, so it makes you happier, too.
  • Watch a short, funny video- Laughing doesn’t just feel good, research shows it canenergize youand also make you more productive.
  • Organize your workspace- Having a neat and organized place to work has beenprovento boost people’s ability to focus and increase productivity.
  • Play uplifting music- Some people like listening to music while working and onestudyfinds a good reason to give it a try - a link between listening to music and the release of dopamine, a feel-good neurotransmitter.
  • Chat with a coworker- You may have to do it over Zoom instead of in-person, but interacting with a colleague and sharing stories or a quick laugh about silly situations at work can break up the day and make work feel less work-like.
  • Take healthy lunch and snack breaks- Instead of reaching for another cup of coffee, try a nutritious snack and water for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up. Eating well and staying hydrated could prevent your mood from dipping and help you focus, too.

Source:Real Simple

The Science-Backed Trick To Help You Stop Eating Junk Food

If you’ve been snacking more than ever during lockdown, you’re not alone. And while some people’s snack habits are nice and healthy, involving carrot sticks and almonds, some of us lean more to the junk food side and we’ve been craving it more than ever lately. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with indulging every once in a while, but if you want to steer yourself away from the less healthy options you desire, new research offers a trick that may help.

Anew studyfrom the University of Minnesota asked 244 young adults to pick between “healthy” and “unhealthy” food items on a computer screen. Some of them watched a short video about the benefits of healthy eating beforehand. Then some were told to speak in the first person, as in “What do I want?” while others were told to use third person and call themselves by their names, as in, “Jane, what do you want?”

And it turns out, the ones who used their names were more likely to ditch the junk food and choose the healthier option and more so if they’d watched the video first. Study authors suggest that the tactic of using their names may work as a self-control strategy that encourages healthier choices. It may feel weird calling yourself by your name, but it could be an easy fix to help stop snacking on the ice cream.

Source:Cosmo

Twitter Working On A Way For You To Take Back A Tweet

Ever send a regrettable tweet when you were really mad or had a few drinks? Well, Twitter is now testing a feature it hopes might prevent that after-the-fact remorse. They're trying a "limited experiment" that issues a warning when users reply to someone else's post using profanity, slurs, or epithets.

The prompt, which is available only on iOS at the moment, will give a user the option to revise your reply before it's published if it uses language that could be harmful. Users can choose to ignore the warning and still publish their reply, and there's no edit feature once the reply has been posted.

Twitter is also testing another new feature: a new look for threaded conversations, which will allow users to more easily see exactly who's talking to whom in posts that get multiple replies.

Source: Bloomberg

The IRS Would Like You To Not Cash Stimulus Checks Made Out To Dead Relatives

So it was previously reported that surviving family members may be able to keep stimulus checks that had been issued to their dead relatives. You didn't really think that was going to happen, did you?

The IRS is now saying those checks must be sent back. If you missed the details the first go around, it seems the IRS, in their infinite wisdom, used two-year-old tax returns to determine eligibility for those payments. Of course, some of those people died between filing their taxes two years ago and now. So now the boys in Washington say if you received a check intended for a deceased loved one, you must mail it back to the Treasury Department. Money received through direct deposit can be sent back by check or money order. Married couples who received a joint stimulus payment only have to send back the half intended for the person who is no longer alive.

If you received an erroneous paper check, here's what to do:

  • Write "void" in the endorsement section on the back of the check.
  • Write a note to include with the check explaining why it's being returned.
  • Don't staple, bend, or paper clip the check.
  • Mail the voided Treasury check immediately to the appropriate IRS location 

If the check was cashed or the payment was directly deposited into the bank account, here's what to do:

  • Submit a personal check or money order to the IRS address corresponding to your state.
  • Make it payable to "U.S. Treasury" and write 2020EIP and the taxpayer identification number (social security number, or individual taxpayer identification number) of the recipient of the check.
  • Include a brief explanation of the reason for returning the EIP

Source: CNN


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