JASON'S PICK - WINNER
Jason Got A New Car For The Weekend
While out at Butler Tire over the weekend, Jason noticed a nice looking jeep. They allowed him to take it home for the weekend. Check it out...
KRISTEN'S PICK
Widower, 94, Installs Pool For Neighborhood Kids
After Keith Davison’s wife passed away last year, the retired judge from Morris, Minnesota spent months grieving. The 94-year-old had been married for 66 years, so it wasn’t easy to adjust to life alone. He has three adult children, but no grandkids of his own, but he had a swimming pool built in his backyard to give kids in his neighborhood a place to have fun and now he’s not so lonely anymore.
Davison’s neighbors thought he was kidding when he mentioned the idea, but now they’re happy to have a local place to swim since their town doesn’t have an outdoor public pool. Neighbor Jessica Huebner swims there with her family regularly and says, “It’s him spreading joy throughout our neighborhood for these kids.”
And Davison is thrilled to have a pool full of visitors. “I’m not sitting by myself looking at the walls,” he says. “What else would you think of doing where you could have a whole bunch of kids over every afternoon?”
Source: 12 News
FRECKLES' PICK
Using This Word Makes You More Persuasive
Sometimes choosing the right words can make all the difference - like during a job interview or when you’re asking for a raise. Words are powerful and the way we put them together to make our point actually reveals a lot about us.
Psychologist Elizabeth Stokoe, professor of social interaction at Loughborough University in the U.K. has done her research on the impact words have and she specializes in conversational analysis. She transcribes everyday conversations to try to understand their “linguistic and social components.”
And through her analysis, Stokoe has picked up on one word that can help make you more persuasive when you use it: willing. While speaking at a conference, she explained that when you want to change someone’s mind after they turn you down your request, following up with the word willing might help change their response.
“If you ask someone ‘Are you interested in meditation?’, they might say yes or no. But if you ask them if they’re willing to meditate, that requires them saying something about the type of person that they are,” Stokoe explains. “So if we change words, we change outcomes.”
Willing. The word we need to add when asking our kids to clean up their rooms, when asking our partners to help out, and when asking our boss for a favor. If it helps us get the answer we want to hear, willing is our new favorite word.
Source: My Domaine
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