How leaders influence people to believe | Michael Dowling | Big Think

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MICHAEL DOWLING: Well, leadership, in many ways, is about influence. It’s about getting people to believe in what you believe in. I fundamentally believe that people want to follow if they believe. If they feel there’s a connection between what you’re selling and what they believe in themselves. And health care, of course, is an extraordinary place for that because what we do all the time is we’re trying to keep people well.

We’re trying to help people that get sick. We’re trying to save people, bring families back together, bring children into the world, take care of all the people at the end of life. There is nothing more fundamental and human than that. But you’ve got to be able, as any leader, irrespective of what you’re working in, you’ve got to be able to influence the behavior of people and get them to believe. My view is the first thing you do to make that happen is you’ve got to believe it yourself.

If you’re passionate yourself about what you believe in, it is serious, it’s just not a job, it’s something that’s inherent in you, that this is what you really care for. If people know that it is innate to your being and that you really care for this, and that you’re compassionate yourself, and that you feel for it, it resonates. It gets people to connect. It’s not a thing you’re selling, it’s a feeling you’re selling, it’s a belief system you’re selling. It’s about connections.

It’s also about humility. It’s also about not taking yourself too seriously, and what I mean by that is, especially if you’re a CEO, what is a CEO? You’re a part of a team. You’re the captain. But you have to be a player.

You’re not a title. The captain who’s on a team that is not a player and nobody respects—the title means nothing. I know I was fortunate to play sports. Games are won in the locker room, the feeling of camaraderie among players. That feeling is about “I’m for you, you’re for me.

We go down together; we go up together. We win together; we lose together.” But if I’m the captain, the “CEO” in that locker room, and I consider myself so important, you know, I work and I live in a big office, and my desk is huge and I drive a big car and I live in a nice neighborhood and look where I got my degree from. And I meet people like this, “Oh, look where I got my degree from. I’m top of my class.” And quite frankly, I could care less. Are you a team player? Are you respected? Are you appreciated? Can you influence?

Will people follow you? I mean, if you’re going down the road and you look back and there’s nobody following, you’re not a leader. It’s when you look back and you have followers. Leadership is about followership. If you have no followers, you’re not a leader.
And you gain respect by your authenticity. Don’t pretend, be real, you know? Accept your vulnerabilities, accept your weaknesses, know where your strengths are, and get people to belong. People want to belong to a cause. Engage people, just don’t direct them, just don’t talk to them.

Engage them. It’s a participatory process.

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Make Extra Money Delivering Amazon Packages In Your Car! (Amazon Flex)

Posted on March 5, 2026 by yoselkbaez36ck

So have you ever want to make extra money on the side? Maybe you tried delivery apps like DoorDash or Postmates, the taxi apps like Uber or Lyft. But how would you feel if you were a delivery driver for, I don’t know, UPS or Amazon? What if I told you, you could deliver packages in your own personal vehicle and make money? Hi, everyone.

If you don’t know who I am, my name is Chris and I’m an Amazon delivery driver. Today we’ll be exploring what it’s like to be an Amazon Flex driver, a.k.a. delivering Amazon packages in your own personal vehicle. Now, you don’t have to be an Amazon driver like me to do this. All you got to do is download and sign up on the app. The Amazon Flex app fill out some personal information about yourself, your car, the location, and boom, you’re ready to be a third-party contractor for Amazon. So, when you first sign up on the Flex app, you might be put on the wait list. I would know because I was there for several months, but eventually, during December peak season, when the world needed him most, I finally got in and let me show you what it’s like to be an Amazon Flex driver.

So, I want to show you what the flex that looks like. It’s pretty much the app I use at work, but with a little different variation. So, this is the update page. It’s pretty much just telling you it’s like a news feed for Amazon. We got Dog Safety. We got safety suggestions. And here’s a sidebar. Very similar with few variations. So if we go to the schedule page, right here, this is the page that looks kind of different. So today we have our flex wrote.

It starts in the hour. 1145. And that 245. So that’s a three-hour block. It’s a three-hour block that pays $64.50. What that means is Amazon thinks you’re going to finish around 3 hours, and they’ll give you that much for today’s delivery. If you finish faster than the 3 hours, they’ll still pay you $64. And if it takes you longer, they’re still going to pay you $64. This is a block ivory secured two square blocks. You press upcoming offers and you’re supposed to find the block. So right now, there are no blocks. This is a page you’re going to see all the time. And depending on where you live, sometimes it’s really hard to get a block. But I find that if you keep refreshing the page, eventually a block will pop up.

Here’s a screen recording on I believe it was Father’s Day where you could find multiple blocks. It’s usually not that many me. I think at any given time, it’s probably maybe like three or four blocks that you can choose from because people are accepting them really quick. It’s very competitive here in my area, but we have a block in 2 hours, so let’s get ready for it. Winnie, you want to do a flex right with me.

And of course, my vehicle of choice, my Honda Civic. And since we got to put packages in the car, make sure your car is at least 85 to 9% clean unlike my car, all right. This is good enough Driver and passenger seat check. Backseats check. Now we’re in the car ready to do the flex when it starts to get close to your start time. This little orange bar will pop up. Go to start location and our window to arrive is between 1130 and 750. So, let’s start I just got. I’m just kidding. Oh, my gosh. Amazon we’re going to be there in like 20 minutes. I’ll see you guys there. I think in all my earlier vlogs I used to deliver here, I think have some footage. There’s the car wash; there’s the gas station. It had to be one of the first few months I started working at Amazon till 10 minutes early.

Probably got to way a little bit. So, the app says go right by notes this way. You would think Amazon has an app, right? Would bring you to the right place, especially an Amazon building. But nope, not here. There are no Amazon delivery trucks here. It’s just all flex drivers. This park I want to park in the corner, and we just go wait for like 5 minutes. 10 minutes, actually, since this is the same day shipping building, the area that they deliver in is much bigger and if I’m going west, that’s an hour away from home. And with Amazon Flex, you never know where you’re going to deliver.

But we’re going to find out in 4 minutes. You only know once you get here all the flex drivers. So we got to check our identity and then we have to verify our license. Hold on, hold on So here’s our staging number 174. And you can see on the floor right here, then you got to scan the package todays stops. Get a camera. Oh, you like it? Yeah. It’s like a body cam and small, too. Yeah, I’ve seen those before.

Yeah, it’s super cool. All right. That’s 24 seven. I mean every time you’re working now it’s like 44 minutes and I think catch it up that guy right here, this happened before he got banned completely. Really? Oh, no, man. Thank you, both guys. It’s too late for that. Well, I’m banned from UPS, so let’s make it two for two. Anyways, this is our practice today. All right, here’s our summary. We got 37 stops and we got 39 packages. Looks like we’re delivering in three to four towns. The best way is put it in order in the other buildings, usually the driver eight number. We’ll tell you what number package it is in order.

But in the flex routes they don’t. I like to organize my packages by town, so that’s what we’re going to do. Then let me tell you how to organize my packages. First town right here, second town directly behind me. Third town in the back. Any big packages all the way in the back in the trunk. I call that my overflow space. And the fourth town is also in the trunk. So, once I finished first town, all the second town packages come to the front. First stop. It’s not too far. 7 minutes away. And yeah, so the earth is just like the I use that work and got to make a right here. So, I’ll be real with you. I deliver on the street before at my main job.

It’s throwback flashbacks. I don’t park right here. I get depressed. I parked, and here we are. So, it’s a medium box. You have any medium boxes here? I got one. Must be in the back. It’s not here. It’s definitely not a medium box. Oh, no. Here it is. Where the package handler’s doing this is an envelope. My job scans the package I’ve definitely delivered to this house before I put it right here. Less stops, but you’re going to be driving more.

I guess it’s something that I can live with. Well, all right, let’s go. Search, travel, and we’re out of here. Sorry. I wanted to stop at a random bagel store today. Sunday. I slept in because I work yesterday, and I woke up around like ten, ten ish. All cool thing about sprouts is you can take as long as you want, but I think most people want fish sooner than later because they’re just trying to get that money. Apple juice. For those who are wondering do I hear a funny story?

So, one of the first times I was doing Flex, I was doing it, obviously, in my Honda Civic. So as I was walking back to my car, a guy was like, Yo, you must be one of the fastest delivery drivers around here. He thought my car was the fast version. So, there’s the Honda Civic, the regular one, and there’s the Honda Civic Type R, which is the really fast one, which I made my car look to be. But it’s not actually a type of bar. I told the guy, I was like, hey, how do you think we do same day delivery I should have gotten a type of car. Now I can afford one. But back in the day, I’m like, super. I was like super frugal, which I am still today at least it’s very economic. It’ll get me far in life of how to last me 200,000 plus miles and fuel efficient where I stop 27 out 37 almost done to 17 pretty bad time, honestly.

Automation right thank you. Have a good day and yeah, if you guys like what I do in my videos, but you can’t afford to quit your job. Amazon Flex is a very ideal place to be just to give it a try to, you know feel out because it’s not as many patches, not as many stops and you get to explore your state which ever state you live in and make sure your phones on a full battery too. I’m using the iPhone 12 pro and using when I do flex four outs I start from a hundred and get down to like around like 50 40% this morning I forgot to charge my iPhone so I had to keep plugging it in or else although I was at 21% right now if you’re new to delivering EMS I made it real simple of the you just start travel try to stop the liver package and I’ll automatically take you to the next stop. So, if you’re ever worried about not being to do this job it just takes a little fitness little driving skills and you’re good.

My handles looking as nice as ever. Oh hello. And then I think. I’m going to look nice. Right, guys?

On the O, our last stop is just around the corner condominiums, of course, always with the condos. Let’s see. Let’s see. I like to and boom, we are finished. Let’s go. And it only took us 3 hours and 25 minutes. But, you know, that’s with me messing around, doing some filming. Some vlogging. So, at the end of the day, if you don’t have any more packages, you can just go straight home from your last stop. And in this case, that’s what we’re going to do. Now, there are situations where you might have packages, for example, if there’s a business close, if a package needs a password, if there’s no safe place to drop it, you might have to return from the station you came from to return that package. But good thing is you have 24 hours to return it. So, if you’re doing a fake four out the next day, you can just drop the package then. So, I made about $64.03 hours and 20 minutes.

Is it worth it? I guess it depends on the individual. I did like six or seven flex files before this, and what I found is you probably could finish an hour before the block time if, if there’s no traffic, if there is traffic, I find that I finish on the time of the block. If you’re an Amazon driver like me and you want to try flex, use a different email so you can sign up for Flex. And if you’re a flex driver and you like delivering and you want to become a big boy or girl Amazon driver, make sure you check out the channel that’s all I do over here and I’ll probably do more Flex fields in the future as a payment for me for working on my day off.
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7 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Screener for Literacy

Posted on March 5, 2026 by yoselkbaez36ck

So, there is important factors to consider when selecting the right screener to identify children in your school, classroom, or district, and I’m going to say a list here. So first of all, you want to make sure that it assesses all important skills that we know are important for learning to read. Secondly, you want to make sure that the screener is evidence-based, that there is some research behind it, and it’s not just someone who puts some words together and said, “This is a great screener because it has worked last year in my classroom.” And what are the characteristics of the norming group? So, I’ll give you an example.

So, if you are in an urban school with many children, maybe lower-economic-status families, you want to make sure that this was represented when the screener was normed, meaning: were kids included from low SES families when they were norming the screener? You also want to make sure that the overall time that it takes for you to screen the children is works in your classroom, right? There are very short screeners; they are very long screeners, so you want to make sure that this works with your school and it works with your, what we call, a screening protocol. So, you could screen as a summer before kindergarten, which may give you a little bit more time because you get the kids in individually, or do you need to screen within the first week of kindergarten and you have very limited time? You want to look at sensitivity and specificity of a screener.

So, sensitivity is correctly identifying those who will develop a disability, and specificity is correctly identifying those who will not develop a reading disability. So, you can also call it the false positives and false negatives. So, false positives is a child is identified as being at risk but is not actually risk, which can be due to problems with the instrument, the day they were tested, and they were tired and didn’t have breakfast, etc. Then you have false negatives, which is a kid is actually at risk, but you are not detecting it with your instrument. So, as a district, we recommend that you catch all the kids who are at risk, so you would have no false negatives, but that could lead to more false positives.

And so, you can move these two bars and decide, based on the resources and the number of testers you have, etc., how you want to move the discrepancy between the false positives and the false negatives.

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10 Healthy Pregnancy Nutrition Habits

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Maintaining a healthy diet during pregnancy is crucial for both you and your baby. Good nutrition supports your baby’s development and prepares your body for the demands of pregnancy and childbirth. In today’s episode of Nourish, I’m going to share ten specific, actionable nutrition habits to adopt for a thriving pregnancy. My goal is to help parents-to-be have a healthy pregnancy and give their growing babies a headstart in life with the power of good nutrition.

1.Eat a Pear Every Day for Fiber Pears are an excellent source of dietary fiber, which can help prevent constipation, a common issue during pregnancy. Incorporating one pear a day can keep your digestive system regular and support overall digestive health (Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2017).

2. Keep Your Prenatal Vitamin Next to Your Toothbrush Even with a healthy diet, prenatal vitamins are essential. They fill nutritional gaps and provide crucial nutrients like folate, iron, and iodine, which are vital for your baby’s development. I see so many clients who forget to take their vitamins, especially with ‘baby brain’, so one tip I commonly recommend is to link this new habit to an existing habit such as brushing your teeth.

3. Fill your Water Bottle up Each Morning Water requirements skyrocket during pregnancy. Proper hydration minimises pregnancy side effects such as nausea, constipation and fluid retention. Yet I see so many mammas who don’t drink adequate water. Try to start a habit of filling your water bottle up each morning and aim to have it finished by a certain time during the day to ensure that you are drinking adequate water each day. Your hydration requirements increase again when you’re breastfeeding, so you can thank me for encouraging you to develop this habit now, later!

4. Get Used to Eating Snacks If you’re used to eating only 3 or 4 times per day, I’d recommend starting to eat at least 6 times per day. Eating smaller, more frequent nutritious snacks can help optimise pregnancy glucose levels, minimise nausea, and reduce reflux later in pregnancy. Again, it’s also a good habit to develop now, ready for the next few years as you’ll also need to snack more regularly when you are breastfeeding.

5. Pack a Snack Box Each Day Preparing a snack box each day with healthy options like nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables can help you avoid unhealthy, impulsive eating, and is good practice for when your little one starts eating solids…..which I know feels like a lifetime away, but I promise you, will be here before you know it!

6. Wash Your Fruit and Veggies Properly washing your fruits and vegetables can help remove harmful bacteria and pesticides, which is especially important during pregnancy when your immune system is more susceptible. Make it a habit to thoroughly rinse produce under running water before eating or cooking.

7. Switch to Decaf Coffee If you’re a coffee lover, switch to decaf to reduce your caffeine intake. High caffeine consumption during pregnancy is linked to increased risk of miscarriage and preterm birth. Decaf options allow you to enjoy your coffee habit without the extra caffeine.

8. Choose Your Fish Days I’m sure you know that it’s recommended that you incorporate fish into your diet two to three times a week to assist with your growing baby’s brain and eyesight development. To ensure you’re getting adequate fish, choose your fish days in advance. For example, you might decide that you’re going to have salmon on Mondays, a white fish on Thursdays and sardines for lunch on Saturdays. Then, it becomes one less thing you have to think about.

9. Have an Early Dinner Eating dinner earlier in the evening can help with digestion and prevent nighttime heartburn, which is common during pregnancy. Aim to have your last meal at least two to three hours before bedtime to allow your body time to digest properly.

10. Drink a Glass of Milk After Dinner Having a glass of milk after dinner can help you meet your increased calcium needs during pregnancy. Calcium is vital for your baby’s developing bones and teeth, and drinking milk can also minimise nighttime reflux. I know that pregnancy can feel overwhelming, but I promise you, it will be easier to work on these healthy habits now, before you baby is born, and if you do so, you’ll be very glad that you did! You might also like to download my free pregnancy meal plan to help you get started.
Just go to www.melaniemcgrice.com/pregnancy. Which habit will you work on first? I’ll look forward to seeing you in my next video!

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How to Program a Functional Bodybuilding Workout (5 Considerations)

Posted on March 5, 2026 by yoselkbaez36ck

Welcome to Lightboard Learning where we discuss coaching principles. Today, I winna talk about five considerations to think about when you give your clients functional bodybuilding. So, first, let’s talk about what functional bodybuilding is and let’s talk about what it’s perceived to be. I think a lot of people that aren’t really in this space perceive functional bodybuilding as a fun way to do contractions, a fun way to add a bunch of random exercises, because it looks really good. And what it actually is and the people that are actually doing this thing on a day-to-day basis, coach wise, what it actually is, is a great opportunity to, yes, vary up exercise selection, relative to what your clients are able to perform.

And it’s a great way to build motor control. So, functional bodybuilding is outstanding, but I want you to think about five things before implementing with your clients. So, number one, still remember that contractions are still king, right? So, if you have a client and they come to you, and they’re like, “I winna get bigger biceps” or “I winna get a bigger chest”, or bigger quads. Contractions are king, right?

So, you don’t winna give them this thing or this perception that you have a functional body building, and band them up, and put a bunch of things in the front rack and all of that, if you need to make their quads bigger. So, think about what your client’s goals are and what you need to give them in functional bodybuilding to get them to their goals. ‘Cause remember the whole idea of functional, right? What does that word mean? It just means that it increases your client’s capabilities of what they do on a day-to-day basis. So, if they’re an athlete, you need to increase their capabilities of being an athlete. If they’re a mom, and they bring in their kids to practice every day, then you need to increase their capabilities of them getting their kids to practice and feeling really good doing that. So, just keep that in mind, relative to that word functional. It doesn’t always mean snatches and muscle-ups. Number two, think about capabilities, determining the variety inside of the training program.

So, think about someone that comes to your gym, or they hire you as their coach, and they have zero years of training experience. Think about what goes inside of their training program. If you’re a coach and you’re watching this, that’s pretty easy, right? It’s like, we’re probably going to have some compound movements, we’re going to do an assessment, we’re going to put some exercises in there to increase their, where if they have failed assessments or they don’t move adequately or something like that, the exercise program is going to shore up those things, right? You don’t winna give someone with zero years of training experience, a different training program every single day, every single week, every single month, right?

They have to get good at movement patterns. So, think about how you design those and the exercises that go into them takes us to our next point. Capabilities also determine exercise selection. So, just because you see this exercise that looks really good, maybe it’s on Instagram, maybe it’s on YouTube. And you’re like, “I winna implement this with all of my clients.” Think about if your clients are capable of doing that. And then going back to principle number one, and realizing that contractions are king, do your clients get the adequate contraction out of that exercise, right? So, if we go back to that client that wants bigger quads, is it necessary for you to band them up to do squats? Or do you just need to get a lot of contractions into that quadricep and get a lot of blood in there, right? So, really think about the exercise selection and the capabilities of that client, determining that exercise selection, it’s going to make it really easy and seamless for you.

So, what we teach in CCP is we winna go from motor control to strength, endurance and max contractions, right? An example of motor control is an air squat, right? So, if your client cannot perform an air squat, you’re probably not giving them really high volume front squats because they need to nail down that air squat first. So, you’re limited in exercise selection by your capabilities, always, no matter who you are. The next thing I wanna hit on is concurrent training.

So, concurrent training principles still exist, right? So, when you think of concurrent training, think about doing resistance training, and then aerobic training, and then maybe some anaerobic training, and maybe you’re doing some strength speed movements. What’s inside of the program and how it’s organized, there’s principles behind that. So, don’t forget those, just to make the program look and feel really good, stick to concurrent training principles. And we’ve done a lot of stuff, free downloads on concurrent training.

It’s just, click the link below, and go to that thing. But we dig really deep into that. So those things still exist, okay. And then the last thing, bodybuilding principles still exist, right? So, there’s been a lot of giants in the past, right?

Like your Charles Poliquin’s, all of your bodybuilding pros on T Nation, all the people that have spent years, and years, and years, and years developing bodybuilding protocols and principles. Those things are still there. So, let’s not shy away from those. Let’s actually use those principles and see how we can have those fit into the bigger picture. So, those are five things to consider, when you’re implementing functional bodybuilding with their clients.

What are some things that you guys consider or what are your experiences with functional bodybuilding? Let us know in the comments below.

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