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Caturday Cat Fun #1: Cats have answers.

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  From  How My Cat Made Me a Better Man : I was alone in the world and didn't see a way to lift myself up into a better situation. ... [W]here could I go to get my life on track? The answer was staring at me all along. Literally staring at me, while I used the bathroom. It was my cat, Shelly. She couldn't say anything beyond the occasional meow, but it was clear she had all the answers. She didn't mind being broke, being alone, or living in a tiny space. She was content. In fact, she thrived.  Take-away: Cats have answers. See more posts on this book . BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALIST KOPS-FETHERLING INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS LEGACY AWARD FOR HUMOR See more posts about cats .                                         Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Author in the News: Julia Aziz Featured on Fourth Trimester Podcast

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   Julia Aziz, author of  Lessons of Labor.  was featured on Fourth Trimester Podcast, Listen to it HERE . Read posts about Julia and her book  HERE . Link to reviews of Julia's book  HERE . Read more posts about motherhood  HERE .                                  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newslette                          Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Guest Post from Franki Bagdade: "Top 10 Reasons I Appreciate My ADHD Brain"

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Glass half empty or is it really half full? Usually, ADHD is considered a problem. Franki suggests that it has some value in and of itself, such as: 1. Multi-tasking! Have you ever tried to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time? Or maybe it’s the other way around… Well, I can’t do that! I can, however, watch tv/listen and write this blog, sing a song, and pet my dog! **It’s a myth that those with ADHD can’t focus. In reality, most of us struggle with focusing on one thing at a time or on something that isn’t so interesting. For me that’s the laundry. It’s always the laundry. Watch my tik tok to see what I mean! Read the rest of the blog post HERE  to find out the other 9 benefits of ADHD. It was well worth the time. For more posts about Franki and her book, I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them , including excerpts, click HERE . Note: Franki's book has received 59 reviews on Amazon; all of them are 5 stars. For more posts on ADHD, click HERE .        

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Wilcox and Andrew Wilcox on Earning a Gold Award from Literary Titan

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  Literary Titan has announced a gold award for these two fine authors' book, Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain . Read the review HERE . For more posts about the Wilcoxes and their book, click HERE . For more books that have Literary Titan awards, click HERE .                                  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #2: Sleep Enough Every Day

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  From  Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Sleep matters, too. Learners who doze off in class, fall asleep while studying, or otherwise are tired are working on half-thruster. They cannot take in new information efficiently. They cannot even use what they do know well.  See more posts on  this book . See more posts about   language learning.                                         Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Author in the News: Catching Up with Julia Aziz

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  For those who have been following interviews of MSI Press author, Julia Aziz ( Lessons of Labor ), here are some you may have missed: Julia discusses miscarriage on EmpowHer. Check it out HERE . Julia discusses how childbirth can be one of life's greatest teachers on Talk Zone HERE . Julia talks about honoring birth on Extraordinary Moms podcast HERE . Julia talks about lessons of labor on Synchronicity Talk Radio from Vancouver HERE . Julia discusses "Where are all the babies?" on Smart Mom Solutions HEFRE . Julia discusses "How birth translates into life lessons" on Postpartum Podcast HERE . Read posts about Julia and her book HERE . Link to reviews of Julia's book HERE . Read more posts about motherhood HERE .                                  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newslette                          Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Daily Excerpt: How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately (Shekhtman); Communication Rules

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  Excerpt from How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately: Foreign Language Communication Tools  Definition of Communication Rules  Yet everything discussed above—the acquisition of the language, the knowledge of the language—have nothing to do with communication tools.  Communication tools are the combination of skills which allow a speaker to use most effectively the level of foreign language in his or her command.  To make this definition more clear, let us imagine two groups of students with the same level of knowledge of foreign language. Let us imagine also that these students have come to the host country and are capable of observing the quality of their communication with native speakers. We do not have to have any great imagination to know that the members of the two groups will be quite different one from another and in striking ways. Everyone has seen representatives of each of these groups. So, let’s see what happens with these two groups when they are “i