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Day 4

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things to do today:

  • Read Little Fires Everywhere
  • Study Hiragana
  • Search up meal prep ideas for next week
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Ended up waking up quite late today (like 9ish) and didnt really roll outta my bed until 10 BUT i managed to make my bujo spreads for next week, write the testimony for my church session tomorrow, teach my brother english AND make a 88rising playlist :3

Ive got a friend’s birthday dinner after this so i’m glad i managed to at least get some work done today!

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‘Glow Up’ Tips

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It’s kind of long, but here is a list of tips/ideas I feel are most important to improve yourself/glo up this summer (or anytime for that matter). -Nat
  • Take up a new hobby/skill (such as)
    • Learn how to play an instrument
    • Learn a new language
    • Learn how to manage stress
    • Take a course (online or elsewhere) in something you’re interested in
  • Build better habits (like)
    • Skincare routine/Taking care of your skin in general
    • Self-care routine (Not necessarily face mask and bath bombs, it could be anything from clipping your fingernails to setting aside time to read or do yoga etc)
    • Working out/Exercising every day
  • Break bad habits (like)
    • Going to bed really late
    • Eating lots of ‘junk’ food/drinking sugary drinks
    • Cut down screen time
  • Read!
    • Self-help*, fiction, non-fiction, how-to books
      • *Sarah Knight’s The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do You are at the top of my list along with You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
  • Get a new look
    • Clean out your wardrobe and add new pieces
    • Get a haircut/look for new ways to style your hair
    • If you’re into makeup play around with different looks
    • Get a piercing or tattoo if it’s something you’ve been meaning to do
  • Hydrate!
    • Because we all knew it was coming. Summer can get extremely hot so fight off dehydration by keeping water at hand
  • Get a job/fix up your resume/start saving money
    • Easier said than done, I know, but @yournewapartment has tons of tips on job searching and all that other fun adult stuff (it’s my absolute favourite blog. I’m always learning new tips and tricks to win at life from it)
  • Get organised
    • Organise your spaces/belongings (bags, bedroom, apartment/house, storage, etc)
    • Invest in a planner/bullet journal/notebook to keep track of events and to-do’s (your phone works too but personally I prefer a physical copy)
  • Focus on your mental health
    • Work on ending toxic relationships (romantic, platonic, or familial)
      • Or work on not being the toxic part of a relationship
    • If you need professional/medical help to manage your mental health take the steps to do so
    • Let your main focus be on you and doing what’s best for you, not what negatives people have to say about you
    • Have some zero days where you don’t do anything besides focus on you/do the things you want to do
  • Get to know yourself/Do a self-assessment
    • Think about who you are and who you want to be
    • Think about your immediate goals and goals for the future
    • To both of those things ask yourself how are you going to achieve them/set SMART goals
    • Identify your likes and dislikes
    • Fight negative thoughts/learn to accept your flaws (it’s hard and you may fall back into that pattern of thinking every once in a while, but as long as you keep fighting you’ll start to see progress)
  • Make memories/Go on adventures
    • With your family, friends, by yourself etc
    • Often times we can get so caught up in our hustle that we forget to relax and have fun- therefore set aside time to do something relaxing/fun every week or two such as going to the mall, out to eat, or curling up at home with a good book/movie.
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my masterlist of ‘how to life’ tips

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Cleaning & Tidying

  • Make your bed in the morning. It takes seconds, and it’s worth it.
  • Reset to zero each morning. 
  • Use the UFYH 20/10 system for clearing your shit. 
  • Get a reed diffuser and stick it on your windowsill. 
  • Have a ‘drop-zone’ box where you dump anything and everything. At the beginning/end of the day, clear it out and put that shit away.
  • Roll your clothes, don’t fold them - or fold them vertically.
  • Automate your chores. Have a cleaning schedule and assign 15mins daily to do whatever cleaning tasks are set for that day. Set a timer and do it - once the timer is up, finish the task you’re on and leave it for the day. 
  • Fold your clothes straight out of the tumble dryer (if you use one), whilst they’re still warm. This minimises creases and eliminates the need for ironing. 
  • Clean your footwear regularly and you’ll feel like a champ. 

Organisation & Productivity

  • Learn from Eisenhower’s Importance/Urgency matrix. 
  • Try out the two-minute rule and the Pomodoro technique.
  • Use. A. Planner. (Or Google Calendar, if that’s more your thing.)
  • Try bullet journalling.
  • Keep a notebook/journal/commonplace book to dump your brain contents in on the regular. 
  • Set morning alarms at two-minute intervals rather than five, and stick your alarm on the other side of the room. It’s brutal, but it works. 
  • Set three main goals each day, with one of them being your #1 priority. Don’t overload your to-do list or you’ll hit overload paralysis and procrastinate. 
  • If you’re in a slump, however, don’t be afraid to put things like “shower” on your to do list - that may be a big enough goal in itself, and that’s okay. 
  • Have a physical inbox - a tray, a folder, whatever. If you get a piece of paper, stick it in there and sort through it at the end of the week.
  • Consider utilising the GTD System, or a variation of it.
  • Try timeboxing. 
  • Have a morning routine, and guard that quiet time ferociously. 
  • Save interesting-looking shit to instapaper. Have a set time where you read through the stuff you saved to instapaper and save the shit that you like from instapaper to evernote (or bookmark it properly). 
  • During your working hours, put on your footwear, even if you’re sat on your bed. (Why?)
  • Have a folder for all your important documents and letters, organised by topic (e.g. medical, bank, university, work, identification). At the front of this folder, have a sheet of paper with all the key information written on it, such as your GP’s details, your passport details, driving licence details, bank account number, insurance number(s), and so on. 
  • Try using StayFocusd and RescueTime (or similar apps/extensions). (I promise, you’ll find that you’re not as busy as you think you are.)
  • Schedule working time and down time alike, in the balance that works for you. 

Money

  • Have. A. God. Damn. Budget. 
  • Use a money tracker like toshl, mint, or splitwise. Enter all expenses asap! (You will forget, otherwise.)
  • Have a ‘money date’ each week, where you sort through your finances from the past seven days and then add it to a spreadsheet. This will help you identify your spending patterns and whether your budget is actually working or not. 
  • Pack your own frickin’ lunch like a grown-up and stop buying so many takeaway coffees. Keep snacks in your bag. 
  • Go to your bank and take out £100 in £1 coins (or w/e your currency is). That shit will come in useful for all kinds of things and you’ll never be short on change for the bus or the laundry. 

Food & Cooking

  • Know how to cook the basics: a starch, a protein, a vegetable, and a sauce.
  • Simple, one-pot meals (“a grain, a green, and a bean”) are a godsend. 
  • Dried porcini mushrooms make a fantastic stock to cook with. 
  • Batch cook and freeze. Make your own ‘microwave meals’. 
  • Buy dried goods to save money - rice and beans are a pittance. (Remember to soak dried beans first, though!) 
  • Consider Meatless Mondays; it’s healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.
  • Learn which fruits and vegetables are cheapest at your store, and build a standard weekly menu around those. (Also remember that frozen vegetables are cheap and healthy.) 
  • Learn seasoning combinations. Different seasoning, even with the exact same ingredients, can make a dish seem completely new. 
  • Don’t buy shit for a one-off recipe, especially if you won’t use it all. If you really want to try out a recipe, see if a friend would be interested in making it with you, then pool for the expenses. 
  • Make your own goddamned pasta sauce. Jamie Oliver has a decent recipe here, but the beauty of tomato sauce is that you can totally wing it and adapt the fuck out of it. 

Misc

  • Have a stock email-writing format. 
  • Want to start running, but find it boring? Try Zombies, Run!. 
  • Keep a goddamn first aid kit and learn how to use it. 
  • Know your OTC pain relief. 
  • Update your CV regularly. 
  • Keep a selection of stamps and standard envelopes for unexpected posting needs. (It happens more regularly than you would think!) 

Some final words of advice:

  1. Organisation is not a goal in itself, it is a tool. Don’t get caught up in the illusion of productivity and get distracted from the actual task at hand. 
  2. Routines and habits will help you. Trust in them.
  3. You have the potential to be an organised and productive person, just as much as anybody else. It just takes practice. 
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GUIDE TO:

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  1. FIX YOUR SLEEPING SCHEDULE (1-2 months)
    1. Try to wake up earlier every day. Like 5 - 10 min earlier than the day before. Until you wake up any time before 8am or so…
    2. If you struggle with waking up & snooze button is you bff:
      1. Put your alarm clock as far away from the bed as possible.
      2. Drink a glass of water right after you wake up.
      3. Pour another glass of water on yourself right after you wake up.
      4. Prepare some coffee the night before, leave it by your bedside, drink it after you wake up.
      5. Have your blinds/curtains open, so that it’s bright after you wake up.
    3. Try to go to bed 5-10 min earlier than the night before.
    4. Track how many hours of sleep you’re getting. Aim to get at least 7h per day or 49h per week. 
    5. Increase your sleeping hours incrementally. Aim to get at least 1h of sleep more than the previous week. For example, if this week you slept for 41hrs, aim to get an extra hour of sleep next week, so it’s 42h.Once you get enough hours of sleep and wake up early-ish.
    6. Try to keep your sleeping schedule consistent. It is really important to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.  Even if it’s weekend. Or even if that means, you getting less than 7hrs of sleep that day. I’d say waking up at the same time everyday is the most important step, which will help you the most with fixing your sleeping schedule.

  2. START EATING HEALTHY (1-2 months)
    1. This step really depends from person to person, but firstly I suggest you take some blood tests to see if you have any deficiencies, etc. Especially, if you struggle with cravings.  
    2. Try intermittent fasting, if you struggle with binge eating or overeating. As it will help you to learn to listen to your body better: when it’s hungry, when it’s full, etc. It’s really simple, there are many methods of Intermittent fasting, but I’d suggest 16/8 for the beginners. (Google it for more info)
    3. DRINK ALL THE WATER. Again, if you’re not drinking enough water, try to level up your water game incrementally. Download some water tracking app on your phone to help you. Drinking water will make you more energetic, increase your metabolism, and decrease you appetite (among many more benefits).
    4. Track what you eating. I would really suggest tracking your meals for around a month. Because, most of the time people have no idea that what they’re eating is unhealthy. Again, download an app to your phone for that.
    5. Make your own meals once in a while. Not only this will save you money, but it’ll help you to see what’s really going into your body.
    6. Eat less meat and more veggies/fruits. Go to your local market and buy some veggies/fruits, you have never tried before. I’m sure you’ll find your new favs. Eat/buy less meat. Not only it’s good for the environment, but it is good for you, too. Get a veggie burger instead of the beef one, etc.
    7. Cut dairy. Find your new favourite milk substitute. Advice: Oat milk is really good with the tea and oatmeal/porridge; hazelnut milk is amazing on it’s own; cashew milk goes well with cereals.
    8. Learn more about nutrition in general. It will help you to make better food choices and it will make eating healthy much easier in general, because once you understand all the chemistry behind the food and what it does to your body, you kinda don’t want to make yourself feel worse. Here are some free resources:
      - Human nutrition course from Alison.com
      - Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2
      - The Health Nerd’s YouTube Playlist about nutrition
      - What I’ve Learnt YouTube Playlist
      - Human nutrition course from Alison.com
      - Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2
      - The Health Nerd’s YouTube Playlist about nutrition
      - What I’ve Learnt YouTube Playlist

  3. GET PHYSICALLY FIT (2-6 months)
    1. Define your goals. Do you want to lose weight, do you want to get stronger, gain weight, be able to climb stairs without losing breath, run 5k?
    2. Remember - you’re half-way through. Being physically fit has a lot to do with what you put into your body. So, if you fulfilled the previous step of eating healthy - you are half way through!
    3. Make a plan. A Reasonable plan. Be honest with yourself.
    4. Start small. Like, 5 min exercise in the morning. Or doing 10 sit ups per day. Don’t do anything overwhelming, like running 5k everyday if you haven’t run for the past 5 years.
    5. Make sure that you kinda like what you’re doing. If you absolutely hate running - don’t do it. Hate doing sit ups in the morning? Try some yoga instead.
    6. Explore until you find what you like. You don’t have to go to gym to get fit, especially if you hate it. Find a type of exercise, which you actually like. Maybe it’s dancing or hiking, taking your dog for a walk. Sign up for several trial lessons of various sport clubs. Ditch ‘em if you have them until you find something that you love. Stick with that.
    7. Do the small changes in your everyday life. Stairs>Escalator, Walk>Drive, Do some squats while brushing your teeth, switch from regular desk to standing desk, etc…  Find ways to incorporate being active into your everyday life
    8. Track your effort instead of your progress. You cannot really control your progress that much (especially if your goal was to lose weight). However, you can always control your effort. So track it instead. This will leave you more motivated. As you will be able to see that you can do more and more everyday. Whereas, if you tracked your progress, you may not always get the result you hoped for, which might demotivate you and make you upset, wanting to quit.

  4. BEAT DEPRESSION
    1. Do the previous 3 steps and you’re half way through.
    2. See a therapist/doctor. Depression is an illness, requiring medical treatment. So, get it. Remember: there is absolutely no fucking shame in having a mental illness.
    3. Get some extra support. Talk to your friends or family. Or maybe someone on the internet.
    4. Write it out. If you don’t want to talk - write down your thoughts. It can be just as helpful. It’ll help you to understand yourself better, see problems in your thinking, etc.
    5. Distract yourself from yourself. Get someone/something to take care of, so that you can, for a moment, stop thinking about yourself and focus on something else. E.g, get a plant, or a dog, or a fish.
    6. Self-care day. Dedicate at least one day per week for self-care. Take yourself out, either to a museum or some fancy cafe, do some stuff you like, whatever your hobbies are, do some physical self care: bath, face mask, manicure, etc., listen to some nice music, watch a film…..

  5. STOP PROCRASTINATION
    1. Celebrate your victories instead of mourning over your loses.So the only thing you’ve done today was write one sentence for your 20 page essay? Amazing! Buy yourself a candy for that!! I mean, you could’ve done nothing, but you didn’t - you wrote that one sentence and that’s worth celebrating.
    2. Do it for only 2 minutes. If there’s an important thing you’ve been putting off for a while, tell yourself that you will only spend 2 minutes on doing it. If after 2 minutes you don’t want to do it anymore, great, stop it. However, after 2min. you actually might want to do more. No pressure either way.
    3. Track your productivity. Track how much time you’ve been productive that day. Try to increase that time by a little bit every day.
    4. Always forgive yourself. So, it’s been a week and you’ve done nothing? Don’t sweat it. Let it go. Blaming yourself will bring you absolutely nothing. Nothing good will come out of your negativity on yourself. So stop it. Forgive yourself and start again. And again, if you need to. Never stop trying. Always pick yourself after you fall. Beating procrastination and increasing your discipline is a skill. And all skills can be build on. There is nothing in you stopping you from changing. Remember that.

  6. LEARN HOW TO DO TAXES (1h - 1 day)
    1. Go to google.com.
    2. Type in: “How to do taxes *the name of the country you’re living in*”
    3. Read the results.

  7. GET MENTALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE PHONE CALLS
    1. Remember that just as with beating procrastination, making phone calls is a skill. And, again, skills can be learnt.
    2. Get a new SIM card.
    3. Top it up.
    4. Dial some random numbers and pretend to be a salesman, selling whatever you like.. E.g., trying to sell broadband, cable tv, trying to get people to donate for some charity… Or whatever really… Me and some friends used to pretend we’re selling kittens or wood logs. Alternatively, you can pretend that you dialed a wrong person and talk about whatever, e.g. “Hey, Jess!! You wont believe what I saw today!! *start telling a made-up story*…”
    5. If you get uncomfortable - just drop the call. No consequences whatsoever.
    6. Repeat until you build up your game and your phone-call anxiety starts to diminish.

  8. SLAY THOSE BITCHES
    Congratulations, now you’re ready to take over the world! Got get ‘em!!
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things to do on sundays to recharge and make the upcoming week awesome

• clean ya room (just do it). also, check those pinterest boards you save for “one day” and actually go through them and draw some inspiration, even if you just end up rearranging the books on your bookshelf or putting some flowers from your garden in a mason jar on your desk. this is your home, make it feel like it is.

• do your laundry (also, don’t forget your bed sheets). if you’re in the mood, look at next week’s weather forecast and think about what you’re going to wear. go through your drawers, check the back of your closet. that hat you bought some time ago and forgot about because you didn’t dare to wear it? well… new week, new you, right? 

• call a friend/family member you haven’t talked to in a while, tell them you miss them. tell them you love them. remember and appreciate that they are a part of your life even if it doesn’t feel like it all the time.

• draw, paint, journal, write or make some music. something you know you love doing but “never find the time”. sunday is “finding-the-time day”. if you’re not feeling creative, read a book or watch your favorite show. or watch a new show. a scary show. a funny show. laugh as loud as you want. listen to music. listen to your favorite songs, or listen to new songs. even a new genre if you dare. turn the volume all the way up. take a second to consciously feel the music. you can always get up and dance. or sing. or both.

• the great, but still really effective classic: take a bath or a really long shower. if you have this special face or hair mask you’re saving up for a special occasion: congrats, you’re the special occasion today. use it. also, body lotion. we all know you’re going to be running late during the week and skip it one too many times. make yourself feel like the goddess you are. 

• sit in silence for a few moments. listen to your breath. listen to your heartbeat. for the love of god PLEASE listen to your thoughts for once in your life. don’t make them feel like they are wrong. or bothersome. they too just want to be heard once in a while. what are they trying to tell you? what could be soothing for them? be compassionate to yourself. it’s okay. you are okay. you are okay.

• think about things you can be grateful for next week. even if you feel like your life sucks atm, think about the small things you take for granted in a different way. for example: “next week, i will have access to clean water. CLEAN. WATER. 844 million people don’t have that.” or “next week, my legs will take me wherever i want to go. not everybody has two fully functioning legs, so i’m lucky in that way.” you’re allowed to feel bad about your life, but you’re also allowed to feel good about things. 

• if you’ve stayed home most of the week, go out. go for a walk. go swimming. go to a party or dinner with friends. even if you feel like you don’t need to see the outside world, chances are you’ll feel great after you do. if you feel like you’ve been running around all week, maybe you’d like to stay home today. put on your ugliest sweater, comfiest leggings, and fluffiest socks and curl up under a thousand blankets. you a sloth today and it’s okay. 

• eat. i mean honestly: eat THE THING. i don’t care if you’re on a diet. if there’s something you’ve been craving all week that has turned you into the veiny-neck-dude meme just trying to resist it: EAT IT. you deserve it. not because you worked out or ate salads or did well in school, but just because you’re a human and you love to eat and life is short and you should be allowed to eat yummy things. it’s okay. you won’t gain 5 pounds or lose your brain cells no matter how unhealthy it is, i promise.

• plan plan plan yo week. it doesn’t matter if you use a planner, bullet journal, the calendar on your phone or the notes app: write everything down you have going on next week. appointments. events. coffee-dates. when are you going to the gym? what are you going to eat? (meal prep if necessary) also, create reminders on your phone for everything. “i won’t forget it!” is a sweet thought, but oh honey you will. schedule reminders for every event. let your phone remind you that you need to buy toilet paper when the store is nearby. schedule daily reminders for your medications. (once you’ve done this it honestly feels like you just cleaned out 38GB of your brain, you simply don’t have to worry about that anymore, space for more important info, like your new favorite pun to annoy everyone with)

• most importantly: listen to what your mind and your body need today and next week. daily life is so full of “should-do”s that it’s important to find a healthy balance between the “should”s and the “need”s. you will be much more productive, healthy and happy that way. nobody knows you better than you do, take advantage of that and plan accordingly.

Day 7/100 Days of Productivity ✌️


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Dont really have any pics from today so heres a pic from the arts library from my hometown ☺️

Things i did today:

  1. Studied Basic Japanese Grammar
  2. Finished Education by Tera Westover
  3. Helped move around some stuff for work which took like half the day 😴😴😴

gotta send my friend off later cause shes flying off for university in italy and idk time flies i guess

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i’ve been really productive the past few months, which is actually quite rare for me bc i’m a slave to procrastination i get burnt out v easily. this time was a little different, i managed to keep my productivity levels really high for a whole 2 months all the way until exams ended, studying every single day without fail, around 10 hours a day, when i used to only do an average of 3 or 4. so here’s what worked for me and what didn’t!

what works: schedule your day

what happens when ur a virgo studyblr? u plan. i would write out everything i needed to accomplish for the day, the night before, and be really specific about it. i would then plug in the timings, this works for me, but u can choose to put the time in first and plan what u want to do around the time. 

a structured time plan pressures me and i end up getting everything done, especially when i set an alarm on my phone for all the timings!

what does not: cramming a lot of hours into a day

12+ hour work days are ideal, especially when u watch all the ‘study with me: 14 hour work day!’ youtube videos, but they are just tedious and unreasonable. 

let’s face it, even if u do complete one or two long study days, ur just gonna get bored and tired and have no mood to continuing this for a week or more. slow and steady wins the race!

what works: tweaking the pomodoro technique

i hate the pomodoro method. at the 25 minute mark, i’m normally on a roll and super focused on the task; and the 5 minute breaks were too short for me to actually take a break. 

that’s why i tweaked it to 45-minute study sessions with 10-minute breaks, and after 3 study sessions, a 30-minute break. longer study sessions meant i get a break when i really start to get restless, and longer breaks gave me more time to recharge. i suggest tweaking this to match what works for you.

what does not work; doing too many / too little subjects a day

1. u don’t want to cram all the same topics and subjects into one day. ultimately, it’s a choice of spending 8 hours solely on a subject / topic and not touching it for the next few days / weeks, OR doing just 2 or 3 hours of one subject / topic each day over a few days / week

2. just thinking about doing only one subject for a whole day already tires me out. i have tried it, but normally i get so sick and tired of it that after a few hours, i can’t bring myself to focus on it any longer. on the contrary, if i keep switching between subjects, i get super confused because i have to remember too much of very different info. 

what works: leaving the last portion of your day ambiguous 

i like to start and end my days early. but in the process, i found a benefit of ending them early: i end up w a chunk of time at the end where there are two scenarios:

  1. i’m super motivated and want to continue studying
  2. i’m rly tired and cannot bring myself to continue bc i need a break !1!!

surprisingly, option 1 does happen a lot. and i think this is a rly good work-life balance. u don’t get burnt out easily, but from time to time, u get a bonus extra few hours of work done! 

what does not work: forgoing sleep

sleep is so important omg. 3 hours of studying while sleepy = 1 hour of studying when ur refreshed and ur brain’s working. a tired mind is a slow mind, and an awake mind is a fast mind!

do not worry about that rly hard chapter that u must understand and complete! ur mind continue to works even when ur sleeping, i assume bc it’s rewiring and sorting through new information. after waking up, i find myself being able to better remember and understand information that i struggled on the night before!

what works: finding out ur energy levels and use it to ur advantage

some people work best at 6am and can’t focus after 9pm, some people can’t focus before 11am and work best at midnight. take note of and chart ur energy levels throughout the day for about a week or so, are u particularly refreshed in the morning? do u feel urself always dozing off at 4? are u the most productive at night? 

work ur body clock out and work around it! every body functions differently! like in the last point, 3 hours of studying at ur worst energy levels = 1 hour of studying at ur peak energy level! forcing urself to work when ur body refuses to do so will only lead to procrastination. 

i sincerely hope these few tips can help u out w being productive! what are some of the things u do to get shit done? 

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