Get Your Train of Thought Back on Track
Repeat, repeat, repeat yourself. Paraphrasing your last few thoughts out loud can help you remember where you were going. Think of it as retracing your steps: You go back to the last words you remember saying, and more often than not, you’ll find your direction again. Take a short pause. Pausing briefly is a great way to make recovering your train of thought seem natural. This hack works really well if you’re answering a question and you need time to think, and you also don’t want to be bogged down by a chorus of “ums” escaping from your mouth. Write it all down. This hack works well when you know beforehand that you’ll be speaking with someone or in front of people. Even if you never refer to your notes while speaking, simply writing down a road map for your train of thought can help you recover from a detour and speak more confidently. Remember your overall point. The easiest way to drive your train of thought into the weeds is to forget your overall point — or not to have an overriding point at all. Always have a short, overarching point you can use to recenter yourself and get back on track. With these hacks, your brain will have to work a lot harder to make you lose your train of thought! Now you’ll be more prepared to tackle any subject matter, no matter how deep or technical, that comes your way.
Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation, presentation, or debate, stringing together thoughts RECOVERY HACKS
in a way you hope is coherent and insightful when — poof! — you lose your train of thought? It’s
frustrating. You just want to make yourself understood, but your brain has other plans. What if there were a way to keep your train of thought on track? Well, the good news is that recovering your train of thought is easy with the following hacks in mind.
FLOODED? YOUR HOME INSURER WON’T PAY UP
We live in a beautiful place with gorgeous beaches and great weather — well, most of the time, anyway. Sometimes, though, all that water is a little too close … and the weather isn’t so great. When that happens, a lot of people take comfort in knowing they’ve been paying their homeowner’s insurance policy diligently every month for the past decade or more.
So, what can you do?
The important thing to remember is that just because one kind of policy won’t help doesn’t mean there isn’t one that will — and in this case, there is. It’s available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. You may have heard some bad press surrounding these plans — such as the government using them to strong-arm folks into moving — but the truth is, all plans have their ups and downs. If you want flood insurance, this is one option, and we’d love to help you get it. If you have questions or concerns about your insurance policies, your home’s safety, or the impact these things have on your finances, don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can reach us at 833-529-5677, and you can always learn more about this and other insurance topics at WhislerLawFirm.com.
However, although they don’t advertise the fact, your insurer isn’t going to pay out for flood damage.
You might think this is normal “dodge our responsibility” insurance company behavior. It’s certainly true that a lot of companies will try to get out of paying their clients the very money they promised they’d pay if something bad were to ever happen, but in this case, it’s more complicated than just trying to pin them down to something they said they would do. Property insurance policies do not cover flood damage.
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