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This step includes emotional crises, too, when you’re deep in self-doubt. What’s the first step to knowing you made the right decisions? It’s double-checking your work and talking to others who have been in similar positions. It can also mean being patient for results to come in. Focus on small steps, and after that, try this next step.
No. 2: What’s within your control? If something isn’t, relinquish your concern.
If you’ve had a new job change you’re worried about, create a pros and cons list and see what you think. No matter what the results are, you can always consider your next steps toward a future you’ll be happier with. However, if you’ve landed a plane and saved 155 lives but face intense legal threats that could jeopardize your well-being and that of your family, you may feel like your emotional state is out of your control. That’s totally normal — it may even be healthy to allow yourself to feel disappointment, anger, and worry. Embracing your emotions may allow you to accept, overcome, and see past them faster.
lawyers who knew his situation intimately. They considered it carefully themselves and assured him he was right. It’s easy to isolate yourself when you feel most vulnerable and afraid of being wrong. However, it might be worth opening up to a friend, or even a therapist, to talk about your doubts and why they may cause you anxiety or decision paralysis. Working through these phases in your life never has to be done alone — we all need help sometimes. While I’m not Captain Sully, these tips have helped me numerous times, and in some cases, I wish I had taken my own advice sooner! Thanks for reading, friends. I hope you’ll have a wonderful start to the holiday season.
No. 3: Don’t doubt yourself alone — find a listening ear.
As a hero, Sully felt very isolated in his unique situation of self- doubt; however, he was lucky to rely on his copilot, wife, and
Why Jelly Belly Got Sued for Using Sugar Jelly Bean Deception
Jelly Belly responded, calling the lawsuit complete nonsense. They pointed out that evaporated cane juice and sugar are interchangeable terms and also cited the product’s nutritional chart which showed that each serving contained 17 grams of sugar. Jelly Belly further picked apart the claim by stating that Gomez did not insist on expecting a sugar-free product, and she did not explain why anyone would be surprised to find sugar in a product described as jelly beans. This is not the first lawsuit against a company for using an alternative term for sugar. Though the Food and Drug Administration does not have any legal requirements regarding “evaporated cane juice,” it recommends calling the ingredient sugar to avoid these instances. The courts ended up siding with Jelly Belly, as Gomez failed to show any facts specific to the purchase or the advertising of the product. False advertising and deceptive practices do happen, but this case was not one of those instances. If Gomez had paid attention to the nutritional chart, this entire lawsuit could have been avoided.
Before Bang and other creatine energy drinks became all the rage, many companies tried their hand at candy designed to energize. Not wanting to miss out on the action, Jelly Belly developed Sports Beans. Like most other energy supplements, Sports Beans contained electrolytes, carbohydrates, and a plethora of B vitamins. They also included the phrase “evaporated cane juice” as one of the ingredients — but this got them into some legal trouble. A woman named Jessica Gomez filed a case against Jelly Belly in 2017 over this ingredient. She claimed the company had falsely advertised their Sports Beans by stating they contained juice instead of sugar. Gomez believed the company portrayed that the beans were healthy by trying to appeal to athletes instead of stating that the product contained sugar.
Her complaint argued that the product’s label was designed to mislead consumers,
asserting that she would not have been willing to pay as much or at all for the product if she knew it contained sugar.
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