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Top 5 Habits To Increase Longevity 2008-01-11 06:53:42 Is it really possible for anyone to live happily to 100? The good news is that your body was designed to be 100 - you just have to get out of the way.Getting out of the way means taking an honest look at the habits and lifestyle you are living with today. Most of us have developed habits that limit our true health potential.But don't let these bad habits of the past discourage you - it is never too late to make new choices. What you did in the past can be changed, and your body will respond in kind. What matters is what you do from this moment forward.Top 5 Daily Habits for Your LongevityIt takes 14 to 21 days of repetitive behavior to form a new pattern in your brain. Once the pattern is formed, it becomes an automatic behavioral response.As you develop new healthy habits, they will begin
Happiness Is A Habit... 2007-07-09 03:59:07 Have you ever wondered how some people are extremely happy everyday? Some of us more often than not are in a foul mood with the worst expression on our faces. But reflecting on happiness and being happy, it is simply us who can make us happy."The happiness habit is developed by simply practicing happy thinking. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day," says Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking. So fill your mind with happy thoughts or try and recall happy moments every morning. Try and say happy things to yourself every day, like "I believe it’s going to be a great day".Make up a special quote just for yourself: 'I'm a good human being and I deserve to be happy'. Repeat this to yourself every day, and believe Read more:Habit
Mind Power 2007-07-06 07:32:21 The mind is a terrific wonder! One can build almost anything one wants within its premises.Achievements in the tangible world start when one conquers the intangible realms of the mind. So if you want to be successful, start with your mind first. Visualize success in your mind. Enjoy its feel and comfort.See success in your mind’s eye, feel it, taste it and believe it to be YOURS, within your capacity, waiting to be achieved.It is important that we visualize success in our mind’s eye and start working towards it.Imagination is the most fertile ground where success is created and reared. We are after all, a product of our imagination.
Love Is In The Air For You 2007-07-01 07:53:46 Have you ever tried filling yourself with "Love"?Love for everything and everyone around you. Even those you seemingly detest. It might not sound appetizing, to love beyond a shade of doubt 3everything around you. Try it… even if for a moment… try it… that with every heart beat of yours, with that pumping of force that makes your physical being alive… there is love flowing out from your arteries… and feel that beautiful essence in all beings that makes the world go round, makes hearts flutter, the essence that can bring that ultimate peace one strives for at the pinnacle of spiritual liberation. Just try it.And if you are unable to fill yourself with love, think about how you feel when you are unloved - life is a grave.We live our lives by moments. And the moments that we tend to
Understanding Failure 2007-06-28 07:18:54 Losing is just another milestone in our onward journey of Life.When you lose, remember that this is just another experience and not the end. Nothing becomes a finality till you deem it so. Only if you accept and contend that failure is the end will it be so, until such a time it will merely be yet another milestone. But remember there are certain lessons which momentary failure teaches us:• To hold our head high in spite of the daunting circumstance• To respect others, for having walked through seething fires ourselves we understand the plight of others• To be responsible for our actions – overt and covert.Could we have asked for a better teacher than Master Failure?failuresuccess
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Create Success 2007-06-27 06:46:21 Success is like an eager guest knocking at your door, waiting to be let in. If you shut your door to the guest he is going to be disheartened and will try other options. Approaching success is an art, you need not over-stretch limited resources or try beyond your means to achieve success. Wisely using what you have is more than sufficient. What you are seeking to achieve in the outside world is actually present within you. You have nurtured and created it within your soul and self, it needs to be re-discovered. Positive thinking is one such resource which is well within your reach and should be used to be successful.Success Comes At A PriceIt is desires that ultimately manifest themselves into our achievements. But for every mountain built the earth is scooped out from another place. Same Read more:Success
Journey To Success Begins With A Single Step 2007-06-26 06:37:02 We see successful people everyday in our life. More often then not, we look at them, sigh and wish we were as successful as they are.But what eludes us is that these successful people became so because they just didn’t sit back and sigh; instead they put their dreams and plans into action. Just how does one go about acting on plans or dreams?Begin by having a clear idea of your goal; then start your journey towards it.Cultivate the habit of doing something that takes you closer to your goal. To attain success or to reach your goal you need not worry about having all the answers in advance, just keep moving towards your dream.When faced with a difficult situation or problem, don’t brood over it. Instead just try to break it up into small parts and set about tackling one part at a time. Read more:Success
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Ground Rules For Success 2007-06-24 07:13:27 A ground rule to success is that you can never be successful if you do not enjoy what you do. If you have a deep love or interest for your job, then your chances of success are enhanced greatly.When you do something that interests you, the amount of effort and quality of work you put into it is incomparable. You tend to treat every problem or obstacle as a challenge and put in your best to overcome it. If you are not doing something that makes you want to do it ceaselessly then find one.Remember that every effort is always rewarded. Deciding on your passion, or love for a particular job, should not be dictated by the rewards or compensation. When you find something you like to do, you’d be good at it. When you are good at what you do, compensation will follow automatically. A funny parad Read more:Success
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Handling Fear Before A Public Appearance 2007-06-19 03:57:03 Fear governs quite a few of our activities. It makes us anticipate rejection, ridicule and failure. A very common fear is stage fright. Why is it that most of us fall prey to it? The answer is the possibility of goofing up on stage and being subjected to ridicule. How then do we handle such a situation?Face it, yes it is possible that you might trip while walking towards the mike – be careful and it won’t happen and say it does happen just pick yourself up and walk on, you are after all human. Anybody can trip.You may forget your words. Yes you may. But arm yourself with mastery over the language and you can improvise. Research your theme well and speak extempore.Now think, is it possible to rid yourself of stage fright or at least handle it well? Yes, definitely. Have faith in yoursel Read more:Handling
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Tackling Negative Thoughts 2007-06-18 05:48:58 Positive and negative thoughts are a part of everyone’s life. But negative thinking can harm our lives by influencing our thinking on a long term basis. Here are some tips to tackle such negative thoughts. All negative thoughts can be controlled, converted and replaced with a happy or a positive thought.What To Do When A Negative
Thought Creeps In1. Simple, take it in and throw it out. Some can do it as simply as this, while for others it can take some time.2. People who worry take a bit longer to overcome a negative thought than non-worriers. But it is not to say that negative thoughts cannot be overcome at all.3. As soon as you get a negative thought try and identify it – is it a thought, feeling or action.4. As soon as you identify the negative emotion, you can objectively view it a Read more:Tackling
Dreams Boost Creativity 2007-06-13 07:55:28 A number of times you may not remember what you dream. Teaching yourself to remember dreams can bring upon a number of benefits like solving personal problems, making decisions, gaining inspiration and boosting your creativity. All you need to do is follow these simple steps consistently for a month although there is likelihood that some of you may meet these benefits comparatively earlier than other peoplle.Start by keeping a notebook and pen next to your bed. Set your alarm to go off about fifteen minutes early in the morning. After the alarm goes off, sit up and try to remember the last thing you dreamt before waking. Don't write anything down yet and don't force your mind to focus. Just relax and allow the images to come back to you. Give yourself a full five minutes of silence for thi Read more:Dreams
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Hope is everything 2007-06-01 02:14:51 What if you don’t have any goals? Well for starters, sit down and think of one as fast as you can. Why? If you find yourself at a place of having no goals whatsoever, you may end up in circumstances that provide no excitement or challenge. You begin to grow professionally and personally only when you set goals and strive to reach them.• Make sure to check on your progress when attaining your goal. A goal should be measurable, so you can see for sure that you are making progress. For instance if you want to buy a house this year, you need to be thinking in terms of scouting the area and looking for a suitable place. If you manage to do this in the first month of your period, you are obviously progressing.• Now that you have progressed to your goal, you are ready to act on it. Draw up
Happiness As A Habit…Do You Practise It? 2007-05-30 04:01:09 Have you ever wondered how some people are extremely happy everyday? Some of us more often than not are in a foul mood with the worst expression on our faces. But reflecting on happiness and being happy, it is simply us who can make us happy."The happiness habit is developed by simply practicing happy thinking. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day," says Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking. So fill your mind with happy thoughts or try and recall happy moments every morning. Try and say happy things to yourself every day, like "I believe it’s going to be a great day".Make up a special quote just for yourself: "I'm a good human being and I deserve to be happy". Repeat this to yourself every day, and believe Read more:Habit
Staying Happy 2007-05-24 07:34:45 Happiness and peace beckons everywhere. Sounds too good to be true. Doesn't it? Life without any stress and worries would be overwhelming, fortunately there is so much you can do to get centered and stay clear headed again. Read the following and your life will change forever.The first step to finding greater happiness and peace is in realizing that you have a choice. Without directing your mind and attention to that which creates happiness and peace, you will unintentionally follow a course of action that most people take which results in stress, pain, worry, anger, and an overabundance of negative emotions and mental stress which rule their lives. No matter how the outside world is affecting you, take a conscious control over your mind.Being conscious:While there is the mechanical proces Read more:Happy
Breathing Better 2007-05-17 04:15:50 In general, breathing is an effortless affair. But research suggests that our body and mind are actually very deeply affected by the way we breathe.The problem of breathing difficulty usually comes from arrested (or restricted) movements of breathing. The muscles involved -- the diaphragm, the abdominal muscles, and the muscles that move the ribs (including the scalenes of the neck) -- hold residual tension. As a result, people either exhale incompletely or inhale incompletely.People who exhale incompletely may have a habitually-expanded chest; a big, rounded or hanging belly, high shoulders, and a shortened neck. The belly comes from a diaphragm that, being always partially contracted, pushes the abdominal contents down and out of their normal position; the high shoulders come from contra
Get Inspired 2007-05-14 02:11:18 All that we have been bestowed with today is what makes us a complete being, for you never know what the future has in store. So are we making the optimal use of our numerous blessings today to make our lives seem even slightly better than those less fortunate?If we make the effort to notice the small details around us, we can actually learn the true meaning of life. Here's how one can notice the finer details in life…*Enjoy and live every moment to the fullest and try to gain/ learn something out of each.*Notice the changes by asking questions and finding their solutions.*Stop complaining about and judging other people, and accept them with their short-comings. Master the art of forgiveness.*Empathize with other people's feelings and learn from their experiences in life.*Stand for yours Read more:Inspired
Keep Trying Till You Succeed 2007-05-13 07:19:42 Are you destined for success in life? Just keep trying...It’s never over till you give up… so never give up! You would have heard the quote “Nothing succeeds like success” add “Try…try till you succeed” to this and you have just brewed the perfect formula for unstoppable success. And believe me when I tell you, it holds true every time you attempt to succeed.An outstanding quality of a winner is the power to hold on despite the most adverse circumstances. Sure, you are going to fail a lot. Not every endeavour is going to be successful the first time. Some might take forever to succeed. But the secret is to never give up. A winner is not a person who does not fail but, it is he who rises up every time he fails and tries again.Don’t ever give up trying. Be stubbornly persiste
How To Boost Self Esteem? 2007-05-12 04:53:05 Are you the kind of person who values yourself on the basis of good grades, good looks or by the number of friends you have? What happens when you’re not blessed with good grades? Does that mean that you are not a good human being? Most of the times, we assess and evaluate ourselves on the basis of such external factors that contribute to a plunging self esteem.What Is Self Esteem?* In psychological terms, it is self worth. It has nothing to do with ego. Even egoistic people are known to have poor self esteem.* It is an opinion that you have about yourself, in terms of goals in life, weaknesses and strengths.* Self esteem gradually evolves right from childhood -- from playing with other kids, meeting elders, winning a prize or losing a match.What Is Positive Self Esteem?* Where you can h Read more:Boost
Happiness is within your reach 2007-05-11 03:55:25 Have you achieved anything out of the blue in the last 24 hours? Something so wonderful... that you felt like breaking out in a song? Even as you consider this question, you might reach the conclusion that nothing truly spectacular occurred.Now, hold on for a moment.Did you have a place to stay last night? Imagine what might have happened if you and your family didn't have a roof over your heads. Sounds weird, but how many times have you been thankful for the blessings in your life?Here, then, are a few things you can do to cultivate an "attitude of gratitude" in your life.1. Count your blessings daily. The key is to develop a habit of focusing on things you are grateful for. Put a note on your bathroom mirror or carry a card in your wallet or purse with the message, ‘Count Your Blessing Read more:within
Sleeping Better 2007-05-10 07:29:02 Early in the morning when you wake up grumpy and irritable, with a heavy head and no mood to learn or take up a new task. It's not a hangover, its how you feel when you don't get your regular dose of sleep. Sleep has deeper, long term health benefits. So think before you stay up late often.Benefits Of Sleep:1. Your brain shuts down its tasks of all its emotions, decisions and interactions. So when you wake up in the morning, you are fresh to handle a new day.2. It helps you to deal with stress in everyday life.3. It gives you energy and boosts your immune system.Lack Of Sleep:1. It makes you less attentive in class/work as it directly affects your nervous system.2. It can lead to poor memory and poor performance.3. It can make you moody and irritable.Develop Health Habits:*Quit smoking and Read more:Sleeping
Facing An Interview 2007-05-09 04:40:58 How to face an interview?- this querry rambles our mind too often. But these are very helpful ways to prepare oneself for an interview.1. Take a complete C.V. - It must mention your name, age, educational qualification, job experience starting with the current one, goal in life, extra curricular activities, languages known, special achievements, references, contact address.2. Know the company well before attending the interview. - About their activities, products, clients, people, culture, overall perception.3. Understand the nature of the job you have applied for. - Responsibilities, authorities, reporting structure, skills required.4. Go well dressed. - In formals preferably wearing Tie or even a neat shirt & trouser will do.5. Conduct yourself in the interview.-*Wish the interviewer whe Read more:Facing
Powerful Ants 2007-05-05 05:10:10 Ants are highly adaptive to their environment. When moved to a different climate or location, they quickly adapt. There are specially adapted ant species that only live in and around human dwellings. Some ant species can survive under water for up to 14 days or longer by going into something like suspended animation. Ants are resistant to hard radiation and some ant species are highly resistant to industrial pollution. If a nuclear holocaust ever destroys our civilization, ants will be giving the cockroaches a run for their money. Ants modify their environment. They regulate the temperature and humidity within their nests. They control airflow through their nests. They build mounds. They clear pathways. Ants modify themselves. Through a complex system of chemical communication and constant
The Loch Ness Monster 2007-05-04 04:29:16 The Loch Ness Monster
is a mysterious and unidentified animal, claimed to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, the most voluminous freshwater lake in Great Britain. Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster is one of the best-known mysteries of cryptozoology. Most scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting the creature's existence unpersuasive and regard the occasional sightings as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena. The most common eyewitness description of Nessie is that of a plesiosaur, a long-necked aquatic reptile that became extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Supporters of the plesiosaur theory cite the survival of a fish called the coelacanth, which supposedly went extinct along with the plesiosaur but w
No title 2007-05-03 05:45:53 An unidentified flying object, or a UFO is any real or apparent flying object that cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.In popular culture, the term ‘UFO’ is often used to refer to any hypothetical alien spacecraft. The term ‘flying saucer’ is also sometimes used.Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947.Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide.Many more sightings may, however, remain unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the social stigma surrounding the subject of UFOs and because most nations lack any officially sanctioned authority to receive and evalu
An Adventurous Life 2007-05-01 04:10:10 It's very important to make a distiguished life. If someone is looking out for ways to make life carefree, these 7 steps can be very helpful to attain that personal change. And when you do, you'll find that the old comfort zone has now expanded and what once looked like a danger zone has now become a place you feel safe with.1. Learn to Change YourselfWhen we find ourselves in an unsatisfactory position due to circumstances beyond our control, such as a job we no longer enjoy or people we no longer like, most of us try to change the situation. We complain, moan, criticize, judge, and condemn. There is only one way to change a disappointing situation. And that is to change ourselves.2. Set ChangesWhen we stay well established in old positions, even if they are no longer relevant, there is n Read more:Adventurous
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