Follow these simple rules for happy work life. Save your eyes: Sit a comfortable distance away from a computer screen. Your eyes should be at level with the top of the screen. Adjust your monitor accordingly. Keep brightness and contrast of your monitor at optimal levels. Smoking: Stop smoking. It causes heart attacks, Lung cancer and bronchiectasis. Alcoholism: It causes cirrhosis of liver. It is a slow poison. It destroys your health and wealth. Dietary habits: Take your diet at regular intervals. Take more green leafy vegetables and lots of fruits. Never skip a breakfast and meals. Try to avoid sweets and fast foods. Colas are rich in empty calories. Keep them away. Exercise: Exercise is necessary for your body and brain.Body exercise: Walking is the best and simple exercise for everyone.Mind exercise: Read books and do puzzles. Try to think every situation in a different manner (out of box). Sleep problems: Sleep at a regular intervals. Never use sedatives and alcohol. Learn meditation and yoga. Keep calm in difficult situations.Source: Business Today … [Read more...]
How to be happy in 2009?
The WEEK magazine published an article by celebrity author Shobhaa De for happiness in life. Shobhaa De listed 25 simple acts to bring happiness in one’s life. How to be happy in 2009? 1. Family is crucial in one's happiness. Allocate sufficient time to the family members. Take care of your self. 2. Forget bad incidents in your life. They will ruin your physical and mental wellbeing. 3. Be positive and trust your abilities. Unless you trust yourself, nobody will trust you. 4. Express gratitude to the people through phone/mail. 5. Take rest from busy schedule and introspect yourself. Introspection will enhance one's life. 6. Be emotional with your family members. They need your love and exhibit it by simple acts like kissing and hugging. Life is precious and enjoy. 7. Listen with heart when others are speaking. Relations will spoil if they detect your body language. 8. Share your inner feelings with your family and friends which is good to your health. 9. Never argument. Arguments will never win you friends. 10. Try to do every work wholeheartedly. 11. Don’t be over perfectionist. It will irritate others. 12. Control anger and emotions before taking decisions. 13. Complement people for their good acts. Everyone likes to be appreciated by others. 14. Music has distressing ability. Melodious music will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing. 15. Exhibit emotions with your closed ones. Never control beautiful emotional acts like crying, hugging, laughing and kissing. 16. Help others. Allocate some money for charity. Good acts will increase happiness in life. 17. Gardening is a great hobby. … [Read more...]
8 secrets of happy and successful life
If you wish to become a most successful person (leader) in life, you have to follow certain things in your daily life. 1. Stop worrying: Never worry about the past things as past is past. And also not worry about the future as it cannot be predicted correctly. By thinking about those things which are not under our control, there is every chance of occurring bad rather than good. Always think about in the present and act accordingly. It is a good process to rectify the past mistakes and prepare the plans for the future. 2. Love Yourself:Never underestimate yourself, irrespective of the defects, if at all present, in you. Nobody is born perfectly in this world. Always love yourself, your individuality and your family. 3. Self confidence: If you have self confidence, it is well and good, even if nobody is with you. Self confidence develops courage in you and you can achieve your goal in life. 4. Think positively: Never develop negative thoughts, which spoil one’s career.We can solve so many problems by positive thinking. We know that hope is life and doubt is death. 5. Feel Assertive: Nobody has the right to degrade you,(unless you commit any mistake).Always fight for your rights and at the same time have peaceful mind. If you don’t like anything, never hesitate to express your opinion of disliking openly. Otherwise you have to face troubles. 6. Energize Yourself: Always try to develop skills present in you and encourage yourself often and on which acts as a booster to your mind. Troubles might interfere in your daily activities and programmes, bur never abandon that work in the middle, and proceed to continue to do it with great enthusiasm. Never get despair. 7. Motivate Yourself: This is most … [Read more...]
Postpone Mentality- causes and treatment
Everybody desires to have successful life. But we have to work hard sincerely, to get the fruits of success. Postponing mentality is more commonly seen especially in the students and also seen in the employees. As per the William Nass, a psychologist, 90% of the students postpone the studying of the subjects as per the schedule. But during the examinations time, they work hard and got through the examinations. Anyhow 14% leaves their education abruptly in the middle or satisfy with the low- paid works or jobs. 60-70% of the employees are also have this mentality of postponing their job works and due to this 10% of them are loosing their jobs. Causes for postponement: 1. Laziness: It is everybody’s enemy. Students don’t like to open the text books, but feel very happy to go to bed. Employees find it difficult to open the office-files, but feel happy to close it. This is ‘’easy - going’ type mentality and are of the strong opinion that nothing will happen to them, if they don’t do the work assigned to them in time. 2. Fear of failure: They develop negative feeling before starting any job or work, thinking that they will meet with failure. It is more common with students before appearing for the exams and candidates attending the interview. 3. Giving excuses: It is an instrument frequently used by the employees in the offices, without any valuable reason. A few of the employees indirectly demand money (illegally), even though he is getting salary regularly. One day he will be caught red –handed and have to loose the job. 4. Egoism: He did not care o do other’s work with superior complex mentality or thinking that it can be done later on with … [Read more...]
Anger: causes, problems and management
Anger is the most common personality disorder that spoils relationships in everyday life. Why do we get angry? 1. Thinking that the other persons’ status and their thinking power are below your level and dignity. 2. Full of egoism: If the other person disagree with your thoughts, immediately, you feel that they showed disrespect to your image and personality (’I’ mentality) and you get anger. 3. Stubbornness: you expect that, whatever you wish that it must be carried down by the others, under any circumstances. Otherwise you will not tolerate and develop angry mood. 4. Authoritative mentality: Having bossism type attitude while dealing with others. 5. Habituated to controlling everybody and everything. 6. Having the inferiority complex attitude. 7. Being under the misconception that by exhibiting anger, it is easy to keep others well under your control or command. Bad effects or problems due to anger: 1. Anger causes physical and mental troubles-like, -Headache, Hyper- acidity, pains in neck region, -Lack of concentration in doing any work/studies, etc. 2. Your friend show disinterest in speaking to you. 3. You feel too-much stress 4. You rarely laugh with your relatives/friends and your relationship with them get spoiled 5. People talk something before you and exactly opposite thing behind you 6. Your moods are not under your control, that is, you don’t when you get angry or when you are in normal condition 7. Nobody dares to give any valuable suggestion to you, as you think that what you know is the only correct thing. 8. After some days, you begin to get angry upon yourself and also develop … [Read more...]
Communication skills: Why should you learn?
Communications skills are the most essential assets for anyone to achieve success in today’s competitive world. Companies are giving more importance to soft skills during job interviews. You can never enhance your personality in the society/team without communication skills. Soft skills are essential to have a great career or to get success in interviews. Never treat soft skills as an academic requirement but as a ingredient of your personality. A great intelligent person without communication skills can achieve nothing in personal/work life. The various types of soft skills are: 1. Interpersonal skills. 2. Team working skills. 3. Creative thinking. 4. Decision making skills. 5. Problem solving skills. 6. Memory and reasoning techniques. To day most of the parents encourage their children to study well so that they can get a “ good job” ad earn handsome salaries. No doubt it is a good thing on the part of the parents. But what about other options (skills)? Recently, an expert said in an interview that “It may be true that it is those students who secure more than 65% marks in their academic qualifications get the jobs in reputed companies and it is also a fact that it is those who secure between 50 %to 60% marks have started these companies”. So, to build and lead a successful team, you can successfully able to communicate with your team member. You can never become a leader without these soft skills. All great leaders in the history like Abraham Lincoln are also a wonderful communicators. Just see how Obama trounced favourite Hillary Clinton by using his great communication skills. For example, well- known personalities like Bill Gates … [Read more...]
25 ways to improve your life in 2009
Indian spiritual master and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar mentioned 25 ways to improve life in 2009. To improve your life, you need to get a broad understanding about youself and your priorities. 25 Ways to improve the quality of Life: 1. Review the context of life. 2. Know life's impermanence. 3. Make your smile cheaper. 4. Be enthusiastic and praise others. 5. Make meditation a part of your life. 6. Go to the most beautiful place 7. Communicate effectively. Communication skills are vital to achieve success. 8. Take out time for your self. 9. Better the world around you. 10. Nourish your emotions. 11. Plan short and long term goals. 12. Prayer is a vital tool. 13. Implement the changes if needed. 14. Identify your limitations. 15. Do not lose your friends. 16. Don't look for perfection. 17. Let us be unpredictable. 18. Have a sense of humour 19. Don't be afraid to make mistakes 20. Overcome your prejudice. 21. Feel that "I am blessed" 22. Do random acts of kindness. 23. Be a student always. 24. Dream the impossible. 25. Compare your performance. If you can follow these simple tips by great master, you are moving towards success in both personal and professional life. … [Read more...]
Success: Secrets, quotes and tips
Everybody wishes to have a successful career in his/her life and also aims to reach the top most position in one's career. It is nothing but natural. To achieve success, the minimum required two things are, we have to work hard and have a good plan of action. Without those two minimum actions, we could achieve nothing and there after our position becomes just like a stone, without any improvement. What are the secrets of successful people? How to improve ourselves to lead a successful life? Secrets of Success: 1. Desire 2. Ability 3. Utility of skills 4. Hard work. 1. Desire: To achieve success in life, first of all, you should have an intense desire, otherwise, you won’t get required result.The aim or goal should be depending upon your previous and practical experiences. Take into consideration your plus and minus points and also your present position, before setting your goal. Either too little or too big goals do not serve our purpose and often we may met with failure. For them success is at far away distance. Hence proper selection of goal is highly essential. Success quote: “First deserve and then desire”. 2. Ability or Confidence: Human brain contains millions of neurons. The “memory” present in each neuron is equal to one computer. Its capability and level is same in each and every individual, as revealed by the experiments. But, some persons have low confidence in them, which leads to inferiority complex and they achieve little in their career. At the same time “over confidence” in their ability is also not so good. Success Quote: “Too much of everything is always bad”. 3. Utility of skills: Having skills is not of much use but one must have the ability to utilize them … [Read more...]
How to manage Anger?
When emotions run high and thoughts run amok, even a calm person may become a victim of anger. It is a proved fact that the emotional life of an individual frequently influences one’s health and also the personality. Studies indicate that for 1/3 to 1/2 of patients who are consulting physicians because of physical symptoms have no bodily diseases or ailments, but they are due to emotional factors. It is important to observe that physicians have to study the patient as a whole. The effect of emotions on bodily changes is apparent in many gastrointestinal disorders, in the form of nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, indigestion abdominal discomfort and diarrhea and ultimately leading to peptic ulcer. Emotions also affect central nervous system causing anger and stress, which can disrupt lives as much as an earthquake (which can alter biography). The present century is labeled by many as “the age of anger and anxiety”.Anger can harm an individual’s physical and social health, since it is a manifestation of selfish, unfulfilled desires. Anger is described as a violent outburst of emotion, stemming from the frustration of the individual. Anger is “one letter short of danger”. Hence it should be avoided, under any circumstances. At the time of angry, the hormones “epinephrine and nor-epinephrine” are secreted in excessive quantities, leading to increase in the heart rate and rise in blood pressure and also the blood vessels are contracted and increase in the incidence of premature heart diseases. An angry person frequently loses his memory, knowledge necessary or logical thinking and proper human behavior. Angry starts wit minor irritation and it can grow into an obsession, that disease the mind. When … [Read more...]
Personality development: Why and how?
One of the challenge confronting individuals preparing to enter the corporate world today is, meeting the expectations of being able to do more than required. The current scenario is one of intense competition and it is this competition, which has altered the entire way of corporate functioning. Faced with seemingly insurmountable challenge of having in hand more than it can handle, companies today look out for people who can act as all-rounder’s, contributing in each and every aspect of business. The bottom line today is that, an individual needs more than just qualifications and knowledge, which have become a necessity rather than being the competitive edge, to make his presence felt in the corporate arena. It is here that an individual’s personality plays a critical role in enabling him deal with the unpredictable, demanding and ever changing corporate environment. The ability of an individual to Think, Communicate, and Action his ideas effectively, has become the key factor in differentiating a good performer from an average performer.In case you’ve read numerous write ups on what all you could do to attain an effective personality, or to become more successful in your life, one question crossing your mind could be - Where do I begin? orWhat do you do next? Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.” What he probably intended on communicating was that, the one thing that is really required at the onset is, that you take action on at least one idea existing in your mind that you feel can help you immediately. If you truly have the desire to improve your life - ‘Just do it and start right now’. Almost 95% of everything we do is … [Read more...]
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