Urban Life is it Really Life?

Sunrises and our curtains rise to the problems of mechanical life; we start the day not thinking about the good things and God but about the tasks that are there on our head.

We wake up lifeless and discouraged oh God; need to go to office again. We are always in a race to go in time to office, race to give the best, race to do our duties, and race to excel and to accumulate money, this race knows no end and we keep running and running till we run out of time and energy.

This is the hard truth behind the glittering urban life. We stay in the same home but have no time to see each other faces. We just sleep together and once in a week eat together and are busy completing the other works.

We don’t have time to call our brothers or sisters we don’t even bother to answer their calls, because we are too tired doing our cores at home and at work.

We don’t bother about relationships because we earn enough that we think we don’t need any one. Because money is all that we need in today’s time and we can buy anything with money.

All that bothers to us is our own family me, my spouse and my children and no one else not even our parents. Life in urban areas is like this, we don’t trust the person next to our home we don’t know their faces even if are living there for a long time.

We have nice cars, luxurious flats, and handsome bank balance but we don’t have time to eat and sleep. There is every “thing” in life except “life” this is the real face of urban life.

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Top 5 Guidelines as to How We Should Live Life?

All of us have goals and dreams to achieve in life and which play a very important role in molding our life. But there are also guide lines that are common in every one’s life and which every human should know and try to follow. Let us have a look at them.

1. Purpose of Life:
Know the purpose of human life and fulfill that purpose.  Living a life without purpose is just a life, that has not life at all in it. Leading a life should with an aim or goal, and may fail due to having a aimless life or they are in a situation compelled to live like that only. When situations haunt, many become prey to their life leaving the original goal of life. That says, when you simple adopt the situation without struggling for it, it will become your life.

2. Your Ability:
Know and discover the abilities that God has blessed you with and utilize them for the benefit of mankind. Recognizing own ability is the best thing one realizes very late, and that is fact indeed. Ability to do many things or multiple tasks is the efficiency that everybody does not have. When you stand by any person to help out with your own ability, then simply follow the rule that you are not going to get the same treatment you bestowed. That says, your ability is to help others but personal.

3. No Regrets:
Live life in such a way that when you are in your last moments you have no regrets. Live today as if there is not tomorrow, and your are not going to get the time to undo your deeds. Regrets make you down, when you have time or opportunity, simply believe in your efforts to perform for the noble shake.





4. Become a Leader:
We should live life in a way that people feel sad about the fact that we are no more, but they should not feel happy about the fact that you are no more. When you depart for a final journey, millions should follow he ways for your final journey. People always do remember leaders and their contributions towards society.

5. Help Others: 
Our life should not be limited to family members and four walls it should go beyond that. Helping mankind is the greatest job, and helping others is the best thing one should do.

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Top 10 Tips to Love Yourself

We keep hearing this again and again that we need to show love towards others, our fellow creatures and other life.

But before we go on to all those things first we need to love ourselves, a person who does not love himself cannot love others. For some people loving themselves is difficult because they see only the negative side and all the short comings that are there in them.

As there are sides of the coin so there are two shades of every person, one side light and the other one dark no one is free from this when we understand this it will be easy for us to develop love for our own self. Let us learn the ways to love your own self.

1. Give your body the right treatment that it needs. It is very precious and you need to treat it that way.

2. Wear the kind of clothes that you like and are comfortable to you, eat the kind of food you love.

3. You be the source of your joy and happiness.
4. You are the only you in this entire creation, precious as what you are and how you are so live life like that.

5. Spend time daily with your own self (alone) at least for some time.

6. Do what you love and what gives you energy and motivation.

7. Look at your future think of it and work for it.

8. Follow the whispers of the heart for they are your true friends and guide for life.

9. Take the reins of your life into your own hands, and write the story of your own life and live it.

10. Always stick to the positive side of you think of it, work on it and let the other side vanish.

Unless you give love to yourself and respect yourself it is hard to gain it from others. So, first learn to love yourself then spread it to others and let your life fill with the colours of love.

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Ten Things That You Should not do with Your Child

The role of parents in bringing up ‘a child is very important. As there are some do’s and don’ts for everything, parenting also involves some things that you should not do with your child. Every child is different, and needs to be taken care as per the situations, but there are some usual things that parents keep doing, but which should not be done. Let us take a look at those aspects.

1. Many parents force the children and act harsh with them when it comes to education. But instead of making it a night mare for a child they should see that child himself takes initiative to study. Education and learning activities may be fun, if presented in a way that child likes.

2. Today in many cases both the parents go to work and when they are back they are busy with other activities that don’t find time to talk to children. But if you want to know what’s happening in your child’s life and want him to trust you and rely on you then it is very important to spend some quality time with them.

3. Punishment should not be a way of dealing with child. When child does something wrong he behavior should be corrected. If you just keep punishing, fear will overtake his mind and he will be able to do nothing. Whatever you want to convey whatever you want him to do use the language of love, to make things happen.
4. Many parents give children whatever they ask for, they thing they are showing love but it is not right. Children should be given what they need and when they need, they should not be under the impression that whatever I will ask my parents will give, this will only spoil a child.

5. Many children today lead an unhealthy life style, they don’t eat on time, sleep on time nor they go out to play. This is very serious aspect that parents need to act on, they should see that the child takes nutritious and balanced food, leads a healthy life style. He should be encouraged to go out and play involve in other activities that are good for body and mind.

6. Many parents see only the short comings in the child and never see the positive side though they see they do not find it important to mention good things. Most of the time they criticize the child for negative things, this is not at all good every child has some positive aspects and negative ones instead of criticizing him for negative ones he should be encouraged to work on them and improve and every good behavior how small it may be it should be recognized and child should be given credit.

7. As parents we should never ignore a child’s problems or complaints. When he or she comes to us believing in us that we are there for them you should listen to them first and then solve it. Otherwise the child will think that we don’t care for him and will never open up.

8. Sometimes when disciplining a child parents lose their control and start beating or abusing a child, but this is not right this will make a child’s life worse. Violence will not solve problems and instead will make matters worse, so don’t lose your control and set a bad example for the child.

9. Many parents don’t allow child to involve in activities out of over care and affection, they don’t encourage him to learn new things. This is not good for a child’s development, as parents we should take care of child, and protect him but he should also be exposed to all normal things. Otherwise when he has to face a difficult situation he will not be able to withstand it.

10. What you do is more important than what you teach or say when it comes to children. Because children learn more by seeing their parents and other members of the family, their behavior, the way they interact and react etc. So, make sure that you do what you say and set a good example for your child as a parent. Otherwise we will not be able to gain child’s respect and love.

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Top 10 ways to Increase Children’s Confidence

Each and every parent tries to give their child the best education, and the best of everything. But the most important thing that each and every parent should strive to teach their children is to empower their child with the skills that they require to come up in life that is life skills.

It is very important for parents to see that the seeds of self confidence are planted in them since childhood so that it grows along with them. According to research, a child who is happy and has confidence, performs much better in the school and is good in relationships.

If you take a look at the recent statistics the main reason why students that too below the age of 23 are committing suicide is lack of confidence. So, this is one thing that parents really need to concentrate on. Let us look at some of the ways to develop self confidence in the children.

1. As parents most of the time we find faults with the children and try to correct them. Instead find something to appreciate in them, when they do even a small thing that is good or correct give a pat on their back, congratulate them and appreciate them. This will increase their confidence.

2. Children are full of excitement, every time they find something new or exciting and they want to share it with you. Be patient and listen to what they say and how they feel. Those things may sound silly to us but are important to them. When they talk they learn to open up and share their feelings, this helps in boosting their confidence.

3. You tell your child to do something that he is not used to but he tries to do that and gives his best efforts, he may be successful or he may not be successful but the point is that he has tried. Reward that trying and encourage him, one day he will achieve or do that thing and show you.

4. It is more important to give your valuable time to children than to buy them the most expensive gifts. Make it part of your routine to spend some qualitative time with your child.

5. Assigning children with the tasks that suit their age and thinking levels, increases confidence in them. They feel confident when they accomplish or do something, so give them small tasks, encourage them and help them to increase their confidence.

6. Involve children in discussions as parents we don’t allow children to interfere in matters that are not of their concern, it is good. But you should find out something to discuss with them may be a topic of their interest and then involve them in the discussion, this way they learn to discuss and to communicate. When they do this they don’t hesitate to express their views and participate in discussions outside.

7. As parents most of the times we caution children not to do any mistakes, but when they do so, it is our responsibility to make them feel that it’s ok to do mistakes and it is a process of learning and nothing to be ashamed of. It should be their perspective to look at mistakes like learning tools; they should learn from it and grow but should not repeat them. This kind of attitude gives them the confidence to face life.

8. Most of the time the children’s behavior and their actions make the parents fell annoyed and shameful. But children do it out of mere ignorance, so, instead of punishing them. It is our responsibility to let them understand what they are doing and if they continue to be so what will happen to them. Making them understand and correction is important to punishment.

9. As far as possible try that the child looks for positiveness everywhere and in every situation.

10. Always try not to force the child to do things that you think are good for them. Give them some freedom, and involve yourself in doing those things that are of interest to them. This will help in strengthening the bond, and helps increase confidence.

It is not enough to buy them expensive gifts or give them the best of all things, more than anything else children crave for attention and love give them that and see with what confidence they grow up.

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Top 5 Ways to Handle Criticism

Criticism is one thing that is unavoidable in life. People criticize you if you do something, or if you don’t do anything or if you do something that no one does. The mistake we do is to think that only useless people and people with empty minds are the ones to be criticized.

But if you take a look at the history all the so called genius of the world and leaders in their fields we the people who were most criticized, people called them mad and insane, what not but it is only those who [paid no attention to them and believed in what they thought was right were the ones who were successful.

So, criticism, is not what matters, what matters is how you react to it, take or leave it and move ahead to see success. So, let us look at some of the ways that will help us to handle criticism in a way that will help us to progress.

1. Know the intention behind the criticism, some people criticize because it’s their nature, some because it gives them happiness, and some people criticize you so that you can learn from mistakes. So, know the intention and leave the criticism.

2. Don’t give it back to them. It is but natural for us to defend ourselves when we are criticized for no reason or not for a valid reason. But doing so will give strength to those who criticize us and drag us down to their level so, better to hold yourself back.

3. The best way to handle criticism is to respond calmly. Listen to them and then once they cool down tell them how you feel about it.

4. If there a fault of yours and others criticize you, accept it and tell that you have got their point and would correct yourself.

5. The best way to handle criticism is to have self confidence. If you know what you are and what you are doing other peoples comments and criticisms do not bother you. So, focus on increasing your self confidence.

There is other side of criticism that it helps you to know your faults and gives you a chance to correct them. This happens when the people who criticize you are our well wishers or the ones who are bothered about your welfare. In such cases criticism helps us to progress and to go ahead. So, know the intention behind criticism and then accordingly take it or leave, but keep moving ahead.

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Top 5 Tips for Self Development

Now a day’s more and more number of people are showing interest in self development and it is something which is limit less. The more you develop the more you will find the need to change yourself for betterment and to develop more. So, the process is never ending, but the earlier you start with the process the more easy life would become and more progress you would be able to make.

The process of self development starts with the process of changing our inner self. Because no matter how many books we read and how many lecture we hear, until and unless we start implementing them there is no use of all the accumulated knowledge. So, how do we go about it let us check it out.


1. First and for most thing in self development is that you need to overcome resistance not from anyone else but from our own self. Because all these years we have dumped ourselves with undesirable habits and routine and now when we find that there is need for change our previous habits pull us down, which we need to overcome.


2. We need to learn from our surroundings and the people we interact with. Nobody is perfect in this world and there is both negative and positive side of every one take the positive traits and make a note of negative qualities, check if you have them and try to remove those qualities.

3. Check your body language and pay attention to your voice modulation. Observe when and why people talk or behave in some way as they do and see the results. Observe your own self, the way you interact and what results it is yielding.

4. The more you read and the more you gain knowledge the more you will grow and increase your efforts towards self development, so, make it a part of your routine to read a book on self development or auto biographies of great leaders.

5. Have a role model or a mentor when you have someone to guide you progress in any path becomes easy because all you have to do is follow what they say do.

If we lead life the same way as we are used to without any progress and development life loses its meaning. So, self development is something we all need to think about and focus.

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Top 5 Myths Associated with Stress

Many of us think that we know about stress, but the many of the facts, that we think, we know, are myths about stress. But is it really necessary for us to clear the myths? Yes, because knowing the myths associated with stress helps us to deal with it in a beneficial and positive way and helps us to lead a happy and disease free life.

So, let us look at the some of the common myths associated with stress.

1. It is a common myth among people that stress is unavoidable and you cannot do anything about it. But with proper analysis and thinking it is possible to handle stress.

2. As many people think, stress is not bad in each and every situation. For those people who know the ways of handle it stress makes them productive. Like a bats man under stress, if he knows how to handle it, will do more runs than what he does under normal conditions. So, it is a myth that stress is always and under all conditions bad.

3. Many people think that stress reductions techniques are the same for everyone, but it is a myth. A technique that has helped you to reduce your stress levels may be the cause of causing stress to me. So there are no universal techniques, they have to be tailored according to individual needs.

4. Most of the people think that stress is same for everyone but it is not so, because each individuals response to stress is different.

5. Many people live under the false impression that if they don’t find any physical symptoms associated with stress, they don’t have it. But the truth is only when stress exceeds its levels does it express itself in the form of physical illness or disease.

So, cut off any myths and illusions about stress. Know the facts and realities and live a happy and peaceful life.

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Last Moments are Eye Openers

If we were to ask this question to anyone everyone would give a different answer. Some may say Parents, life partner, friends, lover, everyone has his own answer. But the fact is quiet different, a small tremor in the earth and we run out leaving everything and everyone we love. Any natural calamity or any disaster acts as an eye opener to us if we take it in the right sense.

Life long we do so much of hard work and give all our time to accumulate things that we think are very important to us, but when the moment of test comes we give priority to our life first, then anything else. What does this reveal to us? It revels to us the reality of our own selves, the fact that we love our life first and then anything else or anyone else.

It is only in the last moment that we open our eyes to the reality of life. When we are in the death bed or facing a sudden unexpected event, we think maybe I should have lead my life like this, maybe I should have done this thing, or I should not have done this thing. This is the reality of life that we ignore when everything is all right and as per routine.

The things, and matters that we think are the priorities of life, look so silly and stupid when we are in the last moment. Then the realization comes to us that we have wasted our life in useless pursuits, ignoring the very thing that is important for us. In this world there will be very few people who have opened to their eyes to this fact, still when they are alive. These are the people that stick to truth and lead their life in a principled way.

So, apart from accumulating things developing relationships and leading a comfortable life. If we can spare some time daily to ourselves just to contemplate, what is important for us and what are our priorities, then maybe we don’t have to regret. If we learn to treat every moment as the last one, then it will become easy for us to lead a life and to accept death without any regrets or ill feelings.

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Happiness: Small Reasons Matters Much

What makes many annoyed all the time, might a damn care thing for others, right? Simple, different personalities do feel and see thing in their ways, least bothering about the contrary view.

So it isn’t the fault of the other person, whom you think that person always in negative or critic of your opinion.

Really, that is not the big thing, but to accept the core concept, many do fail there leaving themselves in the absurdity of feelings.

Never, gauge a situation that has been annoying in haste. You might reach a wrong conclusion. The fact is that, there are many silly reasons could fuel to big problems.

Yes, many do believe in this simple reason, we do often make a big fight over simple things. Why, because, no one is interested to let go things and live peaceful.

If there are no issues in a day, then there must be a compulsion to make our mind too busy in intriguing mind to track all the silly reasons to make a big conclusion from there.

Here, popular saying goes right – empty mind is devil’s home. No matter if the saying is not as exact it is…but the meaning is somewhat making it complete.

And the simple causes are the big player in mind leaving us unhappy, despite the mind need a peace at any cost.

Next comes, the Ego, ‘I am Factor’ in life that is the base for all the thoughts that keep you from happiness.

No need to consider a meditation classes to end your ‘I am Factor’, from where a new life is waiting for you. But there to your ego is eroding your goals you set forth.

Yes, it is fact that you can let go the simple things but, start from the beginning to overlook, one day you may be able to check the big problems caused by these and ego.

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Positive Side of Pain

Avoiding pain, perhaps this is one thing, any human would want to do we all want to avoid pain at any cost. Let it be physical pain or mental pain, none of us want to lead a painful life. But the truth is that we learn the life’s most important lessons only when we are in pain, and we learn to recognize the pain of others only when we have experienced it.

To avoid physical pain we try buying things for our comfort, like using all the machines, let it be a bike, car, or Ac all these are created for our physical comfort and to avoid pain at the physical level. As long as we see through the closed glasses of our cars we don’t know the pain that a common man under goes so we make fun of him and ill treat him. But a day comes when you have to work hard even for a rupee, and are prepared to do anything for it. That day you realize the difficulty of a common man.

Physical pain may be avoided by using more and more machines to work for us. But mental pain, every one experience at one stage or the other, pain of losing a job, pain of ill health, pain of losing a dear one and the list is endless. But the life’s most important lessons you learn only in these phases, you know who your true friends and well wishers are when you are in difficulties.

When you see someone falling sick in your family, you learn that you need to be careful about your health and your dear one’s health. When you lack finances you learn the value of money and its importance in life, you mould your attitude towards it and you prosper never repeating the mistake again. So, there is something for us to learn and grow in life from pain. So, next time when we experience some kind of pain dig deep into the reason, learn from it and grow, because this is the positive side of the pain.

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Your Happiness Lies in Others Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing
If you want happiness for a month – get married
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others

- Chinese Proverb

Along with time all human minds have changed to an extent where in we are hardly thinking of anyone else, except our self and our family. We are always thinking of the ways as to how we can be benefitted by the other person, or how we can make use of the other person.

Hardly ever we think of a reason as to how we can help others and how we can add value to the life of others. We hardly think as to how using my resources I can help this person progress. We all have goals to achieve professional and personal and we are always worried as to how we can achieve them.

But some where being carried away by these thoughts we are forgetting the fact that, as social beings we have a duty towards others also to help them with their goals and dreams in life. If we study the life of successful people, on their way to personal success they also helped other people progress either as a person or in their profession.

They never waited for a time when they will attain name, fame and stature to help others in their way to progress. Along with working on their own success they made sure that there were there for others who needed them.

This is a lesson we all need to learn from those people, real success, and real happiness lies in helping others progress and achieve success. Any fool can work for his own prosperity and happiness but it takes a man of character and value to think of others progress as well.

So, if we want to be happy always under all circumstances in life shift your thinking from I to you. See how you can keep the people around you happy and prosper and add value to others life, because this is how you add value to your own life.

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Effects of Music on Health

Music can make us dance on our feet, it can make us wipe our tears, it can bring a smile on our face and even can make us happy.

In short music has the capability of invoking emotions in us, and when you listen to a song it has its effects on various parts of the brain. Scientific studies have proven that, music is capable of changing our mood and can help us concentrate.

Studies have even shown that, parts of the brain which are responsible for light and vision can respond to music. In fact various parts of the brain can be activated by music.

We listen to music just to give a boost to our mood when we are having tough time. Or we listen to music just to keep ourselves awake and active when we are driving.

Study has shown that, listening to your favorite piece of music can help you come out of bad mood, by releasing feel good chemical dopamine.

Music even helps us to concentrate, a new 'digital tonic' called Ubrain, which can be downloaded onto smart phones, claims of being able to, help people focus, energize, relax and even wake up.

You have to choose various kinds of music for various kinds of purposes, like you can listen to up-beat songs when exercising, or running.

When one wants to relax he can listen to slow paced music, this aspect is often linked to personal preference.

The effect of music on mood will largely depend on personal preference. For example if you are used to listening ‘rock’ listening to classical music may not help you to uplift your mood.

On the contrary a person used to listening to classical may find ‘rock’ irritating and it will not help him to turn his mood on to the positive side.

Music has a positive effect on patients suffering from mental illness and physical illness as well. Various studies have shown that music can help lower heart rate, blood pressure, and can even relieve pain.

Music is even capable of reducing long term illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, anxiety, respiratory problems and helps in improving the patient’s condition.

So, listen to music and keep your life rocking.

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Health Benefits of Clapping

It takes two hands to clap.
Jiang Zemin

Clapping is looked upon by people as something not very important. Even in places like meetings and gatherings of any occasion or situation, where there is a necessity to clap, people just don’t respond immediately, and show their appreciation in the form of clapping.

Most of the people think it is childish, and some feel shy. But there are numerous benefits of clapping.

When you clap heart fully, you are displaying your attitude, you show that you are happy for the other person, and you appreciate their work or achievement, or you state that you agree with them.

All this reveals one thing that you think positive, so when you clap you reveal your positive side. Clapping leads to the simulation of the receptors in the palms, and hence causes stimulation of the large areas of the brain; this activates the whole system and there by improves health.

If we look back into any culture or religion, clapping has been there in almost all of them. When you sing a devotional song, hymn, or prayer you clap.

This is there in almost all of the religions; this is enough for us to show the importance of clapping. Clapping even as a part of religious practice has its own health benefits. Clapping improves your immune system and stimulates the acupuncture points and there by leads to good health.

Scientists have proved that, small children that clap each day, have shown improvement in their cognitive abilities, could mix well with other people, their hand writing has been found neater and better, they have few spelling mistakes and were more hard working, in comparison to others. Apart from all this, clapping even sharpens the brain of the children.


So, always lookout for an opportunity to clap, play, sing, enjoy a movie or a match and clap, but never ever miss out on the opportunity, if you have one. And, if you have children at home, make sure they clap each day and reap the benefits. Informative article! Yes, then you have a reason to clap, go ahead.

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Low Self-Esteem a Health Issue

Many of us consider that only problems related to physical body are only health issues that need medical attention.

But, there is the other side of our health, psychological / mental side which is also a health issue.

Low self-esteem is one of the many causes that can degrade your mental health, by leading to depression and anxiety.

In short self-esteem is our opinion, about our self. People, who have low self-esteem, feel unhappy and are not satisfied with themselves.

On the other hand people with high self esteem like themselves and feel proud about their achievements. This can be rectified with proper attention.

What are the characteristics of low self-esteem? Or how can we identify it? Usually a person with low self esteem is critical about himself, thinks of himself as inferior to others and uses negative phrases and words when talking about himself.


People with low self esteem, give credit to luck for their achievements, they don’t take the credit themselves. Low self esteem people, blame themselves if things go wrong and they don’t believe a person who compliments them.

Cause of low self esteem may be many. If a person had a bitter childhood, or critical parents or teachers, it might result in low self esteem.

Poor performance either at school or in later stages at work place also result in low self esteem. An abusive relationship, relationship breakdown, financial trouble and serious illness are all the causes of low self esteem.

There are some ways you can adapt to overcome low self esteem, let’s check them out. Be positive to your own self, treat yourself the way you would treat your best friend and try to understand yourself instead of being critical.

Whenever you face a situation where you criticize yourself, stop for a second and think if you have a genuine reason to do so. Everyone is unique in this world, so never compare with others. Always accept positivity, accept compliments and look for the positive qualities in you.

Always try to live in the present here and now is what should be there in your mind. Involve yourself in fun activities, communicate your needs, opinions and feelings to others, and when you do so, do it in an honest way. Forget the past and stop worrying about anything.

So, say, bye, bye, to low self esteem, and keep your head, and self esteem, always high.

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Change Your Vision – Change Your Life

“Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not Join them.”

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

The reason why most people lose hope in life, is because we are conditioned to see our future, from the point where we stand today, we see things through the eyes of our fears, limitations and false assumptions. Once we come out of these assumptions we would be able to perceive the reality.

Life is what we perceive it to be and we see the world, circumstances and people as we are, given the same situation to two persons both would have different reactions and thinking towards the same. Life is all about this, we can change our life, if we change our vision and mission of life. When we see the world from different colored glasses, you see the different shades of world, it all in the glasses you put on, put on, the glasses of positive attitude, change your vision and change your life.

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Challenges Reveal Genius

Every one of us is faced with challenges, in life either at personal level or at the professional level. Sometimes we get sick facing enough challenges that we tend to think enough, no more. But there is one very big advantage with the challenges; it is that when we are faced with a challenge it brings out our inner capabilities, and makes us aware of the potential we have.

A person if left alone on a jungle, if he happens, to face a tiger, runs miles and miles to save his life, he might be a kind of person who would never walk even to the end of the street where he lives, but now if he is running miles, it is because, he is faced with a challenge. So if we look at the other perspective, we realize that challenges make us better, and prosper. So, the more challenges we face in life the better we become as a person and grow in life.

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Why Goal Setting is Important in Life?

There are many people in the world, who have no direction in life; they have no specific goals to achieve, dreams to fulfill, and missions to accomplish. You think it is necessary to set goals to move ahead in life; well I have a few reasons, catch on.

Goals help you to stay focused, when you don't know where to put your energy and invest your brains, nothing can be achieved. Instead when you know where you want to go, and what you want to achieve, you focus your energy and all your capacities, to fulfill those goals. So no goals, no focus.

When you start a journey with the destination in mind, you can measure as to how far you have traveled, when you will reach, how much time it will take etc. But when you don't know where you want to go which place to reach there is no point that you will count on your stages. When you want to achieve a specific, defined goal, it becomes easy for you to take measure of your progress, so to set a goal is necessary to measure your progress.

Goals give us a meaning to life, when you have something to achieve, you life seems meaningful, when you have some purpose in life and you live to fulfill that purpose; it acts like a guidance for our life. When you are not going in a specific direction you are going anywhere and everywhere your life becomes a disaster you don't know at what curve you have face the danger, or what awaits you on the next stage. Goals give us a purpose to live life.

Only when you have goals to accomplish in life, do you need to plan, to fulfill those goals and utilize the resources you are blessed with. You plan your minutes, hours, days, months, and years only when you have goals to achieve and are passionate to achieve them. You utilize to the best all the resources, and capabilities that you have, dig into your best self, and take out all the potential and talent, only when you have goals.

So, I believe, these reasons are just enough for each one of us to set our goals and give a direction to our life.

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Parental Guidelines

Along with personal goals and ambitions, is equally and more important role that we play as a parent. It is for the future of the family and the kids that we love so much, we have our dreams, to see them well off, we can we give them our property, but to see them as well behaved and good humans, we need to give our time.

Here are some simple guidelines that can enhance our role as parents:

Always encourage your children to give their best in everything, don’t ever tell them, that this is not possible. Encourage them to be big dreamers.

Children learn more by observing, when you teach them something and do something else yourself, then know, so walk your talk, and check yourself before asking them to do anything or not to do anything.

The more important role that we play as a parent is to be their mentor, we are the ones who are responsible to shape them, as proper human beings, and we are accountable to them for their future, so just don’t take your role for granted, you have the future of a person, another human beings life, in your hands.

Children see and know the world through the eyes of a parent, so we need to be very careful about what we teach them, what kind of view; we are giving them, of the world, and the persons around. To do all this we should be in the right track and should be living what we are teaching them, let it be by our behavior or otherwise.

So, to develop and evolve ourselves to be a better person and human being is very important for us to be better parents, because our children are our reflections.

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Dairy Writing and its Necessity

By G. Gayathri

Each and every one of us knows the importance of reports and assessments, to track the progress in our profession or in business. We would hardly imagine an organization without tracking tools and reports that show them a mirror as to what they are, and acts as guiding factor, for the tasks to accomplish. As we need reports and assessments in our professional and business life, to show whether, we are on the right track, prospering, in the same way we need a journal or a dairy for our personal life, to show us what we are, and where we are heading to.

There is a very valid reason, as to why successful leaders and great persons maintain a dairy. A dairy acts as a mirror of your life, when you put into words your days activities accomplishments, lacks if any, anything and everything that deals with your life, from the moment you wake up till you sleep at night, dairy, gives you more clarity as to how and what for you are using each and every moment of your life. A dairy shows you clearly, what is it that you have achieved or accomplished in that particular day, progress any, made as a person, may be in your life or in your thinking pattern anything.

A dairy gives a overall view of your life, as to who you are as a person, what is your thinking pattern, what are you contributing towards making better your life and the life of those around you, and who are dependent on you. You tend to have more clarity of thoughts when you put into writing your activities; you know your lacks, where you are spending your time unnecessarily and where you can divert it to achieve desired results. When you maintain dairy for a period of time and when you look back, you will clearly have an idea as to what kind of person you were yesterday, and what you are, as a person, today.

Have you become better as a human being, or as a person, then you were yesterday or may be a year back. There are even more innumerable benefits of writing a dairy, you cannot, nor for that matter, any one, can recollect all of the incidents word by word, minute to minute in life, when you put them in pen, you can look back and recollect any important and valuable lessons, that you have learnt in life, or from a person whom you came into contact that day, in your life. May be those lessons and words will help you now, or can act as a guide for you now in your life or business.

What not, a dairy acts as a friend and partner of life time, in your hard times when you put into words, all your troubles that you are facing, it lessens your burden, and makes you light at heart like a true friend, when you are happy, and you put into words your happiness it doubles your joy. If you are in a process of building your business, or professional career, put into words, whatever you are going through, during the process, in a dairy, till you reach heights, and when your big day comes just look back and flip those pages of dairies, you will feel proud of yourself, and compliment your own self for all the obstacles and temptations you have overcome, and the person that you have made yourself into. May be tomorrow, this dairy will act as a guide, for those who want to follow you, and your path of success.

So, dairy has an important role to play in each one’s life, it is a record of life time events, that not only gives an insight into our own life, but it is a treasure house of a life time lessons and wisdom. Write, recollect, rejoice, reform, and move ahead in life.

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