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Tips for a Simplified and Happier Life

bikram — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:23:51 +0000

When life has taken a toll on our lives with its hectic schedule, harsh and merciless stressful days and long hours spent at work how some of us still manage to lead a happier and peaceful life? Have you ever wondered or have you pacified yourself saying, it’s just they are lucky? Well, no one is lucky, they have just given an effort to simplify and beautify their lives. Knowing few simple tips can make life indeed happy and simplified. These tips are as given below –

Find your personal goal

If you know what you want to do in life, what’s your purpose of living; life will not only be easier for you, but also meaningful and worth. Most of us live life without any goal and thus life turns out to be frustrating. Talk to yourself, find out your dreams and aspirations and what you want to do in this life. Then work towards achieving your goal. Set small goals before reaching the final one. With sheer dedication and passion work towards the goal, it will also boost your confidence and self esteem.

Prioritize your wants

Many times we want everything and get nothing, it’s because we fail to prioritize our wants and ignore what we actually value. Know yourself, know what is your priority – money or success, family or spirituality? It will help you to set your personal goals and categorize your priorities in order.

Know your passion

Know what you are passionate about, what makes you happy and what you never deny to do. Try to make your passion your profession; then work will never seem to be a load and stress. If you love your job, life will be easier and happier.

Meditate everyday

Sit alone quietly and meditate every day, it will help you to talk to your inner self. Don’t think about anything while meditating, you can chant too. Listen to your inner voice.

Know what you are good at

Knowing your strengths will help you to enhance them and utilize. Honor your strengths and enhance them.

Help others

Serve the society, it will not only help you to evolve as a better human but also soothe you from within. Help others as per your own capacity. In this way you will be more humble, honest, helpful and loved by all. Tomorrow others may help you back.

How to Overcome Fear of Success?

bikram — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:43:27 +0000

Many of us suffer from the fear of success. It’s a realistic problem with many of us which needs to be checked, yet it’s not that grave matter which seeks psycho-analyst’s guidance. Just addressing the problem and following few tips can solve this problem. Here are some tips for your help.

Get to the root

Remember, it’s all in your mind and your mind controls all your actions and thoughts. So, if you can control your mind, all will fall in place. Do soul searching. Ask yourself if you are scared of rejection. Do you dare to take risk? Remember, risk taking attitude is a must for an entrepreneur and an entrepreneur with right set of attitude and talent draws success. Do you wish to be different from others always? Do you fear popularity? Get to know yourself, what you want and at the cost of what? What’s your dream? How far can you go to achieve your dreams? Find out what makes you scared of success and avoid it? Don’t be harsh to yourself; just find out what scares you.

Prepare yourself

Prepare yourself, right now. Don’t blame your destiny if you are not welcomed by opportunities. Opportunities only reach people who are prepared. If you are prepared, you will be awaiting success, not fearing it anymore. Just get into the mode of giving your 100%, success will follow automatically. If you make the first effort, second effort will be easier. Also stay consistent. Failure shouldn’t stop you. Keep on giving your best every time. Success can be late, but not impossible to attain. Practice will make your perfect too. And it will also boost your self-confidence and sharpen your skills. So don’t fear practice and preparation session, it’s a stepping stone towards future.

Do it now

Talking doesn’t help. It may boost your confidence and keep you motivated. But it’s doing that makes the difference in reality. So get started, right now. Dream will remain dream only if you don’t work towards achieving it. Don’t fear mistakes. Just start. Know what it takes to achieve your target and success.

Life may not give you a second chance. So go for it, give your best. Cherish success. Don’t let the fear of success control your life. Crumble it into pieces for once and forever. Just a fear can’t take away your share of success. Face it.

Manage Being Underemployed

SamElli — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:15:54 +0000

Practically everyone with a job in these tumultuous economic times realizes that they are lucky. Finding a job is incredibly difficult, so already having one you’re well ahead of the curve. The problem then comes when you find yourself underemployed. When you feel you could be making more money, or should have better opportunities, but they just haven’t arisen. How do you deal with being underemployed?

Well, realize that most people who feel underemployed are generally dissatisfied with their jobs. Usually this stems from either a salary that is below your standards, the lack of opportunities to express your skills, or just not enough work for you to complete. In any situation you can find yourself feeling unhappy at the workplace. Which is exactly why you should take this opportunity to resolve that situation.

Try making yourself more of an asset to the company. If you find yourself not getting enough work, try asking for more. If you’re not happy with your salary, make yourself stand out so that the company has no choice but to recognize you for your accomplishments. Try asking your boss for more assignments, or ways that you can help out by taking on workload from other sources. Gives you something to do, and helps you become more of an asset.

If you’re unhappy with the position in general, you can use the extra time to network. Hit the break room, or the cafeteria and make friends with the people around you from other departments, or other companies. Find out what opportunities are around you that you didn’t know about. You could end up finding the job of your dreams, you just have to put in the effort to search. If the company you’re at now isn’t meeting your standards, networking can help you find a new opportunity that will. Anything is better than staying underemployed and unhappy.

How to Build a List of Writing Prompts

bikram — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:34:10 +0000

In the last blog post, I discussed about what is writing prompt and how to use it. I hope that discussion gave you some confidence to fight with the big monster we call writer’s block. In this post, I will tell you how to build a list of writing prompts to help you in time of need. Yes, I know I told you yesterday that anything can work as writing prompt as long as it helps you get out of “staring at blank page” syndrome. And I am also aware that you cannot include every kind of writing prompt in your list. Nevertheless, a list with writing prompt will help you a great deal when confronting the monster. That is why you need to build a list of writing prompts.

4 ways to build the writing prompt list

Know yourself. Ask questions about your religious beliefs, your political opinion, your view of your community, and your stance on the social and economic issues confronting your community. Ask questions about your views on your community, culture, government’s policy, medical policy, etc. The idea behind this exercise is to look inside yourself and find what you are and what you believe in.
See the world around you. A good writer is one who observes his surroundings. One who remains absorbed in oneself all the time can be anything but a writer. See how people around you interact, how they react in certain condition. What are their inhibitions, what they are afraid of doing, how strongly they cling to their belief, and what makes them stay together.
Notice the nature. Have you seen that little green-colored insect that stays on the flower? Have you seen what the shape of the cloud was today? The point is to get close to nature and observe its beauty. It has motivated many and will not fail to motivate you as well.
Take to people. Ask as many questions as you want. Get as close to people near you as you can. Know about them. Ask about their daily life, their fears, their hopes, their dreams, their ambitions, their aspirations, etc., and you will get enough material to write upon.

There are many more things that can help you build your own list, but the things that I have talked about here will help you regardless of the genre you write in.