6 Practical Tips to Live a Life of Value

Do you want to get the most out of your life? If your answer is yes, then living a lifestyle of value is essential. I realize this truth recently through my blogging. Blogging gives me the pressure to create content and present something valuable to you, the reader. This pressure forces me to continuously increase my own value. It eventually brought me to the idea of living a “lifestyle of value”, a lifestyle which maximizes the amount of value I accumulate over time. By living a lifestyle of value, I can provide value simply by sharing my life. Rather than doing special preparation or research, I can share what I already have. This way, blogging...

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A Simple Tip for Finding Good Ideas

Do you want to have good, high-quality ideas? In this age of knowledge, having good ideas can separate you from others and put you ahead of the pack. But how can we get high-quality ideas? As it turns out, a great way to get high-quality ideas is to have a lot of ideas. The Medici Effect (here is my review) says it clearly: The strongest correlation for quality of ideas is, in fact, quantity of ideas… Pablo Picasso, for instance, produced 20,000 pieces of art; Einstein wrote more than 240 papers; Bach wrote a cantata every week; Thomas Edison filed a record 1,039 patents. Here is a study cited in the book that proves the relationship between...

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How to become a True Friend

We all want to have true friends, but the quality of our friends depend on us. If you want to have true friends, you should be a true friend yourself. By being a true friend, people will love to be around you and many of them will eventually become your true friends. In addition, being a true friend is a good way to solve relationship problems. It’s difficult to change other people, but you can always change yourself. You can then solve the otherwise unsolved problems in relationships. Here I’d like to share 17 tips to become a true friend. It may take years to learn to apply them but they are essential to boost your relationships. Here...

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25 Ways to builds Strong Friendships

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.Anäis Nin Friendships are incredibly important. At certain stages in our lives, friendships are everything to us – the most important thing in our lives. Friendships help define us. Our friends can influence our choices – where we live, what we eat, what we buy. Friendships grow and change as people come and grow. There is old proverb that says, “friends are flowers in the garden of life.” Friendships need their own kind of water and soil to grow healthy and strong. The following are 25 things to keep in mind to facilitate building stronger friendships. Choose...

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Get Rid of Negative Thoughts in 2 steps

Though I try to maintain positive thought all the time, there are times when negative thoughts strike me. And when they do, they can sometimes grow wild and conquer my whole mind. At such times, the positive state of my mind seems to be out of reach. Well, of course such situation should not happen. Now I think there is a good way to deal with it. There are actually only two steps to get rid of those negative thoughts: FleeFill Very easy to remember right ? Flee and fill. Flee and fill. And what does it mean ? FleeFirst of all, we must flee from all those negative thoughts. Don’t pay attention to them, don’t talk to them, and don’t argue...

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15 Tips to Stay positive in Negative Situation

There are times when we must go through negative situations. Maybe people say something negative about us, or they show rejection or even resentment against us. In such situations, it may be difficult to stay positive. We may be inclined to react negatively to them. That won’t do us any good though; doing so will just make the situation worse. People may behave even more negatively to us. Our day would be filled with anger and disappointment. At the end, nobody wins. Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Beat the negative situations by staying positive. Here are 15 tips on how to do it; pick the ones that...

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Self Motivation : How to Motivate yourself

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.Andrew Carnegie If you want to excel in life, self motivation is essential. You must know how to motivate yourself. You must be able to keep your spirit high no matter how discouraging a situation is. That’s the only way to get the power you need to overcome difficulties. Those who are discouraged in difficult times are certain to lose even before the battle is over. The question is: how do you motivate yourself? Here are several tips I’ve found to be effective to build self motivation: 1. Have a cause I can’t think of a...

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10 Games for Mind exercise

Who doesn’t want to have a sharp mind? Having a sharp mind is something we all want. I recently read a thought-provoking article about it entitled Cognitive Fitness in Harvard Business Review. The article talks about how the minds of people like Warren Buffet and Alan Greenspan stay sharp even in their old age. What is the secret? The secret is brain workout. They exercise their brain continuously and that makes their minds sharp. One way to exercise your brain is playing: Play engages the prefrontal cortex, responsible for your highest-level cognitive functions - including self-knowledge, memory, mental imagery, and incentive and reward processing…...

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10 Essential Tips to Change your Life

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.Gail Sheehy You need to change in order to grow. You can’t grow if you just stay where you are. You can’t grow if you don’t change the way you think and act. In fact, changing your life is a continuous process. It never ends. The moment you stop changing, you stop growing. I’m not saying that I know everything about changing life. I’m still learning myself. But here I’d like to share with you what I have learned so far. Here are ten tips to change your life: 1. Slow down To change your life, you need time to think and reflect. If you are always busy, you won’t have...

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JNTU 1 B.TECH Examination Time Table

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Mother's Sacrifice

My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school.I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed.How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school..."Your mom only has one eye?!" and they taunted me.I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock....

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Boss and Scientist

One day, a scientist came to his boss and told him - Sir, I have promised to my children that I will take them to the exhibition going on in our township. So I want to leave the office at 5:30 pm. His boss replied - OK, you are permitted to leave the office early today.The Scientist started working. He continued his work after lunch. As usual he got involved to such an extent that he looked at his watch when he felt he was close to completion. The time was 8.30 p.m.Suddenly he remembered of the promise he had given to his children. He looked for his boss...he was not there. Having told him in the morning itself, he closed everything and left for home.Deep within himself, he was feeling guilty for having disappointed his children.He reached home. Children were not there.His wife alone was...

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Fun Facts

Fun Facts:It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Azzlts only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.The middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweet heart to their sleeve on Valentine’s Day and keep it there for a week, hence “wearing their heart on their sleeve”.It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United...

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Attention Mobile users

*Dear All **!! Please take care*>> IF SOME ONE ASKS YOU TO DIAL *#09 or #90*, Please Do Not> Dial This When Asked,>> Please circulate URGENTLY.>> *New Trick of Jehadi Muslim Terrorists to Frame Innocent People!!*> > If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from any person saying that they are > checking your mobile line, and you have to press *#90 or #09* or any other number. > End this call immediately without pressing any Number.>> There is a fraud company using a device that once you press *#90 or #09 they> can access your SIM card and make calls at your expense.>> Forward this message to as many friends as u can, to stop it. This> information has been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia.>> There are over 3 million affected...

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Valentine's Day

In spite of what you have been told by everyone,the truth is that Valentine's Day originated hundreds of yearsago, in India, and to top it all, in Punjab.It is a well known fact that Punjabi men, continually mistreat and disrespect their wives (Punjabans). One fine day, it happened to be the 14th day of February, one brave Punjaban, having had enough "torture" by herhusband, finally chose to rebel by beating him up with a Velan (rollingpin).Yes....the same Velan which she used daily, to make chapattis forhim....only this time, instead of the dough, it was the husband who wasflattened.This was a momentous occasion for all Punjaban women and a revolt soonspread, like wild fire, with thousands of housewives beating up theirhusbands with the Velan.There was an outburst of moaning "chapatti-ed"...

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A boy in Big Bazar

Spend some time to read this! Really touching! I was walking around in a Big Bazar store making shopping, when I saw a Cashier talking to a boy couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, 'I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll. Then the little boy turned to me and asked: ''Aunty, are you sure I don't have enough money?'' I counted his cash and replied: ''You know that you don't have enough money to buy the dolll, my dear.'' The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to. 'It's the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much . Iwanted to Gift her for her BIRTHDAY. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.'...

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