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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