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Have you really tried today?

Okay, so I’ve decided I really need to re-arrange my lifestyle. I’ve haven’t been treating myself kindly lately, and am consumed by only negative thoughts of my well-being. Due to these persistent, harmful internal focuses, I’m going to try to alter aspects of my life to, hopefully, over time, benefit my perspective of myself.

Beginning changes:

·         Diet

·         Sleeping habits

·         Physical exercise

I think focusing on only 3 unhealthy behaviours in my life at the moment will allow me to put all my efforts into these factors without feeling overwhelmed. Working on these unhealthy factors in my life will take some time, so initially; I’m going to be working rather slowly.

Although, I am worried about my motivation but doing health science courses at uni have helped me realise that rewards really aid in continuing a changed behaviour. Instead of rewarding myself with unhealthy foods (as I usually do), every couple of weeks or so, if I persist in my behaviour changes, I could buy myself something small, such as a bracelet or a ring. It’s not much but I think that will help my enthusiasm and determination.

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For the average person happiness is a choice, yet numerous people are unhappy.  There are many reasons, but it all boils down to one simple principle:  They choose something else over happiness.  Because it often takes less effort to be unhappy.

For example, instead of seeking happiness, they…

• Lazily follow the path of least resistance.
• Refuse to accept change.
• Aimlessly try to control the uncontrollable.
• Etc. etc. etc.

Averting these poor choices and the negative attitudes that accompany them is the key.  The list below will give you some ideas on how to do just that.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

1.  Lack of meaning in one’s day to day life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”  With the modern 9 to 5 work schedule it’s so easy to trap yourself into doing what you don’t want to do for 40 hours every week and then mindlessly waste all your free time being lazy.

Sure you have responsibilities.  And no, you won’t be able to do what you want to do every waking minute of your life.  But you almost always have a choice to do more of what you really want to do – to work on something that matters to you – something that moves you and gives your life meaning.

You must leave time to follow your inner curiosity and passion. 

2.  Obsession with the past or future.

Right now is life.  If you dwell on things that happened in the past, or obsess yourself too much with the things that might happen in the future, you’ll miss everything.

Focus on the present, not yesterday or tomorrow.  As Helen Keller once said, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Oftentimes we fixate our minds on the way things can be, should be, or will be someday.  But life always takes place in the present.  You never know what the future holds – whether or not you and your loved ones will still have good health or even be alive.  The opportunity to enjoy life is now.  Make time to do so.

3.  Feeling out of shape and unhealthy.

Remember, your health is your life, and your body is the greatest tool you’ll ever own.

If you are a little overweight, cut back on some of the fatty foods, get outside and take a two mile walk every day.  Losing extra body fat decreases your health risks, makes you look and feel better, and generally increases your self-esteem and happiness.

Don’t go on binge diets and crash exercise regimens.  Instead, gradually change the way you eat and live so you create new health habits that can be sustained for a lifetime.

4.  Unfavorably comparing oneself to others.

When you catch yourself comparing yourself to a colleague, neighbor, friend, or someone famous, stop!  Realize that you are different, with different strengths – strengths these other people don’t possess.  Take a moment to reflect on all the awesome abilities you have and to be grateful for all the good things in your life.

The problem with many of us is that we think we’ll be happy when we reach a certain level in life — a level we see others operating at – your boss with her corner office, that friend of a friend who owns a mansion on the beach, etc.  Unfortunately, it takes awhile before you get there, and when you get there, you might have a new destination in mind.

Instead, appreciate where you are and what you have right now.  Try comparing yourself to those who have less, those who are dealing with tragedy, and those who are struggling to survive. Hopefully it opens your eyes to all the things you should be grateful for.  PS:  Help people who have less if you’re able… you’ll see why.

5.  Focusing on negatives.

You can’t control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you react to things.  Everyone’s life has positive and negative aspects — whether you’re happy or not depends greatly on which aspects you focus on.  For instance:

• Did you get catch a head cold?  At least it’s only a temporary virus and nothing life-threatening.
• Did you lose a basketball game?  Thankfully you got to spend the afternoon with friends doing something fun and healthy.
• Did your stock market savings go down?  It’ll bounce back in the long-term.  And besides, it’s great that you’ve been diligent and fortunate enough to save a nest egg of savings when many people are barely making ends meet.

You get the idea — almost everything in life has a positive side, and focusing on these positives injects happiness into your atmosphere.  So stop concentrating on how difficult things are and why you don’t want to do them.  Focus instead on the benefits these things have and the opportunities they will create for you — the positives.

6.  Avoiding personal accountability.

Either you take accountability for your life or someone else will.  And when they do, you’ll become a slave to their ideas and dreams instead of a pioneer of your own.

You are the only one who can directly control the outcome of your life.  And no, it won’t always be easy.  Every person has a stack of obstacles in front of them.  You must take accountability for your situation and overcome these obstacles.  Choosing not to is choosing a lifetime of mere existence.

7.  Perfectionism and fear of failure.

If you work hard, do your best and then condemn yourself for not achieving perfection, you’re sabotaging your future.  Likewise, if your fear of failure, or of not being perfect, has driven you to take the safe road of doing nothing, you have already failed.

Perfect is the enemy of good.  Learn to accept the good – learn to love things when they are less than ‘perfect.’

If you find yourself at a point of intense decision making where you’re caught in a spiral of over-analysis and you’re making no progress, take a deep breath, break the spiral, make an educated guess on the next logical step, and take it.  Even if you get it wrong you’ve learned something, which is better than doing nothing.  Your failures along the road to your goals are simply opportunities to learn and grow.

Remember, the real world doesn’t reward perfectionists; it rewards people who get things done.

8.  A low self-esteem.

Don’t belittle yourself and don’t put up with people who try to belittle you.

Marcus Aurelius once said, “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”  Boost your self-esteem by recognizing your accomplishments and celebrating them.  Acknowledge your positive qualities, and when you come across a quality in yourself that you aren’t proud of, don’t sulk in your sorrows, proactively work on correcting it.
How you view yourself and your world are conscious choices and habits.  The lens you choose to view everything through determines how you feel about yourself and everything that happens around you.

9.  Financial debt.

The only way to get out of debt is to understand why you’re in debt in the first place.

But the sad truth is, if you’re a spendthrift…

You will not save money when you get your next raise.  You will not save money when your car is paid off.  You will not save money when your kids are supporting themselves someday.  And you wouldn’t even save a dime if I handed you $100,000 in cash right now.

How do I know this?

Because saving money has very little to do with the amount of money you have.  In fact, you will only start to save money when saving becomes an emotional habit – when you start treating the money you handle everyday differently.

In general, live a comfortable life, not a wasteful one.  Do not spend to impress others.  Do not live life trying to fool yourself into thinking wealth is measured in material objects.  Manage your money wisely so your money does not manage you.  Always live well below your means.

10.  All work and no play.

Fun is way underrated.  With all of our responsibilities, fun seems like an indulgence.  It shouldn’t be.  It should be a requirement.  Ponder what you did to have fun when you were younger and go do it again.  Leave the house messy and the yard un-mowed for a weekend and get out on the town.  When you’re older, you will remember the fun, not the clean house or yard.

Go to a carnival, play a card game, shoot darts with a friend, play catch with a kid, etc.

Make time for fun!

11.  Neglecting personal relationships.

The quality of our personal relationships correlates directly with our overall sense of worth and happiness.  Sometimes in the midst of life’s chaos we forget to do the little things that remind us we’re part of something greater than ourselves.  We need a certain amount of meaningful contact with other people to feel fully alive.

Make time for people, even if it’s just a quick meal at lunchtime.  It’s worth sacrificing a few minutes here and there to experience life outside your own inner bubble.

And remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of.

12.  Procrastination.

Nothing is so draining and stressful as the eternal presence of an unfinished task.

There are plenty of ways to sabotage your personal happiness, dreams and desires.  Procrastination, however, is the number one killer.  Procrastinators self-destruct.  They hinder their own potential by placing colossal road-blocks along the path to happiness and success.  In other words, they subconsciously choose to fail.

Do you put off doing things that would bring you closer to your desired goals?  I know I do at times.  But why are we so foolish?

It has something to do with how our daily responsibilities overwhelm us.  In the midst of all the important things we know we need to do, we somehow convince ourselves that none of these things need to be done right now.  In other words, we decide that some peace and relaxation in the short term is what’s most important.

So we take another break, read another blog post, watch another TV show and just kick back and relax.  And life is blissfully dandy… for a little while.  But then suddenly the inevitable deadline has arrived.  Ahhh!  It’s panic time!

By taking the time and initiative to understand your own reasons for procrastinating and devoting a little energy to take the necessary steps to move forward, you can beat procrastination.  We all can.  In fact, simply writing this article was a testament to this.  I kept procrastinating on writing it because I lacked focus.  So I locked myself in my bedroom, eliminated all distractions, kept the end in mind and started writing.  And as usual, starting was the hardest part.  Now I’m done.

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Please keep me in your prayers this week as I was just notified by the hospital that a mass was found in one of my lungs. I am awaiting a CT scan in order to find out whether or not the mass in cancerous. I am hopeful, but so scared.

this (thursday) evening, the ONE campaign is premiering their movie “vodoo and vaccines in benin, africa” via facebook. the movie can be viewed at 20:00 (CET) through this facebook app (corresponding fb event).

the movie is about current medical practices in benin that bring together traditional healers and modern doctors to give children access to life-saving vaccines.

the interesting part is that they decided to do this via facebook instead of just launching a website at a certain time, or a video on youtube/vimeo. i wonder who’s consulting them.

Tesco mistake leads to beer rush

An error which slashed the price of beer and cider led to a stampede of customers at a number of Tesco supermarkets in Scotland.

A deal offering three boxes of various alcoholic drinks for £20 was going through the tills at three for £11.

Police were called to Tesco in Greenock after heavy congestion was reported in the car park as customers rushed to get the deal…

News of the error spread quickly from about 1900 BST, with many people posting messages on social networking sites…

One customer said the situation was “bedlam” as people phoned their friends and some went home to change clothing to come back and buy more beer.

BBC News, 1 June 2011

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The biggest thing for me: an app called NTC. It helps so much. It gives you a full work out. And it’s really fun. You work out for fun goals. Trust me. Check it out.

This goes for all Journalers trying to be more fit.

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We all win when we give a decent attempt to succeed. The question becomes, are you truly giving it a decent attempt? I mean, a truly decent attempt in which you know deep down you really tried.

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Healthiest Sleeping Positions

Healthiest Sleeping Positions:

[Source: Healthy Times Blog

Hi Tech Futuristic Hotels

I have finally found something worth sharing in this space... a peak into the future hotels that claim they will be offering virtual love making, dream management and high tech contact lenses to their guests.

It was revealed through a published study titled, 'The Future Of Sleep' done by Ian Pearson who is an engineer and futurologist. The hotel chain Travelodge in UK conducted this study. They claim hoteling experience will change completely by 2030 through this study.

Pearson said that technology will monitor guests energy levels, health and mood to ensure they get a good night's sleep. Even medical conditions could be diagnosed via this technology. Dreams could be controlled in the future and learn new languages while we are asleep in the coming years.

Dreams will look like reality and one could replay their favorite dreams again and again from a menu. This also means one could enjoy being with different partners in their dreams and feel as great as if it is all real. Virtual love making would allow partners to enjoy intimacy even when they are away from their home or not together to put it simply.

According to Pearson, we will then live in an augmented reality. Our real life will be integrated with the digital world and one could views television on any surface of the hotel. Besides, all these features will not be expensive also.

It does sound like some movie but the study is very confident using the engineering approach that this would indeed be the future. Actually, I have seen so many movies on these lines about the future that I do feel all of this will happen pretty soon with the advancement of technology but it would all be so unreal and fake.

I don't want to live in those times. Perhaps it is because I have lived in a time when things were not so hi-tech so I know what it is like to live without them. But the younger generations do not even have a clue of a life without technology. Such a future is going to be a major attraction for them and they would certainly prefer to enjoy augmented realities.

It looks like the future generations will almost let go off the reality in those times. Things will be even more high-tech as explained by this study. It will not just be the hotels but everything will be like that. Honestly, I find it creepy but it is destined to happen if the world survives by then.

Keep away colon and other cancers by “Getting your beauty sleep”

Well-rested people are perceived to be younger, healthier and more attractive – and even if  you’ve been dog-tired for months, it takes only one night of great sleep for your beauty and health score to head back up, a recent Swedish study shows. At the same time, fitting in at least seven hours of sleep nightly single-handedly cuts your risk of colorectal adenomas (abnormal cells that can quickly turn cancerous) in half, according to just-published Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine research. “Less sleep can lower your production of melatonin, a natural hormone that helps repair damaged DNA,” explains lead scientist Li Li, M.D. “It can also trigger insulin resistance, which has been shown to increase the risk of colon cancer.”

  -Brenda Kearns

Well, 8 More Days

…before I begin juicing. Tonight’s seriously a nasty night. I’m so sick of this taste in my mouth, all the temptations, and worse of all not being able to comfortably fall asleep at nights. I wouldn’t have complained much if every night wasn’t like a torture session. Eight more days - just eight.

Create a Nighttime Ritual for Better Sleep

It’s your greatest energy source—and most of us are deprived. Firstly, prepare your room for your body’s rest. Dim your lights several hours if possible to avoid artificial light pollution—TV, computer, etc—the less stimuli the better. Decide when you want to wake up and count backward about seven hours. Now take about a 15-minute period before that to start your slowdown process. That means taking five minutes to finish up must-do chores, followed by five minutes of hygiene stuff (flossing,washing your face and so on) and five minutes of relaxing into your sleep state through things like meditation. 

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“The omega-3 fats in walnuts, which affect levels of the...

“The omega-3 fats in walnuts, which affect levels of the mood-altering brain chemical serotonin, make them useful for dealing with depression. They also contain melatonin, which aids the body’s natural sleep patterns so they may help deal with insomnia.”

Hamlyn. 2007. 100 Health Boosting Foods. Octopus Publishing Group: London.

Too Much Work Is Dangerous For You

According to a scientific study conducted for 11 years on more than 7000 civil servants, scientists feel that too many hours of work can increase the risk of heart attacks incredibly. This study got published in the journal 'Annal of Internal Medicine' this week.

Experts at University College London raised the alarm bell that working on an average for 11 hours a day is not a positive sign. This increases the risk of heart attacked by two thirds compared to working for 7-8 hours daily.

It is similar to sleeping less than six hours a night. Working for 11 hours means there is higher stress level. The higher level of a stress hormone - cortisol causes heart problems.

Thus, scientists are suggesting that doctors should take into consideration the working hours of patients as an important risk factor besides person's body mass index (BMI), age, blood pressure, cholesterol levels etc.

Apart from that, this study is a warning for people who over work because too much work increases stress level and thereby may lead to heart diseases or heart attacks.

I remember how stressful it was when I used to work at an agency. The work hours were too hectic and unreasonable. They definitely did have a toll on me and my health. There was immense amount of stress that even caused sleepless nights. Dreams about the plans and deadlines was usual. Thanks to cell phones and BlackBerry, clients can ruin all your days, weekends with their messages and never ending silly demands.

However, I did learn that we must learn to say NO and leave work at work place. There is a life too that needs to be enjoyed and taken care of. But most people prefer to leave their personal life totally to concentrate on work. Death through excessive work was definitely something that I would want although I am a workaholic.

Would you sleep with anyone to climb the ladder of success?

While playing Q &A, I asked this particular question. Naturally whoever took the test said NO. I also don’t happen to be friends with anyone who is screwing to get ahead in life. And people I know who are into all these things wouldn’t answer my questions, in the 1st place.

We haven’t been able to play Q & A lately as my sister has too many weirdos in her circle & they have nothing better to do than to read what we have to say & then they put up stupid questions. Dealing with stupid questions is also an art. My sister can deal with them, but I can’t.

Catharsis is something that purges (Oh really?), but if you think writers are here to pour out each & every story…then you are wrong. I only talk about things I want to talk about…I never go further than that. Now why the hell am I writing on this? But I’m sure it’s not yet clear as to what I’m writing about.

Coming back to those who sleep in order to get ahead…I would only say: It’s your life & you make your choices. Frankly speaking, I don’t really care & I’m not into writing moral stuff. To me sex is a sacred thing. The only questions I can throw at them are: Are you living for your fleshly desires? Has the big O happened? Are you having it right now? Or do you just fake it? I would be the last person to ask them: how could you insult sex? Because I don’t really know…maybe they are enjoying it. If not, how saddening!

My favourite question has always been: Do you fantasize about sex? I do, but I hardly come across people who say yes. Honesty is but a rare thing.

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

D. H. Lawrence

Now I’m going to tell why I have written all this. One such lady asked my sister: who is the guy Nadz fighting with on the blognetwork? That was one dumb question. She could have asked as to why I got into that silly argument with a retard. That would have sounded hilarious at least. And see what I have done today.

On a serious note, I’ve seen the world doesn’t have problem with people who sleep in order to gain something. But the world has problem with those who raise their voice against an atrocity or a crime that shouldn’t be mentioned. As long as people keep mum about it, that thing doesn’t exist. Is there anything in this world that escapes corruption? Isn’t it corruption that you stay quiet when you should speak up against something that isn’t right?

That’s what I don’t like. And you don’t have to approve or disapprove of it. I’m not asking for your opinion.

“If I speak a little bluntly – well, that's my way. I don't mince matters. I say what I think."
Moliere

Nadira Rahman