The Heat Wave and You

The Scientific American recently carried an article, How Does a Heat Wave Affect the Human Body.

You can learn about how human cope in hot weather, what is heat exhaustion, heat stroke and how your body is affected here.

Six Simple Rules for Keeping Things in Order

The list below is from Tiki Kustenmacher’s book, How To Simplify Your Life .

1. If you take something out, put it back

2. If you open something, close it back.

3. If something falls down, pick it up.

4. If you take something down, hang it up again

5. If you intend to buy something later, write it down at once.

6. If you need to repair something, do it within a week

An Engineer Par Excellence

Did you use the washing machine today?  How about the hair drier? I am sure if you are reading this, you have electricity connected to your house.

Edison might have succeeded in inventing the incandescent bulb, but the man who is really responsible for many of our modern comfort was born in a village in Croatia on 10 July 1856. His name is Nikola Tesla.

Read bout this genius and his accomplishments here. And the mobile phone you have in your pocket, came about because of his pioneering works’

Do You Wonder?

Do you wonder who you are? What is that makes you, you? Is it all the things you have done? Is it it all the books you have read that influenced you and made you? Was it all the people you interacted with?

Do you question yourself of this; who am I? What am I doing here? Why am I put here? What is that my creator wants me to do here, now?

Eight Ways To Develop Self Discipline

Self discipline is the first habit you must develop before you can develop any other. Try the tips below to attain this habit which is common to all achievers.

1. Take responsibility. Realize the fact effort is needed to achieve any task. Nothing done means nothing achieved.

2. Acknowledge that you will tend to resist change. Expect to heat the silent whisper of procrastination and laziness. Persist to accomplish your task anyway.

3. Visualize completing the task.

4. Act.

5. Relive your accomplishment. Keep a journal of all your successes and read it often. The more joy you get in finishing projects or task the more you will be motivated in your next endeavour.

6. Change your focus. Do not focus on the effort but focus on the pleasure you get finishing something that you started.

7. Be firm. Remember that the world will be easy on those who are hard on themselves.

8. Seek to do things that you avoid. This keeps you nimble and develops the habit of doing what is good rather than what feels good.

Are You Re-Inventing The Wheel?

If you are asked to do something new, it is only new to you. In all probability it had already been done by someone else somewhere sometime ago. Find it, modify it and make it your own.

We live in a finite world and our time in this world is definite and short. Don't waste it by re-inventing the wheel. Don't expand your energy unnecessarily. Use your resources wisely.

If You Like Someone..

Go ahead and tell. Don’t wait for that certain time. It might never come and you will live a life full of regret and wishful thinking.

Don’t waste the moment you have now. Don’t worry about the reaction. Don’t be timid.

Need A Friend?

The mass of men live lives of quite desperation wrote Henry David Thoreau long ago. You  don’t have to.

It is a truly blessed person to have a friend by his side all the time when the chips are down. Most of us are not that lucky but there is a quiet person who is ever ready to listen to you. Your inner self.

There are two ways you can communicate with him, quietly within the confines of your mind or by writing in a paper.

Try keeping a journal. Write down all the things that you want to say. Scribble anything. Sketch if you feel like it. Don’t censor, don’t edit. And don’t be afraid.