Increase Your Self Confidence in 3 Simple Steps.

1. Be an expert in your chosen field. Make it your number one business to know your business. If you are a horticulturist, make your mission in life to know everything about it. Study, research and do all you can to gather as much information about it as humanly possible. Whatever is that you might be doing, be the expert in it. This will boost your self confidence as you will be assured of your own knowledge and capabilities.


2. Finish what you started. This is one attitude that will make you stand out from the crowd. Cultivate the habit of finishing what you started. If you started a fitness program that involves running 5 miles every morning for a year, do it. No matter what, drag your body from the bed and hit the road. The ability to finish what you started builds character. You will develop a healthy self respect and tremendous amount of self confidence. And you will build an awesome reputation.


3. Act as if impossible to fail. Visualize that you have achieved your target.  This will trigger a mechanism in your mind that will make you act as if you cannot fail. If you have aimed to sell 1000 shaving sticks this week, keep repeating to yourself that you will do it. Psyche yourself up. Keep success at the uppermost of your mind. But don’t be blind to obstacle, just don’t let it get the better of you. Act as if you will not fail and you won’t. And your self confidence will keep on soaring.

Keep your spirits up and have a nice day.

Are You Considering A Flu Shot?

If you are, read this article from Nature News. Learn what you can do to protect yourself and the truth about the "flu season".

So Long Steve

Rest in Peace Steve Jobs ( 1955-2011).

The last 24 hours, tributes to Steve Jobs have poured in from around the world.  Among the many that had walked on the face of the earth, only a few had really made an impact. Steve Jobs was one of them.

Many of us will never design anything useful, let alone revolutionize 3 industries, Steve Jobs did that and many other things. He showed us what we can achieve if we are willing to work for it. He taught us that we can be different and have fun doing it.

Over the years he made my speeches, but the speech he gave at Stanford in 2005 that touched me the most. If you have not heard it yet, click here and be inspired.

This blog published the text of his speech back in April 2008, you can view it here.

Facing Reality

Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of GE once said, "Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be".

Facing reality may not be easy.  More often than not, reality is just not nice. Things are not always hunky-dory and peachy-rosy.

Facing reality means seeing things as they are. If you have a sub-ordinate always giving excuses for mishandling tasks, see it as it is.  The job was just badly done and someone has to take responsibility for it. Do the necessary. Do not assume that things will be okay, sunshine and happiness. They won't be.


Facing reality means doing what needs to be do. Today everyone wants to be the Nice Guy. We tolerate inferior quality of goods and service because we do not want to offend. We fail to be assertive and make our stand and give excuses such as, "maintaining harmony", 'humans are not perfect", and other such nonsense.


In the real world, there is real pain. There are issues, sometimes real bad ones, that we must face. Things can get real messy. No matter how uncomfortable you are feeling dealing with what the world throws at you, if you decide to face reality and do the necessary, you will be much better for it.

Excessiveness

We live in times excessiveness. Excessive information, excessive entertainment, excessive egos...... too much of too many things.

Just like too much food will make us fat, sluggish and complicate our lives, too much of anything is not a good thing.Excessive information will cause the important and useful to be buried deep. Excessive entertainment will make the brain go lazy


Too much of anything is not a good thing. The joy of living is not to be found by having too much but by cherishing what we have and doing our best with it.

There is saying about not biting what we cannot chew. We can apply this to any part of our lives.
By not taking more than we need, we can live better.Try not to take more space than you need. Try not to say more that what is needed.

By cutting excessiveness in our lives, not only we live a better lives but so do others we share this earth with.

What Alcohol Does To The Body

Just 3 glasses a day of alcoholic drinks, the human body is exposed to:

• Cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, oesophagus, larynx, breast, liver, colon, rectum
• Liver cirrhosis
• Essential hypertension
• Chronic pancreatitis

"You cannot get a cancer cell occurring unless DNA is altered. When you drink, the acetaldehyde is corrupting the DNA of life and puts you on the road to cancer.
"One of most common genetic defects in man is our inability to counteract the toxicity of alcohol", saya Dr KJ Patel from the Medical Research Council's laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge.

Read the rest of the article here.

Coffee May Ward Off Depression in Women

A couple of cuppa a day is good for the lady.  Read this new finding here.