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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

15 Beautiful messages to keep you going

Beautiful   Messages !

💬   Stay   Away   From   Anger... It   Hurts ....Only   You !

💬   If    You    Are    Right    Then     There    is     No    Need    to    Get    Angry ...

💬   And    If    You    Are    Wrong    Then    You     Don't     Have    Any    Right    to    Get    Angry.

💬   Patience    With    Family    is   Love .....

💬   Patience    With    Others    is   Respect.

💬   Patience     With     Self     is   Confidence   And   Patience   With   GOD   is   Faith.

💬   Never    Think    Hard    About    The    PAST ,    It    Brings    Tears...

💬   Don't    Think    More    About   The   FUTURE ,   It   Brings   Fear...

💬  Live   This   Moment   With   A   Smile ,  It    Brings   Cheer.

💬  Every     Test     in    Our    Life   Makes   Us   Bitter   Or   Better .....

💬   Every   Problem   Comes   To   Make   Us   Or   Break   Us  !

💬   The      Choice     is       Ours   Whether   We   Become   Victims   Or   Victorious.

💬   Beautiful   Things    Are    Not   Always   Good   But   Good  Things   Are   Always   Beautiful ......

💬   Do   You   Know    Why    God  Created   Gaps  between  Fingers ?  So     That     Someone ,    Who    is     Special    To    You ,   Comes    And   Fills   Those    Gaps ,   By   Holding   Your   Hand   Forever.

💬   " Happiness "   Keeps   You ....  Sweet   But   Being   Sweet   Brings   Happiness.

Do    Share    It  ,    With    All    The    Good    People   In   Your   Life.

20 Inspiring words to remember in Life

*NUGGETS FOR NOBLES*

1. Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.

2. People are not what they say but what they do; so judge them not from their words but from their actions.

3. When someone hurts you, don't feel bad because it's a law of nature that the tree that bears the sweetest fruits gets maximum number of stones.

4. Take whatever you can from your life because when life starts taking from you, it takes even your last breath.

5. In this world, people will always throw stones on the path of your success. It depends on what you make from them - a wall or a bridge.

6. Challenges make life interesting; overcoming them make life meaningful.

7. There is no joy in victory without running the risk of defeat.

8. A path without obstacles leads nowhere.

9. Past is a nice place to visit but certainly not a good place to stay.

10. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

11. If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, then you haven't done much today.

12. If you don't build your dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs.

13. If you don't climb the mountain; you can't view the plain.

14. Don't leave it idle - use your brain.

15. You are not paid for having brain, you are only rewarded for using it intelligently.

16. It is not what you don't have that limits you; it is what you have but don't know how to use.

17. What you fail to learn might teach you a lesson.

18. The difference between a corrupt person and an honest person is: The corrupt person has a price while the honest person has a value.

19. If you succeed in cheating someone, don't think that the person is a fool...... Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved.

20. Honesty is an expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

5 ways to take good care of yourself

1. Get care when you are ill
When they are ill, even with communicable 
diseases, people often do not isolate themselves or seek proper treatment. This, as you can easily see, tends to put you at risk. Insist that when someone is ill that he or she takes the proper precautions and gets proper care.

2. Keep your body clean
People who do not bathe or wash their hands regularly can carry germs. They put you at risk. You are well within your rights to insist that people bathe regularly and wash their hands. It is inevitable that one gets dirty working or exercising. Get them to clean up afterwards.

3. Preserve your teeth
If one brushed one’s teeth after every meal, it has been said that one would not suffer tooth decay. This, or chewing gum after each meal, goes far toward defending others from oral diseases 
and bad breath. Suggest to others that they preserve their teeth.

4. Eat properly
People who do not eat properly are not of much help to you or themselves. They tend to have a low energy level. They are sometimes ill-tempered. They become ill more easily. It doesn’t require strange diets to eat properly but it does require that one eats nourishing food regularly.

5. Get rest
Although many times in life one has to work beyond normal sleep periods, a person’s general failure to get proper rest can make him or her a burden to others. Tired people are not alert. They can make mistakes. They have accidents. Just when you need them they can dump the whole workload on one. They put others at risk. Insist that people who do not get proper rest do so.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

9 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health

Achieving better mental health requires professional help. People may need a therapist, or even medication, to deal with disorders like depression or anxiety.
But those serious diagnoses aside, we could all do with a little brain tune-up. Fortunately, science has some suggestions for how to overcome personality quirks or unhealthy patterns of thinking that leave people functioning less than optimally.

Here are some things that studies have found may improve people's mental health:

1. Set goals, but don't take failure personally
Most people are at least a little bit of a perfectionist in some area of life. Aiming high can be the first step to success, but studies have found that high levels of perfectionism are linked to poor health and increase the risk of death. Perfectionism is also linked to postpartum depression.
The problem is that perfectionism has two facets: Perfectionists tend to set high goals for themselves, but they also tend to worry about it if they fail to reach extreme levels of performance. The high goals are not the problem as much as the so-called "perfectionist concerns," or feelings of failure and worthlessness that come with falling short of reaching them, which can wreak havoc on mental health.
The trick to getting around this perfectionism trap might be to set goals without taking failure personally, said Andrew Hill, a sports psychologist at York St. John University in England.
One strategy, Hill told Live Science in August 2015, is for perfectionists to set small, manageable goals for themselves rather than one big goal. That way, failure is less likely, and so is the self-recrimination that can keep a perfectionist down. In other words, perfectionists should force themselves to think about achieving success in degrees, rather than in all-or-nothing terms.

2. Go outside
  The indoor environment protects us from heat, cold and all manner of inclement weather. But if you don't get outside frequently, you might be doing a number on your mental health.
A June 2015 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that spending 90 minutes walking in nature can decrease brain activity in a region called the subgenual prefrontal cortex. This area is active when we're ruminating over negative thoughts. Walking alongside a busy road didn't quiet this area, the researchers found.
This latest study is only one of many that suggest that spending time outdoors is good for the mind. A 2010 study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that 5 minutes in a green space can boost self-esteem. In a 2001 study published in the journal Environment and Behavior, time in green space even improved ADHD symptoms in kids compared with time spent relaxing indoors — for example, watching TV.
3. Meditate
Meditation may look like the person is sitting around, doing nothing. In fact, it's great for the brain.

A slew of studies have found that meditation benefits a person's mental health. For example, a 2012 study in the journal PLOS ONE found that people who trained to meditate for six weeks became less rigid in their thinking than people with no meditation training. This suggests that meditation might help people with depression or anxiety shift their thoughts away from harmful patterns, the researchers suggested.Other studies on meditation suggests that it literally alters the brain, slowing the thinning of the frontal cortex that typically occurs with age and decreasing activity in brain regions that convey information about pain. People trained in Zen meditation also became more adept at clearing their minds after a distraction, a 2008 study found. As distracting and irrelevant thoughts are common in people with depression and anxiety , meditation might improve those conditions, the researchers said.
4. Exercise
Next we'll tell you to eat your vegetables, right? (You should, by the way.) It's not fancy advice, but moving your body can benefit your brain. In fact, a 2012 study in the journal Neurology found that doing physical exercise was more beneficial than doing mental exercises in staving off the signs of aging in the brain.
That study used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of Scottish participants in their early 70s. Among the 638 participants, those who reported walking or doing other exercises a few times a week showed less brain shrinkage and stronger brain connections than those who didn't move. People who did mentally stimulating activities such as chess or social activities didn't show those kinds of effects.
Exercise can even be part of the treatment for people with serious mental disorders. A 2014 review in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that physical activity reduces the symptoms of depression in people with mental illness, and even reduced symptoms of schizophrenia. A 2014 study in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica found that adding an exercise program to the treatment plan for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reduced patients' symptoms and improved their sleep.
5. Be generous in your relationships
A giving relationship is a happy relationship, according to a 2011 study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. In the study, couples with children who reported high levels of generosity with one another were more satisfied in their marriages and more likely to report high levels of sexual satisfaction.Moreover, studies show that keeping a committed relationship strong can be a big boon for your mental health. People in the early stages of a marriage or a cohabitating relationship experience a short-term boost in happiness and a drop in depression, according to a 2012 study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. And among same-sex couples, the official designation of marriage appears to boost psychological functioning over domestic partnerships (though domestic partnerships provided a boost, too).
Being generous in nonromantic relationships can provide a direct mental health boost, too. A 2013 study in the American Review of Public Administration found that people who prioritized helping others at work reported being happier with life 30 years later.
6. Use social media wisely
In general, having social connections is linked to better mental health. However, maintaining friendships over Facebook and other social media sites can be fraught with problems. Some research suggests that reading other people's chipper status updates makes people feel worse about themselves — particularly if those other people have a large friend list, which may lead to a lot of showing off. Those findings suggest that limiting your friend list to people who you feel particularly close to might help you avoid seeing a parade of peacocking status updates from people who seem to have perfect lives.Time on social networking sites has been linked to depressive symptoms, though it's not clear whether the mental health problems or the social media usage comes first. A study presented in April 2015 at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association found that social media is a double-edged sword: People with mental health conditions reported that social media sites offered them feelings of belonging to a community, but also said that Facebook and other sites could exacerbate their anxiety and paranoia.
The best bet, researchers say, is to take advantage of the connectivity conferred by social media, but to avoid making Facebook or Twitter your entire social life.
"You have to be careful," University of Houston psychologist Linda Acitelli told Live Science in 2012.
7. Look for meaning, not pleasure
Imagine a life of lounging by a pool, cocktail in hand. When you aren't sunning yourself, you're shopping for cute clothes or planning your next party.
Paradise? Not so much. A 2007 study found that people are actually happier in life when they take part in meaningful activities than when they focus on hedonism. University of Louisville researchers asked undergrads to complete surveys each day for three weeks about their daily activities. They also answered questions about their happiness levels and general life satisfaction.
The study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, found that the more people participated in personally meaningful activities such as helping other people or pursuing big life goals, the happier and more satisfied they felt. Seeking pleasure didn't boost happiness.
8. Worry (some), but don't vent
Everyone's had the experience of worrying about something they can't change. If constant worrying becomes a pervasive problem, though, science suggests you should just put it on the calendar.
Scheduling your "worry time" to a single, 30-minute block each day can reduce worries over time, according to a study published in July 2011 in the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Patients in the study were taught to catch themselves worrying throughout the day and then postpone the worries to a prearranged block of time. Even just realizing that they were worrying helped patients calm down, the researchers found, but stopping the worrying and saving it for later was the most effective technique of all.
Venting about stresses, however, appears to make people feel worse about life, not better. So set aside that worry time — but do it silently.
9. Learn not to sweat the small stuff
Daily irritations are part of life, but they can also wear us down. In a 2013 study in the journal Psychological Science, researchers used two national surveys to look at the influence of minor annoyances on people's mental health. They found surprisingly strong links.
The more negatively people responded to small things like having to wait in traffic or having arguments with a spouse, the more anxious and distressed they were likely to be when surveyed again 10 years later, the researchers reported.
"It's important not to let everyday problems ruin your moments," study researcher Susan Charles, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement when the research was released. "After all, moments add up to days, and days add up to years." 

Sunday, October 2, 2016

21 Things You should know After Graduation (Jon Acuff)

Saw this on time.com blog and decided to share with my blog readers. If you’re a recent graduate, you have lots of reasons to be cheerful. For a start, you have walked across stage, balancing a board on your head while wearing a trip-hazard, as ceremony demands. Degree in hand, you’re ready to embark on your post-university life. Below are 21 things you should know after graduation from high institution.


1.     The real world is more fun than grumpy adults have ever told you.
Don’t listen to people in their 40s who act like the best part of your life ends the minute you get your diploma. Is the real world all cotton candy and unicorn rides? No. But sometimes, misery loves company and recruits it too. When you start a new job there will inevitably be a group of people there who don’t like their job and don’t like being an adult. Avoid these people like the plague. They’ve bought into the cultural lie that a “job is just a job” and that you should only work for the weekend. Nonsense. Your job can be meaningful. Your weekdays can matter.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

11 interview questions and their possible answers


Interviews usually bring tense to job seekers. The more confident you feel, the more chances of gaining the interviewer attention. Be poised and hold your head high with these useful interview tips:

interview tips

1.   Why should we hire you?
If you hire me, it will be a great platform to showcase my skills. Whatever goals I set, I ensure to complete them within stipulated time.

2.   What is the reason behind leaving your last job?
In order to enhance my skill set, I am looking for better opportunity.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

25 Factors to consider in choosing a career

It is relevant here to state that the choice of a career is not as easy as we sometimes think. The student should be able to answer the following career choice questions before choosing a career:
choosing a career

a.     Do you possess the required intellectual ability for the career?

b.    Will your present subject offering lead you to your desired career?

c.      Do you have the needed and sustained interest for the career?

d.    Do you have the needed aptitude for the career?

e.     Do you have the necessary personality qualities for the career?

f.       Can your health conditions and constitutions carry you in the career?

g.     Can you last the period, stress, risk and inconveniences expected in the training or preparation for the career?

h.    What are the primary reasons for choosing the career? (Monetary, status, helping others to contribute to societal advancement, etc.)?

i.    Do you or your parents/sponsors have the financial resources to carry you through the training or preparation period?

j.       Is your chosen career relevant to the needs of the environment/nation?

k.     Can you find employment in your chosen career after training/preparation?

l.      Are you familiar with the importance, nature, history and definition of the career?

m.  Do you have other necessary qualifications for the career e.g. age, sex and the general education for the career?

n.    Do you know how to enter into your chosen career?

o. Is your career offered (for participation) in the available institutions or workshops?

p.    Do you know the general conditions of service for the career?

q.    Are there prospects of advancement and fulfillment in the career?

r.      Would you be able to adjust to the environments and sociological environments of the career? i.e. would you be able to adapt to the geographical location and persons the career could expose you to?

s.      Would the career jeopardize or conflict with your religious and cultural values and beliefs?

t.      What are the advantages and disadvantages of the career?

u.    Do you know about the job hazards associated with your career of interest?

v.     Will the career make you self-employable or dependent on other employers of labour?

w.   Will you be ready for service, re-training or on-the-job training in the career if the need arises?

x.     Assuming you are thrown out of the career/job (retrenched) can you adjust to any other job or a career if the need arises?

y.     If your retire from the career, what plans could you make to survive?

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

15 Common mistakes in choosing a career

Choosing a career is generally not a one-time decision; it’s a series of decisions, made as you progress through different stages of life, experience, and responsibility. Below are the various mistakes in choosing a career.
choosing a career
1.     Choosing a career because of the prestige attached to it.

2.     Choosing a career in which one does not possess the  necessary ability, interest, aptitude and personality traits.

3.     Choosing a career because a friend has chosen it.

4.     Choosing a career in which employment is either scarce or non-existent.

5. Choosing a career the preparation/training for which the family/personal resources are not able to carry.

6.     Choosing a career just to please parents and other family members.

7.     Choosing a career out of frustration or as a last resort.

8.     Choosing a career that may not be actualized with the school subjects offered by the student.

9.     Choosing a career without consulting professional guidance personnel.

10.    Choosing a career that one may not be committed to but choosing it for the fun of it.

11.    Choosing a career because of the monetary advantages.

12.    Choosing a career without full knowledge about the career.

13.    Choosing a career that would not help to lead one to self-actualization or self-fulfillment; i.e. achieving one’s career goals.

14.  Choosing a career for which one lacks the necessary training, skills and dispositions.

Friday, August 26, 2016

13 Must have Inter-personal Skills at Work

Interpersonal skills are those skills that are connected with relationships between people. These skills are very important in the work place to ensure smooth and efficient team work. They are:
inter-personal skills at work

a.     Language: A strong working knowledge of English language enables a worker to interact with other people.

b.    Critical thinking and decision making skills: These constitute the ability to think abstractly, to organize materials and follow instructions.

c.      Dependability: Dependable workers come to work every day punctually, follow through on project, keep their word and contribute their fair share to the work load.

d.    Relating to others: Being able to work well with other people; helps to get the job done.

e.  Good judgment: This is the ability to ensure that all work are accurate and logical.

f.  Maturity: Employers want employees who can handle matters in an adult manner, develop confidence and exercise self-control.

g. Flexibility: Office workers must be receptive to new ideas, procedures, specifications, tasks and equipment. Learn to adapt easily.

h.  Discretion: Avoid discussing the information with which you work, inside or outside the office.

i.     Receptiveness: No one expects a worker to know everything. Admit what you do not know and need to learn. Be receptive to other people’s advice.

j.     Integrity: Be loyal to your employer. Come to work early but don’t leave early. Do not excuse yourself from the job unnecessarily for one reason or the other. Do not waste your employer’s time. Time is money in business.

k.     Personal appearance: A lot can said at this point; however, note that the image you portray also reflects on your office. Dress neatly and appropriately. Watch your body language.

l.    Positive attitude: Employers prefer positive people to negative people because positive people think confidently and generate positive results.


m.  Team member: An effective office requires group effort. Help others when you are not busy. Offering help to a colleague may bring you a return favour at a time you need help most.

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The Importance of Self-evaluation in Job hunt/search

Self-appraisal can encourage employees to become mindful of areas where they need to improve and it can reveal attitudes and biases a manger might never guess from observation. Below are the needs for self-evaluation;
self-evaluation

i.                   Self-evaluation helps the job seeker assess his capabilities in respect of the job he intends doing.
ii.                 The applicant is able to know whether he has the right qualification for the job.