1. Understand the essentials – Stuck with a deadline? Need to burn mid-night-oil and work day and night to finish a work? You are doing more harm than you can imagine to yourself by losing sleep. Sleep is good for your brain and it will keep you in good physical condition. Sleep is a great stress-reliever and sleep is a good natural medicine.

2. Duration of sleep – I know some people who sleep for just 4 hours every night but feel fresh and I also know some people who sleep for more than 10 hours and still awake tired. You just need to find out the duration of sleep that you need. Go to bed when you feel sleepy and wake up when you feel fresh.

3. Understand your sleep cycles – we all sleep in regular cycles. Each sleep cycle lasts for 90 minutes (that is 1 and half hour) and then we wake up from the sleep, it continues until daybreak. Maintain a sleep journal and note down what time you go to sleep and set your alarm, adjusting for the 90 minute cycles. When you awake in the middle of a sleep cycle, you would naturally would fall back to sleep. Adjust your alarm accordingly.

4. Sleep routine – follow a sleep routine every day. Stop watching television or using computers at least 1 hour before you hit your bed. This will give enough rest to your eyes and will alert your brain that you are ready for sleep. Drink a glass of warm water, dim the bedroom lights or do a routine set of tasks so that you will fall into a good night’s sleep every day. Don’t alter it even for the weekends.

5. Avoid daytime naps – some people say a quick nap during daytime will keep you refreshed. But, I would advocate that you sleep only during a specific time during night.

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1. Find like-minded friends – have a bet with a friend of yours and start exercising together. It could be a simple thing such as walking, jogging or swimming, but do it together. Each should encourage other so you stick to the exercising schedule without fail.

2. Start small – if you plan to start doing big exercises, you might not like it. You will probably stop your exercising program after few days. Instead, start doing a small activity, an enjoyable activity regularly.

3. Fall into a routine – stick a routine, choose a comfortable time of your day and stick to it. Can’t you allot a small window every day, for your own sake? Come what may, stop what you are doing and stick to a routine of exercising.

4. Measure progress – After a certain period, measure if you have lost weight or reduced your waistline. Don’t feel dejected if you don’t achieve. The measurements will keep you focused on the exercise routine and will push you towards your desired goal.

5. Enjoy – if you think exercising is a hard task, you will more likely to feel it as a burden. Instead, enjoy the process of exercising. Listen to your favourite songs or a good talk while you do your walking.

6. Reward yourself – have small sub-goals towards your desired result. Reduce your weight by 1 Kg by 2 weeks. If you do it, reward yourself with a small gift (no junk food please). Such rewards will make you more comfortable with harder goals. You can expand your goals to achieve far better results.

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1. Handle your emotions
Like every other person on earth, you will need to feel happy, sad or dejected from time to time. It is impossible to be on top of your emotions all the time. You just need to handle emotions a bit so that it won’t stop the way you behave to others or affect your performance. Go for a walk if you are angry about something, which will surely change the way you feel.

2. Be responsible for your behaviour
Stop complaining others for what happened to you. If you find reasons or try to pass the buck to someone, it is not a good behaviour at any level. Accepting that you made mistake and being responsible for your behaviour (good or bad) will make you appear mature and confident.

3. Make decisions
Don’t postpone taking decisions. Make decisions and act on them. It is easy if you practise decision-making a habit. The successful people are the ones who take more decisions and act upon them immediately. Lazy ones take the decision to postpone thing s – that’s the only decision they make and it is of no use to anyone.

4. Do not worry about others
Don’t compare yourself to others and feel dejected. It won’t do any good for you. Instead, concentrate on your life and set your own standards. Improve on them as you achieve them progressively. Don’t think how others think or feel about you. How you feel about yourself is more important than how others feel about you.

5. Make yourself cheerful
Make a list of things that make you cheerful and happy. This could be something like listening to songs, reading a book, watching a movie, singing a song or talking to a friend. When you are feeling depressed or dejected, try few things from your “cheerful list”. It will instantly change your confidence level.

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Here are few tips to forget your sadness and become cheerful.

1. Find out the real reason why you are feeling sad
Most of the time why we feel sad is because we don’t accept a thing that has happened. Loss of a someone or not getting a thing what we wish is often the reason that makes us sad. Instead of questioning ‘why it always happens to me’, accept the fact that it is gone or you are not getting that now. Accept the failure, it is OK to fail. You can always try next time. Accept the thing that happened, feel sadness at present and move on.

2. Talk to a trustworthy person about it
Talking about a sad thing, releases lot of stress. May be people have already undergone the thing that you are currently experiencing. Talk to a person whom you can trust, and share your sad feelings. If the person really cares about you, they will listen to you and may suggest you some ways to overcome it. But, trust me, just talking about a pain enormously reduces the pain.

3. Write / talk / paint your feelings
Most often not expressing your feelings and having them trapped inside you makes things complex. Your sadness no way to escape from yourself and you might feel sad all the way. I don’t know about you, but I like writing and writing about what makes me feel sad, how I would envision my future, liberates the sadness. You can talk to yourself or paint your feelings with colours, go back to your hobby until you forget the surroundings and truly immerse yourself into the work that you do.

4. Check your body; change your physiology
Anthony Robbins who wrote Personal Power used to say that by changing your physiology, you can change how you feel. It is instant, stand erect with a good straight posture and immediately you will feel you are feeling better. Go for a good walk or go for a swim which will immediately release your sad feelings because, your mind is occupied on the steps that you take or the strokes you make.

5. Take a break
If everything else fails and you are still not overcoming the grief or sadness, take a break. Stop the way you usually live, break the routine and go for a place where you have never been. Meet some strangers those you have never met before.

All the best for forgetting your sadness and becoming cheerful again.

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i. Employees who have high self confidence are likely to take personal initiative more often at work. They are more likely to take charge of changing the organization for good.

ii. Try to implement new ways of doing a task. See that it is effective than your previous ways.

iii. Attempt to change the things at your hand that are not productive.

iv. Give suggestions if asked for on how to improve. Never be talkative and never give away advices when not asked for.

v. Try to be innovative and be dynamic to changes of the organization since they need you to be so.

vi. Make sure that you do tasks assigned to you in time effectively, at least during initial stages and later try to continue do the same.

vii. First impression is the best impression. This holds true even at your work. If your superior or boss is really encouraging then try to impress him without any thought.

viii. If you have ability to do a task never step back due to influences from colleagues since it could be an opportunity to grow faster in career.

Show high levels of effort when organization is in need of such commitment. It will definitely recognize and reward your efforts. This kind of attitude will keep you free from all worries daily at work. Indirectly it will boost the chances of getting on to a fast track career.

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• What are you going to write about ?

• What is that you are going to concentrate on ?

There are two ways of going about this process –

One is to write down all your ideas on a topic that occur to you in any order then work on what you want to include. The other way is to make a plan. This way could be in the form of a table or a graphic representation with your topic in the center. All your ideas or points must be around it.

a) You can sort out the ideas you want to use in your paragraph.

b) If you are writing in the form of paragraphs then see that it has focus.
This helps you to plan what you want to put into it.

For example if you are writing a paragraph about why you chose to study in a particular college then be general in the beginning. Write about teachers, college and its advantages etc.

Here are few steps you need to follow –

STEP 1-

Collect the information –

When writing a paragraph you might need to gather information by asking questions about or filling information along with ideas that you have set down. Expand your ideas, work out how they are connected to the main idea.

You might find that other related ideas occur to you when you do this.

STEP -2 -

Connecting the collected information –

Once you are done with collection now start organizing it so that ideas proceed logically. Give your content a logical structure as a flow of events.

The lead sentence must clearly state the main idea, The other points can say about rest of the things.

Link them together in a sequence using connecting words.

STEP -3-

Correcting your paragraph –

Once you have organized your information review what you have written and correct it so that you have no mistakes in your work. You must check for grammatical errors as well as those of spelling and punctuation.

These things will make your work simple to understand for the readers.

Basic rules of writing are –

1. Begin sentences with Capital Letters.

2. Put a full stop after each statement.

3. Construct each sentence with subject , verb and some addition information that flowed from the subject.

4. Tenses of the verbs must be correct.

5. Begin with facts then to general statements such as beliefs, values, truths etc.

6. Make appropriate use of question marks, apostrophes, commas, exclamation wherever needed.

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Internet is a place where you can literally get any kind of help. You can access a great amount of information in a very short time. Internet is not only a library in which all the available items are identified and retrieved by a single catalog. But also it does provide access to a wealth of information on countless topics contribute by people around the world.

On the Internet, a user has access to a wide variety of services as it has vast information resources, interesting groups, email facility, multimedia displays and so on.

So how exactly you can find information on the net ?

1. You can look for the subject or topic by using any or all of these ways.

2. Browser.

3. Explore a subject directory.

4. Conduct a search using search engines.

5. Join an email discussion group.

6. If you have the address URL of a web site you can directly go to the website.

Now how each method helps you in searching for information,

Browser – The home pages on the web are huge in amount but are interestingly you can find desired material on the net.

Explore a directory –

Increased number of universities, companies or libraries or organizations and even volunteers are creating subject directories to catalog portions on the Internet.
Most of these provide search feature that allows you to query the database on your topic of interest.

Conduct a search using web search engine –

1. Forming your queries involves these simple steps –

2. Identify your concept or need.

3. List keywords for the concept, for instance ‘budget’, ‘budget details’.

4. Specify the logical relationship among the keywords using ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘not’.

5. Web search engines offer access to vast range of resources located on the Internet. Some good search engines are obviously Google followed by Alta Vista, HotBot, Infoseek

6. The key word needs to be as a way to ask the search to proceed easily. The engine searches its index and generates a page with links to these resources related to your words.

If you have too many results –

• Search for particular words or fields.

• Add concept words.

• Use vocabulary specific to the point.

If your search term is a phrase include it in ” ” double quotes.

• Drop the least important concepts.

• Use more general words.

• Add alternative terms or spellings.

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Do you feel difficult to master words ? If you have a zeal to learn then it is not so difficult as you imagine in fact. Words are smallest units of a language that make sense. You are using them all the time while speaking or while writing.

The English language has largest number of words in a language. You should take the advantage of its variety of words to express yourself effectively. Do you wish you could do this with ease ? Yes you always can do it. So here are few easy techniques to pick up new words. It will also be helpful to you in competitive exams like GMAT,GRE or TOEFL. In addition you will increase your scope of getting attention of listeners.

• One way is to understand the word by analyzing it. If you can understand the root words which will give you the indication of the meaning, this will make your process easy.
For example, luminous, non luminous and illumination all come from the same
root. The Latin word lumen is its root in this case. It means light so you can figure
out all these words have something to do with light.

• We come across new words all the time while reading. Most of us unknowingly try and understand words grasp their meaning in context.

• Take help from the situation or context of the sentence to get the meaning of the word in it.

• Guess that each word shows better than something else. Most of the times new words you found are adjectives.

• A good way to understand a word is making the use of dictionary so have one.

• Make the list of new words with meaning and write 10 of them on your reading cards. The word and its respective meaning must be on opposite sides. It is really worthy to give a try. Many found that it really works and does wonders.

Now you know how to learn new words that you come across anytime. But this will be not enough. Make use of online dictionaries like http://m-w.com if you are at work too.

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Here’s a Checklist.
1. Can you trust the person? If the person is nice to talk to but spills your secrets and teases you when you are not present, just forget that person.

2. Does the person has some good values? Check for values such as honesty, respectful, sincere and caring

3. Does the person really feel happy for your successes? Does the person feels jealousy or negative when you succeed?

4. Does the person has a good respect (being courteous) for other people? Check how they behave towards a waiter or shop assistant.

5. Does the person has a positive outlook for life? I wouldn’t want to hang around with a person who is a dooms-day-messenger.

6. Does the person is cheerful? Come any situation, can the person remain cheerful, accept the situations as it is and move on?

7. Does the person is really interested in you? When you make a mistake, is the person stopping you or warning you?

8. Does the person get along with different kinds of people easily?

9. Does the person point out your mistakes when you are alone (not in front of a group) in an interest to develop you?

10. Does the person give you enough space for yourself? I wouldn’t want to be a friend of someone who always pesters me with my own life and blackmails me emotionally all the time.

I think the checklist will apply for choosing a life partner as well. Because, how can you share your lifetime with someone who is not a friend of yours?

Oops.. almost forgot to wish you. Have a great new year ahead!

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Simply keep these tips in mind and employ these techniques while applying for a job of any domain. Remember that you are trying to sell your services to the employers so be an ideal seller and do your best to make the deal successful.

• Remember that the immediate objective of your resume is not to secure the job but to get a chance for an interview.

• Highlight your qualities briefly.

• Give your complete particulars as desired by the prospective employer in a simple and straight forward manner.

• Avoid using sentences like ‘hoping for the favor of an early assuring of my best services!” and similar kind of phrases. These will irritate the HR and will filter out your application in the initial stages only.

• Type the resume neatly and correctly in a formatted way.

• Never mind whether it is big or small but must be free from all kinds of mistakes particularly spelling. Be careful for each and every word you write.

• The format should be closely like that of a business letter.

• Do not send cyclostyled, photo copy versions or even a pre printed forms with your details.

• Always send the original typed resume and not the duplicate version of any kind.

• Mention your achievements whether they are big or smaller ones they really matter a lot.

• Include any thing that you feel to be a addition skill under a sub heading of Value addition.

• The resume contents need not be extraordinary since they expect you to be perfect in what ever you included. So have only such things written in it.

Enjoy the challenging situation of going to interviews. So Resume is just a form of media to get into the interview round. Your present goal while preparing a resume must be the same. You can definitely hope an interview call from the employer if your skills really suit the criteria. If not to make it possible prepare the resume in view of the criteria mention by the job post. Get started for making a job fetching resume with the help of these tips.
Try out these tips that ensure certainty and increase the chances of getting a job you desired to get.

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