Tag: <span>Tips</span>

16 Sep

3 Tips to Manage Change
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on September 16, 2022 @ 1:54 am

I’ve always said that the only consistent thing, is change! With all of the change that’s been happening in the past 6 months, I thought this was the perfect time to talk about how to cope with change effectively, so I met with Marion Grobb Finkelstein, Workplace Communication Consultant and Author of The Finkelstein Factor – What to do when things go wrong, because you know they will (sigh).

Marion is a skilled communicator who helps business people deepen their connections with clients, colleagues, bosses, and employees. She unties the knots in interpersonal communications and works with organizations who want to create healthy, resilient, and productive workplaces and teams. She will also help you find solutions to your most time-consuming, energy-sucking, budget-eating workplace communication challenges and will help you to be more confident in how you communicate, feel less frustrated, and say bye-bye to unwanted stress.

In this short interview, you’ll learn valuable tips to managing change at work and the answers to these 3 questions:

  • Did you know that the reason why some people can accept change easier than others is personality based?
  • Have you been getting the response you’re looking for when communicating change processes to others?
  • Are you willing to accept change when you’re not the one initiating it?

Marion and I share a lot of the same philosophies, ideals and strategies in our approach to leadership coaching. I’m sure you’ll find the content very worthwhile and use the information to manage change in your life both at work and at home.



Source by Penny Tremblay

13 Sep

Simple Time Management Tips to Make High School Life Easier
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on September 13, 2022 @ 1:43 am

High school student not just study and take classes. They also have to join school activities, socialize and do their homework. Apparently, they always have a lot of work in school and at home.

It is essential for high school students to be organized. If you are a high school student, it may seem like you are always running out of time and all you do is study and never get enough time with your friends and family.

Listed here seven tips for you to follow to make life of high school students easier and add extra time for you to be with your friends and family:

1- Set the target everyday – Before you go to bed, list down all the matters you want to accomplish on the next day. A ‘to do” list will help you to know what you are going to do and avoid doing unimportant tasks, of which will get everything done more efficiently and faster.

2- Prioritize your list of target – Once the “to do” list completed, try to prioritize the goals you want to achieve. Set your most important goal in life on top of your priority and your least important goals to down below on the list.

Be realistic on your list. It is better to list on what you need to achieve and not on what you want to achieve. If you have a long-term priority, it is probably best that you put it on the bottom of your list; you can always work on that tomorrow.

3- Utilize your spare time – As a high school student, sometimes you may not notice you have lots of spare time. Try to add up the minutes of the school bus ride to school and the school bus ride back home.

Use these times to create strategy of how to finish your homework effectively. By doing this, you will get an idea on what you need to do on your homework when you get home. This allows you to finish your homework faster and have extra time for other things.

4- Finding the right time – Sometime, students have specific time to study more efficiently. For instance, you can solve your math problems well on the afternoons; then do not wait until nighttime to do it. Mood is important here since mood can shifts immediately.

5- Taking notes – An effective way to study is to write down important notes. It is proven much better than just plain reading. Writing down notes has an effect on your mind. You can understand the topic more effectively and memorize it more effectively than by just reading.

Review your notes as your teacher might give a pop quiz on the next day. Reviewing your notes will help you be more prepared for the pop quizzes that your teacher may suddenly give.

6- Get adequate sleep – It is unhealthy trying to stress yourself out studying when you are supposed to be sleeping. It can bring ineffective results and unwelcome health problems.

If you need to sleep you have to sleep, do not force yourself to study if you cannot effectively study. If you try to study in this situation, you will most likely waste your time.

7- Keep your goals realistic – Trying to accomplish unrealistic goals can often result in failure and frustration. Setting realistic goals that is difficult and achieving it can give you self-worth and be proud on your achievements.

Just remember, everything you need to accomplish in one day is possible if you are organized and plan everything you do in a day.



Source by Fakhrul Anuar Malek

20 Aug

Five Tried and True Time Management Tips
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on August 20, 2022 @ 1:06 am

One thing everyone seems to not have enough of is time. Since you cannot get more time each day, the thing to do is better utilize the time you have. Following are five time management tips that have been utilized for years and continue to work well for those who do them.

  1. Always prioritize what you should get done each day. Be sure to plan for getting key items done that move your most important project to completion or high priorities that help to accomplish your goals. Then do other activities that would be consider your normal job tasks by organizing them with similar a like activities together organize things first
  2. Touch paper or emails only once. In other words do not procrastinate by deciding to “decide later.” If it is something a subordinate can do or another team member enjoys doing, put their name on it and pass it along with minimal instructions. If it is reference material, skim it for what you need then either toss it or file it. If it requires you to reply, then write a note on paper or respond to an email right away with comments, questions, or suggestions.
  3. Schedule high priority or key items into your day during the time you know you have the most energy and do your best work. This goes back to planning your day because you should always give you best efforts towards things that matter in the long run rather than just getting things done. So be sure to use your peak time for important tasks.
  4. Whenever possible, delegate! You do not need to do everything yourself. Allow others to take on projects or tasks that may allow them to grow and learn. You may need to review their work or provide some guidance yourself at first or suggest someone on your team who can guide them through the necessary process. Eventually the subordinate or team member will be able to handle similar work on their own, which frees you for more important tasks.
  5. Make an appointment with yourself for some uninterrupted time each day. Again we go back to planning your day so you accomplish more important things with the time you have. Use this uninterrupted time for strategic planning, project updates, or creative thinking. Even if this is only half an hour, it might help in moving key items forward in a new way, reducing stress, and preventing crisis.

The preceding time management tips have been tested by many people and have proven to work time after time. So if you want more time in your day, try these tips to see if they allow you to get more done by better managing how you work with the time you have.



Source by Shirley Lee

17 Aug

4 Tips to Make Money Online to Fund Your College Studies
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on August 17, 2022 @ 1:05 am

Most students will try to get student loan or scholarship to fund their college study. But, not all students will be successfully approved with the money that is required to fund their study. Even though they get one, the money might not be enough to cover all costs that include tuition fee, living expenses, book & reference and other necessary expenses. Either they get the balance from their parents or they need to find ways to get the money to fund their college study.

The internet has been a place used by many people to earn money either part-time of full-time. The best part of making money online from internet is it can be done asynchronous with other jobs or tasks, and it can be put into autopilot to continue generate income in 24×7 and 365 days. So, if you are looking for money to fund your college study, internet may be a good place to make money online to serve the purpose. Here are 5 tips to make money online which you can use to fund your college study.

1. Set Up Money-Generating Blogs

A blog is a platform for sharing almost anything in internet world. Nowadays, many students have their own blog to share their stuffs with other internet surfers who have the same interest. However, most of those blogs are made solely for sharing purpose without generating any profit. Do you know that you can generate some good money from blogs? If you are looking for potential income to fund your college study, then blogging is one of simplest ways to make money online.

There are a few ways to make money from blogs; the simplest way is to integrate Ads from Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network. What you need is to register a free account and add a simple code into your blog, the ads that are related to your blog content will appear at your blog within minutes. Anyone who visits your blog clicks on the ads, you earn the money. Besides that, you can also find related affiliate products to be promoted at your blog and earn commission on each successfully sale.

2. Set Up An eBay Online Store

Nowadays, people sell almost anything at eBay. It is one of most successful consumer business network that enables people to set up a home based business and make money from their comfort home. If you know how to utilize eBay to generate money, then you won’t need to worry about where to get the money to fund your college study.

Don’t have products to sell at your eBay store? Don’t worry, there is a business channel called drop-shipping where you can find products to be sold at your eBay store. If there are orders, you just need to forward the orders to a drop-shipping company. The company will process the order and delivery the product to your customer on your behalf. You make the profit from the price different between your selling price at eBay and the selling price set by dropshipper.

3. Get Online Survey Jobs

If you do not want to set up a blog or an eBay store, then joining online survey networks can be a good option to make money that is required to fund your college study. There are many companies looking for consumers to review their products or services; they are willing to pay you if you can spend time to fill-up their online survey forms. So, get your opinions paid by taking the online survey jobs.

4. Earn Money By Writing Articles

If you are a student, then writing articles should not be a problem to you. Unless you really hate writing, you can earn money by writing articles on your favor topics and submit them to article directories that pay you if your articles are included into their library. One of the famous websites that pay their authors on every article that is included into their library is “Associated Content”. Other than text articles, the website also accept videos, audios and images. You don’t need to be the best author to write articles, as long as you follow the guidelines set by the article directories, your articles can be easily approved and be included into their library, and you get paid for your efforts of writing.



Source by Nicole Reebi

24 Jul

Top 10 Tips For Choosing a Budget Laptop
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on July 24, 2022 @ 12:43 am

Choosing a Laptop on a Budget – Tips for Canadian University Students

One thing all Canadian University students are going to need these days is a laptop. A laptop’s main advantage over a stationary PC is its size and portability. For many degree programs, a laptop can be an indispensable tool for most if not all of your classes. In the modern digital age, most professors or class lecturers are using PowerPoint or Adobe formats for their class notes and presentations. Most provide copies to students via class websites for download and printing and many classes even require them as daily classroom material. While printing the notes or presentations and following along is a perfectly okay way of managing your classes, the use of a laptop puts everything in one place.

Just imagine sitting in class, following along with the notes and typing your own remarks or memory aids just below each slide. At the end of class, hit Save, close the laptop, go to your next class and rinse/repeat. While this may seem obvious it is the not-so-obvious benefits that are causing more and more students to switch from the old paper and pen system to a digital one. While you’re following along in class, you can be catching up on e-mails, using Wikipedia or Google for further explanation on topics you’re not 100% sure of, or even participating in real-time class discussions about the very notes you’re covering! I had one professor who encouraged laptop usage not only for managing digital notes but also to participate in a live Twitter feed he would set up each day. Rather than raise your hand and ask a question out loud risking embarrassment and ridicule, he would have students Tweet the class Twitter account and answer student questions that way. I’ve never seen such useful and extensive class discussion as I did in that class, even if it was partially digital! Anyway, on to the tips!

Tip #1 – Choose The Size Wisely!

While 16″+ laptops are easy to look at and very comfortable to use, they really aren’t that practical for a student intending on using them in class. Here’s why: Many lecture halls and classrooms try to pack in as many desks and students as possible. As a result, personal space is not all that abundant. Some classes have long tables with chairs that can accommodate a large laptop, but most definitely do not. Most lecture halls have chairs with an attached surface which is sometimes as small as 12″ wide! They were built with sheets of paper and clipboards in mind, not 16″ supercomputer laptops. So beware of larger “entertainment” laptops and always keep in mind what you’re really buying this laptop for. I’d recommend going no larger than 15.1″ and even then they can be a hassle at times. Try to go as small as you can tolerate.

Tip #2 – Battery Life

For most students, a day at school can be 6 hours or more. While much of your time is spent racing from class to class or grabbing lunch or coffee, the rest is spent sitting in class likely using your brand new laptop. This is where having a laptop with excellent battery life really pays off. If buying from an electronics store, ask the salesman how long you can expect a full charge to last on average. Try to find a laptop that has a battery capable of at least 2 hours. Apple laptops are famous for their long battery lives often lasting 4 hours or more, but they’re also famous for being rather expensive and probably won’t be an option for anyone choosing a budget laptop. If you’ve found a laptop you like but you find it has a poor battery life, buying a spare battery is always an option. If your salesman is working on commission, see if he or she will throw one in for free. If all else fails, stuff the power cord into your backpack and keep your laptop charged during breaks between classes.

Tip #3 – Memory

There are two kinds of memory in a computer, RAM and Storage(hard drive) Memory.

  • RAM is what your computer uses to load programs, play video, music, etc. Think of it like a handyman’s work bench. The more room he has, the more projects he can work on simultaneously and the faster he can access each of them. More is always better when it comes to RAM, so don’t try to cut costs on this feature but don’t break the bank going to large amounts either. 4GB should be plenty.
  • Storage Memory is what your hard drive is. It’s where all the stuff you install and save get stored. If you plan on using your laptop for music, video, games, etc. you’ll want as big a hard drive as you can afford. If your laptop is going to be used just for casual web browsing, e-mailing, IM’ing, essay-writing, etc. then this is definitely a feature you can minimize to save some $$. I would advise getting at least a 100GB hard drive as Windows, Microsoft Office, and other essential programs can really add up in memory usage over time.

Tip #4 – Processor Speed

This again depends on your planned usage. If you want to play movies and games you’re going to need a processor that’s beefy enough to handle it. But if you’re just doing casual tasks like web browsing, e-mailing, etc. then this is another feature you can cut costs on to save lots of $$. Don’t go lower than 1.6GHz though, this should be your bare minimum.

Tip #5 – Onboard Sound and Video

Do not let a salesman talk you into buying a laptop that has standalone sound and video adapters as these add to the overall cost of a laptop in a huge way. A sound card and video card can often DOUBLE the price of an otherwise suitable laptop. Again, unless you’re doing some heavy-duty gaming or video editing these are not necessary and you will never fully utilize them. It’s kind of like buying an automatic machine gun when all you need is a slingshot.

Tip #6 – Pre-Installed Software

Make sure your new laptop has at least Windows 7 and some productivity software. If it doesn’t have Windows 7 or Microsoft Office you’re probably going to want to try to bargain it in with your salesman. If he tries to sell them to you at full price or even slightly discounted, do not, DO NOT buy it from him. Students get large discounts through their on-campus computer and software outlets often in the range of 80% off. For example, I can get a full version of MS Office Home and Student Edition for $60 and Windows 7 Professional for $99. They are regularly priced at $160 for Office and $329 for Windows 7 Pro both at Future Shop. (Time of writing: July 12, 2010) This is another great area to save lots of money on a student laptop.

Tip #7 – Everything Else is Just Extra

As for all features I haven’t covered, consider them fluff or extras. Digital card readers, fingerprint scanners, built-in webcams, auxiliary ports, etc. are all stuff that you really don’t need to consider. If the model you choose has them and they don’t add much to the bottom line, great. If a salesman tries to convince you that you’ll get hit by lightning if you don’t have them, walk away. Never forget what you’re buying this laptop for and don’t let words like “premium extras”, “limited edition model”, or “media-friendly” trick you into opening your wallet any further than you have to. Over the life of your laptop you may use those features once or twice so they’re definitely not worth the $100 or $200 they’re going to add to the price tag.

Tip #8 – Shop Around!

Don’t let the sales people on commission manipulate you into buying right then and there. “This sale ends tomorrow…” is the oldest line in the book. What they’re not telling you is that this sale ends but a newer, even better one starts right after it. Never feel pressured to capitalize on what appears to be an unbelievable deal. If they can afford to sell you that laptop at that price today, they can afford to do it again tomorrow, or even next week. Make sure you compare prices with other stores like Future Shop, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco, London Drugs and Staples. Then check online at Canadian sites TigerDirect.ca and NCIX.com to compare how good the deals really are. Often you’ll find better deals online while price-checking the deals you found in-store so keep an eye out for those “online only deals”.

Tip #9 – Accessories

The only accessories I would recommend are a small mouse and a laptop skin. Note: not a laptop bag, but a rubber skin with a zipper, they’re much cheaper. It’s like a wet-suit for your laptop. That’s all you need to keep it safe from bumps and scratches and it fits nicely in your backpack. I also recommend a mouse for those times when you’re in the library or at home and have some space to spread out. The touch pads are great for portability and convenience but nothing beats navigating with an actual mouse you can hold in your hand. Look for the small wireless mice designed specifically for laptops. Some of the nice ones combine a data storage key along with the USB plug-in component of the wireless mouse giving you a great place for keeping documents, resumes, and anything else that you may need fast access to from any computer.

Tip #10 – Warranties

Many electronics stores and computer outlets offer their own store warranties upon the sale of an item. For computers these can be a good thing if the price is right. They’ll often tell you how any problem big or small will be taken care of free of charge if you purchase a warranty. What they don’t tell you is that there is almost no limit to how long they can keep your laptop to do a repair. The major electronics stores in Canada have central servicing offices where they send their warranty claims for repair. In plain english, you’re stuck without a laptop during the time it takes for your computer to be shipped, repaired, and sent back to the store you dropped it off at. Depending on the repair and parts availability, this can take up to 6 months in some cases!! Personally I feel warranties are a waste of money as I’ve never encountered a problem so grave I couldn’t fix it myself. But I’m sure everyone has heard a story of someone who bought a computer only to have it die the next day so it’s really all about budget and personal choice. For me I’d rather save the $50-$100 and pay a local repair shop for faster service if anything ever goes wrong.

Conclusion

I hope you’ve found these tips useful! I write them from experience as a Canadian University student who owns a Hewlett-Packard G10 laptop that I bought with Future Shop gift cards that I received last Christmas! I managed to get it $200 cheaper using the tips above so they definitely work! If you think I’ve missed something or if you have any comments at all let me know on the forum or comment below. Happy laptop shopping!

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Source by Jamie Storm

21 Jul

Type 2 Diabetes – Simple Tips to Help You Control Your Blood Sugar
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on July 21, 2022 @ 12:42 am

Being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes can lead to anxiety, fear, and a lot of confusion about what types of foods you should be eating. It also usually comes with the harsh reality you may be faced with taking medication for the rest of your life. However, the good news is there are steps you can implement in your diet and lifestyle that can help improve your overall health, and potentially even reverse you Type 2 diabetes.

Let us look at the top four tips on living healthy with diabetes…

1. Eliminate Processed Sugar. A huge part of controlling your blood sugar is watching your diet. A big way to improve your health is to swap out processed sugar for natural sweeteners such as stevia, or high-fiber fruits like raspberries. The less sugar you eat, the better you will be able to balance your blood sugar levels.

2. Combat Stress. During times of difficulty, your blood sugar levels increase, so here is one more reason to make sure you are managing your overall stress levels. Knowing how to handle stress best is essential when you are feeling completely overwhelmed, as this type of pressure can interfere with your overall health. Try to implement a handful of stress-management techniques into your day whether this is…

  • a yoga class,
  • deep breathing, or just
  • taking a few minutes to meditate before you start your day.

Making time for just a small about of stress reduction can make a huge difference in how you feel, and how well you balance your blood sugar levels.

3. Check in with Your Doctor. After you are diagnosed with high and unstable blood sugar, it can be easy to become overwhelmed, and you may forget to follow-up with your routine doctor’s appointment. Following up with your doctor can help with your diabetes management plan. Your doctor can run blood tests to check your cholesterol and triglyceride levels and to monitor your blood sugar.

4. Exercise. Exercise is vital for overall health and can help you better manage your Type 2 diabetes. Being physically active can help lower your blood sugar and also help you maintain a healthy weight. Do whatever form of exercise you love, so you know you will stick with it!

While being diagnosed with diabetes of any form can come with a lot of confusion, it does not mean you cannot live a healthy lifestyle. Making healthy changes can help you better control your diabetes by getting your blood sugar levels in check, and may even help you reverse your Type 2 diabetes over time.



Source by Beverleigh H Piepers

21 Jun

Tips to Improve Mental Awareness
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on June 21, 2022 @ 12:23 am

Research states that you need to focus on affirmation and positive thoughts in order to make maximum use of your mind’s full capability. You must have mental awareness without which your thoughts will become scattered and decrease your ability to generate positive vibes in your life.

Importance of mental awareness:

Having good control on your mental consciousness helps you to know who you are, your needs, strengths as well as weaknesses. It also allows you to divert your energy to make healthy decisions and thereby solve your problems. It also facilitates enhanced control on your self image and self esteem and yield you good results.

Alternatively, lack of mental awareness is referred as common most depression symptoms. This situation is escorted by no motivation, absence of emotions, lack of energy to achieve anything in life, scattered thoughts, no confidence, and feeling of loneliness, self doubt and fear.

Hence if you wish to achieve something in life, you first need to improve your mental alertness. Mind conditioning can serve as an effective tool to improve your emotional wellness. Various stress management tips also prove effective to considerable extent.

Here are a few tips that will help you improve mental awareness:

Meditation:

This is an effective self help technique that develops your mental and emotional awareness. Meditation flushes out all the multi-faceted thoughts from brain thus improving concentration and focus. You can meditate just by sitting comfortably and focus with your eyes closed. Think of your brain as an empty room and try to gather awareness into it.

Self help books:

To master the skills of personal development and self improvement, firstly you need to study the tips to improve your mental attentiveness. This is the foremost self help tip that you must be aware of. Try to make use of self help tips to improve your quality of life. First improve your mental consciousness and then try to look out for self help tips related to other topics.

Mental awareness coach:

A mental awareness coach can be of lot of help to you. They help you look deep inside yourself through their eyes. Also, they will enlighten you on stress management tips which can assist you to advance your mental state. A coach will work as a mentor to offer you guidance as well as motivation.

Self practice:

It is difficult to improve your mental responsiveness as it requires you to be in a state where you are willing to do anything and everything to stay in a mentally aware situation. Therefore, it is essential to discipline yourself accordingly.

Warning signs:

Several negative stuffs can seep in to your mind and disturb your mental wellness, hence be aware of warning signs. Warnings signs are nothing but your own thoughts, expressions as well as words. Words have a dominant impact on your way of thinking. Stay away from words such as problems, don’t, impossible and difficult as warning signs to inform you when you are nearing the safer boundaries of mental awareness.



Source by Aditi Mohan Jaiswal

25 May

Top 5 Tips To Score Top Marks In Statistics Exams
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on May 25, 2022 @ 12:00 am

Some subjects hold the unique distinction of being different from the usual ones. Accounting and statistics are good examples of such subjects. When a student looks at statistics for the first time, the terminology in itself is enough to confuse him/her and scare them away! However, by following a few tips and strategies, students can surely pull themselves together and master this intensely difficult subject and secure top marks! Here are a few top tips for students to achieve success in their statistics exams and score the coveted A grade.

Read through the given data and write down the essentials

When given a problem, students should read through it more than once and write down the essentials before attempting to solve it. This is a good practise not only when it comes to statistics but also for other subjects like math, accounting and physics. In fact, this is a popularly recommended practise by expert teachers in the subject. When students seek statistics homework help online, this is the very first thing that they are taught to do.

Be careful while reading from graphs and images

While reading from graphs, it is important to note down what the axes represent. This should be the first thing one must do when reading a graph and then go through the problem statement and write down what needs to be done. This is the key to working with graphs and images.

Don’t get confused with the terminology

It is often observed that students get confused between various terms such as mean, median, standard deviation and variance and so on. To tackle this problem, it is important that students understand what exactly these terms refer to and be able to identify them when working in a problem. This will solve half the troubles when it comes to performing in exams.

Understand how transformations in a data set affect the summary statistics

Apart from understanding the terminology used completely, learning how data manipulations and transformations affect the summary is quite important. For example, adding a number say x to each element in the data set affects the mean and median (they also increase by the number x). The standard deviation and variance are however unaffected by this. Understanding the reason behind this and learning such transformations can come in handy during exams. Most tutors take care to sensitize towards data manipulations and transformations while they seek statistics homework help or assignment help.

Understand the implications of the logarithmic transformations

Being able to understand log patterns and applying log transforms to numbers is quite helpful as the logarithm can be used to tone down the magnitude of the numbers and they thus become easier to work with. Similarly, understanding various patterns such as the theme explored in braces (when x and y are exponentially related, the scatter plot of the number x and log y will have a linear pattern) will help working with tough problems very easy.



Source by Sunil D. Kumar

21 May

10 Tips to Help You Practice Self-Love
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on May 21, 2022 @ 11:49 pm

What do you see when you look in the mirror? Or perhaps a more relevant question is, ‘who’s the most important person in your life?’ Some people will regard their boss or work as their top priority, and of course earning money, supporting their family and having something, hopefully fulfilling, with which to occupy themselves is important.

For others relationships are the answer; their children, friends, family or partner top their list every time. Then of course, we all know someone rather smug who says without a second thought that they are the most important person in their life! They’d buy tickets to see themselves in concert!

Today, though, we’re reflecting on the type of self-love which recognises that making decisions to look after ourselves means taking responsibility for our own health and happiness. When we do that everyone in our lives also benefits. I’d like to share some tips to help you manage the negative events, hurts and disappointments that happen in life which impact on our expectations and influence our view of the world.

Here are ten ways to practice self-love.

– Introduce ‘reasonable’ affirmations. Saying ‘I’m gorgeous/beautiful/perfect’ is enough to give many people a bad case of indigestion, but being reasonable in our self talk enables us to say something like ‘I am taking positive steps everyday’, ‘I am moving towards my goals and feeling good about myself’. Find something positively phrased, that sits well with you and repeat it daily.This practice can help to change your mindset and overcome years of unfortunate conditioning.

– Do things that you do well. Even, in fact especially, in a busy life, it’s important to schedule time for things that you’re good at, so that you remind yourself how capable you are. Playing sport, baking a cake, doing some handiwork, even helping someone out are all ways to boost your self-love and bolster your confidence and self-esteem.

– Encourage others to be appreciative of you. Self-love can benefit when others show that they value you, the help you’ve given them or the ways you’ve supported their lives. Be okay about drawing their attention to your endeavours and training them to be appreciative.

– Be gracious in accepting praise. So many of us are embarrassed or uncomfortable about praise or compliments. Instead of shrugging it off smile, be gracious and absorb it. That way everyone concerned feels good.

– Tackle the overwhelm and break tough tasks into bite-sized chunks. Self-love can suffer when we feel swamped or don’t know where to start. Could fear or perfectionism play a part in this state of mind and, if so, start to address those issues.

– Build your team. Delegate, even to children at home. Let them feel involved and responsible for chores like setting the table or folding the laundry. At work encourage people to improve their skills – they may even come up with good ideas and better ways of doing things. Consider hiring help so that you get the best person to do the job, like your accounts, social media, PR or marketing. Then you can feel self-love as you do the tasks you’re uniquely equipped to do.

– Learn to say ‘no’ well. No can be the most positive word in your vocabulary when used in the right way, at the right time, with the right person. Without it you can end up running yourself ragged, feeling used, resentful and stressed out.

– Ask for help. Do you expect other people to be psychic and know what’s going on in your mind, how you’re feeling, what you need? Practice self-love and communicate what you need from others. Communication is also about listening well. So be interested and attentive in your relationships and allow them to thrive.

– Take time out. Breaks are an important part of managing stress and learning to love and respect yourself. Identify the times when you typically start to feel unwell, tense, edgy and find ways to take breaks before this occurs. Go outside for a walk, enjoy some fruit, read a book, listen to music, take a relaxing bath. Maybe even put yourself in your diary like you would an important client, and honour that appointment!

– Learn to say ‘yes’ too at times. Self-love is about stepping outside your comfort zone and occasionally scaring yourself a little. And often when we say ‘yes’ to seemingly impossible opportunities it’s amazing how doors start to open to support those situations. Keep a ‘happy’ or ‘success’ book and record those mini-triumphs. Then you’ll have a log which supports you in more difficult times.

Self-love engages all the different elements of your life. When you establish strong roots the tree will grow confident and firm, able to weather the storms that come its way. Then, when you look in the mirror, you’ll see a positive reflection that’s vibrant, joyous and ready to break out of the limits of its frame.



Source by Susan Leigh

18 May

ACT Exam: 3 Tips to Getting Your Best Score
Posted in Education by anshbookstore on May 18, 2022 @ 11:38 pm

Every parent and student that comes to me for advice on the ACT exam wants to know the same question; what are the easiest things I can do to quickly raise my ACT score? The question doesn’t come from laziness at all, but rather frustration. So many students put in long hours studying and don’t seem to get results.

Why Student’s Have Trouble Increasing Their ACT Score

The biggest problem that students face when trying to increase their ACT score is that they are doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. A focused plan makes all the difference. Otherwise, you may just be spinning your wheels and wasting time and energy.

You need to learn to quickly answer questions, manage the clock and know what to study.

Learn to Quickly Answer Questions

Simply retaking practice tests to “become a better test taker” isn’t going to do much more than get you comfortable with taking tests. That helps some, but not an enormous amount. There are specific test-taking skills that have to be learned, such guessing, saving time answering questions, how to read the Reading / Science passages and more.

Time Management is Key for the ACT Exam

Every student struggles to get all the questions answered in the time allotted. There are two time-management skills that help tremendously, and they do not merely include “go as fast as you can.” As a matter of fact, some students make the mistake of thinking that the “easy” questions are first, so they just hurry through them, costing valuable points.

Know What To Study for the ACT Exam

Knowing what NOT to study can be just as important as knowing what TO study to get a high score on the ACT exam. For instance, studying Trigonometry is not a good use of your time unless you are hoping to score above a 32. Memorizing the periodic table for the Science portion is also a big waste of time.

The key to a good score on the ACT exam is to be strategic and have a well thought out plan, dealing specifically with your strengths and weaknesses. This normally requires a study course that is designed to teach you “how” to take the test, as opposed to teaching you more of the same curriculum that is on the test.



Source by Mike Bius