Service, Giving and Blog Content

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How does service and giving related to blog content?

Service It is easy to see the services provided in a restaurant. You have seated and a waiter hand you a menu and you order for your favorite food. The dish is later served to you again by the waiter. However, service is more than that. Service is to serve with your talents, knowledge, and experience to benefit others. The best thing is to give more of yourself to the best of your ability. In other words, you create value for others. You help others to succeed by sharing your knowledge and expertise. 

  Giving According to Harvey S. Firestone,” You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." Giving is from the heart and it is about quality and not quantity. When you give with sincerity and integrity you are giving real services. 

  Blog Content What has service and giving got to do with blog content? I think the concept is equally applicable to online activities. I have learnt from the above and I am determined to create value, provide service, and give it to my readers. Here are the pointers that I think are very important: 

 • Guided by my niche, I will write articles that are of benefits and value to my readers on self-improvement

. • Relate personal experience to share with readers.

 • Write sincerely with the genuine interest of the readers in mind

. • The interest and passion to serve the readers with appealing and uplifting articles. According to Ken Blanchard, author of Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service, 

“If you are going to put your energy into being the best at something, make sure it's serving your customers. You can’t just satisfy customers today, you’ve got to blow them away. You’ve got to create raving fans – customers who are so excited about what you do for them that they want to brag about you. When that happens, customers virtually become part of your sales force.”

How to be Creative – 7 Bright Ideas

Be Creative

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This is a true story. Recently my neighbor’s cat came over to shit at my doorstep and also spent the night under my car. It did the same thing for a few nights on the same spot. I was thinking of a way to solve this problem. When I looked at the adorable cat, it also stared at me innocently as if trying to tell me,” Not me, I didn’t do it!” Hurting the cat is not my option because I love animals especially cats. After much thinking, I came up with an innovative idea. One night before I went to bed, I sprayed insecticide on the spot where it used to shit, and then I went to sleep. The next day I was happy to find out that my doorstep was clean but the cat was still around under my car. Now, a cat, like any other animals, has a very sensitive nose and I have succeeded to cover the scent and stop the cat from shitting around. The best part is that I have not seen the cat in my house for the last few days. This is creativity.

Here are the 7 tips to boost your creativity:


1. Exercise: When you exercise, your conscious brain is in a relaxed state and the other creative half is still working. Some of the ideas come to my mind when I am jogging

2. Knowledge: Knowledge is power. Read widely to acquire new ideas. It helps to spark your creativity in solving your problems. This is especially true for a writer. A writer’s ideas and inspiration are mainly derived from extensive reading.

3. Sleepover it: When you have a problem, allow it to sink into your mind and then you go to sleep Let it incubates in your unconsciousness, when you get up the next day the answer to your problem is already in your mind.

4. A problem-solving attitude: When your mind is always on the look-out for ways to find answers to your problems at home and at work, you will be smarter, happier, and more creative.

5. Unfamiliar places: Inadvertently when you visit a new place it gives you a lot of ideas because your mind is in a receptive state in a new environment.

6. Positive mental attitude: Always tell yourself that there is a solution to every problem. Stay committed and be persistent to look for an answer.

7. Innovating: Do things differently, get away from your usual habits. Get into other areas not related to your expertise. Bounce an idea around to see if it can be used in another situation.


You have a problem? Congratulations! Put on your creative thinking cap.

Zig Ziglar – His 7 Success Secrets

Zig Ziglar

Zig is one of the greatest and most successful authors and motivational speakers in the world. He has a wonderful family and he enjoys robust mental and physical health. What are his secrets to success? I believe these 7 factors contribute to his success in life: 

 1. Belief in God: He is a firm believer in Christianity. There is a quotation on the wall behind his desk: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28 He knows spiritual fulfillment is one of the delightful sources of happiness. He is capable of mixing religion to produce classic motivational books. He believes in the application of Bible principles in achieving success in life. 

 2. Money: According to him,” Money may not be the most important thing in the world, but it’s fairly close to oxygen.’ He likes the things that money can buy but he loves the things money won’t buy.

 3. Taking care of physical health: He is an avid jogger and an enthusiastic golfer. According to him, people with better physical conditions perform better than those who are less healthy. 

 4. Continuity of growth mentally: To keep himself sharp mentally, Ziglar reads voraciously as he says that learning something new is both inspiring and motivating. According to him,” Reading is important because it gives you a competitive edge.”

 5. A genuine interest in other people: This is one of his favorite sayings,” You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

 6. Consistency and persistency: This quote from him tells it all, “This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.” 

 7. Positive mental attitude: These are two of his famous quotes,” Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude,” and “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.” “

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles, “says Zig Ziglar.

7 Things to Acquire in Life

Life

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To live life fully and meaningfully you need to possess the following 7 things:

1. Health and fitness: Your health and fitness will send positive vibrations to other areas of your life. Your mind is fresh, you look at things on the bright side and you are in top form. The other thing is that when you exercise to keep fit you also promote creativity. Keeping healthy and fit is the best thing that you can do to yourself in life.

2. Financial freedom: I am not asking you to be wealthy. All you need to do is to maintain your financial independence that you can live within your means and without having to depend on others. You will also possess the essential material wealth to enjoy yourself in life.

3. Lasting relationships: Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age. People with strong friendships have lower stress levels. A close-knit family has a profound positive psychological effect on us. In other words, your spiritual and physical well-being is impacted favorably by your mutual connection with others.

4. Knowledge and an appreciation of beauty: The only way to keep on top of things is to constantly update ourselves with the latest knowledge and information. We have to absorb the influx of new knowledge efficiently and effectively because there is too much information out there to digest. While we are doing that we must pause to appreciate and enjoy beautiful things in life such as literature, art, and music. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

5. Optimism: Your self-esteem and your self-confidence depend very much on your positive mental attitude. Whether a cup is half full or half empty depends on your thinking, and you are right. However, when your thoughts are positive you improve the chances of your success in whatever you do in life.

6. Mission in life: You have your interest and passion in life. You are pursuing it fervently. It means a lot to you. There is something that you can look forward to every day. And you know what you do brings tremendous benefits to others.

7. Kindness: We live in a world full of misery, agony, and sadness. By doing random acts of kindness to others we cheer them up, we bring them hope and we boost their self-esteem. Spread kindness around to make this world a better place to live.

Your happiness in life is fortified by your well-being, your financial independence, your connection to people close to you, your positive outlook in life, your quest for new ideas, your goals to achieve in life, and your kind gestures to others.

5 Things to Avoid in Life

To live a meaningful and happy life you have to avoid the following 5 things:

1. Illness: This is a true story. He is in his early 50’s，a successful businessman. He is very hardworking and is as energetic as those who are very much younger than him. Life took a drastic turn on him. He has suffered from a stroke recently. He will be discharged from the hospital soon. When he is out of the hospital he will not be able to walk faster than your 80 years old granny at home, He has to walk with the support of a walking stick. When you have succumbed to critical illnesses you have lost everything in life.

2. Penniless: I read about it in the newspaper. Perhaps you have seen it on YouTube, There was a pregnant lady sitting beside a lamp post on a busy street in America begging for money. She had no dignity, she had no self-respect and she had no self-esteem. Perhaps, she had nothing left except that she was conceiving a baby. Poverty is misery.

3. Loneliness: His wife and his children left him, his friends and relatives deserted him. He is all alone. There is nobody for him to turn to and no one for him to talk to. There is nobody for him to connect to. He is living in isolation.

4. Pessimism: I don’t think I can do it, I may not succeed. I dare not ask my boss for a raise, he may get angry. I dare not ask her out, she may reject me. I can't change the way I work, it may not turn out right for me. I can’t be happy now because…Life is like riding a bicycle, the moment you stop peddling you fall.

5. Aimlessness: There are no goals and there are no objectives in life. There is nothing to look forward to. Life is full of boredom. There is no motivation and your energy level is at its lowest. You just drift from day today. Life is meaningless.


Can you think of other things to avoid in life? Share your ideas with our readers.

Self Image and Autosuggestion

What is self-image?

Self-image is how you see yourself and what you believe others think of you. When you think lowly of yourself, your self-esteem will also be low. When you have high self-esteem you will be full of confidence and self-respect. How can you transform your personality and belief to a positive self-image? One of the ways is to employ autosuggestion

What is autosuggestion?

Autosuggestion is to conceive positive thoughts in our subconscious mind until it becomes a good habit. Autosuggestion is effective in the realm of feelings and emotions. When our feelings are influenced by our autosuggestion so are our actions.

Practical application of autosuggestion

Emile Coue, a famous psychologist from France prescribed formula for his student:

” Every day and in every way, I am getting better and better.” It is a good formula but it is not specific. Let’s say you want to be happy, this is my suggested formula:

Every morning I wake up to greet a new day with happiness and I stay happy throughout the whole day.

Another example of self-esteem:

I love myself as I am. I feel good about myself and I am happy

In order for autosuggestion to be effective take note of the following points:

• Repeat the words to yourself before you go to sleep and several times during the day.
• Act and behave in accordance with your statement throughout the whole day.
• Structure the message in affirmation
• Start the statement with ‘I’.
• It takes at least 21 days for a new image to be formed. You have to be patient
• The best autosuggestion is a statement created by you for your own use and benefits.

Use autosuggestion to change your self-image for the better.

Ringworm, Calamine and Clotrimazole

Recently I was infected with ringworm on my right sole.

Ringworm

According to Wikipedia, Ringworm is a fungal infection of the skin in humans and domestic animals such as sheep and cattle. Those that cause parasitic infection feed on keratin, the material found in the outer layer of skin, hair, and nails. When you are infected, you will find the affected area is a ring of redness. If it is not treated properly another ring will form beside the ring that has healed. I used calamine cream, initially, it was working fine but after some time it was not effective anymore.

Calamine

As reported in Wikipedia, calamine is a mixture of zinc oxide with about 0.5% iron oxide. It is used to treat pruritis (itching of the skin) such as sunburn, eczema, rashes, insect bites, and stings. It is also used as a mild antiseptic to prevent infections that can be caused by scratching the affected areas. However, I find that the cream is not effective for the treatment of ringworm and later I changed to clotrimazole.

Clotrimazole

From Wikipedia, it is stated that it is an antifungal medication commonly used in the treatment of fungal infections of both humans and animals such as vaginal yeast infections and ringworm. This is the right medicine for me. I was completely healed after applying the cream just for a few days.

Use clotrimazole for the effective treatment of ringworm.