Positive Thinking - 10 Delightful Tips to Make You Happy

Are you feeling down most of the time? Are you bombarded by all the bad news in the papers? Is your mind filled with negative thoughts? Here are 10 positive tips to cheer you up:

1. Look after your health: When you are in good health you are full of energy and you will attract positive thoughts. Exercise is the right thing to do especially when you feel bad about yourself. I do. When I am feeling out of place I go for a good jog. At the end of a jog, I sweat it out and I feel good inside out. Remember to get enough sleep as well.

2. When your negative thoughts flash through your mind: Quickly replace the negative ideas with positive ones. Do not allow the negative feelings to sink into your mind. It zaps your energy.

3. Happy company: Hang around with happy people. It’s contagious. Positive thinking people will influence your mindset and you will eventually behave just like them.

4. A list of the things that make you happy: Write down a list of those happy occasions. When your energy is low on any day take a look at the list to get rid of those sad feelings.

5. Live in the present: The past is dead and gone and the future is not here yet. Enjoy daily life and find happiness in it. Look for the tiny little happiness every now and then. For all you know a big celebration may never come. No more wishful thinking like I’ll be happy when…..

6. Be happy with what you have: Don't try and keep up with the Joneses. Enjoy life with what you have while you pursue to get the things you want in life. Count your blessings instead of your troubles.

7. Something to look forward to: Indulge in activities that you enjoy doing on a regular basis. For instance, I love blogging. I post an article every day. I look at my Traffic Rank every few days. I receive encouraging comments every now and then. These little things cheer me up.

8. Help Others: Even a small gesture of complementing another person will put a sparkle in the eyes and it lifts your mood as well. It vitalizes your positive energy when you know you are capable of helping others.

9. Be yourself: Accept yourself as what you are. You are one unique individual with your strengths and weaknesses. Be yourself and carry on living.

10. Don’t worry, be happy: There goes the title of the song. Most of the time the things that you worry about never happen. So why think about it. Instead, use the time to do some creative thinking on how to be happier in life.

I hope this article is able to cheer you up, lift your spirits, and make you as happy as can be.

Executive - 7 Good Habits to Cultivate

Executive

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“No man can be successful unless he first loves his work.” - David Sarnoff, CEO of RCA

A capable executive is one who is able to plan, organize, and monitor performance. He is able to focus on doing the right things to add the most value to the company. He also possesses influential people skills. Here are the 7 good habits to develop: 

 1. Maintaining a high standard of discipline and work: An effective executive is ambitious. He is able to set challenging goals and a high standard of performance so that the work is challenging and meaningful. Productivity is boosted by a team of satisfied and committed subordinates.

 2. Prioritizes his work: An effective executive is result-oriented. He focuses on the important issues to achieve the best results and ignores minor tasks. He is creative and resourceful to bring about changes – more efficient work procedures, better productivity, and higher yields.

 3. Motivates the employees: He treats all employees with respect. He delegates challenging tasks so that the employees will become more motivated, more committed to the organization, more productive, and more satisfied with their job. He shows appreciation whenever a job is done. 

 4. Treats all the staff fairly and equally: He is impartial and honest. He rewards his staff based on work performance. He creates high staff morale and fosters teamwork among them. 

 5. Open-minded: He is receptive to employees’ ideas and suggestions. When you listen and adopt suggestions given by the staff, they are more committed to the company and further improvement will take place as better ideas will be created by the staff. 

 6. Praises in public and criticizes in private: He knows human psychology very well. Staff morale is lifted by public recognition. The staff is further motivated to be more committed to the company.

 7. Development of managerial knowledge and as a mentor to his subordinates: A smart executive will always take advantage of education opportunities to up-date himself on knowledge relating to his area of expertise and other managerial skills. At the same time, he shares his knowledge with his subordinates and helps them in their personal development and career goals.

Executive - 7 Bad Habits to Avoid

Executive

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As an executive you should take note of the following bad habits and avoid them at all costs:

1. Without challenging goals and a high standard of performance: Without challenging goals and a high-performance standard, the staff will underperform and do shoddy work. Productivity nosedives. The staff does not find interest at work and they enjoy very little satisfaction in their job.

2. Ignoring feedback: He fails to accept constructive criticism and workable suggestions by the subordinates. He assumes he is right and he knows everything.

3. Criticizing staff in public: By belittling employees in public, an executive kills their enthusiasm and demoralizes them.

4. Does not value the staff: He shows no appreciation of the staff. He takes good staff for granted without a pat on their shoulders when a job is done. He shows no respect for staff and takes advantage of them for personal gain.

5. Does not prioritize the work: He fails to do the right things at the right time. Valuable time is wasted and productivity is curtailed in putting out a fire. As an example, a manager fails to initiate regular preventive maintenance and incurs losses of valuable time to cope with an expensive repair.

6. Intimidation: Instead of motivating the staff, an executive creates fear among the staff, For example, he uses the annual staff appraisal to threaten them instead of doing a proper review to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and reward their performance accordingly.

7. Playing favoritism: Not only he creates jealousy and resentment among the staff, but there is also no teamwork at all. Productivity suffers in the end.

Creativity - 7 Sparking Tips to Get It

Creativity

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Creativity is what you get when you strongly desire to solve a problem. Here are the 7 sparking tips:

 1. Casual Conversation: A new idea emerges when you talk to colleagues during a coffee break or it happens when you talk to your family members, Ideas develop when you indulge in a free association of thoughts, wishful thinking, and daydreaming. 

 2. Sharing Information: A free flow of information between people and departments is an essential means of capturing, reinforcing, and disseminating ideas by the imaginative use of information.

 3. A broader perspective: Go beyond your own area of work. Expose yourself to non-related issues such as politics, fashion, and religion. 

 4. Intuitive action: According to research by the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland intuition plays a vital role in how people reach effective decisions. Allow your “gut feeling” to work wonders. 

 5. Avoid pressure: Working long hours and under pressure inhibits creativity. There is no chance for you to learn and enrich your life outside of your work. 

 6. Sleep Over it: One effective way of getting new ideas is to sleep over them. You think very hard about a problem at hand and then you go to sleep and forget about it. Before you know when you wake up in the morning a new idea is already in your mind. 

 7. A conducive environment: Nurture the free flow of your creative juice in a situation that works best for you. For me a quiet room without the distractions of outside noise at a tidy desk suits me. Avoid interruptions. 

 According to Thomas Edison Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Google's Orkut - A Social Networking Site

Orkut

Orkut was voted one of the best social networking sites by PC.com (a magazine published in Malaysia) with a score of 8/10 in their April 08 issue. Joining Orkut is easy. You can sign up and log in using your Gmail e-mail address the same way you access your Blogger account. One of its features is that you can post short comments along with photos and videos in your Scrapbook. The other cool thing is that you can add your favorite applications such as Chat Rooms, IQ Test, and carrom. It has over 600 applications from its Application Directory. I have just added Mr. Bean to my home page (watch video on YouTube). However, it is reported that 60% of the users are between the age group of 18 to 25, and 60% of them are looking for friendship. It is also highlighted that Orkut is very popular in Brazil, India, and the United States. It looks like there are not many senior citizens using this platform. Anyway, I have joined and I will look for people sharing the same interest as mine. Here are the other social networking sites voted by PC.com: Facebook: 9/10 Myspace.com: 8/10 Hi5: 7/10 Bebo 7/10 Friendster 6/10

Twitterfeed and OpenID

Twitterfeed

How often do you bookmark your articles on Twitter? You don’t have to do it every time when you have new articles posted on your site. You can go to twitterfeed.com to submit your feed to Twitter. First of all your login to twitterfeed using your OpenID and provide your blog's RSS feed (e.g. http://yourblogname.blogspot/feeds/posts/full) and also tell them how often you want them to post to Twitter.

OpenID

When you have a Google account you can use your Blogger URL as your OpenID, e.g. http:// yourblogname.blogspot.com. According to Wikipedia, OpenID is an open, decentralized single sign-on standard, allowing users to log onto many services with the same digital identity. An OpenID is in the form of a URL and is unique in that the user is authenticated by their OpenID provider (that is, the entity hosting their OpenID URL).

TRCB.com -The Red Carpet Blog

TRCB.com The Red Carpet Broadcast

TRCB.com is an article directory. It is established on July 4, 2008. Over a short period of fewer than six months, it has already recorded an impressive Traffic Rank of 238503 (as of December 19, 2008) and a PageRank of 2/10 (as of December 19, 2008). The successful and seamless execution of this blog is the teamwork of Siddique, Tcat, and Gudrun. They are able to work together while living far apart is really remarkable.

When you join as a member you are given more than a red carpet welcome. Your articles are exposed to wide audiences because according to Alexa this blog is very popular in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia. TRCB is able to give you detailed statistics of your published articles such as a total article published and total article views. It also provides you with a list of your popular articles published and a listing of your articles in the popular articles of a particular topic. In short, your articles receive extensive publicity.

However, that is only part of the story. The other good thing is that you can collect earnings from AdSense when your articles are approved and published. Just check any one of the articles featured at TRCB you will notice that it is surrounded by ads from AdSense. You have to supply your AdSense codes to them and the earnings go straight to your AdSense account. Effectively, you are collecting earnings from two websites, your own as well as from TRCB.com.

I have well over 100 articles published by TRCB.com and close to 3000 views. Why don't you make it a New Year’s resolution for 2009 to submit your compelling articles to TRCB for fame and fortune?