Light in Our Daily Life

Now what I want to do is to express my will and spend some time to write for somebody who needs a new breeze, something that may reawaken his light in his life. This is about a story, a reflection for ourselves. Often, change in your life couldn't be happening instantly even though you really desire it. It takes time, continuous effort, dedication, and an undying passion to achieve it. It is indeed easier said than done, in reality we often just play cat and mouse of our desire and our act, a never ending game.

We are so tightly bound to what we've achieved and often, it's not like we imagine it. So now, let me try to give you a warm story to relax your mind and soul, and just maybe..you could get a new inspiration which will make your life easier..Well, don't get me wrong, your problems would likely stay the way they are, but how you deal with them is what matters in your life.

Samantha White is a teenage girl. Once, she joined with a professional climbers community to climb a hill. Judging by her body form and experience, she still has a long way to go to match with the climbers, there are many who doubt her that she will be able to reach the top. However, it turns out the other way! Samantha is the only climber who has reached the top. Afterward, those climbers asked Samantha how in the world she did that. Samantha reply, "When I was climbing, I always focus my attention and vision to the top of the pine trees on top of the hill. I always hope to get to the top as fast as possible."

In our life, we often deal with difficult problems, just like climbing which is very tiring. When that happens, we are starting to doubt our ability and losing our determination. We lose our faith, faith in ourselves. If we can't pull this all alone, always remember that we CAN pull this together with God who never close His eyes and always ready to help you out.
Just stay strong, keep your passion alive, and remember that you are with God in this whenever you want to. If it sounds strange to you than how about give it a try, at least IMAGINE it that you ARE with Him, then I hope you will find that you are with God, always been and always will.

Fast and Optimal Learning

You know how though to be a student is, right? Hey, I'm a student myself, I really do understand being a student is tough. What's more, we don't get paid for our full time 'job'. We pay for them instead in exchange for knowledge they offer. I can't really argue with that as they got a point, but still, it can be frustrating when the school life takes over your daily life.

Indeed we have a privilege as being a student. But for what exchange? Aside from money, of course it is our precious time. The key is to find a balance between your school life and regular life, see..when I told you about student is like a job, I do have a point there, aren't I? You need to maximize efficiency of your study time to get the best result and some good free time. But how?

Essentially, school sucks when it comes to assignment and exam right? It takes a lot of your time and mind, sometimes even enough to take away your cool head and you will easily find yourselves with nowhere to go but to your study desk all day. So here are a few suggestions on how to do just that.

First of all, you should make a commitment (or at least a will) to yourselves to study a bit every day or on scheduled day. I study for at least 3 days a week for about one hour at home (although 30 minutes will most likely to be enough, but then again it depends on your subject). This will keep you from having to cram or stress over spending an hour or two (sometimes more) when assignments and exams approach.

And to make the best out of your study at school, you should at least give your 10 or 15 minutes to review about the lesson your teacher will teach. That way, you will get motivated during class because you will feel like you understand better about the subject and believe it or not, your mind will be more clear that way.

Make your own study group. You can discuss about the lecture that you don't understand with your friend and plus, you can help each other on the assignment or better yet, work together. It is a general fact that most students feel a lot more confident when they ask their friends instead of their teacher and thus, they understand better.

Delegation minimizes your individual study time while also allowing group members to offer insights that had not occurred to you in your own studious endeavors.

If you have a very limited time to study, then what you can do best is to focus on just one short topic and try to figure out the principle of the rest of the topics. That way, you'll feel the increase of your understanding even if it's not a comprehensive knowledge.

It will help you a big time if you can manage to record the lectures and your discussion. That way, you can study whenever you like although it feels like cheating, because you can actually understand the lecture even when you're sleeping in class with your recorder ON, but hey, that's the purpose of technology, isn't it?

Begin to develop strong speed reading skills. This involves absorbing all the key information out of a text, enabling you to consolidate the time you spend laboring through intense reading assignments. Whenever you have a text that actually belongs to you, keep a highlighter at the ready. Highlighting key phrases, terms, and even nouns and verbs, you should highlight them for easy direction when you review the material. Highlight is crucial when you're dealing with heavy subjects.

If your school offers classes or you find software that is especially geared toward developing your ability to speed read, go for it. This will be an invaluable skill in the long run. Trust me!

Don't forget to take time out for yourself to rest and recharge. Overdoing it will just make you feel burned out in the long run. So take some time every day to do something truly relaxing and enjoyable. And remember that when you're sleeping there is this system called REM (rapid eye movement) that enables you to do things better and store your information in your brain in a great way, be confident about it!

10 Simple Ways to Impress Your Boss and Partners

We all want to be appreciated in our work whether from our officer or our partners. That situation could very much affecting toward our work. Should any problem occur whether from our obnoxious partners or our hot headed boss could decrease our potential at work. How good it would be if we are in a good condition and relaxing. All of our responsibility fulfilled, our partners encourage us, and have a caring boss.

There are some companies that have a tradition to point out "Employee of the Month" among its employees. Such reward toward good employee is given to someone who is considered have the most achievement on certain month. Usually, that kind of reward will support them in the future.

One of the ways to reach improvement of our careers is to impress our officer with our work. But you should pay attention that there are special tricks to make our superiors look at us with impression. Don't make any wrong step that could make us look like a someone looking for more attention.

Not all of bosses can be easily impressed especially when we're in the middle of competitive condition, each of the employee wants to show his/her potential. Of course we're not the only one.. Just a wrong move and it could lead to the condition where our co-workers dislike us and very potentially put us in poor working situation.

There are some tips that I could give you so you can implement those in the office to make our bosses 'fall in love' without interrupting other people. Aside from that, there is a chance that we'll be appreciated not just by our bosses but from our co-workers as well.

First tip: Work as a team
It is one of things that our bosses like. With other co-workers, we'll do our responsibility for the same goal. So we have to develop our skill in working with others and helping each other. Help those without exception and don't be shy to give complement for what they've done.

Second tip: Enjoy your work
Always look cheerful and enthusiastic, even when there are a lot of work to do. Just do what is told without any comment. One of the HRD manager of a big company have said that we can work hard and still enjoy it. Show some positive attitudes and personality. But we also have to know our limit. Just be honest to our superior if we can't do it alone. Don't get stuck in an 'can't be done task'.

Third tip: Work well
Be convinced and show it to our boss that we can do all of our jobs with 100% responsibility. Our superior will notice that we're doing it almost perfectly. But do not give disadvantage situation to others to reach our goal. Be a countable employee. Get the job done before deadline, and always be on time. Don't forget to call the office if we have other business that make us unable to go to the office, of course with a good reason.

Fourth tip: Show initiative
Why don't we give a solution of a problem instead always expecting answers from questions? If we hope that one day manager position or even higher rank can be reached, we have to find and give solution of work problems. Don't just be a 'doll' in the office, be initiative to show our biggest potential, but don't overdo it. Let the boss make the final decision, we make solutions. That would be convenient for our superior without showing doubts about his/her ability. Instead, he/she will think that decision has been thought before. Well, good for us..get ready for promotion!

Fifth tip: Become essential
Being an expert in one field that others can't comprehend is showing technical skill that is very needed by companies, relatively hard to be done. For an example, a staff in marketing agency have made a job for nothing to handle database. Meanwhile, the managing director is paying attention silently for what he's done.Soon, he is promoted to be a database consultant for company client. Good example, isn't it?

Sixth tip: Take a risk
Try to think of this, there are many superiors who are ambitious, one who always looking and recognizes talent and the same quality of someone else. This ambitious trait will make us more confident and dare to take a risk. As an example, we can apply to be part of a challenging new project willingly. Our superior will judge us as someone who dares to take a risk to moving forward.

Seventh tip: Be honest
Don't ever hide something from our superiors, especially when it comes to work. Be honest for anything that includes professionalism during work. Tell the truth if we make any mistake. Our superior will appreciate more someone who admit mistake than someone who hides from it and let other people make up for it. Learn from experience to avoid those mistakes.

Eighth tip: Clean up your mess
Being an expert in making excuses is something we can't be proud of. Being able to admit weaknesses and dare to take responsibility are two noble traits in our career. If we don't know, then say we don't know.If we make mistakes, admit them. Then, make a step to clean up the mess. An employee who avoids responsibility will make his/her boss frustrated. In general, people will not get you down when we fall. Humans make mistakes, and it's relieving to hear someone admit and regret for the mistakes they've done. If you don't do that, you'll just end up putting yourselves in a disadvantage situation and disappointing your superior.

Ninth tip: Be professional
Whatever you're dealing with in your personal life, don't let it affect you in work. We mustn't mix between personal and business life. Indeed, it's not that easy. When people hurt you in your personal life, you're demanded to finish a lot of work regardless your condition. Learn to always be a professional in every chances. That includes when our boss is angry because our mistakes, don't let it get you. Accept it as a valuable lesson for your own good and your career.

The last tip: Dress perfectly
Have you ever heard, looks is everything that matters? Make your boss be impressed with perfect looks, he/she will be proud having you around. If your boss know you as someone who always looks perfect, there is a big chance you'll be asked to deal with many clients. Who knows in the future, your clients are impressed and give your boss a good report about yourselves. That's a plus we've already gained.

Colors of The Aura in Brief Descriptions

Aura/Chakra Photography by Kathryn J. Leeman, Ph.D.

What is aura? All matter is surrounded by some kind of energy which is called aura - whether that is animate or inanimate (can be seen or not). The aura also has lines of energy, which appear as radiant streams of energy extending one or two feet out into the auric field. In Pranic Healing, these are referred to as Health Rays. The methods of seeing and feeling these energy rays is one of the easiest ways to interpret the health of a person.

It takes dedicated practice to be able to visualize one's aura. Pendulum is often used as a tool to help on this subject.

General Meaning of the Colors:

The meaning of colors is a very in-depth study. Below here is the short descriptive of each aura.

Red=Powerful energy. It signifies strong will and dynamism. Too much red may mean an imbalance in temperament - aggressiveness

Orange=Warmth, Creativity, emotions. It indicates a strong and courageous person. Muddier shade of orange indicates pride, worry or vanity.

Yellow =Mental activity. Compared, to others colors, this color is easier to see. It indicates mental activity, psychic abilities and optimism. Deeper yellow indicates excessive thinking and analyzing, over-critical.

Green =Sensitivity and Compassion. It is a color of maturity and calmness - Traits of reliable person. Although, the muddier color represents uncertainty and miserliness.

Blue=Devotion and Truth. This color is easy to see as well. It reflects devotion, truth and clarity. The muddier shades indicate melancholy, worrying, domineering, fearfulness.

Pink =Compassion, love and purity. It indicates a quiet modest type of person. The muddier colour can reflect an immaturity and a lack of truth.

Gold =Dynamic spiritual energy. It indicates a person coming into their own power a person of enthusiasm and inspiration. The Muddier shades can reflect a lack of clarity, the person is still working to becoming a "golden being".

Violet and Purple=Warmth and Transmutation. It is the color of the blending of heart and mind - a person who is on the spiritual path. The muddier shades indicate a person who feels misunderstood.

Grey =Initiation. A movement towards development of innate abilities of spirit. The darker shades indicate imbalance.

Brown =The color of the Earth. Reflects new growth in a person. If seen around the head area it means cleansing is needed as the person is clogged.

White =Truth and purity. The color white has all the colors and when seen in conjunction with other colors it is an indication of just a poor perception of the aura. The white separate from other colors is the pure color and indicates a person is cleansing and purifying.

Black =Protection. The person is protecting himself or herself. The negative aspects cause imbalance, holes in the auric field. This color is dominant in cases of abuse.

Silver =Fertility and growth.

Happy as You Want to Be

Almost everyone have heard the hit single 'Don't worry, Be happy' by Bobby McFerrin. The song has a very catchy way of conveying its message of being happy to everyone. Bobby McFerrin's simple message surely made a lot of people happy by telling them not to worry (even Jesus said that too).
Living a happy, resilient and optimistic life is wonderful, and is also good for your health. Being happy actually protects you from stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart disease, cancer and stroke.
One of better things ever said is - "the only thing in life that will always remain the same is change", and in our life we have the power to make the necessary changes if we want to. Even if we find ourselves in an unbearable situation we can always find solace in the knowledge that it too would change.
Social networks or relationships are essential to happiness. People are different, accept people for who they are can avoid clashes, constant arguments, and let go of all kinds of resentments. If arguments seem unavoidable still try and make an effort to understand the situation and you might just get along well with.
Happiness is actually found in everyone, increasing it is a way to make life more wonderful and also more healthy.
To be happy is relatively easy, just decide to be a happy person. Abraham Lincoln observed that most people for most of the time can choose how happy or stressed, how relaxed or troubled, how bright or dull their outlook to be. The choice is really simple, just choose to be happy.
There are several ways by which you can do this.
Being grateful is a great attitude. we have so much to be thankful for. Thank the taxi driver for bringing you home safely, whatever you do, do it with sincere heart.
News is stressful, get less of it, but of course, if you find it interesting, than that is the good news for you. Just be a well-informed person, don't over do it.
Get into religious community if you feel like it. It will help you to understand other people point of view when they can think clearly.
Manage your time. Time is invaluable and too important to waste, manage your time so you can do what you've gotta do and do what you wanna do.
Don't forget to laugh..this is important thing to do. Watch comedy shows or whatever that you find it funny.
Express you feelings and affections to those around you, especially those who are close to you. Of course, your expression should be balanced by your reasoning, but don't let reasoning to always keep you to express you feelings.
Working hard to give satisfaction of yourselves.
Learning is a joyful exercise, try and learn something new everyday, don't worry you don't have to do different things to accomplish this goal. Just the same routine can give you many experiences when you have different point of views.
Run, jog, walk, and do other things that your body was made for and let you feel alive.
Feel the passion of being alive!