"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."

--Pierre Corneille

 

"We are always the same age inside."

--Gertrude Stein

 

"Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed."

 

"There's one thing about baldness, it's neat."

 

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."

 

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

--Swami Vivekananda

 

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

 

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."

 

 "It is never too late to be what you might have been."

--George Eliot

 

 "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

 

 "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

 

 "There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."

--Joseph Addison

 

 "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

 

 "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

--Henry Miller

 

 "If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right."

--Henry Ford

 

 "We are what we believe we are."

--C.S. Lewis

 

 "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

--Joshua Reynolds

 

 "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

--Aesop

 

 "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential? these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

--Eddie Robinson

 

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

--Zig Ziglar

 

 "You have to make it happen."

 

"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."

 

 "An honest man is always a child."

--Socrates

 

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

--Plato

 

 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

 

 "Talent works, genius creates."

--Robert Schumann

 

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

--Robert Kennedy

 

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

--Rebecca West

 

 "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

--Robert Kennedy

 

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

--Rebecca West

 

1. Touch her waist. 
2. Actually talk to her. 
3. Share secrets with her. …
4. Give her your jacket. 
5. Kiss her slowly. Are you remembering this? 
6. Hug her. 
7. Hold her. 
8. Laugh with her. 
9. Invite her somewhere. 
10. Hangout with her and your friends together. KEEP READING .. 

11. Smile with her. 
12. Take pictures with her. 
13. Pull her onto your lap. 
14. When she says she loves you more, deny it. Fight back. 
15. When her friends say “I love her more than you”, deny it. Fight back and hug her tight so she can’t get to her friends. It makes her feel loved. Are you thinking of someone? 
16. Always hug her and say I love you whenever you see her. 
17. Kiss her unexpectedly. 
18. Hug her from behind around the waist. 
19. Tell her she’s beautiful. 
20. Tell her the way you feel about her. One last thing you need to do to show her you actually do mean it. 21. Open doors for her, walk her to her car - it makes her feel protected, plus it never hurts to act like a gentleman. 
22. Tell her she’s your everything - only if you mean it. 
23. If it seems like there is something wrong, ask her - if she denies something being wrong, it means SHE DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT - so just hug her. 
24. Make her feel loved. 
25. Kiss her in front of OTHER girls you know! 


 WE MIGHT DENY IT BUT WE ACTUALLY LIKE AND KINDA WANT YOU TO TICKLE US .. 


26. Don’t lie to her. 
27. DON’T cheat on her. 
28. Take her ANYWHERE she wants. 
29. Text message or call her in the morning and tell her have a good day at school, and how much you miss her. 
30. Be there for her whenever she needs you, and even when she doesn’t need you, just be there so she’ll know that she can always count on you. 
 ARE YOU STILL READING THIS? YOU BETTER, BECAUSE IT’S IMPORTANT. 
31. Hold her close when she’s cold so she can hold you too. 
32. When you are alone hold her close and kiss her. 
33. Kiss her on the cheek; (it will give her the hint that you want to kiss her). 
34. While in the movies, put your arm around her and then she will automatically put her head on your shoulder, then lean in and tilt her chin up and kiss her lightly. 
35. Don’t ever tell her to leave even jokingly or act like you’re mad. If she’s upset, comfort her.


 REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS WHEN YOU ARE WITH HER NEXT .. 


36. When people diss her, stand up for her. 
37. Look deep into her eyes and tell her you love her. 
38. Lay down under the stars and put her head on your chest so she can listen to the steady beat of your heart, link your fingers together while you whisper to her as she rests her eyes and listens to you. 
39. When walking next to each other grab her hand. 
40. When you hug her, hold her in your arms as long as possible. 
 MAKE SURE SHE KNOWS SHES LOVED. 
41. Call or text her at night to wish her sweet dreams. 
42. Comfort her when she cries and wipe away her tears. 
43. Take her for long walks at night. 
44. Always remind her how much you love her. 
45. Sit on top of her and tell her how much you love her and then bend down to her face and kiss her while you’re sitting on her. You’ll never know when she needs just a little more love .. ♥

Sleeping problems  is among the most common of contemporary healthcare issues.

It seems that nearly everybody, from teenagers to the aged, tends to suffer from sleep-related problems. While there are plenty of sleeping aids in the form of prescription medicines, it is always better to seek natural, safer alternatives. This means using simple techniques to fall asleep instantly without undertaking risk of addiction caused by common, sleep-inducing chemical formulations.

Understand Why Counting Sheep Makes Sense

Among the oldest and perhaps, the most controversial and debated of natural sleeping aids is the theory of Counting Sheep. There is nothing special about sheep and visualizing or counting them doesn’t turn you into a freak of any sorts. The idea behind this theory is highly rational.

When psychologists started advocating the principle of Counting Sheep to sleep better what they meant was using it as a tool to disengage your mind. When you are lying in bed, concentrating upon counting sheep, you are essentially diverting your mind from other worldly worries.

This allows your mind to achieve a sense of superficial relaxation. Though this kind of relaxation is short-lived, it helps in falling asleep quicker. You can count any animal or anything that appeals to you. Just do the counting slowly and give at least a week for this method to work.

Declutter Your Mind with Writing

 

Most people struggle to fall asleep because their mind is overwhelmed with thoughts about how their day went or their ongoing struggles. To vent such feelings before going to bed, try to write them in a diary. This can be your nightly journal that you can maintain like a personal, summarized version of your daily life.

Calm Your Mind by Boring It

Rather than listening to loud music or watching provocative TV programs, it is better to do something boring. This includes reading the newspaper. This idea is to engage your mind with something that doesn’t stimulate it much. The more bored your mind gets as the night approaches, better are your chances of falling asleep faster.

Stick to a Routine to Fall Asleep Quickly

Our body follows an inherent day-night mechanism. This is often referred to as the Body Clock. In accordance with this regimen, our hormones are released and our energy levels are regulated throughout the day. To ensure that your body clock is well attuned towards helping you fall asleep, stick to daily routine. This includes a fixed time to sleep and wake-up with a variation of not more than 45 minutes for each.

Relax Psychologically with Yoga

Contrary to popular belief, meditation and yoga can be done at night too. Breathing exercises that help you be calmer are recommended when seated on your bed. Try to learn some yoga poses that help to reduce your anxiety levels. The less anxious your mind, greater are the chances of you falling asleep quickly.

Relax Physically with Warm Baths

Apart from psychological relaxation, you need to combine some form of physical relaxation. For this, taking bath with lukewarm is recommended. This helps to soothe the tired muscles, inducing a sense of relief. Our muscles get tense when we are stressed. As the muscles relax, our body re-discovers its unstressed, normal mode that helps to sleep faster. If taking warm baths doesn’t interest you, try to invest in a massage chair. A few minutes spent on the chair will help your muscles detangle themselves, helping you relax better.

 

 

Avoid Lazing in Daytime to Sleep Better at Night

To ensure that your body clock is not disturbed and you are not using your quota of daily sleep before night-time, don’t laze around during the daytime. Don’t take naps and stay away from habits that induce a sense of sleepiness. This includes boozing. If your brain gets to rest during the daytime, it re-balances the hormones, ensuring that the bloodstream is occupied with balancing hormones during the night-time. While this balance keeps your bodily functions in good shape, it tends to disturb the critical, night-time sleep.

Don’t Exercise Late-night

Heavy exercising increases our heart rate and blood pressure. It raises concentrations of hormones that increase our thirst and hunger—these are anti sleeping factors. Thus, don’t exercise after 9 pm. Even if you go for a night-time stroll, after dinner, keep the pace slow.

Dietary Recommendations to Fall Asleep Faster:

1. Try to reduce your intake of tea or coffee after 6 pm.

2. Stay away from sweetened desserts or beverages after dinner.

3. Drink relaxing, herbal beverages like Chamomile tea after dinner.

4. Eat more of whole grain foods that help to regulate blood sugar levels. This helps to avoid sugar spikes that often prevent us from falling asleep.

It is Not Warmness of Milk but its Ingredients that Help to Fall Sleep

Another typical remedy for falling asleep faster that has been misunderstood by many is drinking warm milk before going to bed. It is not the temperature of the milk that makes it a sleeping aid. Milk contains a very precious biochemical called Tryptophan. This is a sleep-inducing compound. Drinking milk, at least a couple of hours before going to bed, is recommended to benefit from its sleep-inducing benefits.

Develop Better Sleeping Posture

To fall asleep faster, you need to adopt a better sleeping position. This includes not using very thick pillows. Don’t sleep on your stomach. Try to position a pillow between or below your knees if you suffer from restless legs during the night. The mattress shouldn’t be too soft or hard. It should provide sufficient support to your spine.

 

"That color really brings out your eyes."

"We don't know when we'll have them in your size again."

"They only made this specific model of laptop in a limited run to test the market."

In some ways, sales representatives are the masters of consumer psychology. Tasked with turning window shoppers into paying customers, they employ a series of techniques that can persuade even the most grizzled consumer into making a purchase he or she hadn't planned on. From our vanity to our fear of missing out, sales reps have figured out how to key off on the driving forces that lead us to commit to a purchase. The scary part is, many times they're so good at persuading us to purchase that we don't even know we've been had until it's too late. For example, here are four common sales techniques that most people keep on falling for without realizing it.

Pouring on the Honey

The most commonly used technique in any sales representative's arsenal of tactics is flattery. Consumers, by nature, want to be validated for their purchases and no one is more willing to pour on the compliments than the attending salesman. They're always the first to tell you that the dress you're trying on is stunningly slimming or the car you're test-driving makes you look like an executive.

The surprising thing is that, even when customers know the flattery they're receiving is insincere, they still fall for it. Last year, a study at the Hong Kong University of Science revealed that all forms of flattery, sincere or otherwise, create a positive image of the flatterer in the mind of a customer. As a result, we unconsciously begin to trust the sales representatives more and make ourselves easier to push into making a purchase.

Perceived Scarcity

Nothing motivates a consumer to commit to a purchase like perceived scarcity. For example, I was recently in a shoe store where a customer was trying on a pair of designer high heels that were about $100 over her budget. After about 20 minutes of pacing through the store in the top-shelf shoes, the customer was still reluctant to buy them. The sales representative then told her that she should purchase the heels even if it meant returning them the next day, because they were the last pair the store would get in her size for the foreseeable future. Then a second representative came over and told the young woman that she passed over a pair of similar heels by the same designer in the past and it took her six months to locate the same shoes again.

If the young woman was thinking objectively, she might have realized that she could very well have found the same pair of shoes online for less than the store was charging. However, since she was already flirting with the purchase, the sudden manufactured fear of missing out on the shoes forever was enough to make her commit to the purchase. A study by Stanford University has shown that a fear of being "jilted" decreases our overall satisfaction with a piece of merchandise, but dramatically increases our desire to buy it. Stores know this, so they run "limited supply" sales to generate that kind of fear that drives people to buy. Even when you book a hotel online, you'll see the "only two rooms left" tag attached to some reservation links. So, the next time you're tempted to buy something stop and ask yourself if you'll really never see the product again, or if you just think you won't.

The Discounted Markup

Many times, a store will dramatically mark up the price of its merchandise just so it can offer a convincing discount when it comes time to make a sale. This occurs most commonly at car dealerships, where the sticker price on some vehicles can be more than $2,000 above the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP). This way, the dealership can allow customers to talk down the price of the car to the MSRP so that they think they're getting a good deal when really they're just paying exactly what the dealership had hoped for all along.

Obligation Through Reciprocity

Our feelings of guilt and obligation can be powerful motivators when it comes to buying a product. Studies have shown that people naturally have a sense of reciprocity that leads them to believe that after something nice is done for them, they should do something nice for the benevolent party in return.

To capitalize on this, sales reps will often create a "give and take" scenario where they make you feel that they've done you a favor. For instance, if you can't find a pair of jeans in your size a sales representative will search through the stock room for multiple alternatives that you might find appealing. It's a simple gesture, but as a result, you'll feel more obligated to make a purchase from them.

The Bottom Line

If you want to control the amount of money you spend on shopping trips, you need to learn how to recognize these common sales techniques. Once you're able to see through a sales representative's pitch, it will be easier for you to make an objective decision about the worthiness of any potential purchase. As a result, you'll be able to buy less of the things you don't need and save more money on the things you do. It might not be rocket science, but it's certainly smart shopping.

 

Acknowledge your strengths

We are all good at something or the other. Sit down and write about all the strengths you think you have. Do not over-analyse! Next, try to do things that bring out this quality into the open. This will help hone your strengths further, and also gain outside recognition. Also, do not forget to appreciate yourself for all your strong points and talents – it goes a long way in improving your self esteem.

Do not put up with crap!

Do not put up with people who are mean to you, even those who tell you they love you. Draw clear boundaries. Tell them you don’t like to be talked to that way. Ask them to talk to you nicely, and be assertive when you do so.

Lose those negative friends.

It’s time you lose friends who are constantly bitching or putting another down. Such people are likely to do the same behind your back, and they can leave you feeling critical and judgmental of others. Instead surround yourself with loving, positive people who are supportive and kind.

Take in compliments

Many have a difficulty in accepting compliments. There are numerous nice things people might say each day, which your mind wouldn’t have even registered. Many other times, people refuse to take a compliment saying something like “Oh, I didn’t do much.” or simply shrugging it off. From now on, when someone pays you compliment, breathe, accept it, and say thank you!

When you begin to do this, you’ll see your self esteem rise to new levels.

Do not berate yourself

Nobody achieves anything by berating oneself. You’ve made a mistake, OK – acknowledge it. There is no need to beat yourself up for it. Even the world’s greatest have made umpteen mistakes, and continue to make them. Give yourself permission for goof ups and even those BIG mistakes. This permission can be very liberating.

Accept yourself

Accept the good, bad and ugly sides to you, everybody has them. All of these aspects make you who you are. When there is complete acceptance of self, one experiences a feeling of centeredness within and that will naturally bring out a person brimming with self confidence and self esteem.

Here are some self acceptance exercises that experts suggest. The mirror exercise: Look really deep, and see the person that is you in the mirror with love. Experts warn that some people might find it hard to look at themselves in the mirror that way. Give it time, allow the feelings to swell up. Experience the grief, the pain and keep trying to look at yourself. Another suggestion is to start off with positive affirmations, as they are fairly easy. Keep telling yourself, “I accept myself just the way I am”. Positive affirmations are known to have a great effect.

Keep a gratitude diary

When you focus too much on all things going wrong, it can pull you down.

Every night, before you go to bed, write down 10 things you are thankful for. Many times one goes through without recognising all that’s going right. This exercise helps you focus on all the good things in your life. Making you feel worthy.

Respect yourself 

Eat healthy and well, exercise, sleep well. When you respect yourself, you’ll notice how others too will begin to reflect that, lifting your spirits and your self esteem.

Dress smart!

Yes, clothes don’t maketh the man, but they do affect the way one feels about himself/herself. When you don’t look good, it affects the way you walk, sit and interact with people. So use this to your advantage and invest in looking good. This doesn’t mean you have to spend tonnes of money on grooming. Small things like bathing, washing your hair and wearing neat, pressed clothes can make a difference.

Smile

You have heard the phrase: “Smile and the whole world smiles with you, frown and you frown alone.” It’s amazing what a simple smile can do to enhance a person’s appearance. It has the power to alter the mood of a place you walk into. So carry your smile with you wherever you go.