Saturday 28 November 2009

Smile and Its Spiritual Purpose


Many people think that they should be happy to smile which is incorrect. Indeed, if you're happy your face becomes cheerful automatically but if you leave your smile to your happiness, indeed, then you're missing a very important point.

Spiritual Purpose of Smile:

The spiritual purpose of smile is to show love, caring and understanding to other people and environment which inevitably attracts happiness, love and caring into your own life.

Give and it will be given to you surprisingly much more than what you gave initially.

Don't rely on your life's happy moments, success or achievements so that they bring you smile; You initiate and maintain it!

I am not talking about a fake smile, I am talking about a purposeful smile to make your life smile and happy. To make the people around you feel better and consequently you will feel better and become happier.

It's good to know about the impact of your smile on yourself and others but never forget the spiritual purpose of smile.

What Impact My Smile Could Have On Others?
  • People trust and love you more automatically and willingly they do things for you
  • People feel un-threatened when they are with you
  • You will have more influence on others
  • You can find new friends easily
  • You send a message that you will be at ease with me - don't worry
  • All people regardless of their position or age need love and your smile can give them the security they need
  • Smile is contagious which means people most often smile you back
  • People are naturally attracted to those who smile because smile makes you attractive. You will be like a magnet...
  • Smile makes the environment in which you are, more cheerful.
What Impact My Smile Could Have On Myself?
  • You attract happiness, good things, good thoughts, good friends and love into your life.
  • Smile changes your mood; if you are sad or bored, smile changes that
  • Smile brings you happiness and peace
  • Smile destroys stress; when you have stress, your smile reduces the stress dramatically, then it enables you to move on and act
  • Smile makes your immune system stronger and as result you get sick less
  • Smile lifts up your spirit
  • Smile makes your face to be appeared younger
  • Smile increases your self confidence and you progress more at your work
  • Smile let you seem more successful
  • Smile helps you think positively; it reduces the negative thoughts dramatically
  • Smile keeps depression, stress and worry away from your life
How to Smile?
  • Purposefully smile and that purpose is to love your environment, neighbour and people around you
  • To smile, don't rely on your life's happy moments, success or achievements
  • Smile confidently and respectfully
  • Smile with your eyes
  • Take responsibility and initiative to smile
  • Smile to love
  • Develop your smile and practice it
  • Smile with an open face and eyes
  • Develop your Sense of Humor as it helps smiling
The Cost of Not Smiling?
  • You might sacrifice the happiness from your life and life of others
  • You might sacrifice friendships and relationships
  • ...
Challenges:
  • Can you smile when you're not happy, stressful, depressed or worry? of course you can...
  • When we are thinking, it is often hard to smile but with practice we can smile even when we are thinking and focusing on a subject
Next:
You are wise when you know and you apply your knowledge. Knowledge on its own doesn't bring wisdom. A person who has the knowledge but doesn't practice it, is not a wise man.

More:

How to Win Friends and Influence People

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People

Sunday 22 November 2009

Success

http://www.successmagazine.com/
http://www.jimrohn.com
http://www.tonyrobbins.com


Be Sensitive About People

Watch out your words what impact they would put on other people and how they would be perceived by others.

Does it have contradiction with Assertiveness? absolutely not.

You can be both sensitive about others and assertive about your position at the same time.

Sunday 15 November 2009

The Journey from Worry to Faith

Worry is the opposite of faith. They can't co-exist; you either worry or have faith. You cannot be in worry and be in faith at the same time. When you are in faith, you are not in worry. And when you are in worry, you are not in faith. Worry ends when Faith begins and Faith ends when worry begins.

Anything which is not from faith is sin according to Bible (Romans 14:23), so I believe we should take full responsibility to drive on the road from Worry to Faith, then to make sure that we inhabit in faith no matter what.

1. Identify Worry
1.1 Causes
1.2 Effects

2. Identify Faith
2.1 Causes
2.2 Effects

3. Solution

To be continued ...

References:

Thursday 12 November 2009

Best Uplifting Quotes


http://www.accomplishlife.com/pages/Quotes.html



How to Manage Meetings Effectively

Purposes:
  • To make a decision about one or more subjects in a group of more than one person
  • To discuss and share ideas so that later a decision can be reached
  • To share the status with everyone
Problems:
  • Discussing about everything and nothing - not having focus
  • Not being on the same boat and with the same glossary
  • Not knowing the area of each attendee
Solutions:

to be continued...

Friday 6 November 2009

How to Manage Distraction?

You're working on something which requires focus and intense thinking, suddenly someone distracts you by his question or asks you to do something for him.

You get distracted and the work you were going is forgotten or delayed and you become less productive. Have you been in this situation? in the recent weeks I have and it's extremely annoying since you can't progress and be productive in the way you wanted.

Stay focused:
  • Write down your tasks and walk through the written tasks in the order of importance; prioritizing is very important, do the jobs which are the most important and do them quickly
  • Some tasks can be done quickly and some you have to think about them in details and deeply
  • Know that prioritizing is not a one-time process; you should constantly prioritize
  • Put your watch in front of you to be aware of the time passing - it might give you stress though
  • Fill up a water of bottle; keeping yourself hydrated is essential
  • Stay positive and say positive words
Manage Distraction:
Ok, you do all you can to stay focused but you get distracted, what can you do?
  • Put on headphones; play a music that helps you concentrate. It's a signal to others that you are working. It helps you keep out of distractions
  • When someone asks you something which is not vital to do, express that you're busy and will get back to that person when you have time. Then add a reminder to your task list
  • Don't answer emails that don't require answer
  • Don't attend meetings which are irrelevant and waste of time
  • Don'g answer your phone if it's not necessary to do so - get back to the caller when you have time
  • Allocate time slots colleagues can interrupt you; communicate clearly that unless something is urgent you shouldn't get interrupted. say 2pm to 4pm, at the other time of the day focus on getting the work done
  • Clean up your desk to have less distraction