5 most important rules in life

“Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.”

There are many simple rules which makes your life easier.

 Believe in yourself , but be aware of your limitations

• Own up when you make a mistake
• Set goals, and enjoy the journey 

Use everything in moderation

• Spend less money than you make
• Watch your diet
• Watch less TV

Keep things in perspective

• Don’t sweat the small stuff
• Have an open mind 

Treat others how they want to be treated

• Try not to judge
• Be generous; try to do something nice for somebody on a regular basis
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 Fix it, or deal with it, but stop whining about it

• Don’t blame others for your problems
• Don’t make excuses
• Don’t be overly sensitive
• Don’t be a drama queen

posted by:Aleena Atif

Brain & Memory-Boosting Tips

The foods you eat – and don't eat – play a crucial role in your memory. Fresh vegetables are essential, as are healthy fats and avoiding sugar and grain carbohydrates. You can find detailed information about nine foods for brainpower here.

For instance, curry, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, and walnuts contain antioxidants and other compounds that protect your brain health and may even stimulate the production of new brain cells.

Increasing your animal-based omega-3 fat intake and reducing consumption of damaged omega-6 fats (think processed vegetable oils) in order to balance your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, is also important. I prefer krill oil to fish oil, as krill oil also contains astaxanthin, which not only protects the omega-3 fats from oxidation but also appears to be particularly beneficial for brain health.

Coconut oil is another healthful fat for brain function. According to research by Dr. Mary Newport, just over two tablespoons of coconut oil (about 35 ml or 7 level teaspoons) would supply you with the equivalent of 20 grams of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), which is indicated as either a preventative measure against degenerative neurological diseases, or as a treatment for an already established case.

2. Physical exercise

A healthy body really does mean a healthy mind. In the last decade it became clear that regular exercise beneficially affects brain function. Exercise boosts brain power by stimulating formation of new brain cells (neurons), the process known as neurogenesis2. Also, exercise strengthens connections between brain cells. Exercise stimulates the area of the brain associated with memory and learning1.

Regular physical activity may even help prevent Alzheimer's disease. Several studies7 have confirmed that regular physical activity reduces the risk of cognitive decline and dementia in old age.

Brain-boosting exercise tips

• Aerobic exercise is particularly good for the brain, so choose activities that keep your blood pumping. In general, anything that is good for your heart is great for your brain.
• Does it take you long time to clear out the sleep fog when you wake up? If so, you may find that exercising in the morning before you start your day makes a big difference. In addition to clearing out the cobwebs, it also primes you for learning throughout the day.
• Physical activities that require hand-eye coordination or complex motor skills are particularly beneficial for brain building.
• Exercise breaks can help you get past mental fatigue and afternoon slumps. Even a short walk or a few jumping jacks can be enough to reboot your brain.

Tips to Sharpen Your Memory by Ron White –A US Memory Champion

Want to improve your memory? Learn from Ron White, a two-time U.S. Memory Champion who has trained business professionals on how to improve their mental capacity, leading them to higher income.

Spend just 10 minutes a day for 30 days training your mind to access and retrieve information just like your computer. Here are five tips to get you started:

1. Sleep is critical for your memory. When I competed in the World Memory Championships in 2009, I was incredibly sleep-deprived. The event was in London and I was fighting jet lag in a serious way. I can memorize a deck of cards in about one minute and 30 seconds fairly routinely. However, at the event that measured how many cards you can recall in an hour, I didn’t get a single pack. I was so tired. I got very little sleep and made a series of mistakes that cost me any decent score at all. Sleep, sleep and sleep!

2. Good nutrition and exercise are keys to a top-performing memory. There are specific foods that will help your memory, such as spinach and blueberries because of their antioxidants. Omega-3 fish oil pills are also helpful.

3. Trust your memory. One of the best tips I received from World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore was to trust my memory. I would tell him that I could memorize a deck of cards in about two minutes and I wanted to get faster. His advice to me was to trust my memory more. He said, “Go faster and just trust that your memory will remember it.”

4. Stop negative self-talk. I hear so many people say, “I am terrible with names,” “I am a bad test taker,” “My memory is terrible.” Stop that! What you tell yourself about your memory will make a difference. Instead say, “I find it easy to remember names and faces,” “I have a good memory,” “I am a good test taker.” Yes, I know, it sounds as corny as all get out—but it works. Are you more concerned about sounding corny or getting results?

5. Learn the memory method of loci, also known as the journey method. My memory system Memory in a Month, available at the SUCCESS Store, explains this in a very straightforward way. [You can also try memory expert Jim Kwik’s method to add some muscle to your mind.]

My goal, with these memory training tips, is for you to see dramatic improvement in your memory power and, in turn, I know it will impact your self-confidence and every area of your life.

By: Uzma Umer Abbasi

10 Great Uses Of Ice

 Taste of medicine

No matter what flavour your local pharmacist offers in children's medicine, kids can still turn up their noses at the taste. Have them suck on an ice cube before taking the medicine. This numbs the taste buds and allows the medicine to go down-without the spoonful of sugar.

Soothe the eyes

Many people know about using sliced cucumbers on itchey eyes, but if there's none on hand, ice on tired and/or puffy peepers will help soothe and decrease swelling. Place ice cubes in a soft cloth and apply to eyes on and off for 15 minutes.

 For Tanning 

Ice doesn't only provide a cooling feeling on your skin; it also helps in cooling the effects of sunburn. When you apply ice cubes on the tanned areas of your skin, they get lightened. However, this can be helpful only on a fresh tan. 

Soothe Your Plucked Eyebrows

Your eyebrows may be fabulous, but they sure are sore! Rub an ice cube over your brow to ease the pain.

 For Acne

Applying ice cubes on acne helps close the swollen pores, which would also prevent bacteria from further affecting the skin. Make sure that you use ice in a clean and fresh cloth. Rub ice wrapped in a clean cloth for 10 minutes every day, and you would see the effects soon. 

Thicken dressings

When mixing an olive oil and vinegar dressing in a jar, it can be difficult to get a nice, thick emulsion. If you add an ice cube and shake vigorously, it will chill and thicken the oil making for a much creamier dressing. Remove the ice and serve promptly.

 Give sparkle to coffee pots, vases or 

bottles 

If you have a glass vessel with a small neck that’s hard to clean, employ ice. Add ice cubes, course salt, and lemon and swish and shake for a few minutes. The salt works as a mild abrasive, the lemon cuts grease, and the ice is the vehicle that gives the scrubbing momentum.

 Spiff up the garbage disposal

The garbage disposer is supposed to consume garbage and its odors, but sometimes in the process it ends up creating more smells than it eliminates. Before reaching for commercial disposer cleaners which may contain bleach and other chemicals, try ice. Give the disposal a whir with ice cubes and lemon rinds to break down grease that can compromise the device’s performance and add a bright fresh fragrance.

 Get Rid of Carpet Dents

 No one wants dents in the carpeting! Get rid of them by placing an ice cube in the affected area. Once it’s melted, brush it up and your carpet will be as good as new.

 Remove chewing gum

One of the oldest tricks in the book of collective granny wisdom: Rub an ice cube on chewing gum stuck to fabric, let it freeze, and scrape off the mess with the edge of a spoon.

posted by:Aleena Atif

Colors Effects On Personalities

science has long recognized that color affects our behavior and the way we feel.To understand these responses, we need to look at how color works.Your personality color does not have to be one you wear all the time; it is usually your favorite, the color that excites you the most and makes you feel alive when you see it.

RED  physical
positive:strength,energy,fight or flight,courage,excitement,powerful.

negative:aggression,strain.

Personality

You are a hard worker when you have a personality color red, and you specifically enjoy physical labor and working with your hands.

You do not procrastinate - you never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

You are a good worker, although not necessarily a good boss - your aggressive nature doesn't serve you well in management positions. Because you are action orientated.

With a personality color red you may have an over active ego and appear over confident with a super inflated sense of your own worth.

You are always in a hurry, wanting to do everything right now. Patience is not one of your strong points.

PINK   empower

positive: nurture, warmth, love, sexuality, soothes,reduces anger. 

negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, physical weakness.

Personality

If pink is your favorite color, you are loving, kind, generous and sensitive to the needs of others.

With your optimistic and positive outlook on life, you see the good in everyone.

The challenge for you is to become more self-reliant and to learn to love yourself.

You are romantic and sensual and sensitive.

You are very much in touch with your femininity.

You are friendly and approachable with a warmth and softness.

GREEN  balance

positive:Harmony,balance,refreshment,rest,peace,rest,environmental awareness. 

negative:fatigue,inactivity,unconcern.

Personality 

You are intelligent and love to learn - you are quick to understand new concepts.

You are an open book who doesn't hide their feelings.

You are a practical, down-to-earth person with a love of nature.

With a personality color green you have a great need to love and to be loved.

You can have a tendency to gossip, which is connected to your need to belong.

You are a loyal friend and a faithful partner, gentle but not passionate.

Detail bores you.

You process information quickly and prefer to develop an idea, organize a plan.

Ideas flow quite easily but you are not good at executing them.

BLUE    Intellectual

positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, duty, logic, reflection, calm.

negative: Coldness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

Personality

You are genuine and sincere, and you take your responsibilities seriously.

You always think before you speak and act and do everything at your own pace in your own time.

You appear to be confident and self-controlled, but may be hiding your vulnerable side.

You are sensitive to the needs of others and caring with your close circle of friends.

You can be rigid - you like to stick to what is familiar to you and it is hard to sway you from your path.

You compare the present to the past, looking to authority figures, parents, bosses or other leaders, to support your beliefs about the world.

You are friendly and sociable, you prefer the company of your own close group of friends.

If reacting negatively, you are prone to self-pity.

You are spiritual or religious with a high degree of devotion to family, God, or other causes that are important to you.

ORANGE  inspire

positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, fun.

negative: Distress, frustration, immaturity.

Personality

With orange as your favorite color, you are warm, optimistic, extroverted and often flamboyant.

You get great satisfaction from helping others.

You are tolerant and accepting of others just the way they are.

You are full of life, always on the go, determined and competitive, always looking for new challenges.

You may be lousy at housekeeping as it is not that important to you - you love having fun too much and don't like the mundane.

You are charming and sociable you do tend to be a show-off.

Lovers of orange like to take risks in many areas of their life, particularly in the physical areas. They prefer to explore their outer world rather than their inner world.

When operating from a negative perspective, a personality color orange can become aloof, egotistical, self-centered and uncaring.

YELLOW  emotional

positive:Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. 

negative: fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide.

Personality

With a personality color yellow, you can be very critical of yourself as well as others - you are a perfectionist.

You have a happy disposition and are cheerful and fun to be with.

You use your mind to achieve you goals rather than your physical energy.

You communicate well on a mental level with like-minded people, but can become bitter and sharp-tongued if crossed.

You can be deceitful and stubborn if living from a negative perspective.

You are good at networking and getting information out of others. 

With a personality color yellow, you can be stubborn but dislike pettiness and spitefulness of all kinds.

You are a smart dresser and always dress to impress.

VIOLET   Spiritual 

positive:Spiritual awareness, containment, vision, luxury, truth, quality. 

negative:Introversion, decadence, suppression, inferiority.

Personality

Having either purple or violet as your favorite color means you are sensitive and compassionate, understanding and supportive,  thinking of others before yourself.

You are usually introverted rather than extroverted.

You are a gentle and free spirit. 

You are creative and like to be individual in most of your endeavors, including your dress and home decoration.

As a personality color purple, you are a generous giver, asking for little in return except friendship.

You dislike responsibility and have difficulty dealing with real day-to-day problems.

With a personality color purple you like to have the best of everything, so you aim high.

Being the free spirit you are, you love to travel to experience different cultures and meet new people.

You dislike being part of the crowd, wishing to stand apart from the mob - you like to be noticed for your individuality.

posted by:Aleena Atif

Eczema

1. A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters which cause itching and bleeding.

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What Is Eczema

1. The most common type of eczema is known as atopic dermatitis , or atopic eczema. Atopic refers to a group of diseases with an often inherited tendency to develop other allergic conditions, such as asthma and hay fever.
2. "Dermatitis" means inflammation of the skin.
3. Some people outgrow the condition while some people will continue to have it into adulthood.
4. Causes
5. Doctors don't know exactly what causes eczema. Eczema is commonly found in families with a history of other allergies or asthma .The current thinking is that eczema is caused by a combination of factors that include:
6. .   Genetics
7. .    Abnormal function of the immune system
8. .   Environment
9. .   Activities that may cause skin to be more sensitive
10. .   Defects in the skin barrier that allows moisture out and germ in
11. .   Stress
12. Types
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    There are at  different types of skin condition that produce eczema. In order to develop a rational treatment plan, it is important to distinguish them. This is often not easy.
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15. Atopic dermatitis: This health condition has a genetic basis and produces a common type of eczema.Characteristically,rashes occur on the cheeks,neck,elbow and knee creases and ankles.
16. Allergic contact eczema(dermatitis): A skin reaction following contact with a substance that the immune system recognizes as foreign.
17. Irritant dermatitis: This occurs when the skin is repeatedly exposed to excessive washing or toxic substances.
18. Contact eczema: A localized reaction where the skin has come into contact with an allergen.
19. Neurodermatitis: Scaly patches of skin on head,wrist caused itchy  such as an insect bite.
20. Stasis  dermatitis: Skin irritation on swollen lower legs,usually people related who have poor circulation in the veins of the legs. 
21. Nummular eczema:This is a nonspecific term for coin-shaped plaques that can be crusted,scaling and itching.
22. Seborrheic eczema:Oily,scaly yellowish patches of skin usually on scalp and face.
23. Fungal infections: This can produce a pattern identical to many other types of eczema, but the fungus can be visualized with a scraping under the microscope or grown in culture.
24. Xerotic (dry skin) eczema: The skin will crack and ooze if dryness becomes excessive.
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1. Symptoms
2. Almost all patients with eczema complain of itching. No matter which part of the skin is affected, eczema is almost always itchy. Sometimes the itching will start before the rash appears, but when it does, the rash most commonly appears on the face, back of the knees, wrists, hands, or feet. It may also affect other areas as well.
3. Over time, the following symptoms can manifest:
   • Rashes can become bumpy, like goosebumps
   • Rashes can lighten or darken in color
   • Rashes can thicken (also known as lichenification) and then develop knots and a permanent itch.
   Test And Diagnosis
4. It can be hard to tell for sure if you have eczema. You’ll want to see a dermatologist or other doctor to find out.

   Your doctor will check your skin and talk about your symptoms, your health history , and any rashes or allergies that run in your family.

   Based on that information, doctor will decide if it’s eczema or something else.
5. They may also attempt to rule out other conditions that can cause skin irritations. This can involve the following tests:
   • Patch testing - substances are placed onto the surface of the skin to test for skin allergies
   • Skin prick testing - a needle containing a small amount of a suspected allergen pricks the skin to test for allergies that do not necessarily occur on the skin, such as pollen or food
   • Supervised food challenges - foods are eliminated and then introduced into the diet to determine whether a food allergy is present
6. Treatments
7.  Treatment for the condition aims to heal the affected skin and prevent flaring of the symptoms. Doctors will suggest a plan of treatment based around a patient's age, symptoms, and current state of health.
8. For some people, eczema goes away over time, and for others, it remains a lifelong condition.
9. If your doctor decides you need medicines to treat your eczema, those may include:
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11. • Antibiotics if there is an overlying bacterial skin infection.
    • Ultraviolet light therapy. This may help if your skin condition is severe.
    • Medications to treat fungal and viral infections.
    • Topical corticosteroid creams and ointments - these are a type of anti-inflammatory medication and should relieve skin inflammation and itchiness.
12.  Home Remedies

1. If your eczema is mild, that might be all you need, along with some changes in your daily habits.
   If you have severe eczema, you may need to take medicine for it, too.
2. There are several things that people with eczema can do to support skin health,such as:
3. . Moisturizing every day
4. . Take short,warm shower
5. . Wearing cotton and soft fabrics, avoiding rough, scratchy fibers, and tight-     fitting clothing
6. . Using mild soaps
7. . Air drying or gently patting skin dry with a towel, rather than rubbing skin
8. . Keeping fingernails short to prevent scratching from breaking skin
9. . Get a humidifier
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