The basic requirement for anyone who is trying to explore ways for managing their resources in a proper and optimized manner to attain effective results through their efforts is Time Management.

Importance of being time prompt increase because through proper time management, one can not only attain satisfactory goals they have set for their own self as a professional in any stream of their life including business, recreational activities or public services.

Proper time management let us allow to use the limited time we have in the best possible order so that we may enjoy the very important moments of our professional and personal lives in a comfortable manner.

The fundamental principle behind proper time management that works is, "one should focus on results and not on being hectic".

At the end of the day, it is not how hard you worked that counts, rather only results of your endeavors can provide any satisfaction for your soul and that is why it is important to plan your endeavors in a channelized manner.

Why Time Management is Necessary?

It is a general problem. People often fail to manage their time and hence they fail to meet their professional working deadlines to deliver desired results.

Such incidences bring and in fact increase frustration from within. It also is not a good professional sign and may mar many professional progressive opportunities.

Delays often lead to pile of pending work and just the huge amount of pending work may create depression and high level of stress to the worker.

This not only creates tensions and health hazards, it turns out to be extremely detrimental for their performance as a worker.

Hence, not only your health, but your quality of work will also suffer in absence of a proper time management system.

A person with professional mannerism of time management on the other hand, remains in a position where he can enjoy a stress free satisfactory life.

In addition, proper time planning also provides such situations for a professional where he or she can convert higher percentage of his or her efforts in satisfactory results. According to 80:20 rule, one can achieve 80% of focused results through 20% of proper time management.

Time Planning through Time Management Tools

The first step towards attaining proper time management plan is to look for the techniques that may help you in achieving proper time planning and management.

You must be able to visualize your goal much before you may start acting to achieve them successfully in a managed and well planned manner.

Prioritization of your actions is most important aspect of time management. Time is a rare resource and it is constant, it cannot be increased nor can it be bought.

That is why, it is necessary for a professional to be clear and considerate about his or her priorities while thinking for time management.

Another important aspect of proper time management is to audit your time in a proper manner.

Auditing your time management plant will lead you to assess and improve yourself and your time management plant until you achieve the best possible time management schedule.

Traditional ways of auditing time includes building of time charts for goals and priority list and mark each of the goal or priority that have been achieved within the proposed time and to mark those goals and priorities too which are most important to be achieved within a period of time.

Technology has improved a lot and nowadays, you can achieve much improved time management software that will help you for proper time planning.

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Being a student, I understand the various stresses a student goes through during the intervals between their classes. Everything including health, celebrations, family responsibilities, stress, jobs, homework, and social pressure takes on to fill those gaps between classes.

These are just some of the aspects of a student’s life which affects them beyond the classroom.

During their academic careers, extracurricular activities and sports activities occurring in class offer a good purpose for a student’s life but these certainly fail to define the life of a school girl.

Right from the point of time when a student wakes up until he or she finally close their eyes to let their body rest during the sleep at night, students faces a lot of things which mainly includes studies, obstacles and success.

It is a general start of a student to rise as late as possible and run out of the door towards the school without having enough time to have brush their teeth.

However, many students, wake up early to do their other regular chores like helping care for siblings, spending time grooming, practicing music, exercising, studying, or many other chores.

Furthermore, the way students commute from their home towards their school may also vary largely just like the variations in their morning routines. Some of the popular ways of commute for school girls include school buses, public transportation like trains or buses, getting a drive, boarding, biking, blading or driving their own vehicle.

Just when a group of peers reach behind their desks in classroom, they begin their official academic day. While the lives of students may have as many variations along with uniqueness as there are variations in fingerprints.

Routines of students after their school are also very diversified just like their lives during the morning.

Some of the predictable after school activities include team and club meetings, social networking and gaming, co-op placements and part time jobs, babysitting, participation in organizations and trying to work towards greater good and so on.

Some students may also opt for eco-friendly initiatives, charitable efforts, Amnesty international, M.A.D.D., Cultural groups and Key Clubs. Some students may gather in groups because of their entrepreneurial abilities to create and operate in small businesses.

Some of the student-lead projects include Yearbook, Newspaper and e-Newsletters. Many students may decide to join some decorative committees and gardening clubs which will help in beautifying schools and surroundings.

However, today’s students are very smart and their interests and skills are so vast that each and every student ably finds out a way to get involved and to make new friends.

It is true that each student is unique and their uniqueness depends on their lifestyles they lead. However, students have a lot which is common amongst them.

Some of the common habits can be listening to music, relaxing with friends and playing games and sports and they cope up with the increasing pressure through these day to day life activities. Teens may also join some groups which exhibit common interest such as gaming groups, outdoor enthusiast groups, charitable groups etc.

Introvert students may prefer to join such a club where they will not be prompted to speak out so much while they still can fully participate. Such groups include photography clubs etc.

Irrespective of what group a student is a member of, every student really knows how to balance his academic commitments, social and family responsibilities along with stress-reducing extracurricular activities to enhance their life.

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A young lady confidently walked around the room while leading and explaining stress management to an audience; with a raised glass of water, and everyone knew she was going to ask the ultimate question, 'half empty or half full?'...... she fooled them all... "How heavy is this glass of water?" She inquired with a smile.

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case it's t he same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." She continued, "and that's the way it is with stress.” If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden - holding stress longer and better each time practiced. So, as early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don't carry them through the evening and into the night... pick them up tomorrow."

So whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment. Relax, pick them up later after you've rested. Life isn't short, but time doesn't stop and time-travel doesn't exist, so enjoy what you have now.



01 * Accept the fact that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue!

02 * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

03 * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

04 * Drive carefully... It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.

05 * If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague

06 * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

07 * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

08 * Never buy a car you can't push.

09 * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

10 * Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

11 * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

12 * The second mouse gets the cheese.

13 * When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

14 * Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

15 * You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

16 * Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

17 * We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

18 * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

19 * Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today.

20 * Stand in a B-Boy stance!

*Save the earth...it's the only planet with chocolate!

Keep your fist buried high.

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It is very important to understand that a woman needs specific diet to remain healthy and this is because a woman’s physical and mental health remains dependent on the hormonal balance and status in her body.

The hormonal balance and status signifies the interaction between female sex hormones namely, estrogen and progesterone, thyroid hormones such as TSH, T4, T3, and stress hormones specially cortisol.

 Proper production and balance of sex hormones is essential for a healthy women and proper balance is necessary to maintain appropriate levels of stress hormones. Excessive stress may disturb the production of estrogen and progesterone while creating harmful inflammation in women’s body.

By maintaining a good nutritious diet regularly, women can attain proper balance of hormones in her body and this will help her in attaining better mental and physical health along with providing her natural beauty. The following nutritional constituents should be included by every women in her diet to attain a better hormonal balance and healthy body.

Green and Leafy Vegetables

Green leafy vegetables are essential constituents of every ones diet who is seeking for a healthy living. A woman cannot meet her nutritional requirements without including green leafy vegetables in her regular food. Fenugreek leaves, legumes, lettuce, asparagus, spinach, France beans and broccoli are easily available in abundance.

These vegetables are rich sources of Vitamin C and K, iron, folic acid and fibre. These vegetables will also provide magnesium, potassium and calcium along with iron and hence by including them in regular diet, a girl can attain better protected vision and strength in bones.

Every girl should try to eat leafy vegetables daily.


Whole Grains

While refined grains are easily available in market, one should try to include whole grains in their diet. Whole grains are more nutritious and they contain around 96% more fibre and essential vitamins and nutrients than refined grains.

Often nutrition and diet experts advises women to have whole wheat bread, brown rice, and whole wheat pasta as they provide essential nutrients and the major advantage is, whole grains do not contribute to weight gain. To achieve a healthy and sexy girl persona, you should include whole grains in your daily food. You may choose to start your day with a whole wheat bread toast or whole wheat cereal.

Nuts

Nuts should be an essential constitutes of a woman’s diet. You may eat nuts while sprinkling them on breakfast cereals or on salads or you may choose to mix them with your yoghurt. Nuts will provide you the much required proteins, vitamin B & E and magnesium.

Nuts will also protect you against cancer and heart disease. While nuts are rich in fat calories, but the fat achieved through nuts doesn’t hurt your heart. You may also eat nuts along with your evening tea as snacks.

However, ascertain that you are not over-eating them. Around 15-20 cashews, almonds, walnuts are good enough in a week.

Yoghurt

If you are worried about you weight, you may choose to eat low fat yoghurt as both low fat and plain yoghurt are high resources of protein, vitamins and calcium. The healthy bacteria of yoghurt will also provide you strength to fight various diseases.

Expert dieticians will suggest three to four cups of yoghurt for women in a week. However, you should avoid adding sugar to yoghurt. Better is to take yoghurt with salt or you may choose plain yoghurt and add berries or fruits to it.

Berries will make you merry

Berries are considered to be essential constituent of any fiber rich diet product. This is so because berries are the richest source of fiber while they will also help girls to curb excessive weight. Berries are rich in protective plant antioxidant than any other eatable.

The antioxidants of berries will also help you strengthen your memory and to fight against memory loss. You may eat a full bowl of berries thrice in a week. You may use fresh or frozen berries as both are beneficial.

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While every one of us seek happiness, comfort, satisfaction and success, it is very important to realize the importance of calmness in our efforts to achieve them.

Great saint and philosopher Swami Vivekanand once said, "Happiness in life comes not by manipulating what you want to achieve but by paying attention to something seemingly totally unconnected with it."

Meditation is considered as the key to happiness and success and for thousands of years, the saints and astute spiritual leaders of different cultures have suggested us to practice meditation. Based on their own experience, these spiritual leaders often claim that meditation leads a person in a state of metabolic restfulness which is far deeper and more satisfactory than that of sleep.

However, it is not only the suggestion of spiritual gurus. Even scientists support the fact through their scientific studies that meditation leads a person’s body in a state which results in a better flow of blood from different parts of body to the brain. This helps our muscles to relax while decreasing the stress hormones.

This specific metabolic rest results in a quick rejuvenation of a person’s body and mind, offering them cure from the effects of stress, tension and fatigue.

The benefits of meditation and chanting are deep and profound and that is why people from different spheres of life practices chanting and meditation to refresh themselves while relaxing their body and mind against the stress and tensions of their high demanding business jobs and lifestyles.

People may have different reason for adopting to meditation and chanting, yet everybody from Rhea Pillai, Riya Sen, Sheetal Malhar, Dia Mirza, Priya Dutt, Kitu Gidwani, and Vinod Khanna are reaping the fruits of meditation and all of them engage themselves to propagate the beneficial effects of meditation and chanting.

Munisha Khatwani, the popular Indian Television actress says, "I chant the Maha Mrityunjaya Jaap to break free from all the karmic ties. It frees me from all negative karma and has also helped improve my health, finances and personal life to a great extent. The more I chant, the more I am at peace."

However, happiness and peace are not the only goals that can be achieved through meditation. Or one should say, meditation is not for achieving goals. According to spiritual and yoga guru Nandini Sen, there are many other benefits of meditation.

She says, "I feel meditation helps one just in being more in the present moment, because only in this moment can one do something. The basic idea is to relax in that very moment. All anger, anxiety and negative thoughts are carried forward until you don't let go. Meditation simply gives the mind a holiday.” The moment you will try to set goals to be achieved through meditation, you will lose the track of meditation.

Nandini Sen further elaborates, "A goal is always set for the future, but meditation is about the present moment." Meditation is in fact, the process of forgetting everything for that moment when you are in meditation and concentrating on your own inner self. This is the way of ignoring the problem and concentrating on meditation while dissolving the problem altogether.

But meditation is certainly not the way of escapism, rather it is the way of concentrating your energies and abilities to resolve and solve the issues of your life with the application of a better and calm mind. Model turned actress Aditi Govritkar says that meditation cannot be considered as the means of escapism from the materialistic life, "Not unless one chants 24/7."

She leads a difficult and busy life that includes her house, kids and work. At many times she find it difficult to cope with the schedule and take time off for meditation. She says, "I try and chant at least 10 minutes daily to decrease my stress levels. This helps me feel more calm and at peace."

Sharmilla Khanna, another working woman and famous event organizer agrees with the idea of meditation as she says, "Of course, one cannot escape from the real world with meditation. I do everything that I'm entitled and responsible to do. I don't escape from anything, not even my problems. Instead, meditation has helped me face my problems with a clear mind, heart and soul."

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