The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. Sebastien Nicholas de Chamfort
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Smiling is not just a reaction to something funny. It is something that has positive effects on our mood and on everybody around us, no matter if it is forced or not.
In her article, Alyssa Detweiler lists nine positive effects of smiling which will make you want to smile more:
- Smiling is contagious
- Smiling lower stress and anxiety
- Smiling releases endorphins
- You will be more attractive
- Smiling strengthens your immune system
- You will be more approachable
- Smiling will make you more comfortable
- You will seem more trustworthy
- You will be a bettere leader
Read the full article here
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The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within. Mahatma Gandhi
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If you’re happy and you know it… you also know how to count your blessings. Noticing what you have – and learning to appreciate it – is the first step towards being happy, says Stefano Baldi, the Italian Ambassador to Bulgaria, in this TED talk.
And luckily, you don’t HAVE to have Italian food or clothes to be happy. Though it certainly won’t hurt.
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Most guides for travel preparations focus on the equipment and necessary documents. But how do you prepare your mind for travel?
In this article, a professional traveller gives 6 advices to prepare for travelling:
- Study and gather information
- Change your routines
- Learn to deal with people
- Make quicker decisions
- Learn to be with yourself
- Just relax
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
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Organization is important, but what you really need is focus. According to the author of this article, being able to sit down and concentrate intensely on your work is the real key of success.
Here are some tips to help concentration:
1) Cut Off the Noise: Answer your e-mails at scheduled times. Request that people don’t interrupt you when working on a big project. If you are required to answer phones and drop-in’s immediately, schedule work when the office is less busy.
2) Structure Your Environment: Try to locate yourself so you are facing potential distractions such as doors, phones or windows. This way you can take a glance to assess sounds that would otherwise break your focus.
3) Clarify Objectives: If you aren’t sure what the end result is, the confusion will make it impossible to focus. Unclear objectives often result in having to redo sections of work.
4) Divide Blobs: Taking a few minutes to plan not only your end result, but the order you will complete any steps, can save hours in wasted thinking.
5) Know the Rules: If the rules aren’t clear from the outset, you will slip out of concentration as you ponder them later.
6) Set a Deadline: A deadline can make it easier to forget the non-essential and speed up your working time. Time limits have also disadvantages when they cause you to worry about the time you have left instead of the task itself.
7) Break Down Roadblocks: Break down roadblocks by brainstorming or planning on a piece of paper. Writing out your thought processes can keep you focused even if you might become frustrated.
8 ) Isolate Yourself: Unless your work is based on other people they will only break your focus. Create a private space and refuse to talk to anyone until your work is finished. Put a sign on your door to steer away drop-ins and don’t answer your phone.
9) Healthy Body, Sharper Mind: Try to cut out one of your unhealthy habits for just thirty days to see if there is a difference in your energy levels.
10) Be Patient: If you need strong concentration, periods of 90-120 minutes of work are recommended. Any less than that and you will waste too much time getting started before the flow can continue.
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Are you afraid of organizing an event? In this article, the author asks 5 professionals, specialised in event planning for their tips.
1. Listen To Your Audience–Right From the Beginning.
The last thing you want is to throw a conference, then find that there’s no interest in the topic. The best way to keep in touch with your audience? Survey them at the beginning stages of the event.
2. Let Your Fans Spread the Message
It’s easy to set your fans up to tell the right story. You just need to call upon them, keep them accountable, and make it easy for them to share.
Make sure it’s easy for everyone to use the same hashtag. Pre-fill your event’s Twitter hashtag into your mobile event app. This way anyone tweeting with the app will automatically use the same hashtag.
3. Ask your “event insiders” to live-blog
When executed well, live-blogging is a great way to get people excited about the sessions and attractions at your event. Keep posts short and media-rich, and aggregate blog posts into an RSS feed.
4. Send push messages for immediate attendee updates
In addition to a headset for communicating with your internal team, use your mobile event app’s push message capability to send urgent updates to all attendees.
5. Use a feedback tool to stay on track
And if someone has feedback they want to share? Provide an official place for event feedback in real-time.
6. Keep things in perspective
Even when things get hectic, you have to trust your team. You’ve all worked to get to there together!
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In this TED talk, Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows how to become a liespotter and why to go the extra mile and go from liespotting to truth seeking, and ultimately to trust building.
First of all, we should start by accepting the following proposition: lying is a cooperative act. Any lie’s power emerges when someone else agrees to believe it. Furthermore, we’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries.
She then analizes different patterns: speech, body language, facial expressions and attitude.
According to her, the key is to combine the science of recognizing deceptionwith the art of looking, listening,exempting from collaborating in a lie. Doing so we may signal to everyone around that we are not going to cooperate in any lie.
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Uncertainty is a sign of humility and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. Charlie Sheen
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