Habits play a very crucial part in life. The personality of a person is determined by his habits. Good habits make a person calm, genial and great while bad habits deform and disfigure a personality. Everyone is responsive of the importance of habits and many wish to change their bad habits in order to improve their character, traits and personality.

Here a the top 7 of the most destructive habits that people have:

1. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation is a general lack of the necessary amount of sleep.
Sleep deprivation can have serious effects on your health in the form of physical and mental impairments. Inadequate rest impairs our ability to think, to handle stress, to maintain a healthy immune system and to moderate our emotions. Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. In fact, sleep is so important to our overall health that total sleep deprivation has been proven to be fatal: lab rats denied the chance to rest die within two to three weeks.

2. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
The brain is a muscle and it can atrophy if you do not take good care of it. Thinking is the greatest way to train our brain. Lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

3. Negative Thinking
Negative thinking is counterproductive, self-defeating thinking that makes you feel worse, see things in a worse light, and act in ways that often interfere with goals. The more you think negatively, the worse you feel. Changing habits of negative thinking helps a great deal in changing emotions and improving personal problems. Read more

Computer posture is important, is a key to health. You will probably spend many hours sitting at your PC and how you do this will have implications on your health as well as your productivity.
Good posture is a combination of a lifelong habit, a healthy body, and awareness. It is possible to fix bad posture, but it is a lot easier to start with good posture in the first place.

Start a new workday by following these simple suggestions for healthy computing:

1.Customize your chair. A good posture positions starts from the seated pozition. For people choosing the 90° seat pan posture adjust the chair height by lowering about one inch. Your feet will be firmly on the floor to maintain the correct posture of the normal (S curve) lordosis of the spine.
Measure from floor to top of kneecap
(This measurement should be height of chair with 2-4 degree forward tilt while you are sitting in chair) Your knees should be slightly lower than hips..
Measure length at thigh while seated
(This measurement is called popliteal) This determines the correct depth of the seat pan to fit your legs properly. Without correct seat pan depth your spine is not supported. The ideal chair would have a fist of room between the end of the chair and the back of your leg.
Back rest needs to support lumbar curve
Adjust height of backrest to accommodate curve of back. While using your computer the back rest needs to come forward to support the small of the back.
The newer ergonomic chair backs can be adjusted from the seated position on a ratchet system and have 5-7 increment height adjustments. This is ideal. Read more

Your business card can be the most cost-effective and efficient method of marketing and packs a large punch in a small amount of space. The smaller size actually benefits you, as it allows for carrying tiny billboards in your pocket. If your mini-billboards are properly maintained and utilized, they can be an extremely profitable marketing tool.

Here are most important ways to supercharge your business card into a powerful business  tool:

1. Basic elements of Business Card:

- Logo - have a professional designer create your business logo. If you provide products or services that can be represented with a symbol (ie, house painter, home builder, restaurant, dog grooming service), the logo should symbolize that product or service in some way.

- Name of Individual not every type of business card has to have the name of the individual but it’s a nice personalized touch. In a large organization it can be beneficial to the recipient to have the name of a specific person to contact. The name is usually the most prominent text element of a business card.

- Job Title of Individual is not a required element, some entrepreneurs or sole proprietors might include “President” or “CEO” or some other title to give the appearance of a larger organization.

- Name of Business or Organization a business card almost always has a business or organization name on it. The name of the individual or the name of the business or organization is usually the most prominent text element of a business card.

- Address a physical address or a mailing address or both are typical parts of a business card. If the company does business exclusively online or by mail, a physical address might not be a key element to include. If both a physical and a mailing address are included, it may be desirable to label each one. Read more

“A meeting,” said one pundit, “is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.”
The average executive spends half of his or her week in meetings. Of this, about six hours’ worth, according to several stud- ies, is rated as totally unnecessary. Yet, in many businesses, meetings have become a ritual and committees are a duty, so that it’s nearly impossible to say no to them.

Your job: to ensure that the meetings you attend result in a sleek, productive use of everyone’s time. If you run the meet- ing, your task requires commitment to time management prin- ciples. If you’re a participant, your challenge is more acute: to subtly guide the group to productive activity.

Here are 12 guide- lines that will help you increase a meeting’s productivity:

1. Create a written agenda for each meeting. Make sure it’s dis- tributed to all participants at least 24 hours in advance. If you’re asked to attend a meeting scheduled by someone else, request that he or she provide you with a written agenda in advance.

2. Assign the meeting a clear start time. Check for conference room availability. Equally important: the meeting shouldn’t be delayed for late arrivals. Participants will soon learn that you expect them to be prompt. (Of course, leave room for excep- tional circumstances or essential people.)

3. Assign an official closing time to the meeting. Open-ended meetings can drag on, with participants mired in trivial or ancil- lary concerns. A tight finish time disciplines participants to work more efficiently and with fewer tangents. Shorter meetings tend to concentrate discussions on the real goals of the meeting and keep it focused. If the meeting length must expand, it should be by the consensus of all the participants. And if the meeting was scheduled by someone else, ask that he or she set a finish time.

4. Set at least one goal for your meeting. A meeting without clear objectives is rudderless. A committee meeting should have a “para-goal.” Concentrate on how the meeting should achieve the component objectives of that goal.             Read more