“Research suggests that as many as 8 out of 10 employed adults are in the wrong job or career!”

Career goal setting is an excellent way to motivate yourself and achieving your career dreams. They keep you motivated to live life to the fullest and to get what you want out of it.

Here are 7 successful - strategies to help you set career goals:

1. Start with a positive attitude.  Hope, optimism and enthusiasm have a magical effect on goal setting and the way you think.

2. Set realistic goals.  Try to achieve them with the help of a real career plan that will meet all your needs. Be explicit about what you want and have it thoroughly reviewed to ensure achievability factors. To manage your expectations, set reasonable goals that can be worked on and achieved.

3. Analyse and evaluate professional skills.       If you are employed, unemployed, considering a career change, re-entering the job market or recently graduated, the first step to identifying your career potential needs an objective analysis and evaluation of your capabilities.

4. Sell yourself. Learn the fine art of self-promotion. You need to implement an effective marketing strategy to increase your visibility and gain a competitive edge. If you have had major accomplishments or created successful programs, make sure people know about it — especially those in influential positions who could help you advance professionally. Let it be known that you are seeking a promotion or the next step up in your career. Read more

Each person snores occasionally but it is a problem if you are disturbing yourself, your sleep partner or your neighbors. Snoring stops sleep patterns which can cause to sleep deficit. The effects of sleep deficit can include low energy, foggy thinking and daytime sleepiness. The absence of oxygen flowing to the brain that occurs when someone snores can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke.

• - No to sleeping pills - Do not take sleeping pills, tranquilizers or any anti histamine drugs to induce sleeping. These medications make your muscles relax limiting air passage and make you snore all through the night.

• - Eliminate alcohol, tobacco from your diet. These substances relax the throat, enlarging and inflaming the muscles that contribute to snoring. If this is not possible, avoid those 2 hours before going to bed.

• - Make a regular sleeping pattern - Follow a regular sleep routine so that your body sticks to it. Moreover, sleeping on your side instead of your back will definitely stop snoring for you as it positions the body for a good sleep. Prepare the surroundings clean without any congestion while you are asleep.

• - Use a thicker pillow - Try to sleep on a firmer pillow as one may experience the relaxing of throat muscles in case of soft pillows. Elevate your head by sleeping on multiple pillows to stop snoring while you sleep. 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

You should never start your day without eating a healthy power breakfast. If you go the entire morning without eating, then when it comes moment to eat lunch your more likely to over eat to compensate for the extra hunger. For the reason that your metabolism has not been given a kick-start by not eating breakfast, this means that you are also more likely to not burn those calories.

As a result, you want to make sure and eat breakfast every morning. The following is a list of breakfast ideas and tips to help ensure that you don not skip the most important meal of the day ever again:

• - Plan breakfast. The time to think about what is for breakfast is not the moment you are about to make a mad dash out the door. Stock up on easy, flavorful, healthy foods that are quick to fix. Put breakfast foods within easy reach, so they are accessible for even the youngest-and shortest-members of the family.

• - Make breakfast a regular, non-negotiable part of everyone’s morning routine. Set aside a specific block of time and resist the temptation to keep hitting that snooze button!

• - Eat mindfully - sit to eat - even for five minutes - and try to focus only on enjoying your meal, savoring the flavors and aromas. “If you’re eating while rushing around — getting yourself or your kids ready for the day — you won’t really feel like you’ve had a meal,” says Lisa R. Young, Ph.D., R.D., adjunct assistant professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of “The Portion Teller.” When you get to the office and see doughnuts, you will feel like you have already eaten. Read more

Spending time with oneself in some fruitful introspection is something that many people want for, but unhappily do not find time for the same. When this solitude becomes loneliness, it can get problematic. Finding original friends is not at all hard provided you hold an available psyche and be sure of yourself. Always remember that tomorrow’s friends are in fact today’s strangers. So if you are looking for tips for making new friends, read further tips.

We take some ideas and suggestions for how to have real friends:

1. - Look accessible. You need not dress up in dandy clothes or wear loud make up to attract people. More than artificial make up, simplicity attracts people. Smile often, make eye contact, do not look too tensed and listen to what others have to say.
2. - Accept people the way they are. Unneeded faultfinding, critically analyzing each individual will not work if you want to make new friends. No one is perfect; you are not either. Everyone has faults and the way to make friends is by looking at the positive aspects of the individual. In case you do not like someone’s behavior, it is better to avoid than create a rivalry.
3. - Create your own opportunities. For example: begin a neighborhood weekly or monthly potluck meal; join or organize a walking club; volunteer to help with a local organization; organize a discussion group on literature,religion, or politics; get a dog and take it for walks; teach someone a hobby or skill, (woodworking, needlework, etc.) Read more

These are the psychological secrets of the experts, the tricks of the trade – factors that can affect your judgment and decision in objectively evaluating information.

1: You are Just Like Me
• Watch out when you are asked about your hobbies, hometown, values, favorite foods, etc., only to be followed with the obligatory “Me too, what a coincidence.”
• Another aspect of this rule is that if someone is nice to us, we not only like him more but also are more likely to agree with him. If he is agreeing to everything you say, whether or not it makes sense, watch out.
• Rapport creates trust. It allows the other to build a psychological bridge to you. You feel more comfortable and your gullibility increases. Take note if your movements, rate of speech or tone are echoed.

2: Beware the Stranger Bearing Gifts
When someone gives us something, we often feel indebted to him. When you are presented with a request, make sure that you’re not acting out of a sense of obligation. This rule can take many forms – it is not limited to gifts.
You could be offered information, a concession, or even someone’s time. Read more