Top 10 Reasons to Smile

Top 10 Reasons to Smile

1. Smiling Makes Us Attractive
We are drawn to people who smile. There is an attraction factor. We want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good. Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away -- but a smile draws them in.
2. Smiling Changes Our Mood
Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile .. �There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood.

3. Smiling Is Contagious
When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with them. Smile lots and you will draw people to you.
4. Smiling Relieves Stress
Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able to take action.
5. Smiling Boosts Your Immune System
Smiling helps the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. Prevent the flu and colds by smiling.
6. Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure
When you smile, there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference?
7. Smiling Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and Serotonin
Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling is a natural drug.
8. Smiling Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger
The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better.
9. Smiling Makes You Seem Successful
Smiling people appear more confident, are more likely to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and appointments and people will react to you differently.
10. Smiling Helps You Stay Positive
Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of something negative without losing the smile. It's hard.. When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression, stress and worry by smiling

Effective Teaching in Classroom

 Effective Teaching in the Classroom (24 May 2011)

What are the three words that one could use to describe good or effective lecture, vis-a-vis an effective or a bad one? Jason Adsit, Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of Buffalo, shares useful tips that we believe will make the task clearer to not only young faculty, but to old-timers too                 .

Three main points of an "effective" lecture are participation, engagement and information. Thus, steps to an effective lecture ideally should be:

Planning
Don't ever wing it. Don't be too fond of the sound of your voice and carry on about a subject, or a lecture. Always pause and gauge whether students are listening. Ask questions, arrange the class into groups and then pit them against one another in a debate.

Avoid tyranny of content
Don't overdo things so much so that you are overwhelmed by what needs to be covered and in how much time.

Know your audience
Remember that lectures are not about "teaching", it's all about "student learning". Remember the first time that as a student you learnt a new concept or idea – thus a little empathy would go a long way.

Create a complete lecture
Focus on an introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction should set the context straight. It should let students know what the content is, how it relates to the discipline and why they need to learn it. The body is the main lecture, but it should be punctuated with pauses and interactions, just to keep it lively and interesting.

Engage your audience
Remember that teaching is a bit of a performance art.

Visual back–ups are essential
There are evil PowerPoint presentations and great ones. Matter of fact, to the point and brief presentations fall in the latter category.

Quality control
Before any such presentation mandatory checks of links and technology is a must. But one cannot prevent botch-ups. In case there is a failure of server or backup power, keep a back-up plan.

Enthusiasm
Try to demonstrate why an information is important to the students. Appreciate the topic that you are teaching. Keep conversations and dialogues flowing by asking questions that elicit response.

Ask questions
Prepare a set of questions that you will ask at the end of the class. Instead of just asking if there are "any questions" be specific.

Answer questions
Always answer questions that are being asked. If you can't, come back to it in the next class.

Reflect on the class
Do a post-mortem of the class that was.

Don't be afraid to take risks
At the end of the day there are no "right" or "wrong" ways of conducting lectures. There are only "effective" and "ineffective" ways.

દીકરી.....

FOCUSING on PROBLEMS v/s FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS

The Difference between FOCUSING on PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS

Case : One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly Line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.

Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.


Solution # 1 : Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.


Solution # 2 : But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.

He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.


Moral
· Always look for simple solutions.
· Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.
· Always focus on solutions & not on problems

 

આપણે તો....

આપણે તો આપણી રીતે રેહવાનું,

       ખડક થવું હોય તો ખડક,

             નહીતર નદી ની જેમ નિરાંતે વહેવાનું.

માણસ....

માણસ પોતાના દુ:ખથી એટલો દુ:ખી નથી,

જેટલો દુખી તે બીજાના સુખથી છે.

CHANGE THE VISION RATHER THAN CHANGING THE WORLD

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted so many physicians  and  was  getting  his  treatment done. He did not stop consulting galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections.                                                                                        

But the ache persisted with great vigour than before. At last a monk who has supposed to  be  an  expert  in treating  such patients was called for by the millionaire. The monk  understood  his  problem  and said that for sometime he should concentrate only on green colours  and  not  to fall his eyes on any other colours.                                                                                   

The millionaire got together a group  of  painters  and purchased barrels of green color and directed that every object his eye was likely   to   fall   to   be   painted   in   green   colour   just   as  the  monk  had directed.                                                                            

 When   the   monk  came  to  visit  him  after  few  days,  the  millionaire's  servants ran with buckets of green paints and poured on him since he was in red dress, lest their master not see any other colour and his eye ache would come back.                       

Hearing  this  monk  laughed said "If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles,  worth  just  a  few  rupees, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other  articles and also could have saved a large share of his fortune.                        

You cannot paint the  world green." Let us change our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is  foolish to shape the world, let us shape ourselves first.  

Lets change our vision rather than changing the world..!! 

  

One Can.....

One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald spring.

One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal

One vote can change a nation,
One sunbeam lights a room
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.

One step must start each journey.
One word must start each prayer.
One hope will raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.

One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what's true,

One life can make a difference,
You see, it's up to you!

 

Be a good orator

Do you feel butterflies in your stomach when you address a large audience or while speaking in public? If the answer is yes then I must say that it is nowhere wrong but letting that inhibit your speech is wrong.

 

Understand the Purpose

First things first, you should understand the purpose of the entire speech/presentation. Till the time you are not clear within, you will not be able to make your audiences understand. 

Understand your audience

The next step should be that you understand your audience. It is very important because if you don't know what is the background of your audience, their language, diction, knowledge and at times culture as well then your speech might go waste. 

Keep it Simple

Let your speech be simple. Using jargons in your speech or presentation might confuse your audience. You may even have to explain the meaning of few words. The best practice would be to keep it simple or explain if you can't avoid. 

Be Clear and Concise

Be direct and to the point. Don't revolve around the topic, strike the cord. Be concise and don't deliver the presentation or speech as a lecture. Don't even rush through your presentation. Always let your audience grasp what you are trying to put forward. 

Practice your Speech

Presentation is the basic part of public speaking and if you are not able to present your point to the people listening, then it is not worth. The best way to overcome this is to practice your speech. Rehearse it and keep on rehearsing it this will develop confidence in you.

These are few things, which one should always keep in mind while addressing any kind of audience. Don't overdo anything. Don't assume that your audiences are too intelligent or completely dumb. Make sure that you do a little research before you really make your speech.

Go speak your heart out as it is democracy but do maintain the decorum.

The Pig And The Horse

There was a farmer who collected horses; he only needed one more breed to  complete his collection. One day, he found out that his neighbor had the particular horse breed he needed. So, he constantly bothered his neighbor until he sold it to him. A month later, the horse became ill and he called the veterinarian, who said:

 - Well, your horse has a virus. He must take this medicine for three days. I'll come back on the 3rd day and if he's not better, we're going to have to put him down.

Nearby, the pig listened closely to their conversation.

The next day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig approached the horse and said:

- Be strong, my friend. Get up or else they're going to put you to sleep!

On the second day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig came back and said:

 - Come on buddy, get up or else you're going to die! Come on, I'll help you get up. Let's go! One, two, three...

 On the third day, they came to give him the medicine and the vet said:

 - Unfortunately, we're going to have to put him down tomorrow.
Otherwise, the virus might spread and infect the other horses.

 After they left, the pig approached the horse and said:

- Listen pal, it's now or never! Get up, come on! Have courage! Come on! Get up! Get up! That's it, slowly! Great! Come on, one, two, three... Good, good. Now faster, come on.... Fantastic! Run, run more!
Yes! Yay! Yes! You did it, you're a champion!!!

All of a sudden, the owner came back, saw the horse running in the field and began shouting:

- It's a miracle! My horse is cured. This deserves a party. Let's kill the pig!


Points for reflection: This often happens in the workplace. Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the necessary support to make things happen

LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT RECOGNITION IS A SKILL!

If anyone ever tells you that your work is unprofessional, remember:
Amateurs built the Ark and professionals built the Titanic.