Curing the Blues - 14 "Feel-Good" Ways to Get Out of the DumpsWritten by Heather Diodati
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.Curing Blues 14 "Feel-Good" Ways to Get Out of Dumps By Heather Diodati http://www.whimsies-online.com Everyone goes through that "in blues" feeling once in awhile. The best cure is to be around people that you care about; family, friends; and keeping yourself busy enough to change your mind. Here are some "mood changers" to help you overcome those "down- in-the-dumps" feelings. 1. Less Fortunate Visit a hospital or chronic care home to pass out small inexpensive surprises to residents. They will enjoy care and attention from something so unexpected. 2. Pamper Yourself Pamper yourself with a candlelit bubble bath, then prepare your favorite gourmet meal while sipping on a glass of bubbly white wine in one of your special crystal glasses. 3. Something Special for Others Plan some community work - help out at local shelter, volunteer at your local church, work with other volunteers to spread some caring amongst your community. It'll make you feel better about yourself and happy that you've helped out others less fortunate than yourself. 4. All in Family Spend some quality fun time with your niece or nephew or other child in your family. 5. The Gift of Time Offer to do some work to free-up some time for your spouse or parent. For example, cleaning Dad's garage or a full-house vacuuming for your wife. How about for your best friend - you can walk her dog or baby sit one evening. 6. Long-Distance Caring Call your favorite aunt whom you haven't seen since she moved far away, or your best friend who transferred to another country - let them know you're thinking of them.
| | Discover the Key to Self-confidenceWritten by Colin Dunbar
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation" - Arthur Ashe Self-confidence is necessary for success As Arthur Ashe says preparation is an important key to self-confidence. And preparation can be achieved by using goal setting tool of questions. Asking questions, that is, doing research, can enable you to become proficient in whatever subject or area you want you to. Self-confidence is necessary not only to achieve success with our goals, but also to live a happier and contented life. When we have self-confidence, we can overcome many of life's obstacles easier. How then do we find key to self-confidence? Identify obstacle Before you can work on gaining more self-confidence, you need to clearly identify area that is an obstacle for you not having self-confidence. When you have identified obstacle, you can use a variety of goal setting tools to solve it. And yes, you should undertake your development of self-confidence as a goal. This way you can make positive progress, and have eventual success. Can I share following true story with you... Having had over eight years experience in technical writing, but lacking industry software skills, I turned down positions as result of a lack of self-confidence. It did not take any rocket science for me to realize that I needed to become skilled in software that was being used in industry. The industry standards at time were Microsoft Word and CorelDRAW. If you are familiar with these software packages, you know there are a myriad of features, and in technical writing, many of these are used.
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