Archive for May, 2008
3 tips to create a more efficient morning time
To many friends especially early risers, morning time is very important and valued. morning time period is also a high efficiency time zone and plays an important role in creating a happy and satisfying day. We are always wanting to have a good day with high productivity, then let us begin from the morning. Here I am honored to share 3 simple steps to boost the efficiency of the morning time.
1 begin a day with a gratitude list
We all know that a good state of mind will bring a high efficiency. In that state, we feel we are powerful, dedicated, confident and god-blessed. Gratitude is one of the most important sources for good mood. In nowadays, we are able to complete our goals or work with much help from many persons. We shall delibe-rately thank them because when we are in a state of gratitude, we are adjusting ourselves focus on the good things which will purify our mind, fill our heart with love and peace. From the view of law of attraction, when we are making gratitude list, we are sending out most powerful positive vibrations and attracting more of the same good things back to us. In my experience, I can always make me feel good from making gratitude list and it is always a good signal to enter high efficiency state.
2 List or review the plan for today
Time always flies without noticed. Successful people are not always those work longer than ordinary people, instead, they have clear goals and dedicated actions, that is to say, they know where they want to go and where they are going. Morning is the start of new day and infinite chances, so if we grasp the time from the beginning, we are in half the battle.
Listing or reviewing plans is a good action in the morning. With this action done, we have decided that we will try to put anything aside except the goal-related things. Little things done to waste time, we are certain to be higher efficient.
3 begin from the MIT(Most Important Things)
If there is still some time left for the morning, we can first begin from the MIT(most important things). We can pick out one MIT and begin working on it. It is possible that we can’t complete it in the morning zone, but it will help us building up confidence on completing MITs and managing time. The more important for us is that we are doing the right thing which directly leads to our success.
There is a saying said that a good start is the half of the success. Grasp the morning time tightly and create a perfect day with satisfying productivity.
Do you have more good ideas to boost morning time? Please present them in the comment and I am looking forward your suggestions.
Email this post4 easy steps for blog proofreading
After a blog is completed, we will begin another important task: proofreading. Although this title guides us that this article is only for blog, in fact, it can be extended to any other writing areas, such as papers, magazines, presentations, lectures and so on. Below you will find 4 simple and practical steps to carry on a good proofreading.
Tag: blog writing, blog proofreading, writing skills, writing tips
In fact, the whole process for blog proofreading begins from the beginning of your blog writing. In this post, blog proofreading process can be divided into 4 simple steps:
1 Using spell checks tools while blog writing
In nowadays, it is more convenient for spell checking. There are many real-time or post-writing spell checking tools available.
Real-time spell checking tools: Many editors have provided this function, such as Microsoft word, especially word2007. It can check the wrong words spelling, simple tense and voice, plural or singular of a noun in real-time. You can find it very easy and convenient to eliminate many mistakes with the help of word2007 while you are writing.
Post-writing spell checking tools: some editors and browsers have such function. My blog is wordpress-based and the standard editor of it can perform such checking. Firefox browser is the same too.
2 preparations for a good proofreading
a) Concentration. Concentration is the key especially when checking the blog written by us. Without a good mind state, we will perhaps easily miss some inconspicuous mistakes. Concentration is also the basis of all the other check steps.
b) Print it out. This preparation is optional, but it is useful for an effective proofreading. We always read differently on paper and on screen. At the same time, with the printed blog in hand, we can also choose other good or convenient places to perform proofreading.
3 proofreading manually
We can take different means to begin proofreading. Read it aloud or silent, read it backwards or just review it quickly are all ok. You choose the best method which is suitable for you, but for many people, read it aloud and slowly is helpful for proofreading.
A more important thing to be known is what to check. We only check homonyms, contractions, apo-strophes and numbers most of the time during this step. If we have time, we shall recheck the tense, voice etc.
4 further proofreading
Sometimes it is not enough only check at one time and by your own. We are always easily fooled by our own mind-set. So put it aside and carry on proofreading after a while is a smart decision. Many times you will find more little mistakes in the blog. If possible, find another person to help you proofreading. The blog perhaps is strange to him and he doesn’t have your mind-set, so the left unnoticed mistakes will be found out.
Proofreading is also a necessary part of good writing. I hope you can find useful information from this post. Other suggestions are welcome and you can leave them in the comments.
4 Tips on submitting your site to search engine
If we have set up a website and prepared good content for it, it is the time to submit our website. Once accepted, we can then attract more traffic with the help of search engine. We all know that traffic is king, so it is important to prepare yourself for the submission. In this post, you will find 4 tips to submit you site.
1. Submit your website not pages.
Almost all the search engine will remind you that you should only submit your website URL, for example, if I want to submit my site, I only need to submit http://www.money-attraction.com. No needings for other pages in my site because the search engine can visit all my pages, no matter how deep level they are in.
2. Number of pages submitted every day
In the first tip, we mean it is no need to submit pages in your website, but if you stick to submit them, pay attention to that different search engines have different policies on number of pages submitted every day. Generally and securely speaking, the max number of pages submitted is 5 everyday.
3. Don’t always submitted website repeatedly
Many search engines don’t punish your behavior of repeatedly submitting, but in fact, repeatedly submitting has little effect on being accepted faster. One thing we shall know is that some directory Index services have claimed that they disallow repeated submitting.
Many times we want to submit repeatedly just because we can’t find our pages in the search engines after submitting. Every search engine will need some time to accept your site, so just be patient and prepare for your site.
4. Improve the visiting speed of your website
Of course, the visiting speed is most influenced by your hardware level and bandwidth. But spending some time on optimizing your site is also ok. It is well known that search engines like faster website. Low speed will bring down your PR and even make your website deleted from the search engine database.
Easy temper control using gratitude list
Using gratitude list helps us regain our controllability and peace deep in the heart. It is the peace or well-being in our heart which making us feel better and control temper better.
Tags: gratitude list, temper control, well-being, peace
In the previous article on temper control towards our lover, I have shared a practical way based on creative visualization.
Creative visualization is really a good method, while to make effect better we will need much practice. A most important point to use creative visualization is to form a good image on our lovers. We have many ways attaining this purpose and gratitude list is one of the most effective.
In fact, gratitude list is not only effective for temper control, but also for keeping a positive and happy mind set.
1. Why use gratitude list?
Whenever we feel bad, there must be something which we don’t want or like. All the things happened are objective, but our attitudes towards them are subjective, which will greatly influence our emotion, sometimes even throw us into the abyss of despair.
If we can move our attention away from the things we don’t want right now, we can feel better at once. But it is easier said than done for many people. We have observed many friends who can control their temper well, for example, they will keep silent, go away or even play a joke in that situation. For many of us, we perhaps burst out shouting or took even worse measure. But in fact, we all know two facts when we calm down:
1. The matters creating quarrel are always not worthy and there are always way out for them.
2. We always feel regretful for losing temper, especially when hurt has been made.
The two facts above show that we always forget to move our attention away from the bad things, bad looking or bad feelings.
We always can find the beauty and advantages of each other when calm down, while we ignore them all when losing temper. What is the reason?
It is because that the advantages we have found are shadowy and unvalued enough.
Some friends perhaps will argue about this reason, but let’s suppose such a situation: if we can recall the ad-vantages of our partner clearly and really value them, we will realize that lose temper means to destroy all our awareness of these advantages and will kill our advantages realized by our partners. So It will be easier for us to control ourselves better or even change our thoughts on the bad things.
Gratitude list is just such a tool to reminder us of the good and advantages of our partners. It is simple but when used properly, it is really effective and can bring more controllability of us.
2. How to make gratitude list?
Gratitude list is only a tool. You can just make it in your mind; write it in your journal in the computer or with a papery tool, such as a notebook. Each of these three ways is ok. It only depends on which way you like most. For me, I tend to use a notebook. Here are my reasons for this choice:
I always easily forget the list when making gratitude list in my mind and it leaves nothing for me. While writing using computer software, I always feel that words written using typing software will make me lose the benefit of emphasizing these words compared with handwriting. Using a papery tool seems slow, but I can adjust the speed when writing, and I am familiar with my own font and I can emphasize the list during the writing process.
Make sure that you have list all the things you have thought of on your lover. Try to feel his/her advantages or good while writing, if you like, you can use different font and color to complete this list or add your own ornaments to make the list interesting. It is certain that we will come to calm down during this process and the good feeling towards your lover will come back to you.
Gratitude list can be a daily work because that if we can always find the advantages of our lover, we will find that our good feelings are become more and more, then the times of losing temper will become less. In fact, using gratitude list helps us regain our controllability and peace deep in the heart. It is the peace or well-being in our heart which making us feel better and control temper better.
