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Easy Ways To Improve Personality

Personality cannot be quantified. Personality can be perceived. Why we are delighted to hear somebody is beyond any scientific explanation. Similarly, why we love seeing some body walk is beyond any science. Personality is a mix of traits that gives a whole impression that can be either attractive or disturbing.

How to improve Personality? Since we judge people with their personality, it is important to find out why a person attracts while another creates negative vibes. Let us begin with posture. Watch yourself in the mirror. Are you keeping a straight body? Watch yourself walking. If you see somebody else walking like that, would you like that? If yes, great, otherwise find out what can be done for improvement. Go through all your normal body movements with a fine comb and bring necessary changes in them to make yourself more attractive.

How about your body maintenance? Do you keep your nails perfectly manicured? Do you look fresh at all the times? What about your hair? Are they healthy? Is your hairstyle enhancing your face value? What about mouth odor and body odor? Make a list and take care of all these aspects.

How about your talking? Your tone, your vocabulary, your choice of words, are they perfect? The way you make sentences, is that appealing? Can you make your voice sound inviting and attractive? Small additions and changes will slowly make big changes in your personality and make you a star.

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Make your Life Beautiful With Life Settlement

One always looks forward to plans and schemes that can consolidate him or her for the rainy days ahead. However, one gets confused while settling in for various plans that provide him the support during his or her golden years. However, one does not have to worry anymore, as one can always invest in life settlement plans.

However, before jumping, plunging and grabbing the extraordinary deals, senior citizens should seek ample of information before making investments offered by various financial service providers. In fact, taking help from life settlement broker or a firm is a good idea, as it offers a chance to the senior citizens to protect themselves against the unpredictable situations and hard times. It has definitely become the hour of the need. One must have been aware of the fact that in life settlement policies the sale of an insurance policy is based on its market value. This market value provides them a way of accessing the equity they have or want to have to fund their daily chores or even to live life accordingly. Therefore, it becomes all the more important to obtain knowledge on life settlement. For the fact of the matter, it came into existence in early years of the 90's in the United States. It grew from the viatical life settlements of the 80's.

However, before this service, the only policy that benefited the senior citizens was to borrow money against the policy’s cash value. Sometimes, to fulfill one’s desires, the policyholder had to surrender it to the insurance company on the same value. However, thanks to the advent in the field of finance sector, the elderly people can sell their policies through a life settlement firm and earn better and higher market value in comparison to other regular financial services. The other hard-core fact is that life settlement services or programs are quite similar to viatical, although these programs are marketed to a different group of seniors. Life settlement is offered to people who are above 65 years and do not suffer from any terminal illness and generally have an estimated life expectancy of 12 years or less. Therefore, this is a good way to get insured for life; even if life plays havoc, then the person is able to overcome such difficult situations. Well, before leaping in these settlement plans and programs, one must take assistance from the professional and can also seek information from already enrolled people. If a person is unable to solve the doubt, then he may get troubled in the future.

The advantage with these life settlement is that any kind of insurance policy can be used for selling. That is why they are also known as friendly policies and fall into the categories of universal, survivorship, term, whole life and variable plans. Hence, grab an opportunity for a healthy and awesome life with the help of life settlement. Moreover, you will be glad to know that several companies are guiding people in procuring life settlement solutions by offering lucrative deals too.

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Tips to come out Ahead

In Many years of interviewing successful people-Olympic athletes, business executives, astronauts, government leaders and others-I have come to realize that there is a fine line between them and the rest of the pack. I call this line the winner's edge.

This edge is not the result of a privileged environment or having a high IQ, a superior education or unusual talent. Nor it is a matter of luck. The key to the winner's edge, I have found, is attitude.

There are many ingredients in a winning attitude, but the most important is being honest with your self. To do this, you must follow three major precepts:

1. Assume responsibility for your actions. The Bible tells us that as we sow, we reap. Scientists talk of cause and effect. This meaning is the same: our rewards depend on the contributions we make. You yourself must take the credit or the blame for your place in life. Responsible people look at the shackles they've placed upon themselves and, in a moment of truth, declare their independence.

Joe Sorrentino grew up in an inner-city neighborhood, became a teenage gang leader and served a sentence in a reform school. Remembering a primary school teacher's confidence in his academic aptitude, he realized that, despite his poor high-school record, his only hope for success was through education. He returned to night school at 20, went on the University of California where he graduated with honors and then finished at Harvard Law School. He became an outstanding juvenile-court judge in Los Angeles. None of this would have happened if Joe Sorrentino had not had the courage to alter his identity.

2. Find your own gifts; follow your own goals. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Polonius tells his son: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." Polonius was advising his son to live according to his own deepest convictions and abilities-daring to be different, while respecting the rights of others.

Most of us, however, find ourselves in a quandary. How do we really want to spend our lives? How do we know we have selected the right career or the proper goals?

My research and experience corroborate the importance of learning what we are "good at," rather than letting parents, teachers, friends or economics make our long-range plans for us.

Having been accepted at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis after an outstanding high-school record, I then found it a struggle to make it to graduation. I had gone to the Academy, which was oriented towards engineering, to please my father, and had unwittingly led myself away from my natural interests in communications and human relations. My subsequent Navy career taught me self-discipline, goal setting and team-work. But it has taken me a quarter of a century to find a profession I truly enjoy, where I can express my talents.

3. Don't escape-adapt. The key to success, to mental and physical health, is adaptability. Under pressure, many of us become depressed; lose our incentive and excitement about life. We tend to drink more, smoke more or rely on tranquilizers to help us cope. While alcohol and other anti-anxiety drugs temporarily reduce emotional reactions to threats of pain or failure, they also interfere with our ability to learn to tolerate this stress,

One of the best ways to adapt to the many stresses of life is simply to accept them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if we view them as corrective feedback, serve to develop in us immunity against the adverse responses to stress.

In developing our critical attitudes for success, we must recognize that there is more freedom in society than ever before and more opportunity to express one's talent and opinions. Those who feel that they are forced to do things ar to escape are not in control of their lives. Winners take the talent or potential they were born with and use it fully towards the purpose that makes them feel worth-while. In short, losers let life happen to them; winners make it happen.

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Does Your Child Read Enough?

Decades of research demonstrates that enjoying reading and reading well are the biggest factors in a child’s school success. Good readers make great students. They score higher on achievement tests at every level, in all subjects, including math and science. So what are the tantalizing secrets of giving your children an academic edge as well as lifelong pleasure?

Good Readers Start Out Ahead.
Reading scores in first standard are a key indicator of school success in the final year of school. Meaning that what happens in the very early years has a lasting effect on learning. So try these tips with young children:

Ø The more you read, talk and sing to babies, the greater their foundation for vocabulary and understanding. The youngest ones are amazingly receptive to language.

Ø Toddlers will sit to interact with books if you pique their interest with questions like “Who’s that?” and “What else do you see?”

Ø Preschool is the time for children to begin to learn the alphabet, and to become aware of the sounds that make up words-a crucial skill for reading known as phonemic awareness.

Ø Young school-age kids need lots of practice reading to and with their parents. Try echo reading to build fluency: You read a passage and then let your child read one. Call your child’s attention to punctuation and interesting words as you read.

Good Readers Have Better Vocabularies.
Think about the conversations you’ve had with your child today. There’s a good chance that-because of the hectic lives parents lead-most of the words you used were simple, intermediate and directive. For example, “It’s time to go now!” Especially on our busiest days, it’s easy for parents to forget that kids look to us for varied and rich conversations. One study showed that when teachers use more complex speech, very young children learn to create more complex sentences themselves. From third standard on, kids need to learn about 3000 new words a year-that’s eight new words a day. And it takes at least four exposures to make a word on their own. To enrich your child’s word power, try these ideas:

Ø Tell stories about the past, present and future. At dinnertime, relate a story about your childhood or ask about an upcoming school event.

Ø Encourage play. According to child development expert Sue Bredekamp, it’s a crucial way for children to hone their language skills and give voice to their ideas.

Ø Read a variety of books-picture books, stories with rhymes, science or history books that convey cool new information. And engage your child in extended conversations about what you read together.

Good Readers Preview and Summarize.
As you begin a new book, spend a little time with the cover, suggests Francie Alexander who works for a publisher of children’s book. Read the title, look at the illustrations and ask your child what she thinks the book is about. Research shows that prediction triggers the deeper thinking that improves comprehension. Every few pages or so, ask your child to retell what’s happened; ask what might happen next.

Good Readers Picture a Story in Their Mind.
Children who do this are better at remembering details and are much more interested in reading for pleasure. Encourage your child to notice a character’s features or clothing, for example.

Good Readers Connect to what they’re Reading.
Comments from you help create engaged readers. “This story reminds me of the time…” or “I wonder if the character…” Soon your child will be eager to make his or her own links.

Preparing your child to be a good reader is one of the greatest gifts you can give as a parent. Kids who struggle over words and have trouble understanding text find little enjoyment in the process. They avoid reading, and it shows. In an American study of fifth-standard students, the most avid readers spent more than 50 times as many minutes a day reading for pleasure as less fluent readers. By year’s end, the better readers had read more than two million more words, creating an even wider gap of proficiency and knowledge.

Academic achievement certainly isn’t the only reason to nurture reading skills. For one thing, there’s the pure joy of reading. As Jennie Nash, author of Raising a Reader, says in her book, “You can find companion in books, counsel, solace and delight. You can spend hours alone in a room listening to the quiet music of the written word.”
Reading can give your child those magic moments and much more.

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