Saturday, 9 May 2009

The Improtance of Dreaming

Dreaming can be defined as the state where we are imagining or fantasizing about something. It usually happens at night while we are sleeping. Everyone dreams. We often dream about some situations in the past, fantasizing about things, imagining that we are the owner of the world, and even things which are impossible.

We can dream all day, it is called day-dreaming. We often day-dream, either we realize it or not. We fantasize about things want, things we could've done in the past, or imagining something impossible.

The dream we are talking about here is a dream of our future, a dream of a future we want. I know that it's ridiculous for a dustman to dream that in the future he would be a billionaire. It seems impossible, but I know some people who got rich in a blink of an eye. Some people in my country suddenly got rich when their children won a competition.

2 principles to choose your dreams:
  1. Don't be afraid to dream as high as you can.
    It is really important to dream. The dreams would motivate us to keep on working towards the goal. If you have a dream, your body will unconsciously do things which help you to reach the goal.

    Lots of people feel that having a really wild dream will hurt them when they couldn't reach their dreams. The higher the dream, it will hurt you more when you fall. This is wrong. Don't be afraid to fall, just dream! A strong person is a person who can get back up after falling down. Don't burden yourself with the failure, turn the failure into something positive, think that the failure means that you need to try again with more effort. The higher dream you have, the more motivation you will have. Motivate yourself with the dream!

  2. Push your dreams to the limits, but not off the limits.
    Dream as high as you can doesn't mean that you can dream for something really impossible. An example: a dustman who wants to be an astronaut. We have limits for our dreams.

    Push our dreams to the limits, but not off the limits. Choose dreams which are impossible to do now, but might come true in the future! Let's put it like this, dream something which has 1% probability of coming true. For example: an ordinary student who wants to be the king of property business. It's really difficult to be a property king, to be a property king, someone has to have some money to buy some properties first and he/she has to have the knowledge. Thus, the ordinary student has to work really hard to be a property king, but it's possible, even though the probability is only 1%.
Have your own dreams! Motivate yourselves, work hard, reach your dreams, and live happily!

Good luck!

Why Should We Train Our Brains?

Hi guys! Why should we train our brain?
The answer is simple, to survive in this world. Nowadays, jobs are getting tougher and tougher to get. Being smart helps you get a job. It's pretty obvious that companies would prefer employing smart people to stupid people.

Smart here is to be able to respond quickly to situations, especially problems. The responses given also have to be sensible. A smart person has to be able to think logically, make comparisons about the advantages and disadvantages of a decision, think quickly, and of course make decisions. Why should we think quickly? Because life's about taking chances, second chances hardly exist. Training your brain will help you to develop the skills needed to be a smart person.

We now know that we have to train our brains, but why do people don't want to train their brains?
Most people say that brain training is boring. Nowadays, we have lots of games which train our brains. Games such as chess, go, sudoku, rubik's cube, etc. They have the ability to develop your brain power. Chess and go help us in many aspects of your brain, especially the decision-making aspect. In chess and go, we need to make decisions, and we often stand between the winning and losing line. Rubik's Cube, especially whe we are speedcubing, trains our brains to make decisions quickly. Speedcubing means that solving the cube as fast as we can. We also have to memorise the algorithms to solve it quicker. There are lots of other games which train our brains.

In conclusion, why don't we start training our brains now?
You can't be too late to start, start now and feel the difference!

Good luck^^!

Why Should We Train Our Memory?

Having a good memory means a good life. How can this happen? It's simple, a great memory helps you in lots of aspects of life.

Some examples:

  1. Memorising people's names and faces. Have you ever met someone you know, but he/she forgot your name? How did it feel? Bad, huh? When you remember people's names and faces, it makes them feel that you appreciate them, and feel that they are meaningful in our lives. It can sometimes be crucial to remember people's names and faces, it's crucial in situations such as meeting business partners or important people. Business partners sometimes feel that it's impolite to forget their names, as they are your business partners. They might cancel the business deal, etc.
  2. Memorising phone numbers. In this modern world, we have a great thing called mobile-phone which helps us to save phone numbers. But sometimes, it would be better for us to save the phone numbers in our brains, as we might forget to bring our mobile-phones. It's also more practical to save phone numbers in our brains, as we don't have to take the mobile-phone out, open it, and input the numbers. All we have to do is to remember those numbers.
  3. Job Interviews. In job interviews, you will need a good memory to memorise the company's profile, etc.
Memory trainings also help us to be a smarter person by improving our concentration and our observation skill.

Train your memory with mnemonic systems, feel the difference in your life!

Good luck!

5 Tips to Study Effectively

Hi guys! Are you tired of long studying time? Are you bored of looking at your books, memorising the words? Do you want to know how to study effectively? This article is what you're looking for!
If you are having difficulties studying, you are not alone! Studying for an exam has been a problem for most students. Students often say that they don't have enough time to study. Studying time varies from one student to another, some can study in an hour for an exam, but some say that a day is just not enough. This could be a serious problem, when the students who need a long time to study fail an exam, and this happens occasionally, it might give them a shock. The shock can give them stress, this leads to a depression, and the final destination is a life-time regret.


5 tips to study effectively:
  1. Manage your time!

    Time management is always a crucial point, not only in studying, but every aspect of our lives. When you have to ability to manage time, you'll be able to do things at the right time and in an effective way. When it's your time to take a rest, take a rest! When it's your time to study, study! Don't take a rest when you are studying and don't study when you are taking a rest! We need a rest to stay fit when we are studying. When you are studying, concentrate on your study.

    When I have an exam the next day, I usually spend my evening by playing games, watching T.V., reading comic books, surfing the web, and other fun things. Mostly, I start studying at half past 7 and finish before 10 o'clock. My average mark: 80 out of 100. I do whatever I want before I study.

  2. Concentrate!
    Concentration is a crucial point in studying. When you don't have the concentration, you won't be able to study quickly. Concentrating helps you to memorise things quicker. Therefore, speeds up your study.

    There are lots of ways to develop concentration, it varies from one to other students. Some students say that listening to music helps them to concentrate, some say that studying at a really quiet place helps to concentrate, I personally like to study while I listen to music. When I am bored, I sing(though my voice isn't that good), lol.

  3. Believe in yourself!

    Believing in yourself is one important matter. It is a matter of passing and failing. Believing in yourself prevents you from panicking. Sometimes, before we start, we feel that there's too much to memorise, it cause us to panic. By believing in ourselves, we prevent panicking and help us to stay calm. Thus, speeding up our studying time.

  4. Take little breaks!
    This is also crucial, for taking little breaks prevents us from ringing the boredom-bells. It is ideal to take a 5 minute break every half an hour. Use your breaks to drink, stretch your body, and you can even scream to release the stress.

    What if you've already rung your boredom-bells?
    It would be better to study when you are not bored, as boredom might slow you down. Stop studying for a while, have a longer break, 15 minutes maximum, then study again. Never stop too long, a long stop will not help you study quicker, it's a waste of time. When you stop too long, you become too lazy to study again.

  5. Smile!
    A little smile will definitely help you. Little smile, but big effect. Smiles give you the spirit to study. Even if it's a fake smile, they can give you some spirit. Smiles are signs of positive way of thinking, and positive thinking gives you the spirit to study. Smiles can also reduce your boredom alarm time.
Hope that my tips are useful for all of you, they are my personal tips. I suggest you to use mnemonic systems, it really speeds up your studying time. I will write a post about how to use mnemonic systems to study, just wait for it.

Have fun^^!

Friday, 8 May 2009

2 Basic Reasons to Fake Smiles

Everyone knows what smile is, but not everyone knows what it really means. Smiles can mean lots of things, it can even change your life. Often, not smiling can cause much trouble to us. In contrary, smiling can give you lots of things you could never imagine.

Sometimes we fake smiles, why? It's obvious that we fake smiles to get what we want. For example, sometimes we fake smiles in front of our business partners to get a deal. Another example, we fake smiles to get some bonus from our bosses. Those examples are the examples of fake smiles for bad, don't do it.

These are the 2 basic reasons why we fake smiles for good, not for bad:
  1. We fake smile to give ourselves some spirit.
    We have to fake smiles when we have no spirit, when we are sad, and when we need some spirit to stand up. Fake smiles can give

    Most people don't realize that smiles can be used this way. Even though the smiles might be fake, it really affects our feeling. When we have no spirit, we have to smile. The smile will help us to get some spirit. Most people think that it's useless even though we smile, but it's wrong. All you have to do is to open your mouth, stretch your cheeks, show your teeth, and raise your eyebrows. It might be a fake smile in the beginning, then start to put in some feeling in and think about positive things.

    If you really put some feeling in, you'll be able to feel the difference. When you think about positive things, you get even better! Think that everything which has happened can't be repeated. All we can do is to learn from the mistakes we have done, and try not to do it again next time. At the end, we will have a real smile!

  2. We fake smiles to give other people some spirit.
    We often see people around us get some problems. They are sad, they have no spirits, and they need us to give them the spirit. Fake smiles is one our weapons to cheer people around us.

    Smiles are contagious. When people are happy, they smile, and when we see them smile, we also feel that we are happy too. We could also bring happiness to other people by faking smiles. When we want to give other people some spirit, we should smile. I'm sure that most people would rather choose a smiling person to give them spirit rather than people who don't smile. How could you get some spirit from people who don't have spirits. That's why, we should fake smiles, even if we feel some empathy. We have to show our smiles, to make them feel better!
The point is, fake smiles if you think that it's for good. Fake smiles first, make real smiles next^^!

Good luck!