Category: BOOKS AND READING

Will Power

Sep 15th, 2021

Will Power can move mountains. Since childhood we all have heard a saying ‘ where there is a will there is a way’. To achieve success in life one has to undergo so much rejections, failures at times, but one has to always be positive and think about new opportunities. How our will power plays a vital role? Will Power makes us strong. By will power we mean being positive. If we fail in exam, it’s no doubt disappointing, but there is hope whispering in our ear that, yes, I will perform well next time.

Will Power is inner strength which a person has, to fight against all odds. We under estimate the power of will. Sometimes medicines or treatment does 50% good to a patient and the rest good is done by his own will power to be healthy. There are so many problems going on, still people find power, courage to smile.

Moreover, always be the person you are, never change, ups and downs are part of life. We must learn how to celebrate our happiness and how to deal with sadness. Both emotions are required to feel other one. The good qualities which are there in you must not become absent by the wrong doing of others. The ‘karma’ will do the justice. Be patient and leave it to God.

The will power to stand with head held high is attained when you know that you were all the time generous to others, were soft spoken, never hurt anyone, be you,haven’t harm anyone, be kind and fair, you must clap for yourself, be proud of yourself. The kindness, the generousity, can’t be seen but felt.

Competition in everything had make us arrogant, jealous, always want to have more than others. Peace of mind is at stake, health is at stake, happiness is at stake. When all the things are not aligned ,how can we expect good deeds, good nature, kindness. But what has will power to do with all this? The role of our will power in this competitive world is immense. How? Will power make you stand by your own, without help of others, it makes you strong and makes your mind do things which are necessary and needed. We all have it in us. People can say get well soon, but it’s our inner strength (will power) which will do the magic. How positively we live our lives.

The support of friends and family is always with us but it’s our will power that change illness to wellness. We listen and read to inspirational and motivational post of others but it will only help when we implement one each day and don’t just forward to others.

Life is to live and not to think. Don’t think life, live life. It’s sometimes difficult to write a blog when you are tired, for creative writing also, we need peace of mind, then only we can impress by our expressive writing.

Ramneet Kaur
How to create a happy world for our Children

Sep 9th, 2021

We are aware of how environment, climate change is not only talk of the town but also, impacting world. What can we do so that we can change the scenario? How can our children will live with this environmental changes? All these questions are important and answered on priority. We provide our children good education, good food, things they want and much more. But have you thought of, our each and every action has impact on climate change.

To create happy world for our children, we have to do our little bit by saving natural resources, by using eco friendly products. Children are the future of any country. To save our mother nature, should be our utmost priority, then only we can provide a healthy environment to our bright children. I must share link of an app with you so that you may know how you can contribute to save mother nature and inspire others to do the same. This app has all the information and events are organised in which you can also participate.

The app name is A World in support of Act Now. https://actnow.aworld.org/?refid=ramneetkaur

Link is being shared with you all. Sometimes it’s important to act rather than just read and forget. I hope we are together in this too and create a happy and healthy world by doing our little bit and have an impact on others mindsets too.

Do download the app, have each and every information about climate change and what the world is doing, what you can do. Be the change for our children. Give them the gift of nature.

Ramneet Kaur
Road Trip

Sep 7th, 2021

Have you been on a road trip? If yes then, how you feel about it? Do you feel more tired or you enjoy? Everyone of us have been to a road trip, I don’t think there is anyone of us who don’t have been on it. The difference is that how each one of us feel after a road trip. I enjoy road trips, despite tiredness. Occasional travellers find road trips more exciting than frequent travellers.

I recently been on road trip after so long and enjoyed it. Planning of road trip was done,all the essentials were taken. Excitement was on peak. The journey and destination both were beautiful. We reached our destination after 7 hours and after rest whole day, started our sightseeing trip for whole day very next day. We visited many places and reached our hotel in the evening.

Do’s and Don’t on road trip. 1. Try to take some light eatables with you so that you don’t have to take breaks again and again in between your journey. 2. Have enough water with you, you don’t know when and how far you will find a shop to buy a bottle of water. 3. Stop when your car needs to cool down. 4. Keep your valuables safe. 5. If you are travelling with kids, then stopage should be kids friendly. 6. Be aware and informed about good family restaurants available in between your journey. 7. Also be informed about fuel ( petrol/diesel/ cng) filling stations.

You can explore the places according to your wish on road trip and according to your convenience. The more you explore by your own, the more you know about it. The words can’t explain, what is felt while you are on road trip. Go on road trip to experience the fun.

Ramneet Kaur
Things to do VS Things we do

Sep 7th, 2021

There is so much to do in one single day that sometimes 24 hours seems less. To plan our day ,we make a Things to do list. In which we make a list of things we have to do in a day. Anyone can make a list of things to do in a day. It helps in completing important things and we by seeing the list remember what all work we have to complete. I suggested by son to make a list of things to do. By following my idea he now daily make a list of things which he has to do. He then tick mark the things which he completes in a day. By the end of the day he comes to know what all chapters he learned, homework done by him, some project work if given by his teacher. By making list he never forgets what he has to do in a day.

As we all are CEO’S of our own life, we must set some targets daily for ourselves and try to achieve that self- made targets. The targets which we make for ourselves should be focused on our own improvement and not to compete with others. We all are now a days so much health cautious that some have joined gyms, some have taken diet plans, some have now become vegan. Most of the time what happens is people join gym, after a week or a month they get bored because everyone wants instant result, but to achive certain figure one must have to work hard.

People do things that are in trend, without thinking once that, is the trend good or right for them or not. We must not always blindly follow the trend. Everyone of us have different lifestyles. A thing may be good for one and bad for other. We know which food is good for our health, still need an advisor to advise us. And ready to pay huge amount to them for their expertise. Self-care is the best way to be happy. When you are happy, people around you will also be happy. So the most important thing to do is Self-care. People come across so much motivational, inspirational post daily that they just read it and forget it. The most inspirational and motivational person you will see is in the mirror.

Take care of that person first. Have the courage to say ‘no’. People have their opinion, let them be. Live your life, and be happy. Happiness is more important than anything. If you try to make everyone happy all the time and ignore yourself then you are doing harm to yourself. Taking care of yourself is not being selfish, it’s self-care. Make a list of things to do so that you make all the effort and focus to achieve that daily goal. Be it paying bills, visiting someone, planning for future, professional targets etc. These are the things which you have to do, you like it or not. Fulfilling all the family responsibilities should always be a priority without ignoring oneself.

So, always remember, you are important too.

Ramneet Kaur
Food

Sep 2nd, 2021

Our day starts with eating our breakfast, the most important meal of the day. We should eat proper breakfast, you may have read or heard and that’s right too. But what we do is, either skip our breakfast because we have to reach office on time or eat outside food so that we save time preparing our home cooked breakfast. What type of food we are eating will make us healthy or unhealthy in future. So, having healthy meal is the only option you have, if you are concern about your and your families health.

When we were in school, we were taught about balanced diet. Let’s follow the basics. In this fast world, the lifestyle of people have changed a lot. We see so much eating joints catering fast food, Continental, Indian, Mughalai, Italian, Chinese etc. you name it and they have it. All the dishes are available all over the globe. Children love to have fast food more but consequences after consuming it are harsh. It’s necessary to provide home cooked food more often than outside food.

The preparation or dishes which we make at home are more hygienically made than at any street food seller or eating cart. It is because the vegetables, spices, oil, and other food items used in it are of good quality and selective. On the other hand vegetables and fruits which a street food seller uses is bought in bulk and can be of bad quality at times. I also loved street food and eating out but it has health hazards. The food prepared at home is healthy, nutritious, tasty, and the recipe of it is unique. We all non- vegetarians make chicken at home but the taste will be different of each recipe.

My recent short trip has made me divert my liking from outside food to home cooked food. Just visit any street food seller and try to see what things they are using and if you will be making same thing at home were you not using superior quality items? We intentionally ignore these things as it seems more tasty to our taste buds. There are some people who due to their jobs or studies are living far from their home, they may be more dependent on these easily available, cheap street food ,but it’s not good at all for health. Try to seek home cooked food around your area and have that, instead of street food. Or you can make sandwiches, learn to make french toast, these small things will not only keep you healthy but also make you future ready. As you will learn to cook more and more new dishes.

The food provided in any canteen, it may be school or college canteen, should not provide fast food. Instead they can provide local recipes to the students. The Governments can do their part by proper licencing of street food seller. So that their food items could be checked at any time by govt officials and if found unhygienic their licence can be cancelled or panalty should be imposed on them.

Eating fruits and raw vegetables as salad is good. Indulge in these, as snacks. Its important to eat healthy at all times. Having street food every fortnight will satisfy your taste bud, at least you have achieved that stage, where earlier you were eating outside meal daily, now only once in fortnight, you will see tremendous change in your lifestyle. The food we eat should be so enriched in nutrients that we don’t have to take suppliments.

As it is said ‘we are what we eat’ and that’s true. If we over indulge in something or other it will automatically harm us may be in long run. That’s why we must take a balanced diet, so that all the essential nutrients will be consumed by us and make us more immune against any disease. We all are aware about the benefits of all the veggies and fruits. So, be the change and feed yourselves and your families healthy, and nutritious home cooked food from now on.

‘Healthy food is Happiness’

Ramneet Kaur
Good Vibes

Sep 1st, 2021

Vibes are, how you feel when you visit a place or meet someone. The moment you enter a place, be it a house, restaurant, hotel, historical place, park, etc. you feel something good or bad about that place. Same is when you meet a person, how he/she talks, his/her body language says it all.

The interior of a place affects the vibes of a place. The colour of walls, choice of paintings or decor, placement of furniture, what kind of music is playing, if playing at that place. Now let’s talk about vibes of a person. When you talk to someone known to you, you may know about his nature but when you talk to someone for first time, you can easily know about them by the vibes.

Some people are such that, when you are with them you feel so positive and happy on the other hand, some people are such that you always want to ignore and avoid them because of their rigid nature. The people who are always complaining, ungrateful, negative, are the people who possess bad vibes. By talking to these kind of people you will automatically feel their vibes. The people with good vibes are happy, take things positively, never complains, always grateful for what they have. People want to interact with them more.

The vibes of a house also has an impact on people living in it. If the vibes of a house are good then people living in it will also have good vibes and vise-versa. When we enter a hotel for stay, we always listen instrumental music, and fragrance of aroma oil adds to good vibes. Music also has vibes, because we are talking about how we feel. Music also affects how we feel. Try one day, listen to sad songs, you will automatically feel sad because it will switch on your sad feeling button. The feelings which you might be hiding. Try another day, listen to good happy numbers, dance numbers you will automatically feel light hearted and forget all the stress.

Aroma oil diffusers are used to add fragrance to the surroundings. Each and every fragrance has its unique quality and unlike music they don’t have bad vibes.The interior of any property should be in such a way that all the things present in it sync with each other. Always make sure that you choose right colours for your walls, decor accordingly, lesser the things more the good vibes.

Nature has its own vibes, when we come across natural beauty, we are not only mesmerized by it but it also boost our spirits. The natural music of flowing water, the chirping of birds, natural fragrance of blooming flowers, the rising sun, they all cost nothing to us and are natural source of good vibes. We always get attracted towards good vibes.

Good vibes attracts good and bad vibes attracts bad. Make yourself such that you attract good vibes only.
Financial Planning

Aug 26th, 2021

Financial Planning, as the name suggest is today’s topic of the blog. Today we will learn how financial resources can be utilised in such a manner that we don’t have to worry in future about finances. We earn money and spend on daily or say monthly expenditures of ours, be it household expenses or travelling expenses. Expenditures are fixed and we have to bear them, that’s why we earn, so that we can run a family. There are many expenses which we have to add after marriage or say after a baby comes to the family.

When we have to raise a family, we have to think about present expenses and future expenses too and save for it too. Let’s say if a person has to save for his son’s higher education, then how much he should save monthly so that at certain period, when he needs the money, a good corpus should be available to him. This is called financial planning. When we plan for our future. There are many financial experts who will provide you with details about it, but according to my personal experience one should start saving from an early age. The habit of saving money is good for all. At least 20% of the earnings should be saved for future.

You might be wandering how financial planning is related to happiness. Yes, It is, when we are financially secure, it gives us peace of mind and it becomes reason to be happy. Now a days, people like to invest their money in shares, mutual funds, Bitcoins. These instruments of investment have market risk involve in it as you may or may not get the required return after investment, but they give good returns in long run. If you can stay invested for long term then these will fetch you good return on your investments. Now the question arise, how to evaluate, how much money is required or how to plan our finances so that our old age expenses, higher studies of our child and other expenses of future would be met with the returns on investments? The answer to this question will be different in each case. As it depends upon how much one earns, in which field his child wants to persue his career, lifestyle of the person. All these factors affects financial planning.

When we plan our finances systematically, we will have peace of mind in future and at present also feel pleased and say to ourselves that yes I have done a right thing to save money for my future. Though future is unpredictable, but we have to be also ready for any and every emergency, for that we must have emergency fund. We must enjoy life, go for vacations, have party, see movies, etc. and at the same time save money wisely for the future too. Always opt for health insurance and live a healthy lifestyle too. When you are more cautious about your health, you save so much money which might be spent on medical bills.

Start investing small amount of money from an early age, this will not only built a healthy habit of saving but also helps in forming a good corpus for future. Try not to use credit card or use it occasionally. Be it business or job, a fixed monthly income should be divided into

1. Household expenses.

2. Medical expenses

3. Travelling expenses

4. Food and entertainment expenses

5. Savings

6. Emergency fund

7. Education fund.

Always think about saving before spending. Teach this healthy habit of saving to your children too, how? Buy them a piggy bank and tell them to save their money in it. On their birthday, open the piggy bank and deposit that money, collected by them in their bank account.

They will feel more than happy to see the financial transaction done by them in bank at so early age. It will not only teach them how to save money but also make them future ready to deal with banking system. On every special day, be it birthday, annivarsary etc. invest, be it a small investment, investments will earn you returns.

These small steps taken by us in present will fetch us optimum amount in future. Financial planning will give you sense of satisfaction, security, happiness too. Plan your finances according to your future needs.

Ramneet Kaur