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Believe in God

Nov 7th, 2021

Do you believe in God? I do. It is the best and more trustworthy method to find peace of mind, which most of us are finding, by downloading an app or by paying handsome amount to rejuvenate. When we believe in God our outlook changes altogether to see life from different perspective. We not only find happiness within ourselves but feel happy to make others happy too. We are more happy with what we have and are satisfied. Riches are everyone’s desire but it should not cost your peace of mind.

Visit to a historical place, religious travels cleanses our soul. Running after money all the time gives so much stress, anxiety, diseases that we have to spend handsome amount to get relieved, healthy. Travelling to a holy place not only makes us know that place but provide us it’s positivity too. Some people don’t believe in God, may be they think that they are the source of their happiness and God don’t have a role in their lives. But it’s not true at all, the word ‘KARMA’ says it all, what you will sow, you will reap. If your nature reflects jealousy, ego, anger, arrogance that means you are not enlightened soul and needs God’s guidance.

When you do something wrong or hurt anyone intentionally. It’s denotes your Karma and the consequences will be accordingly. Those who have fear of God, believe in God never attempt these deeds. Rather they are kind, humble, helpful and down to earth souls. Be it any religion or any God we worship, we are never taught to hate anyone, we are not taught to harm anyone. So I wonder about the people who don’t worship or believe any God, never been to holy place to worship. I wonder what restrain them to do so. We can cleanse our body but to cleanse our mind and soul we need to worship the Lord.

One should be patient when someone hurt them. Leave it to God to do the justice. Believe that you will always win. Sometimes we wish one thing, but Lord give us in abundance and this is his way of pouring the love on us. We must always be thankful to God. When we trust the almighty it strengthens us. No matter what we be through, it gives us courage and motivation that God will help us and enlighten our lives. We and whole world is creation of God. The purpose of our existence is only known to him.

When we think practically, we think in monetary terms, like how much profit we will gain, how much to invest to fetch handsome return and emotions takes a backseat. When we think emotionally we are are least bother about any gains but want to win a relation. When we think spiritually, we become children of God and surrender in front of him. When we are in party mood we forget everything and gets indulge in drinking, casino, we see a new world where everyone is happy and enjoying, but overindulgence is bad.

It’s not that those who believe in God never party, we do but our way of celebrating is somewhat different. We include presence of God in each our celebrations, because he is the reason for our celebrations, how can we forget him. In Gurbani its said: ਸੋ ਕਿਉਂ ਵਿਸਰੇ ਜਿਨ ਸਭ ਕਿਛੁ ਦੀਆਂ। English Translation: Why to forget the almighty who has given us everything. Likewise we never forget him in sorrow so that we gets strength to face this situation too.

We have seen many times Doctors failed and lives of patients saved by a miracle. What this miracle shows, it shows that there is a power or force which is over and above man’s intelligence. We have seen doctors find themselves helpless in this pandemic. The situation was worsening in many parts of the world, we have seen videos of doctors who were worshiping God for help. We can’t deny and will always be thankful to doctors and medical staff who worked day and night to save lives of people without bothering about their lives. Their reaserch gave us life saving vaccines, they are still working on children vaccine. Those who believe in God saved lives of others, the kindness, humanity, helpful nature which each religion possesses works for us.

We should always visit holy places to get vaccinated against hate, jealousy, wrong deeds, anger. Pay our respect there and again go for booster shots if needed. But as pandemic is still not ended, should always wear mask, maintain social distance and clean your hands.

Ramneet Kaur
Happy Earth 🌍 Happy World

Oct 7th, 2021

We all are aware about climate change. I want to bring some facts in front of my readers. So that, we can also contribute in saving our planet earth, by small lifestyle changes, which are necessary and urgently required. I will tell you, what we can do as global community and how it will be helpful and impactful for generations to come. If our earth will be happy🌍, so does our world 🌍.

Things which we can do in our daily routine.

* Recycle and reuse plastic By recycling and reusing plastic we save our environment from waste generated by it and decrease the demand for new such products for which fossil fuels are used and pollute the environment.

* Stop food waste We should not buy things more than our need. When we throw things in garbage, not only we waste money but the energy used in packaging, producing and distribution of that waste. So it’s necessary to stop food waste.

* Switch to led lights it is a simple way to lower your carbon footprints and save money. LED light bulbs use much less power than regular bulbs.

* Save water take a five minute shower instead of 10 minutes. turn off the tap while brushing your teeth.

* Unplug your appliances When we leave devices such as PC, TV, they still draw power, even when they are switched off. So, unplug your appliances when not in use. Plugged in devices use 7% of regular energy, even if turned off.

* Switch off lights when you leave the room it will save good amount of money.

* Eat plant based meal did you know eating less meat and dairy and more plant based food- such as vegetables, fruits, whole grain, nuts can significantly lower your environmental impact? Plant based food produce less greenhouse gas emissions and use less energy, land and water.

* Bring your bag can seriously reduce the amount of plastic waste of the world. Plastic bags not only pollute the ocean and environment, they clog sewers, kills wildlife and damage ecosystem.

* Buy local it is important to support local economies. Local food seriously reduce the climate impact and lowers carbon emitted to get that food on your table.

* Use reusable coffee mug by using less paper cups we help to save our environment so, lets use a reusable coffee mug.

* Air dry laundry it is not only gentle to your cloths but also save energy and money.

* Bring your bottle carry your own water bottle where ever you go, it will save us from plastic waste.

If we want to save our environment, not only for ourselves but for generations to come, we have to take actions now, towards different ways which lead to sustainability. These above mentioned small acts have huge impact on saving earth. This is a topic which is always neglected or we just read and think how a single person’s small act will have huge impact. We can share this message with our family and friends encourage them too. It will not only save money for you but will be beneficial in long run for saving environment.

We, as global family have responsibility towards mother earth,🌍 to nourish and save it. As its said in Gurbani :

ਪਵਣ ਗੁਰੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਪਿਤਾ ਮਾਤਾ ਧਰਤਿ ਮਹਤੁ ||
ਦਿਵਸ ਰਾਤਿ ਦੁਇ ਦਾਈ ਦਾਇਆ ਖੇਲੈ ਸਗਲ ਜਗਤ ||

Translation in English: Air is the Teacher, Water is the Father and Earth is the Mother of all. Day and night are the two nurses in whose lap whole world is at play.

Let’s join hands and fight against global threat, climate change. Every single act to save mother earth counts. Be a part of it.

Ramneet Kaur
Benefits of Reading

Oct 1st, 2021

Reading is a habit which is cultivated right from childhood. We read academic books from where we learn various things. That books are compulsary for children to read and study from them. Other than that, I used to read a lot of comics, newspaper, magzines etc. As child we were not engaged in mobiles and tv. So, we very much have time for reading books, other than school books. Now, it’s difficult to make children cultivate habit of reading, but I manage to do so with my son. I provide him comics, children magzines, story books, he is a big fan of ‘Harry Potter‘. He also read many editions of ‘Tom Gates‘ too.

Due to which his reading, writing and speaking skills are good. The credit goes to him also, as he obeyed me. The benefits of reading was known to me. Which I will share with you today. It strengthens brain, brain scans show that throughout the reading period and for days afterwards brain connectivity increases.

Builds vocabulary, students who read books regularly, beginning at young age, gradually develop large vocabularies. Reading books is the best way to increase your exposure to new words.

Reduce stress, the study found that 30 minutes of reading lowered blood pressure, heart rate and feelings of psychological distress just as effectively as yoga and humour did.

May even help you live longer, the study also concludes that people who read more than 3 1/2 hour every week were 23 percent likely to live longer than those who didn’t read at all.

Prepares you for good night’s sleep, helps prevent age related cognitive decline, reading books and magazines keeps mind engaged, prevents diseases like Alzheimer.

After knowing so many benefits, I am going to buy more books for reading. You also think about it and start reading from today itself.

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
Power of Education

Jul 9th, 2021
Education enlightens our path to success. Education which we get right from childhood help us to communicate with different people and help us to reach our goals.

There are a large number of people who are illiterate or less educated, that doesn’t mean they are worthless. If they have a thirst to get educated, it will only help them and the society in which they live.

An educated citizen is an asset to its country. Educated person, with their skill, dedication, knowledge and hard work can help its country’s development. He can help in making policies, laws, rules. It’s because of our education, that bloggers blog and readers read and understand. We all exchange different ideas, knowledge,skill, which empowers us. It’s unto us that how and in what ways we can take optimum advantage of our knowledge and education.

Education doesn’t mean just passing out from college or university. It’s a continuous learning process. Education makes us capable of understanding and solving different and complicated problems of not only our day to day life but future also. The communication skill which we have is just because of knowledge of a language, be it written or spoken helps us to convey our message around the globe.

There is vast ocean of knowledge. Its due to education only, that different scientists made vaccines, its their knowledge which is helping us to fight the pandemic. Doctors, teachers, Financial Experts and other professionals are an asset to the country.

Education can be attained at any age. We should not stop learning, rather we should always keep learning throughout our life.

Ramneet Kaur