Learning is a never ending process. We keep on learning in day to day life. It’s not degrees that tell us how qualified we are. After getting many degrees we still learn from our personal experiences.
Learning new skill is beneficial for our self growth. It makes us occupied with thought process in right direction. It makes us more creative. There are many benefits of learning new skill.
* It can boost your happiness. When we learn a new skill, it increases our level of happiness as we get excited and curious to learn new things.
* It helps beat boredom. Doing repetitive work all day long and daily makes us bore. What we do to kill boredom is turn on the TV. But learning new skill has edge over it.
* It boost confidence. Learning new skill makes us more confident as we gain knowledge about particular field and by being confident about it we fight against fear and anxiety.
* It keeps you healthy. Learning is great for our brain at every age. It makes the brain to think in right direction, makes brain to think positively
* It makes us explore new opportunities. By learning new skill we become aware of opportunities related to that skill which can make us self reliant.
* It gives us reason to smile. It not only make us independent but also respectable. It makes us know our hidden talent and potential.
Now you may know many benefits of learning new skill. Never stop learning. We should keep on learning new skill and explore new opportunities for ourselves. The benefits are immense but it will only help if we first come to know what to learn and how to learn according to your own potential.
We are now in last month of the year, December. Let’s review this year, 2021. This year comes with hope and excitment but in March, April 2021, second wave in India makes everyone go through sleepless nights and many lost their near and dear ones. But we come through that phase too with supporting and helping each other. We were worried throughout the year for Delta variant of COVID. Now the outbreak of Omicron variant shows that we will have to learn to live with COVID for long and keep on taking precautions as earlier worldwide. This was about COVID.
Now let’s review what changes we go through this year, how was the year and what we must not miss in last month of the year. Take a notebook or journal and write down 5 good things which happens to you starting from first month, January till November. You will be surprised to know what all good happens to you. As we are in second week of December it’s the month to celebrate Christmas and New year Eve. So, enjoy the festivity.
I love festive season, be it a birthday, a wedding, or celebrating any festival. Just a thought of festivals makes us overwhelmed and feeling of happiness follows. You see markets, malls, the city all are ready to welcome happiness. Like they are magnetic force attracting happiness towards them. Traditions and rituals to follow, it makes the environment worth it. Focus on enjoying the festival and togetherness of people.
Become a Santa for someone in need, gift them your care and kindness wrapped in love. Be the one whom anybody see and their eyes fill with hope and happiness. The message is to spread peace and prosperity all around the world. The wedding season is also round the corner. I see so much enthusiasm in people purchasing stuff, dresses, winter wear to welcome winter as well as wedding season. Happy are those who welcome happiness with a smile and grab it with both hands.
What are your plans for last month of the year? Are you also excited about it? If yes, then do comment your plans, how you will spent last month of the year. It is last month of the year but definitely not the least. See you with more blogs. Have a good day.
Motherhood is a blessing. In this blog I will highlight the role of a mother in shaping up her child’s future and her contribution to make her child a good human being.
Mother plays a crucial and most important role in upbringing of a child. But her sacrifices and contribution is underestimated. The emotional, moral values, child’s overall growth, a mother does it all. Sometimes she has to become a shield for her child, to protect child from all the evil. Mothers are full of emotions and love when it comes to her child. She supress her feelings when she is taken for granted at times just for the sake of giving good environment and happiness to her child.
I will still say, motherhood is a blessing because your child’s love makes you feel so. The day your child is born, you also born as a mother. It’s your birthday too. Your child is always at back of your mind. Wherever a mother goes she is always worried and concern about her child. Motherhood becomes mentalhood when she has to perform all the duties by her own be it household work, helping child with homework, socialising, taking care of all the family members etc. I am saying so because a mother puts all her heart in raising her child and the family. But instead of being appreciated, listens to taunts, that she has done nothing new. These taunts and non- appreciable behaviour by others makes her go into depression.
A mother sacrifices her career for the good of the family but not recognised by others shows, how man dominated this society is. Imagine if mother is ill, whole family gets disturbed. So, it’s important to give utmost respect and appreciation to the woman of the family for her happiness and good for the family. Being a mother is a blessing because not all woman are so blessed. A mother’s happiness is very much important.
When we appreciate someone it makes them happy. So is the case within the family, if the efforts of a mother is respected and recognised she will do more than she can for the family with happiness. When a mother makes you feel that family is her world. So it’s duty of the family members that they make this world more happy place to be. Life of a woman changes when she becomes a mother. Her time is being divided. She devote more time with her child and due to which the time which she has to be with other family members is compromised.
A mother is said to be busy with some course or hobby when her care is not needed anymore by the family. Everyone is independent and can take care of themselves. Funny part about motherhood is that you keep on making plans to visit your friends but unable to fulfill all the promises. Household chores is considered as most unproductive work which a woman does her whole life. Grocery shopping, it takes so much time thinking and making the right choices for the family. A woman or mother is the backbone of a family.
The emotional, spiritual, academic, mental growth of a child is result of 90% contribution of his mother. Mother makes her child a good human being by giving him good moral values, by performing good deeds by self, and encourage child to do the same. Repetitive action of child makes him aware of good which he is doing for the society. The child will be spiritual if he see it in family and learn from it. Academic performance of a child will be good if he is encouraged and supported all the time. The knowledge should be above the grades which he get. When a mother wins confidence of a child she not only becomes a mentor for his child but a friend too.
It’s the intelligence of a mother in everything she do for his child and family which makes a happy child and a happy family altogether. Motherhood should be celebrated everyday and not only on mother’s day. Because she is the one who look after her child and family everyday ignoring her interests and health. A mother should always be respected, be it a working mother or full time mother. Her contribution is unmatched.
What is happiness? When you attain peace of mind, is happiness. Defination of happiness depends upon our own self. For some money is happiness, for some good relations is happiness. Enjoying each other’s company is happiness.
Going on a vacation makes everyone happy. It uplifts our mood and makes us more energetic. Some kind people loves to do generous or social work like feeding hungry, providing essential things to needy. These people find happiness in making others happy. We can define happiness according to our terms. People copy each other to find happiness but forget that happiness is an inside job. You can’t find happiness by just coping others. When you are not 100 percent satisfied with what you are doing, you won’t be happy with the things you are doing and with yourself too.
Self-love is happiness. When you love yourself without bothering about, what others think about you, you start feeling good about yourself. Money can’t buy happiness. If it could have, then world’s richest people should have been the most happiest people on the earth. But it is not so. Money can buy you temporary happiness, but for happiness within yourself and peace of mind it’s important that how you react to a situation. If someone provoke you, do you get angry or calmly tackle the situation?
It’s very easy to get angry, difficult to stay calm. Try to do the difficult thing. When we complete difficult task, it makes us confident. Do you know anger is root cause of so many diseases? If not, just google it and you will be surprised to see the result of your search. Anger is major obstacle in path of reaching goal of happiness.
Create happiness around yourself. Be with people who inspire you, who want good for you, who love you for who you are. Grow, learn, admire. We mothers when get so busy in our family and children, forget about our hobbies, passion, liking. When asked about my passion by one of close friend, I paused and keep on thinking, what is my passion? After so long, I discovered that, it’s writing what makes me happy. And here I am.
We earn living to fulfill our needs and to enjoy life, but in the process we stop thinking about what are the things or reasons which makes us happy. We just go with the flow, if someone has visited a famous mall or enjoyed movie in any theater and posted happy moments on social media, we believe that, it is called happiness. I have seen families happy with limited income, still they are enjoying life. With more income and spending, we complicate our life’s.
How many people feel happy when they think of you? is the question. If your presence and absence matter to someone, it’s happiness. You have understanding soulmate, is happiness. Our happiness multiplies when we share it with others. Bow down in front of God and give all your worries to him. He will never disappoint you, but you have to trust God first. Keeping a pet and spending time with him makes every animal lover happy. What we give our pet is love and in return they also reciprocate and love us. The language of love is understood by even animals.
Have you seen plants grow well if we play music near them. Music is food for soul. It makes plants happy and they grow well. When you get support of your loved ones you feel happy. Finding happiness in small things is the key.
Being thankful is the most kind gesture. By being thankful we express our gratitude towards the things and people we have in life and are happy to have them in our life. There is so much to be thankful for. But when we are positive in life , we see that how blessed we are.
Expressing gratitude and being thankful to God is one of the most appreciated gesture. The people we meet in our life is meant to cross our path to learn from them, be inspired by them, to give love and be loved by them, to help and be helped by them. We should be thankful for the people we meet in our lifetime. I am so much happy to and thankful to my audience who like my blogs and appreciate my work. They inspire me write more and more.
Recently, I have joined a mom’s group and so inspired by them and learning so much from them. I am happy to meet such an inspiring group of people. Be thankful to the teachers who taught you when you were a child. Be thankful to parents who always forgiven your mistakes. Be thankful to God for everything you have. Be thankful to your family and friends who always stand by your side no matter what.
When we are thankful to everyone, it’s obvious that we are happy to have them all in our life. As we are celebrating thanks giving week. Make a list of people to whom you are thankful to and send them your love. Visit a holy place to thank lord.
We must not forget to thank all the doctors and health workers who did commendable job to save lives of others in this pandemic and still working for our good. Let them feel, how proud we are and thankful to them. Thank you to all the people who stand by each other feed the hungry and supported the needy.
Thank you to all the children who without complaining and demanding anything show patience in this pandemic and stayed at home with their families. Happy Thanksgiving week to all.
See the above image, a foodie will love to see it. For a foodie like me, happiness is food. You go anywhere around the world there is so much to explore, in terms of food that you enter a whole new world of happiness all together. There is so much online support available for foodies. You can order your favourite food just by few clicks and it’s delivered in minutes at your doorsteps. These food delivery partners have encouraged more and more outlets to open and start their food business, even home made food is being also delivered by them. What a revolution!
Everyone loves food, for sure, being a foodie. Some love home cooked food, others may be street food. It all depends upon our taste buds. We all enjoy eating at a trending resturant isn’t it. We eat food to stay healthy but a foodie eats to stay happy, to enjoy each and every bite and to try every new food joint or resturantnearby. Food is oxygen for foodie. As I belong to India. We have so many variety of food to offer. Each state in India has its signature dish. We are diverse in culture and so much to explore.
My personal favourite is South Indian and North Indian food if we talk about India. I am still on a journey to explore the world food. As when we visit abroad we opt for Indian food only, but you don’t do this mistake while travelling abroad. A foodie should try each and everything. I missed ‘fondue’. Being a foodie, is like, you travel and side by side exploring that place’s famous delicacies. If you love travelling, you automatically become foodie, as you are away from home and there is only option, and good one, is to try food from where you pass by, eat where you stay.
In my earlier blog I wrote about food, and try to give importance to home cooked food. And yes, again I will say home cooked food is the best. You can try receipes at home with hygienic ingredients. We are now more knowledgeable about being vegan or follow keto diet but our traditional, local and seasonal food is sustainable as suggested by Rujuta Diwekar.
We should try to improve our taste buds and create liking for healthy food too. When we over indulge in outside food, to detox what we do is eat light food. Make it a routine for lifetime. Our body is a machine, for the well being of each part of our body we must provide proper nutrition. And a foodie don’t think while enjoying their food. There is no harm in being a foodie but if you are a food vlogger or food blogger then so many people may be following you, you can transform people’s idea of food by giving them direction or good advice instead of daily making a vlog on street food vendors.
Some foodies have sweet tooth and love sugary food more than anything. People also like spicy food. Everything is catered, to satisfy different taste buds. The vlogs informing about new food joint nearby, advertise their food for which may be they are paid or just to win followers should be ignored. Always experiment with different outlets by your own, never go blindly by watching just a vlog.
TOP 10 SIGNS YOU ARE A FOODIE.
* You eat in lots of different restaurants.
* You enjoy trying new dishes at a restaurant.
* You enjoy shopping for food.
* You buy spices etc. while on holiday/travelling.
* You have a full range of spices and herbs on display in your kitchen.
* You own an apron.
* You go to places other than supermarkets to buy ingredients.
* You grow your own herbs.
* You use a variety of different type of oil.
* You always try to use locally sourced or organic ingredients.
Keep enjoying food and keep on experimenting and trying new dishes dear foodies.
My last blog was about believe in God and here comes the next ‘ Believe in yourself ‘. People who believe in themselves believe in their dreams, to fulfill those dreams they make efforts in the right direction to achieve them. When we believe in ourselves we becomes confident in each and every action of ours without any doubt. We don’t need anyone’s approval or permission that, is this right or wrong. When we accept ourselves as we are, with all flaws and perfections, we believe in ourselves. The confidence level becomes high and it makes us express and impress others too. When we love ourselves we not only become source of motivation and happiness for ourselves but to others too.
Have you seen an artist performing on stage? They so confidently perform their character on stage that we believe that they are the same character in real life too. This is the magic of believing in yourself. Imagine again, if the artist performing, didn’t believe in themselves and performed half-heartedly, no one would have been impressed. For doing anything in life we must believe first that we can do it. This is the ‘mantra’. Creating new blogs now and then with interesting topics is also a challenge in itself, but what motivates us and makes us happy is that the love and appreciation of audience.
The mistake which we make is we keep on depending on others. That dependency makes us paralytic at times. Though we need support of others in every stage of life but never give your key to happiness in someone else pocket, keep it with you. Motivate yourself in the morning, write 5 good qualities about yourself, which you possess. Write 5 things which you want to change in yourself. Laugh at your flaws and accept them. Always remember nobody is perfect in this whole world. Take good care of your health, make healthy choice according to your age while eating.
When we believe in ourselves it is accompanied by confidence, this confidence boost our mind and bring happiness in everything we do, we feel worthy. When we know our worth, not only it makes us priceless but we came to know who is the deriving force for us. Who are our kind of people and who are not. Qualities which we possess are our assets, use them wisely. Use them for your good and the society. When we fail in any task or can’t achieve any target, we feel demotivated and disappointed. Instead we must think about other opportunities and possibilities rather than just get struck with our disappointments.
The people who put you down all the time are not your people. Beware of them, instead make new friends who appreciate and are happy for your happiness and are sad when you are low. First things first is, become so busy in your improvement and well being that you don’t have time for gossips. Remember those who talk behind your back are people who deserve your back. Don’t feel sad to lose them rather they are loosing you.
Believing yourself is one step ahead in the long journey of life. Do what makes you happy more often. Look at new horizons. Being happy, being you, being kind, being human, being at peace with yourself is new defination of success. Give yourself a chance to look at things with different perspective. Persue your hobbies or passion. Be creative, be wild, be humourous, be fantastic.
Believe that you can, believe that you will. No one can stop you from achieving your dreams. Believe in them. Have full faith that everything will turn to be in your favour.
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