Saturday, August 30, 2008

Few Facts about Incense Stick


To light a incense stick is a religious act and its vary popular in ASIA.people are lighting incense stick in different act at different places like at home, at temple ,at offices,etc.after lighting it it spreads good smell around you and make environment good but people do not know how much effective it’s smells for their body.

In one survey it is described that if the smell of incense stick is go in our body via breathing then it causes heavy damages to our respiratory system. These a incense stick are made from flowers and other nursery things with using different kind of oil and wood. In the smoke of incense stick contain some like Benzene and Polychromatic Hydrocarbons.if person consume these particles by breath for long time then it can damage the different kind of breathing system.after made a test on more than 61000 people it is found that 325 people are affected by the smell of incense stick . this survey is done by Jepp Freeborg from kopanhegan stens serum Institute.

It has been proved that Incense burning throw 4 times more particulate than cigarette.

Researchers state that “Inhaling incense smoke may cause allergies,growth and tumors.” The researchers who studies incense, state that “a typical composition of stick incense consists of 21% (by weight) of herbal and wood powder, 35% of fragrance material, 11% of adhesive powder, and 33% of bamboo stick.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Book Updates

Hi folks...

I want to tell you about few books which I am reading now days.

I am reading " The Saint, The Surfer, and the CEO".
Author of this book is Robin Sharma.One of the most favored leadership guru currently.

It is again fantastic book written by robin.
After his greatness guide and the monk who sold his ferrari... this book is also about how to live life. It inspires in many ways.
Robin has articulate the story very phenomenally.
Once you get in to few pages you wont be able to put out book without finishing.Story line holds the readers nerve thoroughly.Specially who loves to read robin sharma or inspirational books.

Another book I am reading is about pros and cons of investment by warren buffet way..
actually I forgot the author name (which i usually dont but now days not getting enough time to read books ).

Books is for how to make smart investment and when to switch you investment in different sector according to market breath.
Book tells very fundamental basics.Very effective methodology for investment.Really a worth reading for making sound Investment Portfolio.

3rd one I am reading is Word Power Made Easy :)
Its not for making you chronic in vocabulary only.....

It is needless to say that this book nurture your knowledge.

How to pronounce words , Origin of the words these all are written so decently that you will never realize that you are reading this book for vocabulary building.
Norman Lewis has created a book at par excellence.
It is a etymological epic :)





Tuesday, August 12, 2008

What is procrastination?

Do you often think that your to do list never get finish?You always been busy with pending tasks?
Are you adding same task again & again because they remained unfinished from last many days?

That means deferment of actions or tasks to a later time which increase your anxiety,This is by all means Procrastination. It is now common in highly competitive world where you daily faces cut throat competition.

People who suffers from procrastination, work same amount of time as common people do but as they are not capable of putting right thing in right basket they usually busy with undeserving tasks.

They do not have any priority table or do not understand work break up structure perfectly. Usually they are not able to interpret meaning of Urgent Task and Important tasks.

There are more then on reason for procrastination such as chunking, inability to organize things, forgetfulness.

Procrastination has many drawbacks it indulge feeling of guild, self-disgust & depression.

So, it requires to be cured promptly as it is identified.

I hope this will help you to identify what is Procrastination; I will help you to get rid of it in my next article.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

More slangss...........

quiznic : a person that is constantly asking accusatory
Chook: a hen
Couch potato: A person who spends a lot of idle time sitting
Cool someone's heels: Wait for a long time and get bored or impatient.
Be (as) cool as a cucumber: very calm and relaxed even in a difficult .
Cook Someone's Goose: Get someone in trouble. Keep someone from succeeding.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Few Inspirational Quotes

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce

"Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison

"There is no security on this earth: There is only opportunity."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."- -Norman Vincent Peale

"Assume nothing, pursue everything."
- Kevin Riper

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
-Sir William Osler

"To find fault is easy: To do better may be difficult."
- Plutarch

”Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
- Henry Ford

”The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
- Lewis B. Ergen

”I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
- Winston Churchill

”The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”
- John Scully

”A championship team is a team of champions.”
- Unknown



Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lets Imrpove Vocab

Hi folks
I used to read word power made easy of norman lewis it is not only for vocab builder , but by this book you are more clear with all etomlogy .
Here I m sharing few words
Anthropology:- here anthropo is greek word which means ManKind and logos also a greek word which means sciency and study...
logos now you can think about so many words which are belong to study or science like bio logy,zoology...etc.

2)Astronomer:- Astron in greek Star and nomos means arrangement,law.order.
Astronomer is person who is intrested in arrangement of stars

astron combines with logos form a astrology science which asses the influence of stars and planets to humum lives...
astrloger:- person who is practionar of astrology.
astronaut:- sailor amonth the stars because nautes equal sailor in greek
cosomonaut(by russians) :-kosmos means universe in greek.
nautical :- related to sailing ...
nausea:- seasickness.
Asterisk :- Star shaped symbol call asterisk "*".

so howz it after finding etymology for particular word :)
I recommand this book to you all .this book will definitely boost up your confidence.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Time management Tactics

Recently I am pretending that i am reading a time management book :)
I found one point prissy which intimated me to write some thing about it.

Books tells that
Learn to use transition time.

let us first define transition time.

We often have situation where we have to wait for 10 or 15 minute.
like in a bank,or when we have appointment with doctor,on air port,on bus station or on railway station, during lunch time,long tv break,and many more.....

You never know that
these situations can be useful to manage your time and can be very helpful.

To habituate to utilize your transition time you have to keep few things with you every always such as

  • Interesting Articles from magazine which you like to read but not able to read at all due to time shortage.
  • (I am sure you will read it in a week if you keep it with you else you will never )
  • Management book with important chapters marked(or book of you domain )
  • Documents that need proofreading such as credit card bills.
  • your diary/time planner(If you dont have please make habit of having diary )
Most of the transition time will be obvious,such as 10 minute free time in meeting or appointment..but some time this kind of time unexpectedly increase like if meeting delayed or canceled ..., bus/train or plane delayed...
If you utilize this kind of time, it will gain your confidence , you will able to delegate all pending task list or to do.

So First lesson from this book is Learn to use your transition time.