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Strength in Endurance: Before you Over Analyse Anything !

Every day, whether at home, at work, at the store, or on the street, we all encounter different difficulties. While many of them are simply small obstacles that we handle instinctively and without difficulty, others call for planning, strategy, and mental toughness. If your supervisor is demanding or your workplace is not friendly, you will need mental toughness. Additionally, mental toughness is necessary whether managing your kids, caring for your aging parents, or conducting business with challenging individuals. Since we face difficulties every day, we need to develop our mental toughness and stamina on a regular basis. Passivity is not synonymous with mental toughness. It doesn't imply quitting. It does not imply submitting to pain. Conversely, it denotes mental toughness. It is the capacity to harness inner power in daily life and the capacity to rise to any challenge. This calls for a certain level of tenacity, self-control, and willpower. We need to develop the ability to keep our minds on task and prevent distractions. Additionally, we ought to resist caving in to unfair or irrational requests from others. No matter how difficult the going gets, we must learn to continue on the path that leads to our objectives.By developing mental toughness, we educate ourselves to never give up on our goals. Despite whatever obstacles or problems we may encounter, our mental toughness keeps us going when our bodies are weary or bored. “Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.” – Bob Proctor

29 Nov 2023
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Optimism helps to burry all worries

Looking on the brighter side of things has many benefits apart from keeping us happy and cheerful. The strong faith that everything will be alright will certainly help us sail smoothly through hard times. We are what we think, so let’s think positive for all the good to happen. Being optimistic is always good for your heart. A study conducted by the US in 2015 found that optimistic people had better cardiovascular health due to lower levels of stress hormones. So by being optimistic, we are keeping stress at bay and in turn protecting our heart. Another study has linked optimism with high immunity. Positive expectations for the future can always help strengthen immunity.  How do we cultivate optimism? One certain way is by being grateful for all the good things that have happened in life. Remembering good experiences in life with gratitude will boost cheerful emotions and turn us into optimists. Emiliana Simon-Thomas of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkley, USA, suggests trying to keep a gratitude journal to get into the habit. Another way of cultivating a bright outlook is by maintaining good healthy relationships. According to Simon-Thomas, our sense of community is more important than our material possessions or even career status. Our close relations with friends and families and healthy interaction with people are a terrific source of happiness which helps to boost positivity. People who exercise daily are found to be more optimistic than their sedentary counterparts. Apart from keeping us fit and healthy, exercise helps us to be confident of ourselves and increases our self esteem. Make time for half an hour to one hour of brisk walking or jogging several times a week and you will gradually see the difference, not only in your physical health, but also in your spiritual and mental health as it helps to elevate our moods and keeps us mentally strong and positive. A good night's sound sleep also helps to keep you upbeat. A study conducted has revealed that adults who get around seven to eight hours of sleep scored high on optimism and self esteem than those who slept for less than six hours or more than nine. Life is like a pendulum, if it moves towards happiness, it also sways towards sorrow. We may not be able to eliminate gloomy feelings, but we can balance them with cheerful ones. Accepting difficult situations in life and replacing all negative thoughts with positive ones will help us lead a better life. We must pass this on to our kids. A positive upbringing will help kids to become confident individuals with loads of self esteem. After all, Sir Winston Churchill has said, " The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible".    

22 Mar 2017
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"We’re Not Doomed Yet,’ Says a Climatologist, Citing Several Reasons for Optimism

Professor Michael Mann is the climatologist whose keen interpretations ultimately put some climate change-related facts to rest. He's published a new book, 'Our Fragile Moment', about surviving the climate disaster. Here he explains why he is optimistic about our future. The Earth's climate is resilient in some ways: Climate models predict that Earth should have been a frozen planet four billion years ago when our sun was just 70% as brilliant as it is now. But that wasn't the case. There were oceans of liquid water teeming with primitive life (microbes). The solution to the 'faint young sun paradox,' first proposed by Carl Sagan, was that the greenhouse effect must have been greater back then. Over billions of years, as the sun steadily became brighter, the greenhouse effect gradually lessened, keeping the planetary temperature within parameters suitable for life. Life, by exerting control over the global carbon cycle, played an important part in carbon drawdown. Our doomsday predictions are greatly overstated; Climate doomers argue that it is too late to intervene. They argue we've caused runaway warming as a result of an uncontrollable leak of methane into the atmosphere when Arctic permafrost melts. They draw parallels with previous significant extinction events, such as the so-called 'end Permian extinction' or simply 'the great dying' 250 million years ago, which resulted in the elimination of 90% of Earth's species. They argue that the incident was caused by a comparable runaway warming event to what is happening now. Today, however, there is little evidence of a huge release of permafrost methane, let alone catastrophic warming. Furthermore, paleoclimate evidence contradicts this view of "the great dying." Instead, we now know that the extinction catastrophe was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that released massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, producing warming and ocean acidification. We are making strides; Another form of climate doomsaying is the belief that we are making no progress at all in decarbonizing our societal infrastructure. That is simply not true. Prior to the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world faced more than 4 degrees Celsius of future warming based on business-as-usual emissions. Because of the effort being made to shift away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, global temperatures are expected to stabilize below 3 degrees Celsius. Indeed, if the world's states follow through on their commitments made at the most recent global climate talks, warming will most likely be limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius. Established interests, particularly the fossil fuel sector, have launched a huge disinformation campaign to deceive the public and legislators. As a result, we must win the battle for hearts and minds by using our voices and votes to ensure that politicians act on behalf of the people rather than the polluters. We can still keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The barriers are not physical or technical in nature. They are purely political in nature. And if we all commit to acting, we can overcome political impediments. We still have time to save our delicate moment!

19 Nov 2023
Global News

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