The world is big and beautiful, and it’s full of neat things like sunrises and mandrills who hold baby lions up for all the Pride Lands to see. Make sure to get outside and explore nature. It is the very thing that moves us all.
2. End relationships that you recognize as toxic.
If you begin to realize that someone whom you always considered a friend is actually not very nice to you, or if the evidence is stacking up that they’re blatantly using you for your magic hair, just end it. Your time and energy and love are precious. Spend them on someone who appreciates that.
3. Let it go.
We bet you knew this was coming, and you were right. It’s great advice. The past is in the past, and no amount of worrying will change what’s already happened. No one has time for that in 2016! Focus your energy on today.
4. Read books.
Reading will make you a better writer, it will fill your brain with new ideas, and most of all, it’s fun. Take a page from Belle’s book ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and set some reading goals for yourself. It doesn’t have to be crazy, or anything. One book a month will have you feeling great.
5. Make a friend like Genie.
There’s a whole song confirming that we “ain’t never had a friend like” Genie. But maybe this year is the year to change that. You can start by meeting new people or talking to people who have always been around but whom you don’t know that well. Just remember—to have a good friend, you’ve got to be a good friend.
Congratulations on being promoted to or hired into a managerial position. What an achievement! You must be so excited.
I don’t want to take away from this big moment but there are mistakes you’re going to make. It’s inevitable. It’s human. I see them happen all the time when people make the jump as you have.
I thought I’d point out the most common mistakes first time managers make in the hopes you will be aware of them, avoid them, grow professionally and make the jump to the next level.
BRAIN: Organ sometimes used by human beings to think. But not often.
COPS: Uniformed officials of the State used to keep the poor in their place—usually jail.
BULLSHIT: Term used by human beings to describe most human discourse. See baloney.
The MASS MEDIA: That collection of television, radio and print outlets responsible for passing on to the people whatever issues and attitudes those in power want passed on to the people.
PENIS AND BALLS: Human organs noted for acting independently of the brain. Leading determinate of male behavior.
SLEEP: State in which human consciousness rests. Often not distinguishable from waking state.
WALMART:. Famous for shifting hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas, paying its employees peanuts, driving thousands of small businesses out of business, and making members of the Walmart family billionaires. Consistently voted by Chamber of Commerce Corporation of the Year.
MOHAMMED ALI: Black American boxer who changed the culture of sport and was wise enough to see through the lies of the nation he was born in and stand up against them. One in a million human being.
MARTIN LUTHER KING: Civil Rights activist who opposed American military invasions of other countries, opposed the inequalities of wealth, opposed suppression of labor, and opposed his society’s efforts to keep Negroes second class citizens. Remembered only for the last.
IMPERIALISM: That process by which wealthy western nations for three centuries dominated and impoverished much of the rest of the world. Not mentioned in American dictionaries.
UNITED KINGDOM: Neither united nor a kingdom, but hanging in there as if it were both.
CONSUMER: A human being in an advanced civilization.
PRIMITIVE MAN: A human being who is not a consumer.
CORPORATION: an entity granted by the U.S. Supreme Court with all the rights of an individual, and none of the responsibilities of an individual.
MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: that advanced state developed by (mostly white) human beings to make the majority of human beings miserable.
MUSIC and DANCE: Humankind’s most wonderful inventions: pure play.
FOOTBALL: That sport that legalizes Black Men hitting white men as hard as they want. Favorite sport of Black Men.
FENCE ALONG THE ENTIRE MEXICAN BORDER: a mythical construction in the religion of some Republicans. See angels and unicorns.
HUMAN BEINGS: the planet’s way of committing suicide.
GAZA: An open-air penal colony on the Mediterranean where most all are serving life sentences, and prison riots against the wardens are punished severely.
ANOTHER IDEA: What the Universe generates whenever a human comes up with a plan.
SAUDI ARABIA: the country that contributed 18 of its citizens to killing more than two thousand people at the NYC trade center, that suppresses most women’s rights, that beheads people on a regular basis, that contributes money to support Sunni terrorists like ISIS, that bombed Yemen back into the stone age, and has been America’s favorite nation among Arab countries for more than 70 years.
POPE FRANCIS: an unusual human being who believes money is corrupting human morals. He seems to want to have an economic system that puts human beings and the planet earth at the center of any enterprise or corporation, rather than profits for the owners and executives. Many Americans suspect a secret communist.
LEGAL SYSTEM: A complex system of laws designed to keep in place the established system of government and financial dealings. Like all systems in modern capitalist nations the system works for people with money but not for those without money. As a result people are prosecuted for breaking trivial laws involving very little money, but rarely prosecuted for crimes involving millions.
DOGS: Man’s best friends. More intelligent creatures know better.
INHERITANCE TAXES: Taxes encoded in law to distribute slightly the excessive wealth of the rich to the general population and thus give the people a slightly fairer chance to play in the money game. Currently being dismantled by the wealthy and their representatives so that the people won’t have a slightly fairer chance to play in the money game.
GOD: An imaginary Entity given different attributes by every human being. Considered by many to have created Man in His Own Image. Yet few blame Him for this.
IRAQ: Nation that has been continuously bombed by the United States and sometimes other countries for 25 years. Not considered a favorite vacation destination. See Isis.
GLOBAL WARMING: An ongoing process denied by many Americans because they are able to see clearly that it is sometimes quite cold out.
TELEVISION: The primary source of most human opinion. Originally mistaken by early Protean visitors as household altars.
BITCH: Female dog. Also female human having a bad day. See asshole and bastard..
MADNESS: doing the same thing over and over while each time expecting a different and better result. See U.S. military interventions. See also, American elections.
NETWORK NIGHTLY NEWS: a half-hour TV program during which lengthy and important commercials are interrupted by occasional discussions of trivial recent events.
OLD AGE: Considered by some humans as pretty much a disaster and others as a mellow old time full of fun. Brains don’t remember, arms don’t lift, feet don’t run, penises don’t rise, sounds don’t register, food doesn’t taste, friends all die, but otherwise a mellow old time full of fun.
TEENAGER: Human between the ages of 13 and 19. Noted for doing things of which human beings over the age of 30 violently disapprove.
TERRORIST: anyone who perpetrates an act of violence against unarmed human beings. In American usage, does not include actions by members of American police forces or the American or Israeli military.
CAPITALISM: that economic arrangement whereby Corporations and the extremely wealthy arrange the system so that they control the media, the politicians, and all branches of the government, and thereby guarantee that the bank accounts of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy shall not perish from the earth.
Khi đùa vui thì chọc người ta cười muốn sặc nước, lúc làm việc thì lại nghiêm túc đến đáng sợ. Thường khá Văn nhưng cũng không dở Toán. Sống tình cảm lại chẳng bỏ lý trí. Hay mơ mộng mà vẫn biết thực tế. Bên ngoài lạnh lùng bên trong ấm áp. Lúc cần trẻ con thì sẽ nũng nịu, lúc cần trưởng thành thì chín chắn đến bất ngờ…
Những kiểu người như vậy, trong tình yêu, khi yêu một ai, thường yêu bằng một tình yêu mãnh liệt hơn người. Nhưng một khi đã không có hoặc không còn tình cảm, thì họ sẽ lập tức rời xa, vô cùng dứt khoát lẫn tàn nhẫn, không một chút nhân nhượng nào.
Nếu bạn giỏi, hãy yêu một người giỏi hơn mình: Những cô gái giỏi giang luôn có cái tôi cao ngất ngưởng. Nếu bạn học giỏi nhưng yêu một chàng trai lông bông, lười biếng, lêu lổng, sẽ chẳng đi đến đâu và lúc nào bạn cũng khó chịu và hay đánh giá thấp anh ta.
Nếu bạn sống nội tâm, hãy yêu một chàng trai hài hước và đơn giản: Vì nếu cả hai cùng suy nghĩ quá nhiều, mọi thứ sẽ bị “trầm trọng hóa”. Hai bạn sẽ liên tục “đấu não” với nhau và điều này là nguyên nhân khiến tình cảm tan vỡ nhanh nhất.
Bạn chăm chút ngoại hình quá nhiều? Đừng mong một chàng trai nào đó sâu sắc: Vì phần lớn các chàng trai sẽ bị hấp dẫn bởi vẻ ngoài của bạn trước tiên. Bạn yêu cầu anh ta phải hiểu được tâm hồn bạn, trong khi bạn chỉ dành thời gian để cho anh ấy xem ngoại hình được chăm chút tỉ mỉ của mình? Muốn biết một chàng trai nào đó thật lòng hay không, hãy ăn mặc đơn giản và không trang điểm.
Bạn có quá nhiều bạn bè khác giới, bạn sẽ còn độc thân rất lâu: Không chàng trai nào thích bạn gái của mình đùa cợt với hết chàng trai này đến chàng trai khác, hôm nay ngồi sau xe anh A, hôm sau đi ăn với B và hôm sau nữa đi học thêm chung với C.
Bạn thích một chàng trai chững chạc, đừng hi vọng sẽ có nhiều điều lãng mạn: Anh ấy sẽ dành tình cảm cho bạn đậm sâu, ổn định, bền lâu, nhưng nếu bạn muốn anh ấy có những bất ngờ lãng mạn dành cho bạn thì đó là điều cực kì khó. Nếu bạn muốn lãng mạn, hoặc anh ấy sẽ “con nít” hơn, hoặc bạn sẽ phải thay đổi tư tưởng, bớt mơ mộng hơn.
Nếu bạn suy nghĩ xa, đừng yêu một chàng trai đẹp “lung linh”: Những chàng trai đẹp thường có tính cách trẻ con, không nghĩ nhiều cho tương lai. Hắn dành nhiều thời gian để chăm chút ngoại hình nên cũng khi trau dồi kiến thức. Mặt khác, những chàng trai đẹp luôn có nhiều “vệ tinh” xung quanh. Chuyện tình cảm của bạn sẽ không được suôn sẻ và bạn sẽ phải nặng đầu với những rắc rối “trên trời rơi xuống”.
Nghe những gì con trai nói, quan sát những điều con trai làm: Chỉ nghe thôi chưa đủ. Đành rằng con gái yêu bằng tai và những lời hắn nói “có vẻ rất thành thật”, nhưng bạn đừng chìm đắm quá nhiều vào điều đó. Quan sát cách anh ta cư xử với bạn, cách anh ấy đối đãi với người yêu cũ, cách anh ấy trò chuyện với người lớn và cách anh ấy giúp đỡ mọi người xung quanh. Đó mới chính là con người thật của anh ấy.
Scott, now an acclaimed coach for companies like Twitter, Shyp, Rolltape, and Qualtrics,
Scott shared story about a time her boss criticized her.
“I had just joined Google and gave a presentation to the founders and the CEO about how the AdSense business was doing. I walked in feeling a little nervous, but happily the business was on fire. When we told Larry, Sergey and Eric how many publishers we had added over the previous months, Eric almost fell off his chair and asked what resources they could give us to help continue this amazing success. So… I sort of felt like the meeting went okay.”
But after the meeting, Scott’s boss, Sheryl Sandberg, suggested they take a walk together. She talked about the things she’d liked about the presentation and how impressed she was with the success the team was having — yet Scott could feel a “but” coming.
And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.
“Everyday, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling “this is important! and this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this! And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand bank, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.”—www.littlelacelight.com (via littlelacelight)
Gieo suy nghĩ, gặt hành động; Gieo hành động, gặt thói quen; Gieo thói quen, gặt tính cách; Gieo tính cách, gặt số phận - SAMUEL SMILES
Hôm nay mình coi phim “Cô dâu 8 tuổi", một bộ phim dài của Ấn Độ. Đâu đó trong những nhân vật có bóng dáng của những người quen.
Thôi học theo mấy bạn thành công, để có thói quen tốt, rồi có tính cách tốt, dễ thương dễ mến.
How Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Other Successful People Start Their Day
Whether it’s going to the gym, reading the paper, or enjoying a cup of coffee, most of us have things in our morning routine that we rarely skip.
Getting into a good morning routine can help us be more productive throughout the day. The consistency can also be comforting.
With the help of this great infographic from sleepypeople.com, we decided to look at the morning routines of some of the world’s most successful business people and politicians.
U.S. President Barack Obama hits the gym every morning
The President of the United States and arguably the world’s most powerful man, Obama isn’t one to hang around in the mornings.
Sleepypeople.com tells us that the president is up by 6:45 a.m. every morning. Then, he goes to gym to do both weights and cardio.
Once he’s finished pumping iron, Obama will head back to eat breakfast with his wife Michelle, and his two daughters Malia and Sasha, before sending the girls off to school.
After the kids are gone, it’s time to get down to the serious business of running the country.
British Prime Minister David Cameron avoids watching TV in the morning
Earlier this year, a video from the Sun showed that British Prime Minister David Cameron starts his day at 6:00 a.m, and will go through important government business until around 8:00 a.m, when he joins his wife Samantha, and kids Arthur, Nancy, and Florence for a bite of breakfast.
Cameron’s private flat in No.10 Downing Street has a strict no TV rule in the mornings, and in the past the Prime Minister has said that he thinks his children should be “doing something” in the morning before school.
Cameron is also an avid follower of media coverage and will take time to catch up on the news every morning.
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wasn’t really a morning person
Another Conservative Prime Minister of Britain, albeit of a slightly different era. According to sleepypeople.com, Churchill woke up at 7:30 a.m. every morning. Pretty normal right? Not when you consider that he didn’t usually actually get out of bed until 11:00 a.m.
What did he spend those three and a half hours doing, you ask? Churchill would eat breakfast and read the newspapers (no smartphones back then), as well as dictating correspondence to his numerous secretaries.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz favors a morning cup of joe
Perhaps unsurprisingly for the man in charge of Starbucks, Howard Schultz’s morning routine involves coffee.
In a 2012 interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Schultz talked about how he gets up at around 4:30 a.m. every morning to walk his three dogs, before coming home and making coffee for himself and his wife by 5:45 a.m.
Schlutz is pretty particular about the kind of coffee he drinks, using a “coarse grind of aged Sumatra” steeped for 3-4 mins in boiling water, according to BusinessWeek. After that, it’s time for work.
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave himself a motivational speech every morning
The late Steve Jobs, famous for his all black clothing, turtlenecks, and for turning Apple into the world’s biggest company would do one simple thing every morning to ensure that he got the best out of himself.
After waking up, sleepypeople.com says Jobs would go to the mirror, look at himself and ask: “If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I’m about to do today?”
If Jobs found himself saying no to this question too often, he said he knew that something needed to change.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates likes to train mind and body
Another tech billionaire Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, likes to exercise both mind and body first thing in the morning.
Sleepypeople.com says that Gates spends an hour on the treadmill doing cardio exercise, but watches instructional videos from the Teaching Company while doing so, ensuring that all parts of his health are looked after.
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg often skips bedtime altogether
The 31-year-old Harvard dropout and founder of Facebook is well known for almost always wearing a plain gray T-shirt, saying in a 2014 interview that wearing the same shirt helps allow him “to make as few decisions as possible.”
So presumably, he gets up, goes to his closet and picks his favorite gray T-shirt and goes to work.
According to sleepypeople.com, Zuckerberg often doesn’t sleep very much, and he has been known to stay up until 6 a.m. talking with Facebook employees.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos likes to eat a leisurely breakfast
Unlike lots of the world’s most successful people, Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-commerce giant Amazon, is not a morning person.
Bezos places a lot of emphasis on getting a good night’s sleep. In 1999 he told the Wall Street Journal that he feels “so much better all day long if I’ve had eight hours.”
He has also previously spoken of deliberately avoiding early morning meetings so that he can spend his mornings having a leisurely breakfast with his wife Mackenzie and their four children.
According to sleepypeople.com, avoiding super early mornings allows Bezos to get away without using an alarm clock, and get a natural night’s sleep. He also gives himself time to eat a healthy breakfast, rather than cramming down fatty convenience foods.
