Social Media & You

Facebook, twitter, Buzz, tumblr, Google+, My Space and all the other media out there have became a part of our daily life. Almost all users have these or at least one of them. 

I do admit that the social media made life a lot more interesting or that is from my point of view. There are many success stories, interesting ones where people found their old school friend or even member of families, those who's life changed to better or worse sometimes. 

In every case there's one common thing between them, social media is becoming the new addiction for this generation. No matter how much good you get our of it, you have to remember that you are the one who controls not controlled which is most of the people are going through. Today's post is about a little to help you control this madness wave of the online society. 

 5 Simple Rules to Control Social Media 

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6 Common Do’s and Don’ts For Blogs

Consider this a friendly reminder or a refresher course for your blog. There are a few common do’s and don’ts to reflect on before you blog your next entry.

Do use images: Photos, graphs, logos use them all. Always use an image of some sort for each blog entry. Having an image will add to your blog post, entertain and give your readers something to look at. You want to break up the word with an image pertaining to the post. You can use personal photos, online photos and images but be sure you credit when credit is due.

Don’t write too much: Keep it short and sweet. Nothing bores a reader faster than too many words. A decent blog post that keeps readers engaged should run anywhere from 300-600 words. Anything longer and just considers your next read a snooze fest.

Don’t forget the comments: Some bloggers forget to respond to readers’ comments and questions. Even if the comment is just to say, they enjoyed your words, say thank you! Think of your readers as customers and address all questions and suggestions quickly and positively.

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A Hidden Key in Your Keyboard

Did you know there's hidden key in your keyboard that anyone hardy notices it?! It looks common and used only for one task by most of us, but it really can do more than the one task. 

That hidden key would be ... 

 

 The windows key

Here are the tasks it does:

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Chocolate Banana Milkshake

As the weather got hotter these days, it's always nice to cool it with something sweet. I had a wonder milkshake at somebody's house last week and loved it so much. Did a little search on it to share it in my blog and came up with this super easy recipe to make. It's so simple that you can even make it before going to school, collage or work. Won't take more than 10 min.

This milkshake recipe is perfect for hot summer days and it's truly easy to prepare! 

What I also love about it is you only need 3 ingredients!

 

 Here I show you how to make a chocolate banana milkshake.

So I've used banana in this example, but you can use pretty much any fruit you like. Here are some ideas: raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, peach, orange. You can really diversify this recipe by choosing your type of ice cream. The two guaranteed popular choices are vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice cream. I decided to use chocolate ice cream, mmmm chocolate! Go wild and experiment with other kinds of ice cream with your fruit choice! I chose to use 2% lactose free homogenized milk (I am lactose intolerant). Another idea is to use soy milk. I've tasted a soy milk banana milkshake once and the taste was very interesting! 

Total time: 10 min

Ingredients (2 servings):

2 bananas
2 cups of milk (or soy milk)
2 to 4 tablespoons of ice cream
 

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[ReBlog] Be YOUSELF

I always remember this rule, to be myself. I've seem many these days doing their best to be someone else. Got inspired and thought of sharing my point of view on this topic. Just reblogging a post I already wrote ^^

In the internet and the real world as well I'm always seeking something special and interesting; like information, people, companies, sites or anything of that sort. There are great articles, topics of different subjects to read ~ since reading is my favorite hobby ^_^ cool sites to wonder around and interesting people to talk with .

However, as we all know, each person has his own personality and character that makes him what he is. Otherwise if everyone were the same they would lost the value and uniqueness of itself . One can have lots of talent and interesting things within him : works – studies in the same time, speaks lots of languages, wealthy, looks cool and so on. While others don't have much to talk about, they are just simple guys with few details . 

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Life Worth Living

I'm not sure what is everyone's life status they're living but there is one thing I certainly believe that life doesn't always have the same tone. It's high then low, then again surprises come and go and so on it goes. 

It's Heaven

When we know that we won a contest, a lottery or even a lover! It seems that life is all full of happiness and good stuff that we want to live everyday to the fullest. It seems so sweet like heave <3

Desperate days

Trying many times and not getting any results on them make you feel truly miserable. You wish you just didn't come to this world and wont' have to face any of these trouble. The matter gets worse when someone rude spoils your mood ever more. 

Hard times

Things just keep on getting worse and worse every time. It's when the desperate days keep on for a long time you enter the hard times where you feel like you'll falling apart and there's not a single person in this world when can give you a hand that is if they consider you there in life in the first place!

More and more

We all try to have the best life style for ourselves, we work as much as we can. learn as much as possible and seek for the finest food anywhere. Sometimes, even though we're giving it all we got we just don't get satisfied with it.

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Five Minutes Friday: Opportunity

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week.

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Opportunity

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?
 

set!

GO!

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Drawings With Flowers

You might be thinking how can one draw something with flowers?!

Well my good followers, in the creative world anything is possible all you gotta do is watch and be amaze on how far a human's mind can go to blow up others thoughts. 

  Entering the world of enchantment 

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Live it Today!

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery and today is a gift, that's why it's called present"

I used to read this quote and every time I didn't consider that great meaning in it. I thought it is just a saying or so but then I realized it's more than just the names given to the days. 

When I actually went to the real world I noticed how busy and crowded it is. Every time when something gather up for me I keep it in the pending for tomorrow in hopes to finish it soon. Then, when the next day I find myself busy in other stuff and can't do that particular thing I left from yesterday. I then know what it means when they said it's a mystery and indeed and I can't tell what will happen tomorrow even if I put plans for it. Yesterday is of a same story. No matter how much sorry I feel for that day it will never come back and what happened just happened so it's a history now. 

Whatever you have for now do it, enjoy it and live it. Cause you have no idea of what will happen tomorrow. We all will put happy and positive thoughts for it but in the same time I can't really tell what's there in the box for us. So live it today. 

If Ever You Need Me (Poem)

A dear person to company you in sorrow times and share your happiness with you is something everybody wants in their life. A cute little poem about it would be a perfect gift for anyone dear you have =) 

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Mistakes and Lessons

It's when you are entrusted with a new task for the first time then you make them. It's really natural, I can't really expect someone to hit it on the first go unless he's a super talented guy. 

Mistakes happen and that's a usual thing but what matters here is what you learn from those mistakes. You see, these things happen for a reason, without them we can't tell what is right and what is wrong. That experience is one of our ways to discover that out. The more you explore new things, you more you learn and mistakes are likely to happen. 

Sometimes, it's not easy to tell you have mistakes or facing any trouble. You might think they'll get the impression that you are a slow learner, not good at your work, can't handle it and that sort of stuff. Bear in your mind that these are wrong thoughts. Just cause you're thinking your image will be ruined is not an excuse to make your work wrong. You have to ask, whatever is not clear to you must to explained. You can't figure things on your own, we all need tutors to teach us out how things work. 

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Five Minutes Friday: Perspective

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week.

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Perspective

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?
 

set!

GO!

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Robin’s 73 Best Business and Success Lessons - 4

The 73 Best Lessons I’ve Learned for Leadership Success in Business and Life By Robin Sharma, author of the international bestseller 

“The Leader Who Had No Title”

61. The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up
being nothing to anyone.

62. One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.

63. To have everything you want,
help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.

64. Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem
(vs. an opportunity).

65. Clarity precedes mastery.
Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

66. The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

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Robin’s 73 Best Business and Success Lessons - 3

The 73 Best Lessons I’ve Learned for Leadership Success in Business and Life By Robin Sharma, author of the international bestseller 

“The Leader Who Had No Title”

41. The less you are like others, the less others will like you.

42. You’ll never go wrong in doing what’s right.

43. Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

44. The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make 

but the leader you become.

45. Passion + production = performance.

46. The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.

47. Stand for something. Or else you’ll fall for anything.

48. Say “thank you” when you’re grateful and “sorry” when you’re wrong.

49. Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

50. Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

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Robin’s 73 Best Business and Success Lessons - 2

The 73 Best Lessons I’ve Learned for Leadership Success in Business and Life By Robin Sharma, author of the international bestseller 

“The Leader Who Had No Title”

 

21. You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.

22. It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.

23. Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

24. A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.

25. Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.

26. Saying “I’ll try” really means “I’m not really committed.”

27. The secret of passion is purpose.

28. Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

29. To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.

30. Go where no one’s gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

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Robin’s 73 Best Business and Success Lessons - 1

The 73 Best Lessons I’ve Learned for Leadership Success in Business and Life By Robin Sharma, author of the international bestseller 

“The Leader Who Had No Title”

1. You can really Lead Without a Title.

2. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

3. Give away what you most wish to receive.

4. The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

5. The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

6. Leadership is no longer about position – but passion. 

It’s no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

7. The bigger the dream, the more important to the team.

8. Visionaries see the “impossible” as the inevitable.

9. All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.

10. The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you’ll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

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When All Troubles Gather Up

They are way too much to handle!

They just keep on coming... 
One you finish solving one another comes along...
It takes all your time to work them out...
They never seem to finish on one shoot...
You have to go back to them over and over again...

When all the troubles gather up ... they fall down!

One has always got his limits, no matter how much you can handle there's a limit for that. You can take one today and another tomorrow, maybe stay calm this time then tell them not to do it again. Take it easy, a bit more, a little further more and then .... BANG! You are so done with it! So through and it's out of control. 

You simply will leave it thinking; (Let it happen, whatever will happen!) and walk away. It's natural since your mind is tired already and can't take much more from all this pressure. And this is how when all the troubles gather up, the fall down. 

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Relaxation Time

After a day full of hard work and shouting with this and that with a couple of rudeness from the ones you don't like, not to mention how much you boss didn't like your work a perfect relaxation time is what we all need. 

 

Relaxing 

Getting it Out of Mind

Even though it's your weekend, you're still thinking of what you'll do in the next day. I mean like planning for projects and schedules are something than taking your whole free time for work or something else. All work related stuff are necessary but they are to be taken care of in their time not on your time. You see the whole point is to get out of the routine atmosphere if you think and plan for it in your relaxation time what will there be to relax?! 

A perfect time to free your mind and let everything go by, not in a careless way. Just plan all your stuff the day before your weekend then you can start putting stuff for your free time. 

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Questions You Can Never Answer

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?

Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough?

What is the speed of darkness?

Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two hours?

If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, 

how cold will it be?

Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Did you ever stop and wonder....

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Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Speak Your Mind! 

Write your honest thought about this question, they are on no certain basis. Just some wondering things to express yourself and state your opinion about it. 

 Today's question: What's your deepest, darkest fear?! Have you tried to overcome it?!

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Five Minutes Friday: Identity

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week.

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Identity

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?
 

set!

GO!

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Donald Duck Facts

Here are 10 facts that you probably didn’t know about Donald Duck. “Oh Boy, oh boy, oh boy”!

1. His full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck. 

(Why the middle name, he’s a DUCK)
2. In the 40’s he was even more popular than Mickey Mouse despite being a secondary character, hence being featured on more shows.

3. Donald’s family consists of nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, wealthy uncle Scrooge McDuck (a’m Dahab), cousin Gladstone Gander, and Grandma Duck. Father's name is Quackmore Duck, mother is Hortense McDuck, and twin sisters are Della and Thelma Duck.
4. Donald built a car from spare parts (registration number: 313). He also has a boat, the “Miss Daisy”. (Why does he have a boat and a car? Again he’s a duck!).

5. His pet dogs were called Bolivar and Behemoth.
6. Supposedly Mickey Mouse represents what we should be and Donald what we are.

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Thoughts to Carry on Life

"It matters not how long we live, but how" - Bailey Festus

Life is full of ups and downs and twist and turns. Sometimes, we just need a helping hand to give us strength to carry on and to succeed. Read the pieces below to find inspiration and to help shape our views toward what we want out of this life

45 THOUGHTS

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully

2. Memorize your favorite poem

3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want

4. When you say, "I love you", mean it

5. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye

6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married

7. Believe in love at first sight

8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams.

9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely

10. In disagreements, fight fairly.

11. Don't judge people by their relative

12. Talk slowly but think quickly

13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 

"Why do you want to know?"

14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk

15. Call your mum

16. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze

17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson

18. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; 

Responsibility for all your actions

19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship

20. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it

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5 Cute Card Sets to Download

A few cute card sets add the touch to your posts. You can put them in your blog, posts, sidebar, info box, chat or wherever you like to. It decorates your writing and shows a little bit of your inner personality. 

Animated and still, most of them are Korean texted cards but they all will do the trick. Enjoy and don't forget to share with your friends =) 

Coupls

Cards: 18

Size: 651 KB

Download: [Link]

Love

Cards: 19

Size:688 KB

Download: [Link]

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Drawing On Stone (Art)

Drawing is an art itself. It shows the inner soul of the artist. When it goes to another subject it turns into a whole new art. An art on an art. Creativity talks itself. 

Cat drawing on a stone 

A soft stone with almost like-real colors makes these cute doggies and catties look alive!

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Balancing Attitude

In general what I talk here in this blog all are about positive thoughts and inspirations to give you fresh ideas everyday. In the last post, I mentioned how it is okay to nice with people around you no matter how they treat you back but of course that is not the case every time. There's something called Balanced Attitude, where you know how to be tough without being a hard-hearten and gentle without giving everything away. 

The Balancing Point

When you want to be serious in a situation you act firmly and tough with fairness. You want to have their attention and respect in the same time you don't want them to be afraid from you. Try to focus on your job, give straight orders and avoid side jokes. Do whatever they want in limits and don't let them use you. If they want something over your ability stop them right there and remind them of their place. This way you balanced being tough and justice. 

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No Harming Being Nice

Knowing this world you probably aware of the variety that exists. There's the good, the bad, the kind, the rude, the funny and lovable and so on. Facing a nation with undesired manners isn't any new topic for today. They were there all the time, even when you feel like you want to stop being nice just because of them or they don't deserve it, you can try one more time and be the kind person you were before. 

... they are the rude ones not you!

Maybe you were that helpful person who helps anyone whenever they need it. 
Or seek for those who can't finish a task on their own, a generous one perhaps. 
All those good manner and things nowadays people are looking for, 
so why did you stop that anyway?! Well, there could be more than an answer for that one;

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Five Minutes Friday: Real

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week.

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Real

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?
 

set!

GO!

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Quotes. Quotes. Quotes.

Hey fellows, I found these bunch of quotes and I really liked.
And, I'm sharing them here for inspiration ^^

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Where There is Will, There is Way

When someone tells you that you can't do something...

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Stick to It

At unexpected times in life, you get offered with real great opportunities. It might surprise and scare you at first from thinking whether or not you can handle it and do it to perfection measure. Sometimes the thought of not deserving such blessings comes to your mind, it's all natural since it can be count as happiness overloaded or fear of failure.

Either way, you should never give up such chance!

It might be a heavy task to your list of to-do and everyday work, but it will add new experience to your back of knowledge. That definitely doesn't mean you'll get it at the first go but consider mistakes in the beginning. It's normal, we are human and that's how we learn. If we never try, we'll never know what we are really capable of. Also, you might not know what the world is really like. 

So, take those golden chances, carry on and stick to them!