Educational Assistance

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle, also known as the ’80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio ’80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.
Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things-to-do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to developing a efficient personal time management skills. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.
But there are more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.
Personal time management involves everything you have or do not have to do every day. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.
Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.
Time management is about doing everything that are most productive in an effective way, not just about being busy.
The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, professional, emotional and spiritual.
1.The physical aspect involves maintaining a healthy body with balanced meals and regular exercise, and managing stress and fatigue.
2.The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.
3.The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.
4.The professional aspect involves school and work in establishing your career.
5.The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires, and manifesting them accordingly.
6.The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning in life.
Thoroughly planning and having a set of things-to-do lists for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is no given enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole of you; if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.
Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small. A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.
1.Review your goals often whether it be short-term or long-term goals. A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.
2.Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style. Each and every one of you have a peak time and a time when you slow down, which are your natural cycles. You should be able to tell when your most productive time of the days and nights are so that you can plan to do the most difficult tasks at those times.
3.Learn to say “No” when you do not what to be involved. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.
4.Give yourself a pat on the back or just reward yourself with something nice for an effective time management result.
5.Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.
6.Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.
7.Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.
8.Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.
These are the few steps you can take in becoming a well-balanced individual. As they say, personal time management is the art and science of building a better life. From the moment you integrate time management skills into your life, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors of opportunities for you to knock on.

Your browser stores several temporary files and saves browsing histories while you surf the Internet. This information is saved on your computer’s hard drive. You should erase your Internet history after every browsing session so that others are unable to trace back the websites that you have visited.

Before we start talking about erasing Internet history from your PC, you should have some knowledge about what browsing histories and temporary files are. Browsing histories are the trails of web pages visited by you. On the other hand, temporary files consist of cache files. These could be some pictures stored by your browser so that you can access them again with ease.

Though there is no harm if you don’t erase these browsing histories and temporary files, they are likely to be major threats to your privacy as anyone sharing the same computer can know about your online browsing habits. Moreover, a lot of space of on your computer is eaten up by these browsing histories and files. So, it is wise to erase your Internet history. You can perform this by following the steps listed below:

For Internet Explorer:

After choosing “Internet Options” from the Tools menu, click on the “General” tab when the Internet Options window pops up. For deleting cached files, opt for the “Delete” button in the Browsing section. A window will come into view where you will find several sections like Form Data, Cookies, Passwords, Temporary Internet Files and History. If you want to erase only some selected files, click the corresponding buttons that you can see in this section. However, to erase your Internet history completely by a single click, go for the “Clear History” or “Delete All” button. You will find this button at the lower section of your browser window.

For Firefox:

Erasing your Internet history is a child’s play if you are using Mozilla Firefox. To begin with, open the drop down box by selecting “Tools” and then click on “Clear Private Data”. The window that opens after this stage has different sections such as Saved Passwords, Browsing History, Cookies, Search History and Saved Form. Check the corresponding boxes from this section for erasing selected items. However, if you would like to erase your Internet history totally, click the button that says “Clear Private Data Now”.

For AOL (America Online):

Locate the “Settings” button at your browser window’s top segment. Click on it at first and then go for “Preferences”. After that, choose “toolbar and sounds” and then click the button marked “clear history trail now” to erase your Internet history.

Apart from the steps mentioned above, you should also wipe out any third party applications that you have installed on your computer. As these applications store text, passwords, images as well as some other sensitive statistics in your hard drive, failure to erase them will make your browsing habits vulnerable to be known by others using the same PC. To perform this task, you may even use some software as finding and deleting these files manually is a difficult task.

 

 

Synthetic chemicals are impacting our children’s health!

Every parent worries about all the things that might go wrong during pregnancy which could affect the health and wellbeing of their newborn child. After childbirth, we also do everything to guard against the tragedies of ADD, Learning Disabilities or debilitating diseases. We trust the medical community and companies who make products for our children…BUT…they are letting us down.

An associate became very alarmed after watching ‘Kids and Chemicals’, a PBS report by Bill Moyers which featured Dr. Philip Landrigan from Mount Sinai. He was discussing the impact of chemicals on children’s health. He and other scientists have concluded many of these lead to chronic diseases, including asthma, developmental disabilities and cancer. Variations of some of the same petroleum-based chemicals are found in the very baby products that we have trusted for generations. Harmful chemicals are in nearly every baby product

Many of the synthetic chemicals found in nearly every baby product, even at low doses, are directly linked to allergies, immunotoxicity, cancer, developmental toxicity, brain and nervous system effects, etc. And where is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Well, they don’t regulate topical baby products. It’s no wonder the incidence of ADD and Learning Disabilities is growing at an alarming rate. The recently passed California Safe Cosmetics Act is a bold attempt to ban many of these harmful chemical ingredients.

You probably don’t know about the toxic impact of some of these ingredients unless you read Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) or scientific studies. And since manufacturers have used these synthetic ingredients for so many years, they have too much invested to tell us the products may be harmful to our children. These companies and their products are positioned as trust worthy. They even give gift baskets of their products while you are in the hospital (also a place you are supposed to trust). What a paradox!Make informed choices for your children

As informed parents, you can make effective, healthy choices for your children. We recommend you avoid products with the following ingredients at all cost:

•Propylene glycol: may contribute to central nervous system depression (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)

•All products containing parabens (methyl, propyl, butyl, ethyl): xeno-estrogens; found in breast cancer tumors; developmental/reproductive toxicity (Brunel University; Journal of Applied Toxicology; ewg.org)

•Quaternium: allergies/immunotoxicity, formaldehyde donor (Environmental Working Group – ewg.org)

•Fragrance: causes neurotoxicity; allergies (Environmental Health Network; ewg.org)

•PEG: potential carcinogen and hormone disruptor due to presence of dioxin (Congressional Subcommittee Testimony by Asst. Surgeon General)

We sincerely want the very best for our babies and children. They represent our future, so we must protect them. Stay informed so you can make intelligent choices.

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