Off The Record (Khawaja Asif Exclusive Interview on Nandipur & Other Issues) – 10th September 2015

Off The Record (Khawaja Asif Exclusive Interview on Nandipur & Other Issues) – 10th September 2015

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Report Card (Media Being Targeted Once Again) – 9th September 2015

Report Card (Media Being Targeted Once Again) – 9th September 2015

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Live with Dr.Shahid Masood, 12-August-2015

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Capital Talk On Geo News(Stupid acts of Altaf hussain in Life Show) - 12 August 2015

الطاف حسین کی احمقانہ گفتگو۔۔۔۔۔ہندوستان کا ملی نغمہ گنگناتا رہا۔۔۔کیا ایسے زہنی معزور شخس کسی تنظیم کا قئد ہو سکتا ہے اور حامد میر جیسے نامی گرامی صحافیوں کو اس جیسے گھٹیا انسان کو لائیو لینے سے پہلے سوچنا چاہیے کہ کیا یہ شخص اس قابل ہے کہ اس کو اپنا احمقانہ موقف بیان کرے اگر پاکستان کا میڈیا ثاہے تو راتوں رات اگر شیخ رشید کو الیکشن ہروا سکتےہیں تو ایم کیو ایم پر پابندی کیوں نہیں لگوا سکتے

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What your Facebook Updates reveals about your personality

When Facebook asks you “What’s on your mind” it is like a personality test. Answers to this question reveals a lot about your personality and how you are feeling according to a new study published in Personality and Individual differences.

Study explored the pattern of status updates and main motives to use Facebook. The list of motives ranges from attention seeking, feel loved, stay informed, express your opinion and communicate with people you don’t often see.

The study linked peoples’ status updates with their personality types and insecurities. The study findings identify five personality types and their likely motives to use Facebook.

People with Intellectual curiosity

People who talk about intellectual topics generally are high in openness to experience; they have an active imagination, attentiveness to inner feelings and intellectual curiosity. Such people prefer to share information on current events, research or politics instead of sharing what they ate for dinner. With this personality type people mostly share impersonal information.

Extroverts

People who are extroverts use Facebook to communicate and connect with others. Generally, their updates talk a lot about their everyday life and social activities. They frequently update their status as life goes on. Their Facebook page gives a glimpse of their everyday life.

People with high conscientiousness

People who are careful, thorough and vigilant rank high in conscientiousness. Such people tend to discuss their kids’ activities, share their stories and highlight their achievements.

Researchers believe conscientious people want to draw admiration from others for their parenting accomplishments.

Narcissists

Narcissists tend to use Facebook updates to talk about what they are doing or to share about their little accomplishments. Researchers see this tendency of narcissist people an effort to make themselves look good.

In the process, narcissists usually get a lot of likes and comments on their updates that meet their need of recognition and validation. 

Other Peoples’ response to narcissists’ updates is very interesting. Research reveals that close friends of narcissist often offer thumbs up even when they don’t like his/her post. Acquaintances keep themselves at a distance and they ignore narcissist’s excessive self-admiration. Research found acquaintances tend to get un-friend with narcissists over time.

Neurotic people

Those people who are more likely to experience stress, envy and guilt use Facebook to gain attention and support what they lack in real life. These people tend to exaggerate their daily life frustrations as major problems.

Attention and sympathy seeking is their primary motivation to use Facebook. Their updates talk about their problems and create drama. They get a sense of validation when people offer consolidation for their problems. 

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Why people get failed: Few common reasons

Failure is an important fact of life; more you avoid confronting and analysing it, more it would shadow your life and more your feel haunted.

Often there are simple reasons that halt our way to success; however, by avoiding them we can translate our failure into a success.

You excessively look at other people

It is good to look around and, adopt and get inspired with fantastic things people are doing. During the process people generally ignore a fact that we are born with different abilities and talents. If success comes to someone by operating in a certain way; the same recipe can not be fruitful for every one.

It is mandatory to recognise what things you are good at and invest your best efforts where you can make a considerable difference.

You don’t look at the big picture

One reason you are not successful is your failure to visualize entire scheme of things. More often you are content with surface knowledge and don’t make any effort to dig deep in order to understand what lies back and what comes next. 

Key connections and links vital to your success fall short of your consideration and you make decisions on the basis of insufficient knowledge and information with high vulnerability to failure.

You are reactive

You are not proactive and unnecessarily delay things. Your habit to linger on and keep things pending till the last moment left you with very limited options in the end. This leaves you in a state where you are not master of your fate and your environment and circumstances largely dictate what you would be. 

With proactive approach you are in a great position to affect your environment and dictate your circumstances in your way even under extremely harsh conditions. To change a mindset from a reactive to proactive approach is fundamental to end a series of failure in your life and walk on a road to success.

You not ready to leave your comfort zone

You are not willing to challenge yourself by posing new questions and putting up new challenges. More you stick to your comfort zone, less you will learn skills required for success and more likely your efforts will end up in a failure.   

You do wrong calculations

Many people get failed simply for the reason of making poor calculations. You miss something vital in your equation and consequently, you don’t get accurate answer. 

If you fail and an often analysis shows poor calculation responsible for your failure, revisit your underlying equation. Discuss it with your friends, seek advice from experts and benchmark with others to identify what leads you to end up with faulty calculations.

You set ambitious targets

Another possible reason for your failure may lay in the way you set your goals and targets. Rather than setting realistic goals and moving forward step-by-step where you can keep track of your progress, you made ambitiously high targets.

In order to turn failure into success, ambitious people need to carve out a step-by-step approach where accomplishment of a step informs the set of decisions made at next step.  With small gains and accomplishments eventually you achieve your larger goal successfully.

You are inconsistent

You focus on several things at a time. You pursuit something for a while, then you lose interest in it and your attention is switched. Lack of consistency cripples your ability to achieve your targets. People with consistency problem should learn how to concentrate on their goals; failing to focus on few things will keep hurting their prospects of success.

You have too many choices

Having too many opportunities is generally thought as good; however possibility of several choices can divert a person’s attention from one thing to another. For example, a person sets a target for himself, however on the course of accomplishing that task when there appears certain difficulties, he/she starts finding other options more lucrative or suitable. Indecisiveness and lack of focus characterizes their all efforts and what they end up is stark failure.

    

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Take a seat. You may be able to reverse the damage to your health.

Sitting for eight or more hours a day can be deadly.

That fact has been hammered home in study after study showing thenegative health effects — including heart disease, poor circulation and joint pain — associated with being parked on your behind for most of the day. The only sure way to prevent those problems, researchers have said, is to sit far less.

But there is growing evidence that there are ways to reverse the damage without necessarily committing to being on your feet for eight or more hours a day.

A new study by researchers at Indiana University published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests that the impaired blood flow in leg arteries can actually be reversed by breaking up your sitting regimen with five-minute walking breaks.

Sitting can cause blood to pool in the legs and prevent it from effectively flowing to the heart — a precursor to cardiovascular problems. After just one hour of sitting, normal blood flow became impaired by as much as 50 percent, the study found.

But the men who walked for five minutes on a treadmill for each hour they sat didn’t see that decline.

“American adults sit for approximately eight hours a day,” Saurabh Thosar, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “The impairment in endothelial function is significant after just one hour of sitting. It is interesting to see that light physical activity can help in preventing this impairment.”

The findings add to a growing body of evidence that all is not lost for people unwilling or unable to get on the standing desk train or those who can’t do much about long commutes. It is also the first experimental evidence that moderate movement can promote healthy blood flow, in spite of sitting habits.

Courtesy: www.washingtonpost.com

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14 Reasons You’re Tired All The Time

Do you feel physically and mentally drained everyday? Here are some common bad habits that could be literally draining your energy!

Skipping exercise when you are tired – 

This actually works against you. By taking regular exercise it will improve the working efficiency of your heart, lungs, and muscles. There have been many studies proving that physical activity boosts energy levels. A Study at the University of Georgia, showed that healthy adults who took light exercise for three days a week for just 20 minutes at a time reported feeling less tired and felt more energized after six weeks.

You don’t drink enough water – 

Dehydration zaps energy and effects physical performance, it has also been shown to decrease alertness and concentration. Amy Goodson, RD, a dietitian for Texas Health Ben Hogan Sports Medicine says “being even slightly dehydrated, as little as 2% of normal fluid loss, takes a toll on energy levels”. To calculate how much fluid needs, take your weight in pounds, divide in half and drink that number of ounces of fluid a day, Goodson recommends.

Another way to know if you’re drinking enough water is urine should be pale yellow or straw colored, if it’s darker than that, you should drink more water.

Iron Deficiency – 

A lack of iron will leave you feeling lethargic, irritable, weak and unable to concentrate. You will feel tired because your body doesn’t have enough red blood cells to carry oxygen all they way round it. To prevent iron deficiency eat lots of lean beef, kidney beans, dark green leafy vegetables, nuts, eggs (including the yolk) and peanut butter. If you eat them with foods high in vitamin C (vitamin C improves iron absorption when eaten together) says Goodson. Please remember an iron deficiency could be caused by an underlying health problem, if you are experiencing any of these symptoms you should visit your doctor.

You skip breakfast – 

You eat to fuel your body! Even when you are sleeping your body is working, burning the food you have eaten that night. When you wake up in the morning you need to refuel with breakfast. It will stop you from feeling lethargic! Goodson says“eating breakfast is like starting a fire in your body by kick starting your metabolism,”. Goodson recommends a breakfast that includes whole grains, lean protein, and healthy fats. Great breakfasts such as oatmeal with protein powder and a dab of peanut butter. A smoothie made with fruit, protein powder, low-fat milk and almond butter. Eggs with two slices of whole-wheat toast and low-fat Greek yogurt.

Striving to be perfect — 

Irene S. Levine, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine says that “you set goals that are so unrealistic that they are difficult or impossible to achieve and in the end, there is no sense of self-satisfaction.” Levine recommends that you set a time limit for you to spend on your projects and make sure you stick to it. You will realize that the extra time you were taking wasn’t actually improving your work.

You make mountains out of molehills – 

When your boss calls you into the office do you go into a panic assuming that you’re going to get fired? Are you too afraid to try things in fear of not being able to do it? If you do, then you are guilty of “catastrophizing,” basically always expecting the worst. When you get thoughts like this take a deep breath and ask yourself how likely it is that the worst really will happen. Getting outdoors, meditating, exercising, or sharing your concerns with a friend may help you better cope and become more realistic, says Levine.

People Pleasing 

This often comes at your own expense. If you find yourself agreeing to things and then finding yourself stressing to meet the deadlines then don’t do it! Train yourself to say ‘no’ out loud, suggests Susan Albers, a licensed clinical psychologist with Cleveland Clinic and author of Eat.Q.: Unlock the Weight-Loss Power of Emotional Intelligence. “Try it alone in your car,” she says. “Hearing yourself say the word aloud makes it easier to say it when the next opportunity calls for it.”

You live on junk food – 

You know fast food restaurants are loaded with sugar and simple carbs. Its the processed foods that give blood sugar spikes followed by sharp drops that cause fatigue over the course of the day, says Goodson. You can keep blood sugar steady by having a lean protein along with a whole grain at every meal, says Goodson. Good choices include chicken (baked, not fried) and brown rice, salmon and sweet potato, or salad with chicken and fruit.

You have a messy office – 

A cluttered desk = a cluttered mind. It stops you from focusing and limits your brain’s ability to process information, according to a Princeton University study. “At the end of each day, make sure your work and personal items are organized and put away,”suggests Lombardo. “It will help you have a positive start to your day the next morning.” If you feel that your work area needs to be re-organized, start with what you can see then move through your desk, cabinets etc.

You work through vacation –

 Stop! You need to relax and recharge your batteries! “Checking your email when you should be relaxing by the pool puts you at risk of burnout”, says Lombardo. By giving yourself time off and allowing yourself to truly unwind gives your mind and body a chance to recharge and you are able to return to work stronger. “When you truly take breaks, you will be more creative, productive and effective when you return,” says Lombardo.

You have a glass of wine (or two) before bed – “Alcohol initially depresses the central nervous system, producing a sedative effect”, says Allen Towfigh, MD, medical director of New York Neurology & Sleep Medicine, P.C., in New York City. “But it ultimately sabotages sleep maintenance.” So while you may have a deep sleep for the first few hours, it is likely that you will wake in the middle of the night due to a surge in the adrenaline system. Dr. Towfigh recommends stopping all alcohol three to four hours before bedtime.

You check e-mails at bedtime – The bright light of your smartphone, tablet or computer screen can mess with your sleep and wake cycles. It has been recommended that you turn off all technology at least 1 or 2 hours before bedtime. Dr Towfigh says, “if you can’t avoid checking your device before your head hits the pillow? Then hold it at least 14 inches away from your face to reduce the risk of sleep interference”.

Caffeine hits to get through the day – Studies have proven that there is nothing wrong with having up to three cups of coffee a day. But it stops there! If you drink too much caffeine it can seriously interfere with your sleep cycle. Dr. Towfigh says “caffeine blocks adenosine, the byproduct of active cells that drives you to sleep as it accumulates”. If you stop drinking coffee by mid-afternoon you could improve your sleep cycle, just remember to stop drinking caffeine around 6 hours before bedtime.

You stay up late on weekends – Sleeping in at the weekend can interfere with your sleep cycle the rest of the week. Go out and enjoy your weekend but try and wake up close to your everyday time the following morning and then have a power nap later on. Dr. Towfigh says“napping for 20 minutes or so allows the body to recharge without entering the deeper stages of sleep, which can cause you to wake up more tired.”

Take the time and think about the next few weeks, make the changes to your lifestyle and let us know how you are feeling.

Source: health.com

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