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Before You Get Into a Relationship

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and many of us going to be in a relationship or in the phase of getting into a relationship. Being in a relationship has its advantages: you always have a special cuddle buddy and someone to talk to about your interests. We often focus on learning to love once we’ve entered a relationship, but we have a gut feeling that the foundation of a healthy relationship starts with you. Before you get into a relationship there are certain skills that you must inculcate to be successful in a relationship

Love your Me Time

Often at the beginning of a relationship, couples start to do everything together. Hanging out with your sweetheart is great but maintaining your independence while you’re in a relationship will be super important to your happiness in the long run. Don’t lose your me time; do all of the things you love, whether it is walking the dog, getting work done in a cafe, or watching that movie that you like, it’s important to be totally comfortable by yourself.

Keep Jealousy away from Ruining Your Relationships

Jealousy, of course, isn’t confined to love, it could be in regards to a co-worker that got a promotion over you, it could be to the sibling that gets all the praise, or even directed toward the friend that looks flawless one hundred percent of the time. Practice self-love and positive affirmations! If your partner’s behavior makes you feel insecure then it may be time to start a conversation about the things that make you uncomfortable.

Manage Your Finances

Of course, you want to impress your new love of life, and impulsive dates are the best kind of dates, but if you do that stuff too often it quickly becomes equivalent to another bill each month. Having an idea of what your spending limits are is extremely helpful when planning dates. Some of the best dates cost no money at all, and a thoughtful gift doesn’t have to be an expensive one.

Manage Stress

Too often we take out our stresses on the people close to us, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Finding healthy ways to cope with stress outside of your relationship only makes unwinding at the end of the day with your sweetheart that much better. Bringing stress into the relationship only creates more stress — it’s a cycle.

Master Time Management

Having good time management skills before entering a relationship is key. Getting swept away at the moment is nice, but making sure you reach deadlines and don’t lose track of reality is better. That being said, it’s completely possible to be swept away while keeping your feet on the ground! Be sure to communicate to your sweetheart what things you need to get done–a supporting partner will absolutely help you maintain your balance.

Pursue Your Passions — and Make Them a Priority

Whatever you were passionate about before you entered your relationship is still there, having a partner just adds an amazing person to your corner to cheer you on. And, if they don’t support your dreams and passions, they are not worth your time.

Become Self Aware

How do your actions affect others? What are some things that you need to work on? Try to do this without being too critical. Outside of a relationship, what kind of person are you? What kind of partner are you when you’re in a relationship? These questions are important to ask before you enter something serious. Knowing yourself inside and out will only help build a better foundation with your partner. It’s not just about getting to know another person — it’s about getting to know yourself too.

Be Unapologetically Yourself

Life is far too short to pretend to be someone you’re not, and you’ll only regret the time wasted trying to pretend you were someone else. Being yourself from the get-go in a relationship will help you avoid wasting your time with the wrong partner. If they aren’t totally into who you are at your core, there’s no point in continuing what you started.

Check Your Baggage

Your past traumas, experiences, and relationships absolutely affect your current one. Healing isn’t linear, and even if you know how these experiences affect you, sometimes it’s still difficult to leave them out of your current equation. Maybe you’re still in your healing process, but just being aware of the baggage you carry with you can help a ton in fostering a healthy relationship instead of being oblivious to it.

Improve Your Communication Skills

Sometimes relationships are awkward and you have conversations that leave you wanting to teleport anywhere else than that moment. Being able to communicate your wants, needs, and what can be improved are the building blocks of a healthy, lasting relationship. Lack of communication creates rifts of misunderstanding and sometimes puts your wants and needs on the back burner. Being able to articulate clearly what exactly you mean is an admirable trait, and will create a strong foundation for any relationship, not just romantic.

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"It Is Never Too Late To Fall In Love."

If you’re really wished to find someone special in your life, you have to go out and find them. It drives me super crazy when people say, “I want to find true love, but if it happens, it happens. I am not going to go out looking for it! I will let the universe do its thing.”

Really!! Are you kidding me? When is the last time something good that made your life better came to you while you were sitting idle doing nothing? If you want to find true love, then don’t sit back and relax; go out there and look for it!

Always keep in mind, once we put ourselves out there, come out of our super comfort zones, and face our fears, amazing things are bound to happen. Visit social gatherings with a new set of people. Try to figure out common interest groups in your community. Maybe talk to a stranger on the metro or bus. Hell, give online dating a try!

If you want to find true love, you have no options but to get out there and start meeting new people. Sure, every time it's not going to be a fruitful experience, but that is what it’s all about. When good things begin to happen (which they will) you will look back and understand all the effort was worth it. Don’t forget…Finding true love is not at all an easy task. This new approach can be time-consuming and can take a long time to master. But in the end when you find that one special person, you will know that all the efforts, struggle, rejection, failure, and time-investment were worth it.

True love is a beautiful feeling. It should not be degraded to a pipe dream for the lonely-hearts-club. True love is an eternal feeling that every one of us should strive hard for because our lives are a lot more fun when we can share it with that special person who brings out the magical glow inside us.

If you have not found true love yet, please don’t give up guys. It is out there. And if you follow your heart and inner soul, I know you’re going to find it.

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Answers to All Questions People Asking Me Every Now & Then

My near and dear ones always appreciated my looks, but every near and dear ones do that, so I didn't take that very seriously. It's not something I really think about – it's pretty normal to me that women or men on the street smile at me. But maybe that isn't normal at all, I wouldn't know. Here are few answers to those questions people asking me every now & then:

Is it true that people take you less seriously because they don't expect you to have brains?

Absolutely. When people strike up a conversation with me, they mostly talk about how beautiful I am, instead of asking about my interests. It's always the same – when you're good-looking, you're only judged on your appearance. People sometimes forget we have a personality lurking underneath.

Do your friends ever get jealous when you get all the attention?

Yes, I do get that impression sometimes. So I always feel guilty on nights out when people talk to me but ignore my friends. I do try to brush off guys who do that. What also happens is that when I tell my friends, they look great, they don't think I'm serious.

Have you ever noticed people getting nervous around you because of your looks?

I used to have a colleague who would suddenly start dropping things – plates, cups, pens – whenever she's around me.

Do you get a lot of free stuff?

No, unfortunately not. This probably sounds sexist, but I think women are generally better at flirting their way to free things.

Would you say you're very confident?

No, not really. I know I look hot, but it's not as if I just stare at myself all day. Some days, especially if I've had a bad night's sleep, I think I look like shit.

Are you afraid of losing your looks when you get older?

Yes, absolutely. When you're young and pretty, everything seems possible. As you get older, that definitely changes.

Have you ever taken advantage of the fact that you're attractive and beautiful?

Well, I can be quite charming if I want to get something done. However, personally, I never did anything sort of taking advantage of my good looks.

Do you get asked out on dates all the time?

Yes, quite often.

How amazing is it to be so attractive & beautiful?

It's not always fun – quite often people will just stare at me, making me extremely uncomfortable. And they love to assume that I'm really dumb.

Do random people ever come up to you just to give you a compliment?

Yeah, it does happen. I often get compliments on my facial features or my hair – which is really lovely, but it does get tiring. It would be great if people asked about my job or my interests sometimes.

Can you take anybody you like home?

I can't complain. Sometimes I just want sex, like everyone else. But at a certain point, random hook-ups start to feel a bit meaningless. And when people who I don't like come on to me, I have to turn them down. That's not fun.

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Walking Away from First love is Devastating

Saying goodbye to the person, you love the most needs a lot of courage, and if it’s your first love, it’s devastating. First love is always the hardest to get over, and I don't think my feelings for my first love will ever fully go away. My feelings for my first love won't fade ever. We had completely magical years together. There were a few unavoidable circumstances that urged me to end the relationship. 

Generally, everyone assumes that leaving someone you love and breaking the relationship off is the easiest thing which can be done. Everyone assumes that the person who has taken this step doesn’t have any emotions and that they don’t feel any pain. 

However, it is completely different when you simply know it is the only option you have and the only choice you can make if you want each other’s family happiness. Sometimes love is simply not enough. You need to care for those people who raised you and your soulmate. Sometimes you are very well aware of the intensity of the emotions you feel for your first love, but you simply have to choose each other’s family’s happiness over your first love. And the only way to do that is to walk away from the person despite all the love that might exist between you two.

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Stop Being Possessive in Friendship

Are you jealous when your friend hangs out with his or her other friends? Or with other sets of your friends? Do you not want your friend to meet new people? Do you want yourself to be his or her priority? Or do you always tell your friend what he or she should do? If answers to all the above questions are yes, you are a possessive friend. If you have started controlling what your friend is doing, it’s high time, and you must take a step back and stop being a possessive friend.

“If you love your friend, then set him/her free”. Here we must understand this quote symbolically, not literally. “Set him/her free” refers to you allowing your friend to be who he/she really is — not setting your friend free means having an agenda for him/her. Perhaps there are things here and there that you’d prefer to he/she not have, so you put on a utility belt to “fix” your friend to be exactly who you want him/her to be for you, and then everything will be ok. That will almost certainly guarantee failure.

Unfortunately, many people become over-possessive in their friendships. They are so anxious about keeping the friendship at any cost that they resort to forms of control, abuse, manipulation, or self-denial that they never experience real love. It gets all muddled up with emotional needs, fear, anxiety, etc. Always keep in mind that true love does not make us fear dear friend; it's the fear inside us. It is an attachment. We would like to keep the other person with us always because he/she is detrimental to our happiness.

Letting the one you love leave is the hardest thing to do. It feels like giving away a part of your heart and causes immense pain. But true love does not control and always seeks the happiness of the other person. So eventually you will do it. So, be confident about your love for your friends and set them free. Hence I believe in this saying completely that, “If You Love Someone then Set Them Free.

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Respect Individual

Every boy who's Gay has a past. Some were physically abused. Some had violent parents. Some had pubertal issues. Some had sexual abuse as a child from their own family members. Some had messed up love stories. Some had been forced into sex in the name of love. Some had been drugged. Some were date raped. Some had been viciously photographed on bed. Some had been blackmailed by their ex-boyfriend. Some were in an abusive relationship. Some had a broken family. Some had an obesity issue. Some had financial droughts. Some had drug or alcohol addiction. Some had a few unsuccessful suicide attempts.

If you see a Gay, who went through any of these but had already wiped his tears, tied his hair up, masked his sorrows with a divine smile, stood tall and strong, started walking towards his future because he still has some hope left inside him and has not given up on the concept of love that still exists in this world, do not stab him with his past. Do not confront him. Do not slap him with more abuse. Give way for him and walk beside him. May be hold his hands and walk for a while. You'll know how sweet that soul is and how strong his hopes are! You'll be amazed at how he carries himself after all his energy has been sucked out.

He need not always be only the Boy next door or from a different home. He could be your own friend or any known one.

Do not judge him by his past. Gift him the peaceful future that he deserves. Hold his hands against the world, which knows only to judge. Give him the love that He always yearned for. ♥️

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Getting Over Your First ❤Never Really Happens

I never realised love can be so powerful. I never believed in love until I met you. In all these years I never ever thought that someone could love me so much.

I always thought that you tried to dominate on me. I only stressed on the fact that you scolded me. But not on the reason behind those scoldings.

Now when you are not in my life I am away from you I realised that you were always concerned about my safety. You were overprotective about me and that was only because you didn't want me to get hurt.

This world is really not bed of roses and today when I have to look after myself I understand why you were so concerned about me. But sadly I never realised this. They say it's never too late to mend and I have promised myself not to disobey you anymore. Though I may not be perfect in this but I am trying.

Yes first love never dies. The day I realised what love really is it was only because of you. And love never fades nor dies.

I know your love for me is unconditional. Now when I see people around me, I realise that you are the best I have ever met.

So now tell me can this unconditional love ever die?????

Miss You in every breath I take.........

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“Soulmate Recognised”

Hey my soulmate, you weren’t the person I expected. When I first heard the word soulmate, I thought about the person you would marry, but you came into my life and the definition of soulmate to me changed.

I found you. I found my best friend. The person who would stay up late and talk for hours upon hours with me about the most miniscule things. The one who reminds me that I am not crazy…just misunderstood. When I fell, you reminded me that I am human and it happens.I love you for that.

You have seen me at my cheesiest and you loved it. You have seen me at my worst and you didn’t run away. You were the one to help me get back up. When society wanted to change me, you told me to change society. It starts with one; why can’t it be me?

After meeting you I realised that a soulmate is the person who lights the soul on fire. A person who enters in life when we needed it most. A soulmate can either continue the story or rewrite the chapter.

You are my reminder that love can apply to friendships as well. The sort of love so strong that I want to be a better person for the both of us.

I get to see me at my best when I am with you. That same love helped me foster a love for myself. I am a lot more confident because of you. I have an easier time standing on my own now.

I thank Almighty I found you (Fiffii) as my soulmate for life.

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“First Love Makes You Wiser & Stronger”

First love isn't just any love. You've given your heart and soul into it.Perhaps nothing is ever quite as painful as getting over it. Now that it's over, it taught you so many things which actually made you wiser and stronger than ever before. Here are few things which your first love teaches you.

1. Don’t expect a happy ending

Your first love taught you that love doesn’t always have a happy ending. It exists for a certain period and trust me, that’s not a bad thing. The fact that it didn’t last doesn’t mean that the feelings weren’t real.Cherish your first love, regardless of the page it ended on.

2. Discussion Matters

It’s important to talk about things, to discuss matters, to express yourself, and to communicate in a relationship. I’ve seen so many relationships didn’t work because people are too egoistic to talk, too scared to be judged or are too afraid to be themselves and it ends up hurting the ones they loved the most.

3. Not everything lasts, and that’s alright

When your heart breaks for the first time then only you realize that not everything is meant to last and it is an extremely important lesson. It teaches you that it is okay for good things to come to an end because they may give way to even better stories in the future.

4. Time heals everything

The time when your heart gets shattered, it will ache in the worst possible way. This is the time when you need to know that every broken heart has the power to heal. So, don’t worry too much because the broken heart will fall in love, again.

5. Sometimes, timing is a bitch

You should have learned that sometimes two people who might have been right for each other, never worked out because they met at the wrong time

6. Cherish Your Memories

There are always fond memories of what your first love felt like. You should learn that memories are a great way of relieving some of the best times you had together. So, be happy for every person you have crossed paths with because they left you with some beautiful lessons and experiences that will make you a better person.

7. Trusting Blindly Is Lethal

When you are in love for the very first time, you might believe every word of what they say. You never even consider doubting them because you don’t think they will lie. However what we think doesn’t always become reality, and if your heart has been broken, you will know trust can be fragile.

8. Bad endings can still give good memories

Maybe your first love ended on a bad note and you are no longer in touch with your first flame, it doesn’t mean that there are no good memories. Even right now, when you are reading this, did you automatically think of your first love? That is exactly what I mean by bad endings but good memories. Smile, because it brought you where you are today.

9. Life goes on

Your first love teaches you that life never stops. It doesn’t matter how naive you were or even how deep your love was, it made you stronger in the end. Life kept going on, and it always will.

10. Promises break, so do people

Do you remember those long lonely wintery nights where you had no one to hug but your lonely pillow? You must thank those nights as they made you stronger and reminded you that promises can always be broken. It helped you gain strength and learn many important lessons over time.

Love knows no barriers and restrictions, and it is something that is done with the heart and ends up feeding your soul in the most beautiful ways. Cherish it because you are lucky to have this feeling.

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“Live Love Laugh”

When we promise ourselves to one another it is a vow as strong as the faith the two people have in each other. The bond, the love, is only as strong as the faith between two people is. Doubt is the poison that destroys relationships.

There will always be liars and cheaters and heart breakers and shatterers and destroyers out there. There is so much evil in the world. And that's the beauty of love. When two people can unite and claim safety, shelter, and protection in each other's arms as the evil of this world corrupts and dismantles everything around them. Their love protects them.

When I give someone everything I have, I am giving them the power to destroy me. I'm perfectly fine with that—with the chance at being hurt beyond all imaginable pains, there is a chance of everlasting happiness. I love unconditionally and I love as much as I expect to receive. I don't give any lesser of me because that wouldn't be love. That would be selfishness or ego centrism. This is who I am by nature and I wish more people were like this.

I understand that for those who have been hurt that we put up walls. Nobody wants to be in pain, but we don't have to lower our walls. Don't change for anyone. When the one that's right for us comes along, our walls will eventually lower on their own. But what happens when our walls are too high? We might miss a chance at a great opportunity, we must at least see who is at the gate. If that boy or girl is willing to try so hard to be our friend then shouldn't we consider them worth it? Love can be the greatest feeling in the world or it can kill you. That's the magic of it.

Any fool can love. But it takes a real person to love unconditionally. Nothing can break unconditionally love—not even an Apache helicopter with missiles—and if your love bond ever breaks and you suffer from the woe of this world, then it wasn't unconditional and the right lover is waiting out there for you. Go get em!

Personally, I find the concept of “true” love very troublesome. It leads people to sometimes focus too much on whether or not the person they are with is “the one” as opposed to putting their energy into enjoying and strengthening the relationship they’re currently in. It makes people worry about whether or not something better is waiting for them if the love they feel for someone now is “good enough” to be “true” because they believe they only have one shot at this and you’d better hope you picked the right one because there are no second chances.

Once, I was deeply in love with someone. We wanted to build a life together. I poured my heart and soul into that bond and I never once doubted that I truly, deeply loved that person and that person loved me too.

But in the end, it didn’t work out. We ended it not because our feelings had changed, but because our lives were taking us in different directions. And I feel pretty comfortable saying that both of us were a mess afterward. I listened to ex-love sob over the phone while I laid there, crying my eyes out. I was heartbroken to the point of physical pain. My ex-wavered, second-guessing, and wanted me back even though nothing else about our circumstances had changed. We knew we couldn’t be happy with the way things were, within circumstances that we couldn’t control, no matter how much we loved each other.

I genuinely feared that I would never find someone who felt that way about me again and that I could never love another person as much as I had loved my ex.

I was wrong.

The Second chapter of my life started and had one more relationship. It was better than the previous one because it’s had time to grow, to build a solid foundation, and because I am older and more mature than I was in that previous relationship. It’s not because the love I feel now is more “true” than what I felt before. It’s different because I am different because my partner is different - but that doesn’t mean that what I felt before somehow wasn’t real enough or that what I feel now is undermined by the fact that I deeply loved someone before I met them.

Love is love. It comes in different shades, different flavors, different intensities. If you love someone deeply and you are loved deeply, then stop worrying whether or not it is “true.” And if you have lost a love like that, then it’s all a matter of meeting the right person, making the right connection, and leaving your heart open to give and receive love like that again.

If you convince yourself that “true love” can only happen once, then you are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’m again single after two relationships and I don’t have any fear how people judge me for this because we have one life to live, don't engross yourself thinking about future too much. Just try your best to live in the moment and open your arms to welcome new love in your life.

Spread Love.

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Shadows Of The Unforgettable   Past

I know past is something we can't forget. We all have faced so many things which would have taught us a lot. People generally say we should forget our past, even I think the same but how to forget the past?

The best way to forget the past is to really try and drive this idea into your mind that

                                  Nobody really cares 

Yes, that’s the truth. Nobody really cares what happened in your past life except you. So, try to keep this thought and you will be a free soul.

Most of the people are stuck in the past or fixated on future, but never live their present. They crib about their past, blame their bad luck or others for what happened to them. We forget that we can't do anything about past. We should learn from the events/mistakes from our past & take right decisions at the present because our future will depend on what we do right now. That’s how we can correct what we have done in our past.

If you really can’t forget past then try to analyze it. I'm not encouraging you being more positive, matter fact, I'm encouraging accepting the negativity. The dark, ugly, scary part of yours. By tricking your consciousness with forced positivity doesn’t work to overcome your bad parts.

Don't get me wrong I'm all about positive thinking, I'm all about good stuff. But you can't have the good without the bad. And as long there is something within you that's is dragging you down, no amount of positivity is going to help you unless you accept, and understand the negative part.

Keep in mind all these feelings of shame, sorrow and guilt are only because of this world and whatever person important to you. When you are not permanent in this world how these feelings can be.  Don’t let this fear of world destroy your confidence, inner peace and your “WILL” to live and treasure every moment.

Bottom line - If can’t forget the past then embrace your past. Try your best to remember times you were happy. Don’t make it painful and sad by thinking sad chapters of life. This will spoil you & everyone around you. Life is all about being happy and cheerful; so let go of your baggage, forgive your enemies & yourself. Every day is a fresh start. Smile & conquer the world.

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I Know You’re With Me

When parents die while a child is still young, the memories a child has of his parents are limited. Very often when they grow up they will remember little of the parent and their early loss is hard to bear. It has a lifelong impact on a child.

As a child when you have little or nothing tangible from the parent to cherish, and with which to keep the memory of the deceased parent alive, the impact of this early loss is worse.

My mother died when I was 6 years old. I was raised by my aunt. Few words still clear in my mind when people said to me that mother had died and gone to heaven. My acquaintances told me not to cry. I have a few lovely memories of my mother but not many. I remember her singing in the kitchen, taking me to market for shopping, and one New year morning when she wore a beautiful navy blue outfit.

I also remember her smell. After her death, I would sit in her wardrobe smelling her clothes and handbags. They smelled faintly of her perfume. I remember the last time I saw her alive as I was being driven away from the hospital as she was waving goodbye. She was wearing a lime green dress and blue slippers. I don’t know if I ever told my mother that I loved her. I wish I knew that. I feel sad my mother didn’t see me grow up. She would never know my successes. I am so envious of my friends who have mothers to share everything with.

Something which tears my heart apart is that I don't even have a picture of her, she’s only in my memories. I close my eyes to see her, it's painful, a grief not easy to cope up with. My mother was lovely and softly spoken. She had silky dark brown hair and wore flowery dresses – I wish I could remember more but I don’t and that upsets me. I always try my best to stay positive, I realize that life is too short and not to hold on too tightly to superficial things.

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How 2017 Changed My Life

Every time the new year begins we look to the future and decide this is the year for change. Change how we eat, start working out, learn something new, change careers, be healthier and happier. But where do we start?

Most of us have come to accept that new year’s resolutions typically do not work, I’ve never been a fan of them. So I wanted to share with you how I changed nearly every aspect of my life for the positive in a single year and how you can too, whether it’s a resolution or not.

After several years of job, working with different departments and designations my time was up. I always wanted to do something which excites me to the core, I was desperately looking for a change.

My advice; don’t wait for something so dramatic to happen in your life, start taking the steps to change your life today.

I followed my passion and started writing.

It changed me forever. Before this I didn’t have a burning passion for anything, I didn’t know what it was that I was meant to do in this life. As soon as I picked up my laptop I knew there was something inside me waiting to be released. If you dread going to your job every day and think that there must be something else you’re meant to do, I suggest you start looking for your passion. Start by reading The Short but Powerful Guide to Finding Your Passion. However, this likely won’t make sense to you until you actually do it.

I lost 15 kgs of fat.

Those that know me in person would likely be surprised that I had 15 kgs to lose. I’ve always been skinny-fat, by wearing the right clothes and I covered it up the belly well. But when I was at my heaviest around 95 kgs it was becoming obvious, the double chin was starting to show and I felt like garbage 24/7.

I tried several diets over the years only to gain all the weight back and more, you’ve heard the same story hundreds of times before. Then one fine day I came across something different on Google; Paleo Diet.

It made so much logical sense to me; return to the way we evolved to eat over millions of years instead of eating what we have created in only the past 100 years. I knew I had come across something revolutionary. The Paleo movement is gaining momentum faster than anyone could imagine, there’s one simple reason for that: It works. This is not a fad diet, it’s a return to a simpler time when we didn’t think we were smarter than our bodies. Science/progress has made many areas of our life great, but it has ruined our food.

I’ve not only lost weight, I have renewed energy and every symptom of a sickness that I previously had is gone. I used to take antacid, ibuprofen on a regular basis. Since I started Paleo I haven’t taken any of these. I truly feel I’ve found an exceptionally healthy way of life that will prevent heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.

I got in shape.

The first month was brutal, I would workout once or twice and be down for a week barely able to climb up the stairs. Now I’m going 4-5 days a week and love every moment of it, I feel great after every workout and have a level of confidence that I’ve never experienced in my life.

I quit smoking Hookah.

I’ve been affected by smoking Hookah deeply. It caused great damage to my lungs as well. Then I found One Year of Living Without smoking Hookah, and finally, now I’m Living Life Without Hookah.  

If you’re struggling with smoking or drug addiction please think about future consequences and most importantly your family.

I became a minimalist.

Minimalism for me is about changing the emotional association with our ‘stuff’. Our possessions tie us down and take away our freedom. Once I realized this I sold, donated, or threw away nearly everything I owned that wasn’t completely necessary. Incredibly liberating.

What are you going to change this year?

A very powerful way to create change is to make it public. Write a blog post, write on your facebook wall, tell your friends in person what you want to change in your life, if they are good friends they will hold you accountable. Start by sharing here in the comments, what have I inspired you to change in your life?

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Instagram: What’s in it for entrepreneurs?

Instagram now has daily users in excess of 100 million. What does this mean for businesses? To answer that question, let’s look into a couple of other related figures. Compared to Facebook, the visual-sharing social media platform offers 29% more engagement and compared to Twitter, 60% more.

Isn’t that what businesses want? Engage the masses to create awareness, or generate leads, or convert leads into paying customers. A study by Forrester Research shows that brands using Instagram, gained 1+ million followers in 2015.

The platform has over 500 million users, and this number is expected to double by 2020. These figures surely appear lucrative, and evidently, calls for the presence of businesses on the platform. But, presence alone does not do the trick. Marketing on Instagram is a shrewd combination of art and science. Science shows that there are five basic ‘must-do’ things to be a success on Instagram. Art, on the other hand, lies in the implementation.

Here are the five proven tactics:

Using the right hashtags

Using the right filters

Picking the right time to post

Targeting the followers of your competitors

Sponsoring posts and reviews

Now comes the question of implementation. Here’s where the fun begins.

1- Match and monitor your hashtags: After you’ve identified your target buyer personas, you need to match the correct hashtags associated with them and then monitor how they are doing/trending.

Monitoring hashtags will help you stay updated with the trends and competitive information, and help you get connected to new people who are interested in your business in one way or another, without any monetary cost. Needless to say, the constant increase of followers who find you in the hashtag results will also help.

How to do it? It's simple. Just do a basic keyword search through the search bar- make a list of the top hashtags from the search results- keep going back to search and monitoring the posts with those hashtags.

Monitoring the hashtags will also help you figure out how to engage with them. There are two ways of doing this: individual monitoring and using third-party apps.

Here are our top three picks for hashtag monitoring tools:

Simply Measured- This is an analytics-based social tool. It provides detailed statistics on your campaign hashtags.

Iconosquare- This app measures the engagement for hashtags you use and assesses their growth.

Keyhole- Best known for its use among journalists, this app specializes in tracking not only hashtags but also keywords.

2- Step-up your hashtag monitoring: While you’re individually monitoring hashtags, you’ll be surprised to find out how many people are talking about your business (mostly for established businesses). Engaging such users will encourage them to post more (a form of flattery) and increase engagement from their profile.

3- Managing contests: Co-holding social media contests with a more popular brand for followers of both profiles is likely to drive more following. A contest that requires a user to be following both brands will help them gain mutual followers of a shared niche.

4- Being regular with your posts: This is the most basic requirement of any social media handle. While engaging in conversations and posts that are already talking about your business, can generate serious buzz, actively posting from your handle will help you building a constant presence in the news feed.

5- Offline or off-social media promotion: It doesn’t hurt to spread the word wherever there is a possibility. Include links with social media icons on your website and emails, have signs outside your store with a peppy CTA.

6- Filtering to attract: Instagram has some mesmerizing filters which give a special effect to your images to capture attention. This is a key aspect of beautifying your posts to please the eyes of your followers. The best thing about this is that it doesn’t take a specialist or an expert to use filters.

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Leather Jacket

“A Timeless Style”

“Once you get a really nice leather jacket you kind of just go with it because they're timeless.”

Possessing an elegant leather jacket has turned into a symbol of standing amongst the youngsters. You have a lot of choices in selecting these jackets and blazers. You could find classy leather jackets and classy leather blazers in a variety of colors like black, reddish colored, gray, brown etc. Dark brown and black shades will be the most popular colors with regards to the color selection of natural leather jackets and blazers.

You ought not to consider the usage of these jackets and blazers as an instrument of protection specifically season. Wearing the classy jackets and elegant blazers provide an intimidating look to the individual wearing it.

There are many ways that an elegant leather jacket could be styled. Mostly Leather jackets are popular amongst bikers, staff serving in the many arms of the Protection Services, college tourists and students.If you are planning to buy a leather jacket then do give a look at Biker Leather Jacket and Leather Jackets India.

We can classify leather jackets in many categories either based on purpose they're worn or based on material they are created from. A few of the types of jackets and blazers are usually

● Classic Leather Jacket

● Classic Leather Blazer

● Leather Motorcycle jacket

● Bomber/flight leather blazer/jacket

● Leather waterproof jackets

Usually, you discover leather jackets possibly with a zip or with buttons. Classy Natural leather jackets and classy leather blazers can be found in different sizes. Based on length dimension these jackets and blazers are usually sub categorized as waistline length dimension jackets and hip size blazers. You could find these leather blazers and jackets on the market in various styles like trench-coat and collarless patterns.

Natural leather jackets gained its recognition mainly during 1950 after it had been worn by famous celeb Marlon Brando in 2 movies. The other modern actors followed the match and enhance the popularity of leather jackets. Youngsters have become keen to imitate their filmy idols. This element helped in achieving, even more, popularity for the leather jackets when it had been used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in another of his film. Wearing an elegant leather coat or classy leather blazer is recognized as a tool showing off machismo.

It's true that leather jackets and classy leather blazers are worn either like a fashion or like a garment that provides protection. Though leather jackets are well-known among men mainly, women are usually no exception for his or her attest to these classy natural leather jackets and classy leather blazers. Usually, ladies wear these classy leather blazers to symbolize manliness and machismo. This element has made the leather jackets a means of displaying lifestyle, personality and attitude in the wonderful world of fashion.

As a woman, you've got a wide variety of classy leather blazers and classy natural leather jackets to select like single and twice breasted, without collars, near collars or open collars. You can find a number of designs of leather jackets which enhance the beauty of the female. Many leather jackets are usually embossed to create these classy natural leather blazers and classy leather jackets to create them more appealing and lure a lot more customers. Embossing designs like Crocodile, snakeskin, and alligator tend to be more popular.

Definitely, classy leather jackets and classy leather blazers enhance your personality plus your social status aside from providing you protection in various weather conditions.

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