a power nap can help you relax by binscorner

Taking a power nap is a proven way to increase creativity and productivity, while improving the state of our health.

For many years in western societies, a power nap was considered laziness, weakness or illness. But during the last years a power nap is seen increasingly positive. The scientific data show that a power nap in the middle of the day helps both our mental and physical condition, making us more creative, more productive and more responsive. A power nap reduces stress and reduces the risk for heart attacks and heart diseases, diabetes and weight gain. It can also make you cleverer, healthier and more still.

A power nap of 60 minutes can make us function better in the next 10 hours. Research showed that pilots who take a power nap of 26 minutes during a flight (while the aircraft is on auto pilot) improve their performance by 34% and general alert by 54%.

6 reasons why you need to take a power nap

1. A power nap can help you relax

manage your time better

The ability to manage our time efficiently is of great importance for happiness in our lives. Success in this critical area will allow us to enjoy the pleasures that life offers, will help us to manage stress and is a big step for our mental relaxation and calm.

Conversely, if we do not learn the basic principles of time management, the setting of objectives and priorities, we risk being caught up by the waves and storms of life that affect us too often.

Good time management is not easy. Not all people have the gift of proper organization. Many people have a wealth of activities and obligations. They feel they are oppressed by the many jobs that have to do with respect to the family, home or their profession. Easily, without the skills and education, one can be caught in a vicious cycle of time disruption and priorities with extremely negative consequences.

Despite the importance to manage time efficiently, educational systems at all levels give very little education to young people. This is a paradox if someone considers that the management of time is an essential component of success in all business sectors.

manage your time better by lutvision

Manage your time means to be in position to dominate the time and your work rather than being dominated by them. Your time is your life. Every thought and every action you make takes time. Therefore the way you use your time automatically determines where and how to use your life. The great paradox is that nobody has enough time, and yet everyone has as long as there is. Many of the time consuming factors affecting people cause stress and anxiety, so these factors must be identified and limited.

It is very important to manage your time successfully because:

• If you have more time for work you have more chances for success.
• If you have more time to think you can utilize your mind better.
• If you have more time to play, you can enjoy your life better.
• If you have more time to read, you can gain more knowledge.
• If you have more time for being friendly, the happier you will be.
• If you have more time to love, you will feel more joy.
• If you have more time to enjoy, the better is for your health and soul.

Do not forget Murphy’s law:" Nothing is as easy as it seems. Anything to be done needs more time than you think and if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. "

positive thinking is the key to your success by muha

Thinking positive is the key to your success. All successful people have one thing in common: Positive thinking and passion for what they are doing! Watch the great champions with what will and deprivation are fighting for reaching the desired objective. Watch the successful professionals and try to understand their dedication and sacrifices they do in their effort to reach that point that will bring them professional recognition. All the major successes start from a simple idea and if there is a real desire and positive thinking then they become a reality...!

Many of the ideas may temporarily give us incentives to try them but few of these ideas can keep our desire for success at such high levels in order to be able to overcome the obstacles that are found in the way. Take for example our personal goals and objectives set by each of us for our career, personal life, education, our looks etc. How committed are we to achieve these goals? Do we set objectives but we give up when things are difficult? Are we getting enthusiastic with an idea, which bursts on the road and cannot ever be converted into real objective? How can we keep this enthusiasm and desire for success until we meet our goals?

manage exam stress by forhealth

Students have a lot of stress especially during the exam period. It is more than vital for students to be able to manage stress if they want to succeed in the exams.

Exams themselves are a compelling experience that causes stress, because the stakes are high: the dreams that students make for their lives, the beginning of a career, the expectations that they have for themselves, the expectations parents have for their children. The exam stress is usually associated with the fear that students will disappoint their parents by their performance, and with the expectations they have from themselves. 

This article outlines some very useful tips that can help students and parents understand what are the causes and symptoms of stress and how students can manage stress before, during and after the exam period.

manage stress at work by career

Stress is a term that causes anxiety and it is usually connected with nervous tension and fatigue. The workplace is one of the major contributors of stress for all people. Despite the reasons that can cause stress at work there are quick and easy ways to manage stress at work and become more relaxed and more productive. This article outlines 12 methods you can follow to manage and relief your self from stress those difficult days at work.

12 Ways to manage stress at work

1. Give up your coffee

Coffee flows in your blood this is the problem. The caffeine is like wet stress that flows in your veins. It increases the production of adrenaline and simultaneously it prevents the production of adenosine, a natural sedative for your brain. «Blocking the caffeine from your daily habits is the most effective strategy to reduce stress as far as I know,” says David B. Posen, stress expert and author of Always Change a Losing Game. Posen supports the fact that 75% of decaffeinated coffee patients feel more relaxed and more active at work, mainly due to better sleep. For more information about coffee, you can read The real truth about the myth of coffee.

manage stress and your life

Regardless of what is the cause of stress the degree in which stress affects us depends on how we think about it. To manage stress effectively we need first to be able to manage our thoughts and the way of thinking. Each situation and each event gets the value that we give them, and thus causing us such stress, as we allow them to. Each person things and reacts differently from all other people. Also, the same person things and reacts for the same events differently at different times, depending on the circumstances.

What upset us is not the events themselves, but the perception we have for them. If this perception changed, then it is possible to manage, change or reduce the degree of stress we feel.

A very good way to manage stress, is to examine whether the situation or the causes of stress are really so bad as we think, or they are only bad in our thoughts. The steps below will help you manage your stress by first managing your thoughts.

manage stress and relax by ameliaps

Stress has become an integral component of our life. There are various ways to manage stress in a fast and efficient way. There are techniques that have to do with how we deal with problems - which are the major cause of stress and techniques we can use to relax in order to help our self to manage stress more efficiently. The bottom line is that stress is not a tangible component but it is a perception we have in our mind about different situations. Each situation and each event gets the value that we give them, and thus causing us such stress, as we allow them to.

Stress is not always a bad thing. Instead, it can keep us alert, it can warn us from possible dangers and in essence it helps us to understand what is important or not.

The inability to manage stress can sometimes prove to be dangerous for our health. We must be careful and take the necessary steps to protect ourselves. It is us that can make the difference in whether stress will remain useful or become dangerous for our health. Stress is harmful when we allow it to be.

happy faces by 001fj

The good thing with the stress of the holidays is that it is predictable. Unlike other types of stress that we encounter in life, we know exactly when it will start and when it will finish! Therefore, we can organize ourselves in order to avoid it or at least control it.

In our previous post "6 causes of Christmas stress and depression" we outlined the major causes why for many people Christmas holidays is a period of depression and stress. These are:

• Absence of a beloved person
• Family misunderstandings
• The economic difficulties
• Physical tiredness
• Loneliness
• Seasonal Emotional Disturbance

In this post, we give 15 tips to follow in order to make this Christmas holidays a period of joy and happiness.

Christmas Stress Ball by axell

No doubt the celebrations of Christmas and New Year are moments of love, joy and happiness. At least that is how it should be or how we want to believe it is. Unfortunately for many people Christmas holidays is a period of depression and stress.

There are many situations that affect the beauty, charm and spirit of holidays. Many people, each for different reasons, feel too much tension, some surrender to depression, others get frustrated because they can not do everything that they wanted to do in such a short period of time.

Apart from the emotional stress and mental intensity that can harm our health during the holidays, there are also the rich dishes that are not the best thing for our diet and physical health. The foods that are rich in calories, salt, fats and carbohydrates are ceaseless temptations even for those with a very strong will.

puzzle games can help you improve memory by brainpower

There are ways to improve memory. Our memory like the rest of our body needs regular exercise to be in good condition, as the athlete must train to allow the body to respond to difficult times, so does the memory needs its own special training in order to stay in "shape" and improve. There are simple ways, which you can follow to keep your memory in shape, and also techniques that can actually help you to improve your memory's condition and performance.

Memory loss causes

The quality of the memory of a person depends not only on the education, the learning environment and the physical environment in which we live in, but also on other factors that can influence our life (e.g. loss of a beloved person). There is also the hereditary genetic factor that plays a very important role. Besides that, other memory loss causes are: