What Are You Searching For?

I have not yet met anyone in my world travels who didn't want a little more inner peace. And, I have never encountered anyone who would trade a little money to rid themselves of their stress and worries.

So, is this what each of us is secretly or overtly searching for? Well, to be truthful I'm not sure. People who say they want less stress continue to pursue wealth, fame, power, position and more stuff. People who say they want to be happy often seem to sabotage this goal with poor choices, bad judgment and emotional immaturity. And people who say they want more inner peace still harbor old emotional baggage, replay old slights and hurts and let other people control their behaviors, attitudes, emotions and even their thoughts.

If we are truly searching for any or all the items listed above one would have to wonder whether we are just giving lip service to these goals, desires and dreams or if we really want them but just don't seem to know where to find them, how to achieve them or how to keep them.

I too have been guilty. I am just like you in that I would like a little more happiness and a little less stress yet when it comes to doing what is necessary I often fall short.

Sure, I have read all the books, hundreds and hundreds of them, attended the seminars, had personal coaches, spent hours and even weeks setting and planning my personal goals and dreams and spent more hours than I can remember praying and meditating and yet, here I sit from time to time, still questioning whether all this reading, study and searching is worthwhile.

During my years of study, research and searching I have come to a few conclusions.

1) Many of the people who supposedly have it figured out, don't. 

2) Many of the people who preach and teach this stuff to others and get paid handsomely to do so, don't have a clue. 

3) Some of the people who you would least expect to have the answers often do. 

4) Even many of the religious fanatics, diehards or steadfast believers in God still struggle with the same issues, questions and challenges as those who have never set foot in a church or Synagogue or read the Bible.

Why is this? Are we doomed as a species to just search and never find or discover the true meaning of our life or as the title says, why we are we here?

Humans have been asking for centuries; why am I here, where am I going and what am I supposed to do with my life while I am here?

One could get easily discouraged and feeling a little sorry for themselves spending years contemplating simple questions like these.

Have you ever asked yourself any of these searching questions whether in times of doubt or discouragement or happiness and contentment? Success or failure? 

Do you have any answers yet, or are you like most of us, that you just keep on trudging ahead through life one day at a time just earning, spending, working and playing?

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7 Habits All Successful Supermoms Possess

Being a supermom is pretty simple;

A supermom is someone who makes everything look easy.

They get work done like a breeze, cook and clean, manage kids and hubby with complete ease, and still have time to volunteer at the homeless shelter, arrange dinner gatherings and last but not least, look amazing at all times.

7 Habits Successful Supermoms Possess

But the question is, how do they manage get all that done?

Here are the 7 habits of a successful supermom that make them the happiest mothers:


1. Get an early start

Getting an early start is the secret to the organized life of a supermom.

Start your day with a warm shower and get things done with the help of a daily check-list. All you need is to get into a routine of waking up early.

For example, many women have a crazy obsession with their kitchen. It has to be clean before they do anything else. So, they wake up and clean the kitchen each morning.

Doing that one thing right sets up their whole day for small victories like this one.


2. Stick to your schedule

Find out what kind of schedule works best for you and stick with it.

With the many things that you need to take care of at home and work, it can be a little hard to keep up. Save your time – and your sanity by making a list all of the things you need to do. Jot them all down priority-wise.

Cross each item off the list as soon as it’s done. A simple way to efficiently manage your time and schedule is to divide the day into blocks or chunks. Allocate each chunk for specific tasks and do your best at them all.

When the time’s up, move onto the next task. For instance, one hour for cleaning, one hour for kids’ play time, TV time etc.

3. Family comes first

No matter how tough your schedule, your family should always come first.

Always consider your spouse and your children your very first priority. Take time out for your children every day. Have them sit on your lap and read a book.

Get on your hands and knees and play with their toys, have arts and crafts sessions with them, bake brownies with you daughters in the kitchen. There are loads of things you can do to spend time with your family, even if it is for a couple of minutes.


4. Embrace a healthy lifestyle

Being a mom can be stressful at times, but the experience is also a very beautiful one.

Every mother is usually seen running after her kids and finishing errands. But no matter how busy she is, a successful supermom never runs out of time when it comes to living healthy.

Yoga is an amazing way to bring a beautiful, self-loving and accepting energy into your life. You should think of incorporating yoga in your life, because a regular practice will keep you centred and strong. Also, get creative in the kitchen and create delicious and healthful meals for the whole family.

Let’s admit it mommies. That cup of coffee or tea during a hectic day is a much-needed and pleasurable break that can’t be missed. But instead of coffee, take green tea or herbal tea instead. A cup a day will add much more energy to your life!


5. Laugh your heart out

Life is lot better when you are laughing.

Learn to smile and laugh at anything and everything that comes your way.

Nothing can go perfectly every day. There will be days when you actually just want to cry and that’s okay. As a mother, you may also sometimes bump into chaotic situations.

Try not to get cross on petty issues, because we all make mistakes. To relieve the stress, all you need is to laugh out loud.


6. De-clutter your home

A successful supermom knows how to de-clutter her home. Your home will be a lot more harmonious when everyone can find what they are looking for.

Throw out anything that you have not worn or used in the past 1 year. Furniture, old newspapers and weekly magazines, clothes the kids have grown out of and regular stuff in general.

After every three months, you can do a ‘grand cleaning’ to de-clutter the entire house. Involve your kids to clean out the closets and donate what you don’t need to charity.

Pack and set aside the seasonal clothes in storage under the beds. Arrange a garage sale where the kids (and you!) can sell any old possessions that you want to part with. And if you are short of space, you can still keep things in order with shelving, hooks, and storage bins.
7. Have fun because you deserve it

Taking some time out to have fun and enjoy some ‘me time’ is just not only okay, it’s a good thing! You can always leave the kids with your husband, friend, mom, cousin, or baby sitter and have a girls’ night out!

You can also plan a weekly get together with your lady friends for lunch or dinner. Such outings for your leisure can be an awesome way to regain the positive energy that you will need for the week ahead.

Socializing with friends you can count on is always wonderful.

Alternatively, you can also fix an appointment with your stylist to get some beauty treatments like a mani-pedi, a hot oil massage and a fresh haircut. Remember all the hard work you put in every day, you deserve this bit!


Summary

Here’s a quick recap on the seven habits all successful supermoms possess:
Get an early start
Stick to your schedule
Family comes first
Embrace a healthy lifestyle
Laugh your heart out
De-clutter your home
Have fun because you deserve it
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The Success Story of Mark Zuckerberg

Being the CEO of Facebook, now the largest social networking site in the world.

Facebook now has just over 1.3 billion active monthly users, who together share 1 million links and 3 million messages every 20 minutes. FB also earned a total revenue of $6.15 billion just in 2013 alone.

The success of Facebook, launched in 2004, has allowed Mark to live the lifestyle of a champion. He now lives in a $7 million, 5 bedroom house with his wife Priscilla.

But where did Mark Zuckerberg come from and how has he been able to become so successful?

Before the Days of Facebook

Mark had always been into computers and software even as a child. In fact, it was his father that first taught him basic programming in the 90’s. After this, his father hired a software developer (David Newman) to further advance Mark’s programming knowledge by tutoring him privately.

A lot of kids love spending their time playing video games, especially in the 90’s when gaming really took off as a form of entertainment.

However, Mark was different; he enjoyed creating and programming his own, rather than just picking them up and playing them. Mark wasn’t creating games for long though.

He soon moved onto bigger things; the first being a music player called “Synapse Media Player”, which he created under his own company name Intelligent Media Group.

The College Years

Mark’s programming projects really started to develop as soon as he became a student at Harvard, studying psychology and computer science. By this point he had quite the reputation as a programming  prodigy.

It wasn’t long before he built “CourseMatch”, a program specifically designed to help students form their own study groups and choose classes based on other’s selections. This program was followed very shortly by “FaceMash”, where students got to make a choice of the hottest person out of various photos of students on the screen.

The Creation of Facebook

Facebook was launched from Mark’s dorm room back in February 2004. It begin as a harvard exclusive website, until it started to go and Zuckerberg then decided to expand to other schools.

As Facebook began to grow Mark decided to move to California, along with several of his friends, to continue working on the site in a small house he leased to serve as an office for the company.

Soon after, Zuckerberg met with Peter Thiel, who then invested in the company. This allowed Facebook to get their first official office in 2004.

During this time they had already received various offers from other companies wanting to buy Facebook, however Mark stated that he was not in this for the money, and more for the vision that he had for social networking as a whole.

In 2009 Zuckerberg went to Peter Currie for advice on finance strategies for Facebook. A year later Facebook hit 500 million users, and Mark was set on turning this into 1 billion…

Mark Zuckerberg is successful because he loves what he does. He has a passion for programming and always has since he was a child. Too many people are in it for just the money and Zuckerberg has been able to succeed because of the completely opposite reason.

He is not in it for the money; however he has a dream, a vision and a passion for what he does. This is why he is successful and is where he is today.

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