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5 Secrets to Finding Friends Who Grow With You #ThankfulThursdays

By on 12

I don’t know whether it was in class seven or eight when I read an article about how to improve your own self.Hanging out with people who inspire you to be good, is the first important step.Peer pressure, in this case, can work miracles.I have a curious nature.Whatever is interesting, makes me want to explore more.The problem of random exploring has mixed results.It’s a lot of unnecessary drama, headache, and heartburn. With experience, I  am hoping my ability to choose between good exciting and bad exciting will improve.

Friends are the family you choose Jess C Scott

Today as I thank my friends I share my secret to finding my own Justice League .

5 Secrets to Finding Friends Who Grow With You

#1

Your choice of friends says a lot about you.They reflect your dreams, aspirations and your personality more than you ever could.I believe this so deeply that I married my best friend to make him my family.

That may not work for all. But friendship is the cool breeze on a hot summer evening.It’s like the deep crimson in a progressively darkening sky in the evening.It’s the fragrance of life.You may never meet, you may never talk, but you will always remember how he /she made you feel.

#2

They influence you in more ways than you think.Try to find friends who have the qualities you admire in others. Having good friends is the first step to self-improvement.If you believe you are a work in progress, this is a must.

#3

I admire, kind, thoughtful, compassionate, positive inspiring friends who don’t believe in giving up.If you don’t respect and admire the person you spend time with, that friendship is doomed.

#4

Avoiding people with bad attitudes have helped me do my thing without getting caught up in trying to change how others think.I have realized only you can help yourself.No external force can help you if you don’t help yourself.

#5

Ask yourself one question.Would you want your child to be friends with the person you are friends with?As a parent, you will want the best for your child, and you will know the truth.

Every day you have a choice.To surround yourself with good people, so choose carefully.

When I say thank you to my friends.It’s for many reasons.

They let me be me.I don’t have to put on a mask, give an explanation for my actions.They understand the little bit of crazy in me and they love me because of that.They understand.

They are there whenever I reach out.They don’t demand.They don’t impose.They believe in being kind and thankful too.

They let me grow .This one came with a lot of experience of making the wrong kinds of friends.The people in your life be it friends or family who don’t give you space to grow, pull you down and believe in being ruthlessly truthful have their own issues.Be careful if you have people like that around.They can be emotionally and creatively draining you, while being honest or what they think is being honest.

Thank you friends
Thank you friends

Friends are full of sunshine and a light drizzle.

My good friends don’t encourage negative talk.They don’t believe in believing the worst and they definitely don’t let me drown myself saving the world.

They support me and help me find my feet in the quicksand of life.They make me believe in the intrinsic goodness of people.They let me hope that all will be well and the whole world can be friends again.As long as we respect each other, give space and maintain boundaries life will be beautiful.

[bctt tweet=”You are the average of five people you spend most time with-Jim Rohn #ThankfulThursdays” username=”misra_amrita”]

Writing this, to thank all the friends in my life who know what I am talking about.Thank you, dear friend, I would not be writing if not for your kindness.

Each and every one of you who read my blog and remain in my life is my friend.Because you make me want to write more.

Thankful Thursdays 44 prompt

Thank you Friends!

Thank you friends #ThankfulThursdays
Thank you, friends #ThankfulThursdays

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    #ThankfulThursdays November Thankful Challenge

      #ThankfulThursdays November Thankful Challenge

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7 Secrets No One Tells You About Being a Doctor:Doctor Mommy Reveals

By on 12

7 Secrets no one tells you about being a doctor is my gift to all the little boys and girls who want to grow up to be a doctor.It’s not a blueprint but a spirit guide to check whether you have it in you.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
― Hippocrates

Study your entire life.

The five and a half years of MBBS then 3 years of post-graduate studies then more studies for super specialization.Even if you stop after MBBS you will need to study constantly to keep updated.

Why ?because while anatomy and physiology basics remain same, diseases get more vicious and ways to combat them become newer and newer.So please be ready to read a lot, your entire life.

Battle self-doubt

While Life and death are in Gods’ hand you can never give up.But often you will have a tough choice between choosing the right thing, easy thing, difficult thing, what patient wants, and what the Government wants.Be sure that you can handle the pressure and do the right thing even if its the hardest.If you can handle life and death on the same day, you can cope with self-doubt.

Be ready to fight for your own health

Because while helping others you will not eat, sleep or breathe on time.You will forget to relax, you will not eat healthy simply because nothing is available which is healthy when you are on your duties.Your mental health will be even more of a challenge.You will carry the hopes, pains, expectations of hundreds of people every day.You will help some but not all.Always remember you have to do what you have to do.What happens is destiny.

Secrets no one tells you about being a doctor
Secrets no one tells you about being a doctor

You will prevent disease when you can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

But the problem is you will have to explain this to people who will not listen, or it will be too late when they do .But you will still try. So you must have a persistent bone in your body.If not you will soon give up.

[bctt tweet=”Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.” Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness” username=”misra_amrita”]

Be ready to feel blessed.

Be very strong remember your blessings and always trust the Universe to guide you.Our life has a purpose.It’s not just like that.There’s a karmic cycle which has made you read my post today.Maybe you are a friend, maybe you are a stranger.Whoever wherever I know you understand what I am talking about.You know the life and death is a cycle that we all must go through.It is a journey before the big adventure of meeting the maker.

You will experience the joy of healing those who seek your help.

But be ready to be a part of the most endangered professional healers. who know the truth.You will feel their pain and help them heal, even while it makes you weaker and stronger at the same time.

You will be a doctor if you study.But to be a good doctor you will have to feel pain, heal disease and always remember that it is  God who is doing the miracle.

Do you believe in miracles ?Comment below to let me know.

Thank you Home :ThankfulThursdays43

By on 21

Home is where the heart is.This I realized over the ten years of being married and living in seven houses
Every moment of my life is a chance to make a beautiful story.It’s also a chance to be  happier.

Three years back one day when I was morosely reading one blog after another I found the inspired room.net.That’s Melissa Michael’s blog and she was just getting ready to launch her new book.

Love the Home you have!

If phone screens could speak it spoke to me.I was part of her launch team and that book changed my life.

It made me realize that I was missing out on making my corner of this earth a cocoon, by fixating on an object.

A house is a shelter.A home is where you find peace, comfort, and happiness.While owning the shelter is always preferred, being a homeowner takes time and money.

While I started planning for the future house I made my current shelter a home.I made the balconies my little green spaces.

I made the window gardens, I made built-in look alike to get over the storage crisis.Got our rocking chair and just made life comfortable.

Thank you home for helping me be my most creative and happy place.

My favorite quotes from the book Love the Home you Have

Image Credit Melissa Mishaels of theinspiredrom.net
Image Credit Melissa Michaels of theinspiredrom.net
Image Credit Melissa Mishaels of theinspiredrom.net
Image Credit Melissa Michaels of theinspiredrom.net
Image Credit Melissa Mishaels of theinspiredrom.net
Image Credit Melissa Michaels of theinspiredrom.net

 

ThankfulThursdays Prompt This week 

Thank you Homea:ThankfulThursdaysChallenge
Thank you, Home: ThankfulThursdaysChallenge

 

NovemberThankfulnessChallenge Part 2 :

#ThankfulThursdays November Thankful Challenge
#ThankfulThursdays November Thankful Challenge

Rules 

  • Must write on each of the 5 #ThanfulThursday prompts to be eligible.
  • Must comment and share both the host’s post.
  • Must comment and share 3 of the link ups posts
  • Comment on the posts linked up and on the host’s posts with #ThankfulThursdays hashtag.Use the #for social sharing and tag us.(We are repeating this so that you don’t forget)
  • Two winners and two gift vouchers are up for grabs.
  • A minimum of 10 blog post entries will be deemed necessary for the contest to be validated, so make sure you invite and tag  2 of your friends to enter too!
  • Your performance in this competition will have a score which will matter for the next part of the competition too!
  • Keep your posts and engagement civil. Adult content/ affiliated links/ derogatory remarks/ hatred towards any religion is not allowed.
  • Only posts in the link-up written on the prompt will be eligible for the contest and prize.
  • All decisions of the judges are final and will appreciate your cooperation in the matter.Looking forward to your thank you notes this month.Write with a Thankful Heart!

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Stress is the New Killer Not Jason Bourne

By on 20

I am a fan of  Matt Damon and the Bourne series.Both the books and the movie series are gripping , edge of the seat thrilling.

Unfortunately just like Bourne suffers amnesia you are at risk of every disease under the sun related to lifestyle if you have work or personal stress.

Stress is a silent killer and it not painless.Chronic and acute stress both are equally bad.While acute stress can help you adapt or get you killed.Chronic stress can cause all lifestyle diseases including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, insomnia, depression and more.I am a doctor and I started blogging in 2014 .Stress was one of the reasons I took to writing.

During acute stress, the flight or fight response helps us survive.It kick starts the Sympathetic pathways in our body.Your cortisol hormone level stays high.It helps you cope .

While peaceful conditions stimulate parasympathetic pathway.

A little excitement feels good.This is momentary stimulation of your sympathetic response.That’s how you feel when fall in love!

But when this response is chronic (as in chronic stress at work or home)you suffer palpitations and anxiety attacks.Stress hormones are released during stressful situations and these are responsible for the long term and short term ill effects of high level of stress

What are these stress hormones?

Cortisol : The effects of high levels of cortisol is many folds. Cortisol influences a lot of the other endocrine glands too.Circulating cortisol and psychological stress have a direct correlation with childhood obesity, adult obesity, and metabolic syndrome.

Catecholamines increase makes your heart overworked.

Insulin decreases: This causes there to be a hyperglycaemic state and there is a high risk of Diabetes Mellitus.

TSH or thyroid stimulating hormone decreases.This can precipitate hyperthyroidism(more thyroid hormones in the blood).This has an effect on the heart and almost all systems of our body.

How do they affect you?

Chronic stress is first in the brain.

It makes you eat more, smoke more chance of addictive behavior, poor quality of sleep and low happiness quotient.Altogether these affect your lifestyle an long-term personal and professional life.

What should you do?

I wrote about 32 ways to beat chronic stress a long time back .but every day I try to do the following 5 things to feel good and relax.

  • I cuddle my baby a lot
  • I  water my plants and stare at them.
  • I walk every day on the treadmill at least for 60 minutes.
  • I read
  • I write

At the end of the day a life well lived should make you happy .If your health is not your best friend ,you cant be happy!What are you doing to be healthy, happy and stress-free?

Comment below to let me know.

References:

Email services ,list building & mompreneurs blogging journey(part 11)

By on 16

Are you a blogger ?Do you have an email list?

I had a list.

Had to severely mutilate it , to get rid of unresponsive subscribers.I hear everywhere that growing the email subscriber list, is your real blog goal.They are the people who find you so awesome, that they sign up for your newsletter.

Yes I know it sounds like a dream.You make awesome products.Your wonderful subscribers can’t stop buying.

This can happen.But you have 3 problems to solve, before you reach that sweet spot.

Content upgrade subscribe 1

1)How will you collect the emails?

In India which email service provider works .

Which allows NET banking (I don’t  have a credit card)

If you have a credit card, do you know, which are the really cool options?

2)Where will you place your sign up forms?

3)How will you make your raving readers become super subscribers?

This mompreneur’s blogging journey has been full of wonderful surprises.

But this pesky problem is making my hair grey.

The solution :

Break it down into nuggets.

How will you collect  emails?

Once upon a time in 2014 when I started blogging I had MailChimp as my email service provider.

MailChimp gives 2000 free subscriber plan, which is awesome.But the user interface didn’t make me comfortable. Plus the spam emails in my list made Mailchimp pretty mad.I was a green newbie and made uncool mistakes.

Next step Madmimi

Yes it’s called madmimi and it’s super cute.

 

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The free plan allows up to 100 subscribers.

10 dollars per month.Basic plan.Payment by credit card only.No Indian version.My favorite platform but can’t use it.

It’s also mobile friendly.

Octanego
Free plan present.
Monthly plans are affordable.
NET banking present.
The user interfaces not very friendly.
Mobile use is very difficult.
Web forms are not pretty.
Convertkit
On my wishlist.
They often offer free first month.
Biggest problem:
Credit card needed, even for the free plan.What’s with that?
I really don’t get it.Obviously a very smart marketing plan.
That’s  a deal breaker for me.
  • A basic Indian version of email service.
  • Works on mobile.
  • NET banking possible.
  • FREE plan present.
  • The user interfaces easy.
  • Customization of webform possible.
  • List segregation and setting up Autoresponders easy.
  • Integration with Google analytics is present.
  • Captcha helps to clean up your list by automatically blocking spam.
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Cons: It’s not as pretty as madmimi .
Many of my emails end up in the spam folder.Very poor  open rate (maybe I am doing something wrong )
I have been mailmarketer.in for the last 1 month.I have a list of 36 new people.Some of them are friends.
Now the question, is it good enough to help me build a  nice list?
 Because the money is not really in the list. The money happens,  when your subscribers love your work so much, that they wait eagerly to open your emails and take action.

Update: November 2017 

  • I am using madmimi for the last one year approximately and also using Google forms.
  • 30% open rate approximately.
  • I try to send a mix of my own contents and curated posts useful for my audience.
  • I am also checking out sendinblue!
Do you have an email list?
Can you suggest one which doesn’t need a credit card, plus is awesome?Comment below to let me know.
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5 Startling Truths About Motherhood No One Told You #MMM43

By on 22

Oh, Motherhood!No one and nothing can prepare you for this.Not your mom, not your best friend.A baby is a new person and you are his or her new mom.Every pregnancy is a miracle and every child a blessing.

But being the mommy to a little girl is life-changing for me.I had heard about sleepless nights and the feeding struggles.The lack of me time and cohabiting the bathroom.

But the 5 things which I think I need to share, will make all moms and would-be moms happier.

5 Startling Truths About Motherhood No One Told You

I think being a mommy is hard because you will always be judged.Even when she grows up. How she lives her life what she does will always reflect on you as a parent.That’s a big responsibility.Being responsible for own behavior is one thing.Being responsible for another human being’s action is going to be there forever.It’s an impossible responsibility which we always struggle with and always will.But I have good news.This responsibility is Gods way of sending a guardian angel for each child.You, my dear mommy, are Gods angel!

Breastfeeding is not a cakewalk for many.It wasn’t for me.But it’s okay.Please, you must forgive yourself.It’s after all Gods will. You can only try.What is important is that you take the right decision at the right time.It’s not a crime to bottle feed if that’s best for you and baby.You must try your best, what will be is God’s will.

It’s a journey to self-improvement.The little pair of ears will hear everything you say and learn from it.Those eyes will watch every move you make and mimic it.There’s only one way to bring up children right.Be the best version of you and try every day.Nothing teaches like a good example.If you want them to be kind.Be kind.If you want them to be thankful, be thankful, if you want them to be creative, color with them, if you don’t want them to be untidy, make the bed every morning.

You will love so deeply that it will hurt.It will make you smile with tears in your eyes. You will believe in God if you didn’t before.If you have loved and been loved in return you know how special that feeling is.The purity of your child’s love will change you.It’s a peaceful, profound unexplainable emotion , which you get when they give you a sudden hug.So keep hugging them and kissing them and continue the cuddles as long as possible.

Your little one is a bit of mommy, a bit of Daddy and a lot of magic wrapped up in Gods blessings.She will always not do everything you wished for her, she will always not like everything you tell her, she may listen, she may rebel, but she should learn to choose, As a mommy your duty is to teach her to choose wisely .we teach her the colors, she paints her own rainbow.You teach her the alphabets she will write her own novel.But you will need to make the framework solid.Make her a wonder-woman like you.Give her your skills, your wisdom and your love and one day she will win those battles which you started fighting a decade ago.

Writing with you for #MondayMommyMoments

#MondayMommyMoments prompt  week 1

5 Things About Motherhood No One Told You

 

5 Things about motherhood no one told you
5 Things about motherhood no one told you

 

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