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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

7 Steps to Make or Break The Habits

We all have many habits, some good and the others not so good. Our habits are the behaviors that we have developed over a course of time. Eventually, the habits occur almost automatically. We all have bad habits too. Some have less, some have more. Subconsciously, we know and want to break our bad habits and keep the good ones we have. For most people, it takes about 3 to 4 weeks for a new behavior to turn to a routine or a habit. Here are 7 steps that can help you make or break any habit of yours.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple ways to become Highly Inspirational

Whether you are in your Home, in the Office or in the Organization where you work or in the present Gathering we should, be more Observational, Creative, Active, Motivational, Transparent, Assertive and more Inspirational. We should become more spectacular by contributing our positive opinions and also becoming a model person to others. To be more Inspirational in a specific situation we should attract the attention of others in many ways.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Sun Meditation or Surya Yoga

worshipped during ancient times is because the sun provides us with many kinds of benefits. Moreover, humans know that the sun is the only source of energy, light as well as warmth needed for life to survive on earth. Hence worshipping sun became a practice that was common all round the world. Healthy life for even a tiny bacteria depended on the energy provided by this ball of fire.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Daily habits you should practice

Habit is the key program in our mind and in our life. Our routine habits have a major role in our day to day life. Habits are really programmed in our mind from our early childhood. To become more successful or to become a better person or to change our life we should setup ideal habits in our life. Habits change our routine in a better way. The interesting fact is that we can change our own habit if we really need.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some ways to understand a good Partner

A happy and married life is very important for everybody. There should be a mutual understanding and good relationship with the partners for leading a happy and balanced married & model family life. Each partner should try to contribute a lot to maintain the harmony & happiness of the family. Each one should forgive the other and they should keep a stronger relationship for maintaining the family setup.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

625 views

By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

100 Why We do Questions to Answer

Let us have an interesting question in our life! Have a look at our life retrospectively! Did you ever think about what you thought and said? Do we think about our previous thoughts and deeds? Do you feel that you had insulted somebody? Do you feel that you had made miseries and sufferings to others by your words? Did you ever repent about the happenings in your life? Do you think that you had behaved rudely to your friends and relatives? If we go on thinking like that, a series of questions will come to your mind.r

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Do you know these Bad Habits?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Which Sleeping Posture is Best for You?

Sleeping appears so natural to come. If you are tired, you fall into a slumber as soon as you hit the bed. Would you ever wonder about what posture you take and if that is right for you? The question only comes when you are intentionally trying to sleep but unable to - you wrap yourself with blanket, try different postures and styles to get a deep sleep.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Do You Know the Health Benefits of Swimming

The reasons for early age mortality these days are mainly being physically inactive and being obese. So as to become healthy, one needs to take exercise on a regular basis and have a healthy meal too. You can do exercise in way of taking up any form of sport. When choosing a sports activity as an exercise, it is very essential to see if it really engages our body the right way. Choosing swimming would be a better choice if you keep this factor in mind.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Habit Of Making Better Decisions

Do you ever look back and think whether did you do that? - Yes, we all will make bad decisions sometimes like, - Taking a job that you are not passionate about. - Creation of products that no one needs. - Being in a relationship without being infatuated. - Buying gadgets that have only a little or little use.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Use visualization to change your habits

Did you love to imagine running wild as a child? Using your imagination as a child was not just for fun, but was also an important part of the brain’s development. Maybe it’s time to revisit daydreaming…. Except now that you’re an adult, we’ll call it visualization! Visualization is a process of forming a mental image in your mind. In other words, it’s using your imagination to create a picture in your mind and it can be a really powerful tool to help you take action or break actions in your life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Developing The Habit Of Decision Making

Many life changes are lost through the incapability to act, due to indecision and more often due to overthinking. Very often it results in procrastination that plays the villain to lost opportunities. It is very often that a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ slips through our fingers due to our not being able to decide on a time to act appropriately and later lament. Not being able to decide on the course of any action planned, usually, is from lack of comprehension of facts related to the activity one contemplates. So facts play a vital role in decision making.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Role of Religion and spirituality In Overcoming Addictions In Life

Fighting a drug addiction isn’t easy. It’s a destructive force that, if left unchecked, can destroy your entire life. Getting help is important, but it’s hard to know where to start. There are thousands of different programs, so where should you begin your journey to recovery? For many of us, spirituality and religion are key to everything we are, and this is as good a place as any to start your recovery. In fact, study after study has confirmed that one of the most effective ways to overcome addiction is to integrate faith and spirituality into treatment programs for addiction.r

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Why Is It Harder To Change Our Bad Habits As We Grow Older?

They often say that you cannot teach an old dog any new tricks. The strong belief is that bad habits will eventually phase out as we grow older. However, wisdom does not automatically cause our least likable traits to fall by the verge. It becomes difficult with age to let go of a long-ingrained, reflexive behavior. Why does that happen?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

20 Simple Truth about change

Have you ever thought that the life be live is interesting, beautiful, but at the same time very mysteries and miraculous. Sometimes, we are astonished, exited and enchanted. But the same time you are put to a series of unresolving problems, miseries, sufferings and other setbacks. It is our prime duty to live in this world in the most effective and the practical way. Really, all of us want to lead a stress free, serele, balanced, happy and harmonious life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Yoga Headstand

Yoga and its benefits are known to almost everyone living in this world. Though many people love doing hard core workout sessions daily, a majority of the people are great lovers of yoga. Yoga came into existence from around 5000 years back. It can be seen that Yoga a lot of benefits than the regular workout and gym sessions.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Ultimate List Of 30 Good Habits

Every day you make choices. Those choices create your thoughts and actions. Your thoughts and actions develop your habits. And your habits define your life. If you examine many of the activities of your day, you will see they're actually good and bad habits you've developed over the years. A certain percentage of habits we acquire in our childhood from our parents and family members due to the close association and interaction with them. For example brushing the teeth, washing the hands before food, putting the footwear, clothing and the like many.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Better Things for A Better Life

As days, weeks, months and years are passing on, we are getting older and older. For that matter, we are gaining more experiences and lessons in life. Actually, we are getting better and better. If we look retrospectively, we are amazed to see that how we had changed? Sometimes it is very interesting to note the ways and means we had adopted in our life to become better . For some years we were less successful.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

70 Interesting habits of successfull people

We are living in a world where success and failure are part and parcel of our life. But we as human beings always opt for success. In facts our motto should become a successful person in whatever area you are working. To become successful should be our dream in life. If we look around, we can see thousands and thousands of successful people all over the world. Really successful people are running this world.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Change Your Habit To Become Useful Always

I have seen plenty of entrepreneurs and established business leaders who believe they have to do everything on their own. Yet accepting help from others is not admitting weakness. And the same can be said in reverse. In business, individuals regularly overlook that it is so significant to build up a supportive outlook. Being useful to others is never going to hinder your prosperity. The sooner you realize that we are all in this together and that there’s plenty of room for everyone to thrive the more successful you will be at achieving your goals in life and business.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

581 views

By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

7 Ways You Can Use Coconut Oil to Get a Healthy and Beautiful Skin

Coconut oil is known for its property of giving nourishment to hair but it has many other uses too. It is edible oil that can be used with food but besides its commonly known uses, coconut oil can actually be used for beauty treatments and skin health. Here are some simple but powerful ways you can make use of this natural oil to enhance your beauty and keep your skin healthy. You can use it on your face -

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

141 Habits to change your Life

All of us live every day knowingly and unknowingly by the particular choice that we adopt our thoughts greatly influence our actions. Do you know that, if we persistently follow one thought and act accordingly that becomes a daily routine and that becomes a part of our habits. Our habits and behavior reflects on our life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Keep A New Year Resolution

New Year’s resolution has a great ability to create a positive change in your life whether you like them or not. The start of every year is a perfect opportunity to hit the reset button and for doing something new and interesting or do things differently. But let me say articles or books about New Year Resolution that you are read are useless and they hardly work. Out of them, someone says 80% of New Year Resolution fail while some others say it as even 92%. Actually, it does not necessarily mea New Year Resolutions are bad.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

7 Steps For Super Productive Habits

We have all been there, binge-watching Netflix or social media instead of working, getting sidelined by insignificant emails, text messages or calls and not to mention that the world of distraction is just a click away. Developing a strong habit of deep focus and concentration will be the best defense against distraction. It will allow you to be productive and make progress in your goals. Follow these 7 steps to forming this valuable habit. 1. Know your enemy!

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Enjoy good health with simple banana recipes

Do you know that people who eat banana 3 times a week, they are 33% less likely to face a kidney failure? And 50% of those not eating bananas are likely to develop a kidney disease? Good health and taste together makes a perfect diet for you and with these simple 5-10 minute banana recipes, you can get both. These simple banana recipes are rich with nutrients and give you many health benefits. Banana helps you in many ways

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick

The process of building a habit is often divided into four simple steps: cue, craving, response, and reward. Breaking it down into these fundamental parts can help us understand what a habit is, how it works, and the way to enhance it. This four-step pattern is the backbone of each habit, and your brain runs through these steps within the same order whenever. First, there's the cue. The cue triggers your brain to initiate a behavior. Our prehistoric ancestors were listening to cues that signaled the situation of primary rewards like food, water, and sex.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Bad Habits Preventing us from change

Even though most of us want to change our life in the most effective way, some of our old habits (mostly bad) prevent us from moving from our ongoing journey. Knowingly or unknowingly we still have some habits which are a hindrance to our success. Each and every one make some mistakes and problems at some point of time. Below you can see an overview of some of the so called bad habits which are preventing us from attaining our life goal.r

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple things that make you better

Every day when we are waking up we are faced with newer and newer situations in our life. We might have planned something yesterday, but today it has totally changed. New Priorities we have to consider. Our daily programs have to be changed. Our routine might have changed. But for a successful person is not confused by these problems and he faces all this with courage and a balanced mind.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

What I understand about Life

TO ME LIFE MEANS …

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Master Relationship With Time

Time is never sufficient for any of us. We always think that we do not have sufficient time to complete our tasks because it rushes to nowhere and we are not able to catch up with it. The first truth regarding the idea that we do not have sufficient time is not true since most of us try to fit in all types of duties to the schedule. The majority of them, are not of any use. Some are not at all productive or does not give any positive results in life at all.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple Let Go Things in Life

As human beings most of the time we are living in our old concepts and beliefs. It is a common fact in a particular situation, especially when there are various problems and conflicts we are very rigid and stubborn. The very attitude of rigidity will not find a solution to a particular problem and that will lead everybody to various miseries and sufferings.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Figs

Ficus carica, a plant that belongs to Mulberry family, produce figs, one of the healthiest fruits known on earth. This fruit comes with an ostiole which is used to communicate with the environment which gets the fruit a combination of unique properties and a variety of different textures, colours, and taste.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

9 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life

Having enormous goals for your life is exhilarating, exciting and sometimes, utterly terrifying. If you create daily habits to automate certain aspects of your life, however, you’ll create a sturdy foundation to require risks from.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Imitating Habits Will Kill You

We all had usually seen or heard about the articles or books that promising the 10 way to success or secrets behind success etc. like it. First of all, let me tell you to stop reading those kinds of books and articles and try to save your time.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Be Undistracted In Our Daily Life

Distraction is a common feeling that most of us experience throughout the day. We are not able to keep our minds calm and we never get to focus on what we are supposed to do. We rarely try to follow our path and neglect our feeling of purpose, which is not good for succeeding in life. Instead of focusing on what we should do, as our day to day duties, we often start jumping from one message to another or some posts in social media and distract ourselves from our real purpose. The whole day long, we try to do things of lesser importance than to those that need more focus in life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Control Our Thoughts To Change Our Habits

How can you stop yourself from having thoughts that you don’t want to be having? Well, the answer is you can’t. The reality is that we can’t control the things that pop into our heads; you cannot stop the thoughts from popping into your head. If you can’t believe ask yourself how long have you been trying to control what’s come into your head or trying to stops things that you don’t like popping into your head. If you are trying to achieve the impossible by trying to block you are trying to stop the thoughts from coming in because we don’t have control over the things that pop into our minds.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How I manage my Stress

Stress is a term which even the psychologists and others have struggled for finding an effective definition of stress. Individual experience stress on a daily basis and it cannot be avoided.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Do You Know These Most Powerful Habits

Putting ourselves in a particular pattern, especially a new one is tiring and hard. We need to work hard when we want to do so. Habit formation is a process in which a new character or behavior becomes automatic. We indeed try to form a lot of powerful habits and we make it practical for some time. But after a couple of days, we are back to the early routine and the new habits tend to fall off.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Perfect Way To Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a beautiful and magical word that is powerful and has the ability to help us to be more focused, happy and it does have lots of other qualities with positive effects. If you have not heard of this word, you might get the wrong idea.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Try these Habits to become Smarter

Becoming a smarter and better person is a usual dream in our life. We are growing up in our mind and body every day. Every day we are gaining more experiences and we are also changing ourselves and we are becoming better and better. We usually think that getting smarter is a very easy thing that happens suddenly. But the fact is that to become a smarter person, it requires constant awareness, attention, alertness and sincere efforts.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Deal With Moments Of Uncertainty

Most of us are not clear on what we should work upon and what we should focus on. Many at times we think that we are following the right path. But when we come to following our dreams and passions, we sometimes feel that we are moving in the right direction. But then after some time, we realize that the path which we have chosen was the wrong one. We become uncertain of our choices and our aims in life. We spend a lot of time thinking over making a decision on which path to take to reach life’s goal.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Ultimate List Of 30 Good Habits

Every day you make choices. Those choices create your thoughts and actions. Your thoughts and actions develop your habits. And your habits define your life. If you examine many of the activities of your day, you will see they're actually good and bad habits you've developed over the years. A certain percentage of habits we acquire in our childhood from our parents and family members due to the close association and interaction with them. For example brushing the teeth, washing the hands before food, putting the footwear, clothing and the like many.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some Better Ways to Change our Life.

All of us are very eager to change our life for a better tomorrow. Many a times we depend on the advice of other people, we also try to change ourselves. We try to find an answer to this question from various sources. Self-help or self-improvement is one of the most important things in our life. The end result that we want in our life is to lead a balanced, happy, peaceful and harmonious life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Few healthy habits for youngsters

Each and every body knows that health is the most precious thing in our life. Without good health, we cannot live. A healthy body is the foundation of a healthy living. Health is a thing that we should care from our early childhood. As for us and Adult is conce ed the prime importance should be given to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle habits for ultimate well-being.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently publishedTopic pending

Dealing With Addictions And Distractions

Each one of our lives is filled with all kinds of addictions and distractions. This can include a lot of things including social media, websites, shopping, videos, coffee, porn, sweets, soda, fries, gambling, work alcoholism, procrastinating, perfectionism, self-hate, addiction for drama, and more. Findings of the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study demonstrated that unrecognized adverse childhood experiences are a major factor underlying addiction. These adverse childhoods experience results in neurodevelopment changes and emotional damage (Felitti, 2004).

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Recently published

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Un-Procrastination For A Better Life

Procrastination is what most of us love to do unknowingly most of the time when you feel that you need to put in all your efforts today. We do tend to shift our duties to the next day, the next day and then it never even takes place at all. It can be defined in other words as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing it might have a negative consequence. Challenge yourself for becoming un-procrastinated.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple ways for a Faster Working Day

Have you ever thought of how to be a smarter person by doing things smarter and faster? We may be smart in our life, but we may not be fast and also vice versa. To be more creative and successful, we should be active, smarter and faster. This pattern should be our daily routine. We think that to become a Smart person we have to do some great things. We think that it is very hard and time consuming. But things are not so difficult as you think.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Change The Life By Changing Your Habits

The success you are at now will be the outcome of your habits. Will Durant had said it excellently, We are what we repeatedly do; Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. But we can’t accept it 100, let me say that mediocrity is a result of average habit. It means we can change mediocrity to excellence by changing our habits.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some bad habits of Young Professionals

We all know that, habits and behaviors form the fundamental basis of our daily lifestyle and routine. When we do something repeatedly it becomes our habit. Habits have got great implications in the quality and quantity of our life. Refined and good habits definitely lead to better outcomes in life. The interesting facts are that many of the habits we acquire at random.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Planning Well To Manage Our Time

Most of the people around us face time constrain issue in their personal or professional life because of the overwhelming amount of tasks. There are people whom I know who belong to the category of “good time management skills”, who can accomplish a ton of their personal and professional tasks in one single day and these people are very successful. This can be possible by making the best of their time, which can be achieved by prioritizing the tasks in their personal and professional life and also having a good plan in mind to accomplish them.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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