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Kickstart your day with a few minutes of yoga.

It is the month of the year to make new resolutions. I know it is not the beginning of the New Year but the United Nations General Assembly has declared June 21 the International Day of Yoga. What better time then to resolve to do a few minutes of yoga every day?

If you can spare only five minutes to keep yourself healthy, we will start with that. If you can set aside 20 minutes, that would be an ideal way to start.

Source: The Hindu dt. 21st Jun 2015

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Kanye West's Top 10 Rules for Success

He's one of the best-selling artists of all time. He's won 21 Grammy awards making him one of the most awarded artists of all time as well as the most awarded artist for his age. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He's Kanye West and here are his 10 rules for success.

1) Believe in Yourself
2) **** the #LittleMan
3) Be Awesome
4) Speak your Mind
5) Help your Friends be Bold
6) Give people Opportunities
7) Don't be Afraid
8) Don't Follow the Rules
9) Do What You Want
10) Be Yourself

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Greg Plitt's Top 10 Rules for Success

He loved fitness ever since his dad brought home a gym when he was in 6th grade.He became an actor, spokesperson, and model for various commercials, brands, and causes.He was one of the most recognized and motivating people in the fitness industry.He's Greg Plitt and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1) Believe
2) Be a student of the game
3) Persevere 
4) Follow your passion
5) Just get going! 
6) Take the first step
7) Leave a legacy
8) Fight for what you want
9) Don't settle
10) Get a partner

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Chris Gardner's Top 10 Rules for Success

In the 1980s he was homeless while he tried to raise his toddler son.To get off the streets he became a stockbroker and later, an entrepreneur. Today he's worth millions and had Will Smith play him in a movie.
He's Chris Gardner and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Commit to Plan A
2. Put family first
3. Decide to be world-class
4. Have self-worth
5. Keep your team motivated
6. Change is necessary
7. Baby steps count
8. Follow your passion
9. Do whatever it takes
10. Start where you are

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Martha Stewart's Top 10 rules for success

She's a well known businesswoman, writer, and television personality. When her company went public she became the first female self-made billionaire in the US. New York Magazine named her "the definitive American woman of our time" She's Martha Stewart and here are her top 10 rules for success:

1. Be curious
2. Have a plan
3. Run with your idea
4. Gain their trust 
5. Obstacles can be solved
6. Learn something every day 
7. Don't cry in business
8. Be your own customer
9. Don't take yourself too seriously 
10. Work really hard

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Howard Schultz's Top 10 Rules for Success

He grew up poor and was the first person in his family to go to college. He become Fortune Magazine's 2011 Businessperson of the Year. He is one of the richest men in America with a net worth of over $1.5 billion.
He's Howard Schultz and here are his top 10 rules for success.

1. Dream Big Dreams
2. Change your mindset
3. Have a heart
4. Celebrate mistakes
5. Don't advertise
6. Care for your people
7. Have strong values
8. Do what you love
9. Exceed expectations
10. Stand for something important

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Elon Musk's Top 10 Rules for Success

He's worth over $11 billion. He has created game changing businesses like PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX. He's the closest thing we have to a real-life iron man. He's Elon Musk and here are his 10 Rules for Success.

1. Never Give Up
2. Really Like What You Do
3. Don't Listen to the #LittleMan
4. Take a Risk
5. Do Something Important
6. Focus on Signal over Noise
7. Look for Problem Solvers
8. Attract Great People
9. Have a Great Product
10. Work Super Hard

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Damon Dash's Top 10 Rules for Success

He's been looking after himself since he was 14 years old. He partnered with Jay-Z to create Roc-a-Fella Records and change the hip hop industry. He's been involved in businesses from clothing to films to cars. He's Damon Dash and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Get out of 9-5
2. Be patient 
3. Put your own money up
4. Pay your bills
5. Embrace pain
6. Play fair
7. Be independent 
8. Hire intentionally 
9. Stop caring about what others think
10. Don't be lazy

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Jim Carrey's Top 10 Rules for Success

He's one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood. He has a net worth of $150 million. Oprah Winfrey said in all the years of her show, he was one of their greatest teachers. He's Jim Carrey and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Visualize your success
2. See challenges as beneficial
3. Follow your passion
4. Be a creator
5. Risk being yourself
6. Compromise
7. Don't let fear hold you back
8. Believe
9. Have intention
10. Take a chance

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Top 10 Rules for Success

He won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times. He is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He has been an athlete, actor, model, director, entrepreneur, and politician. He's Arnold Schwarzenegger and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Have a clear goal 
2. Think Big 
3. Turn your liabilities into assets 
4. Ignore the #LittleMan
5. Work your butt off 
6. Make the world a better place
7. Don't be realistic
8. Don't be afraid to fail
9. Model Success
10. Believe in yourself

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Warren Buffett's Top 10 rules for success

He was the single most successful investor of the 20th century. Time magazine named him one of the most influential people in the world. He's worth over $70 billion. He's Warren Buffett and here are his top 10 rules for success

1. Find your passion
2. Hire well 
3. Don't care what others think
4. Read, read, read 
5. Have a margin of safety
6. Have a competitive advantage 
7. Schedule for your personality 
8. Always be competing
9. Model success 
10. Give unconditional love 

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Steve Jobs's Top 10 Rules for Success

He's considered the "Father of the Digital Revolution," a "master of innovation," and a "design perfectionist." He had a net worth of over $8 billion in 2010.He's one of personal favourite entrepreneurs of all time for many. He's Steve Jobs from Apple and here are his top 10 rules for success.

1. Don't live a limited life
2. Have passion
3. Design for yourself
4. Don't sell crap 
5. Build a great team
6. Don't do it for the money
7. Be proud of your products
8. Build around customers
9. Marketing is about Values
10.Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

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Jeff Bezos's Top 10 Rules for Success

Jeff Bezos left a high paying job to bet on himself and start a .com business when everyone thought he was crazy. He built it to become the largest retailer in the world and prove his doubters wrong. He's now worth over $30 billion and is one of the top 15 richest people in the world. He's Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Have no regrets
2. Follow your heart not your head 
3. Invest more in the product than marketing
4. Pick a good name
5. Stand for something
6. Focus on the customer
7. Focus on your passion
8 Build a culture
9. Premium products at non-premium prices
10. Take a risk

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Jack Ma's Top 10 Rules for Success

Jack Ma started his business with $20,000 that his wife and friend helped him raise. He is the first mainland Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes. He is the richest man in China and 18th richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $29.7 billion. He's Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.com, and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.

1. Get used to rejection
2. Keep your dream alive 
3. Focus on culture
4. Ignore the #LittleMan
5. Get inspired
6. Stay focused
7. Have a good name 
8. Customers are #1 
9. Don't complain, look for opportunities
10. Have passion

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100 benefits of meditation

There are so many advantages to meditation. Meditation is as powerful. Here is the definitive list of benefits that meditation can provide you with:

Physiological benefits:

1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
2- It decreases respiratory rate.
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4- Increases exercise tolerance.
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8- Decreases muscle tension
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11- Helps in post-operative healing.
12- Enhances the immune system.
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15- Helps with weight loss
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17- Higher skin resistance
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20- Decreases the aging process.
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23- Makes you sweat less
24- Cure headaches & migraines
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
27- Less energy wasted
28- More inclined to sports, activities
29- Significant relief from asthma
30- improved performance in athletic events
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
32- harmonizes our endocrine system
33- relaxes our nervous system
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:

36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
38- Resolve phobias & fears
39- Helps control own thoughts
40- Helps with focus & concentration
41- Increase creativity
42- Increased brain wave coherence.
43- Improved learning ability and memory.
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45- Increased emotional stability.
46- improved relationships
47- Mind ages at slower rate
48- Easier to remove bad habits
49- Develops intuition
50- Increased Productivity
51- Improved relations at home & at work
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53- Helps ignore petty issues
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
55- Purifies your character
56- Develop will power
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60- higher intelligence growth rate
61- Increased job satisfaction
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63- decrease in potential mental illness
64- Better, more sociable behaviour
65- Less aggressiveness
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70- Increases sense of responsibility
71- Reduces road rage
72- Decrease in restless thinking
73- Decreased tendency to worry
74- Increases listening skills and empathy
75- Helps make more accurate judgements
76- Greater tolerance
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79- Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:

80- Helps keep things in perspective
81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
82- Helps you discover your purpose
83- Increased self-actualization.
84- Increased compassion
85- Growing wisdom
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89- Increased acceptance of oneself
90- helps learn forgiveness
91- Changes attitude toward life
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93- Attain enlightenment
94- greater inner-directedness
95- Helps living in the present moment
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life

Meditation is also completely FREE! It requires no special equipment, and is not complicated to learn. It can be practiced anywhere, at any given moment, and it is not time consuming. Best of all, meditation has NO negative side effects. Bottom line, there is nothing but positive to be gained from it! With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?”

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In this article, the author of the post wants to highlight to you the best possible life lessons from strangers that you will find. He also states that they highlight the most important lessons in life, and how you can deal with it.

1. How To Love Unconditionally
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3. How To Be Creative
4. How To Deal With Failure
5. How To Stay Motivated
6. How To Understand Your Happiness
7. How To Understand Relationships
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12. How To Understand Your Fears
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17. How To Face Your Fears (And Survive)
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19. How To Set Goals
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I’ve had a lot of success in my 20 year software engineering career with developing cross platform ‘C’ and ‘C++’ code. At Backblaze, we just released the Mac beta version of our online backup service, so I thought it an apt time to discuss my 10 rules for writing cross-platform code. We develop an online backup product where a small desktop component (running on either Windows or Macintosh) encrypts and then transmits users’ files across the internet to our datacenters (running Linux.) We use the same ‘C’ and ‘C++’ libraries on Windows, Mac, and Linux interchangeably. I estimate it slows down software development by about 5 percent overall to support all three platforms. However, I run into other developers or software managers who mistakenly think cross platform code is difficult, or might double or triple the development schedules. This misconception is based on their bad experiences with badly run porting efforts. So this article is to quickly outline the 10 simple rules I live by to achieve efficient cross platform code development.




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3. Create an illusion
4. Consider taking a home cover
5. Unplug electrical appliances
6. Instal burglar alarm
7. Stop newspaper delivery
8. Deposit valuables in bank locker

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