Popular Online Dating Activities

All types of everyday activities are growing in popularity online these days like sharing photos and greeting cards. In fact, both of these even go hand in hand with online dating opportunities, one of the most popular online activities for singles today. 

 

Before actually meeting in person, many dates get acquainted online first. Here’s how. 

 

Photos - As a wonderful keepsake of your budding romance, create an online photo album for your new cyber-mate. Include digital photos of favorite outdoor scenes, pets, flowers, cars, silly moments, your computer corner or laptop, etc. Then you’ll even have more to discuss during online dates via emails and chat rooms. Search for “photo albums” to find places that store your photos.

 

Greeting Cards - Regardless of where the person lives, you can mail a greeting card. If privacy and security is an issue, check into renting an inexpensive P.O. Box (check the Yellow Pages). You do not have to be an artist to make something homemade and special for the new friend in your life. Even making a special, personalized greeting card would be appreciated and show your date that you care enough to take the time needed to make something by hand. Search your favorite search engine for online greeting cards to send, too. They range from free to low cost and can be sent in a click.

 

So, get online and get active! No need to risk meeting in person until you get more familiar with each other online first. So take the online plunge!

 

Popular Online Dating Activities For Men

Heads up, gents. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

 

Looks Count 

 

Comment on how attractive she is. Yes, women do want to know they are pretty, even if they’re online and you can’t see them and have no idea. So, in your communications, ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way like - how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

 

Kindness Counts 

 

Point out nice things or the lemonade in life - nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those lemons in life. Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So, show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. 

 

So, add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. And come up on the positive side of romance - and enjoy more lemonade! 

 

Meditating for Self-Discovery

Meditating can be a good way of tapping in to the subconscious to understand the self. Consider practicing meditation if you want to discover yourself. It helps you answer questions related to life. Meditation is important in making or deciding the path in which your life should take. You should not be discouraged if you do not seem to get the right answers keep on practicing meditation and in the end you will get to discover yourself. When you are meditating the brain seems to go a state of theta state. When you are in this state you encounter very minimal interference from the conscious bit of the mind and thus you successfully contact the subconscious bit of the mind. 

 

The first step towards self-discovery, is to begin by sitting in a place that is very comfortable and a room that has very minimum or utmost no disturbance at all. Consider lighting a few candles so that you have minimal light. Have a Nag Champa as this will help you have a very comfortable environment.

 

Take in to account the state of your breath. You should have a deep breath that comes from the diaphragm. You should consider the breath as it comes or as it is entering and leaving the nose. Continue paying attention to your breath if you have the intention of proper relaxation. If you there’s a specific question that you want to answer, consider raising this question from the start of the meditation process. If you want to shift careers consider posing this question right from the beginning. 

 

As you meditate your mind becomes engrossed in thoughts. Pay attention as the thoughts come and as they go. If there’s a thought that keeps on coming for long consider digging deeper in to that particular thought. When you will get an answer, you will know because you will have a feeling that this is right. There’ a powerful sense that will make you feels that indeed this is the right answer. If you find that you are becoming bored and that you are losing track, bring your breath back and be patient.

 

It is important to become open with your day to day lives. Some answers may come at some other days. Others may be when you are driving. Keep in mind that you should not force anything. Do not force the answers but have a receptive and open mind. This will help you discover yourself better.

 

Personality Development—How to Reach Where You Want to Reach

We come across many people in life, and they are all different in how they behave, how they react and reason. These people are all made different by the different personalities they have. Therefore, personality is the combination of mannerisms and attributes that makes one person distinct and unique from the other. Personality is formed as a result of many factors. 

 

First, there are personality traits that one inherits from parents and relatives. No wonder you find some of your traits and your likes and dislikes similar to those of your parents or relatives. There are some personality traits that we pick up along the way as we grow and live our lives. As we grow and live, we pick up habits, values and beliefs that are dependent on where we grow and who we grow, live or interact with. However, the traits we pick up in childhood stick the most more than the ones we get as we grow up. 

 

It is possible to design and develop your own personality. It is not a sealed fate set for us to act out, but you can control it and determine how it is going to work out. In other words, you can redesign even the hereditary traits to be what you would like them to be instead of letting them be what they were set to be. 

 

If you want to have successful personality development, you need to be honest with yourself on your personality type. There are four main personalities or temperaments you can use to classify yourself. These include sanguine, melancholy, choleric and phlegmatic. These four temperaments are very different, and there is no one person who has 100% of one trait. When someone is called a sanguine, it means that this temperament is the most outstanding. There are many personality tests you can take on the internet for you to exactly know where you lie. Without being honest with yourself about your personality, you will find this to be an uphill task. 

 

After being honest with yourself, look at the strengths and weaknesses of your personality type. Do your best to build on the strengths. For instance, if you are talkative and confident, use this to your advantage and let this trait boost your career and ambitions. If you are very patient, use this to your advantage and to the advantage those that surround you. Also, identify your weaknesses in a very honest and open way. Work on your weaknesses by making deliberate efforts. For instance, forgetfulness can be improved by ensuring that you have phone reminders and lists on your notice board.

Self-Discovery Starts by Loving Yourself

Self-discovery is greatly dependent on whether you love yourself. Love for oneself is a great asset that one can have in life. First and foremost, you should ask yourself who you are? To a very large extent, most of us are deeply engrossed on the day-to-day hustles and bustles of life. This entails; making ends meet, running our various businesses, starting new paths for our careers. We are deeply engrossed in this till we forget who really are. We never stop to discover self. 

 

Knowing yourself first entails come to the realization that first and foremost we are all unique beings and that to a very large extent, we are endowed with special gifts. We all have one or two things that we can do better than others. It is after discovering this that everything else in life takes shape. To a large extent this is the key that can unlock the door to everything that you are undertaking. A great number of us tend to believe that real happiness rests material things which are not the case. Happiness comes from discovering yourself.

 

To a large extent we only believe on those things that we can set our eyes on and can feel with our hands. We tend not to trust our inner self. The inner wisdom that we are all endowed with. When we were young, we are always told to always be perfect and to some extent that we are not that good enough. When you realize you are not yourself you stop carrying somebody’s luggage. It is important that we always act ourselves, we should not look down upon ourselves but rather believe that we are okay just the way we are. Always put yourself first, do not look down upon yourself. 

 

To a large extent if you do not love yourself, then there’s no way you can love somebody else. Loving yourself has nothing to do with ego; it does not mean looking down upon others or being too proud and zealous. There’s no way you can love others if at all you do not love yourself, then there’s no way you can love any other party and here you would be cheating both yourself and the people whom you claim to love. Thus, loving yourself opens up your life and it is through this that you can discover yourself.

 

Questions You Can Ask Yourself for Self-Discovery

Even though we are all endowed differently in terms of gifts and talents not all of us is well aware of what our endowments are. It is also true that most of us know what our strengths are but they do not know how to maximize on them. We do not know how to use them both for our own benefit and for the benefits of others. One of the main reasons why people do not maximize on their God given talents is the failure to discover them. Many young people have the problem of identifying who they are really are and what they are in this planet. They are not able to make solid decisions towards fruitful career choices. Ones that augur well with their personality.

 

It is sad to note that it is not only the young people that are affected with choices regarding their lives but even the older people have the problem of discovering their real self. Many adults make choices in life without taking their passions in to consideration. The problem is that they deny this undisputable fact and tend to keep to their comfort zone. They are afraid of changes n their life and prefer satisfying external desires. 

 

There a number of questions that you can ask yourself for self-discovery. These include; asking yourself the activity did you use to love doing when you were a child? You can also ask yourself that if you so happen to write a book what subject would you talk or rather what would you write about? Ask yourself what area or aspect in life that you feel you can comfortably help people in? Also ask yourself what your close associates and friends or even what you relatives say about you. Ask yourself of the dreams you are always day dreaming about. Search your memory and try remembering a certain day that you felt you utter mostly felt that happiness from deep within you.

 

All these questions will lead to the discovery of the real you. You will at the end of the day have a personal satisfaction of the direction or path that your life ought to take. You will be motivated and inspired. You will find yourself facing each and every day in a different way. With energy and vigor. You will be more confident about yourself and you can handle anything that comes your way with ease. 

 

Understand Your Personality, Develop It and Be a Successful Consultant

If you are a professional consultant in whichever field, you basically are someone that others look up to in that specific area for guidance and direction. Therefore, you cannot afford to be a blind man leading another. You need to know your personality so that you will make the best out of it and so that your career will go to greater heights.

 

The first thing you should do is to analyze your personality type or temperament. Are you an artisan, guardian, rational or an idealist? We shall name these temperaments A, B, C and D respectively for ease of identification.

 

The type A person is a very flexible person, and he is not rigid to one routine or schedule. He can easily move with the wave. However, this person does not work on information whose foundation is not concrete, and he prefers to use his senses more than he uses hearsay. The type B person also loves working with the same kind of information as the type A person. This person will hardly pay for things simply because he heard that they are on their way coming. He will need to see them first and even touch them and have close scrutiny ion them before any commitment is made. However, this person is not as flexible; he works with a written plan.

 

Then, there is the type C person. This person is spontaneous in his thinking. He is also very positive minded about all things and he believes that something can be made out of even the most useless things. Instead of working with actual, solid information, the type C person works like an artist – with abstracts. The type D person is one who is also spontaneous in thinking, but also trusts in his instincts when feeling. This is also a person who loves working with abstracts as opposed to the types A and B persons, who love solid information. 

 

Therefore, you need to know what you can do best using your personality type. The type A person can work best as a coach in arts (music and drama) and as a gymnasium personal coach. Type B person can do well as a business consultant (especially in recruiting workers) and as the consultant in charge of teamwork and answerability at work. The type C person is a good consultant for management teams, research in medicine in business. The type D is good in the same areas as C but can also make a motivational and inspirational speaker.

 

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Self with Yoga

Yoga is a good way of meditating and simply having ample time with yourself. As a matter of fact, through yoga, one can actually speak to his or her inner self. To some, this might sound to be like a time waster. For those who have tried it, the story is not the same. I am sure that they consider it to be very helpful to their lives. It helps them concentrate and understand that which they could not understand before. In addition to this, yoga also has some benefits on the physical body.

 

Basically, yoga links the mind and the body. This makes it become one whole that can coordinate properly. As a result, one tends to connect to their inner self enabling them to listen to their inner self. This act is what defines the integrity that the individual will possess. This is because the act of listening to your inner self will help you awaken, you’re your integral self. With such prowess, various external feelings will not be a major hindrance in your search for inner peace. These are feelings such as pain, ecstasy or even bliss; none of them will come between you and your inner self since concentration will be at its peak. 

 

By speaking to oneself, one tends to fully be in control of your body. One finds himself having sunk deep into his inner self and exploring what makes him. This basically means that one wanders round the wonderland found inside him or her. As a result, one tends to access even the soul. However, this only happens to those who practice this for quite some time and becomes well conversant with the connection between inner self and the body. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry can do this; it takes years of practice to finally reach this stage. 

 

By doing this, one can be a judge of himself. This means that one normally feels his inner self telling him that whatever you are doing is not correct, stop it! Basically, people base their thoughts of what is good on the normal truth that is in the society. This is not the case with yoga practitioners. According to yogis, one’s wisdom should lie in power of one to listen to him. This implies to the inner sense that tends to be superior than the other laws of the earth. 

 

Spiritual Enlightenment According To Zohar

Spirituality has brought about a lot of fuss in the world today as many try to come up with the real definition of spirituality. Many have tried it but none has ever come to a conclusion. However, one thing that they all agreed on is that there is spiritual enlightenment and it varies in different individuals. This depends on the religious devotion shown by one. As a result, many decided to research deeper on the qualities of a spiritually enlightened individual. This dates way back in 1995 when Goleman wrote a book discussing on this topic. At the time, he referred to it as spiritual quotient in relation to IQ; intelligence quotient. In the book, Goleman stated that the spirituality quotient is based on the ability of the left side of the brain. 

 

Later on came Dana Zohar who in collaboration with Ian Marshall came up with another whole new dimension of spiritual intelligence. They said that it was more than the left side of the brain but far much bigger. In the words of Zohar, “Spiritual intelligence is the ultimate intelligence in human beings”. As a matter of fact, he came up with a series of definitions related to spiritual intelligence.

 

To start with, Zohar said that spiritual intelligence is the state of having complete self-awareness. This is simply the act of being completely aware of your entire self; knowing each and every aspect of the inner and outer you in details. In addition to this, you also have to know that there is a connection between you and the entire universe. Secondly, a spiritually enlightened individual is said to be led by visions and values. In sort, this is what many may refer to as idealism. In the end of it all, this tends to bring about a spirit full of humanity. This is why it is said that spirituality is defined by humanity.

 

Thirdly, it was also said that spiritual intelligence is highly characterized by having a holistic perspective of things. This basically means that one tends to see the connections between various things and just how these connections link them. However, this requires one to be open minded and interested in everything happening around them. On the other hand, Zohar also said that spiritual intelligence gifts one the power to use adversity for the betterment of him or herself. Instead of lamenting about the problems, a spiritually enlightened individual faces them and celebrates the diversities since he or she has the ability to turn them around.