Why Stationery For Home Is Important?

 

It is important because we have many things to remember and keep track of. What is stationery? A piece of paper and a pencil.

The rest are its helpers like a notebook, sharpener, rubber, rack, fountain pen, ink, ink-remover, paper clip, stapler, punch machine, file cover, file rack, etc. There are some documents which you cannot have them in soft copy. You have to have them in a hard copy. Driving license, your national identity card, your passport, your bank credit card, your bank checkbook, your educational degrees. All these are in hard copy. You keep them in a place where they are kept safe. For this, you need a shelf which carries some partitions to put these documents in a proper manner. Besides this, we need a writing table and a chair too. We also need some small notebook or a pad to note down our busy day work plan. We also need to have a grocery list in which we write down. The bills we pay are in the shape of stationery. After the payment of the bill, we need to have the record for future reference. You also need to have your medical record file. As it is very important, especially for the doctors to know your history. The other habit which we need to have is to keep everything in its proper place as mentioned in my earlier blog. As we are living in the digital age and feel that the use of hard copies is finished. No. It is still in and will remain in, as many people love to write. To keep in touch we now use emails and other apps to share our views. But writing a letter or a greeting card has its own beauty. After some passage of time when you look at your old documents, it comes in as your history. Most of the time it is good for the family. Sometimes we need to know about our ancestors. The market sales show that stationery is still one of the most selling items the world over. Then after saying all this you must have a place in your house for writing or a study which can be used by all family members as per their need. Make writing a habit. It is good. Sometimes your words may be advice for others. You can also refer to another blog written earlier about study too.

Listening – An Art

 

Listening –  An Art

Good speaking is a big quality but good listening is the bigger one. A good speaker must be a good listener otherwise he cannot speak effectively. Listening gives us wisdom, knowledge, and experience in an indirect way. It takes place in a daily routine in homes, in classrooms, in offices, in schools, and in different social groups. At a time, one speaks and many others listen. So, listening takes place more often. 

Good listening is listening carefully, when one is speaking try to forget about what you were going to say next. In this way, you can better understand whatever the speaker wants to say. We can be a good listeners by keeping in view these factors:

Make Eye Contact

Looking directly at the person who’s speaking is a clear way to indicate you’re paying attention to him or her. Looking away, even if you’re still listening, will make it seem like you’re distracted or not interested. It will disturb the speaker.

Make Appropriate Facial Expressions.

Nodding, tilting your head, smiling – all of these expressions show a response to what the speaker is saying, which indicates that you’re grasping the meaning, understanding what the speaker is trying to say, and are interested in what he or she’s saying.

Ask Questions.

Critical listening involves asking questions to get all the information. When you ask the speaker a question, it also drives the conversation and shows that you’re interested in clarification and understanding the issues. It is a very effective strategy. 

Don’t Interrupt.

Although it’s good to ask questions, try not to interrupt the speaker. Let the person complete his or her thoughts before responding or asking questions. In this way, we can give comfort feeling to the speaker.

Paraphrase.

When you restate, in your own words, what the speaker is saying, you prove that you’re listening carefully – after all, you wouldn’t be able to repeat anything if you weren’t paying attention.

Listening Can Be Of Different Types Like:

Careful listening:

The steps discussed above are of careful listening. These are very important and basic. Without these, we cannot listen to others in an effective way. 

Sympathetic Listening:

A good listener must not only be careful. It is possible that we listen to someone very carefully and try our best to fulfill the demands of it, but it cannot help out the speaker. So, to listen with care and with sympathy is a must. In this way, we can respond to the speaker in a better way. We can give him some suggestions to handle certain situations. Different options can help the speaker in some possible ways. This kind of attitude will work in an effective way to relax the speaker.

Empathetic Listening:

Empathy means the quality of the listener to try to feel by placing him/herself into the speaker’s shoes or situation. This quality is too effective for a listener and beneficial for the speaker. It is observed when the speaker tells his/her problem and the listener listens and might listen carefully but could not understand the problem fully and tries to give any suggestion or advice which is not relevant. This kind of response can irritate the speaker. If a listener tries to listen empathically, tries to fully understand the situation then suggests some remedy, it will work better. It is important to place him/herself in the place of the speaker and try to understand his/her feelings.

Listeners may also have the quality to respond to different types of talk in a relative way. If it is a usual and casual one, then he can listen in a light and casual way without responding seriously. In that case, if you try to respond very sympathetically or empathically, it can hurt the speaker. The above-suggested qualities can help in certain situations. A good listener can decide according to the demand of the situation very intelligently that how must he/she respond. In this way, we can perform an effective role in our society and surroundings.

The Real Beauty

 What is beauty?

The real beauty is a relative term. It can be internal or external. Someone says beauty is found in the eyes of the viewer, not in any object or person. Some people define beauty as a typical beauty found in some physical features like long height or white compaction or wide bright eyes and so on and so forth.  In fact, all these things are not in the control of people; these are God-gifted. The real credit does not go to the people having these qualities. It is also true that it depends upon those people to present these qualities in a reasonable or unreasonable way. It defines the personality of the people. Another reality is that these are not permanent, in most of the cases. Time plays its vital role in it. A person may have a wonderful appearance at a time but after 10 or 20 years, the scenario can be totally changed. Very well said: “Personal beauty fades but the beauty of mind endures forever.”

Quality

Some qualities are inner ones like; softness or hardness, kindness or cheapness, patience or impatience, confidence or shyness, brightness or dullness, humility or proudness and innocence or cunning. These qualities are usually permanent or longer lasting. It was found that the physical qualities are very attractive and we cannot ignore them. Sometimes we cannot compromise on them. But if these are not coinciding with good inner qualities, these become dull and less bright with the passage of time. Then, the relations based on these physical qualities become awful or sometimes end soon after.

It is observed that we take a lot of care of our physical beauty by using different things like; cosmetics, soaps, perfumes, jewelry, expensive dresses and shoes etc. We invest a lot of our money, effort and time on these things. Our media encourages this trend by presenting advertisements, by presenting good looking people in dramas and shows. So, we have to give importance to all these things. It is a fact that all these things are also important and we cannot ignore them. Allah also says: “Allah is beautiful and He likes beauty.” But Allah also loves those who are good-hearted and pious.

Types

We live in this world where we have to deal with different issues and problems. We cannot leave many things; those are prevailing in our surroundings. So, we have to learn so much at the same time. How to deal with good or bad situations. Some people have to face extreme poverty, others have very comfortable lives. Both conditions have different demands on a person, male or female. Some people are born in very renowned families and others in notorious ones. Demands change accordingly on the people. Different qualities must be required for different situations, to make themselves successful in life and to present their better image.

Balanced Approach

For a successful life, many things are crucial. A good personality image is of immense importance. It will be the combination of a balanced one. We should give importance to our image that is the combination of our out-look and our inner-self. We must take care of our dress, our personal hygiene, our language, our body posture with our inner goodness. It includes, kind- heartedness, boldness, confidence, positive attitude towards people and events. True self- awareness is also very helpful in making our relations, more realistic and better. This awareness will give a better opportunity to adjust in our society with more confidence and happiness. If this combination is good, then we will have a more attractive and longer-lasting better image. It can help us to improve our society and the condition of our world.