Neighbours

 Our neighbours, the people living around us, are important ones, sometimes more than our relatives. They are our closest, who can make our lives good to best, by helping us in our needs and emergencies. Their support is so valuable that cannot be replaced by anything.

The importance of neighbours is authentic in all religions and societies. How long and how well we live is determined not only by our personal behaviour but by our social relationships and our physical environment including neighbours who can positively affect the most important aspects of our lives, laying the foundation for better health, increased safety.

It is very important to have good neighbours. If they have positive relations, it is just a blessing. We can depend on them in difficult situations. They can help in emergency situations when our relatives are not with us. We can ask them about our daily needs and hardships. In case of our travel to another area, our neighbours can take good care of our home in our absence.

If the situation is not positive and we have to deal with the neighbours, not positive with us, the situation will be miserable. We can have a lot of tensions and hardships including physical troubles, psychological issues and economic setbacks.

A good neighbourhood depends on certain grounds. If we have helpful and sincere, that’s fine. If the situation is other way round, then we do have to face many problems, we have to do efforts to improve the situation. A long term good behaviour, on our side, can make a gradual change in these relations. Patience and tolerance can help. In any case, we must be very careful. We must help them with their needs and problems. This will help a lot.

The neighbourhood is not limited to homes only, it includes cities and countries as well. Good neighbour countries can be helpful with their neighbour countries. A good neighbour country can become a very close friend. It ensures peace and development in their area.

The neighbourhood requires some rights and duties as well. The rights of one neighbour is the duty of the other. It creates a very beautiful relationship among people. The relation with or without any physical bond is precious. It is unique and inclusive indeed.

The best part of the neighbourhood brings happiness and closeness at the time of different occasions like Eid or Chrimatss or any other national festival. At that time we share some sweet dishes or some time food depending upon the occasion. Having a good neighbour is a blessing.

 

Practice Makes A Man Perfect

Practice means to perform an act, again and again, to achieve perfection. Practice makes a man perfect and anybody can go from good to best with practice. 

There is no shortcut to practice. Practice really works. Another important aspect of practice is that first learn true things then do the practice. Otherwise, the practice of wrong things or knowledge can lead you the opposite way. Then to unlearn and then relearn will be an issue.  So, the correctness of knowledge or art is the base.

It can make the worth of a person many times, however, he is an artist or a teacher, an architect or a mason, a plumber, a player or a tailor, and so on. Picasso was a famous painter. Once a woman collided with Picasso on a street and could not recognize him at that time. When he told her who he was, she asked him to make a drawing for her. He made a beautiful painting in only 3o seconds, which means within half a minute. She asked for a price and Picasso told her 5 million. She became so surprised and did not pay anything. Then she took that painting to different art shops. They recognized that this was made by Picasso and told the same price, 5 million. She searched for Picasso and asked him to teach her how to make this picture. He replied that, behind these 30 seconds, there was the practice of 30 years.

So, if we want to excel in any field, we require practice. There is no substitute for practice. With practice, we can improve our quality of work, increase our speed, and can avoid mistakes. It always requires some time to have practice in any field. Intelligence can play a vital role to perform any task in a better way. It also can shorten the period of practice, but the practice is a must. Practice can be a substitute, in a way, of the sharpness of mind. It is usually observed that if a person who is less intelligent performs better than an intelligent person.

Intelligence is obviously God-gifted. There are so many people who do not use their intelligence fully, due to different reasons. He may have unfavorable circumstances, socially or economically. We can improve our performance with practice. 

There is a relationship between practice and motivation. Without motivation, practice will not be easy. Motivation can be for doing something good or achieving some target. Practice can give you confidence, respect, and worth. One hockey players’ performance was outstanding. It was felt that the ball was attached to his hockey. All players and spectators were very much inspired by him. On asking he told the reason that he practiced a lot. He used to keep the ball on the railway track with the help of his hockey. So, his practice gave him a worth.

It is very much important for students as well. Those who practice their conceptual, reading, and writing skills, perform better. With practice, the deep impressions on our minds are evolved. Which can help us in remembering information or performing a task with ease and quickness. In different professions, practice and updating of knowledge can help a lot. Without these, we cannot excel anywhere.

There are no shortcuts to a successful life. We must prepare ourselves to hardworking by practicing and making an effort. In this way we can lead a better life, can help our families and can perform any good for our society as well.

Self confidence is Must

 Self-confidence is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. It is possible that one may have confidence in one area but lacking in the other one. One can be good and confident in his managing qualities but not in academic performance or vice versa. It is also possible that one can be confident in writing in an expressive way but not in speaking impressively. A healthy sense of self-confidence is all about having a balanced view of yourself — taking pride in your abilities. While recognizing your flaws, but an important fact is that self confidence is must for a successful life and our journey towards good to best must continue.

Developing skills, in this regard, always leads to increased confidence. So, if we try to improve our main areas related to our social impression and performance, it will help a lot. It is usually said that the first impression is the last impression, but we can change our impression in a good way by practicing our positive behaviors. In this way, we can create a new impression for ourselves.

Confidence helps us feel ready for life's experiences. When we're confident, we're more likely to move forward with people and opportunities — not back away from them. It's the opposite when confidence is low. People who are low on confidence might have good capacities, have weak goals, and might be less likely to try new things or reach out to new people.

It will be beneficial to know how one can improve the level of his confidence. Some of these can be:

1. Don’t compare yourself with others. Everyone is unique, having unique personality traits and abilities. So try to improve your lifestyle in a positive direction.
2. Surround yourself with positive people. Positivity creates positivity and vice versa. People having encouraging talk will help you to move farther and discouraging one can do the opposite.
3. Practice positive self-talk. It will help a lot in achieving your goals. If we pass positive and encouraging messages to ourselves like “I can try this task”, “I will be successful in examinations with some effort” or “Like in the past, I will perform better in future”. On the other hand negative self-talk like “I have become aged, I cannot do this as I could do in the past” or “It is looking so difficult to talk before the whole class”. In this way, we are discouraging ourselves. It will affect our future performance. 
4. Be kind to yourself. Don’t feel bad about small mistakes.
5. It will be more positive to face your fears than to avoid them. If you try to face it and try to overcome it by practice, it will help a lot.
6. Take good care of your personality by having a vivid observation of our good and bad impressions. We can improve it by changing our outlook, by improving our hairstyle, our dressing, our talk, and our attitude towards others. We can do it by conscious efforts to improve our impression, which can boost our confidence level. 

On the other hand, there is the feeling of over-confidence. It is a biased way of looking at a situation. You can have more confidence in yourself, without having any special one, which can have negative effects in most situations. When you are overconfident, you misjudge your value, opinion, beliefs, or abilities, and you have more confidence than you should.  A downside to overconfidence is that it can actually cause you to make more mistakes. You can lead to losing money from poor investing decisions, losing the trust of people who rely on you or wasting time on an idea than you would if your ego was more balanced.

Improving our own confidence is good for us and for the people around us. To encourage other people and make them confident is a good attitude that makes others more successful in their lives. Confident people are always good people, good fathers, good mothers, and good citizens.

Perception Matters

Perception includes the sensations and meanings we give to them. It refers to how we interpret the such as people, things, or events. Our perception is important because it is the driving force behind our reaction to something. We act according to our perception regarding our relationship and situation. Our perception matters can affect our whole life and our positive perceptions can lead towards good to best life.

Reality is based on different facts that are considered differently on the basis of their mindset and perceptions. One incident happens, but different people take it differently. So many factors can affect our perception like heredity, religious beliefs, needs, peer group, interests, and expectations. 

Every person has the same sensations, which are the basis of our information receiving. When in this factual information our personal information is added, then we take that fact in a different way and sometimes it is totally varied from person to person. This personal understanding is called perception. 

Our behaviour is based on our perceptions. We act and react according to it. One of the most influential factors is religious affiliations. Religious beliefs are usually blind. It is very difficult to change these beliefs. These have a very strong impact on our lives and perceptions as well. Our whole lives are based on these beliefs, our daily routines, our rituals, our jobs and our habits depend upon these perceptions.

Perceptions also depend upon our personality characteristics. Positivity and an optimistic approach create positive perceptions, these result in a good attitude and finally nice behaviour. This hierarchy of positivism is required everywhere.  

Ambiguity around us results in vague perceptions. The clarity in the situation and an unbiased mindset can create favourable perceptions. More than this ambiguity, negativity is also there which can be resulted in wrong perceptions. So, we must try to make our minds more realistic and positive. In this way, we can make our attitudes and perceptions, more acceptable and desirable. 

For making our surroundings easier and softer for others and for ourselves, we need to do some effort in creating some goodness around us by building positive attitudes resulting in good perceptions. This change will ensure a better place where we can live a successful life.

What We Know Is A Drop, What We Don’t Know Is An Ocean - Isaac Newton

 This realistic and meaningful and meaningful quote is showing the importance of obtaining knowledge, throughout our lives, and the endless journey of achieving new things. In fact it is the key to success and an excellent way to make our lives from good to best.

This quote was so realistic at the time of the great scientist Newton and at the present time, it shows its relevance and correctness with more precision. There is specification and specialization in all fields of life today. Knowledge has become so vast that we could not imagine some years back.

May this be a specific mindset, about self-image or it can be a personality trait. Some people after knowing a little, think of themselves as very literary ones. This may reflect a shallow thinking style that is against the reality.

 

Another mindset can be that nobody can know everything, especially in this period of specialization. Every field has its own findings and facts. If someone gets knowledge of his area, he can be considered a knowledgeable person in that field, not of all ones. In other words, this is the confirmation of Newton’s conception.

 

The human mind is a very complicated organism, having unimaginable capacities. It is discovered that humans can use a very less portion of their capabilities. So, we can get and store much more information in our minds. It means humans can have an unlimited quality of getting more knowledge. This again confirms the truthfulness of the quote.

 

To cut it short or the crux of this quote is that we can learn new knowledge in different fields of life around us. This is an unlimited treasure of knowledge, which we can achieve, according to the level of our effort or struggle. So, this is an endless journey, which has no end and this quote represents this undeniable fact. Those who try to gain from this ocean according to their struggle can get as much as they can.

Value Of Time

Time is a precious asset. If we use it in a good way, it can make us special. The other way round, we can lose a lot. So, we try to manage our time in such a way, that our priorities must be fulfilled in a better way. To make our lives from good to best, we have to have better options and try our best to achieve them by knowing the value of time.

Time management is an essential part of our lives. It is also related to our age and maturity level. Some people start it in their early years and some start in their adult lives but some start it never. It may be dependent upon our family traditions, personal exposure and the life conditions we have to face. Those who control their time, usually get the most and those who are controlled by time, don’t have this opportunity.

In history, we find many examples of people, who managed their time in a better way and they became giants in their fields. Many scientists like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and famous writer Charles Dickens are some of the examples. Our Muslim Scientists like Ibn-e Siena, Ibn-ul –Hashem and so many others. 

Time management provides us with many plus points like good performance, better level of satisfaction and relaxation, lower down stress and feelings of confidence and happiness in life. To achieve this valuable target, we have to adopt some strategies like:

•  Make a list of daily tasks intentionally. Haphazard efforts and hard-works cannot produce more positive results.
• Minimize distractions by foxing on your priority tasks.
• Try to focus on one thing at one time. In this way, we can produce better results.
• Review the whole day in the end, honestly. It will help to improve the quality and quantity of our work. In this way, we can encourage our own selves and can make better planning for the coming time.

We must re-schedule our lives, at any stage of life we are, for the sake of betterment in our lives. As our lives are the most precious thing we have, our time is also a costly asset. We must be couscous about the two with the same care. In this way, we can change our personal and collective life. 

Ideas To Help Flood Affected People

Flood is always terrible, but sometimes it becomes disastrous. Unfortunately, it disturbs many areas of the world after some years on a regular basis. It is even very painful to watch these images, imagine how difficult will it be to face these conditions in reality. As human beings, we must think to make our lives from good to best by Ideas to help Flood Affected People by avoiding these circumstances in future to take some emergency measures.

 First requirement is to consider this situation sympathetically and empathetically. It is our responsibility to solve this issue. If we look into it then it will be easy to deal with it. If we can feel the great and giant issues these people are facing, we can deal them with more sincerity. If we continuously feel that these poor people are facing, we will not be able to do anything. If we can feel that we are facing the issues of the loss of beloved ones, homelessness, severe lack of food and a long list of related problems.

The second step is to plan a workable plan-out, on the emergency level. To utilize water in making electricity. In this way, electricity shortage can also be managed and the issue of load-shedding can be resolved. For this, small dams can be made, which can be established in a year. Short-term workable projects must be started.

An issue which must be faced is the issue of money and services. This can be resolved by: 

• Initiating a campaign by creating an ambition in common public, for saving our people. Our people can donate a lot of amounts for this noble purpose.
• We can arrange exhibitions to collect money.
• Cricket matches can be played, where cricketers can play for free for their nation.
• Schools can collect money by encouraging students to save some money from their pocket money.
• Government employees can also donate some portion of their salaries. 
• Fun fairs can be arranged. 
• Artists can sell their paintings for this.
• In the projects for making dams, very limited workers can be hired on reasonable salaries or volunteers can also be hired.
• In the working place, the people of the affected areas can also be motivated to work on low wages.
•  Overseas Pakistanis can also help. 

Another help, that can be provided to the people affected due to flood, is by making their cemented houses, to resist against possible mishaps in future. In this term, the government must support from its own resources and with the help of NGOs. Rich people and families can also contribute.

The affected people must help themselves. It is crucial to reset their lives in these helpless conditions. They can do a lot for themselves by making their houses. Then they can start some work on their own. It is true, they need support but if they believe in Allah and in their selves, they can do a lot. some ideas can be presented:

• They can build their homes with bricks and mud, to start their lives again.
• They can have some job i.e. selling goods, can work in factories and can teach children.
• They can apply for other jobs as well.
• Women can make whatever hand-craft they know, to earn their livings. 
• They can teach children if they are educated. 

In these ways, a large number of affected people can make their lives better. They can become a more productive part of their country. It does not mean at all that the country’s management is not responsible to rehabilitate them, it only means, their activeness can make a great and positive change in the situation.