How to wake up earlier & do more stuff

. At the core of being able to get up early in the morning and actually connect before you have your first cup of coffee is the desire to be awake. Have you ever been so excited about the events of the following day that you had no problems waking up before your alarm and feeling fresh and alert despite being short of sleep?  Basically, being excited about life is what makes your brain switch on faster after a long time of idleness, having something to look forward to is what does it.

Getting a great job to look forward to every single day is probably a dream of every and each one of us but, in reality, a job is a job. The majority of us have jobs we definitely do not look  forward to so the treasured sleep is something we don’t want to end prematurely, not even five minutes before we absolutely have to. There are others way to get that spark and the extra time in the beginning of your day, though, like starting a routine that will get you excited and make you want to get up. Going for an early morning run or playing a game before work can be that routine, for example. It’s up to you what this exciting activity will be but it has to be something you really enjoy and want to do.

Even if you are an owl and go to bed late it’ll still work – you’ll be cutting back on sleep and reclaiming the most and the best time for living. Sleep is such a waste of time.

Why start your day earlier than you have to? Because that’s life – having time for yourself and things you enjoy doing apart from work, chores and other responsibilities that tend to just pile up on top of you throughout the entire day/week/year. If you haven’t got the time to do things you love – make time, cut back on things you can cut back on. Starting a day doing something you truly enjoy is starting your day on a high and being more satisfied with yourself by the end of it even if short of sleep.

Some people can sleep over eight hours a day and still feel tired. This well may be the disconnect of the brain from the reality you live in. If you make your life exciting enough there will be no time or need for that much sleep.

You’ll want to be awake for the life you design for yourself. You might be short of sleep but you’ll surely feel more alive, more with it and more satisfied with your life overall.

More than 20,000 people apply for one-way ticket to Mars

You probably have heard about Mars One, the combination
space mission/reality TV show project that aims to send four lucky space
travelers to the Red Planet... forever. Interest in the project had been quite
high, with the company's latest press release noting that it had received
"10,000 messages from prospective applicants from over 100 countries."
But that was before it started taking actual, formal, paid applications from
would-be astronauts.



Turns out that in the week since, at least 20,000 people have paid $38 to
formally apply for Mars One. Various sources around the Internet, including
China Daily, are reporting that the world is full of people who wouldn't mind
living out the remainder of their days in a questionable camera-stuffed habitat
on Mars. Around 600 of the applicants are Chinese citizens, and it's arguable
that some might not understand what they're getting into. According to China
Daily, some of the prospective astronauts are a little optimistic about what
they might find waiting for them once they reach their destination:



Ma Qing, a 39-year-old bookseller, said, "I think the chance to be part of
the project is a cool way for me to change a dull daily life. Besides, the air
on Mars must be much cleaner and easier to breathe."

Glass Beach

Nature
can change junk to jewels. In the early 20th century, residents of a remote
coastal town of Fort Bragg in California dumped their trash over the cliffs
onto the beach (don't worry, this was banned in 1967). In the decades since,
the sea tumbled and polished the bits of glass and junk into smooth, shiny
pebbles that glint like jewels in the sunshine.

Happier today: 10 things you should stop doing right now

1.Wait for a better
time. There is never a good time to do anything especially if that’s something
you have been putting off for a while. There is never a good time to start
exercising or learning a new language… You make the time for these things if
they are important to you - make them important enough for the good time to be
now.

2.Hate people. It’s
such a negative emotion and it really doesn’t lead anywhere. In most cases,
hating someone directly affects you and you alone, making your mood and your
day that much worse. By talking behind someone’s back and spreading negative
energy you’ll just push people you actually care about away. Let go of it and
make room for good and positive things.

3.Constantly look
back. What has happened in the past is now in the past – you have learned,
hopefully, from your mistakes and it’s time to move on. Until you can let go of
the past you cannot live in the present, plan for the future and grow as a
person. After all, your life from before doesn’t define who you are today, your
present actions do.

4.Think about people
who make no difference in your life. Whether they are people from your past or
your present if they don’t affect you directly why waste your precious time on
them? This also applies to spreading and listening to rumors, reading celebrity
columns and checking people’s statuses online. You only have one lifetime why
should you give people you don’t really care about any of it?

5.Whine about life,
the Universe and everything. Yes, there are days that it’s just impossible to
smile and take things as they come but what does whining achieve, exactly? What
is the point of complaining about the weather, politics or prices – what would
that change? Unless you have a clear plan on what to do and how to make things
better why spread the misery and the negative vibes? If you see a problem - do
something, do anything! The light doesn’t work in your block of flats - fix it
or find someone who will. Things that are not under your control and you cannot
in any way influence them – learn to live with them and accept them as they
are.

6.Play social games. No
one really cares about your clothes or your level of intelligence, not really.
It’s way better to just be authentic and show people who you really are, with
all your flaws and true character rather than waste energy on superficial
interactions - they don’t lead to anything but superficial relationships. Be
yourself and be real, let others love you and accept you the way you are.
Genuine relationships will make you happier, and you'll only form these
relationships once you stop trying to impress everyone you meet and start being
yourself.

7.Spend money on
things you don’t need. We often mistake the “I want” for “I need” when buying
stuff just because it seems cool to own it. Things don’t make you happy for
very long - the moment you get it you experience joy but shortly after that joy
is gone and the newly acquired item joins the rest in your house. Think very
carefully whether you absolutely in need of something or you just want to own
it.  Invest in experiences instead –
experiences that will stay with you in your memory for the rest of your life.

8.Compare yourself to
others. Very often we look around and we see people who are doing a lot better
than we are and we don’t really notice those who are doing a lot worse. At
times we look around and all we can see is everyone else having it easier and
having it better and we feel bad about our own life. The fact is, it’s not easy
for anyone and everyone has their own problems. What you see on the outside is
what others let you see, always. Someone else is looking at you and thinking
just about the same thing: “you are the lucky one” and they have their own
reasons to say that. By thinking that having someone else’s life or someone
else’s problems will make you happier than you make yourself in the now you rob
yourself of the chance to take joy in what you have for yourself already. We
can be happy with very little and immensely unhappy with having it all –
sometimes, it’s just a matter of perspective.

9.Take no chances.
Sometimes we wait for a sure thing to come along for us to follow and then,
when it never comes, we wonder why nothing wonderful and exciting ever happens
to us. It’s true not just in regard of opportunities but also people. Sometimes
people also need to be given a chance to prove you wrong. We often overthink,
overanalyze and create possible scenarios in our head – then come up with the
most negative outcome, and end up never trying anything at the end of the day.
If you are truly afraid of something going wrong, ask yourself: “What is the worst
thing that can happen?” and if you can live with that worst case scenario –
maybe you should give it a try.

10.Set no goals. If
we set no goals how do we expect to get anywhere at all? Life has the tendency
to decide for us and take us down routes we never thought we would ever
consider for ourselves - don’t let it dictate it all, reclaim some of the
control back and influence your future. If you have a plan, a good or a bad
one, at least you have one and you can guide yourself to a better tomorrow, want
a better tomorrow at any rate. We often give up and just let events take over,
but reacting all the time is not the same as acting of your own free will. Take
control back, set targets and get a strategy for life because just living the
same Groundhog day over and over again just isn’t living. Life only has a
meaning when you give it one.

Why We'll Never Meet Aliens?

In a long essay, makes the case that we'll never meet aliens. And his conclusion is that we'll never meet aliens because once they've developed the technology to travel the great distances between stars, the trip will be meaningless.

I think there's a lot of validity to this argument. We anthropomorphize aliens based on our current state of technology. We imagine aliens flying around in their alien spaceships, sipping their alien coffees, perusing alien laptops. "We come in peace."

But you have to comprehend the compounding effect of exponential technological advancement. iPhones didn't exist 5 years ago, now we consider smartphones a commodity. Once an alien has the ability to travel from star to star, they'll probably just be getting their robots to do the work for them - in fact, they'll probably be indistinguishable from robots themselves.

Once you're far enough along that technology curve, it all just comes down to energy. What's the most efficient way to get more energy? Traveling to other stars probably isn't it.

Stars provide energy, and planets give you a place to stand on. But they come with tricky gravity fields, that aliens might decide just aren't worth the effort to vist.

When will wireless power reach the tipping point?

If you’re waiting to see when wireless power will hit the mass market, then you’re not alone. Delivering power wirelessly is perhaps one of the most hyped, long anticipated changes to the way we design and use products and machinery since the invention of electricity itself. But if you’ve been watching this space, you’ll know these solutions have been slow in coming to market and are anything but commonplace.

Why is that? What’s it going to take for this technology to hit the mainstream? Over the past two years we have witnessed first generation implementations of wireless power, mostly in the smartphone after-market. These come in the form of sleeves and charging pads but are rarely sighted amongst early adopters. Each claims to be supporting the best technology — the one that will lead the world in becoming completely unplugged. Yet, in my view, what we have seen and heard so far are a combination of impossible claims and poor end-user functionality.

WiTricity CEO Eric Giler imagines a future where power devices are embedded in the walls and carpets of homes, making for a truly wire-free household. He says with a big enough power supply and small wireless repeaters, one could even power a grocery store or office building. Conventional charging devices such as the cord for a cell phone use electromagnetic induction to transmit power. Through electromagnetic induction, an electric current is sent through a magnetic field generated by a power conductor to a smaller magnetic field generated by a receiving device.

Scott Tallman Powers

Powers began drawing as a child with his father who was a medical illustrator, photographer and fine artist.  While watching and learning from him, his love of art began. Scott’s education began in high school with two extremely influential and supportive art instructors.  This led to four years of intensive study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. There he trained under many important instructors in the fields of Oil painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Anatomy and Sculpture.  After his time at the Academy, Scott spent many years as an illustrator in a Chicago ad agency before pursuing his dream as a full-time fine artist. Scott is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America and is the founder of "The Plein Air Painters of Chicago" group. Scott gets a lot of his inspiration from many different cultures from all over the world, including our own.  The human element is at the core of his journey.  The people, places, and experiences have sewn there way into Scott’s inspirations for  many years; giving him a better understanding of the world we live in. He has travelled extensively to many countries to find the inspiration he thrives on and searches to find the balance between cultures. Scott’s goal is to express the stories and experiences as honestly, sensitively and with as much integrity as he can.  This is a passion which is growing day by day and mile by mile. Scott has works in many private collections in the United States and around the world along with having paintings in three museums: The Wengyuan Museum of Fine Art and the Shaoguan Museum of Fine Art in The Guandong Province of China, and The Academy Museum in Easton, Maryland. Scott has received many awards from the Oil Painters of America as well as many other National shows. And has participated in many prestigious invitational exhibitions in the United States, China, Israel and Europe. Scott work has appeared in many publications including American Artist, Art of the West, Western Art and Architecture and has had features in The American Artist “Workshop” Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine and Western Art Collector.

The HTC One

we promised a review of this device when I got my hands on one, so here goes.

we picked up the One on AT&T yesterday. I haven't really used an HTC device in quite awhile, and I'm pretty happy with this phone.

The very first thing I did was to unlock the bootloader. HTC (like everyone) got this very wrong in the past, but they finally got it right. The production device is fully unlockable on the AP side using an unlock code from HTCDev. It only took a couple of minutes to follow the prompts on the site and I was greeted with the UNLOCKED message in HBOOT. Installed CWM and did a backup.

This hardware is sexy. It's got clean lines and feels very solid when you are holding it. The 1080p display is gorgeous and bright, although I'm not convinced that I would pay a lot of extra money for 1080p on a phone if all other things were high-end. Oddly enough, the phone looks like the little brother of my Samsung Series 7 laptop which is a good thing. There are only two capacitive buttons, which took a bit of getting used to- you have to double-tap the home key to see the recent apps list. It's a good design, and it makes plenty of room for the front-facing stereo speakers.

HTC has taken a very different approach to software than Samsung has, and has chosen to focus on media and content instead of UX features. You're immediately greeted with the Sense launcher which has a full-screen pane that aggregates data from various social networks and news feeds. It works well and I find myself actually using it. There's so much room for improvement and additional data sources, but it's a good start. The launcher in general is pretty decent, at least until you open the app drawer. HTC has decided to go with a 3-column app drawer with a vertical tray that doesn't do free scrolling. It's very painful to use if you have a lot of apps. Folders are supported in the drawer which makes it a little easier, but it's still not the best experience. One feature that HTC did well is the lock screen. It supports a number of different layouts (I use "productivity") and shows you quick information without having to unlock the device.

The performance of the device in general is off the charts. Under the hood, it has the same chipset as the Galaxy S4, so the performance of both devices is similar. It's probably more horsepower than most people will need for quite some time.

Overall, I like where HTC is going with this. They have decided to skip the "kitchen sink" approach to really focus on a few things, and it works. It's also developer friendly, which is important to me and probably to most people reading this. I really think HTC might be back in the game with the One. It's an awesome device. They will of course have to contend with Samsung's unstoppable marketing machine though.

If I had to make the choice between the One vs the S4, my head would probably explode so I'll just carry both I think :)

Cool Leaf Keyboard

The COOL LEAF adopts one single board, thus enabling easy input surface cleaning and clean maintenance at any time. It also adopts an innovative design in which characters appear on its mirror panel, which uses a light guide plate-type backlight. The design is highly sophisticated, with functionality that has envisioned applications for medical treatment, home theaters, food manufacturing factories, clean rooms etc.

3 Types of Leaders Who Never Succeed!!!!

Do you rise again and again to the very edge of success, only to fall back down? You may be guilty of one of these leadership styles.

It's an oft-quoted leadership trope: Because of his sin in striking the rock twice, Moses never lived to see his people into the Promised Land. That role fell instead to Joshua, despite Moses having dedicated his life to paving the way, including those 40 years spent in the wilderness.

Business leaders can, sadly, befall the same fate. Call them the Never-Gonna-Get-There Leader. The saddest part is that unlike Moses, for these perennially unfulfilled leaders, there's no real reason why it should be so--except for their own self imposed limitations.

There are a lot of hyphenated leaders: the Wanna-be leaders, Always-on leaders, Glory-grabbing leaders. But there's none so heartbreaking to work with as a Never-Gonna-Get-There leader. This is someone who rises again and again to the very edge of success, only, as in some twisted version of chutes and ladders, to fall back solely as a result of their own subconscious, success-restricting traits.

Here are the three main categories of Never-Gonna-Get-There leader, and, if you recognize yourself or a colleague amongst them, how to avoid Moses fate:

1. The Epiphany Junkie

The trendy new book absolutely everybody must read. The new social tool we gotta dominate. The perfect sales page layout that will send hidden buy messages on our web site...

That's the Epiphany Junkie, dropping the latest in their rapidly accumulating grab bag of realizations / discoveries / imperatives.

Problem is, while they think they're confirming the fact of their genius, and leading their team to even greater heights of brilliance, the team is in reality simply being distracted from getting on with what's really important.

If you think you might be an Epiphany Junkie, write down the last six epiphanies you dropped on your team. I have a two-fold challenge for you: (a) Were you actually able to recall the last six pearls of must-do wisdom you laid on your unsuspecting colleagues; and (b) What real, lasting impact did they each have, apart from unnecessarily distracting everyone for a few days?

The answer? When you come back from that conference, or read that book, or stumble on a stunning meme on your Twitter, keep it to yourself. Just shut the blank up about it for at least two weeks. If it's truly important, you'll see ways to integrate it quietly and seamlessly into what your team is doing.

If it isn't important, you'll have found something new to fixate on soon enough.

2.The Strategy Yanker

"We're going to grow by 50 percent over the next two years."

A month later: "Growth can't be our main objective. We're going to focus on customer service."

Six weeks later: "Profitability is all. We're going to deliver a 25 percent increase on the bottom line."

That's the Strategy Yanker, pulling their organization from pillar to post in a self-imposed search for the perfect plan for success. They strain everyone's patience, drain everyone's motivation, and rapidly lose credulity with everyone forced to listen to the next whiplash change of direction.

The fundamental problem with the Strategy Yanker is that they're usually intelligent people so all of the proposed (and subsequently ditched) strategies are valid--if only they would choose one and stick with it.

Working with a Strategy Yanker is like getting into a car with a driver who knows 10 different routes to the place you want to go--and can't make their mind up as to which to take. You end up hopping from one route to another, then changing to another, never getting any closer to where you want to go.

The answer? A dose of the bleeding obvious. Pick a medium term strategy and stick to it. If you can't, get out of leadership before you seriously hurt some people.

3. The Hero to Zero Myopic

Leadership isn't a solitary occupation. By definition, a leader leads others.

Those others are exactly like you and me--varied, competent in some areas, not so hot in others, a mixture of strengths and weaknesses, all of us trying to travel north in a southbound lane.

Some Never-Gonna-Get-There leaders refuse to see people as they really are. Instead, they view everyone as either spectacularly great (She's the best salesperson I've ever seen!) or woefully dreadful (I can't bear having him around me. Get him out of my sight.) Often they change their opinion of a person from one extreme to the other literally overnight.

Sound like you? Then you need to take responsibility for the hiring function. You need to put yourself in a position where having a zero on the team is clearly, transparently no-one else's fault but yours. Because chances are, it already is.

Happy Women's Day ♥

United States has selected the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart for the International Women of Courage Award. The award to Delhi gang rape victim would be presented posthumously by the first lady Michelle Obama and the secretary of state John Kerry, on March 8 :)

Happy Women's Day ♥
United States has selected the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart for the International Women of Courage Award. The award to Delhi gang rape victim would be presented posthumously by the first lady Michelle Obama and the secretary of state John Kerry, on March 8 :) Happy Women's Day ♥.

A Basic knowledge about the Sim Card

A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module (SIM) is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices ,such as mobile phones and computers.

It is also a portable memory chip used mostly in cell phones that operate on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network. These cards hold the personal information of the account holder, including his or her phone number, address book, text messages, and other data. When a user wants to change phones, he or she can usually easily remove the card from one handset and insert it into another. SIM cards are convenient and popular with many users, and are a key part of developing cell phone technology.

Sim Cards are of four (4) Types. Named as Below H1, H2, H3, H4

H1= You Will Get Normal Network On This Sim
H2= You Will Get Better Network On This Sim, Means Strong
H3= You Will Get More Better Network On This Sim, Means Stronger
H4= Normal, Better, More Better Is Nothing In Front OF This Sim.

Basically H4 Sim giving for Corporate Sim, Army Peoples etc. The Company doesn’t Provide H4 Sim To all User,because this Sim eat More bandwidth. For knowing Which Type of Sim is using Just Check Its Back Side and will Get the Sim No. and the Sim Type.

SIM cards are made in three different sizes to accommodate different devices. Most phones use mini-SIM or micro-SIM cards, which are quite small — the mini is 25 mm by 15 mm , and the micro is 15 mm by 12 mm.Full-sized cards are much larger, 85.6 mm by 53.98 mm , and are too big for most phones. All cards are only 0.76 mm thick, and the microchip contacts are in the same arrangement. This means that, with the proper adapter, the smaller cards can be used in devices designed for larger ones.

A SIM card offers security for both the user’s data and his or her calls. The cards can be locked, meaning that only someone who has the correct personal identification number (PIN) can use the card. If the phone is stolen, the thief cannot use a locked SIM or get any information off of it without the PIN.