Safe homes are sweet homes

East or west safe home is the best.

We are professionals in life and utilising our skills and talents for enhancing the quality of life and services of people. But how many of us using a small area of our attention and expertise in our home to make the sweet home as safe home? Of course none of us is doing it including me.

If we would adopt essential safety precautions and behaviour  in our home , it will be a  home really sweet  filled with everlasting happy and never any unpleasant incident  daring to enter.

Examine what are the areas we must give attention in our home

• Safety  &
• Security 

Safety must be the first priority because it will create irrecoverable loss once breached and further meet with an error.

Safety also can be sub dived in to:

1. Fire safety
2. Kids’ safety
3. Electrical safety
4. Equipments safety & building safety

1. Fire safety is closely related to kitchen hence let us examine the safety tips in kitchen first.  

• Always keep one fire extinguisher in kitchen.
• Never leave knives or any sharp objects open or accidently fall or touch.
• Inspect or let expert people inspect your gas pipe and oven in every six month
• Install smoke alarms in kitchen if possible.
• Never keep any poisonous material and insecticide in the kitchen.
• Never allow your cute kids inside the kitchen while cooking.
• Make sure that the cords of appliances are not hung over cooking range
• Leave space at the back of refrigerator for proper ventilation.
• Never consider any equipment you are using is 100 safe
• Never smoke inside the home, never  in bedroom

2. Kid’s safety Consider the age of your children and plan you home accordingly. Your home should change with your kids

• Put matchbox and lighters in locked cabinet
• Never leave child in bathtub and swimming pool alone.
• Keep all chemicals and medicines away from the Children’s reach. 
• Don’t place furniture near window in kid’s room.
• Keep heavy, small and breakable things away from children’s reach.
• bookshelves and other furniture should be firmly secured with wall brackets to prevent tipping
•  Never place sharp edges furniture as it can be harmful to kids. Always place round edges furniture

3. Electrical safety: Electricity is a good servant and bad master. And it is the number one cause of 80% fires 

• Never put extension cords under carpet or rugs as it causes short- circuit
• Keep curtains, clothes, paper stuff three feet away from light fitting  to avoid fire.
• Remember Electricity is not burn but it will make everything burn when uncontrolled or short circuited

4. Equipment’s safety & Building safety: All equipments made for working under some standard conditions not your will and wish

• Never place sharp edges furniture in bedroom. Always place round edges furniture. 
• If you or anybody else is placing pesticide or chemical near the AC outdoor unit it will become a hazard when you AC is on.
• Avoid Overload: Check for overloaded extension cords – usage should not exceed the recommended wattage.
• Make it Childproof: Areas  and equipments of particular danger include outlets, appliances, electronics and machineries keep away from children dn while working take necessary precaution about kids
• Cover Outlets: Cover all unused electrical outlets to prevent children from sticking a finger in the socket.
• Plan Your Escape: Practice a fire escape plan with your family where you identify two exits for every room and what to do with young children.
• Give special attention to special equipments like air heater,   pedestrian fan, vacuum cleaner this things will become monster when malfunction.

• Create an emergency plan:  Keep emergency numbers and contacts readily available by the phone.
• Unplug Appliances: Unplug appliances and electronics when not in use and store them out of your walkway.
• Cool Your heater: Set your water heater below 120 degrees Fahrenheit to avoid potential burns and to save energy.

No home will be safe home until and unless we take a deliberate attempt to make it safe. Please remember all homes are heaven for us but we adding the safety to home it will become real haven for our loved ones.

  A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with care and dreams.”

Share the joy shred the sorrow

How many of us can remember who won the Oscar award for the best actor in this year or who was the best player in the world cup football.

Probability we couldn’t, but if ask the question about three decade back, you will answer without  any thought- that is what was the name  your best friend in primary class.

Reason- friendship is from heart and all other knowledge is stored your brain!

We all would like to have friends, but nobody know how we can get and keep a real friend

Today we will speak about friendship –the great flag ship of every human beings life.

Making someone friend is easy but keeping a friend for ever is a tough task, is there any techniques for getting nice friends.

There are few great secret for keeping friends for always and being a good friend

1. Think before Speak

Think before we speak, and be empathetic and sensitive about friends. If you are unsure what to say, think of something to say and then imagine how you would feel if your friend said that to you.

Respect other people’s opinion, religion, and customs. Even if we disagree with them but we can respect different viewpoints.

2. Listen more.

Good listeners are best friends of all, because everybody wants someone who listens then patiently and carefully. Listen without constantly thinking about how we are going to respond. We don’t want to think about our reply so much that we lose focus on what the other person is saying.

3. Touch and feel

Make your friends close to your hear by touching them. Shake hand, gestures with your hands patting in the shoulders, hugging all these actions are help to flow the current of love and care from you to your friend.

4. Share the happy

Don’t hesitate to share your happy with others, whatever it may be. Don’t waste any single moment to be happy. We cannot get rid of all our problems and them become happy, hence find out small spark of pleasure and enjoy it.

5. Shred the sorrow.

There is story of Lord Buddha that no one in the world being without a sorrow.

All human being having some sort of pain in their heart, but by sharing it with friend of compassion, and sympathy we can shred it and relieve from the pain. Just do it in friend ship.

6. Spend time with (for) friends

We need to make time to nurture the friendship if we want it to continue. A simple message at the right time, call over the mobile on the anniversary or birthday will create in depth impact to your friend and such relations will become solid like hard rocks.

7. Be honest in our actions

Years need to create a friend ship and only single moment needs to destroy it. Built the trust with your pals that is the corner stone of the relation.

8. Perfection is word you never find.

Don’t try to get a perfect friend or being perfect to others, be natural with all out our strengths and weakness

“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”  

9. Be positive in criticism

Find something positive in everybody and say things positively. Discouraging words are always hurt somebody. Say “you may look good in blue pants” instead “you will look like a buffoon in this dress”

10. Body language will speak the truth

You can easily mind your words and actions but you cannot hide your body language which will give the real state of your mind to others. Therefore know your body language, control your tone, and pitch of voice when communicating with friends. Keeping eye contact and fail posters will create pleasing mood in both.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

Add five days to your life, not two holidays in the weekend.

Have you ever heard statement that Sachin Tendulkar tired of cricket and and Latha Mangeshkar want a break from her job of singing, or Beckam would like to take holiday from foot ball boots.

Probably never we had such requests about their job. But all of us, the working people and professionals always complaining about tiresome work, tedious job and need of break.

What is the reason? When psychologist Ms. Vera Johns steiner interviewed one hundred creative people who are great success in their career- she found one thing in common: the passion of their work.

Simple truth is that we are doing our job for daily bread and loving to do something else as hobbies and habits. And we need a break from job because we cannot enjoy it.

As Mark Twain truly said “Whatever we are instructed to do is your work and whatever you are passionate to do is your hobby”

If we can enjoy our job as our enthusiastic hobby, what would be the result .we never stop working  or want break from the job  hence we are enjoying every moment like when Beckam playing foot ball or Sachin batting in cricket or a singer enjoying the song during the stage performance .

It is great idea but how enjoy a job which never would like embrace.

Only a few lucky people have their hobby as job or making the job like as pleasure as hobby easy hard task. We obviously are selecting a profession which will give us financial comfort and life security rather than our obsession.

But we can change it- simply Fake it till you make it.

You make a strong belief that what you are doing is the work really you are loving. Over period of time it will become true.

That is what the famous thinker  Confucius said: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. 

If our job has the zeal of course our life has the zest. And there are some other tips to make your work as your passion:

Use this 3 Ps and 3 Rs

Prepare, Practice and Participate & Relax, Recreate and Renovate  

Do necessary preparation for your job: Time management, work arrangement creating the team etc are essential to make your job easy and enjoyable.

Practice your job well. Achieve enough and required knowledge you needs in your work. Make good practices as part of your job - reach in office and meeting swell in time, honour other time too, deliver the promise, and divide big tasks in small and achievable pieces.

Participate in the job with fullest of your capacity, it will create lot of passion and success. And every success will boost your enthusiasm to do the job, and finally you will reach in the No Point of return where your job and passion become same. Then there is no special no secret for your success full career.

Now come to the other of the coin, if you are not detaching you from the work and you will not have the vigour and vitality to perform again.

Relax: Learn to handle stress, When you have a lot of stress about completing the target and meeting deadlines, you must do something to relax your mind, close your eyes and think that it's only a job and nothing much. And try to complete your target much more confidently without stress.
Recreations are Re-creation of your energy and enthusiasms of work. It is like re filling your car for another long journey.  To have fun at your job, feel fresh and energetic. The feeling of doing the best will charge you up.

Renovate: Do the things which will give enthusiasm and excitement on the work floor. Enjoy partying, celebrations, competitions.
Thomas Alwa Edition a man recorded 1093 patents in his life time had this to say about his brilliant career at the end of the life “I never did a day’s work in my life; it was all fun”

Find a job you like or like the job which you find then only we can add five days in our life instead of two holidays at the weekend.