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Six steps to super-confidence

Shrug off your fears and step out of the shadows and into the limelight – you can fake it till you make it with a few simple tips, says Christine Fieldhouse

• By Christine Fieldhouse, Friday magazine
• Published: 09:27 November 18, 2012

Six steps to unshakable confidence

US hypnotist and author Kent Sayre was once painfully shy, but after discovering a series of tips to overcome a lack of confidence, he went on to write Unstoppable Confidence (McGraw-Hill). Here are some of his best pieces of advice.

1. Study confident people
Find a role model, a person with real self-belief and study their lives. If possible, buy their books, or CDs, go to their seminars or shows, or watch them play their sport. Once you’ve done your research, close your eyes and get an image of their speech, movement and behaviour. Then step into that vision and let it take you to five different situations, such as a job interview, or staying in a hotel alone, or making an entrance at a party. Then step out of the role model’s body and take your confidence with you.

2. Rewrite the past
Rather than beat yourself up about a diet that didn’t work, or a job you didn’t get, rewrite the past and give those experiences a more positive ending. Go back to a mistake and re-run it in your mind, stopping just before you made the mistake. Then imagine what the perfect ending could have been – maybe losing 6 kilograms or going out and meeting the man you were to marry. Replace the old ending with your new one and rerun it in your mind ten times.

3. Create a circle of confidence
Think back to a time when you felt confident and on top of the world, maybe your wedding day or the day you got some great exam results. Imagine a circle on the floor, noting its size and colour. When you step into the circle imagine your most confident moment. See what you saw at the time, hear the noises around you and feel that lovely confidence again. Adjust your body language to match your confidence, then walk around outside the circle.

4. Talk to yourself
When you talk to yourself, say “you” instead of “I” so your conscious mind can tell your unconscious mind what you want and how to behave. Stand tall in front of a mirror and say: “You are supremely confident”; “You go for what you want and you get it”; and “You are completely powerful.”

5. Amaze yourself!
Think of something so far outside your comfort zone that you would be amazed if you achieved it. It may be a skydive or a public-speaking engagement or an application for your dream job. You will start to believe that if you can skydive/speak in public/get your dream job, you can do anything and other challenges won’t seem so scary. Choose a big challenge and take immediate action towards making it happen.

6. Put yourself in the movies
Picture yourself at the height of your success – you may have thrown a huge fund-raising party or collected an award for new novelists or led a board meeting. See yourself bright and close-up on a big screen, add some sound or music and turn up the volume. Just before the success is yours, stop the film in your mind’s eye and ask why it is so important to you. Then restart the movie, jump back into your on-screen body and enjoy the pleasure. While you’re on that high, write down five immediate actions that would take you closer to your dream.

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His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan

                    

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ‎, the principal driving force behind the formation of the United Arab Emirates, was the emir of Abu Dhabi emirate and first president of the UAE, a post which he held for over 30 years.  Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Founder of the UAE.

His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan served as President of the United Arab Emirates since the formation of the Federation on 2 December 1971 and as Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi since 1966.

Understanding the UAE is impossible without understanding the life of Sheikh Zayed and his deep religious faith, his vision, his determination and hard work, his generosity at home and abroad, and the way in which he devoted his life to the service of his people and the creation of a better world.

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How big is the Earth?

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What is its surface like?

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Dates… Is Food and Medicine كتاب التمر غذاء ودواء

كتاب التمر غذاء ودواء

يعد الكتاب مرجعًا شاملاً جامعًا لكل أنواع التمر وفوائده، حيث تقدم لنا المؤلفة أطباقًا شهية ومفيدة من الأكلات والمعجنات وقطع الحلوى الخاصة بالتمور لتزين بها موائدنا.
وكان نصب عين المؤلفة هو محاولتها أن تدخل التمور في مختلف الأكلات بما يلبي أذواق مختلف الأعمار صغارًا وكبارًا. وفق ميزان علمي ومنهجي.
وهو يختلف عما سبقه من كتب الطبخ لكونه يحمل فائدة عظيمة الأثر وطلاوة في الشرح والتقديم، وتبيان فوائد التمور ومكوناتها الغذائية الغنية، كما يشرح أنواع التمور في العراق والسعودية ودول الخليج العربي والمغرب العربي، مما يعد إسهاما فريدا من نوعه في هذا المجال، ويسد فراغا كبيرا في مكتبة الطبخ العربي.

تضمن الكتاب خمسة فصول، هي:
الفصل الأول : الحلويات
الفصل الثاني : أطباق الكيك
الفصل الثالث : المعجنات
الفصل الرابع : الحشوات
الفصل الخامس : استخدامات أخرى
كما يعرف بطرائق صناعة الدبس (عسل التمر) والخل، وأمور عديدة تخص صناعة التمر وفوائده الطبية.
الكتاب من تصميم وأخراج الفنان أور البصري.

Dates…  Is Food and Medicine

The book is a comprehensive reference inclusive for all kinds of dates and benefits.  The author offering us delicacies and useful dishes, pastries, candies.  The author is trying to enter dates in various dishes to meet the tastes of different ages, young and old.
This book is differs from what headed cookbooks for being carries great benefit impact.  The book demonstrate the benefits of dates and components rich food, explains types of dates in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and the Maghreb, which is a unique contribution of its kind in this area, and fills an important gap in the Arab cooking library.
Included five chapters of the book, are:
Chapter I: Desserts
Chapter II: Cake dishes
Chapter III: pastry
Chapter IV: fillings
Chapter V: Other Uses

Soft lifestyle makes for soft bones

Women need to get out into the sun

• By Mahmood Saberi Senior Reporter
• Published: 21:30 October 17, 2012

If you are found to be predisposed to osteoporosis, regular exercise, proper diet and regular bone testing is essential, says Dr Abdul Rahim Al Suhaili.

Dubai: Lack of Vitamin D, no exercise and poor nutrition can make your bones weak, and one day as you accidentally hit against a wall or bump hard into something with your hip, the femur bone can crack. It sounds scary and it is.

“Normally, the impact of the car door or the elevator door hitting your shoulder should not break the leg or arm bone,” says Dr Abdul Rahim Al Suhaili, head of Nuclear Medicine, Dubai Hospital and Vice-Chairman of the Emirates Osteoporosis Society.

Fact

Foods to eat to beat osteoporosis

Milk, Salmon, Mackerel, Sardines, Eggs and White meat.

Vegetarians and their options:

Green, leafy vegetables, Fresh fruits, Beans and chickpeas, Broccoli, Yoghurt, Sweet potatoes, Almonds and Sesame seeds.

How many minutes of sun exposure on an average every day?:

Between 15 to 30 minutes of sun exposure every day.

Best times are between sunrise and 10 am and between 3 pm to 4 pm. The sunlight should be direct and not through glass as glass filters the ultra-violet rays which are essential for Vitamin D production. Your face, hands and upper arms and legs should be exposed to sunlight.

What are bones made of

Bones are made up of cells called osteoblast, which help form the bone and osteoclast, that help eat away old bone. “This process of making new bone and eating away old bone goes on till the age of 35,” he said. “It does not stop at puberty.”

What does osteoporosis mean?

Osteo in Latin means ‘bones’ and porosis is for ‘spongy’ or ‘porous’, explains the doctor.

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Destined

A faerie tale of romance, magic and danger

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