Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Strategies In Avoiding Stress Build Up (part 2 of 2)


Pampering yourself with healthy meals is not the only way you can live healthy. Going to the spa and have a relaxing massage can avoid stress from building. You can also enroll yourself in weekly gym classes depending on how much free time you have. Exercising can help you cope with stress easily. Also, through exercise, you body release endorphins that increase your feelings of wellbeing.

Ask For Support

When you are feeling stressed always remember that there are people around you who can help. Friends can pick you up when you are feeling down. They can provide insights when you are confused, and help you in having fun.

Family members can provide solid support since they already know who you are and what you really want. If stress gets out of control, you can ask for counsel from your psychiatrist.

Never blame yourself for the cause of stress as this will only worsen the stress that you are feeling. Do not build a wall around you whenever you are feeling stressed and never feel helpless. Stress is an enemy that you can triumph upon with the help of loved ones.

Spiritual Practices For Avoiding Stress

Lifestyle with strong religious and spiritual foundations is generally a healthier lifestyle. Seniors use prayers as stress reliever. Prayers can also maintain emotional stability.

Practicing meditation can help you clear you mind in stressful situations. Spiritual practice is a personal experience and can surely nurture your soul.

Strategies In Avoiding Stress Build Up (part 1 of 2)


Stress, if you let it, can build up. There are several effects of stress in the many aspects of life. Stress build up can pose major health risks. Often times, people who cannot handle stress find themselves in rehabilitation facilities that offer twelve-step programs that could help them recover.

Avoidance is always better than cure. Learn to avoid stress build up through simple strategies that you could practice in your free time.

Learn To Have Fun

Having fun can provide a nice distraction from problems you have. Games are designed to occupy your time. Look into yourself and find something that you are into. Find the things that you enjoy the most. Hobbies are important parts of the relaxation process.

Drawing and gardening are great stress relievers but you are not limited to these two. You can practically put your hands on anything that you enjoy doing. Learn that it is fine to have a little fun after hard days of work.

Taking Care Of Your Health

Stress can seriously become detrimental to your health. If you have a predetermined health condition, stress can greatly aggravate that condition. People who have poor diet are most vulnerable to stress. Maintaining a healthy diet can help you in avoiding the health risks from stress.

Healthy eating at home can help you shed off some pounds since most people who are stressed-out tend to gain more weight than others. Planning ahead is an important step in eating healthy. Do weekly groceries, and plan your home meals every week. This way you do not have to stress yourself in thinking what you want to eat.  Eating healthy does not mean that you need to prepare a four-course meal. A simple balance meal with the combination of protein, fruits, vegetables, bread and not too much fat is enough to get you going. You can even find healthy recipes online.


Saturday, October 17, 2015

Most Common Problems with Asset Management (part 2 of 2)

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Lack of Technology Demanded by the Company

For example, you have all the competent people you need. but you do not have the technology that matches their qualifications for doing to job, you are still at a losing end. You may get an above average performance, but it will still be much much better if the technology matches the good skills of the asset management team.

Lack of support

When there is lack of support in any given endeavor, it is bound to fail. The same goes with asset management. The lack of support among departments may not be conducive for positive change and objective or honest inventory of assets. Where there are ulterior motives being satisfied among the ranks, the management of assets may not be as pure or clean as one would like. This lack of support may be remedied by strengthening the ties of the team members via enriching activities.

No balance in asset elements

The balance is the key to perfect asset management. A balance in the different categories and the figures that represent them in the charts are the core outputs of a good management of assets in an organization. A lack of balance means that there are some things that need to be modified, or that some people are out of shape for this activity.

Too little risks taken for growth

When one's asset is much managed, there is also a tendency to eliminate all risks, even when in fact these risks are contributory to the company's growth and yield good returns. Asset management must also involve taking calculated risks.

Most Common Problems with Asset Management (part 1 of 2)

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Asset management is replete with issues or problems that arise, regardless of the generation under which you are operating it. The good thing is that many people have already been open to sharing their experiences on asset management, which saves newbies to asset management time and energy from learning things the hard way. Here is a short list of the most common problems pertaining to asset management that every asset manager must know of.

Lack of updates in the evaluation

When there is a bigger team asked to deal with the asset management of the company, sometimes the updates are much more difficult to attribute to. This is because, while there is rotation among the member, some parts may not be covered thoroughly. On the other hand, if too many people are assigning tasks to individuals without the updates specifically communicated among the different members, the updates will be much more difficult to establish.

Miscommunication among departments

This is the most common problem of asset management that involves human factors. The miscommunication can go from as short as missing one decimal place to having questionable discrepancies on file. The miscommunication is a great disadvantage because it involves lack of proper use for the different instruments made available for asset management.

Incompetence to Manage Assets

The technical competence to mange assets is also equally important. If one of the team members has not taken the time to train for the use of the equipment and the dynamics needed by the job of managing assets, the incompetence will results to disasters in the managing of assets. Inventory problems and management issues may arise, and in essence, it is still better to manage with few high quality people than many below average ones.

Friday, October 16, 2015

The Basic Embroidery Stitches and Your Project (part 2 of 2)

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These are the basic stitches that you need to know when starting in embroidery. These are the most common stitches that you will use. Of course, if you are new to these, you need to look for tutorials and how to’s. You can mostly find tutorials of these stitches. Here’s where you can find them;

• Embroidery books. In most embroidery books for beginners, you will see instructions not just on how to embroider but also how to do each basic stitch. Diagrams and figures are also included in most of these books for easy understanding.

• Embroidery magazines. If you are collecting magazines about embroidery, you’d mostly find tutorials there.

• The Internet. If you don’t have time to look for books and magazines, you can always try the Internet. There are lots of websites on the net which offers easy-to-understand tutorials of basic embroidery stitches.

Now that you know what basic embroidery stitches you need to learn and where you can find tutorials for them, it is time you know why it is important to your project.

Basically, embroidery is composed of different stitches. And even if you see a complex stitch in a pattern, you should realize that it is most likely made up of two or more basic stitches. You see, these basic stitches are the foundation of even the most complex stitches in hand embroidery.

It is, therefore, important that you know the basics. And if you can do even the most complicated stitches using a combination of few basic stitches, then you can have the most beautiful embroidery project even for a beginner.

Besides, everything beautiful in this world needs basic components to be whole; and your embroidery project is not an exemption.

The Basic Embroidery Stitches and Your Project (part 1 of 2)

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If you are new to embroidery, it is a must that you learn all the basics first. Any successful embroiderer started as a newbie and went through the process of learning the basics of embroidery. And among the things that you need to learn first are the basic embroidery stitches.

As hand embroidery starts with basic stitches, it is better to learn at least few stitches before starting an embroidery project. You can even do practice stitches. But first, you have to know the what’s and how’s of basic embroidery stitches.

Basic embroidery stitches are basically being categorized by families; stitch families such as outline stitches, detached stitches, chain stitches, filling stitches, knots, etc.

• Line Stitches – these includes stitches such as the running stitch, backstitch, outline stitch, couching, whipped running stitch, stem stitch, scroll stitch, coral stitch, and Portuguese Knotted Stem stitch.

• Chain Stitches – considered as an old stitch. This is basically useful stitch in embroidering lines and curves. Stitches included in this category are chain stitch, split stitch, and wheat stitch.

• Detached Stitches and Knots – these includes the detached chain stitch which is also known as “lazy daisy” stitch, fly stitch and the French Knots.

• Buttonhole Stitches – includes buttonhole stitch which can be used as decorative edges in your embroidery project; buttonhole wheels or eyelets which is used in creating eyelets or a design which needs cutting at the center; buttonhole shading which is also used as a filling stitch; detached buttonhole filling which is used in needle lace.

• Filling Stitches – includes stitches such as the fishbone, satin stitch and flat stitch.