Tips for Today

🐜  Ants Problem:
       Ants hate Cucumbers.
       "KEEP the skin of
        Cucumbers near the
        Place where they are
        or at Ant Hole.

🗻   To Get Pure & Clean
        Ice :
        "Boil Water first
        before placing in the
        Freezer"

 🎆  To make the Mirror
        Shine:
        "Clean with Sprite"

  💨 To remove Chewing
        Gum from Clothes:
        "Keep the Cloth in
        the Freezer for One
        Hour"

💭   To Whiten White
        Clothes:
        "Soak White Clothes
        in hot water with a
        Slice of Lemon for 10
        Minutes"

 🙇  To give a Shine to
        your Hair:
        "Add one Teaspoon
        of Vinegar to Hair,
        then wash Hair"

 🍋  To get maximum
        Juice out of Lemons:
        "Soak Lemons in Hot
        Water for One Hour,
        and then juice them"

🍞  To avoid smell of
       Cabbage while
       cooking:
       "Keep a piece of
        Bread on the
        Cabbage in the
        Vessel while cooking"

👕  To remove Ink from
       Clothes:
       "Put Toothpaste 🍥
       on the Ink Spots
       generously and let it
       dry completely, then
       wash"

🐀  To get rid of Mice or
       Rats:
       "Sprinkle Black
       Pepper in places
       where you find Mice &
       Rats. They will run
       away"

 🍸 Take Water Before
       Bedtime..
       "About 90% of Heart
       Attacks occur Early in
       the Morning & it can
       be reduced if one
       takes a Glass or two
       of Water before going
       to bed at Night"

 💐 We Know Water is
       important but never
       knew about the
       Special Times one
       has to drink it.. !!

       Did you  ???

 💦 Drinking Water at the
       Right Time ⏰
       Maximizes its
       effectiveness on the
       Human Body;

       1⃣  1 Glass of Water
              after waking up -
             🕕⛅ helps to
              activate internal
              organs..

       2⃣  1 Glass of Water
              30 Minutes  🕧
              before a Meal -
              helps digestion..

       3⃣ 1 Glass of Water
              before taking a
              bath 🚿 - helps
              lower your blood
              pressure.

       4⃣ 1 Glass of Water
              before going to
              Bed - 🕙 avoids
              Stroke  or Heart
              Attack.

Pendeta Za'Ba tokoh cendiakawan Melayu

Petikan tulisan Za'Ba

“Maka hanyalah pada zaman-zaman yang akhir semenjak beberapa ratus tahun yang lalu ini sahaja orang-orang alim Islam hampir-hampir semuanya di serata dunia tidak lagi mempunyai semangat kesendirian kebolehan dan kelayakan untuk berbuat seperti pelopor-pelopor mereka yang dahulu kala itu. Ya, jika dicari sangat sedikit boleh didapati yang tahu dan boleh bersendiri, atau berani bersendiri; melainkan di mana-mana pun akan didapati mereka itu hanya biasa tertaklid sahaja dan kebanyakan daripada itu pula ialah bertaklid buta! Malangnya jika ada siapa-siapa yang mencuba berbuat seperti pakar-pakar Islam dahulu kala itu – iaitu melepaskan diri daripada kongkong taklid dan balik kepada Quran dan Hadis dengan kehendak-kehendak zaman dan hal-hal keadaan yang telah berubah sekarang – maka terus dilempar mereka akan dia dengan kata-kata yang tidak selayaknya seperti “sesat dan menyesatkan, memandai-mandai, membawa bidaah, mengubah-ngubah daripada jalan yang telah diatur oleh pakar-pakar dahulu kala itu (nenek moyang), tidak ada rupa hendak melebih daripada orang dahulu-dahulu” dan berbagai-bagai lagi. Yang betulnya duduklah juga membeku di tempat yang ada itu!! Mungkin juga kerana mereka sendiri tiada upaya membuatnya maka mereka tiada suka kalau ada orang lain pula dapat berbuat”.( Za’ba, Perangai Bergantung Kepada Diri Sendiri, m.s 33, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka 2005)

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List of brands need to dump if you want to boycott israel

Nestle

The Swiss multinational has a good share of controversies and criticism surrounding its big brand name. For Pro-Palestinians activists one of the main problems they had with the food and beverage company was the fact that it bought 51% shares in Osem investments in the mid 90′s. Osem Investments is an Israel based company that is directly engaged in the production and distribution of food products in Israel and abroad.
Moreover in 1998, Peter Brabeck – the former CEO of Nestle received the Jubilee Award (the highest tribute offered by the state of Israel) in recognition of his company’s efforts to support the state of Israel.

 Coca-Cola

The largest soft drinks manufacturer in the world that houses numerous carbonated drinks under its umbrella, including Sprite, Fanta and Schweppes amongst many others has been surrounded by many controversies over its supposed support of Israel. Amongst them include the fact that its Israeli subsidiary – Coca-Cola Israel owns dairy farms on occupied Israeli settlements of Shadmot Mechola in the Jordan Valley and a plant in the industrial zone of Katzerin on the occupied Golan Heights.
Back in the year 2009 the company hosted a special reception at the Coca-Cola world headquarters to honor Brigadier-General Ben-Eliezer. Eliezer is claimed by Pro-Palestinian groups to be a war criminal, during the Six-Day War his unit was responsible for the execution of over 300 Egyptian POWs. Under Sharon, Ben-Eliezer served as the Defense Minister presiding over the massacre at Jenin.

 McDonald’s

The largest fast food chain in the world has long been targeted by Pro-Palestinian groups for its longtime partnership with the Jewish United Fund. Through its Israel Commission, the Jewish United Fund “works to maintain American military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel; monitors and, when necessary, responds to media coverage of Israel”

 Starbucks

The close relationship of this brand with the state of Israel has been doing the rounds for quite sometime. They escalated when Howard Schultz an active Zionist – the founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks was honored by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah with “The Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award” for his services to the Zionist state in “playing a key role in promoting close alliance between the United States and Israel”.
Starbucks proudly displayed the award on the company’s website under the section of ‘awards and accolades’ that the coffee giant has won, however, once the boycott started to bite, the award mysteriously disappeared from its website.

Danone

Close to 2 decades ago Danone opened its R&D facility in Israel – the Danone Institute. Not that surprisingly enough the French company also owns a 20% share of Israel’s second largest food company, the Strauss Group.

Volvo

The automobile giant has been criticized by BDS campaigners for supplying equipment to bulldoze Palestinian homes. Interestingly enough, the Swedish automobile manufacturer also holds a 27% stake in Merkavim, whose buses are used to transport Palestinian prisoners to and from Israeli prisons.

Intel

Intel operates plants in Kiriyat Gat, site of the former Palestinian villages of Iraq al-Manshiya and Faluja. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris it was in the 1948-49 war that the residents of these villages were expelled, in line with Israel’s strategic plans.
Intel, whose processors can be found in most of the world’s computers, has reportedly invested $2.7 billion to upgrade its Kiryat Gat plants where it is working on new chips that will make computers lighter and faster. That brings its total investments in Israel to about $10 billion, plus it has also benefited by more than $1 billion in the form of Israeli government grants.

Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard’s slogan is “If you’re going to do something, make it matter.” For Palestinians it definitely matters a lot. The tech giant owns EDS Israel, which supplies the computer systems for Israeli Defense Forces and produces hi-tech equipment like the Basel System, a biometric permit system that controls the movement of Palestinian workers through checkpoints in Gaza and the West Bank.
HP equipment is also used by Israeli prisons and the army. If that is not enough the company has also invested in the technological development of illegal settlements, taking part in the Smart City Project in the town of Ariel.

Motorola

BDS supporters have targeted telecommunications giant Motorola for providing surveillance equipment around Israeli settlements, along the Israeli-built separation barrier and along the Israel-Gaza border. In addition to that, the American multinational has signed a $100 million deal this year with Israel for encrypted smartphones for its soldiers and security personnel.

Estee Lauder

The American Conglomerate, home to big brands such DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, M.A.C, Clinique amongst many others has been targeted by BDS activists due to the pro-Israeli activities of its chairman, Ronald Lauder. Lauder is also the current president of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) – a quasi-governmental agency whose main function is to legitimize Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. In fact an American based group led a boycott in the country with their “Estée Slaughter” campaign.

Marks and Spencer

Since its beginning M&S has been linked inextricably to Zionism.  A book on M&S by Lord Marcus Sieff – long time Chairman of M&S – in it he cited that one of the fundamental objectives of M&S is to aid the economic development of Israel (Management: The Marks & Spencer Way, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1990). As per an article in the Jerusalem Report dated 5/6/2000 M&S supports Israel with approximately $233 million in trade every year.

Furthermore in 1998 Sir Richard Greenbury the CEO of Marks & Spencer, received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the “State of Israel” in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.

     
    
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Show at Penang..??

Funny photo for show they call "Penang Nude Sports Games 2014". How they're thinking to participate in such event to call "sports" . Sometime naturalist go naked..

MH17 Crash

Melayu selesa bakal binasakan mereka

Beberapa hari lepas, semasa ward round di wad pembedahan, saya dan doktor-doktor pakar mendapat penjelasan daripada rakan sekerja mengenai seorang pesakit.

Pesakit ini seorang pemuda Melayu berumur 29 tahun. Beliau dirawat kerana leher yang bengkak terkena jangkitan kuman. Ini terjadi akibat leher disuntik sendiri dengan jarum yang tidak disteril. Pemuda Melayu ini seorang nelayan dan juga penagih dadah.
Daripada pemeriksaan yang dilakukan, kami dapati beliau menyuntik dadah jenis heroin dengan begitu kerap sehingga urat-urat di lengan, ketiak, celah kangkang dan leher menjadi keras dan berparut. Masalah di leher pula terjadi apabila pemuda ini tersalah suntik mengunakan jarum yang tidak bersih dan sudah digunakan.
Akibatnya bahagian leher merah, bengkak dan bernanah. Beberapa hari selepas itu pemuda ini mendapat demam tinggi dan terpaksa ke hospital untuk mendapatkan rawatan.
Antara respons kecewa doktor pakar apabila mendengar penjelasan mengenai pesakit ini adalah,, “Why don’t he just die?”.
Walaupun respons beliau agak keras, namun dengan bersangka baik, saya berpendapat mungkin jika pesakit juga berbangsa Cina, kekecewaan yang sama akan ditunjukkan oleh pakar ini terhadap pesakit.
Saya memilih untuk tidak memberi ruang emosi terhadap sentimen pakar tadi walaupun secara personal, ia bukanlah suatu yang patut ditiru dan tidak etika untuk dibuat.
Namun jauh di sudut hati saya sebenarnya lebih memikirkan kekecewaan saya terhadap apa yang menimpa pemuda Melayu ini.
Di manakah silapnya hingga semua ini boleh terjadi?
Di manakah silapnya sehingga pemuda Melayu ini, dan juga ribuan lagi pemuda menagih air ketum, penagih dadah, seks bebas, tersepit hutang along, tidak berpendidikan, mat rempit, dan lain-lain boleh terjadi pada mereka di Malayisa yang cukup bertuah ini?
Di manakah pembela bangsa, ibu bapa yang mendidik, guru-guru terlatih yang mengajar, nilai ajaran murni Islam oleh ustaz dan peranan masyarakat yang prihatin?
Tidakkah sistem pendidikan kita sudah cukup baik? Tidakkah semangat yang kita berikan dari semasa dan semasa melalui lagu patriotik, cerita teladan, motivasi, memadai? Tidakkah terdapat pelbagai bantuan ekonomi dan segala macam yang lain oleh Kerajaan yang sedia membantu? Di manakah silapnya?
Sedar tak sedar dalam keselesaan yang kita capai pada hari ini, jika kita mahu menoleh ke belakang, menilai realiti statistik mengenai pencapaian bangsa kita, masih banyak lagi yang sebenarnya perlu kita lakukan untuk bangsa ini.
Pemimpin politik harus berhenti bercakap mengenai angka memenangi pilihanraya sahaja. Ia buat kita lupa tentang asas juang yang sebenar. Politik bukan saja wajib menang undi tetapi kita istimewa berbanding yang lain kerana perjuangan tersebut.
Hari ini kita kekurangan pemimpin bangsa terutama di peringkat bawahan yang seharusnya menjadi unit penting dalam perjuangan memperelokkan bangsa Melayu. Mereka yang memimpin di peringkat cawangan kebanyakan merupakan kaki ampu, kaki bodek, hanya minat untuk politik diri, atau untuk dapat elaun khas dan projek-projek tertentu.
Dulu Umno satukan orang Melayu untuk tolak Malayan Union, tolak beri tanah air ini pada British, tolak buka warganegara pada semua. Kita berjaya.
Dulu Umno juangkan kemerdekaan untuk Tanah Melayu, perjuangkan bangsa kita yang miskin daif supaya dapat tempat dalam politik dan kepimpinan tanah air. Alhamdulillah Tanah Melayu merdeka, kemudian negara Malaysia, tanah air bagi pelbagai bangsa terbentuk, orang Melayu terus tadbir semua orang dengan saksama.
Dulu Umno berjuang untuk kurangkan jurang ekonomi bangsa Melayu dengan bangsa lain kerana khuatir kita terus tertinggal. Orang Melayu daif, miskin dan tidak sekolah. Sejak 1970, pemimpin Umno memperkenalkan Dasar Ekonomi khas, bantuan pendidikan khas dan lain-lain. Alhamdulillah bangsa kita daripada yang boleh membaca hanya 5%, hari ini tinggal 5% yang tak boleh membaca. Rakyat yang senang-senang berharta pun ramai di mana-mana.
Tapi sejak Umno stabil, kuat, selesa, nampaknya perjuangan Melayu ini tergendala. Ramai yang terlalu ingin berada dalam Umno demi kuasa, jawatan dan nikmat, tetapi lupa tentang kerja perjuangan yang masih perlu dilakukan.
Sejak dari itu perjuangan kita terbantut. Majoriti yang kaya kekal kaya, yang miskin kekal miskin. Orang-orang yang miskin, daif di luar bandar pula semakin hari semakin selesa dengan apa yang mereka ada, dan tidak berusaha untuk mendapat lebih.
Sikap ini berbeza dari rakan-rakan kita dari bangsa lain. Mereka tidak putus untuk berusaha bagi mendapat sesuatu lebih dari yang lain, usaha dan kerja keras untuk menjadi lebih selesa, menjadi lebih senang dan lebih kaya.
Yang tua tak putus ingatkan yang muda tentang ancaman jika mereka miskin, tak berpendidikan, tak ada duit dan tak putus beri semangat untuk sentiasa berusaha lebih.
Orang kita pula menasihatkan orang ramai untuk berasa cukup dengan apa yang ada, kadangkala menggunakan alasan supaya selalu bersyukur dengan nikmat yang ada dan ramai juga yang suka bersikap “tak apa”.
Sejak itu, kita kekal dimana kita ada dan keselesaan ini sedikit demi sedikit menjadi punca kita berada dibelakang dan tak lama lagi bakal membinasakan kita.
Ingatlah perjuangan kita masih belum selesai.

sumber - Dr Rizal Abd Rahman

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Narrative Essay

 Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts

There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it's rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that, sort of.

Rest is a luxury for the rich. I get up at 6AM, go to school (I have a full course load, but I only have to go to two in-person classes) then work, then I get the kids, then I pick up my husband, then I have half an hour to change and go to Job 2. I get home from that at around 1230AM, then I have the rest of my classes and work to tend to. I'm in bed by 3. This isn't every day, I have two days off a week from each of my obligations. I use that time to clean the house and soothe Mr. Martini and see the kids for longer than an hour and catch up on schoolwork. Those nights I'm in bed by midnight, but if I go to bed too early I won't be able to stay up the other nights because I'll fuck my pattern up, and I drive an hour home from Job 2 so I can't afford to be sleepy. I never get a day off from work unless I am fairly sick. It doesn't leave you much room to think about what you are doing, only to attend to the next thing and the next. Planning isn't in the mix.

When I was pregnant the first time, I was living in a weekly motel for some time. I had a mini fridge with no freezer and a microwave. I was on WIC. I ate peanut butter from the jar and frozen burritos because they were 12/$2. Had I had a stove, I couldn't have made beef burritos that cheaply. And I needed the meat, I was pregnant. I might not have had any prenatal care, but I am intelligent enough to eat protein and iron whilst knocked up.

I know how to cook. I had to take Home Ec to graduate high school. Most people on my level didn't. Broccoli is intimidating. You have to have a working stove, and pots, and spices, and you'll have to do the dishes no matter how tired you are or they'll attract bugs. It is a huge new skill for a lot of people. That's not great, but it's true. And if you fuck it up, you could make your family sick. We have learned not to try too hard to be middle-class. It never works out well and always makes you feel worse for having tried and failed yet again. Better not to try. It makes more sense to get food that you know will be palatable and cheap and that keeps well. Junk food is a pleasure that we are allowed to have; why would we give that up? We have very few of them.

The closest Planned Parenthood to me is three hours. That's a lot of money in gas. Lots of women can't afford that, and even if you live near one you probably don't want to be seen coming in and out in a lot of areas. We're aware that we are not "having kids," we're "breeding." We have kids for much the same reasons that I imagine rich people do. Urge to propagate and all. Nobody likes poor people procreating, but they judge abortion even harder.

Convenience food is just that. And we are not allowed many conveniences. Especially since the Patriot Act passed, it's hard to get a bank account. But without one, you spend a lot of time figuring out where to cash a check and get money orders to pay bills. Most motels now have a no-credit-card-no-room policy. I wandered around SF for five hours in the rain once with nearly a thousand dollars on me and could not rent a room even if I gave them a $500 cash deposit and surrendered my cell phone to the desk to hold as surety.

Nobody gives enough thought to depression. You have to understand that we know that we will never not feel tired. We will never feel hopeful. We will never get a vacation. Ever. We know that the very act of being poor guarantees that we will never not be poor. It doesn't give us much reason to improve ourselves. We don't apply for jobs because we know we can't afford to look nice enough to hold them. I would make a super legal secretary, but I've been turned down more than once because I "don't fit the image of the firm," which is a nice way of saying "gtfo, pov." I am good enough to cook the food, hidden away in the kitchen, but my boss won't make me a server because I don't "fit the corporate image." I am not beautiful. I have missing teeth and skin that looks like it will when you live on b12 and coffee and nicotine and no sleep. Beauty is a thing you get when you can afford it, and that's how you get the job that you need in order to be beautiful. There isn't much point trying.

Cooking attracts roaches. Nobody realizes that. I've spent a lot of hours impaling roach bodies and leaving them out on toothpick pikes to discourage others from entering. It doesn't work, but is amusing.

"Free" only exists for rich people. It's great that there's a bowl of condoms at my school, but most poor people will never set foot on a college campus. We don't belong there. There's a clinic? Great! There's still a copay. We're not going. Besides, all they'll tell you at the clinic is that you need to see a specialist, which seriously? Might as well be located on Mars for how accessible it is. "Low-cost" and "sliding scale" sounds like "money you have to spend" to me, and they can't actually help you anyway.

I smoke. It's expensive. It's also the best option. You see, I am always, always exhausted. It's a stimulant. When I am too tired to walk one more step, I can smoke and go for another hour. When I am enraged and beaten down and incapable of accomplishing one more thing, I can smoke and I feel a little better, just for a minute. It is the only relaxation I am allowed. It is not a good decision, but it is the only one that I have access to. It is the only thing I have found that keeps me from collapsing or exploding.

I make a lot of poor financial decisions. None of them matter, in the long term. I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don't pay a thing and a half this week instead of just one thing? It's not like the sacrifice will result in improved circumstances; the thing holding me back isn't that I blow five bucks at Wendy's. It's that now that I have proven that I am a Poor Person that is all that I am or ever will be. It is not worth it to me to live a bleak life devoid of small pleasures so that one day I can make a single large purchase. I will never have large pleasures to hold on to. There's a certain pull to live what bits of life you can while there's money in your pocket, because no matter how responsible you are you will be broke in three days anyway. When you never have enough money it ceases to have meaning. I imagine having a lot of it is the same thing.

Poverty is bleak and cuts off your long-term brain. It's why you see people with four different baby daddies instead of one. You grab a bit of connection wherever you can to survive. You have no idea how strong the pull to feel worthwhile is. It's more basic than food. You go to these people who make you feel lovely for an hour that one time, and that's all you get. You're probably not compatible with them for anything long-term, but right this minute they can make you feel powerful and valuable. It does not matter what will happen in a month. Whatever happens in a month is probably going to be just about as indifferent as whatever happened today or last week. None of it matters. We don't plan long-term because if we do we'll just get our hearts broken. It's best not to hope. You just take what you can get as you spot it.

I am not asking for sympathy. I am just trying to explain, on a human level, how it is that people make what look from the outside like awful decisions. This is what our lives are like, and here are our defense mechanisms, and here is why we think differently. It's certainly self-defeating, but it's safer. That's all. I hope it helps make sense of it.

-by killermartinis

FAKTA: Rahsia pemakanan ilmuwan Islam

• 1) Madu - Madu adalah makanan yang sangat berkhasiat. Al-Quran mengiktiraf ia ‘shifa’ iaitu penyembuh penyakit. Madu didapati berkesan untuk merawati penyakit dan boleh menghindarkan kepenatan kerja otak seperti berfikir, membaca, merancang dan bermesyuarat. Ia perlu diambil dua sudu teh (gunakan sudu plastik) pada waktu pagi dan malam.
• 2) Kismis - Mengandungi zat besi yang amat diperlukan untuk membina darah bagi memastikan bekalan oksigen yang mencukupi untuk disalurkan ke otak. Adab memakannya ialah dengan mengadap Kiblat, membaca Bismillah dan selawat tiga kali diikuti doa penerang hati. Ia perlu dimakan seperti memakan gula-gula kerana dikatakan tidak berkesan jika dikunyah dan diambil satu persatu sebanyak 21 biji setiap hari.
• 3) Susu segar - Susu berguna untuk kesihatan otak, mempertajamkan ingatan, membekalkan tenaga mental dan fizikal. Susu mengandungi tiga unsur semula jadi iaitu keju, lemak dan air yang amat diperlukan untuk pertumbuhan badan dan otak. Susu yang terbaik untuk ketajaman minda ialah susu kambing, biri - biri dan lembu yang segar. Ia diminum segelas pada sebelah pagi dan malam.
• 4) Telur - Bermanfaat untuk menambah kekuatan otak, badan dan menjaga kesihatan keseluruhannya. Ahli - ahli kesihatan mengakui ia adalah makanan yang lengkap dan berkhasiat. Telur yang terbaik ialah telur ayam kampung dan yang masih baru.
• 5) Halia - Ia sangat mujarab untuk menghindar masalah lupa. Ia boleh dimakan mentah atau dibuat halwa. Halwa ialah halia yang dijadikan Dimakan sedikit saja pada waktu pagi.
• 6) Buah Delima - Mujarab untuk penerang hati seperti sabda Nabi Muhammad SAW: “Sesiapa yang memakan buah delima keseluruhannya, sesungguhnya Allah menerangkan hatinya selama 40 hari.”

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How To Speak & Sound More Confident

Own the room and make your presence felt with a few tricks here and there.

It is a verbal faux-pas that researchers say women are always guilty of. The term 'uptalk' refers to that rising, questioning tone that many people used at the end of a sentence, think of how when you say, "You know?". This actually makes our statements sound like questions and comes across as uncertainty. Women are more likely to use up talk compared to men, even when we're sure of ourselves.

The way we speak has an impact to how we are looked at. Sounding confident can work to your advantage in many business or social situations. This is especially crucial when you want to be taken seriously or be a go-getter. While many suggest that we can fake it till we believe it, here are some sound tips you can follow to help you speak with conviction.


Use that record button

Make use of your smartphone to record yourself when you're giving a presentation or expected to speak in a meeting. Play it back to yourself at the end of the day when you're alone to identify any speech patterns you may need to work on.


Mirror a pro

Young women tend to use up talk more frequently than those from older generation. Thus, the best lesson you can get is to watch a seasoned colleague in action as she presents her proposal, or get inspiration from a TED talk speaker. Focus on how their tone of voice makes them sound more authoritative and then mimic that until you master it.


Change your mindset

  Up talk happens when we're insecure or nervous and this may make us appear clueless. In a social setting, it is OK to admit that you don't know everything but in a business meeting, you need to go in with the mindset that you know what you're talking about. Address the insecurity, build your confidence and believe in yourself.


Short and succinct 

Sometimes you don't really need to give a speech when a comment is enough. We feel pressured to construct elaborate response when the spotlight is suddenly on us. If you've been tuning in and out of a discussion or generally just unsure of yourself, just say something short and to the point like, "That's interesting, I think that could work". You can then turn the attention to the next person.


Don't lose steam

Experts say that the most important information in a sentence is at the end, but that's also where we tend to drop off. Try not to bring your voice down when coming to the end of a sentence and don't bring it up higher too. Practice maintaining your enthusiasm all the way to the end. The subtle difference will keep listeners engaged.


Mind the gestures

We are an expressive lot but body language can either help or hurt you. Avoid unnecessary hand-talking and beware of leaning in, this is what many people do when they're nervously trying to get a point across. Your gestures should act like a punctuation for the sentence and a consistent gaze (not stare) shows confidence.


Speak your passion

Humans naturally sound more confident when talking about the things we're interested in. So find a way to loop in an expressive anecdote or a personal encounter. This topic of familiarity will help to calm the nerves too. When you get bored of the topic at hand, that's when you start to wander and sound unsure as well as insecure.

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