MOM-IN-CHIEF: MICHELLE OBAMA

“She is the perfect blend of being a perfect mother as well as perfect worker”. Michelle Obama is titled as the “First lady of Fashion” by ABC News, as she is always highlighted in terms of her costumes, there is much more beyond her shoes and bags to get highlighted. She essays a role of a perfect model for today’s generation of mothers to balance work as well as family. As she admits too, she even faces issues to make tough choices between work and family. Focusing on her self titled role of being a mom-in-chief, she seems to be a woman who knows and understands her priorities exactly. It takes a tremendous amount of zeal as well as self-confidence to admit family comes first, when one decides to down shift her career.
Nowadays, in spite of the risk involved in being a working mother, many women do continue with the mommy track. Infact, Michelle Obama choosing to do the same on a public platform shall inspire the mothers today to value their decision. The author Jamie Wolf of the book titled Mom-in-chief: How Wisdom from the workplace Can Save Your Family from Chaos, that is inspired from the life of Michelle Obama simply concentrates on the fact that Michelle being a mother means being a leader, an attribute that mothers often overlook in their parenting cycle. She directly connects to the notion of leadership beyond the walls of corporate suites.
Therefore, with her Ivy League credentials and professional accomplishments, she drives home the point that old school feminist notion of being everything to the people in her life.

8 RULES TO BE FOLLOWED BY BLACKBERRY OWNERS

Nowadays, it’s quite common to be glued to your cell phone, and if it’s a Blackberry then surely one cannot resist it. But as we know, “Excess of anything is harmful for us.” If your life being in wireless zone further lowering down your libido is bothering you, you must follow these 8 mentioned rules to give a full stop to your excessive usage of your Blackberry:-

One shall not carry his Blackberry to the table with food. One shall learn to have his food peacefully, without any distraction.

If you are feeling insomniac, you need to relax your mind by listening soft music. Treating your blackberry as your reading material won’t ever help you. Instead, it will worsen the situation.

Be participative enough in your household conversations, and don’t use your blackberry in lieu of responding to your family member’s request/question.

Don’t be too regular in keeping yourself updated about the various features your BB possesses, especially when you are at home.

Place your Blackberry at a distant place where its beep shall not disturb the other members of your family after each second.

Keep the usage of your Blackberry minimal at your home, and don’t let the number of calls and e-mails hamper your worth in any means.

One shall possibly refrain from carrying your blackberry to events involving family interactions. Extraneous dialogue with this contraption in lieu of real conversation suggests your addiction towards the Blackberry.

Don’t dare to bring the blackberry to your bed. If you do this, you are black buried for sure :P

Hope the mentioned points guide you in the apt direction and help you gain a good image in your family.

UTILIZE YOUR TIME, ONLINE

Online Movie Download, Video buffering etc can fetch you plenty of spare time for surfing the internet. Thus, you end up wasting the concerned time viewing the already seen photos of your friends on Facebook, or viewing your profile again and again. Browsing online in between phone calls or during a lull in an instant messaging conversation is quite common among us and there is no productive outcome from the same. Here are some ways you can utilize your spare time on Internet:-

1) Write feeds for your Blog
Blog writing that too related to your own field can be quite productive in its own way. These might be work of enthusiasts, practitioners or academics. If you are not used to write a blog, you shall get started with it. You can subscribe to the content from many regularly updated sites like blogs.

2) Track your Bank Balance
If you have an access to online banking, then make sure you keep a regular check on your account. It will not only ensure you about your accumulated funds, but also help you make calculations for further expenses. It will surely remind you of many surprises, both good as well as bad in nature like unnecessary expenses or primetime savings.

3) Extra Money
Wasting time in splurging the unnecessary sites and profiles, you can always utilize the same time to earn some extra income for yourself. Visit some sites like Mechanical Turk and you will find all sorts of job available for you. It surely pays quite less, but at least it fetches you something rather than wasting your time in carrying out the useless activities.

4) Weather Forecasting
If you reside in an area, where the weather fluctuates rapidly, then it’s always worth to have a check on the weather over there. This will surely inform you about when you should carry an umbrella which may rescue you from a sudden downpour at any time.

5) Educate yourself about the Discounts
If you just love shopping or even dining out frequently, checking the various discount deals laid down by Shops and restaurants is totally worth the effort. With just a couple of minutes browsing and getting a printed voucher, can make you save your hard earned money through various discounts going on all over.
Hope the mentioned points help you to utilize your time affectively further.

APPLICATION TO HELP WOMEN TO RETAIN THEIR BEAUTY

It is correctly stated that “Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished”. Women are so naive and delicate that they want care for themselves. But today’s women are modernized in their own ways. Cell phones act as their main device to manage their tasks and manage calendars, find the appropriate conveyance, stay entertained and so on. Smartphone Applications help women to stay beautiful too by the following applications:-

Sephora: (Its free for iPhone) this application mainly helps women being updated about the new products in the market and gives detailed information about them. It helps them to create shopping lists and even place orders for the same. The application helps the user to link with the beauty insider account to provide detailed history about the concerned product.

OPI Virtual Polish: (It’s free for iPhone) It helps the user to apply various shades of different cosmetics and choose the one which suits the user best. The application allows women to opt for the best shade of polish with respect to their skin tone. One can also store the list for an immediate use.

Lookz: (It’s free for Blackberry and Android) this mainly helps women to learn the rules and information about the application of make-up on themselves. It helps the user learn various kinds of make up in accordance to the theme like Goth, Clubbing, and Celebrity etc.

Sunblock: ($1.99 for iPhone) It’s quite an interesting application that calculates the UV level at your location, using its GPS data. It recommends you the best sunblock further, based on the measured UV level. It also tells the user the exact SPF to apply that is required in the concerned climatic condition of the place.

Hair Cast: (It’s free for Android) It mainly helps the user to opt for the best styling for your hair with respect to the weather of the concerned location. This application also uses its GPS data to forecast about the effect of weather on your hair.

HOW TO RETAIN YOUR GADGET’S VALUE

Whether we like it or not, every gadget has occupied a major position in our lives. They were invented to make our lives much simpler and better for us, but it is an undeniable fact that many of the gadgets have the negative influence on the quality of our lives. In other words, we are “slaves” of our gadgets indirectly. So it’s quite necessary to define the characters in our relationship with our gadgets i.e. we shall act as the masters and our gadgets shall be treated as slaves. Here are some ways to clear the concerned characters appropriately:-

LIMIT YOUR AVAILIBILITY - This is applicable on all the electronic devices which are a part of communication by some means. If you are always available for your mates, you are ending up setting a precedent for yourself. Availability shall not be exceeded to the off-hours too, that may create an expectation of the same for every moment. You shouldn’t show your obligation to answer any person’s call.

CUSTOMIZE YOR ALERTS – Concentrate your availability on the special and prior people in your life. It will surely limit your every-five-minutes-phone-checking. It will surely act as a great help for you during your work and related meetings.

MAKE PERFECT USE OF THE REMINDER FEATURE – Setting alarm bells or various other sounds to order you and help you remember the important activities and events in your daily routine, is really helpful. This is not an action of being a slave, but you direct your gadget to do so.

MAKE AMPLE USE OF THE CONNECTIVITY – Ease up your availability to your close ones by the use of instant messenger and texting. It can for sure derail the most productive amongst all of your closed ones. It helps you to get in direct connect of the needed actions.

MULTIPLE USAGE – It is surely the best option to multiply the use of your gadgets. Various applications can be used in various manners. Make sure to keep yourself updated about every interesting thing you come across, and keep sending a running email to yourself and preserve the concerned lists.

AN APPLICATION TO DECREASE YOUR STRESS

If you wish that your therapist shall accompany you everywhere, without faring you much! Well, this can be easily possible without the tag of all supervised navel gazing by “MOBILE THERAPY” as addressed by the psychologists. It can easily help you manage your mood swings. It is mainly a cell phone application to help patients to manage their stress levels effectively.

After you have the concerned application in your phone, it randomly pops out a mood map. The concerned person needs to drag the button according to his/her mood like if His mood is not that good, then he needs to drag the little red dot around the screen to indicate their mood. As a result, the application offers therapeutic exercises. It mainly includes assisted breathing visualizations etc. Using such mobile therapy application the concerned people are able to aware themselves about their overall emotional patterns.

Similar applications are being worked upon to treat addictions and phobias. Researchers and technology specialist are working hard to zero in these kinds of applications to help people know about themselves in detail. Hope they get much more incredible ideas materialized soon.

POST EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY- TEXT MESSAGE

Technology has become an integral part of our life. We have all kinds of gadgets surrounding us everywhere, be it our workplace or our home. But the main question that arises in my mind is that weather the technology is shifting our societal norms! We are so much dependent on technology that we don’t know exactly how to function in a world void of it. Here are 5 simple text messages used by women who surely affect the other person favorably, or unfavorably:-

1) Texting in between a conversation
Women are mostly quite particular that they don’t miss even a single call, text or an email. That may be in between of cooking, taking bath, sleeping or even at the time of quarrel with her boyfriend. They just want to make sure that they are available on their phone 24x7. Nothing is more annoying than not having the attention of the person you are with. It surely hampers your relation adversely.

2) On phone while driving
Women are most likely found busy on their cell phones, when they are driving. They find the driving time most appropriate to carry out their long gossips and bitching sessions. This is the most distracting activity carried out while driving. As a result it’s a known fact, that if your eyes are not on the road then you are a reckless driver. Therefore, women are tagged as “bad drivers”.

3) Updating on FB and Twitter
Facebook and Twitter have expanded their definition in our lives with respect to time and importance .Over-sharing is the most common activity on Facebook, especially by women. It can not only affect your daily routine but also can hamper your availability to your closed ones.

4) Making unnecessary short forms
Nowadays, it seems like our general language is being converted into phonetic spellings and language of quick communicators. It really makes the decoding part for the other person a bit difficult. Texting your regular friends would surely understand your random acronyms, but your family, co-workers or heaven forbid, your boss receives your text in such language, it may surely cause a problem.

5) Using Text message as a savior
You always tend to get late for a meeting with any person. It may be useful for you to make the excuse of delivering a message about being late, but surely it won’t help in case of your boss. So be sure that you take care of the excuses, where you are using them.