5 Powerful Ways To Express Your Ideas And Opinions Clearly

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Are you fed up with struggling to express your thoughts and opinions? These days, people want to talk and not listen! No one wants to be a shadow in the crowd. Having your thoughts and opinions heard is a priority.

The very achievement of being able to express yourself, and more importantly, be listened to is an extremely rewarding feeling. Just how can you express your ideas and opinions clearly and maintain that you are being listened to?

Below are some strategies that will help you to voice your opinions and ideas:

1) Know what your aim is

Make sure that before attempting to open your mouth and the words begin to flow that your 100% clear on the ideas that need to be expressed. Knowing where you want to go with the conversation will help to give you that extra confidence boost.

When your audience can see that you are confident then they will more alert and want to listen.

2) Ignore the definition of perfection

Just sit and ask yourself, exactly what is perfect? Is there anyone out there that is 100% perfect? The fact is that we are only human and not one of us is without flaw. A small error is acceptable; there's no need to be stringent to the point that you begin to struggle voicing your opinion! As long as you know the topic of importance, a simple error can be overlooked.

3) Keep it basic

Think about why you sometimes shut off when someone is voicing their opinion; remember your days at school and college with teachers lecturing in front of the class. Being lectured is boring!

There really is no need to use big words. The simple facts voiced in an exciting manner will be more than enough to keep the audience tuned in. It's extremely annoying to have someone chatting away for 30 minutes when the conversation could have been kept basic and ended in half the time.

Stay on the straight and narrow; turning left and right really is not going to turn into a success story. Don';t make the listeners fall asleep!

4) Pretend that you are alone

One of the major fears of having to express your opinion in front of a crowd is how you will be perceived by the audience. Can you really afford to let negativity like this get in the way?!

Picture that you are alone and voicing your opinion to yourself! Your nerves will remain calm and allow you to remain focused on the topic that you need to address.

5) Revise before you talk

Simple revision of your conversation will help you take it to the next level. The fact that you are confident and know what you are talking about will help significantly.

When people that you're talking to know that you certain on what you're expressing, they will have faith in you. Think about possible questions that might arise from your topic of conversation and have the answers readily prepared in your head.

Learning to voice your thoughts and opinions really is a simple process. We are all human and each of us has worries and fears. Talking should be fun, not a drag; you should have confidence in yourself. Just let the words flow.

By reading the above tips and putting them into practice you will be able to become a lot more confident and expressing your thoughts and opinions will become a piece of cake!

5 grossest edible food

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There are numerous kinds of food all over the world. Most of these may be influenced by the culture of a certain country. In this light, it is quite obvious that there are foods in some countries that may just not be acceptable for people in other countries because of the difference in cultures. The list below shows a few of the grossest foods actually served and eaten by people in different countries:

1. Cow Testicles In some parts in the States, there are some restaurants that serve Calf Fries served with marinara sauce. It may sound like just any other ordinary food. When one sees it, it even looks like fried breaded mushrooms. But this is just another name for fried cow testicles! According to people who have already tasted this, it was not really so bad but had a slight taste of sweat. It was soft and kind of spongy.

2. Monkeys Brain In China and in a few other countries, restaurants actually serve monkeys brain as food! There are even some that would have a hole in the center of the table where the live monkey is placed and is paralyzed. The body of the monkey will be under the table, while the head is the one that protrudes on top of the center of the table. And when the top of its skull is cut with a knife, it will then serve as a bowl where the people dining will be getting the monkey brain from.

3. Squid Ink Ice Cream Everybody would surely know that there are tons of different flavors of ice cream. But in Japan, there is such thing as Squid Ink ice cream! As the name connotes, this ice cream flavor is made out of squid ink. So naturally, the color of this ice cream would be the same color of a squid ink, which is black.

4. Baby Mouse Wine In China, and some parts of Korea, they have wine that is infused with baby mice! This is prepared by placing about two to three day old mice into a bottle of rice wine and leaving it there to stew for at least a year. Some people use this as an alternative medicine.

5. Centipede Whisky Just like the Baby Mouse Wine in China, the Vietnamese have the Centipede Whisky. Both are similar in the sense that there are living creatures actually submerged into the alcoholic beverage. But in this case, a centipede is used.

Everyone is already familiar by now that there are just people who eat the weirdest of things, which people who were raised in different cultures would find really gross. But there are still a few who, instead of calling it gross, would see it as exotic food, and would love them! So, it would probably be safe to say that whether the food is gross or not, as long as it is really edible, then it is still food. And there are more grosser things than these dishes, such as politics, in these lifetime. Heck, some people would even eat insects and have found ways of incorporating them in recipes (an example of calling this smoothly, is the Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies)!

5 Games For A 65th Birthday

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There is truly no reason why a 65th birthday celebration must be subtle or demure. To be able to spice things up and liven the atmosphere for a 65th birthday celebration, here are several game ideas which will intrigue your guests, both old and young.

Ice breakers

The majority of 65th birthday party ideas get started with an ice breaker to have the guests warmed up. This is especially valuable if your guest list contains individuals who aren't really familiar with each other. The choice of ice breaker is quite much reliant on the personalities of your guests. There are lots to select, from simple get to know each other quizzes to games that will be more challenging. One such game requires giving every visitor a necklace or lei and making the objective of the game to collect as many necklaces as possible. In order to do this, everyone has to go around requesting each other questions to which the response is "no." An example of this type of question will be " Do you teach elementary school?" to which the individual is pressured to say "no." This is an excellent game for individuals to indicate how much they find out about each other.

Scavenger hunts

Treasure hunts and also scavenger hunts are usually enjoyable. To do this, you'll need to separate individuals into groups and give each a list of things that they should collect. You could include a fun twist by including bonus things in the list or rare items. Setting up a time limit to the game will be even more difficult and motivate individuals to work better in groups.

Trivia

The easiest method to understand how much someone knows about something or someone is to have a trivia quiz. You could perform this on an individual basis, or separate individuals into groups before requesting them to answer a set of questions about the bday guy. This can include questions including how she or he met his or her partner, or a story about some humorous, sentimental or special moment. Just remember that the more innovative your questions, the more fun individuals are going to have.

Children's games

At times mom and dad need to bring along their children for the party and in order to make sure they're entertained, as the host it is a great way to come up with games for them. Examples of games you may want to try include simple games including "House of Cards" that involves making a tower made out of cards, or "Pin the tail on the Donkey," that would require hours of entertainment, and keep the kids entertained. Involve the entire family and bring in the adults for some fun filled hours before you all take a seat for the bday meal.

Creative games

A little bit of creativity goes further in terms of organizing birthday celebrations. You should not limit yourself to the traditional games out there and instead try to think outside the box. For instance, you might play a game that requires participants to embellish a cake, or color a costume, anything at all to release the creativeness of your attendees.

The sky is the restriction with regards to making games for birthday celebrations. No matter how sedate the occasion may be, a game or two will do wonders to liven up the mood of any party.

5 Essential Moves For MMA Fighters

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I see too many fighters in this day and age training with high reps and low weight. They all believe that doing so will get them strong and improve conditioning. This can actually have a reverse effect on the fighter.

Instead, fighters should focus on using heavier weights and do conditioning separate from their strength training sessions.

I'm about to show how fighters can focus on getting stronger all while still building up their wind. To do so I'm going to talk about the 5 essential movements all MMA fighters should be doing in their strength programs.

1) Deadlifts

Deadlifts are the king of strength exercises! There's no other exercise that will add lean muscle and strength to your whole body then deadlifts.

Deadlifts also target the weaker muscles in the body that lots of athletes and fighters neglect.

Fighters should use deadlifts in the 3-5 rep range and even sometimes maybe hit singles and doubles. The 3-5 reps range is the sweet spot for strength when it comes to fighters. When you use more than 5 reps in a set, you're using too little of load.

Deadlifts should be performed at the start of a session when the trainee is fresh. Deadlifts should be done preferably after an explosive type exercise.

2) Front squats

Deadlifts are king, front squats are the prince! Front squats are an essential movement for fighters to help build up lower body strength, and upper body core strength.

The reason front squats work so well at getting fighters strong is based around how the weight is loaded on the body. When its front loaded, there's so much more stress placed upon the body which really forces the core to be engaged.

With front squats, you build both core strength and lower body strength at the same time.

Like with deadlifts, front squats should be done in the lower rep range, preferably somewhere around the 3-6 rep range and right after an explosive exercise around the beginning on a session.

3) Heavy sled / prowler pushes

Sled and prowler work by far takes the cake in terms of conditioning benefits and strength building. Not too many exercises out there can do both.

Heavy sled and prowler work is one of the best exercises in terms of getting the most "bang for your buck".

More and more MMA fighters are starting to realize the benefits of pushing a heavy prowler around or pulling a heavy sled. It just does wonders for building lower body strength as well as increasing conditioning.

I like to have fighters do short ALL OUT goes with a heavy prowler. So something like a 10 sec ALL OUT sprint with very heavy weight for 10 rounds would be a good choice. You can use sleds to work longer distances by pulling and dragging a heavy sled for overall time or just reps.

Either way, sled and prowler work MUST become a part of your program if you are a serious MMA fighter! Typically, for conditioning wise, do sled and prowler work at the end of a session. But if the goal is more on the strength side, you could perform super heavy prowler and sled work at the beginning of a session.

4) 1 Arm KB / DB clean and press

Kettlebells are by far one of the most versatile pieces of strength equipment one can have. But, many MMA fighters and trainees find it hard to get their hands on their own kettlebells so dumbbells can also be used for this particular exercise.

The clean and press is a full body explosive movement that requires explosive hips to get the weight up to the shoulder. Once to the shoulder, the weight is explosively pressed over head to lockout. Cleans are naturally a power exercise. You can perform a kettlebell or dumbbell clean easily. The one common thing about both of these movements is that they must be performed explosively.

I like to use a heavy weight, one that can be lifted with good form about 3-5 reps/ arm. I would recommend anywhere from 3-5 sets.

5) Weighted pull ups

Pull Ups are the upper body squat! For MMA fighters, pull ups will help increase punching power and strength. As weird as it sounds, it's true. The stronger your back gets, the more force you can produce when you throw a punch.

Do be like a lot of fighters and skip out on your pulling movements. These are essential.

For weighted pull ups, I like to use chains, weighted vests, and kettlebells or dumbbells hung from a belt around your waist. All variations work well.

When doing weighted pull ups, I would work in the 3-8 rep range using tons of different variations with your grip style. You can use close grip, wide, baseball, palms facing you, palms facing away, and even rope pull ups.

Either way, MMA fighters should have these in their program no matter what!

So the big idea is to focus in on these 5 movements. Add them in throughout the week into different sessions. A fighter does not want to add all of them into the same session, which would be overkill.

Instead, pick one and have that movement be the strength focus of the day.

As far as conditioning is concerned, add short metabolic conditioning sessions in at the end of strength session or do conditioning sessions on off days. Too many MMA fighters mix strength and conditioning workouts together which then takes away from both.

Get stronger and in turn, you WILL gain more endurance. Truth me.

5 Date Ideas With Your Hubby

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In the hustle and bustle of the city life, we often end up spending time with our laptop, mobile phone, and Television. The pressure of work often takes a toll on our personal life and we start hiding behind the veil of these modern technologies. But imagine, one day when you would be old and gray and your younger generation would be super advanced, what would remain with you? Memories would remain loyal to you till then and if you want to save some nice stories to narrate to your next generation, you got to create some magic now. When was the last time you and your hubby had a conversation without the mobile? Cant remember right? Make your love life a golden one with these 5 date ideas with husband.

On any full moon, prepare for the candlelit dinner at your terrace. When you are in close vicinity of nature, even for a small time, the laptops and mobiles would take a back seat. Promise each other that on every full moon, you would be relishing dinner at your terrace with some candles and cozy cushions. This would be the most romantic thing for your spouse or fiance and you would relish the memories for long.

Weekends mean hogging and sleeping and clearing the domestic chores. It would always be the same. On your next weekend, book a hotel room in your city and lock yourself up with your hubby and just enjoy the room service. You would get enough space to talk and flirt with each other and this would bring back the intimacy you had at the time of your courtship. All in all, you will talk more and discuss things that always remain in the back of your mind and you do not tell each other thinking about the busy schedules that life has pulled you in.

For the next anniversary, take him by surprise by enrolling both of you in a dance class. It may be Rhumba, Salsa, or Freestyle type of dance. This learning together would really create some great memories.You can even indulge yourself in some new language speaking classes or yoga classes. Choose a hobby that you both would like to pursue and enjoy at the same time.

If you had a love story that started in school, I would insist to go back to school on any special event or just on any weekend and revisit those places where your romance churned. The back benches, blackboard, swing, Neem tree, etc. would refresh a stock of memories.

Both of you must be having a bucket list right? If that is hidden somewhere under your bills and responsibilities find that out and click on the adventure trip to the mountain. And that would be the best Valentine gift for husband this year. Pack luggage and set yourself on the course of an adventure trip together just like the old times. Staying away from your busy life will help breathe moments that you miss in your day to day life.

Never let the fire of love cool down in your relationship. With the busy lives we are involved in, we often forget to care about the people who are most close to us. Eventually, we start taking them for granted in a way as we know they will always come back to us no matter what. Lets promise us that whatever the situations be we will spend time with our loved ones surprising them every now and then to make them feel that they are most important parts of your lives even when we are not thinking of them in our busy schedules.

5 Amazing Gift Ideas To Surprise Your Girl

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Here are the evergreen gift ideas to amaze your girl and gain the most beautiful smile ever.
1.Favorite Goodies
Who does not like receiving most liked and long awaited stuff as gift? While we think of buying something, the very first thing that strikes our mind is getting their favorite stuff. It is the way you can show that you actually notice what they would love the most and so you brought the same. It will create an impression that you care for them and notice every little thing which can keep them happy.

2.Diamond Jewelry
Oh My God! Diamonds!! is a gesture you would receive when you choose diamond to be gifted. Well, you need to invest a considerable amount of time while buying diamond jewelry. For it is a precious chunk you are about to give so you need to consider several factors like her taste in jewelry selection, the way you want it to be adorned by her i.e on daily basis or during occasions, your budget and so on.
It is amazing to know that though there are same diamond jewelry items but is presented on different occasions in different ways and in different innovative design forms.
The exclusive designer collection found online showcase diamond rings for women which are marvelous chunks. Budget friendly casual rings are first choice followed by lavishly studded gemstone rings which she can proudly flaunt. There is a meaning attached with jewelry and rings are a sign of commitment.
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The thought of Diamond earrings itself pleases women. No matter what age she is of, she would spill her heart over these beautiful pair. You will be crossing her mind whenever she looks in the mirror and this way you can accompany her in the form of pretty trinket. People generally choose diamond stud earrings as they can be easily adorned regularly. Chandelier earrings prove to be utterly rich choice.
There are lots of options when you want to give diamond jewelry as gift. Apart from rings and earrings, designer pendant sets and diamond necklaces or pendant necklaces available in classy designs online can be carted easily.
3.Artisanal Fashion Jewelry
Shopping contemporary diamond jewelry and presenting antique jewelry will create a distinct impression. Artisanal jewelry is one of its kind jewels and is not found on regular basis. Just like couture designer jewelry available online. They are mostly nature inspired jewelry and represent the perfect blend of contemporary and traditional motifs. If budget is no bars for you, it is a great idea to gift it!

4.Personalized Stuff
Personalized stuff is highly in demand these days and they are now available in large varieties like cushion covers, wind charms, photo-cake, customized dinner plates and such more.

5.Surprise Date
No surprise element should be missing when you have planned to give such amazing gifts to your beloved. Take her on a surprise date and present your gift with a special arrangement made for her and make her feel even more special.

4 reasons to buy prepaid or postpaid franchise

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Have you ever thought about the reason why an increasing number of people want to start their own business? Perhaps, reasons for it are many. The most common reason is to use their own skills and knowledge for personal benefit rather than benefitting an organization. Besides, to avoid daily issues with boss and having unnecessary stress are other reasons to set-up own thing. So, one good morning you wake-up and decide to work for yourself. Of all options to start a business, opting for either postpaid or prepaid franchise of cellular phone and network provider means you have rights to an established and renowned brand. Here we bring to you a few reasons why most people opt for a franchise when they want to start a business.

Ongoing Support

Yet another advantage of buying a franchise is that besides working for yourself, you also get much-needed support from the franchisor that you will not get in your own business. It is often that franchisor provides much necessary training and support to ensure that their franchisee is in shape. Also, they frequently send field support experts to keep things in check. It is the training they provide molds you in a better business person, leaders and managers.

Minimal risk

If you are buying a prepaid franchise for a brand like T-Mobile then the business idea is already successful and tried and tested. Chances to fail are very less even. With the number of people using mobile phones increasing at fast pace, such a business is bound to earn profits. Given that you are choosing an already established brand, you will start getting returns on investment much sooner.

Marketing

If you choose to start a coffee shop then you are required to make huge investment in advertisement and marketing from your own pocket. However, if you choose a brand like Starbucks then you can save a giant amount of funding. Although you might have to contribute some amount for advertisement periodically, not the entire amount. Same is the case with mobile franchise.

Brand awareness

You do not have to worry about spending a considerable amount of time in telling target market about the chosen business idea or read blogs that provide an insight on how to lure investors. When you choose a franchise, you can imagine a cake served on a platter with cherry on cake. The work has already been done as people know what all your business is about and you will get instant recognition from the target customers, which is an added bonus.

These are some of the many reasons why investing in a franchise is much better an option to consider if you want to set your own business. While looking for prepaid or postpaid franchise, make sure you choose a famous brand so that you can make the most of the business. PCC Wireless Communication is a an online address for those who want to buy franchise for either prepaid or postpaid mobile phones and plans. You can find out all information right at the website and get started.