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Smartness is an art. You can be smart if you just want to be. Smartness is nothing inborn but it is developed. Smart people dominate the world. So you need to be smart enough to outstand in the crowd. So how smart are you and don’t you want others to say that you are a smart person? 

Few tips below: 

Define your goals: You need to define your goals and work towards its achievement. I’m sure every one of you will have goals in life, but most of the time you just give it a passing thought. You can do one thing. Every 10 days get a goal in mind; start with the smaller goals and then work towards the bigger ones. Review the goals at the end of every 10 days. Make sure the goals you set are achievable in 10 days. Later you can set long term goals. 

Enhance your education: Education is the primary necessity to go forward successfully in life. A person who’s successful is a smart person. Never stop studying. Education has no limits, no age bars; try to educate you more and more. Earn higher degrees; try to be proficient in atleast one subject. That way you will enhance your status and goodwill in the society. Everyone will look upon to you as a smart person. 

Update your knowledge in current affairs: Read the newspapers everyday and watch the news in television too. Be updated on what’s happening around the world. In any given situation, you should be in a position to speak on any current affair related subject. When you are in the midst of a group, there’s always a chance that so many topic will come up related to current affairs and you should have the knowledge to speak on that.

 Keep company with smart people: In this way you come to how they act smart. You will understand from them how they deal with things and how things are managed by them. Smart people deals and

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What is the real meaning of Self Esteem? Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. So it is something decided by oneself and not by others. It is a self evaluated feeling. So how good is your self esteem? Most of the time a person having a low self esteem never realizes that but it is very important to hold a high level of self esteem to succeed in any area of one’s life. So how can you improve your self esteem and keep yourself out of danger? Here are few tips which if put into practice along with the tips I gave in my previous article “How to Be a Tree of Confidence”, you will find yourself in the right path. You can read about that article at http://sanojjose79.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-become-tree-of-confidence.html

1. Do things that you enjoy. Everyday take some time to do those small small things that you really enjoy doing. This makes you happy and satisfied and this is very important in raising your self esteem.

2. Understand and accept your limitations and concentrate on your strengths. You should ignore your limitations, if it cannot be solved and if it can be solved, take necessary steps to work on it and improve that area in your life.

 3. Meditate on your abilities and talents and work on it to improve it. Apply it everyday in your life and you will feel good about it.

 4. Ignore your failures and never give up. Remember that failures are the stepping stones to success, the more you fail the more you learn and the more you learn, the better you know how to get it done next time.

5. Aim high and make a lost of your ambitions, Write it down somewhere and read it everyday. Work on it one by one and be patient. Never ignore or give up your personal ambitions. It’s your dream and you want to achieve it.

 6. Appreciate yourself when you

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Confidence plays a vital role in the success of anyone. Lack of confidence not only puts you down but it will also make you succumb and turn towards your own shell. So lack of confidence should be replaced by a radiance of ever ending confidence and self esteem. Most of us feel the lack of confidence in some areas which has to be worked upon for the better.

As I had discussed in my previous article “Even Small Negative Thoughts Can Ruin your Life – How to Get Rid Of It” (http://sanojjose79.blogspot.com/2010/01/even-small-negative-thoughts-can-ruin.html), I had discussed in detail the relation between negative thoughts and confidence and how confidence plays an important part in getting rid of negative thinking.

 Here we will discuss some steps that could be taken to achieve this.

Identify areas of lack – You may be having lack of confidence in every area. But there may be few thrust areas which has played a key role in developing this non confidence and then it might have started reflecting in others areas also. So the most important aspect is to identify the key areas which makes your self esteem dip and you feel upset about. It could be a small problem like acne, wearing glasses, falling grades and so on. Identify those areas and start thinking of steps to get rid of that problem. Once those areas turn positive for you, you will start feeling confident in every other area.

Consider yourself at par with others - Never feel you are inferior to others. Every person has got their own merits and demerits. So certain strengths that you posess may be lacking in someone else and vice versa. Do not commit the mistake of thinking only about the strengths of others while ignoring yours.

Speak to your mentors, friends and family – Speak to them about your problems. Find out how you could improve those areas. Ask them about you, your strengths. They may have some advice to offer which could
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Negative thoughts are like arrows directed by you towards all areas of your life as well as of those around you. It will pierce you and make you bleed. The dilemma is that human beings most of the time posess more of negative thoughts instead of positive thoughts. In any area of life, success depends on bringing the negative thoughts to a nil or atleast reducing it considerably. Most of the successful people in this world posess negligible negative thought. You may not realize that you posess negative thoughts which are more dangerous. Even those small negative thoughts that pop in your mind at times can ruin your life. 

Here we will discuss what causes negative thoughts, which areas of your life affected predominantly by it and how to overcome it. 

Causes: 

The major cause of negative thoughts is the circumstances in which you live. It could be a poor upbringing, a unhappy childhood, influence of peers and failures at different stages of life. Negative thoughts are a direct influence of diminishing confidence and hence, to bring down negative thoughts considerably, you need to develop more confidence. I’ll discuss about bringing up your confidence in the next two days. You can subscribe to my feeds to keep you updated on this. 

Areas of life affected: 

1. Work life: Negative thoughts makes a person feel negative about all his work and lack of confidence leads to more and more failures. In this competitive world the urge to compete and excel is lost when negative thoughts peep in. In this scenario, your work life is adversely affected and either you succumb and lose your job or will have to live with a meager income in a low profile job. 


2. Social life: Social life is affected badly as you will not have the confidence to socialize and build relationships. Socializing and building relationships are an integral factor for live success in life as you need the support of society to live happily and excel. 


3. Family life: A person who is sunk in negative thoughts will have failures as his companion and all these pressure will be expressed when you with your family. The ultimate result will be that you will be inducing a sense of insecurity in the minds of your family members and as you are not happy in life, you will not be able to provide happiness to your family as well. 

How do you overcome negative thoughts? 

By now you might have understood that negative thoughts are of no help and it is very much necessary to get rid of this. But there is a solution to everything and you need not live in this mindset all your life. You may practice the following things to get rid of your negative feelings:

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We all have to earn a for a living. For this we need to excel in whatever we do to earn our living. This world is a world of tough competition. Whether we work for someone or we are self employed, we need to show excellence in what we do to be successful in life. So how can we achieve that? Two important things have to be practiced and followed. They are IDEA and AEDI.

Starting with the first aspect – IDEA stands for Identify, Dedicate, Employ and Accelerate. Okay now we will discuss it one by one:

1. Identify - The most important thing you need to do to excel in what you do is to identify your area of strength. If you have many areas of strength, identify which one interests you more.

2. Dedicate – After you identify in which area you want to operate based on your strength and interest level, dedicate yourself to that particular subject. Concentrate more on that area and build your skill sets further.

3. Employ – Here is the most important aspect. You need to be employed either to someone or to yourself. I mean you need to get a job somewhere or be self employed. This employment should be in the area of your strength and interest identified earlier as discussed above.

4. Accelerate – Now don’t just get employed and keep on doing it for your living. Accelerate yourself. Try to be number one in what you are doing. Work hard and work smart and reach a level where you are the topper. You can read on “How to be a topper” at http://sanojjose79.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-become-topper.html.

Having understood and decided to put into practice IDEA, the next aspect to be considered is AEDI which provides the oil to go forward and excel. AEDI stands for

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It’s the constant urge of any human being to be a topper in the area of their operation. Whether it is to be a topper in class, a topper in the team, a topper at home or a topper in their profession; the desire to be a topper and the satisfaction of being one is never ending. Even if many us do not put our best efforts to become one, this desire will be there at the back of our minds always.