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How You can Balance Work with Personal Life

Rather than separate work and personal life, blend the two and it will work well . This means office is like home and home is like office. I eat healthy snacks and do beauty care at office, occasionally listen to music or meet friends there; even sleep there and feel absolutely at home. At home I have always done my academic work along with my son as he grew up, I share my office experiences with family and make them part of it; and see work as a pleasure and relaxation rather than as a burdensome responsibility. Sometimes it is good to take a complete break. This means take a complete break from work for a few days and stay with family, OR take a complete break from family and finish your work. Such breaks refresh you and help you start afresh again. Always prioritise. This means at home or at office, we should be clear about what is important and urgent. This has helped me to avoid wasting time on unimportant things and using time more productively. Devote some time just f...
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8 Questions for a Better Memory

1. Do you have a regular time and a proper plan for studying? There should be a plan. It helps you to understand things in the proper context and makes it easier to remember facts. 2. After reading, do you make your own brief notes using different colours, highlighting the Content Words? Only when the information becomes your own will you remember it. Different colours, pictures, diagrams, etc are good for memorizing. Memorize the content words which make up the major points. 3. Is the information you're memorizing organized into main points and sub-points and illustrated with examples? Organization and examples will help you naturally remember instead of taking unnecessary strain over it. 4. Do you make up some funny, silly codes and stories to connect the Content Words and remember the sequence? Memorize those codes or stories you make up without forgetting those! 5. Do you connect names, years, etc with a lot of related information that you get from extra reading an...
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8 Practical Ways to Keep Yourself Self-Motivated

Do you have a lot of great ideas to act upon but just don't get to do any of them? Do you start doing good work but leave it in between? Do you feel you just can't take the intiative to do anything more right now, because you're overwhelmed by life already? Here are a few things I learnt from my own life and experience. It might help you. 1. Have long-term dreams and practical short-term goals. My dream, for example, is to positively change English literature studies in India, and some of my goals are: finish reading a particular book, complete a project within a deadline, etc. 2. Don't distract yourself with too many diverse activities. Everything you do should ultimately work towards your goals and dreams. Even a movie I watch usually gives me insights on a project I'm working on. 3. Push yourself to do more by putting yourself in situations from which you can't escape. Even as I started the humungous work on our 8-volume encyclopaedia, I announced t...
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7 Mistakes You Shouldn't Make as a Student

1. Don't wait for anyone to teach you. Learn by observation, by listening, reading, by your own research and experience.👍 2. Don't be happy with half-learning. You shouldn't rest until you know things completely.💪 3. Never fail to ask questions. You shouldn't accept anything blindly, without doubting and questioning it, without thinking about it. ☝ 4. Avoid breaks in reading and learning. You should work consistently, regularly, revise again and again what you have learnt before, even if you don't have an exam to take. Our books can help you with this. 👐 5. Never learn without incorporating your learning into a multi-dimensional experience. In other words, Reading should be supplemented with Discussions, Videos, Travel, Creative Activities and so on. We have made lifestyle products that can help English literature learning become part of your daily life. 😍 6. Learning without Application should never be done. Apply your learning of theories in liter...
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English Literature is Easy; Learning is Fun

We spend our youth, the most fertile time in life, in schools and colleges, learning. We should love learning and benefit maximum from it in order to have happy, successful lives. The purpose of studying English literature, or any subject, is not getting marks in exams and then jobs. Our learning should transform us as individuals and make us productive members of the society. If we stop learning for the sake of exams and start learning for ourselves, it becomes easy and fun. From a very young age, we should learn HOW TO LEARN . Learning should always be connected with our actual daily life and society. [To know how we do that, you can check out this link www.theqriosityshop.com ] Even in adulthood, we should learn through books and activities that make us think and creatively interact with what we learn. Without thinking, application and creative engagement, learning is useless. [Our books can help you get ideas on how to do this www.bodhitreepublications.com ] To make the st...
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10 Tips to Learn English Literature and Pass NET

Tip 1. Make an exhaustive list of major authors and works based on University syllabus Tip 2. Make brief notes on these authors and works-from all genres, Novel, Poetry, Drama, Prose, and from all literatures such as British Literature, American Literature, European Literature, Commonwealth Literature--and save them as a Microsoft Word file or PPT so that you can add more as you learn. You can find more information on this here  http://www.bodhitreepublications.com Tip 3. Read at least extracts and quotations from these authors and works so that you get a hang of the style and get to know the characters Tip 4. Read everyday and make notes on what you read Tip 5. Study literary theories along with literature and read on how these theories are applied in literature and culture Tip 6. Teach others in offline classes or online classes so that you learn more and remember more Tip 7. Make your own question bank for each novel, poem, play and essay you study, which will help ...
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