Explore Your Leadership Qualities

Am I Leader - Explore your leadership qualities is the road map that takes you on the road of success to enhance your vision and instincts to explore your own leadership qualities. People are passionate to know about their Leadership qualities but they don't have any specific tool to gauge the metrics. Leadership is basically a person's ability to perform with prudent action according to situations that people loves to follow. Various well known leaders have become history now to whom we can get lessons to sharpen our own leadership skills and qualities.    

I would agree with the statement that good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and will power, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. An effective and true leader create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Explore your power and instincts
To tackle and explore your leadership instincts, you need to concise and vivid to understand your requirement and objectives. You level of integrity counts a lot, your values are your assets and people trust is the centrifugal point of your prudence.

Various reasons and situations effects on person's quality that prove it as "Leader". We all believe, IQ is important but more than we believe Emotional intelligence and power is the most prime part of person's personality. If you want to explore your inside then ask and analyse few questions:
Q.1  How do you react in particular situations?
Q. 2 How much time do you take to make decisions?
Q. 3 Do you think only for yourself or for others?
Q. 4 Do people agree with your decisions?
Q. 5 How do you lead the people in a group?
Q. 6 How do you want to act in a group of people?
Q. 7 How do you react if somebody don't agree with you?
Q. 8 Where do you think ? In present, past for in future
Q. 9 Do you have capacity to solve issues and matters
Q.10 Do people love you in your surroundings?

These are the most common questions that you can ask with yourself and i hope there would be some rapid answers in your mind without any exaggerations. If there is some negative replies that you think should not be like that so you can improve as these self analysis gives you room to polish yourself and to improvise your vision for leadership and success.

Few more questions that can ask to improvise your vision towards leadership:
Q.1 Am i Dedicated?
Q.2 Am i committed to my task?
Q.3 Why do i want to accomplish this task?
Q.4 Do i have a lack of magnanimity?
Q.5 What is the level of my assertiveness
Q.6 How much openness should i bear?
Q.7 Do i believe on open communication?
Q.8 What things inspire me?
Q.9 Do i think with innovation?
Q.10 How much creativity can i extend?

For a good leader the most important quality is the "Sense of humor" which makes him/her distinguishable from others. Normally people think that leaders are out of humor but this is not true. A sense of humor is vital to relieve tension and boredom, as well as to defuse hostility. Effective leaders know how to use humor to energize followers. Humor is a form of power that provides some control over the work environment. And simply put, humor fosters good camaraderie.

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Inspirational Bill Gates Quotes

Inspirational Bill Gates quotes motivates to follow the road of success without thinking about fear and failure. Below are the top composition that Bill Gates said at different moments. Taken from talks, interviews, books and other related mediums..

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates 

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates 

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates  

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. 

Bill Gates  

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates 

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates 

People everywhere love Windows.
Bill Gates 

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates 

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates  

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

Bill Gates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates 

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates 

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What require to become Bill Gates

What require to become Bill Gates? I really want to write about it after exploring search statistic about Bill Gates which shows people interest and love to Bill Gates personal and professional life. We all know he is a man of commitment, innovation and hard work and these qualities marked him distinguishable and tool of his success.

To lead the profession or to ascend the height of success you need to ignite creativity inside yourself. We all have some inputs of creativity but we are unable to explore it as we don't try to seek it. First recommendation is to light up the flame of creativity and innovation inside yourself.

Don't get afraid with fears and failures as it's a part of life and every successful person have to gone through it. Read out biographies to take inspiration and to find the way of crossing failures with hard work, positive aptitude and sincerity.

Visualize beyond imagination - This is the key of success, how much you think, you will have the goals and objectives to achieve. Without goals you would not be concise about your targets, so be proactive to visualize and attain your goals and objectives accordingly.

Be a professional, to attain your targets. 

Make a mind set of doing something.

Be a learner. 

Be a practitioner.

Don't give up at any moment of failure and in between.

Try hard without thinking the results.

Be a risk taker.
Be a time manager
Work on quality rather on quality

Perfect aptitude and direction is necessary to attain targets so be attentive to opt right aptitude at right time. A  targeted person must constantly seek new horizons and untapped or under-exploited markets. 

Last but not the least, be honest, sincere and maintain your values to attain your objectives. If you will be solid and affirm in your goals then success will come to you, you will not go to success. 

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Improve Productivity with Effective Time Management

It's very important to improve your productivity with effective time management techniques. Basically, we all effort to do things but we need to maintain a check on how we are investing in our time. Is it quality based or just a quantity based endeavor. Time is the good resource,  if you utilize it properly, it delivers your required target otherwise it will use you without any effective delivery. So concentrate to improve your productivity and effort by using quality time. 

Here are some suggestion that you easily incorporate in your life to increase your level of productivity with effective time management.

Make a day priority list on the basis of precedence

All days are not same, some gives you reward and some goes without revealing any new thing. We have to be able to easily adjust while not falling behind. The time schedule plays a big role here as we know how much time we need to account for to complete each task. I suggest to make a priority list on the basis of precedence to maintain your work in properly.

Maintain Activity Time Log. 

Write down each task/activity you perform and how much time you spend time to finish your task. At the end of your work day, calculate how much time you spent on each task collectively.

Manage Time Schedule

The activity log will give you the time spent so that you can create a time schedule. This is extremely important so that you can see how much time you are spending on email, twitter, LinkedIn, phone calls, etc and allot that time each day.

Determine Time and Money Ratio

Have you ever estimated, how much money do you make per minute? Take average of overall money on the basis of month or week and then convert in minutes. In this way, you will know how much you are loosing by killing your time in unproductive ways. 

Explore the time you spent to waste time

The activity log will provide show where you are wasting time. Make the most of your time by focusing your efforts on tasks that make sense and further your business goals.

Avoid diverse Multi Tasking

We love to think that we are the best multi-taskers but we know really that we are not focusing on any of the tasks we are performing at the same time. Best bet, finish one so that you can give each your undivided attention to complete and move on to the next one.

Outsource your support

This is hard sometimes but when we invest in our own time, it is beneficial. Training a staff member or sending the task out to someone who can complete it quickly only increases the time in your day.

Adopt Tools and Techniques to save time

Is the software and/or tools that you are using the most productive for your business? Time matters as well as productivity. Are you keeping up with technology to ensure that you are the most productive?

Best use of Time

Explore what time of the day is best for you to perform certain tasks? Look at that and schedule tasks in the time that is most comfortable and efficient for you.

Make Use of Dead Time/Killing time

Dead time is the time we spend waiting. This is not to be ignored and treated as wasted time. Dead time is valuable time and we can get a lot done in just a few minutes … your activity log will show you that.

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Understand Situational Leadership

The Situational Leadership Theory, is a leadership theory developed by Paul Hersey, professor and author of the book Situational Leader, and Ken Blanchard, leadership guru and author of The One Minute Manager, while working on the first edition of Management of Organizational Behavior. The theory was first introduced as "Life Cycle Theory of Leadership". During the mid 1970s, "Life Cycle Theory of Leadership" was renamed "Situational Leadership theory". Situational leadership is basically refers to leadership that’s contextual, formed as the result of a certain situation. On various occasions the situation represents some kind of crisis and unharmonious. The person that naturally emerges as leader in these situations is going to be the person that is best equipped to deal with that particular situation and that is situational leadership.

According to me, leadership inherently related with emotional intelligence in a relationship with social intelligence that bring a person as leader who know, how to deal the situations with mind and get desire result with intelligent decision making.

For example, imagine a person who suffers some sort of mental trauma during watching film in cinema, as we all know from best practices the thing to do next is to shout ‘is anyone here a doctor’. Then if there is a doctor present everyone will make way for them to their thing. Now the doctor is in a leadership position, and should he instruct someone to call an ambulance, bring them a knife or clear a table that’s what they’ll do. Similarly if a group of friends get lost and one of those friends happens to be from around the area - then that friend will emerge as leader and the others will turn to them to look for a way out. In other words in any scenario, the person most likely to be able to steer the group safely out of harm’s way is the person that will become leader. Of course however if someone has the knowledge but keeps it to themselves, or appears uncertain, then they still may not emerge as leader which is why confidence is equally important.

Situational leadership leads a natural response and has evolved to make sure we stand the best chance of survival in such dire situations - and in some extreme cases picking the correct leader for a group can mean the difference between life and death.

“The successful leader is one who is able to behave appropriately. … If direction is in order … able to direct; if considerable participative freedom is called for … able to provide such freedom.”
 
Situational leadership relates the following context directly or indirectly:

Task behavior is the extent to which a leader engages in one-way communication by explaining what each follower is to do, as well as when, where, and how tasks are to be accomplished.

Relationship behavior is the extent to which a leader engages in two-way communication by providing socio-emotional support, “psychological strokes”, and facilitating behaviors.

Readiness is the ability and willingness of a person to take responsibility for directing his own behavior in relation to a specific task to be performed.

Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an individual or group in efforts toward goal achievement in a given situation

Presently, there appears to be two mainstream theories describing situational leadership. The first model we'll discuss is based on Daniel Goleman's elements of emotional intelligence: self awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

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Time Management Techniques

"Time management Techniques" improve your efficiency of effective working and gives you moment to do that you prioritise to give specific direction to your life. Everybody need Time management sessions weather you are working as house wife, employee, student or whatever capacity you are working. If you understand the way to manage your time successfully then success will come to you automatically.

Effective time management require skills and offer tremendous benefits. Organization, Discipline and Self belief is the energizer if you want to keep your thing aligned with respect to time. We have all heard this, time never come back. It's a fact!!! Time and age never turns but if you utilize your time with focus then it gives you reward as it moves ahead.

What is Time Management?

Time management is the process of applying certain skills and methods in order to accomplish tasks, goals and projects, such as setting aims, allocating, analyzing and organizing. A person that knows how to manage time effectively speeds up new advances and is enabled to spend more time with leisure activities. These abilities are also associated with time management skills. Time management skills refer furthermore to the ability of a person to solve time management issues and recognize problems that have wasted time.

  “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler

How to Manage Time?

Here, i am listing out top bullet points of time management techniques. Indeed, it's a best practice that i earned during my professional and personal life experience.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin

Let's delve into it:

• First, get focus in your thoughts, goals and things that you want to do.
• Make a time table of short time and long time goals and priorities
• Create a list of things on the basis of precedence that you want to do in a day (short time) , month (short time), year (long time)
• Be disciplined to make your things - It's a big blunder that normally people do when they compile their list of priority.
• Break down your task with clarity of goals
• If you are technology freak then invest in Time management tools to keep things in order
• Analyse your time on the basis of quality
• Avoid quantity based time table as it will make you tired without result
• Keep track of dates to done
• Follow your task to accomplish.
• Set reminder to follow task
• Avoid procrastination
• Leverage your time
• Monitor your task
• Keep your system up to date
• Archive all completed task. it will safe your time of monitoring and review
• Take back up of your Archived and filed task accordingly.
• Always focus to cultivate your time with productivity

I believe, if you are able to manage your time according to schedule then you must be the most satisfied person in this world. I hope, the above time management techniques can help you to develop your time management skills and will enable you to spend a lot of time with hobbies and your family since you have gained the knowledge on how to manage time effectively.

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How to get Motivated?

Motivation is all about energizing yourself to do something. How to get motivated? and how to motivate others? is the most demanding question that normally people ask. I love to write about motivation as it gives me energy to do what i wanted to do. You can arouse motivation inside you by keeping the order of following things in your life:

Get Inspire - Get Motivated
One of the strongest motives to motivate yourself is that you have a reason. This reason will inspire you and make you do whatever it takes to challenge all of the obstacles, so you can achieve your goals. If your desire and reasons are normal, then you might get motivated temporarily. The strong desires that make you think and dwell on your goals are the strong motives that will keep you moving forward.

Make Strategy to Plan and make Goals
If you fail to plan, others will plan for you. Make a plan to achieve your goals. Be flexible, so you can change the plan if you need to if you encounter an obstacle.  Have a goal that you want to achieve. Having a great goal is crucial because it is very difficult to motivate yourself if you don’t have a specific goal that you want to accomplish.

Failure drives Opportunity - Learn from it
When you keep focusing on your previous mistakes, you are killing your motivation. Learning from your mistakes can help motivate you since you know what to avoid. Today is a new day. Motivate yourself, so you can achieve what you want and deserve.

Believe in You

Comparing yourself with others is an effective way if you want to become frustrated. It will kill your motivation. Even if you began with enthusiasm, you will lose energy quickly if you start to only focus on what others accomplished.

Make Action to Get Start
To get to where you want to be requires serious effort. You need to start taking small steps, so you can get to where you want to be. Once started, it will become easy for you to continue moving forward.

Few Quotes to Get Motivated

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. – Terri Guillemets

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoidcriticism is to do nothing. – Steve Ross

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. – Tom Brokaw

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Stress management: How to manage Stress?

Stress management techniques learns you how to manage stress and how to deal with stress. If you understand the ways then you can easily recognize the nature of stress and ways to deal with it. What you need to do if you are practicing stress and it's consequences. First of all understand the root cause, then find stress releasing technique associated with cause and lead a happy living life.

What is Stress?
Stress is a term used to describe the body and mind‟s reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Too much stress can increase pain, and can make a person more prone to illnesses, such as heart disease or mental problems.

Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

The events that provoke stress are called stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations — everything from outright physical danger to making a class presentation or taking a semester's worth of your toughest subject.

Causes of Stress
Causes of stress are known as Stressors. Stressors can be physical or emotional:

Day time Stress

• Waiting in lines
• Financial problems
• Uncomfortable temperature
• Heights or Confined Spaces
• Rush-hour traffic
• Noise, crowding, Clutter

On Work Stress

• High responsibility
• Environmental, such as noise, 
• temperature, lighting, isolation, lack of privacy, etc.
• Uncertainty in job duties
• Pressure from boss or co-workers
• Personality clashes
• Promotion of job loss 
• Deadlines
• Playing more than one role at once

Social Stress

• Getting divorced
• Having a child
• Moving to a new house or city
• Relationship problems
• Dealing with rude, aggressive or competitive people
• Getting married
• Death of a loved one

What type of Health issues may arise due to Stress

Stress might effect on your health in various ways. What sort of diseases associated with stress depends upon nature and environment. Below listed is the sign of disease that can cause of stress if you don't treat it effectively. 

Heart attack Hypertension Stroke Cancer Diabetes Depression Obesity Eating disorders Substance abuse Ulcers Irritable bowel syndrome

Memory loss Autoimmune diseases (eg. lupus) Insomnia Thyroid problems Infertility Headaches Insomnia / Anxiety Impotence/ Reduced Drive & Desire Frequent Colds / Flu / Lowered Immune Function Back Pain / Chronic Pain of Any

How to manage Stress

If we think about the causes of stress, the nature of the stress response, and the negative effects of some types of stress, several healthy management strategies become clear. First, exercise. You see, since the stress response prepares us to fight or flee, our bodies are primed for action. Unfortunately, however, we usually handle our stresses while sitting at our desk, standing at the water cooler, or behind the wheel stuck in traffic. Exercise on a regular basis helps to burn off and use up the stress hormones and neurochemicals. Thus, exercise can help avoid the damage to our health that prolonged stress can cause. In fact, studies have found that exercise is a potent anti-depressant, anxiolytic (combats anxiety), and sleeping pill for many people, without taking any pills.

To handle stress we need to know what beats it. Here are the most effective tried and tested strategies:

• Meditation
• Improve sleep routine
• Healthy diet
• Aerobic exercise
• Emotional outlet
• Positive imagery 
• Breathing exercises

Meditation is the best way to release stress 

Elimination or reduction of drug use are the key of the successful stress management. We know that people, when stressed, seek these outlets. But, we also know that many of these substances sensitize (make even more responsive) the stress response. As a result, small problems produce big surges of stress chemicals. What's more, these attempts with drugs and alcohol to mask stress often prevent the person from facing the problem directly. Consequently, they are not able to develop effective ways to cope with or eliminate the stress.

Effective ways to Delete your Stress

Okay, so once you realize you are in stress how do you effectively reduce it without compromising on your productivity. The solution is much simpler that we imagine. These few guidelines will give you direction to deal with your stress effectively:

• Maintain a busy Schedule
• Daily meals in a healthy way
• Exercise daily to keep you toned and refresh
• Make planning of your life positively
• Make “to do” lists- in order of importance
• void unnecessary stress
• Practice more patience, it will grant contentment
• Control your temper and responses on events
• Establish priorities on the basis of precedence
• Walk regularly

Walk is the best stress manager

Share your feelings with loved ones

Other thing that i recommend to discuss your problems to your loved ones. It will give you courage to deal with you stress. Technically, when you share feelings, the burden inside you lightens so try this formula. Be remember, don't disclose your problems and feelings to everyone it will increase your issues and make you more stressed.

Always remember, you are only one who can manage your stress rather your doctor or someone else. Life is the beautiful gift of God, don't take it for granted. Come out from your stress and lead a happy life with success. 

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How to get Success in life?

Get Motivated to Get Success

How to get success in life? What are the ways to get success? How can i achieve it? these are the questions that everybody wants to ask in their life to become successful. Success is all about getting ahead in life by accepting striving challenges. Fighting with failures and get learning to move ahead. Keep trying and becoming positive on getting maturity.

Many people take success for granted. Don't do it, it will ruin your life

Life become great when your career, earnings and relationships move forward with success. If all these stagnate, you become demotivated and fight with failures. We need to remember all successful people gone through tough phases of life to get successful. We need to research their hardship time to get lesson. It's a matter of fact that we always love to see the green side of success which always deliver lavish feeling to visualize success. 

Let's check out some steps to make life perfect and successful:

• Be organized.
• Get disciplined.
• Make goals and objectives.
• Be passionate.
• Dream high then follow your dreams by making effective startegies.
• Be honest.
• Get satisfied whatever you have.
• Be positive.
• Live not to eat, but eat to live.
• Righteousness is the rule of life. Lead a virtuous life. Strictly adhere to Dharma. Human life is not human without virtues. Study the lives of saints and draw inspiration from them.
• Cultivate a melting heart, the giving hand, the kindly speech, the life of service, equal vision, and impartial attitude. Your life will, indeed, be blessed.
• Understand the meaning of life.
• Never give up, always try.
• Never be timid to take decision.
• Always be confident.
• Take initiative.
• Don't think what people will say.
• Don't scared with risks.
• Follow your instincts.
• Love your self and your life.
• Give value to your relations.
• Create harmony in yourself.
• Don't expect a lot from people.
• Eat healthy
• Live a balanced life
• Take challenges
• Get busy.
• Lead a regulated life. Take hold of each day as if it were the last day, and utilize every second in prayer, meditation and service. Let your life become a continuous sacrifice to God.
• Mature your targets.
• Become role models to others.
• Respect your blongings
• Manage your time
• Manage your life for others - it gives you power, self contentment, energy and happiness.

These are the little ways short in word but big in meanings. You can keep this in front of your desktop, diary, wall or any other  thing to keep in touch. Last but not the least you are the one who is able to manage your life successfully. So believe on your sentiments and work harder to get success and become motivated to get success at all cost. Best of luck!!! and have a nice lovely day ahead!!!

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Watch TV and Safe time to Finish Work

It's all about effective Time management!!! Don't waste your time in watching TV, get productive and do what you can do and what you want. Here are few suggestions that you can do according to your schedule or make your checklist to apply to match your time.

• Mending & small household item repairs
• Knit / crochet / needlework / crafts
• Message to friends
• Cleansing, toning, moisturizing
• Self Manicure, pedicure
• Apply beauty care 
• Stretching & exercises
• Brush/Groom pets
• Have food (Not recommended)
• Make love
• Organize mail, filing and clip coupons
• Balance checkbook, review bills, bank & credit card statements and reconcile charges
• Prepare grocery lists, meal plans, To Do lists, review schedules
• Organize collections (CDs, DVDs, Craft Supplies, Photos, etc.)
• Clean, organize and dust the TV room including knick knacks & trinkets
• Sort and clean junk drawers and drawers from other rooms.

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