..Self Improvement - Motivating Yourself..

If you are having trouble keeping motivated towards your goal, try some of these methods to help you get back on track.

Small goals - Always break down your specific goal into smaller, more easily obtained goals. These, put together, will bring you to your main goal. Smaller goals will help you feel a sense of achievement and renew your motivation towards your major goal. Celebrate each achievement.

Calendar - Keep a calendar specifically for the purpose of your self-improvement goal. Mark all important dates in your calendar, such as any milestone dates towards your goal. Use a pocket-sized calendar that you can carry with so you will always be able to look at it. Refer to it every chance you get, such as when you are waiting in line, when you are waiting for a doctor's appointment or when you are taking public transportation.

Rewards - Think of a reward that you will give yourself once you complete your goal. For instance, if there is a particular clothing or accessory item you want make it a reward. Once you reach your goal you can reward yourself with the item. The reward can be anything that you want. It may be a trip, a book, a day at the spa or anything else you deem as a reward. Research has shown that rewards work much better than punishments, even on ourselves.

Affirmations - Give yourself plenty of positive reinforcements in the way of affirmations. Tell yourself that you can do it. Nothing goes further towards helping up achieve our goals than positive thinking.

Reminders - Make sure to leave yourself plenty of positive reminders about your goals. These should help keep you motivated, especially during times of stress. A reminder can be as simple as a sticky note left in a strategic place or a pop-up calendar reminder on your computer. Keep the message simple and positive.

Coach - A coach may give those who need it that extra push. Coaches are available for all types of goals. If you have specific diet goals a nutritionist can be your coach. For exercise goals you may use a personal trainer. A life coach is available to help with all sorts of personal improvement goals.

Support Team - You can create your own support team for your specific goal. Use family members or friends to help you stay on track towards your goals. Let them give you reminders and encouragement towards your personal goal. Make sure you choose positive people to help you. If you have negative people on the team they won't be any help in you reaching your goal and may actually hinder you.

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..why do people buy perfumes??..

Fragrance can cause happiness, sadness, comfort, love, and more. When you are a child, you may not be aware that your mind can remember scents and fragrances.

You may have played outside one day on the first warm day of spring and you remember the colorful Daffodils that had bloomed and the Lilacs in the yard and how well it smelled.

When you got older and you smelled Lilacs it made you feel happy inside. Fragrance is everywhere and we can remember things from our past by just smelling something that was there at that time.

It doesn't have to be flowers it could be your dad's cologne or your mom's perfume. Perfume has been around for a very long time and will continue to be around.

People buy perfume for several reasons but basically it is because of the way that it makes them feel. They may feel like they can do anything when they wear a certain perfume.

Perfume can set your mood for the day, it can boost your self esteem and it can allow you to feel good about yourself; you look good and you feel good.

You may want to wear perfume because your significant other likes to smell a certain fragrance on you. You are also less self-conscious when you wear perfumes. For others, smelling perfume may bring a bad memory to mind that they didn't want to remember.

The reason you have for wearing perfume is going to be different from everyone else. Perfume is a personal preference.

..how siblngs can affect your relationship..

By "sibling rivalry" we mean the antagonism or hostility between brothers and/or sisters which manifests itself in family fights (pulling of the sibling's hair or with the unwillingness to share a toy, and which try the patience of parents all over the world) to much more serious cases such as the permanent enmity between adult siblings because one is successful and the other is not.

Nature offers us many examples for sibling rivalry. The problem is basically one of competition for limited resources. Sharing creates the problem. Parents get exasperated and don't know what to do.

TIME, ATTENTION and LOVE is what parents need to give to each of their children. Simply simply looking at most families' photo albums you can see that this is indeed the case. Looking through these albums, one can see that there are usually many pictures of the birth and first year of their first-born child. For the second child, there are fewer pictures. And, from the third child on, one may have a hard time finding pictures of them in the album - it's as if they didn't even exist! This is because parents are thrilled when the first child is born. Their enthusiasm reduces afterwards. This has an enormous impact on that child and his or her later life. It is a common observation that, in most families, it is usually the first-born that has the greatest "success" in later and adult life. This jealousy and enmity continues later also and comparison kills the relationship. Counseling and therapy sessions can remove the jealousy from the siblings mind and let them lead a happy and wonderful life.