How to increase the standard of your life in this world full of chaos

 “Fact: - If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if the quality of life is your number one objective, the standard of living invariably improves.” — Zig Ziglar(American author & Motivational Speaker)

In this whole world of chaos, by running after money, achieving high standards in the job, living the luxury life around high tech gadgets, we often forget to increase the standard of our life.

To increase the standard of our life, we need to do very small things in our day to day life, there is nothing we need to exaggerate about it to others or on social media, and ultimately it will be beneficial to you and the people around you.

“Satisfying yourself peacefully is the best way to inner happiness”

We can categorize our standard of living in terms of habits:-

1. ·       Happiness habits
2. ·       Healthy Habits
3. ·       Vitality Habits
4. ·       Income Habits
5. ·       Leisure Habits

Happiness habits:-

1) Smile even when you are stressed:

     Smiling reduces stress & helps the heart in a different way, In other words, it will trick your brain into believing you’re happy which can then encourage the actual feeling of happiness.

If you can’t force yourself to smile, put a pencil in your mouth and the natural curve of your mouth will help you to engage a smile. Try this for 15 to 20 minutes per day. You’ll be surprised to see, even if you feel depressed, this will brightens your mood.

2) Daily gratitude:

     The health benefits of expressing gratitude are many, and some might surprise you, Spend 15 to 30 minutes every single day listing off what you have to be grateful for. Even if you feel like you have nothing to be grateful for, search for something. Maybe you’re in a financial problem, but at least you have the knowledge in your mind and the ability to walk, talk, and reason. If you search, you can always find something to be grateful for.

3) Daily Learning:

     Learning daily is one of the vital tasks in our life, It allows us to grow, mature & gain knowledge, If not book you can find Newspaper, Comic, Magazine, Video tutorial, blog or anything else that you learn to enjoy like a learning resource. Learn every single day & spend at least 15-30 minutes on learning.

Health Habits:-

1.  Eat a healthy breakfast every day:

You’ve heard it before, Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And it’s no lie. Studies have shown women who missed at least breakfast once a week were at higher risk of developing Type2 diabetes and men who are doing the same can face heart issues later in life, So never skip your breakfast at any cost.

2.  10,000 steps daily:

Maybe you can’t exercise daily but you can walk daily, make sure you walk at least 10k steps each day or close to that number, It will not only help you in weight loss, but it also helps to decrease your risk of heart disease and diabetes.

3.  Drink an adequate amount of water:

Well this will depend on your daily activities, size, age, the climate in your living, etc., but you should drink an adequate amount of it. You can take advice from nutritionists and doctor on the daily intake of your water.

  

Vitality Habits:-

1.  Time Management:

People who effectively manage their time have an    increased amount of energy and vitality. Managing your time demands daily attention and action of the important tasks over the urgent, Time management can be achieved by creating to-do lists and building tasks for the day based on their order of importance and urgency.

2.  Get at least 7 hours of sleep:

Sleep is an important function for many reasons. When you sleep, your brain signals your body to release hormones and compounds that help you to manage hunger levels, maintain your immune system and retain memory. Lack of sleep can cause increase your risk for serious health problems such as obesity, disease, and even early death in a few cases.

3.  Inspirational Input:

One of the best ways to add vitality to your life is through daily inspiration. What’s your inspiration? What inspires and motivates you to push towards your dreams? Give yourself that boost needed by seeking out some form of information, whatever it may be.

One of the best ways to achieve this is through imagery, by hanging those photos somewhere you’ll see daily, you can help to inspire and motivate you towards your dreams We all get a little bit frustrated time to time, but if you spend 15 to 20 minutes each on inspirational input, you’ll see enormous results.

Income Habits:- 

1.  Set & Review Goals:

Setting and reviewing goals on a daily basis is important to achieving your income goals. This is one of the best habits that you can have towards the pursuit of your monetary goals. When establishing daily goals, make sure that you prioritize. This means doing the most important thing first. For example, if you want to make more money, then you should pursue activities that can make you thousands, instead of chasing actions that earn you hundreds.

2.  Save 20% of your income:

People often think that right now is too early to start saving or investing. Wrong! It is never too early to save a portion of your income, no matter how low or high your income is! At least 20% of your income should be saved, in order to build up your funds for investment opportunities.

Start saving today! In fact, experts say that you should save before you spend. Keep aside a portion of whatever money or income you get, and then spend the rest!

3.  Daily Budgeting:

Create and stick to a budget, and follow it regularly. This should allow you to save and invest your money over time. If you don’t stick to a budget, it’s much harder to get ahead and accomplish your income goals. Knowing just how much money you can or can’t spend every day will help you to get ahead.

Budgeting is the foundation of all your financial planning and success.

Leisure Habits:- 

1.  Get Organized:

“Clean house, clean mind.” Spend a few minutes of your leisure time organizing your surroundings. Take 5 minutes to clean up your desk, bed, or simply to throw things away. You’ll be surprised at how much your quality of life will increase when you get organized.

2.  Socialize & Network:

Boost the quality of your life by socializing and networking. It’s been said that 80% of rich people spend 5 hours or more networking, whereas the poor spend 16% of their time doing so. But, networking doesn’t have to be justified solely for business. Take an interest in other peoples’ lives (not personal life) and you’ll be surprised just how much it will come back to you.      

3.  Do one thing you are afraid of:

Do one thing that you’re afraid of every single day. Take your leisure time for developing this habit. What are you afraid to do? Why are you afraid to do it? Too often, we can’t get ahead because of how scared we are of something. Fear and anxiety seem to be halting us. Overcome your fears and force yourself to do just one thing you’re afraid of doing.

Hope these above-mentioned points will help you to increase your standard of life :) 

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Why most of the disease(SARS & Corona virus) keep appearing in China

A lot of viruses that actually makes us sick, originally come from Animals, some of the viruses that cause flu come from Birds & Pigs, HIV/AIDS come from Chimpanzees, Ebola comes from Bats & in the case of coronavirus, there is some evidence that it went from Bat to Pangolin before infecting the human being.
        
While all these viruses are good at jumping between species & it is very rare for any of these viruses to come in contact with each other to infect human beings, unless all this host (Bat -> Pangolin -> Human being) need to come in contact with each other at some point, that’s where the Wet Markets come in the picture like Wuhan Wet Market in China.

In Wet Markets, the cages in which animals are kept are stacked over one another, animals at the bottom are often soaked with the liquids from the animals above them, liquids like animal excrement, puss, blood etc. & that's exactly how the virus from one animal is transferred to another & If that animal come in contact/consumed by a human being the virus could potentially infect them, thus when it spreads to other human beings it causes an outbreak.

                                   Fig – Major wet markets across world

Wet markets are present in all over the world, but particularly those in China is well known than others because of they offer a wide variety of animals including wildlife animals from all over the world & each animal thus have their own potential to carry their own virus to the market, the reason why all these animals are present at a single place becomes possible by the decision that China's Government make decades ago.
              

                                Fig:- Menu of the Wuhan Wet Market

China's History:- 

Now, let's take a ride back in china's history, In 1970s China, is falling apart, famine has killed more than 36 million people, the communist regime  which controlled all the food production of china is failing to feed all people. In 1978 when the regime is going to collapse they gave up this control of food production & allowed private farming.

While large companies started the production of pork & poultry, the smaller farmer turns to catch and raising wild animals as the way to sustain themselves, at initially it was very pleasant household farming/operations of turtles, since these activities are feeding the people the Chinese government has supported it.

But then in 1998, the government made the decision which changes the face of wildlife farming in china, They imposed the "Wildlife Protection Law" which designates the animals as resources owned by the state , the law also encouraged the "domestication and breeding of wildlife" & with that the "Wildlife Farming Industry" was born, small local farms turn into industrialized size operation, farmers were also raising the wide variety of animals which ultimately increases the chances of more viruses into the farm.

As this industry is started booming, eventually, it gave rise to the "Illegal Wildlife Trade", animals such as Tigers, Rhino, and Pangolins are trafficked into China.

As this Trade & Farming are reaching the sky rockets, finally inevitable happen in 2003 when the SARS outbreak takes place in mainland china, it was traced to the wet market in Foshan in southern China, scientist found traces of the virus in civet cats, Chinese officials quickly shut down the market & temporarily banned wildlife farming, But soon after a few months, the chinese government resumed the wildlife farming again & make the civet cats farming legal.

By 2004, Wildlife farming industry was worth an estimated 150 Billion US dollars, in 2016 the Chinese government has even sanctioned the farming of some endangered species like Tiger & Pangolins.

The Wildlife industry has been promoting these wildlife animals as tonic products, body-building products, etc., none of these claims don’t have any concrete proof. 

Organizations around the world are urging and requesting china to ban this wildlife trade permanently, Chinese social media are flooded with the petitions of banning the trade, in response to this China is amending the Wildlife Protection Law.

But unless this action lead to a permanent ban on wildlife farming, outbreaks like this are bound to happen in the future, Hope China will learn the lesson from Coronavirus & will keep the Permanent ban on Wildlife trades.


Glossary -
1) Wet Market - A market where live animals are slaughtered and sold for consumption
2) Famine - Scarcity of food caused by various factors
3) Communist regime - The rule in which everything is owned by the government, countries such as China, Cuba, and North Korea are a few examples of Communist regime
4) Pork - Flesh of Pig
5) Poultry - Type of farming which raises the domestic animals and birds 
6) Civet cats - An animal found in the tropical forest of Asia and Africa
7) Sanctioned - Official permission
8) Endangered - Species at the risk of extinction
9) Amending - Minor changes

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