We have just one life and we all are here to live it once, right?

Then why don’t we start living it for real, start living it for a good cause, start living it for a good reason?

Why can’t we have a goal to achieve and why can’t we have a momentum to maintain?

I remember reading somewhere that good people come in our life, stay like good books that have plenty of advice to offer and often leave us in the middle of the life to make us follow that advice on a serious note.

We all have a momentum to achieve, but are enough serious about it?

Let take a look at some ways to keep your momentum going.

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Stage fright is a legit concern for lots of people. If you are one of these people than you absolutely dread any situation when all the attention in the room is on you.

Whether it is conducting a presentation or making a speech, your nervousness will cause adrenaline to flow, which will result in a blood rush to your face otherwise known in layman’s terms as blushing.

Although it is not the end of the world, it can often divert your audience’s attention away from the topic of discussion.

Controlling blushing is strictly a mental process (even if it doesn’t seem that way) with a mixture of preparation.

Here are several tips to stop blushing when public speaking or to cope with your nervousness of public speaking which causes blushing.

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Laughing is a great way to release the harmful stress that comes with day-to-day life. It’s nice when done at the right times. But imagine how weird you’d look when you’re walking in the street and bam! You burst out laughing. Or in class, in the middle of a lesson, the giggles unexpectedly show up. The glares you’ll get will be enough to make you wish you’d disappear.

But what if you can’t help it?

You really wish you could but the habit seems to have the final say every time. The good news is, you can control it and dictate when it should happen. Sounds impossible? Well, here are some simple tips that will help you regain control and laugh only when necessary:

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Have you ever had a conversation with another person who – in the entire conversation – never looked you directly in the eyes or, if they did make eye contact, it was only for brief moments and most of the time they gazed somewhere else?

Eye contact is one of the major (and maybe even the most important) non-verbal cues for expressing confidence and the more the ability you have in making eye contact, the more you will  show how confident you are and logically it’s therefore important for everyone to have decent eye contact skills to help make sure that your conversations are done the best way possible. If you can get yourself to make good, regular, eye contact – ideally without freaking out the person you’re talking to because you’re staring at them too much – you’ll find things generally go better and more smoothly for you.

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According to Marc Brackett from Yale University, emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your instinctive feelings as well as those of others. It allows you to read and label emotions as well as regulate and express them appropriately. Most people think they are able to do the above. But according to Brackett who is the founding director of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence most people greatly overestimate their emotional intelligence.

EQ is crucial because according to psychological experts the ability to understand and respond to personal emotions and the emotions of other people is a key factor in determining future happiness, health and professional and personal success. Knowing this, it is clear that everyone should take some time and investigate the emotional intelligence strategies for success.

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Sometimes in life we go through experiences that leave us hurt and sometimes traumatized. These experiences tend to hold us back from moving on with life or they define every decision that we make. These can cause you to be paranoid, afraid and anxious to live and thus events pass you by.

If you have had such an experience that is causing you not to focus on your present life, then there are a few points to help you let go of whatever happened to you in the past:

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Some of us have the problem that having a good night sleep away from home is difficult to achieve. You may feel every last drop of noise from your surroundings causing you a hard time to fall asleep or making you stay awake the whole night.

Other people experience a deeper anxiety of sleeping away from home and it can be a very tough time for them. The only way to overcome this kind of issue is to develop a relaxed and peaceful state of mind while spending a night at other places.

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Meditation is undoubtedly a great way to unwind and de-stress and also to improve your emotional well-being as well as spiritual happiness. In fact, a majority of people would like to experience all these positive aspects of meditation.

However, it can be quite challenging to devote an adequate amount time to meditate because of the high speed of today’s life.

Life gets in the way too often. But if you go through these tips for finding the motivation to meditate you should find one that resonates with you and gets you back on track.

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Comfort zones are – by definition – comfortable places to be. And unless you’re a complete adrenalin junkie, chances are you like to be comfortable.

Actually, even adrenalin junkies are inside their comfort zone when they’re doing those things that scare the living daylights out of the rest of us.

But near enough all of us have a range of things we do and places we go that are comfortable and it’s rare to stray outside those self imposed limits.

Even if we’d actually enjoy the new things once we tried them.

Here are some ideas to help you get out of your comfort zone.

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The things you say to yourself is self talk – whether that’s positive or negative.

It doesn’t matter if the self talk is spoken out loud (although other people might look at you slightly weirdly if you do that within earshot) or “spoken” inside your head. It’s still self talk.

And – if you’re like lots of people – that self talk is more often than not negative.

Turning round that negativity so that your self talk is more often positive is an excellent aim.

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