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For Cleansing Your Skin

One of the most important factors of skin care is skin cleansing. Because dirt, pollution, residual makeup, etc. can cause havoc to the skin leading to skin ailments and even hastening of the aging process.
Here's what you need to do, obvious may be, but not practiced as it should be:• Always wash your hands clean first. This will prevent the transfer of bacteria to your face.• Start with your hairline first, as hairstyling products attract dirt, and then sweep cleanser over face and lips and down the neck to beyond where you apply foundation.• After you've applied your cleanser, gently massage it in with the balls of your fingers and leave it on for a minute or so to allow make-up to melt away. Then use a soft cotton ball to wipe away dirt, pollution, and cosmetic build-up without tugging at the skin.• Then wash face clean with water and a good quality face wash so that all traces of dirt is gone and skin becomes perfectly clean.

SKIN TONING
Toning is necessary for all skin types and should be made a part of daily skin care routine. Toning is refreshing, improves blood circulation and adds a healthy glow to the skin.• Soak cotton wool pads in skin tonic and wipe face in outward and upward strokes.• Each movement should end at the temples. Apply gentle pressure at the temples.• While applying toner on the forehead, start from the centre and go outward on either side, again ending at the temples.• Apply toner on chin in circular motions.• Tone the neck too, stroking downwards from the chin.• Tone around the eyes, but very lightly.
Making skin tonic at home is simple and easy. All you require is rosewater and witch-hazel. Rosewater is one of the best-known skin tonics and is easily available. Witch-hazel is available at a chemist or homeopathy shop. Toners vary according to skin types:
For normal skinMix ¾ cup rosewater with ¼ cup witch-hazel and store in a jar.
For very greasy skinMix equal quantities of rosewater and witch-hazel and store in a jar.
For dry skinMix ¾ cup rosewater, ¼ cup witch-hazel and ½ teaspoon glycerin or honey and store in a jar.

USE A FOAMING BATH TO TONE YOUR SKIN
• Bathing foams with plant extracts like mint and rosemary are ideal for maintaining your skin’s firmness.• They tone the skin by providing nutrients and improving blood circulation.• For instance, balsam (which contains pine extracts) improves breathing by improving oxygen intake.• And finally remember that toning foam baths are also great energy boosters.

HOW DO I CARE FOR MY SKIN THIS WINTER?
Winter’s here and it’s time to watch out for dry skin, coarse hair, shriveled cuticles and rough hands…Caring for skin becomes adaunting task during winters. Skin turns ultra sensitive and tends to give in to the pressures of pollution and seasonal imbalances rather easily.
A few simple tricks will however, ensure that skin stays supple and pretty pink, here is how:• Use cleansing milk to dislodge dirt and grime especially during winters and if you suffer from dry skin.• Use a generous helping of moisturizer for a smooth, clean complexion. However do not apply moisturizer while stepping out of the house, that way you will only attract more dust, the best time to dab on the magic option is in the evening, after a warm bath.• Your face will thank you for the invigorating cold cream and skin tonic massage you give it just before hitting the sack.• Limit the use of make-up during winter months, as skin tends to burst into pimples.To give body skin a glow, add a spoonful of olive oil to a bucket of hot water for your bath. This gives a glow to the skin. If the skin is very dry massage with warm olive oil fifteen minutes prior to bath

BOOK REVIEW : Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance By Marcus Buckingham (Free Press, 2007)

In 2001, Marcus Buckingham’s, Now, Discover Your Strengths, stormed the shelves of bookstores far and wide, proclaiming a strengths-based revolution on its way to becoming an international bestseller. The book advertised the approach of leveraging strengths rather than fixing weaknesses. As part of Buckingham’s efforts to spark a strength-based revolution, everyone who purchased the book was given access to the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment in order to identify their dominant strength themes.

In the years since its release, two million people have taken the Clifton Strengths Finder. Yet, to Buckingham’s dismay, research has not shown any signs of a strength-based revolution. In fact, in the years since Now Discover Your Strengths, the percentage of employees who claim to regularly tap into their strengths has not increased at all—it remains a mere 17%.

In writing Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Buckingham hopes to transfer the intellectual popularity of strength-based living into actual practice. Whereas Now, Discover Your Strengths familiarized readers with a language to dialog about strengths, Go Put Your Strengths to Work gives readers action steps to apply their strengths day-to-day on the job.

In the second chapter of Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Buckingham walks readers through the important process of capturing, clarifying, and confirming their strengths. Sharing his own experiences, Buckingham helps readers to define, with specificity, the activities in which they feel the strongest. As part of the exercises within the chapter, readers are challenged to create “strength statements” to verbalize the precise nature of their strengths.

In Chapter Five, entitled “Speak Up,” Buckingham gives advice to readers on initiating strength-based conversations in the workplace. He offers tactful, non-threatening tactics whereby readers can effectively voice their strengths and weaknesses to managers or co-workers. The chapter is immensely beneficial for the person who has a firm self-awareness of strengths, but is uncertain how to express them within the confines of job responsibilities.

Buckingham invites buyers of his book not only to read about strengths, but also to participate in applying them. Go Put Your Strengths to Work is a highly interactive book complete with codes for downloading inspiring narrative videos (from the DVD, Trombone Player Wanted). Readers can also take an online survey to measure their level of strengths engagement. Inside the back cover of the book are journal pages designed to help readers capture the activities which significantly strengthen or weaken them.

Marcus Buckingham is easily one of the most influential authors in today’s business world. His latest book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, is an impressive attempt to aid readers in applying their strengths on the job. Readers will find themselves the beneficiaries of carefully crafted tools which will lead them into their sweet spot at work.

THE QUEST FOR IMPERFECTION

We are imperfect people leading imperfect lives in an imperfect world.

We see evidence of this imperfection everyday in the mirror: whether it’s a receding hairline, wrinkles on our face, or the five pounds we’ve wanted to lose.

We are reminded of this imperfection periodically on the roadways: we get a flat tire, our car breaks down, or we are rear-ended.

We are taught this imperfection occasionally by nature: a tsunami wrecks a village, a tornado tears apart a town, or a hurricane decimates a city.

Even though we experience imperfection and accept it all around us, we still fall victim to our own perfectionist streaks from time to time. In her column for Yahoo! Finance, Penelope Trunk spots the dangers of perfectionism and advises readers to break the perfection habit.

The Debilitating Drawbacks of Perfectionism

A Hypercritical Attitude

Perfectionists suffer from an almost neurotic adherence to absurdly high standards. They agonize over the simplest of details, and they are intolerant with the slightest of errors.

Even worse, perfectionists may impose their exacting standards on others. For persons reporting to a perfectionist, the inability to match their manager’s lofty expectations can be intensely frustrating. Sensing their work will be judged as too slow or too sloppy (no matter much effort they put in), workers may be tempted to quit trying.

Paralysis by Analysis

Perfectionists may freeze up in the face of a project because they refuse to start until they see a chance of attaining perfection. Endlessly deliberating, they neglect action. By over-thinking, they rob themselves of initiative, and they may begin procrastinating.

Fear of Failure

Perfections have an irrational fear of failing. Instead of taking healthy risks, perfectionists focus all of their energy on maintaining a veneer of flawless performance. They are apt to squander time minimizing or hiding imperfections rather than capitalizing on their strengths.

Insights on Attaining Imperfection

Discern between Essentials and Non-essentials

A typo on the front page headline of the New York Times—essential. A typo on the agenda of an internal team meeting—non-essential. For those with the perfectionist bent, a healthy balance comes by recognizing which tasks require top-notch excellence and which tasks simply need to be completed adequately.

Cut Yourself (and Others) Some Slack

Mistakes are a natural part of life. Try as hard as we’d like, we still fail from time to time. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice gives us an outlet for mistakes, and mistakes teach us how to be better.

Embrace Uncertainty

Perfectionists are prone to delay decisions until every last piece of information has been gathered and scrutinized. For those paralyzed by perfectionism, progress comes by making room for uncertainty. Decisions will always be accompanied by a degree of the unknown, and, as such, it is vitally important for a leader to be comfortable taking action.

Perfection is a destination no one will ever reach. Excellence is a journey open to all. Strive to do your best, and realize the reality of imperfection.

To peruse the full text of Penelope Trunk’s article “Breaking the Perfection Habit,” visit Yahoo Finance! online: http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/careerist/30301