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Quick Tips to Improve Self Confidence
Here are some quick tips to improve your Self Confidence. If we are committed to have a healthy self confidence there are many things you can do every day to boost your self confidence, each small steps that will help you to reach your goal. The good news is that self-esteem is not fixed and can be improved, try some of the steps below to boost your confidence and self-esteem.
1) Identify your successes. Everyone is good at something, so discover the things at which you excel, then focus on your talents. Give yourself permission to take pride in them. Give yourself credit for your successes. Inferiority is a state of mind in which you've declared yourself a victim. Do not allow yourself to be victimized.
2) Look in the mirror and smile. Studies surrounding what's called the "facial feedback theory" suggest that the expressions on your face can actually encourage your brain to register certain emotions. So by looking in the mirror and smiling every day, you might feel happier with yourself and more confident in the long run.
3) Exercise and eat healthy. Exercise raises adrenaline and makes one feel happier and healthier. It is certainly an easy and effective way to boost your self-confidence.
4) Turn feelings of envy or jealousy into a desire to achieve. Stop wanting what others have just because they have it; seek things simply because you want them, whether anybody else has them or not.
{mosgoogle left}5) When you're feeling superbly insecure, write down a list of things that are good about you. Then read the list back. You'd be surprised at what you can come up with.
6) Don't be afraid to push yourself a bit - a little bit of pressure can actually show just how good you are!
7) You can try taking a martial arts or fitness class/course (or both). This will help build confidence and strength.
8) Invest in some new clothing and donate some of your old clothing to send a message to yourself that you both look sharp and feel sharp.
9) Try to make yourself talk positively at all times. When you hear yourself saying you can't do something, stop and say you can. Unless you try, you will never know whether you are able to or not.
10) Don't get wrapped up in your mistakes and dwell on bad points; they can contrast your good points or even give you something to improve. There's no feeling like being good at something you were really bad at.
11) Don't confuse what you have with who you are. People degrade their self worth when comparing possessions.
12) Surround yourself with nurturing friends, not overly critical individuals who make you feel inadequate or insecure. This could do great harm and damage to your self confidence.
Caring Lioness And Her Cubs
Stop tickling me, mum! The endearing images which show the maternal side of lions at play
By Eddie Wrenn
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It looks such a human gesture - a mother leaning over her child to tickle its belly, as the toddler gleefully tries to fend off the attack.
But this is not a little domestic scene played out in lounges across the world, but lion cubs playing with their mother in the national reserves of Kenya.
On this occasion, the lioness was attempting to go off hunting - but the cubs wanted her attention, and pestered her until she relented and agreed to play with them instead.
Whose ticklish then? The fluffy three-month-old lion cub plays with his mother, gently patting her mother's cheeks with a human-like gesture
The siblings relax and play with the lioness in Masai Mara, Kenya, with each cub getting a friendly lick in turn as they prevent their mother from hunting
The fluffy lion cubs are only three-months-old - but thought they could look after themselves.
Their mother tried to make them hide in the bush while she went off to hunt, but they resisted and - like any cute infant - eventually persuaded the lioness to play instead.
Photographer Jagdeep Rajput, 51, said: 'The lioness clearly had plans to go off and hunt wildebeest.
'She wanted the cubs to remain in the bush but three of them were in a playful mood.
'The lioness was perhaps a first time mother and tried to pick up the cubs by the scruffs of their neck and take them inside the bush.
'But they weren't having any of it and resisted. She kept trying, picking them up one by one, but she was not successful.
'Eventually, she ended up playing with them.'
Tickling, while fun for those of all ages, is believed to have evolutionary value, teaching us at a young age to defend their weak spots, such as the rib-cage, from attack.
And, by the looks of it, humans are not the only ones to benefit from the lesson at a young age.
Human behaviour: The pure joy of motherhood - and childhood - seems to be expressed in these images
Mr Rajput took the shots of the animal family while on safari in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
It was the bank worker's first visit to Africa and he was around 15 - 20 feet away from the cubs as they misbehaved close to the banks of the Mara river.
Enchanted, he looked on as the mum nuzzled and licked the mischievous youngsters.
Mr Rajput, from India, said: 'It's not very common to see young cubs from close quarters.
'They were not really concerned about the vehicles around and were behaving naturally.
'It was my first day on safari and I was very delighted with the encounter.
'I used to dream about such a shoot with tigers, which never happened, but the lions obliged me on the very first day.
'It was very sweet and special.'
Mr Rajput's guide then spotted a cheetah preying on a Thompson gazelle in the distance and their party moved off, leaving the cubs to play for the rest of the day.
Profile
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| Awarded ‘Runner-up’ for Gerald Durrell Award in British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ 1995 competition, organized by BBC and Natural History Museum, London. | ||||
| Attended International Symposium on Wildlife Photography at Royal Geographical Society, London in Oct.95. | ||||
| Awarded Honorable Mention in National Geographic Traveler’s Eighth Annual Photo Contest in 1996, USA. | ||||
| Awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in Ballantine’s International Photography Award 1996, U.K. | ||||
| Awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in Canon Asia Pacific Photo Contest 1996, from Canon Singapore. | ||||
| Received prize in International World Heritage Photo Competition by UNESCO France in 1997. | ||||
| ‘Highly Honored Winner’ in the Endangered Species category of the 2005 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA. | ||||
| Second Prize in The Sanctuary-Abn Amro Wildlife Photography Awards 2006. | ||||
| First Prize in the professional category of Canon-WWF Photography contest 2006. The Prize carried a latest digital Canon camera. | ||||
| ‘Highly Honored Winner’ in the Endangered Species category of the 2007 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA. | ||||
| First Runner-up in 2008 Editor’s Pick Awards, USA in wildlife category. | ||||
| ‘Highly Honored Winner’ in the Animal Antics category of the 2009 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA. | ||||
| ‘Highly Honored Winner’ in the Endangered category of the 2010 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA. | ||||
| Highly Honored Winner’ in the Animal Antics category of the 2011 Nature’s Best Photography Awards Competition, USA. | ||||
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| National Geographic Traveler, USA. | ||||
| Nature’s Best Photography magazine, USA. | ||||
| 1998 Travel Calender by National Geographic, USA. | ||||
| Cedco 2000 calender line, USA. | ||||
| 1999 Defenders of Wildlife calender, USA. | ||||
| 2010 Natures Best wall calender USA. | ||||
| The Green Directory I & II published by Visual Communications Group, U.K. | ||||
| Eco Traveler, USA . | ||||
| The Telegraph, UK ; The Sunday Telegraph , UK ; The Independent , UK ; The Sunday Times , UK ; The Daily Mail, UK ; The Mail on Sunday , UK ; Daily Express UK ; Sun , UK ; Daily Mirror , UK ; The Daily Telegraph etc . | ||||
| The Sunday Magazine, UK ; The Economist, UK etc. | ||||
Young Girl Encouraged Lincoln To Grow A Beard
The incredible story of the girl, age 11, who encouraged Lincoln to grow a beard because 'all the ladies like whiskers'
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Even among the distinguished company of former U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln's portrait stands out.
Nearly every schoolchild can pick out the 16th president, thanks his to tall, this frame, his long coat and stovepipe hat - and the distinctive beard on his chin.
The source of the president's facial hair has been revealed as an 11-year-old girl who wrote a letter to the then-Republican presidential candidate and urged him to grow a beard because 'all the ladies like whiskers.'
Read full text of the letters below
Distinctive: This is the image of Abraham Lincoln that Americans have come to know -- stately and with his chin adorned by a neatly kept beard
Political boom: Grace Bedell said Lincoln's face would look less 'thin' if he grew a beard and said he would certainly win the election because 'all the ladies like whiskers'
Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, penned a letter to Lincoln in October 1860 suggesting that he would have a better chance of getting elected if he grew a beard, Mental Flossmagazine reports.
The story of Lincoln's trademark beard has become a source of national interest after the release - and success - of Steven Spielberg's newest film, 'Lincoln.'
Daniel Day Lewis takes on the role of the battle-hardened president as he lead the nation through the brutal Civil War.
Remarkable: Grace Bedell, seen here as a young woman in the 1870s, won Lincoln's heart with her letter
'You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin,' she said.
'All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.'
Women weren't allowed to vote at the time, and did not gain the right until 1920.
Remarkably, the Illinois Senator promptly wrote her back.
'As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now'
He did not promise her a beard, but photographs from the era reveal he stopped shaving shortly after the letter was written.
Weeks later, when he was elected president, Lincoln stopped in New York to visit little Grace on his way from Illinois to Washington, D.C.
A newspaper report from the time captured the scene: 'Mr. Lincoln stooped down and kissed the child, and talked with her for some minutes. Her advice had not been thrown away upon the rugged chieftain.
'A beard of several months' growth covers (perhaps adorns) the lower part of his face.
'The young girl's peachy cheek must have been tickled with a stiff whisker, for the growth of which she was herself responsible.'
Later, Grace told reports that the newly-elected president sat on the edge of the train platform with her and told her 'Gracie, look at my whiskers. I have been growing them for you.'
The exchange between the 11-year-old and one of the nation's greatest presidents became such a strong symbol that when Gracie later moved to Delphos, Kansas, the town erected a statue of the little girl and Lincoln meeting.
Signs on the interstate still advertise the city as the home of 'Lincoln's Little Girl.'
In 2010, a low-budget short film called 'Grace Bedell' was produced, telling the story of the girl's decision to send a letter to the Lincoln.
The saga between Lincoln and Grace does not end there, though.
In 2007 a third letter between the two was discovered.
History in the making: These are the letters exchanged between Grace and then-Republican candidate Lincoln in October 1860
This one is more dire and far less innocent.
In 1864, after three years of brutal war between the states, Grace, now age 15, wrote the president and asked for his help getting a job at the Treasury Department printing banknotes.
'My Father during the last few years lost nearly all his property, and although we have never known want, I feel that I ought and could do something for myself,' she wrote.
She made reference to a previous letter that had gone unanswered and begged Lincoln to remember her as the little girl who convinced him to grow his whiskers.
There is no evidence Lincoln, mired in the war, ever responded to her request.
She later married a former Union soldier and moved to Kansas in 1871, where they farmed a plot of land. Her husband later went into banking.
Grace died in 1936.
A LITTLE GIRL'S AUDACIOUS REQUEST: GRACE BEDELL'S LETTER TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN REVEALED
October 1860
Hon A B Lincoln...
Dear Sir
My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin's.
I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are.
Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter.
I have got 4 brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin.
All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.
My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty.
I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be.
When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chautauqua County New York.
I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye
Grace BedellADVICE TAKEN: HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUICKLY RESPONDED TO LITTLE GRACIE'S LETTER
Miss Grace Bedell
My dear little Miss
Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received - I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters - I have three sons - one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age - They, with their mother, constitute my whole family -
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Your very sincere well wisher,
A. Lincoln
My dear little Miss
Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received - I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters - I have three sons - one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age - They, with their mother, constitute my whole family -
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Your very sincere well wisher,
A. Lincoln
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