How To Take Lecture Notes

How To Take Lecture Notes

Before The Lecture

• Print out the lecture notes if you can
• Fill out any example problems that are meant for you to do before the lecture
• Read the section to be discussed
• Take notes
• Come prepared with any question

During The Lecture

• Fix and mark up your notes
• Highlight anything the professor emphasizes
• Write important notes in the margins
• If you can, get your questions answered
• Make important connection

After The Lecture

• Complete homework or practice problems
• Optional: rewrite your notes into heat and colorful summaries

How To Remember (Almost) Anything

How To Remember (Almost) Anything

• Quiz, don’t reread

Recalling information builds pathways that strengthen recall in the future. Passive exposure rarely makes things stick.

• Visualize it

Associating information to sensation is memorable, and vision is strongest cue for most people.

• Structure it

Break up the information into parts or sub-parts. Put related things together in a meaningful order.

• Give it meaning

Your brain is set up to capture information that means something to you. Before you try to remember something, be sure you understand it.

• Relate it to yourself

Personal relevance makes things stick and takes advantage of what you already know.

• Create a cue 

Figure out what is most forgettable about the information and link that to something that’s more vivid or easier to recall.

7 Tips for Effective Time Management

7 Tips for Effective Time Management

1. Know Your Goals
   Your daily plan should revolve around working on tasks and activities that directly relate to generating income and growing your business.
2. Prioritize Wisely
   Organize your to-do list based on how important and urgent tasks are.
3. Plan A Head
   The time you spend thinking ahead and planning your activities is important and it helps you stay organized.
4. Eliminate Distractions
   Start paying attention to the number of times someone interrupts you when you’re in the midst of an important task. Your smartphone is useful, but it’s addictive and a huge time-waster.
5. Delegate More Often
   There’s always more work to take off your desk. Running a successful business depends upon the owner’s ability to think about what lies ahead and not get mired in day-to-day operations. Find opportunities to pass responsibility for specific tasks to others.
6. Watch What You Spend
   Make sure you keep track of how much money you’re spending, and knowing exacly how much you spent at the end of the week. That will be help you save money and see where most of your money goes.
7. Take Care Of  Yourself
   Be sure to get plenty of sleep and exercise. An alert mind is a high-functioning mind and one that’s less tolerant of time-wasting activities.

 Top Time Mangement Skills

• Prioritizing
• Scheduling
• Keeping a To-Do List
• Resting
• Delegation

How To Enrich Your Vocabulary

How To Enrich Your Vocabulary

The most important thing about learning vocabulary is to use new words and just reading a list of new words would not help. It is essential to remember the new word learnt so here are some tips that will help you to do so.

Use the new word in a sentence
 After you have read the word and understood its meaning, use the new word in your own sentence. Try to create sentences in context with your daily life.

      Listen to Music in English and learn the lyrics

     Listening to music in English is great but do you struggle to understand all of the words that they are singing? Struggle no longer! You can find the lyrics of many songs on these two websites: A to Z Lyrics Universe, Lyrics.com or you could search for the lyrics on google or your preferred search browser.

  
Make Flash Cards

      Make little flash cards with each new word on one side and the meaning on the other. Put them on the ground and if the meaning is face up try to think of the word or vice versa.

           Learn the word again before you forget

      Don't just learn or practice a word a day and then forget about it. It’s important to remember it. Therefore to remember it reuse the word keep practicing it till it sticks in your long term memory.

     Watch children’s cartoons

     Watching cartoons is a great activity for learning English. You will hear simple English and be able to see illustrations or animation of what they are talking about at the same time. Cartoons are often repetitive so you may hear some things more than once to help you improve you listening comprehension.

         Speak in English with someone

    Try to find someone to speak English with; whether it be a friend, family member or colleague from your work. The more you practice talking in English the better you will get at it. It will become more natural for you and you will start to feel less nervous when you have to speak English.

These six tips would help you to learn and remember new words and therefore increase your vocabulary which eventually would excel your communication skills.

How to Get Longer Hair Fast

How to Get Longer Hair Fast

Growing your hair out can be a frustrating experience, especially if it seems to be taking forever. Thankfully, you can make the process a little bit quicker by altering your normal hair care routine and using various hair growth techniques.

Taking good care of your hair:

Change the way you wash your hair. Factors like how often you wash your hair and what water temperature you use can affect the length of your hair. That's because washing your hair too often (think every day) and using super hot water will cause it to dry out and become brittle. That leads to hair breakage, preventing your hair from growing long and thick. The solution? Wash your hair no more than 3 times a week, and use the coldest water you can handle.

• At first, washing your hair less often might make it look a little greasy. Wear a hat for a few days until your scalp gets used to producing less oil and things balance out. It shouldn't take long!
• If you hate showering in cold water, try washing your hair in the sink with cold water separately from your regular showers. When you shower, keep your hair wrapped up in a shower cap.

Dry your hair gently. Do you towel dry your hair roughly, brush it out, and blow it dry? You're breaking your hair! It won't get the chance to grow long and strong, because you're handling it too roughly while it's wet. Think of your hair like a garment made of good fabric; you wouldn't just throw it in the dryer, you'd carefully lay it out to gently air dry. Treat your hair with the same gentle care. After washing, gently pat it dry with a microfiber towel or t-shirt and let it finish air drying.

•     Don't brush your hair while it's wet. Wet hair tends to stretch and break more easily than dry hair. If you need to detangle it, apply a conditioning product, such as a leave-in conditioner. Then, use your fingers and a wide-toothed comb to gently work through the tangles.
•     Don't blow dry your hair except for special occasions. Blow drying often really does cause damage in the form of breakage, frizz and split ends, and it's not easy to repair; you just have to wait for fresh hair to grow out.

      Don't use harsh chemicals on your hair. The shampoo and conditioner you use may be contributing to poor hair growth. Most commercial shampoos contain sulfates, which strip your hair of its natural oils and leave it susceptible to damage. Conditioners contain silicones that coat the hair with chemicals and need to be washed out with more strong shampoo. This cycle is really damaging to hair! Here's what you can do instead:

•      Give your hair one last wash with a strong shampoo, such as a clarifying shampoo, to get rid of any remaining silicones. Don't condition it this time; just gently detangle it and let it air dry.
•      Give your hair a break for a few days. Don't do anything to it - don't wash it, straighten it, or use any products.
•     Next time you wash your hair, use an all-natural shampoo. Read the label and use a shampoo that contains only natural oils and other cleansers, no chemicals. 
•      Condition with diluted apple cider vinegar. This really works, and when it dries you won't smell like vinegar at all. For a deep-conditioning treatment, try using coconut oil. You'll never want to go back to the chemical-laden stuff you used before.

     Try all-natural hair styling techniques and products. In a similar vein, start using gentler methods when it comes to styling your hair. Use heating tools like curling irons, straighteners, and of course hair dryers only sparingly. Switch out chemical-filled hairsprays and gels for natural versions. This gives your hair the chance to grow long and strong, taking on its own unique, beautiful texture.

•      You can make your own hair gel from non-harmful ingredients.
•      To smooth flyaways and frizz, apply a little argan oil or another cosmetic oil to your hair, rather than using an over-the-counter product.
•      Try natural methods to curl your hair without heat or to straighten it without heat.

     Use a mask on your hair once every two weeks. This will help repair any damage that's been done to it by replenishing your hair's moisture. Afterward, your hair will feel soft, silky and healthy, and it'll stay healthy long enough to keep growing out.

•      Try a hot oil mask using coconut and almond oil, as coconut oil has high penetration and deep conditioning power while almond oil adds extra shine to the weak dry hair. Massage the oil into your hair and put on a shower cap. Sit under a hooded hair dryer if you have one, or run a warm blow dryer over the cap for about 10 minutes. Then, remove the cap and wash your hair. Alternatively, apply the hair mask and braid your hair then put it in a bun and put a shower cap on. Keep your hair braided for at least day and night for three months and your hair will grow one to three inches more than normal hair growth.
•     You could also try using warm olive oil, cinnamon and honey - this lightens your hair as it conditions it.

     Protect your hair from external damage. Cover it up when you spend long hours in the sun, swim in a chlorinated pool, or hang out where there's a high level of air pollution. Your hair can get damaged by repeated exposure to these elements, so tie it up in a scarf, wear a hat or swim cap, and make sure to use gentle washing and drying methods afterward to keep it healthy.

How To Make Yogurt Fruit Salad

How To Make Yogurt Fruit Salad

Who doesn’t like salad? Let alone a fruit salad using many fresh fruit with a great creamy sauce! It will taste even better when it is cool, no wonder a fruit salad is so popular in the online business. Here it is the fruit salad recipe!

The complete recipe of Yogurt Fruit Salad can be seen below.

Ingredients:

Green Grape

Red Grape

Strawberry

Papaya

Honeydew

Watermelon

Mandarin orange

Kiwi

Flavour jellies

300 gr cheese

Sauce:

500 gr mayonnaise

500 gr plain yogurt

500 ml sweet condensed milk

100 ml honey

200 ml lemon juice

1 tablespoon lemon zest

How To Make:

1. Cut all the fruit, then cut the jelly into dices, set aside.
2. Prepare one big bowl, then mix all of the sauce ingredients. Mix well and taste it.
3. Mix the fruits and jelly with the sauces, add grated chesee. Mix well.
4. Ready to be served.