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How to stay focussed?

Ghost Festival - Traditional Chinese Festival

The  Ghost Festival , also known as the  Hungry Ghost Festival  in modern day, Zhong Yuan Jie or  Yu Lan Jie  ( traditional Chinese :  盂蘭節 ) is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in Asian countries. In the  Chinese calendar  (a  lunisolar calendar ), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China). In  Chinese culture , the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called  Ghost Day  and the seventh month in general is regarded as the  Ghost Month  ( 鬼月 ), in which ghosts and  spirits , including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the  lower realm . Distinct from both the  Qingming Festival  (in spring) and  Double Ninth Festival  (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, during Ghost Festival, the deceased are believed to visit the living. On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both  Taoists  and  Budd

How do you structure your abstract thoughts into an executable plan?

How To Be Happy At Work: 10 Simple Tips That Work by Jacob Shriar

This infographic was crafted with love by Officevibe, the engagement software showing you how to be happy at work .

Hootsuite - A modern Social Media Management Tool

Hootsuite is a social media management system for brand management created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system’s user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, MySpace, WordPress, TrendSpottr and Mixi. Additional integrations are available via Hootsuite’s App Directory, including Instagram, MailChimp, Reddit, Storify, Tumblr, Vimeo and YouTube. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has over 500 staff located in Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, London, Sydney, Singapore, and other countries. The company operates on a freemium model and has over 10 million users in more than 175 countries. The service is commonly used to manage online brands and to submit messages to a variety of social media services, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Mixi. Companies and organizations known to use Hootsuite include Facebook, PrintBindaas, the Obama administration, HBO, Martha Stewart Media,

A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai - an IIT-MIT Alumnus and Global Head Google Chrome

The cockroach theory for self development At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice,she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach. Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky. The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group. Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama. The waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant. Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for thei

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