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Empowerment is the belief that you can accomplish your goals and have the ability to fulfill your dreams. Empowerment of women is discussed regularly. Education and employment for women have paved the way for the empowerment revolution. But how can you empower yourself? Here is a list of simple but effective ways you can feel empowered in daily life. Take care of your basic needs. Once you are confident about your basic needs being taken care of, you will have less to worry about and more freedom. Take care of your health. Self-care is vital for a happy living. Eat healthily and exercise regularly to feel confident and good about yourself. Stand up for yourself. If you feel you are being treated poorly due to your gender, color or culture, speak up. Accepting that life is full of mistakes and changes is part of being empowered, learn from them and make positive changes for your future. Knowledge has awesome power and the ability to grow the mind. Reading helps build confidence and knowing stuff is always useful.

There is so much talk about being strong, independent, educated and liberal today. Women have burst into the scene like never before, trying to change norms and break cultural barriers. Yet how many of us feel empowered? Social media dictates how we must perceive ourselves and others. Big companies want us to buy into their notion of beauty and how we must look and behave. Beautiful women get more likes, and then they are belittled for exposing themselves on social platforms. Why this condescending attitude towards women? More often than not it is other women who throw dirt on each other. We must stand together; we must be the ones to decide what we wear, where we work and whatever else we want to do. As long as we love ourselves no one has the power to take from us. Teach your daughters the importance of education, teach her that her body is hers alone, stop telling her that she can’t do this or that because of her gender, stop telling your sons to man up, to not cry and talk about their feelings. The only rules we must abide by are the laws of humanity, do no harm to others and live a life of passion and love.

Religion is based on set principles. Principles which are supposed to bring solutions. When solutions failed then new religions came up. Any religion enhancing the survival of one and all is based on almost the same principles. In the past rulers had their own religious guru or teacher to fall back upon. Ruler wanted to base the decision on religious principles of having good for all. Religion is a platform to operate on the maximum good for maximum dynamics. Religion helps one orientate oneself in the bigger scheme of existence. Every one’s action or inaction forces are inhibits other’s existence. Religious landmarks or principles help one make the right ones. Respecting religion and enjoying the power of religion based on it’s workability is it’s real power. Choose your religion based on it’s power of better survival for one and all.

The benefits of volunteering are plenty they benefit your family and your community. It can also help to reduce stress, find friends, reach out to the community, learn new skills, and even advance your career. Volunteering and helping others can help you reduce stress, combat depression, keep you mentally stimulated, and provide a sense of purpose. If you put forth positivity the universe repays tens times more. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. While some people are naturally outgoing, others are shy and have a hard time meeting new people. Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practice and develop your social skills since you are meeting regularly with a group of people with common interests. Volunteering can also help you build upon skills you already have and use them to benefit the greater community. For instance, if you hold a successful sales position, you raise awareness for your favourite cause as a volunteer advocate, while further developing and improving your public speaking, communication, and marketing skills. Your volunteer work might also expose you to professional organizations or internships that could be of benefit to your career. Volunteering is a fun and easy way to explore your interests and passions. Doing volunteer work you find meaningful and interesting can be a relaxing, energizing escape from your day-to-day routine of work, school, or family commitments.

Global Women Power is working on educating the senior citizens. LET SENIORS CATCH UP: Technology has been fast upgrading. Phones, computers and other gadgets at home. Senior citizens struggle to keep up with it. Families are busy explaining it once but more than that ……… Senior citizens are like grown up babies and need TLC more than anybody else. Make them feel important and teach them one thing at a time and repeat as often as needed. We need Volunteers to help. Enroll to be volunteers and spend some time with people who are trying their best to catch up.

At Global Women Power we have started our project for teaching Senior Citizens, the basic computer skills for Free. As we felt teaching Senior Citizens is giving back to the community on our part. We are teaching Senior citizens, who are retired, have time on their hand, and cannot catch up with the advancement of the technology world around them. As often told to us -They feel incompetent and at times overwhelmed by not being part of the world. And some on the other hand need to look for work but cannot find suitable jobs, or they are missing on opportunities which require basic computer skills. The lack of skills have become a barrier for their communication with their loved ones, distances are created in their hearts besides being miles apart. Children, grandchildren and even some peers could play and operate electronic devices at their fingertips. We are welcoming Senior Citizen students with open arms from all walks of life and cultures. So far we have 17 students, most of them have graduated with new skills for life and with a better understanding of the technology. Senior students have to be taught very patiently and using more visually and practically step by step. While teaching seniors, one has to use different teaching tools like repetition and visual presentations as a learning tool. “Below is my experience with my first senior citizen student” A TRAINERS TALE: I had my first Senior Citizen student class today. My student was so excited and happy to learn the different functions of Google drive. And I am so happy that I added value to his life and happiness. He was happy, enthusiastic, and felt satisfied. I was reminded of my father. At the age of 70 years, he also went to computer school with great enthusiasm to learn basics of computers. Going to the school was the highlight of his life then. Nothing would stop him from going to school. He always looked forward to his class. He used to get very disappointed when the tutor cancelled the class. I see that same enthusiasm in my Senior Citizen students today. It’s such a humbling experience. Senior Citizens lives are full of rich life experiences. They know so many skills and they are good are at so many things, they just need to be reminded about it, whenever they feel they are lacking some technical skills. My students refused to believe me when I said I was also learning some new things/ skills with them. It must be so frustrating to see their young grandchildren do things with the computers and other electronic devices / gadgets with much ease. It is indeed a very humbling moment for the seniors. Often the kids and grandchildren do not have the patience or even the time to spend with seniors to teach them basic technical skills. I am so glad to be able to teach seniors and I feel so devoid of words to describe my feelings. Serves a very big part of my life goals – giving back to the community. I have had many wonderful encounters with my senior students. I learnt along the way too, many skills and mainly about life from them.

Outflow gratitude, it heals, fulfills, and energizes. Many researches are being done to prove the point. You do your own research and find out if it works? If it does then insist on others to follow this too. One man can ignite the chain of gratitude and be that one man. Start chains of people habitually expressing gratitude in whole or in part to where it belongs. There is a science behind it and it was known to our ancestors intuitively. Passing on the power to another source and remaining free from the evils of ego were the basics taught to one and all. Gratitude takes off the air and one remains grounded. It is pertinent that one remains grounded to expand. Deeper the roots higher one goes. Observing gratitude is simple and easy. Always look for good, look for good in bad, and never hesitate to welcome the good. Once you receive the good then pass it on to further the cause of goodness. Look for those people who you missed on expressing the gratitude, make a list of them and start today.

The above question is a normal expression for checking out the customer needs. Who is a customer? Is the one who buys goods or services. We all are customers now and then and enjoy the privilege of being served. Being served and being taken care of are two desires which are most sought after. It is the most luxurious sensation. Waiting for it to come your way may not be the best thing to do. Waiting is a killer. One waits for the help and complains of it not coming at the right time or never coming. Why wait, if one can start by passing the help on so one’s wait will be over in no time. Starting one’s day and seeking the opportunity of finding out as to “how may I help today?” Have a fulfilled life with all the luxuries and sensations that keep you interested in the business of living. Be a seller to be a buyer? Find a customer whom you can help today. Bon Voyage!!! – Alka Madan

Future is going to be the next moment which is not there yet. This moment is not going to change to next moment. Next moment is a new moment. Life goes moment by moment. You have the power of creating next moment. You can decide to do it differently. You can decide to do it the same way. Life takes turn the way you want it to. There are external influences around but you let decide to let them influence you. You pick your friends, family members, teammates, players and that is how the game goes. Change the influences on you and you make different choices and hence a different new moment and the future changes. You create your moods, you create your destiny, you create your life. Once the creation is done you are the effect of that creation. You tend to believe that some one else did it for you or you wish that someone up above in the sky is controlling your destiny and if He desires life can be different. For a moment force yourself to smile. See, does it work? Create a blessed day. – Alka Madan

Becoming a minimalist is new word that is catching up. The other day I met a young man who was traveling internationally expanding his business. During the conversation he pointed out that ” I am a minimalist“. The word sounded familiar but made me curious what it entails per him or for that matters for myself. What he meant was that he carries less stuff with him while traveling and it implied a great deal for me. I am traveling too through this journey of life, so less not more is what it takes for an easy journey. Everyone has to draw his own boundaries in being a minimalist. It can be being free of unnecessary holdings in your life, ranging from the clutter in the closet to the clutter in the head. It is your choice as to how much weight can you carry around. You can be free of clutter from the closet just by disowning and making more room but clutter from the head takes a great deal of effort to get rid off. “Reduce your screen time” can be your first step in decluttering your head. Do that for one week and see the result. – Alka Madan