Shafir Ahmad

You Can't Lose Weight - Is It Genetic?

Depending on your racial or your ethnic background, you may find that it is much more difficult to lose weight than other people of other races. So does that mean it is impossible to lose any weight at all, or is it going to frustrate you to the point of ... Read >

8 Things Not To Eat When Trying To Lose Weight

The road to successful weight loss can be bumpy and is filled with temptations and challenges. Accept that you will encounter these sidetracks and then set yourself a goal to overcome each and every one of them. So if you are trying to lose weight... Read >

Work Smarter Not Faster for Maximum Efficiency

With our busy lives and mounting responsibilities we think that the faster we work, or the harder we work, the more we will accomplish. While this sounds good in theory, it is just not true. When we try to work faster, we may lose focus and this results i... Read >

Balance Your Work Life and Home Life

Balancing your work life and your home life can be very difficult. Your job can require more of you than you are able to give in a typical 8 to 10 hour day. A lot of people will bring work home with them at night or on the weekends or will work longer hou... Read >

Deal with Time Wasters for Effective Time Management

There are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated internal time wThere are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated intern... Read >

Six Ways to Become More Efficient At Work And At Home

Most of us are eager to give of ourselves and then give some more. Whether it's giving advice to friends or coworkers, volunteering for activities in the community or at our child's school or just saying yes to every request that comes our way. What happ... Read >

Eliminate Six Common Mistakes in Time Management

Do you wish there were more hours in a day to get everything done? Well, isn't it true that you have the same amount of hours as any other person on this planet? Maybe what you need is not more hours, you just need to learn to manage the hours you already... Read >

Stress Management Techniques To Help Deal With Being Too Busy

If you are like most people, you find yourself in a mad dash from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed. People these days are busier than ever before and this adds a lot of stress. But there are ways to reduce the stress of being busy by mana... Read >

Make Your Time Count by Scheduling and Prioritizing

If you are like most people today, you live a very busy life. You wake up in the morning and before you know it, bedtime is here again and you feel like you still have a million and one things to do. This can cause a lot of added stress in your life - str... Read >

How To Conduct Productive Meetings?

One of the biggest time wasters in the workplace is the endless stream of meetings. There is the weekly work-in-progress meetings, there are monthly meetings, there is the daily request for impromptu meetings and then there are meetings over lunch. It... Read >

How To Manage People Who Waste Your Time At Work?

One of the challenges facing you in today's workplace is the constant stream of distractions that happen on an on-going basis every single day. At the end of the work day, you often wonder why you have not completed that task or written that document whic... Read >

Make Time For Important Things By Making An Appointment With Yourself

We only have a limited amount of time each day, and it is important that we get as much as possible out of our day. Often we are inundated with things to do that are urgent, and lots of stuff that just happens to need to be done today. So we may waste our... Read >

When Does Confidence Become Arrogance?

Arrogance is Total Confidence? Recently, I had the "pleasure" of meeting someone who is a successful businessman, and trainer. However, after our introductions, I instantly disliked him. Why? you may ask. Something about him seemed out of place. I h... Read >