Is Jogging the most effective out of all the approaches to loose fat

 Most people think jogging is the best for loosing weight and belly fat. Whenever someone needs to lose weight the most common advice is for them to eat less and up the cardio. And jogging has been one of the most popular forms of cardio for the longest time.

But is jogging really an effective method to get you to lose weight and look ripped? The answer to that is yes it can help you lose weight and it can help you burn some body fat and get more defined.
However the real question should be - " Is Jogging the most effective out of all the approaches to loose fat." And the answer to that is no.

What  jogging is going to do for you-  
It  helps you burn off a few extra calories. These few extra calories can lead you to a greater overall calorie deficit which will end up causing you to burn some extra body fat.

But what if we lifted weights instead of jogging-
Jogging burns about 400 to 500 calories per hour. Lifting weights burns about 200 to 250 calories per hour. But, weight training helps you to burn calories even after you are not lifting the after burn effect of weight training even when you are resting, thereby increasing over all burn of calories.

If you are not very fond of Jogging try any one of these, they will burn much more calories in same time duration- Sprint Intervals, Swimming, Skipping, Rowing, Burpees, Dancing, Playing any sports.

Akhilesh Mittal

How to manage Time Trap

 Other people are a key source of demands on our time and usually have no respect for our priorities. It is essential to be able to handle people both in an active way – delegation (for example) and in a reactive way – dealing with interruptions (for example). Communication skills in general are key here – the ability to listen to others, to clarify by summarizing & questioning and to express your own views assertively. These must also include the ability to say no! Specific areas are:

Managing upwards:

This is a critical area in time management. The boss is seen by many as key factor in disrupting time management plans. One needs to be aware of how to delegate upwards and to work with boss in setting clear goals and targets for time management. One has the right to expect boss to treat in the same way as one would be treating your subordinates. Sometimes, of course, this is not realistic. If organisation is one where the boss’s word is law, then it can be difficult to say no – or to avoid priorities being changed by the boss without consultation. However, if this the case then inefficiency is bound to result – something for which one should not blame himself.

Delegation: Using others effectively:

Delegation is the process of giving someone else (usually subordinates) the authority to carry out tasks that are part of ones responsibilities. In order to do this effectively, one has to brief them fully and be assured of their competence and willingness to carry out the task. This may involve training – it certainly means knowing them well.Delegation can leave an individual relatively free to concentrate on those aspects of job which one needs to.

Subordinates should know:

– The nature of the tasks and clearly defined targets for each of them.

– Clear boundaries on decision-making areas.

Subordinates also have the right to expect that the boss will not waste their time by:

–  Interrupting them unnecessarily.

– Making demands which can wait.

– Not setting clear priorities.

– Running meetings badly.

–  Inadequate briefings.

 Dealing with colleagues:

Colleagues, friends, networks of people are usually essential for both support and communication purposes. They can add to the quality of managers decision and improve working life. As in other areas the key is balance between enjoying relationship with them and spending too much time with them that may be detriment to  work. Firm but friendly adherence to your work is probably the best path to follow.

Meetings and interviews:

Meetings take much of people’s working time and require specialized skills in themselves. Some key questions:

–  Do they have set time limits? If not, why not?

–  Are their purpose clear?

–  Do you need to be there?

–  Are they well run? Agenda planned?

–  Are actions allocated and carried out ?

If the answer to any of the above is no, action is needed!

- Akhilesh Mittal

Entrepreneurial Factors That Distinguish 'Billionaires' From 'Millionaires'

To the average person, "millionaire" and "billionaire" sound similar; they're both people with money, right? And, indeed, both have access to far more wealth than the average citizen, and neither may have to worry about money ever again.

Furthermore, because entrepreneurship is often the route to wealth accumulation, both may have earned their way to riches the same way. Yet while their monikers "millionaire" and "billionaire" sound the same, there are in fact significant differences between the two.

For starters, the difference between a million versus a billion dollars is immense. To put it in context, consider that one million seconds amount to 11.5 days, while one billion total 31.5 years!. A billionaire could give his or her wealth away and make 1,000 new millionaires overnight.

There are 2,200 billionaires on the planet and while some of these wealthy elite gained their status from a family inheritance, many of the top-ranked billionaires are entirely self-made through entrepreneurial endeavors. So, what separates these hyper-successful entrepreneurs from millionaires, who are also considered successful?

These are some of the  factors distinguishing billionaires from millionaires:

1. Goals and commitment

First, it's important to consider the billionaire’s goals and commitments. Very few people become one accidentally; instead, billionaires tend to relentlessly pursue wealth, and refuse to compromise to achieve it. Consider the entrepreneur who grows an innovative tech startup for a few years, then gets an acquisition offer from a major tech company for, say Rs 50 crores

This isn’t exactly rare; Alphabet makes a dozen or more such acquisitions every year. A “typical” entrepreneur might cash out and take the Rs 50 crores as a personal victory (and early retirement). A billionaire, however, setting his or her sights higher or living out a commitment to the business's core idea, might reject the Rs 50 crore in hopes of obtaining something better, or growing the business further.

Though these rejections don’t always pan out, you can’t become a billionaire by settling to be (just) a millionaire.

2. Scale

What should also be considered is the scale on which billionaires operate. If we consider profit as a product of both efficiency and impact, then the more locations your business reaches, the more money you’re going to make. Owning a chain of restaurants in one state might make you a millionaire, but you’ll need to change the world on an international scale if you want to be a billionaire.

3. Repetition

Billionaires rarely make their riches by starting just one business. In some cases, they experience a crushing failure and apply the lessons learned from that failure to future endeavors. In other cases, they settle for selling a company for a few million dollars, only to roll those funds into bigger, better startup ideas They’re not only willing but eager to repeat the entrepreneurial process over and over again to achieve success.

4. Budget and self-control

There’s a reason why so many lottery winners end up losing everything. It’s because poor financial habits and decisions end up bankrupting them no matter how much money they start with (conversely, good financial habits and financial decisions can put you ahead even with a modest income).

Billionaires -- when they first reach millionaire status -- tend to avoid spending lavishly or wasting their money, which makes it easier to grow their wealth even more and retain what they’ve acquired. Some even take this practice to an extreme: Warren Buffett, for example, still lives in the Omaha, Neb., house he bought for just $30,000 in 1958.

5. Passion

You don’t become a billionaire by just "getting the job done." That level of wealth requires you to constantly come up with new ideas; adapt and refine your ideas when challenged; and put in long, hard hours throughout the entire process. While plenty of millionaires can certainly be described as passionate, their level of passion often pales in comparison to that of billionaires (think: Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey).

Modern Lifestyle drifting away kids from family

Recently, one of my friends after coming from family vacation shared his experiences of being together with his father and his teenage children. While in car, his father wanted to listen to Bollywood music of 70s and children protested that they can’t bear those drowsy songs. While having the breakfast when my friend sipped the tea from cup, children started shouting “Dad, please be courteous, slurping is very indecent behavior”. My friend found it difficult to react to this observation.

It was very annoying for my friend to realize that both of his teenage kids were hardly talking to each other or to their grandfather. The younger one was busy with games on his tablet where as elder one had earphones and most of the time listening to music. My friend also realized that this situation was unlike his childhood when the entire family enjoyed with each other during any outing.

The progress of technology in 20th century has lead to inevitable differences in taste, attitude, opinion, thoughts, style of fashion, values, beliefs and interests. This may comfortably be called a generation gap and dismissed, but it has deeper meaning into “family co-existence” and well being of society as a whole.

With advent of so-called fast food joints like KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and many others, the difference in taste and food habits between parents and present day kids have widened. Many would argue that food-is-a-food , irrespective of traditional home made food or fast food. But, the pertinent fact is that number of calories in fast food is immensely high in comparison to homemade food, resulting into obesity at young age. The problem is compounded by fact that Television, Internet in home computer, Tablets and Mobile phones has forced children to enjoy more with these gadgets and restricted them to play in open field, at least in urban areas.

Children of 21^st century have begun to challenge their traditional customs and adopt some of new cultural values which are highly influenced by social media, television and music. Children enjoy the company of their friends rather than to spend time with their parents or grandparents. Today’s communication and emotional gap between children and parents will eventually yield separation between parents and children when they grow up. And the major reason that parents live an isolated when they grow old. 

Nine men have more combined wealth than the poorest four billion people

A recent study released by Oxfam, released in January 2018, Nine men have more combined wealth than the poorest four billion people.

Jeff Bezos ( Founder and CEO of Amazon.com)  — $108.9 billion

Bill Gates ( Co-Founder Microsoft ) — $91.9 billion

Warren Buffett (  Investor and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway which wholly owns GEICO, Dairy Queen, BNSF Railway, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom,Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and also owns 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; 26.7% of the Kraft Heinz Company, and significant minority holdings in American Express (17.15%), The Coca-Cola Company (9.4%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), IBM (6.9%), and Apple(2.5%))  — $90.1 billion

Amancio Ortega ( Business of Real Estate and fashion retail ) — $75.8 billion

Mark Zuckerberg ( CEO and Founder of Facebook ) — $72 billion

Bernard Arnault (CEO of LVMH, which houses brands such as Louis Vuitton, Sephora, and Dom Perignon,)

— $68.7 billion

Carlos Slim Helu (Chairman of telecom firm, América Móvil,also owns stakes in various mining, real estate, and consumer goods businesses — including The New York Times.) — $67.6 billion

Larry Ellison (Co-founded Oracle)— $60.4 billion

Larry Page(CEO and co-founder of Google ) — $52.2 billion

There are over 1,500 billionaires in the world, with more than 560 in the US alone. China, Germany, and India each have 100 or more billionaires

Start counting calories to remain slim.

Being Slim or over weight is matter of choice. 
Being over weight means that you are eating more calories than what you burn each day. 

Simple formula :  Calorie out (burned) - Calorie In (What you eat) = Always should be positive

Usually people go to gym, burn 300 to 400 calories and eat more that 500 calories more. It can never lead to reduction of weight. That is why you see so many remain the same even after regularly going to gym

Don't blame your genetics or age or job. You are over weight because you eat much more than what you burn. 

Every deficit of 3500 calories per week will make you reduce 400 gm ( 1 lbs) each week. So, go and burn calories or maybe start counting calories what you eat.

Steve Jobs - Redefining sucess

Apple Computer started in a garage

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs’ family garage. They funded their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.

Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers, and — with Jobs in charge of marketing — Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million.

In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to take over the role of CEO for Apple.

The next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws, however, resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple in sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC-dominated business world.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible. Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.

Pixar the next venture after being thrown out of Apple Inc

In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the company. The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles; Pixar's films have collectively netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

Reinventing Apple – Back to Apple

After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs began a new hardware and software enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The company floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America, and Apple eventually bought the company in 1996 for $429 million. In 1997, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Just as Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s.

With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. Jobs’ ingenious products (like the iMac), effective branding campaigns and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again. In the ensuing years, Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which dictated the evolution of technology. Almost immediately after Apple released a new product, competitors scrambled to produce comparable technologies.

Battle with Cancer

In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pesco-vegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months, Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stock if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs' confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.

Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss, some predicting his health issues had returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs responded to these concerns by stating he was dealing with a hormone imbalance. Days later, he went on a six-month leave of absence. In an e-mail message to employees, Jobs said his "health-related issues are more complex" than he thought, then named Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, as “responsible for Apple's day-today operations."

After nearly a year out of the spotlight, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event on September 9, 2009. He continued to serve as master of ceremonies, which included the unveiling of the iPad, throughout much of 2010. However in January 2011, Jobs announced he was going on medical leave. In August, he resigned as CEO of Apple, handing the reigns to Cook, and in October he passed away.

Source- biography.com