A new wave of free apps for women is making them technology friendly!
Time is a precious commodity for every woman in present times. Professional woman, working from home woman, home manager. whatever category she belongs to, she is getting mindful of how and where she is putting her time. So here is the list of free smartphone apps for the woman of today, which can really transform her life amazingly-
1.Wunderlist (for your time management skills)
Wunderlist is a to-do listing app for me:).The thing that I like the most about Wunderlist is that it is dead simple. Whether you’re planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing multiple work projects, Wunderlist helps you tick off all your personal and professional to-dos. It gives you the freedom to create a bunch of list groupings and under these grouping, you can make tasks also. Your tasks can have a due date, reminder, a note, or a star too.
2.Colorfy (for your creative side)
Coloring therapy for adults now on your mobile. The secret against anxiety. Let the colors fill your mind in a relaxing painting experience. Elected as one of the “Best Apps of the Year” by Google – ” Most Beautiful” category, Colorfy is the free addicting coloring book for adults on Android. Start coloring books now. Enjoy the pictures of the mandala, floral, animals and patterns. Feel like a kid again!
3. Omvana (for a calmer you)
Omvana is a beautiful meditation app created by personal growth company Mindvalley. A mobile and web-based meditation app aim at helping users to achieve various outcomes, such as reducing distress and enhancing well-being. Users as per their needs can choose any track from a large collection of (free) relaxation audios, yoga music, mindfulness meditation tracks, and narrated lessons and guides by different speakers (e.g., Bob Proctor, Laura Silva, and Martin Luther King, Jr.). According to cofounder Vishen Lakhiani, about 50,000 people around the world meditate to their popular “6 Phase Meditation” every morning, which is recommended for intermediate practitioners.
4. Evernote (for you as a multitasker)
Evernote is the super notepad that allows you to keep text, voice, and photo notes accessible from any desktop or device. The free app allows you to take photos, store pictures, write notes, and record voice memos. Evernote helps you remember everything from your daily life to other important tasks. You can sync it with your computer and add a favourite photo or recipe in it.
5. 7 Min Work Out (for a healthy you)
If you cannot squeeze out time for the gym here is an app which can help you do work out at you home. The app guides user to do certain exercises for 30 sec at a time with a ten sec break in between. It is supposed to be high intensity and thus you can maximize your results with all efforts from home. If you follow the workout and push yourself as hard as you can, the developers of the app claim that the programme is equivalent to an hour-long workout.
Charu Mehrotra
Promoting excellence in women!
International Youth Leadership & Innovation Forum (IYLIF 2018) is the not-to-miss event for every student, parent and teacher this year. This is your chance to influence the future of education.
Do education systems do a good job of making children future ready? How will you prepare today’s students for a future where marks will have less priority, where man and machine will work together?
What are the challenges and aspirations of Gen Z’s? Hear it from them, teachers, industry experts and thought leaders. International Youth Ambassadors, educators, experts and parents from various cities around the world are coming together to discuss today’s students and their future at IYLIF 2018. Be a part of it. Are you a student, parent, teacher or a person interested in the future of education and youth development? We are giving you a complimentary seat. Get it at www.iylif2018.eventbrite.com. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments provided.’
International Youth Ambassadors, experts and educators from 10 countries spoke at IYLIF 2017. It was organised at Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore.
Gen Z is the truly digital generation. In that generation, many of the challenges are universal. In this forum, you will go beyond the borders of nations, cultures and systems to interact with global youth, share ideas, collaborate on them and get inspired to make a difference. For details on IYLIF, visit www.iylif.com/iylif2018.
Day 1 – 23 Sep 2018: IYLIF 2018 Annual Conference
Join a distinguished panel of speakers and International Youth Ambassadors to learn, share and discuss. This is your chance to make an influence in the future of education and youth
Day 2 – 24 Sep 2018: IYLIF 2018 Annual Workshop series for Students
Day 2 – 24 Sep 2018: IYLIF 2018 Annual Workshop series for Teachers
Workshops for teachers on 24 Sep 2018
1. How to implement a growth mindset in the classroom so that you can make a difference
2. Storytelling in senior classrooms
Workshops for students on 24 Sep 2018
1. Growth Mindset Workshop
2. Design Thinking Workshop
3. Values and value games to use in classrooms
Get inspired, motivated, provoked and empowered
Pre-registration is a must. Register now at www.iylif2018.eventbrite.com
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‘The Code of The Extraordinary Mind’ is an incredible book which in nutshell gives you step by step guidance for achieving success in life, which author has derived based on lives of the world’s most successful people he interviewed 200+ hours.
The author, Vishen Lakhiani, is the Founder and CEO of Mindvalley, a 200-person-strong company specializing in learning experience design and the digital education revolution. Lakhiani found that the human brain, like computer software, can be hacked. These laws were assimilated from his personal experiences, as well as insights from successful people like Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Arianna Huffington.
In the book, Vishen explains 10 Unconventional Laws to redefine your life & succeed on your own terms. Here are the power quotes from the book which can redefine you –
- “The important thing is to realize is that no matter what these beliefs are, they become true because we act and think in accordance with them. But while your beliefs make you, your beliefs are not you. You can use conscious engineering to swap out old beliefs, swap in new ones, and take on understandings of the world that might serve you better.”
- “I firmly believe that we can bring health on this planet for the planet and the humans on it if we started educating the whole person with all their fundamental potentials and capacities and skills and stopped this fragmented, partial, broken system that we have now.”- Ken Wilber academic writer to Vishen.
- “The power to choose what we want to believe and what we want to disbelieve is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves.”
- “Instead of taking pills or engaging in healthy unhealthy habits to suppress our feelings, we can install systems to be free of them. What’s inspiring is how popular these new systems are proving to be- and how fast and powerful the transformations are. I call these systems transcendent practices. They include exercise on gratitude, meditation, compassion, bliss, and other practices that take you beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experiences.”
- “I used to wake up and the first thing I would do check my smartphone. Now I don’t do that. And just taking this time- sometimes it can be literally a minute to just looking ahead at my day and fill myself with gratitude for the blessings in life and set my intention for the day- it immediately takes away the urgency that we bring into our lives that create such unnecessary stress.” Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post sharing with Vishen.
- “Extraordinary minds are able to bend reality. They have bold and exciting visions for the future, yet their happiness is not tied to these visions. They are happy in the now. This balance allows them to move towards their visions at a much faster rate while having a lot of fun along the way. To outsiders, they seem “lucky”.
- “It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive. Yet in today’s world, we ironically sacrifice happiness for success only to lower our brain’s success rates.
I loved the definition by Vishen- “Most spiritual people in the world today are those who are doing things to push the race forward. To be extraordinary is to be connected to this spiritual aspect for you and to feel it move you to create, change, invent and rattle the world. Extraordinary minds do not need to seek validation from outside opinion or through the attainment of goals. Instead, they are truly at peace with themselves and the world around them. They live fearlessly-immune to criticism or praise and fueled by their own inner happiness and self-love.”
Charu Mehrotra
Promoting excellence in women!
Heart disease usually describes a range of diseases that affect the heart in various ways. It includes diseases of blood vessels, like coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias); heart infections; high BP.
Yoga, meditation are the natural ways help to relive and live an active life. Watch this video to see how yoga poses and meditation helps in reducing heart diseases.
Womenlines wants its readers to prevent heart diseases naturally. Follow these yoga poses as shared by Archana Amlapure, founder of Ojas yoga centre in Singapore and a health coach, a certified Yoga teacher, Yoga therapist and an Influencer for Yoga on Womenlines panel.
Archana has served the corporate industry for twelve years, she finally decided to give up corporate career and explore inner self through Yoga and help people to find their life balance using Yoga as a tool. Her gentle teaching style makes her students at ease and comfortable in the class. She believes that Yoga is a way of life and aims to incorporate all aspects of Yoga into her teaching. She is very enthusiastic about learning new things and new ways, which makes her classes interesting, focused on mind body and soul wellness.
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Underneath the Pink Umbrella as a guest contributor on Womenlines panel. Underneath the Pink Umbrella is a student in Singapore and feels strongly about women issues. This month she is sharing her piece of writing on uncertainty-
Underneath the Pink Umbrella: The glass ceiling that we hope to shatter one day is only but the Edge of the revolutionary change that is needed to achieve gender equality. But I’ve always wondered, what is that metaphorical glass ceiling. Referring to it as the edge, I explore the definition of it, as the struggle between its definition in the Dictionary and all the metaphors one can associate with Edge.
To pull back
Or push through
Questions perpetuate
Us
Me
Who?
All of us taking
Gossamery steps to interrogate the unknown
Or the vault into the dark.
Define “edge” better
Because “the outside limit of an object, area or surface”
Forgets the metaphorical implication
And the placable meaning
Yearns for an unappeasable one.
Dictionaries dictate,
The authority that tempers and forgets.
The edge isn’t just a boundary-
It is the permeable membrane
That selectively absorbs
Yet selectively exiles
Underneath the Pink Umbrella:
Hey! I am currently a freshman studying business, quite boring you might think, right? But I’m passionate about it! Besides that, I’m passionate about women’s rights, which is a topic that has been debated for centuries. A historian and artist, I try to research the story behind everything and imbue creativity in whatever I do. My contributions will show you my stance on women’s issues and offer a historical background and a fresher and more relatable perspective on the world and the women around you.
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Pinkishe is the fastest growing self-help community of the Indian Women. It is a non-government Organisation focussed on the development, well-being, pride and happiness of the Indian Women. Pinkishe helps the women of India grow with pride and dignity by undertaking all causes that impact them. Be it providing financial aid to the needy girl child, fight against social injustice against women, providing them financial independence opportunities, working towards handling women security issues and providing them with a platform for them to interact, share, learn and seek help. It is pleasure to share about Shalini Gupta, the National Secretary General of Pinkishe in the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ section of Womenlines. In a short period of 15 months reaching out to 50 cities in India and building up the team there and getting 1.5 lacs women associated with Pinkishe is really commendable work. Read and listen to her incredible journey in her own words-
1. Please share with our reader’s little bit about yourself.
I am Shalini Gupta, National Secretary General of NGO Pinkishe in India. I am a graduate from Lady Irwin College, New Delhi. I have been associated with the field of education for last 15 years and have been training young kids Abacus and Vedic Math. I have been actively associated with social and community work for last 10 years and have been involved in educating underprivileged kids.
Apart from that, I am a happy and proud homemaker. My family is my priority. Raising my two sons into fine gentlemen is what I always wanted, and I am glad that I have not failed.
Over the last 15 months, Pinkishe has taken over almost everything else. I now spend almost all my time in Pinkishe. Pinkishe is a women organisation and doing wonderful work for women empowerment. Padbank is our one such initiative whereby we are creating awareness about menstrual hygiene among the underprivileged of the society. Pakhi is our other programme where we are creating a network of women lawyers all over India. If a woman is in distress she can call our helpline no.and can connect with our lawyers for free legal councilling. One of our prime objectives is to empower the women by making them financially independent and we are working towards this.
Pinkishe is now 15 months old. It has risen fast. A few of us started it in May 2017. As I mentioned above, social work has been a major part of my life thus far. I have worked at the grassroots level – happy, content & thankful for having the opportunity to be impacting a few lives positively. Over the years, the urge to do something at a larger level increased. Something that can touch many more lives. On one side that thought was building up, on the other side I was getting more and more restless with the condition of women all over the world. Despite the visible positive change in a woman’s life, a very large population still has to struggle with a misogynistic society and its norms. Crimes against women do not appear to be subsiding. It might look or feel otherwise, but at least in a country like India, women’s participation in the workforce has dramatically declined.
To challenge that, we thought women must unite. They will need to come to a common platform and fight the ills themselves. And that paved the way for Pinkishe – an all women platform.
3. Can you share with us some of the challenges you faced during your initial days?
Honestly, we did not face many big challenges. Or rather if I look back, everything about Pinkishe has been a huge challenge but it’s just that we never took a challenge as a challenge. Everything looked like an opportunity.
Actually, the challenge that came our way was a different kind.
Pinkishe grew fast. Women associated fast and came forward to take on responsibilities. Society at large has been very supportive and appreciative. No institution whom we approached ever declined any reasonable support we requested. Setting up processes and handling the growth came as a challenge. Suddenly exploding into 50 branches across the length and breadth of the nation was challenging to handle as it demanded many more hours and many more hands daily than what we had anticipated. But all that extra work and pressure rather motivated us. The challenge has not vanished even today. But we have handled it well and we will continue to do so.
Another practical challenge that came our way, and it was pretty much on the expected lines was that many women who have happily been ‘homemakers’ all through, did not believe in their abilities. They suspected if they had in them what it takes to come out of their homes and start working towards women causes.
But the good part has been, that those fears vanished very soon, and the same women are now actively leading Pinkishe in their cities and doing very well. That, in fact, has been the most heartening aspect of Pinkishe.
4. So how do you balance your personal and professional life?
Well, Pinkishe has been demanding, very demanding! It has led to a complete change of my routine and timetable. I was very apprehensive initially about how my family will take it and cope with my new extremely busy schedule. But they have been most supportive…especially my husband. I think he could notice the content and pride on my exhausted face and has been very supportive. My elder son has just joined a job. The younger one is also quite independent. So I think I have chosen the right stage in my life for doing what I really wanted to do. On my part, I remain constantly aware of the fact that my family needs the same love, attention and involvement. So I ensure that their time does not get sacrificed. Sundays are strictly family and we make sure that we sneak in some vacation time mandatorily!
5. What would you suggest to other aspiring women who want to venture out in the social work field?
Many women don’t feel the need to work outside their homes. Their husbands earn well. But they lose their self-identities overtime. I believe it is essential for any human, and more so for a woman, to never let that happen. Identities are important. It’s important to have a feeling of happiness and pride. Social work I believe is a great medium. By utilizing your time and skills, one attains pride at many levels. You feel great to be helping in nation and society building. You sharpen your skills and feel better. I think every woman who can, should get involved in a little bit of social work and trust you me, you will love it!
6. Is there any person who has mentored/supported/inspired you?
My husband has been my greatest support. He has been that force who has always nudged me ahead. He has stood like a pillar and has never let me fall. I think every man can take a lesson from him. I believe that if a man stands by his lady and shows respects and support to her wishes, women have an amazing wealth of love to share. Families and the society will become a much better place.
7. Can you share some future plans for the venture you are part of?
We believe Pinkishe has just started. It’s in its inception stage. With the kind of vision it has, we have kept the first 5 years as just the stabilizing period. Lots will happen during this period too. We have so many things planned, it will need a lot of space. Rather than talking about that here at this stage, I would rather ask all to walk with Pinkishe. It is going to be an interesting and important journey.
To know more details about Pinkishe visit https://www.pinkishe.org/.
Charu Mehrotra
Promoting Excellence in Women!
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How many dreams do you have? How many of those dreams have you fulfilled?
Most people have hundreds of dreams. But, the number of dreams they actually fulfil is just a minute fragment of that number. Do you want to be like most people or do you want to make positive changes in your life that will help you to unlock your real potential and materialize your possibilities?
Sindu Sreebhavan has justified the title of her book – ‘Infinite Possibilities’— with impeccable precision. It is a fantastic read which can do wonders for you. A well-researched, easy to read book which will prompt you to take action and to witness your own success. In addition, it is a power packed book with easy to follow guidelines to train your mind to unleash your innate potential and to realise your success.
This book is divided into 3 sections:
In the first section, Sindu shares exclusive success stories about how ordinary people became extraordinary by conquering their challenges. In the second section, she explores the Infinite possibilities success manifestos, which are a set of 11 habits, attitudes and behaviours. This section provides the step by step process that will help you to unleash your inner potential. The third section of the book reasons the science behind the Infinite Possibilities and its application in the corporate and academic worlds.
Sindu has presented the stories in a form to get inspired by the courage, action and efforts of successful personalities. The section, Infinite possibilities Lens, at the end of each story, filter out the key learning, highlighting what factors helped the personality in the story to climb the success ladder. You can also find specific Infinite Possibilities manifestos adopted by the personality from the story there. This helps in grasping the efforts and the key qualities these people had developed which can be replicated. Manifestoes will just open your mind in such a way that you will not stop yourself from using them in your daily activities. After reading this section you will certainly work on your goals, uncover strategies and devise a plan to reach those goals. And finally, the scientific explanation will just force you to change your mindset to a growth mindset.
My three takeaways are the three arguments Sindu shared that are essential to building your purpose and to take action-
1. You have more power to influence your mindset and your brain. Hence you can change your intelligence and talents more than you ever perceived.
2. Your mistakes and failures have a greater positive influence and value on your success than you ever reckoned.
3. No matter how young, old, experienced or inexperienced you are, you can take the path to success, irrespective of the opinion of others.
If you have dreams to fulfil, or if you want to help others to fulfil their dreams, Infinite Possibilities is a must read. This is a book for everyone – students, parents, executives and educators.
You are what you believe you are. In order to become what you want to be, get the guidance from this book, which will fill your life with Infinite possibilities!
So, here is my verdict on Infinite Possibilities – Read this book. You can get a copy of it here for yourself or as a gift to someone else.
Charu Mehrotra
Promoting Excellence in Women!