How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
The biggest difference between winning and losing is the ability to follow through. Here are 5 things you should remember so you can maintain momentum and achieve your goals:
- 1. Remember your vision. It's so easy to lose focus. Perhaps you've been spinning your wheels or things haven't progressed as you'd like. Take some time to remember why you started in the first place. Envision the goal and the satisfaction that will come with its completion. If something is important enough, there isn't anything in the world that can keep you from it.
- 2. Keep the goals ahead of you. Ensure you're still striving to reach the goal. Always be willing to learn more and do more. Keep looking forward and leave negatives and setbacks behind you. By reminding yourself of what is possible, you stay enthused when you need it most.
- 3. Be consistent. If you gave your best every single day just imagine what you could accomplish. Yea sure, you may have heard it a thousand times, but people who, "keep on keepin on" are more likely to see results over someone who keeps giving up. There is no failure in a setback. True failure is quitting. You never know where the next opportunity will come from. So you need to always be upping your game to make sure you're ready to pounce when the moment arises.
- 4. Don't hurry up and wait. Like being consistent, don't let circumstances steal your momentum. This could be people who don't do what they say. Or those who don't return calls. If people aren't moving to your timeline them perhaps you need to be working with people who will. You dictate the tempo. So don't procrastinate!
- 5. Maintain a life balance. Many people chasing their dreams lose focus of some of the important things in life. While working hard and being willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve success is necessary, we should always keep up a healthy work/life balance. Too much of anything isn't a good thing. Spend time with your family and friends. Then return to your tasks at hand refreshed and refocused. Just as long as it develop into distractions.
Maintaining momentum is hard for even the inspired of souls. So don't get down if you have a few bad days. Pick yourself back up and carry on. There will always be a new day, and new opportunities. It's easier to keep the ball rolling if you never let it stop
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