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...
Mistakes are a natural occurrence; mistakes happen all the time and it doesn’t mean that it’s the end of the world.
Have you been making huge mistakes in just about everything? There are some things/facts you should know about making mistakes.
1. Everyone makes mistakes
2. Mistakes give us the chance to learn, and what’s more important are the things you learn from making mistakes.
3. You can learn from someone’s mistakes, because you wouldn’t have the chance to make all the mistakes.
4. Mistakes humble us all and reminds us that we are only humans at the end of the day.
5. Mistakes give us the chance to learn more about ourselves.
6. You wouldn’t know the stuff you are made of until you are given the chance to right your mistakes.
7. Mistakes teach us the value of forgiveness, and you must first learn to forgive yourself.
8. The vital thing about mistakes is that they teach you what works and what doesn’t.
9. Mistakes give us the chance to improve our skill and increase our knowledge.
10. Sometimes, mistakes are important because they slow us down when we are moving too fast, and give us the opportunity to think and reason.
Show me a wise man, and I’d show you a man that has made mistakes. Imagine what the world will look like if there were no mistakes; the learning curve will be incomplete.
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