DIY Baking: First Attempts at Garlic Bread

Me & Moha have been on a culinary exploration spree with Moha being the creator, me the ideator and the nuisance in the kitchen. Our tryst with homemade chocolates was good. Now, the focus has shifted towards different types of bread. Moha can make the most excellent naans using the basic tawa. Her control over the dough is enviable. She understands the consistencies so well. Like I said, my handy and timely inputs and the ability to taste and crib about anything is also a useful accessory. Together, we create a reasonably good team. Our experiments with different types of bread are growing rather steadily. She has created some awesome thin pizza bases. Each of these was finely baked. The crust is crispy and not too chewy.

Life Motivation Quotes that Don’t Relay the Right Idea Unless you don’t Value the Present!

There has to be that zeal in your daily schedule. You must wake-up with a fire than helps you burn your challenges through the day. Your apps, your daily reminders and even the desktop image should reinforce your goals, remind you so that you don’t deviate towards the path of compromises. However, does keeping your eyes fixed only on the goal really help? The Summit represents the goal of a journey but the path itself, the stopgap arrangements, the anxieties and unexpected wisdom that usually comes in the most unexpected manner also matter. These are not to be valued lesser or totally ignored.

Palm Clenching to Navigate Anxious Oceans | DIY Anxiety Management

You might want to read my post about using hand grippers to handle oncoming anxiety first to get an idea about this piece of writing. Essentially, after seeing all those stress balls lying around, even shown on TV and the movies, I decided to try this technique of keeping your hands busy to calm yourself. Yes, it works! Now, I am trying to find ways of using this more as a part of my daily life. Clenching your palms is easy. Yes, you can clench a lot of things but not every type of clenching is about releasing the pressure that builds up over a period. From my observations, being anxious and clenching the muscles around your gut can worsen issues like mental health-linked IBS. Now, read ahead to understand this very common but rarely talked about anxiety management tip:

Industrial Theme Workplaces Work but Too Rustic? That Might be Decadence you don’t Want!

Industrial design workplace at hongkiat.com [creative-modern-office-designs]

Industrial styled interior designing is considered chic and I agree, there is something very likable about it and workplaces should try it. At workplaces, industrial designing has really picked but I feel the line between a workable, and productive, industrial theme and something that can actually dent the office productivity levels is thin and often misunderstood. Industrially styled spaces are more like practical living units without trying to hide anything.

Always count your reps, measure your breath, worry about the hurting? Lift More!

This must be the simplest, somewhat savage, gym advice you have recently come across online – you need to push yourself harder at the gym for making sizable gains even if it seems that you are moving away from the rationale of making your body grow or making it stronger in a more scientific way. Does that mean you abandon safety? NO. This does mean you walk within the realms of reason-ability but push yourself every now and then to spurt the gains? YES!

When Couple Therapy means getting along with a Man & Wife you cannot connect with!

It is a fair assessment that I have led a socially handicapped life. Two things contributed to this. Firstly, there was no social media during my growing years. Secondly, I was weirdly wired-out when it came to inter-personal communication. While these demerits have been identified and dealt with to a large extent, some demons can never be hidden forever. There are days when I am still fazed by the prospect of meeting people, especially those whom I don’t know at all. As a part of our couple socializing endeavors, we have had some success in getting acquainted with couples or half-couples who otherwise would have remained total strangers to us. However, when that old infection of social setbacks resurfaces, I find it hard, almost impossible to make small talk.

Night-outs Should Be Exploring Without Scheduling | Planners, Stay Away!

I realized this when one of my colleagues was discussing about a night-out with her gang of girls. Apparently it was someone’s birthday in the group and the night-out was supposed to be about visiting a bakery, getting handmade chocolates and then arriving at a dining destination that was safely wrapped with pre-booked seats and a great deal on snacks and drinks. Even the cab routes were confirmed so that everybody could meet-up in time for the day’s itinerary.

4 Breakfast Tips Most Lifestyle Bloggers are Doing All Wrong!

Don’t eat on the move, don’t eat anything that is seriously sweet, and stay away from anything even remotely fried or saucy – there are just so many breakfast dictum out there. The overload of righteousness about eating fruits and cereal notwithstanding, it is hard to imagine why something as simple as a breakfast has been complicated so much. The way things have been put on the web, it seems that by managing your breakfast better, you are almost sure to get healthier, better at work and even transform into a better person! The reality? This is just about managing an important meal of the day a bit better. You don't need thumb rules, ground rules, blanket policies and all that load of preachy stuff. Just stay real, make some smarter choices, fine-tune breakfasts better. This is my attempt at simplifying things:

How 'Leaving for a typical Work-day' can impact the quality of Life...do it better!

There is something very abjectly defeatist about the phrase 'leaving for work'

It seems as if you are leaving the holy grail of your home to someplace that will devour you. Further, most people use this phrase and their morning regimen in the most destructive manner whereas the reality is that how you psyche up yourself when starting the daily routine has a far-reaching effect, affecting nearly everything, including your mindset, affecting the energy you carry back home and how miserable or energetic you will be during the workday.

While people have published long articles and editorials about how to start your day, things to do when you wake up and how to manage your morning better, little has been said about the smallest things that can seriously dent a working day morning. My decade of committing horrible mistakes and finding out the truth at my own expense has made me make some conclusions:

Wet Confessions: No one must sweat like me!!

Why some people sweat more than others? Some Obsessively!

Yeah, this is not something I would like to boast about. It is something that has haunted my daily life for the last decade. What am I babbling about? I am talking about sweating - not too much of it, not the lack of it, not its regularity but only its copious, unending love for me. I tend to sweat from most places humans do and then, there are some more, now-researched surface areas from where my sweat profusely drains out my energy. This includes the area surrounding the nose, behind my ears and even my forearms!