Danro - Be Smart in Everything That Matters: Finance, Marriage, Lifestyle and Wellbeing

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BE SMART IN EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS

By

Aneina Danro

Publisher Information

Be Smart In Everything That Matters

Published in 2011 by

Andrews UK Limited

www.andrewsuk.com

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any real person or actual happening.

Copyright Aneina Danro

The right of Aneina Danro to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Acknowledgements

This book is the result of the constant support and loads of encouragement from Nicola Lisle who is a tutor at The Writers Bureau in Manchester. All my thanks and gratitude goes to Nicola.

Further thanks go to the editors of Times of Zambia, Janet Illunga and Margaret Mangani, for giving me the boost to get my work done faster.

Edited by : Carol White

Introduction

The book guides you on how to improve your lifestyle and make wise decisions in crucial matters like investing your money and getting married to the right person. Approaching adulthood, you often go through trying times in life and end up making wrong decisions that will haunt you for the rest of your life. Being prepared saves you from emotional and financial disasters.

In terms of financial matters, this book gives advice on saving money and budgeting. Topics like the use of plastic money, benefits of property investment and managing finances are covered.

Often, some people are just talented, when it comes to handling money and how to make it grow. However, they may not be so good in the kitchen or busy lifestyles are to blame. The book includes a chapter that gives advice on how to avoid common mistakes in cooking. It also has healthy recipes and other simpler ones to impress family and guests. An explanation is given on important aspects of life and modern trends that one needs to dig deeper to understand.

The low carbohydrate diet and drinking more tea is a popular trend. The food and health section explains the benefit from drinking more of what type of tea and how the low carbohydrate diet works. A recipe of a simple, low carbohydrate meal is included.

The introductory chapters deal with what makes one a better person and how important education and technology is. The marriage section starts with preparing for marriage from the first night, honeymoon destinations and dealing with the mother-in-law.

The last section is about food and health, covering the benefits of coffee and how the highly nutritious fruit, the avocado may be used for your beauty treatments, as well as a sweet dish and beneficial to the environment. Other favourable foods are also covered to appreciate what is being consumed.

This book is a mixture of; marriage, finance, well-being and health presented in a quick, easy to read style.

Be Happy And Smile

Dont we all admire the person who always manages to paste a smile, no matter what complications are bothering them? Everyone wants to be happy but too many expectations that fall beyond reality makes happiness impossible. Ask yourself if you want to be with someone who is constantly complaining about every silly little thing or someone who is always happy and bubbly.

Where do the complaints come from even if we have everything in life? Never appreciating what you have leads to unhappiness. Rich or poor, everyone wants more than what they have. The best way to be content is to think of those who are less fortunate than you. Think of those who dont have food on the table, have lost a dear one or have to cope with a life threatening disease.

Constant unhappiness makes you loose your sense of humour and therefore makes it hard for that occasional light-hearted joke and laugh. A grumpy approach makes the opposite person give you the same gloomy face and you end up thinking to yourself, what an attitude he has! So dont expect a smile and a nice attitude, when all you have to show for yourself is a frown.

If you think wealth and fame will make you happy, ask why the wealthiest and the most popular people in the world like the late Michael Jackson and Britney Spears have their share of troubles? A number of people long for fame, yet famous people are idols of the paparazzi. Once you acquire fame, you long for privacy, so there is no end to acquiring the luxuries of life.

Research states, lottery winners are no happier than an average person within a few months. The greed for wealth deprives you of quality time with family and friends. The time that has gone can never come back and destiny is beyond our control.

Who knows how many days we, our family and friends have left in this world? Tragedy occurs without any warning. Today maybe the last day of your life...death is inevitable and strikes at any time.

Good deeds and wisdom will give you happiness while anger, jealousy, lies and ungratefulness will just add to more problems. There are wealthy people in this world who are still not happy. They dont appreciate what they have and just desire more. Despite having everything to lead a comfortable life, the greed of wanting more and more creates unhappiness. Desires in life are endless.

Are You Unhappy?

A smile for family, friends, workmates and general public becomes difficult when you dont forget about the minor troubles in your life. Although some of your lifes problems may be too complicated to forget, try to reserve the depressive look on your face for when youre alone or are confiding in someone you trust. You may not realize it but a depressed, troubled face does reveal itself.

Accept that life does have unexpected difficulties, and you need to solve them in the most efficient way. If it is some problem of the past, try your best to forget about it. If someone has hurt you with harsh words, it happens, accept that some people are just very straightforward and others may have the cruel words in their thoughts yet they just dont come out with it.

If someone criticizes you, think about it and give yourself hope to improve on the critical point. Think positive, maybe this person wants the better for you. After all, everyone has some sort of criticism in their mind; its just that some people just cant help being blunt.

Often, negative issues in your past life come back to haunt you. Although its not easy to forget, try concentrating on the future and the present. Whenever your mind is troubled, get out of it by keeping yourself occupied with a hobby and think about what you can do to make yourself and your life better.

Expectations are often responsible for unhappiness. Why didnt they ask me first? Why didnt they greet me first? They manage to upset you to such a great extent but you cant really do anything about it. People do tend to forget certain formalities and an attitude like that just puts people off. Be yourself and dont expect to be treated like royalty.

Ask yourself what is causing unhappiness in your life. If it is someone who always upsets you in some way, keep a distance as long as they are not a close relation and dont talk too much in their presence, as it may just lead to inconclusive arguments. If it is a very complicated situation in life, like marital problems, then you really need to sort out the problem and have a solution instead of never-ending complaints. These are major issues in life and you need to come to a wise decision after a lot of thought and sometimes even counselling.