Month: January 2013

Pegging

Pegging is a great memory technique to remember large number of numbers or facts. It just takes 20 mins to practice but would help you life long.
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Here is the memory aid.

0
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z,s
1
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t,d
2
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n
3
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m
4
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r
5
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L
6
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j, ch, sh
7
–
k, g, or c
8
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ƒ, v
9
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b, p

Just add any vowels – a,e,i,o,u in between to make nouns and list of nouns into a story. You can add any number of vowels in between.
Example: 

Mnemonic for remembering the order of streets in Manhattan between 2nd Ave and 5th Ave:

3 Lost People Meet

3rd Ave.
Lexington Ave.
Park Ave.
Madison Ave.

Two great Companies – same results

The best decision I ever made in 2013 (so far) is to fire two great companies to save costs. First my Cable & Internet Service Provider (Bright house) and Wireless provider (AT&T). I fired Bright house due to the recent horrible customer service experience, my DVR box malfunctioned just before Christmas and ever since they missed 3 continuous appointments to fix them and not even a courtesy call to apologize. So they left me with no other option but to fire them. I had to switch to Verizon FIOS and so far everything seems to be fine with much cheaper plan.
Second, My Wireless provider AT&T is hugely over priced for my iPhone – minutes, data and text plans. I found a cheaper alternative which uses the same AT&T Network. It’s a quite a deal and was surprised to find Straighttalk from Walmart was able to offer Unlimited nationwide calling, texting and data for just $45 with no contract. I just used my out of contract AT&T provided iPhone4. Similar plans from AT&T cost more than $80 with a contract.Image
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Am so relieved now, and looking forward to save money and hoping to get good customer services in the months to come.

Get up early in the Morning and jump start your life

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
– Aristotle

While many of us are still in bed, there are large number of folks who are scoring daily victories in careers, personal life and health by rising up earlier. Former Pepsico Chairman CEO Steve Reinemund would rise at 3 AM, run for 4 miles, pray and eat breakfast with his family before heading to work to run a Fortune 500 company. 

Remember to always beat the Sun to jump start your life.

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