$ chown xyzuser mysymlink/

it doesn’t work. The issue is the “/” at the end and the option “-h” is missing. This option affects each symbolic link instead of any referenced file.

Here’s the right command,

$ chown -h xyzuser mysymlink

• Think about the finishing moment of that task instead of the beginning moment
• Don’t think too much about the hours that you might need to spend on that task. Just think its just one other task
• Focus on boosting your energy to get things done instead of looking for more time.
• Create to do list for a week or month and pick up the high priority items and work on them in a daily basis

You can read more in the following link…

http://zenhabits.net/simple-work/

Owning stuffs often costs more money & stress and the job is not over yet. Then comes the head ache of maintaining that stuff. If you can’t maintain that stuff any more then comes another
headache that’s disposing this stuff. Whether to keep it idle aside to bring it an antique value or give it away or sell it for a reasonable price.

Solution:

Solution to this problem is simple. It’s not a good idea to own stuffs that you bother very least to care.

Think about when you were kid. That life was full of fun. Do you wonder why? It’s simple, you didn’t own anything. As you grow you tend own too many things beyond your ability to maintain them.

Remember, what ever that you own, is your baby. You must definitely need to take a good care of them. Nowadays people think it’s not a wise idea to have more than 1 or 2 babies, even though they are priceless possession. Reason, it’s very hard for you to support them when you have more. Same idea should be applied for any worldly thing that you want to poses.

Sometimes or always in our life, there comes too many stuffs on our way which makes us so irritated and frustrated too. Also poor handling of such situations will of-course lead to bad results.

Solution:

If we think about this situation it looks like a traffic jam in an unsignalled intersection. So now the solution pops right on our mind. That’s nothing
but introducing a signal system to control the traffic jam.

What signal does is it picks up the high priority direction and opens up the signal for the traffic to flow for a certain amount of time and then close
that direction and opens the traffic on the other direction and it goes on. We must do the same when we have too many things to do in our life. Select the items of higher priority and work on
those items for a reasonable amount of time and focus again on the items with lower priority for a certain amount of time and so on.

How to find the calories and nutrition data of the food items that we eat. It’s very simple. There are many websites out there which provides us the nutritional data of almost all food items under the sun. For eg., http://www.nutritiondata.com/

All we need to do is to refer these websites to assess the calories that we intake and keep our intake within the limit, atleast not more than 1500 calories a day. This way, a daily calorie deficit is created and the weight loss starts to work.

Okay, we started managing the food intake based on the caloric values. Nice, but we also need to make sure the burner inside the body which burns the energy is working at a desired rate. This burning process is called Metabolism. Our environment, lifestyle and food decides the metabolism of an individual. Our goal is to keep the metabolism at a increased rate to burn more calories quickly.

We can do many things to shoot up the metabolism rate without any side effects. Here are some healthy ways to hike up the metabolism.

- Doing exercise till the body is wet by sweat
- Taking hot water at the end of the meal,
- Tea (chai)
- Ginger
- Red pepper(Red Chilli)

Now our body will burn the calories at a higher rate which leads to a healthy weight loss.

Is that all about weight loss? Well the answer is Yes and again a No.

So stay tuned for more on this series.

How to lose weight – I

I’m sure you must be having following things to move ahead:

• Weighing Scale
• Measuring Tape
• Targeted Pounds to lose
• Targeted Waistline to shrink
• Expected duration of the program

How body gains the weight?

Every unused or excessive 3500 calories of food intake is coverted into 1 pound of fat.

More you put and less you burn. So, the more you gain in the body weight.

If i can create a deficit of 3500 calories by diet or exercise or by both, then i ‘ll loose 1 lb of my body weight.

Usually body burns 1800 calories a day by itself even if you are sitting doing nothing.

So the weight loss formula is

Calories intake per day = X
Calories burnt exercise and other activity = Y
Calories burnt by body itself = Z
Calorie deficit or gain A = X-(Y+Z)

For eg.,

Calories intake per day X = 1500 cals
Calories burnt exercise and other activity Y = 400
Calories burnt by body itself Z = 1800
The deficit or gain A = X – (Y+Z)

In this case, deficit/gain today        = 1500-(400+1800)
Deficit in calories        = -700
Weight gain for 3500 cls    = 1 lb
Weight loss for -700 cls    = 1 * (700/3500) = .2 lb

Great, the formula looks pretty simple.

How to create deficit in calories to lose weight?

That’s easy too. Pls follow the link http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p68TtP05kyRWskKb_l_J3Mg to get my spread sheet that i plan to share with the losers. I mean the weight losers, that should definitely sound positive.

You can see my sheet named “Arul”. Here i am logging or updating the datas of my diet activity and weight everyday. This gives me a clear picture of where i’m on the weight loss freeway.

Add a new sheet on your name to this main spreadsheet. 40 sheets can be opened on one main spreadsheet at the max. When we have more losers i can create more spreadsheets for them. Come on…i can open a spreadsheet and keep it myself! I hear what you are saying. My idea is, we need like-interested people to watch our activities to correct and motivate each other. So we are not alone! This spreadsheet doesn’t require you to log in, so you need to keep a back up of your sheet in your computer.

How should we move up swiftly and steadily on the weight loss freeway?

Hold your breathe, stay tuned for my next entry…

Overweight or Obese or Not in a good shape.

How did i reach there?

I missed to manage few things along my life due to various reasons. For ex., Food, Time & Physical Activity.

What’s my target?

Should look LIKE a model?! Why not? Let’s try that. Here’s how you can determine the target.

Follow this link, http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ to find your target weight based on the BMI – Body Mass Index.

Presently, My weight is 205 lbs & height is 5ft 9 inches. So the BMI is 30.3, which is well under obesity category. I must loose 40 lbs to reach 165 lbs in order stay within healthy BMI range. That’s between 18.5 to 24.9.

Now my ideal target is to lose 40 lbs of weight.

There’s another important indicator that influence your health and shape, Waist line.

A healthy waist line along the belly button must be within 34-36 inches for men and 29-31 inches for women. Waist measurements of more than the above mentioned are at a high risk of diabetes and heart diseases.  So my target for Waist line is 34 inches.

Must have Tools:

• Weighing Scale always at Bathroom
• Tape to measure Height & Waistline

Will these tools reduce my weight? You know the answer.

Stay tuned for my next blog entry for more on losing your weight.