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Trends and Challenges in the Software Testing
By: Angler Technologies
Tags: Software Testing Services, Software Testing Company, Software Testing

In this era of constant product evolution and competitive pressure, quality assurance and testing can often fall by the wayside. However, customer expectations are growing than ever in software development, testing has become even more essential to meet their expectations. Software Testing must evolve to keep up with changing software development requirements and that should involve adopting new approaches.

More and more areas of testing to be performed as software technology advances, Better software testing services along with development cycle helps in increasing quality of the software and decreases testing time. In each step of software development process, testing is regulated to counter check its functionality at particular level, and to determine if all features are working as affirmed, or to look for any short term or long term flaws that may arise.

Listed here are some emerging trends and challenges in testing and quality assurance which is going to be advantageous…..

Trends in software testing

Transformation of Software Testing Landscape — to a more service driven test management process.

Development in SoLoMo (Social Media, Localization, and Mobility) leads to increase focus on security and reliability of software applications.

Testing in the Agile Development Environment and Testing in Production.

Rapid growth in Mobile testing.

Cloud-based, Context-driven, and Crowdsourced Software testing.

Challenges in software testing

Which tests to execute first?

High coverage achievement and measurement.

Side effects of bug curves.

Regression testing.

Trying to hit a moving target.

To cope with attrition

Testers focusing on finding easy bugs

Don’t forget, don’t just test your product — Test your ideas too. Need any assistance and to know more about our software testing services feel free to contact us
Testing Bits: 370 — December 6th — December 12th
By: Testing Curator
Tags: Testing, Test Automation, Software Testing, Agile Testing

Start your week with the most comprehensive curated collection of testing announcements, news, and articles! https://bit.ly/3oNK6IV (49 posts this week!)

Featuring bloggers like Jason Arbon, Yuliya Bagriy, Venugopal Botla, Yoni Flenner, Paul Grizzaffi, Elisabeth Hocke, Rob Lambert, Beth Marshall, Diogo Nunes, Karlo Smid, James Thomas, and many more!

Covering topics like:

- API Testing

- Best Testing Conferences for 2021

- Careers and Goals

- Continuous Deployment

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- OnlineTestConf Session Summaries

- Selections for SuperReads @12.12 from Synapse QA — Learn | Share | Grow

- Test Automation Tips

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- Test Strategy

- Testing Vocabulary

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- Visual Testing and Applitools

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And of course, our weekly list of Podcasts released over the last week.

Do you have an event that you would like to have announced? Is your blog post missing from our list this week?

Please contact Testing Curator via Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn and we will add you to our list that we curate every week.

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Meetup And Learn, Debunking the QA KPI Myths And Make KPI Great Again — Tentamen Software Testing Blog
By: Karlo Smid
Tags: Software Testing

TL;DR

In the previous post, we gave a report on the Observability for Performance Testers by Mark Tomlinson. Today we present Lisette Zounon, Debunking the QA KPI Myths and making KPI great again. How observability IS different from monitoring. When it comes to software quality, KPI metrics can become a myth. Lisette will try to debunk that myth.

Takeaways

When it comes to software quality, KPI metrics can become a myth. Sometimes it works, sometimes you miss it. Attendees in this session will take away: Determine the purpose of the QA KPI for your needs. Adapt the KPI Metrics to your organization’s culture. Practical QA KPI metrics that bring value to everyone in the organization for the project’s health and the team’s health. Determine QA KPI Metrics for QA team only Define QA KPI metrics for your product quality health.

Define KPI

It all starts with defining the KPI for your organization. Lisette started the story on how to do that.

What Is Your Role

Lisette started making her’s presentation fascinating from the beginning by requesting feedback from the audience. How to get audience involvement in the remote presentation? With menti.com. You get a number that is related to the current question. On menti.com, you enter that number and your question. The facilitator can watch all the answers on a dedicated panel page. Simple as that. Our first question was, What Is Your Role? You can see some of the answers in the above screenshot. Most of the audience was from QA.

Audience KPI’s

What do we measure in our organizations:

KPI Myths

Here are some of the audience KPI myths in Menti.com:

How To Start With KPI

First, try with a KPI Demo for the organization. Start with the Why? Why we want this particular KPI? The second ingredient is the KPI audience; who is interested in this KPI, team member, manager, or team leader? Team culture is critical in creating KPI.

QA KPI

KPI is a team activity. Start with the QA Score Card:

Based on that team QA Score Card you can pick one Demo KPI. Create for that KPI a Dashboard because that would increase KPI team visibility. When you set proper QA KPI in your organization, you will get the following team benefit:

Benefit team engagement strive to common goal

Q&A

Here are some of the audience questions. KPI visibility includes easy accessibility. You do not need special system privileges to get the KPI. A list of No Go and backfire KPI should be established by the team. Those KPI could cause more damage than benefit. Rejected bugs are valuable KPI. And do not link KPI value with the specific person! This is the mother of all backfires KPI’s!

Testivator Session Score

For this session, I was using the Testivator Mobile application. I took 26 notes and 5 screenshots.

Here are note types by duration. Till the end is 2.7 %, and it is the ratio of duration from last note to session end and session duration.
Free Demo’s on SELENIUM WebDriver
Tags: Online Training, Software Testing, Agile Methodology, Selenium Webdriver, Selenium

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Things You Need To Ask Before Create Your Automation Test
By: Hamnah Suhaeri
Tags: Automation, Software Testing, Automation Testing, Testing Fundamental, Qa Automation

these are the simple questions to ask before you start an automation test.

how much you understand your goal, your expectation, your achievement, until you deliver what you have done.

well, why we need to consider all of it?
How I stopped hating Test Driven Development
By: David Capper
Tags: Tdd, Software Testing, Software Development, Software Engineering, Test Driven Development

Photo by Gabriel Garcia Marengo on Unsplash

I didn’t used to enjoy TDD. I thought I understood it — I’d tell people it was a useful practice and I’d go through all the motions when demonstrating it to them; but when push came to shove I’d quietly drop it as soon as I needed to do anything taxing.

I’ve always felt some embarrassment about this, possibly even guilt. The people I admired and looked up to as developers seemed so adamant that it is the right way to write software. They commanded such respect within the organisations and communities that they worked, and I wanted to be like them; calm, confident and measured , no project too daunting.

Yet, try as I might, I just couldn’t work out what their secret was. Why did they find TDD so enjoyable? Why did I get lost every time I tried to make an honest go of it? Why did I feel like such an imposter?

I think part of the problem was the apparent simplicity of the process. You write test code before you write production code. How hard can it be? It doesn’t help that people who have mastered the practice make it look effortless. The thing is… it’s not effortless. Not to start with anyway. I think the biggest pothole on the road to TDD enlightenment is the idea that you are suddenly going to feel enlightened. Like anything TDD takes practice and experience.

We get better at things little by little, step by step. The premise behind TDD is simple, but its application is nuanced. It’s okay (and normal) for things not to be perfect when you’re just starting out. If you find yourself stuck, don’t get hung up on it. Take a break from TDD and do what you need to do to move on. Writing code that is missing a few tricky tests is much more valuable than having something unfinished that no one gets to use.

It wasn’t until I started to forgive myself for not doing perfect TDD all the time that I started to get better at it. You need to give yourself room to make mistakes and learn what’s easy, and what’s difficult. If you don’t allow yourself to do things sub-optimally and move on, it’s impossible to look back and reflect upon how you might do it differently next time.
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Criteria of evaluation for an independent software testing company
Tags: Software Testing Company, Software Testing

Are you the one facing a hard time providing a good user experience through your software products? Is your product quality not meeting the expectations of your end-users? Are you worried because of not having a great number of satisfied customers? Are you a victim of hackers? Relax and take a chill pill. Then this article is for you.

Independent Software Testing Company

Undoubtedly, software development life-cycle is incomplete without involving the process of software testing. For sure to get rid of the above-mentioned product quality and software cyber defense problems you might be on the hunt for an incredible and trustworthy independent software testing company that would tackle all these issues on your behalf and flip the game in your favor. Outsourcing your business processes is becoming a trend as the days passing by. But to consider potential and trustworthy partner to cater to your software testing process, you need to be very careful and cognizant of the partner organization’s capabilities and strengths.

Concerning this, we have come up with various evaluation criteria to ease your job of evaluating a potential testing partner for you.

So let’s get started;

Make sure Service-level Agreements are defined — A service level agreement is a contract or a document that is get signed by both parties at the time of partnership that defines what output is being expected from the service provider. Drafting and Defining the SLA before getting started on the testing project is extremely essential to make sure that the service provider and customer organization both come to a win-win situation, where no one loses the game and achieve 100% of the set objectives. SLA should be related to the participation model, KPI, and test type.

Prevention of the client’s intellectual property — When you are hunting for a potential partner for conducting software testing on your behalf you have to be very conscious and must consider the protection and prevention of your intellectual property. The Personally identifiable information (PII) provided by the client should be protected by the vendor and not to be used for any other purpose apart from the intended business.

Security/Secrecy of sensitive data — From the perspective of a business-like, if we say in the banking industry, the major concern of the business owners is to protect their valuable and sensitive internal organizational information. If businesses are planning to outsource their software testing process then they must ask for the policies and rule book of secrecy of data from vendors before they sign any partnership agreement.

Testers are qualified and skilled or not — The team of quality assurance engineers, supervisors, managers, and technicians that the supplier assigns to outsourced work should be competent and be experts in software testing and management skills. You need to make sure that your work runs smoothly. Many customers also conduct interviews at supplier sites to ensure that the resources used for the project are skilled enough to undertake the project work.
Simple Automated scripts with Karate Framework: Database connection example
By: Luís Aguirre
Tags: Testing, Software Testing, Automation Testing, Backend Development

Before to start talking, How I have learned and show an example How to connect on database with Karate Framework, let me introduce It. Karate is an open-source tool which combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. It works with Gherkin language, and It is easy for even non-programmers.

Who: Karate Framework

Karate Framework Why: If you don’t have a framework and you would like to write scripts simple and have fast feedback about API under test… Karate is an excelent tool. For me, It works like a Postman in Java, and It is excelent for people who don’t have a big programming background.

If you don’t have a framework and you would like to write scripts simple and have fast feedback about API under test… Karate is an excelent tool. For me, It works like a Postman in Java, and It is excelent for people who don’t have a big programming background. Where: Now let me share some sites, which provide me knowledge about Karate:

Now let me share some sites, which provide me knowledge about Karate: https://github.com/intuit/karate: Official site, with information about How to install and many examples;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCBL8gbYRJkkngjcn8lyO7A : For me, the best Karate Framework Channel. The best examples and many suggestions to extract better results from Karate;

https://venkatramanareddy.github.io/karate/: Faster guide to solve questions;

Example: This is an example how to send some information for some endpoint and validate data processing with a database query

Feature: Access a database to validate something



Background:



Scenario Outline: Send a payload and validate something in a database

header Authorization = call read(‘header.js’) { username: username’, password: ‘password’ }

* def sourceID = function(max){ return Math.floor(Math.random() * max) }

* def sourceValue = ‘Test-’ + sourceID(1000000)

* def xml = read(‘Payload.xml’)

* set xml/CommunicationInputMessage/sourceId = sourceValue

* set xml/CommunicationInputMessage/value[1] = sourceValue

* set xml/CommunicationInputMessage/variable[2]/value = sourceValue

* set xml/CommunicationInputMessage/value[1] = ‘<Locale>’

* set xml/CommunicationInputMessage/filter[2]/value = ‘<Country>’

#Send a message for some place

Given url appUrl + ‘/send’

And request xml

When method POST

Then status 200

#Connect with database

* def config = appUrlDB

* def DbUtils = Java.type(‘examples.DbUtils’)

* def db = new DbUtils(config)

# Validate Data

* def notification = db.readRow(‘select * from history where id = \’’ + sourceValue + ‘\’’)

#Scenario for two countries

Examples:

| Country | Locale |

| US | en_US |

| BR | pt_BR |
What is the first thing you ever tested?
By: Ministry Of Testing
Tags: QA, Software Testing, Software Development, Testing, DevOps

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ソフトウェアテスト自動化カンファレンス2020 発表スライド公開 #STAC2020
By: Kentaro Arakawa
Tags: Software Testing, Slides, Japanese, Test Automation, Software Engineering

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Meetup And Learn, Discussions Testers Should No Longer Be Having — Tentamen Software Testing Blog
By: Karlo Smid
Tags: Software Testing

Discussions Testers Should No Longer Be Having

TL;DR

In the previous post, we gave a report on What Testers Need from ML/AI by Paul Gerrard. Discussions Testers Should No Longer Be Having by Mike Lyles was the second session of Online Test Conf Autumn 2020 first day sessions. Tips and guidelines for how to best influence the team and organization.

Takeaways

Evaluate successes in testing and project teams in the past that have become outdated. An understanding of the changes we face today within our SDLC processes. How to identify and address project teams that are stuck in the past. Tips and guidelines for how to best influence the team and organization.

Teams Do Not Agree

Mike starts his session because we all know, teams do not agree on how the software development process should be done. Most often, disagreement is between developers and testers, which brings nothing good to the project. An important reason for this disagreement is the fact that software testing has a lot of questions.

How To Change This Disagreement

Tester’s need to be careful because they bring a critical voice to the team, and one of their benefits is to bring the whole team aligned. The big risk with disagreement is that the tester or developer takes it personally. My comment is that the old trick is to point to an artifact, not the person (you made an error here => on this line of code, you missed this bug => our test plan does not cover domain testing).

The Hot Questions

Mike continues with the team Hot Questions:

How did we miss that bug?

Roles And Titles

Definitions And Acronyms

Manual Vs. Automated

Staging Vs. Production

Testing Estimations

Testing Cost

Test Planning

Test Execution

Software testers should be prepared for constructive discussions. You must not just say you are wrong, but to have ready facts and numbers, why is “manual” testing equally important (and in some cases even more important) than automation testing.

Mike finishes with:

Confidence and patient are the most valuable software tester’s characteristics.

Testivator Session Score

For this session, I was using the Testivator Mobile application. I took 18 notes and one screenshot.

Here are note types by duration. Till end is 20.8 %, and it is the ratio of duration from last note to session end and session duration.

Here are note types by duration. Till end is 20.8 %, and it is the ratio of duration from last note to session end and session duration.
Journey of a Quality Analyst (Part II)
Tags: Quality Software, Software Testing, Technology, Application Performance, Performance Testing

In case you missed the first part of this story, here it is.

In this part, I will be touching upon performance testing.

Website performance plays a huge role in customer retention. Based on my experience on a few projects, I will be discussing performance testing of web applications.

This is a vast field in itself, an umbrella term covering client & server side performance testing. There are various flavours of server side performance testing:

Spike tests.

Endurance tests.

Load tests… and many more .

Depending on what the team needs at the time, you might need to delve deeper into one of them. I will now share my understanding on the following two subtopics that can help people take things further.

Server side performance testing :

Every team will have its own requirements to see if the SLA is being met or not. In one of my gigs, I owned this fully; right from choosing the tool, defining the scenarios, executing them, analysing the results and fixing issues.

During performance testing, certain parameters one can focus on are:

Response times.

Success rate against the number of requests in a specified period of time.

Mean time to recover in case of application failure.

Latency.

The expected application user load can be figured out from the stakeholders as well as by monitoring the application. Accordingly, we can decide the number of users to be simulated in a specified time period.

If your website caters to requirements such as “Short term offers”, “Midnight Sale”, where very high customer traffic is expected, you should make sure that the system performs gracefully in such times and is adequately performant.

Page performance testing :

This is where client side performance is evaluated.

There are many plugins that help test page performance manually. LightHouse is one of them. It can give a plethora of information to improve page performance.

Additionally, it will also give helpful information on accessibility status of the website.

We might want this process automated. Download and analysis of HAR (HTTP Archive format) is how you can achieve this. One of the many ways is, using Firefox extension “netexport” which has now been upgraded to “har export trigger”. One can automate the browser headlessly and use the extension to download the HAR, or integrate this with the existing automation suite.

HAR file is formatted as a JSON. One needs to be careful with it since it contains sensitive data of your interaction with the website. Developer tools in browsers allow the HAR files to be downloaded manually as well. In order to analyse the HAR files the data points can be start time of the request, wait time, time when response was received, DOM load time, page load time, page size etc. Google provides a HAR analyzer which can be helpful in kick starting the analysis for you.

I hope this would help engineers get started on their path of performance testing.

In the upcoming article I will be focusing on my experience with application security.
20+ Best Free Help Desk Software and Ticketing Systems
By: Erfanul Islam
Tags: Help Desk Software, Software Testing, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Engineering

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Ne confondez plus crowdtesting et bêta testing !
By: Zoé Thivet
Tags: QA, Software Testing, Crowdsourcing, Crowdtesting, Beta Testing

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New to Medium!
By: Intense Thinkers
Tags: Positive Thinking, Introduction, Explore, About Me, Newtomedium

New to Medium!

Literally I am so excited to be on this platform!

So a brief intro about me.

I am an average teen like most people.

But I do not have average middle class dreams at all!

I am someone who wants to make this life worth living each and everyday. I want to make a living doing things that I love doing, and I am very sure that the universe will help me get there sooner or later!

Sending loads of love to the viewer on the other side of the screen!
The Truth of Self Love
By: Megan Broviak
Tags: Positive Thinking, Self Love, Eating Disorder Recovery, Selfloving, Self Improvement

Having Compliments on the Brain

One major “enemy” of self love is negative self talk. From looking at yourself in the mirror and trying to find “flaws” that don’t exist or talking yourself and confidence down, this behavior is detrimental in the battle of self love. One technique I use is compliments. My negativity in my brain caused me to look for what I thought were flaws in other so I could fit in. This toxic behavior only made my confidence drop even more. Instead, I took on the task of complimenting. Every time my eyes landed on a stranger, I named three things I thought were beautiful, or that I appreciated, and complimented every one of them. It took quite a while, but eventually your brain forms this habit. Soon enough, you look in the mirror and you can see three things you love about yourself, instead of forty things you may hate. Not only do you have a more positive mindset, but when you work up the courage you can say these compliments aloud, and probably make someone’s entire day.
How A Good Choice Of Words Is A Way to Spread Positivity
By: Syed Zaidi
Tags: Kindness, Positive Thinking, Love, Motivation, Inspiration

How A Good Choice Of Words Is A Way to Spread Positivity

Photo by Stan B on Unsplash

A Persian Philosopher, Imam Ghazali, once said,

The tongue is very small and light, but it can take you to the greatest heights and it can put you in the lowest depths. ~ Imam Ghazali.

He explained everything regarding how a person’s speech can motivate or put a person in depths of sorrow.

Sometimes a person needs less than a minute to motivate anyone. Whether through speech or text, you have to be yourself. A pinch of soft and kind-heartedness can motivate anyone. Your message alone can make a person happy.

Let me give you an example; you might have experienced it too.

Whenever you are having a bad day at work, you did your best, but the results were unexpectedly bad. You are feeling stressed and mad at yourself. Then a colleague or a friend or your boss comments that you did a good job and wishes you better luck next time. At that instant, a smile shines on your face. You are happy, and you take that positive comment as a source of motivation to do your work better with more focus and commitment.
Nggak Bosen Insecure Terus? Ini Saran Buat Kamu
By: Azzahra Felicia Adella
Tags: Positive Thinking, Lifestyle, Advice and Opinion, Storytelling, Insecurity

Have an interest in art, writing, traveling and people's story
WELCOME TO THE BLOG/INTRO
By: Kiley Lowe
Tags: Positive Thinking, Introduction, Self, Self Love, Self Improvement

WELCOME TO THE BLOG/INTRO

Hello there. My name is Kiley, Kiley Lowe. Throughout my 18 years of life thus far, I have always been an avid writer. To me, the feeling of putting my thoughts down on paper (or a document) is indescribable. It connects me with my emotions and relieves me of my stress. I would like to state that I am definitely not a pro writer, nor will I ever be. However, in 8th grade I did receive a perfect score on my state-wide english test (sorry to flex there hahaha). I normally keep a journal, but lately I’ve been having this urge to start a blog. So, here goes nothing… Here I am blog world.

ABOUT ME!

Like I said previously, I am 18 years of age. I am a Leo, a July Leo, and I check my astrology podcast every morning. Currently, I am a freshman at a Liberal Arts College where I play softball, and when not at school I work part time at a pizza shop. I haven’t always had the best of luck growing up, but it was the hard times that pushed me to become a better person, to work for a better future. Hmm what else? Well I love fashion and makeup. I love to make other people happy. I love my support system. My main goal for this blog is to spread positivity through every single post, and to become a support system to anyone who needs it- to use my blog as a representation of growth, and to demonstrate self love.

Thank you for tuning in, sorry this was boring. ❤

XOXO Kiley Lowe
The power of positivity
Tags: Positive Thinking, Life, Happiness, Life Lessons, Poetry

Positivity is a magical thing, it can make wonders come true it kind of interlocks with the law of attraction, in my opinion is they work with each other if you have one you have the other, there's lots of arguments to have saying that's not true but bottom line it is true, it really depends on your point of view.

The law of attraction, when things are going good its easy to visualize more good things happening, what is not easy to do is when things are going bad and you're visualizing good stuff, even tho you have troubles at home, you have no job, your not secure and your still able to feel like it is.

Its a real power to use your imagination and imagine you buying a new house in times of struggle, when you can do that i think its when” The law of attraction” really starts to work.

It Pays to Be Positive. There’s a direct connection between a positive attitude and better relationships, superior health, and greater success. A positive attitude can boost your energy, boost your inner strength, inspire others, and gather the fortitude to meet difficult challenges.
Instagram VS Reality
By: Ally O
Tags: Positive Thinking, Beauty, Body Image, Body Positive, Social Media

I’ll admit it. I edit my pictures to look better on Instagram. Most of us do. It’s just a habit. Maybe it’s to get back at a no-good ex. Maybe it’s to show yourself off to a crush. Whatever the reason is, it isn't the real us. And what message is this showing to our children? Edit yourself to look presentable?

As I pondered on this question, I looked at celebrities instagram pictures, and the pictures on the internet and compared. I also found myself doing this with pictures of my friends. We pose to fit the beauty standards.

The picture Instagram saw.

When I tell you I could NOT breathe taking this, I mean it. I turned to the side, sucked in, and snapped a photo. I did this in an effort to disguise the fat. Why? Is having fat a bad thing?

The reality.

This is me. The relaxed me. The me that people at the grocery store see. My body. Why did I have to cover it up and pose to feel confident?

See the problem? Why are we hiding our insecurities instead of embracing them? If we all had zero fat, a thigh gap, and skinny bodies, the world would be quite boring.

Its the media. All the perfect bodies on social media, TV, magazines, they aren't real. Perfection can not be achieved. Eat the dang candy bar. Whatever you do, it is never enough for society. It’s taken us our whole lives to grow and gain this weight, what’s the rush in getting rid of it?

What message are celebrities putting out? You must drop thousands of dollars to be perfect. Social media is the root of negative body talk.

What can we do about it? Unfollow anyone who shows an unattainable body type. Unfollow people who obsess over weight or appearance. Instead, follow and look at body positive pages.

Remember, perfect people are not real. Real people are not perfect.

Stay pretty ❤
Things I Wish I Knew Before Going To School For Music as a Musician
By: Cyn Fay
Tags: Positive Thinking, Things I Wish I Knew, Music, Wish I Knew, Musicians

Singer, Songwriter, Artist, & loved of life and its blessings. Like Good Food, Stories, and Good Company :)
Guide to Affirmations
Tags: Affirmations, Motivation, Inspiration, Positive Thinking

Affirmations, truly, are simple. They’re you being in conscious command of your thoughts. They are brief, mighty statements. If you say them or think them or even hear them, they get to be the thoughts that produce your reality. Affirmations, then, are your conscious thoughts. Download all the info you need here.
26+ Famous Benjamin Franklin quotes inspire for all time.
Tags: Positive Thinking, Benjamin Franklin, Inspirational Quotes, Changing Your Life, Lifequotes

Benjamin Franklin quotes Today we will talk about the great man who becomes the father of America. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston. At the age of 43, Franklin paid attention to science, experiments, and inventions. Shortly after, Franklin invented a heat-efficient stove called a stove. He later invented swim fins, glass harmonica (a musical instrument), and bifocals.

He also studied electricity, his famous kite experiment and other observations verified the nature of electricity and electricity and brought Franklin international fame. more

26 Famous Benjamin Franklin quotes inspirational for all times.

“Speak little, do much.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Honesty is the best policy.” –Benjamin Franklin

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Well done is better than well said.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Security without liberty is called prison.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“He that speaks much is much mistaken.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Whatever is begun in anger, It ends in regret.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“When you are finished changing, you’re finished.”― Benjamin Franklin

“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle, inside also” ― Ben Franklin

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”― Ben Franklin

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse, Take action.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”― Benjamin Franklin,

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” — Benjamin Franklin

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How To Cope With Being Overwhelmed
By: Andy Taylor
Tags: Positive Thinking, Life, Personal Development, Life Lessons, Self Improvement

1. Stop Doing Something

We’re programmed to people-please and inclined to say yes to opportunities.

Perhaps it is the ancient hunter-gatherer in us — if you’re not sure you can eat tomorrow, but there’s a chance to eat right now, you take it.

I work in audio, and the key to doing a good edit — say, taking a 30 minute interview down to 10 minutes — is to remember:

No one knows what you left out.

As long as what you leave in makes sense and sounds good, everyone is happy.

Same with an overfull calendar. Far better to do fewer things better — or at least to a decent standard — than end up doing everything a bit badly.

Deciding what to say no to requires engaging your conscience. Let’s say you took a less well-paid job, but now a higher-earning one has come along.

It’s not OK to dump the smaller one and leave that client hanging.

Another trick I learned from an old colleague was to turn the new job into the dream job.

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If this extra work could stretch your diary, then ask for everything you ideally want — good pay, sensible limits, and flexible timings. If they can’t deliver that, don’t do it, and it’s off your plate.

If your terms are accepted, then it’s a dream job, and it’s worth fitting in, even if it has to cut into your time.
Our thoughts are what determines our happiness.
By: Vinia Majaba
Tags: Positive Thinking, Mindset, Choose Happiness, Mind Control, Let Go

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A Weakness is Something You Can Change…
By: Jon Kuhn
Tags: Positive Thinking, Self Image, Positive Mindset

I have been narrowing down everything in my life into two categories. Things I can do something about and things that I can not do anything about.

I am speaking from personal experience when I say that I think we spend too much time dwelling on things that we can not control. Everything from our partners, what our co-workers or bosses are doing, to the way we look .

It is a harsh reality that we can control a very small percentage of what goes on in our lives. When you start letting go of what you can not control your world starts changing.

On a personal level, if there is something about you that you can not change it is not a weakness, these are the things that define you and your unique perspective of the world. Lean into your perceived weaknesses and share them with the world. You may be surprised at who shows up to thank you for doing so.
"Role of communication skills in professional life."
By: Munazza Batool
Tags: Positive Thinking, Professional Life, Communication Skills, Rules, Way Of Life

"Role of communication skills in professional life."

Introduction:

Once a genius man said: "Words once printed have a life of their own." Communication means how do you interact with people around you. It's a pattern of exchanging information that might be valid or worthless. One can not live and survive alone. Human is a social animal and communication act as food for his deprived soul.

Importance:

When it comes to professional life, the importance of communication skills increases to a greater latitude. If you don't know the art of communication, your chances to endure society's pressure degrade to a dangerous level. Upgrade yourself according to the needs and increase your demand in every market.

Most influential ways to communicate:

In our professional life, we come across a lot of people. They have a different attitude and personality. It will help if you are smart enough to come to the level where you understand the person's mindset in the front. Leave your comfort zone and enters into the comfort zone of the person you are interacting with.

Choose your words wisely. They either build your personality or destroy it. Don't be rude to anyone. Always adopt a positive and natural tone of the conversation. Show professionalism with every aspect. Silly and Childish behavior in professional life is not acceptable at all.

Try to avoid useless discussions. Constructively, utilize your time. Adopt optimistic changes from society and flee away from the pessimistic zone.

Benefits of effective communication:

Effective communication highlight the positive gesture of your personality. People become more curious about you. They love to enjoy a constant shower of your company. They value your opinion and take an interest in your general gossips.

Moreover, it is really helpful to develop your career by learning powerful communication skills. You can groom yourself in the practical field. It's better to play in the ground where you know the condition of the pitch.

Challenges due to poor communication:

Poor communication skills reduce your confidence to a dangerous level. It is the biggest barrier in the smooth flow toward victory. You become surrounded by negative thoughts that reduce your working stamina. Tension and anxiety become a common issue. People misunderstand you as you didn't properly deliver your point of view. It highly reduces your worth.

Conclusion:

Good communication skills are mandatory in all walks of life. If you want to move ahead in the prosperous journey of professional life, start working at your weak points. Just throw away all the bad habits that stop you from moving forward. The role of useful communication skills can not be denied in any way. So it's better to leave arguments and make a better choice of learning.
Suffering Is A Sign Of True Growth
By: Rita Arosemena P.
Tags: Positive Thinking, Spiritual Tree, Suffering, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality

Suffering Is A Sign Of True Growth

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Suffering is worth it. It’s a sign of true growth.

The sooner you begin to accept the pain that you have, the better off you will be, because pain is a reminder of your true power. Is the sign of your true potential.

When you see your fears manifest within you, you begin to understand that you have more power in your life than you could ever imagine, and this is the secret to overcome obstacles.

If you know this, eventually you’ll start to manifest only the things you want, making yourself responsible for everything that happens to you.

Of course, it’s not easy to accept when things don’t go as planned, but the fact that there is no choice but to take a different path is a long-term advantage, because you force yourself to challenge frustration.

Things go sometimes wrong, but it’s not a catastrophe because there’s no alternative… It’s a tragedy because we choose to live life ‘in the middle’.

We see black and white, but we miss the colors.
Merry Christmas!
By: Jason Smith
Tags: Positive Thinking, Life, Life Lessons, Inspiration, Self Improvement

Merry Christmas!

Don’t Let Circumstances Control You.

What a year 2020 turned out to be!

Coronavirus and Covid are the words on most peoples’ lips and we’ve all had our lives turned upside down by the virus and the restrictions placed upon us to try and control its spread.

Many have suffered, financially, emotionally, professionally and socially. The discovery of a new fast spreading variant, the UK Government cancelling Christmas and the introduction of a new Tier 4 have been the final straw for many more.

But others have used this very different year as an opportunity. They have strengthened family bonds, learned new skills, taken up new hobbies, started businesses and improved their health and fitness.

So why the difference?

Anyone who knows NLP knows that the ‘map is not the territory’ . This means that the circumstances we see, hear or feel are interpreted in our brains and referenced against all the presuppositions we’ve picked up throughout life.

People who have predominantly negative presuppositions are likely to react negatively to the circumstances they find themselves in, whereas those with a more positive disposition are more likely to see opportunities and take them.

Viktor Frankl went through far worse circumstances than us. As a Jewish man in Nazi Germany he was taken captive and held in concentration camps for a far longer period than we’ve had to endure mask wearing and lockdowns. He famously said, “Between stimulus and response there’s a space. In that space lies our power to choose our response and in our response lies our growth and our freedom”.

Put more simply, our circumstance might be a large pile of stinking shit, but it’s still up to us how we respond. It is our biggest power.

So don’t let the circumstances control you. Instead control how you respond and choose to respond with positive intent.

The new year might start in the same way this one ends. It may get worse. But if we find our power to choose our response we can make it a great year for us. Regardless of the circumstances.

Merry Christmas from Jason at New-U-Coaching.
Growth
By: Muhammad Umar Luqman
Tags: Positive Thinking, Work, Amal Academy, Growth Mindset

GROWTH is a 6 letter word used in English language. It can be used as a noun or an adjective. We’ll talk about the adjective part of it. Growth means to expect to have or invest in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns. As human beings we are a complete eco-system in ourselves. And as a business Eco-systems grow and expand.

As humans we have an ego-centric urge to succeed in different aspects of life. Humans are naturally disruptive and can’t live a stagnant life-style. To succeed in any aspect of life as humans we have to work on ourselves, learn different skills and in short make investments on ourselves. If we don’t have a growth mindset we won’t be able to achieve the desired results.

To achieve a growth mindset we need to be self-reflective, analyze our behaviors and be attentive to how we see and perceive different situations. It’s all about the mindset. We have to be optimists and realists instead of being a pessimist in adverse conditions. Life is a synonym to uncertainty. Secondly we have to leave the comfort zone to explore different possibilities and get hands on experience. We also have to change our daily routine, change the bad habits like going to sleep late and not working out consistently. Habits can be changed if one is willing to change themselves. We can force our brain to change the way it perceives opportunities and possibilities. It’s a little difficult but a person can’t singlehandedly bring change in them and in the world so they should ask for help as sometimes our brain isn’t able to think in a certain way and as they say a problem shared is a problem halved. And the most important one, with taking action, one should Fake it Till you make it. A person must have unbelievable self belief and be confident in what they are doing. If you walk out on the batting pitch, you should have a positive body language and you should be walking like you own the place. You go out and play like how you believe in yourself even though you are not good enough compared to the rest. Be cautious and aware of the surroundings but bat like you are the best batsman in the world.

All the tips we have discussed, I think each one of it is important and it’s impossible to specify one. You have to look at things as a whole and if I personally apply all these I know and believe I’ll be unstoppable. I have already started with changing basic habits to start my day. I’ll be reaching out to people more often from now on and be more optimistic/realist and start taking actions because without action nothing is possible.
10 TRAVEL QUOTE TO HELP YOU EXPLORE UNKNOWN
By: Meaningful Ride
Tags: Positive Thinking, Negative Thoughts, Negativity, Negative, Positive Attitude

HERE WE SHARE HOW TO LIVE LIFE IN MOST MEANINGFUL WAY EVEN IN THIS RESTLESS ENVIRONMENT BY APPLYING VERY VERY SIMPLE STEP.