Almost everyone have heard the hit single 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin. The song has a very catchy way of conveying its message of being happy to everyone. Bobby Mcferiin's simple message surely made a lot of people by telling them not to worry.

Living a happy, resilient and optimistic life is wonderful, and is also good for your health. Being happy actually protects you from the stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart disease, cancer and stroke. 

One of the better things ever said is - 'The only thing in life that will always remain the same is change', and in our life we have the power to make the necessary changes if we want to. Even if we find ourselves in an unbearable situation we can always find solace in the knowledge that it too would change. 

Social networks or relationships are essential to happiness. People are different, accept people for who or what they are, avoid clashes, constant arguments, and let go of all kinds of resentments. If arguments seem unavoidable still try and make an effort to understand the situation and you might just get along with well with 

Happiness is actually found in everyone, increasing it is a way to make a life more wonderful and also more healthy.

To be happy is relatively easy, just decide to be a happy person. Abraham Lincoln observed that most people for most of the time can choose how happy or stressed, how relaxed or troubled, how bright or dull their outlook to be. The choice is simple really, choose to be happy. 

There are several ways by which you can do this.
  
Being grateful is a great attitude.  We have so much to be thankful for. Thank the taxi driver for bringing you home safely, thank the cook for a wonderful dinner and thank the guy who cleans your windows. Also thank the mailman for bringing you your mails, thank the policeman for making your place safe and thank God for being alive.

News is stressful. Get less of it. Some people just can't start their day without their daily dose of news. Try and think about it, 99% of the news we hear or read is bad news. Starting the day with bad news does not seem to be a sensible thing to do.

A religious connection is also recommended. Being part of a religious group with its singing, sacraments, chanting, prayers and meditations foster inner peace. 

Manage your time. Time is invaluable and too important to waste. Time management can be viewed  as a list of rules that involves scheduling, setting goals, planning, creating lists of things to do and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire. 

Laugh and laugh heartily everyday.  Heard a good joke? Tell your friends or family about it. As they also say -'Laughter is the best medicine'.
  
Express your feelings, affections, friendship and passion to people around you. They will most likely reciprocate your actions. Try not to keep pent up anger of frustrations, this is bad for your health. Instead find ways of expressing them in a way that will not cause more injury or hurt to anyone.
  
Working hard brings tremendous personal satisfaction. It gives a feeling of being competent in finishing our tasks. Accomplishments are necessary for all of us, they give us a sense of value. Work on things that you feel worthy of your time.
 
Learning is a joyful exercise. Try and learn something new everyday.  Learning also makes us expand and broaden our horizons. And could also give us more opportunities in the future. 

Run, jog, walk and do other things that your body was made for. Feel alive.
 
Avoid exposure to negative elements like loud noises, toxins and hazardous places.

These are the few simple things you can do everyday to be happy. 

And always remember the quote from Abraham Lincoln, he says that, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

You may have a new website you want to get indexed with the various search engines at the soonest possible time.  Or you may have an existing website which you want to position well in the search engine results.  Or you may have a good performing website which you want to remain competitive.  Whatever your reason may be, you’re sure to benefit from the blog and ping combo.

Now, you may have heard or read about this before, but your never realized how it works.  Or this may be the first time you have been acquainted with this surefire technique.  Regardless, much can be learned from this article as we discuss the basics and the mechanics of the blog and ping strategy.

It All Starts With A Blog

Web logs, or blogs as people have fondly referred to them in recent years, were originally designed for social purposes.  People used it as online diaries where they could post their thoughts, the events of their days, their secret desires and the likes.  But blogs possessed some very special qualities that internet marketers found hard to dismiss.

• Blogs figure prominently in search engine results.  The first few pages of some queries would yield many blogs occupying premium spots.
• Blogs are basically free web publishing tools.  A little tweaking and it could become a website of its own.
• Blogs are easy to update.  Just press EDIT or PUBLISH and you’d have new content in a flash.  No need to change the source code.  The system will easily take care of that.
• Blogs have their own communities.  Bloggers often link with one another.  This is a level of connectivity that is pretty hard to come by in other mediums.

Hence, online businessmen started using blogs for marketing purposes.

The strategy goes like this: 

1. Create a blog dedicated to the subject your main website is catering to.  Preferably, you should create an account with www.blogger.com , because this service is owned by Google, the most widely used search engine in the World Wide Web.
2. Post regularly, and include a link to your website in majority of your messages.  Also include your links with popular keywords as anchor texts.
3. Include a link to your own website on the navigation bar.
4. .Just to emphasize – you have to post REGULARLY.  This means at least every other day.  No sweat, though.  Short posts of 200 words in length would be enough.

t’s About RSS As Well

Blogs produce RSS feeds.  RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, a technology that would allow you to broadcast any changes on your blog to subscribed systems.  This is actually the heart of the blog-ping combo.  You have to learn how to syndicate your RSS feeds.

If you’re using blogger, it’s easy.  Take your blog’s URL.  For example, it is:

www.thisisyourblog.blogspot.com

Now, all you have to do is to add the extension atom.xml.  So, it should appear like this:

www.thisisyourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

This is the URL of your RSS feeds.

Now you need an RSS aggregator somewhere which could pick up your RSS feeds.  Preferably, it is a website that can be easily crawled by search engine spiders.  The perfect spot for this is www.my.yahoo.com .  Simply create a Yahoo account, then go to the said page.  Find the ADD RSS button, then press on the same.  Then paste the URL of your RSS feeds.

Every time you’d update your blog, RSS feeds would be generated and displayed in www.my.yahoo.com .

Now It’s Time To The Ping

Once your www.my.yahoo.com is set up, every time you’d post a new entry on your blog, you’ll have to go to www.pingomatic.com .  Fill up the appropriate fields, then submit.  This will inform a lot of blog directories that your blog has new entries.  And this would drive the search engine spiders on a feeding frenzy.  It’ll be a reminder for them to check out your blog come the next relevant query.

Again, you have to do this every time you will post a new entry.  No exceptions!

How powerful is the blog-ping combo?

Your new website will get indexed in Yahoo within 5 days.  This is guaranteed!  And with Yahoo picking up your website, and with www.blogger.com being owned by Google, it wouldn’t be long until the world’s most widely used search engine would index your new website as well.

And if the blog-ping combo could do this for new websites, just think of the possibilities it could provide for older ones.  Fantastic, isn’t it?

 Sometimes we just need to tell a punny tale! But what is  a punny tale? Usually it is a twisting of words to create
 something familiar in an odd way.

 Sometimes when you hear a punny tale you usually groan!

 Hense the name, groaner! However a good punny tale at  the right time can really make your program lighten up.

 I've included two of my favorites. Use them and have fun!

 Medieval Carnaval

 Back in the middle ages, there was a travelling show which travelled throughout Europe. It was famous across
 the whole continent for it's fabulous and death-defying shows.

The show was named "The Show of Tension", because of the daring nature of most of the stunts, and thus the
 performers and other staff associated with the show gained the nickname "Tensions".

 Sadly, the shows didn't survive the poverty that swept Europe in the middle ages. As people got poorer, they
 couldn't afford to spend money on frivolous things like a travelling show.

 And thus was born the expression

 "unable to pay a tension"...


 Game Show Cheat

 The television game show was being recorded. The contestant was in the hot seat for the last big question.

 The host turned to him, and read the question slowly and carefully. But the contestant didn't know the answer!

 Fortunately, he had a backup plan (there was no way he was missing out on this million bucks!). He let out a piercing whistle, and from the back of the stage, four mounted knights-in-armour appeared, waving their lances threateningly at the show's host.

The host looked scared for a moment, and then a steely look came over him. He leapt into the air, and karate kicked the first knight onto the floor.

He picked up the lance from the stricken knight, and fought off the second, who also fell spawling on the floor. The second knight's horse bolted, colliding with the third knight in the process.

The game show host was just begining to enjoy himself now. He waved the spear he was still carrying at the fourth knight, looked back at the contestant,

and said "Is that your final lancer?"