INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE:
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorise your favourite poem.
3. Don't believe all you hear.
4. Don't spend all you have.
5. Don't sleep all you want.
6. When you say "I love you", mean it.
7. When you say "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
8. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
9. Believe in love at first sight.
10. Never laugh at anyone's dreams.
11. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
12. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
13. Don't judge people by their relatives.
14. Talk slowly, but think quickly.
15. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?".
16. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
17. Call your mom.
18. Say "God bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
19. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
20. Remember the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
21. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
22. When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
23. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
24. Marry a spouse you love to talk to. As you get older, conversational skills will be as important as any other.
25. Spend some time alone.
26. Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.
27. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
28. Read more books and watch less TV.
29. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
30. Trust in God but lock your car.
31. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
32. In disagreements with loved ones deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
33. Read between the lines.
34. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve mortality.
35. Be gentle with the earth.
36. Pray. There's immeasurable power in it.
37. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
38. Mind your own business.
39. Don't trust a person who doesn't close his or her eyes when you kiss them.
40. Once a year go someplace you've never been.
41. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
42. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
43. Learn the rules, then break some.
44. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
45. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
46. Remember that your character is your destiny.
47. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

My biggest management problem.

Like most of the people living in New York, time is the hardest thing for me to manage. I have a full time job, and i am a part time student, plus I have family obligations. This semester, I deceided to be a part timer. I was very tired of handling my full time job and full time school during the previous semesters. I thought, I needed a break. I was sleeping 3-5 hours a night. Weekends and late night to early mornig hours, were my studing time, or commuting to school and work. For two years there was no fun, only school, work, and house works. I needed a 9 day week, insted of the 7day one. Time was luxary for me. So, this semester I deceided to cut off to only 2 clases. I must admit that I have a little more spear time, but even though, it is still, not enough. I don't know how the time flies by. We are done with the first 3 weeks of school, and I still can't beleieve it. It feels like we just started last week. I have a lot of reading to catch up with. As I was reading a few other blogs, I realized that I was not the only student with this problem. It is so difficult to manage time efficiently. I try not to drag things, but as soon as I am done with something, there comes something else to be done. The cycle never stops. I wish I knew how to manage my time better.

Redinela Zhurka

Hello everyone!
My name is Redinela Zhurka, but my friends call me Redina. I come from Albania, and I have been living in New York for almost 6 years. I am an Accounting major student in Baruch College, and I am currently managing a retail store. I picked accounting because math is very easy for me. It is exact, simple, and at the end there is only one right answer. Besides math, I like literature and psychology. As a matter of fact Psychology is my minor. Things that I most enjoy doing are; going to the movie theater, traveling, cooking, and reading books. My relatives say: "I should have gone to Culinary Arts." I guess, I must really cook good! But here I am, in Baruch, studying accounting.