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By experiencing failure, one can then learn from their mistakes and improve for next time. Mistakes and failures allow us to analyse our actions and thoughts – they are a hidden blessing. If we never experienced failure, how could we ever improve?

What do you think? By experiencing failures and making mistakes, are they indeed hidden blessings?

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Hello! We hope that you are doing well.

Emails, don’t we just love them? We may be constantly checking our inboxes eagerly anticipating the next email to arrive, does that sound like you? Well, we might have gotten carried away!

Electronic mail or e-mail entered the public sphere in the 1990’s (it was in limited commercial use beforehand) and ever since then, it has made life easier for us in terms of communication.

Spam (not the food product!) also called junk mail, is when we receive undesired and unsolicited emails. It usually is sent in bulk to many people and contains links to other websites, contains attachments (files added onto the email) or asks you for personal details.

As a rule of thumb, never open up spam emails as some attempt to copy genuine emails from banks, postage couriers and the like. This technique is called phishing and unfortunately people can fall into the trap of clicking on the links contained within the email (which then can cause viruses to enter a person’s computer etc.)

Here are some tips from us to spot spam emails:

1. Look at the subject email, genuine emails tend to have a “sensible” subject e.g. “hello”, “join now” as opposed to sensationalist ones e.g. “man earns £1000 overnight”, “you are due a refund” etc.
2. Look at who the sender is. Do you recognise their name or the company that it is sent from?
3. Look at the email address, what does it say after the “@” symbol? Some try to be clever and imitate big companies or banks e.g. Amazon, Royal Mail, Paypal, The Government. However, a genuine email from, say Royal Mail, will always be “@royalmail.com” so if an email address is no-reply@mail.royalmail.org, know that it is most likely fake as the correct email address would have been no-reply@royalmail.com.
4. Who is sending the email? Institutions like banks do not send emails asking for personal details, they never do, they tend to write to you via letters and they have secure checks in place to identify you. If in doubt, always call.
5. If you do open a spam email, how is their spelling and grammar like? Does the email look professional?
6. Finally, if you are in doubt whether the email is genuine or not, always call the company to double check e.g. call your bank to verify whether they emailed you etc.

There you have it! These are just some tips from us to assist you in spotting potential spam emails.

Here at Life’s Tutoring, we offer IT support services to ensure that you have peace of mind when it comes to your computing needs. Contact us to find out more.

Have a great day.

Take care and be safe as always.

Life’s Tutoring – Educate. Motivate. Inspire

Hello! We hope that you are doing well.

Okay, so let’s get straight into this, natural or processed food? Natural of course I hear you say!

Well, what do the terms “natural”, “organic” or “hand-picked” mean? Does it mean straight from the ground to our plates or does it mean with “slight” processing in between, in order for us to consume them safely and thus absorb the most amount of nutrients? The article that we’ll share at the end of this post will clear up some of the misconceptions that we have of “natural is always best” (most of the time it is!).

This also is similar to the misconception that we may have of herbal medicine, or “natural” medicine, not having any side effects at all, that is simply untrue. All types of medicine have side effects, however, it is finding the right medication for you (with minimal side effects) as remember, the same medication that may work for you, can have a different effect with someone else, so that is worth noting.

Please note that we, at Life’s Tutoring, do not necessarily endorse or agree with everything mentioned within the article.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210521-which-processed-foods-are-better-than-natural

Here at Life’s Tutoring, we do offer herbal remedies, a soon-to-open herbal clinic as well as counselling and mentoring services, to give you peace of mind.

Have a great day.

Take care and be safe as always.

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Hello! We hope that you are doing well.

Being consistent is something which we all desire. One client actually asked us the other day for some advice. They love books, own quite a few books but they couldn’t find any time to read them!

A golden piece of advice that has been proven true over the years, is to start off small but do it consistently (as well as potentially increasing the frequency of it). By doing this, one spreads the workload over a period of time and achieves more in the long term, as opposed to doing lots of things in a short period of time (which can demotivate and tire a person out!).

We’ll give you an example, say, a person takes sixty minutes to read a book, they have a few options on how they go about it:

1. Read the book all in one go (dedicate a full sixty minutes on one day)
2. Read the book in stages across the week (dedicate ten minutes per day which will take six days to finish off the book)
3. Read the book in stages across a longer period (dedicate five or ten minutes on one day of the week)

We’re sure you’ll agree that options 2 and 3 would be better because a smaller amount of effort is required over a longer period of time, therefore, making it easier to concentrate and stay motivated. However, we say this in general terms as it could be that option 1 would be better for you (better as in more suited to you).

It doesn’t have to be about books, it could be about anything.

Here at Life’s Tutoring, we do offer mentoring and a life skills course to help you manage life’s challenges just a bit better.

Please note – we are in the process of finalising our life skills course very soon. You can register your interest now and we’ll notify you once it is available.

Take care and be safe as always.

Life’s Tutoring – Educate. Motivate. Inspire