Simple ways to find your smile every day

Don’t wait to be happy

There are always reasons to be happy. Happy times are coming and going like trains in a train station; sometimes, they are right there right in front of your eyes, waiting for you to shift your focus and notice and appreciate them.

Whatever is going on around you, you can feel happy, be productive, create success, and enjoy yourself; all you have to do is change your focus and the way you think.

Create your happy moments

We all dream of being happy someday, but only when the conditions are right. Until then, we’re overworked, overstressed, and less than pleased. We create a utopian destination out of something that should be part of the journey.

If we don’t train ourselves to feel happy along the way, what makes us think we will feel it when we get there? Happiness is an emotion we can create by setting ourselves up with the right state (mental, emotional, and physical) to build momentum, and when those ‘right conditions’ are met, we’ll be there already.

Get in a happy state

A joyful life is the best kind of life we can hope to achieve. It creates those positive, feel-good vibes and allows us to look to the future with optimism. Bliss and pure joy seem like ephemeral emotions, but we can learn to hold on to it and relish in it and eventually create it at will.

In short, stop worrying so much, appreciate all the small things (and the big things you may be missing out too), surround yourself with positive, loving people, smile more, laugh more, hug more, and love more…

After all, what can be better than that?



Stay strong!

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Keeping it together through fear and uncertainty

There are two types of uncertainty; the one we always welcome, like starting a new relationship or a new job, which in some way foreshows good times and are manageable and predictable.

But there’s also the other type that presents us with an unpleasant situation we’re not familiar with and takes us outside of our comfort zone. We don’t feel secure anymore and start wondering how we will get through or if we could ever handle it.

We need certainty. It’s a fundamental human need that provides us with a feeling of security and safety. At the same time, uncertainty always involves fear of the unknown and the sense that we’re no longer in control of our lives.

Nevertheless, we can take charge of our actions and reactions to these situations. We feel the fear, but we discipline ourselves to look beyond it and focus on a positive outcome.

Like Nelson Mandela said, “Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it; the brave man is not he who doesn’t feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

Whenever we’re faced with uncertainty, there are a few things to be mindful of so we can bring peace of mind to any chaotic situation:

. Trust ourselves. We’ve done it before; we’ve made it through all kinds of adversity, and we can make it through this one too.

. Tough times don’t last; tough people do. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger (except bears, of course, bears will kill us 😉). We may not feel strong at the time, but we will be wiser, stronger, and better equipped in the future.

. Things always work out, one way or the other. Sometimes, when we get to a roadblock, we feel disappointed when in reality, it was a detour to take us to an even better destination.

. Life goes on. There will come a time when we’d look back at that situation and wonder why did we worry so much in the first place.

. We can only grow outside our comfort zone. We need to learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable so we can succeed and enjoy life.

. Everything looks clearer in retrospect. Once we’re able to look back, we’ll understand and appreciate the way things unfolded and even why.

Steve Jobs said it right, “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking back, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

Uncertainty is a normal part of life, and we need to learn to see it that way.

It’s challenging to feel confident when we can’t see where we’re going and easy to perceive everything as a threat, but often, those uncertain times lead us to a brighter future.

The roads we know can only take us to places we’ve already been. If we’re willing to take risks and travel uncharted paths, we can open up a world of possibilities and opportunities, new beginnings that won’t happen if we cling to what we know.

Let’s take that chance; we’ll make it through, and, in the wonderful words of Alain de Botton, “feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty, and reason.”

Stay strong!

One of the core values we have as a company is to inspire and empower people in all aspects of their lives. Additionally, if you want to read about our Custom Software Solutions and Consulting Services, please visit www.isucorp.ca, or book a meeting to review your software project.

The Top Reasons You Should Start Developing for Windows Phone

Developing smartphone technology with the largest variety of devices demands targeting the right platforms. Windows Phone, Microsoft’s smartphone platform is rising steadily in popularity, market share, and support for features. Businesses looking for new audiences, promising prospects, and the opportunity to support all common platforms will want to start developing for Windows Phone applications now. 

Windows Phone Advantages 

Market Opportunities 

The most noticeable benefit of Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is the steady and sustainable growth of its market share across the world. Market research evidence shows that Windows Phone is now the second-largest smartphone app in many markets and is also gaining in popularity. From a business point of view, it is important to support Windows Phone if you are going for any of the markets where it already has a large share, or if the target is truly global. 

Windows 8

As an integral part of Microsoft’s application community, Windows Phone benefits from a close alignment of Microsoft’s new operating systems. Starting with Windows 8, the user interface and functionality of the operating system are web-first, and the Windows Mobile “metro-style” architecture is also extended to the desktop version. This enables much greater synergy between mobile development and desktop or web development, as similar solutions can work in all environments. The combination of the Windows Desktop app and the Windows Smartphone app is very successful as opposed to the combination of other platforms and offers a great benefit, as with the success of Windows desktops, the demand can be high. 

Development Options

Windows Phone is a fascinating platform from a software point of view, as it has very robust tools available for the development of applications. Natively it is C++ which means that the native code written for it is usually very fast, giving you the advantage of speed. More specifically, it enables the use of common C and C++ libraries for Windows and other operating systems. 

Innovative Features

The advanced technological features of Windows Phone could be crucial to choosing the framework for your applications. To display the strength of only one function, consider Windows Phone’s Live Tiles home screen. These tiles reflect the feature that is actually icons or bookmarks for applications on other mobile devices, except in the Windows Phone, the home screen is built to place the user at the center of the experience. One way your applications will take advantage of this is to view interactive content from your app directly on the user’s home screen live tile. Through well-thought-out architecture and features, this provides a range of ways to enhance user engagement and value of your product.

If you are interested in learning more, reach out to one of our experts at ISU Corp!