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تقود صاحبة السمو الملكي الأميرة دينا مرعد مؤسسة الحسين للسرطان منذ عام 2002 بصفتها مدير عام المؤسسة. وبهذه الصفة، عملت سمو الأميرة دينا على تأسيس وتطوير عملية جمع التبرعات والتطوير في المؤسسة، بحيث أصبحت المؤسسة واحدة من أفضل مؤسسات جمع التبرعات في الأردن والمنطقة.

وباعتبارها أماً لطفل نجا من مرض السرطان، تبذل سمو الأميرة دينا مرعد جهوداً استثنائية لمكافحة مرض السرطان. فبقيادتها المباشرة، نجحت مؤسسة الحسين للسرطان في ضمّ كافة فئات وأفراد المجتمع إلى كفاحها ضد مرض السرطان بهدف واحد ألا وهو دعم مرضى السرطان في الأردن والدول العربية. وإلى جانب ذلك، تقود سمو الأميرة دينا برنامج رعاية لتغطية علاج مرض السرطان في الأردن، وهو أكبر برنامج غير ربحي من نوعه، حيث يشمل أكثر من 110,000 عضو.

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 في هذه المقابلة المميزة تشاركنا سمو الأميرة دينا أفكاراً ومعلومات عن التدخين والعادات الصحية من الممكن أنك ستسمعها لأول مرة. كلنا نعرف الحكمة الشهيرة التي تقول: “العقل السليم في الجسم السليم”، ولكن كم منا يطبقها في حياته بشكل فعلي؟! وعندما ننسى أنفسنا تحت وطأة ضغوط العمل والحياة المختلفة، فإننا بالتالي نهمل صحتنا ونضعف أجسامنا بحيث تصبح عرضة للأمراض والمشكلات الصحية المختلفة. وخصوصاً إن اخترنا الريادة أسلوباً لحياتنا، سنجد أن الضغوط تزداد وسنحتاج للتعامل مع هذا الأمر بشكل واعٍ وبحكمة حتى لا نخسر أغلى ما نملك: صحتنا.

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لو تابعت حلقات برنامج ريادي من بلادي واستفدت منها، نرجو ألا تبخل  بتقييمك الإيجابي (5-stars) للبرنامج على iTunes. بالإضافة إلى مشاركة البرنامج مع أصدقائك حتى تعم الفائدة على الجميع. ونرجو منك أيضاً أن تتواصل معنا عبر الإيميل inspire@riyadah.org وتكتب لنا رأيك في البرنامج، وما هي أكثر الحلقات التي أعجبتك، إضافة إلى اقتراحاتك للضيوف القادمين الذين ترغب في الاستماع لقصص نجاحهم عبر ريادي من بلادي. تأكد أننا سنقرأ جميع الإيميلات وبأن تقييمك الإيجابي للبرنامج سيشجعنا على الاستمرار ومواصلة البحث عن أروع قصص النجاح الريادية لتصلك أينما كنت.

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ظهرت المقالة HRH Princess Dina Mired Shares Her Insights on Smoking, Lifestyle and Good Health Habits (Part 1) أولاً على أكاديمية سائد يونس.

While it’s true that a day has 24 hours in it, still each one of us might have more or less than 24 hours in their day! Or else how would you explain the huge differences in achievement and productivity between individuals?

Personal management skills, including time management, will pay some dividends in terms of increased productivity and enhanced success rates, but still time management alone won’t do the trick if you’re aspiring to be the next stave jobs – You need something else . . something more powerful.

The key hides in one word, and that is “LEVERAGE”. Utilizing the power of Leverage is the key denominator between all world-class successful people.

No matter how masterfully you manage your time, you would still have 24 hours a days to work with – I’m not denying that. But on the results level you will either end up with 24-hour based results, or a greater multiplier of that – it all boils down to the extent you leverage your skills and talents.

Let’s take a closer look on a super successful person like Richard Branson of Virgin Group. Branson wakes up each day with 24 hours, but ends up with more than 1,200,000-hours value of results! How is that humanly possible? Well, if you consider the fact that there are more than 50,000 employees currently working in virgin group under Branson’s leadership – it becomes much more understandable. Each one of those employees probably has 24-hours’ worth of results each day, but on Branson’s side of the story, he has (24*50,000 = 1.2 Million hours) – since all their individual work efforts and success will eventually pure into his bigger jar! So technically, Branson achieves each year the equivalent of what 50,000 people do, or let’s put it another way: each day he achieves more than what a normal person achieves in 137 years!!

So scale this up or down to fit your own life. If you want more results, start building your team right away. Study yourself and find out your most powerful strengths and focus on them, also find out what can be leveraged to other people and give it to them. A little by a little, you’ll become much more skillful at maximizing your results and leading others. They will benefit from working with you or even from just being around you as well – so it’s a win win situation for all.

Always remember that the major goal of leverage is freedom, NOT efficiency. You want to manage your time well and Leverage your skills and talents in order to free more space to be able to do what matters to you the most. Do not fall into the trap of productivity for the sake of productivity, because then you’ll go into a vicious circle that will bring you more stress and anxiety.

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On the other hand, the commute may be perceived as an opportunity for growth and a fertile source of inspiration and recreation. You shouldn’t underestimate the commute time no matter how short it might seem. Let’s say that you need an average of 60 minutes each morning to get to your work and you need the same amount of time in your way back home. This means that each week you spend 10 hours commuting. To put it in a wider context, you spend 40 hours each month, here you go a whole work week at your disposal!!– which is a modest estimate since many people spend more time on the road than that.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2013, 10.8 Million people travel an hour each way on workdays and 600,000 people travel 90 minutes (50+ Miles) to work.

Personally, I live approximately 60 miles from work and I travel 90+ minutes each way every single work day. At the beginning I tried to use my car, it was ok for a week or so, but then it turned out to be more tiring and stressful than I thought, especially during heavy-traffic days. Although I’m a big fan of long distance driving and I really find it relaxing and mind clearing, that didn’t stop me from taking the decision to stop using my car and switch to public transportation. I liked the convenience of not having to worry about driving and traffic jams anymore. However, sitting in a bus or a train for 90 minutes isn’t entertaining at all if you don’t plan it ahead and utilize it to your own wellbeing.

Here are 10 tips that will help you maximize your productivity while maintaining a good and positive mood:

1. Mind Your Own Posture First

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Priority #1 when commuting for long distances is to take care of your posture and to be seated properly. This might be tricky, since not all public transportation means have the same type of seats and options. Still, most buses and trains that are used for long commuting have adjustable seats. You should keep the back of your seat in an upright position with a little inclination that suites the ergonomics of you back. Do not be tempted to move it all they down if you want to sleep; because this will exert a lot of pressure on your lower back and might cause you some back pain.

Also try to keep your legs stretched to the front with your heels on the floor to avoid stressing your knees for a long time. Every once and a while rotate your feet around the ankle little bit and move your toes to refresh the blood circulation in the lower part of your body.

 2. Secure You Neck

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One of the most affected parts of your body by long distance commuting is your neck – especially if you suddenly fall asleep while your neck is in the wrong position. So if you want to maintain a good spinal health on the long run, you need to take care of your neck.

One of the easiest ways to protect your neck and keep it safe and comfortable at all times during your commute it to use a foam neck pillow. It is comfortable and most importantly it fits easily into your back bag or suitcase.

I’ve used a micro bead neck pillow for a while but then I had to abandon it for the more comfortable foam one. You can buy it at amazon for around $13.

Don’t forget to clean it regularly to prevent the clustering of bacteria and to protect it from bad smell. Good news is that some of them are microwavable; so you don’t have to worry about a complicated washing process.

3. Stay Hydrated

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You should keep a small bottle of fresh water with you at all times. Your body needs water in order to stay active and energetic. Don’t wait until you feel thirsty to drink water, keep the bottle close to you –preferably in the seat’s bag in front of you- and take regular sips along the way. Sitting in a bus or a train for an extended period of time and not performing any major muscular activity doesn’t mean that your body isn’t losing water. Truth is that it does, and you need to act on it. If you wait until you’re thirsty, this means it is too late and your body is already dehydrated.

4. A Few Minutes Of Planning Each Way, Let You Harness The Fruits Of The Whole Day!

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Start your journey in the morning by planning your day ahead, also do the same on your way back and plan your evening in advance – Just a few minutes each way will work like magic. Use a journal, notepad or simply your smartphone to jot down the main ideas and actions that you need to take and write the desired outcomes that you want to achieve.

This will keep you focused thought the day and the evening. You don’t need to write detailed plans; just keywords and highlights will be enough for you to clear your mind without forgetting about what really matters.

5. Read, But Do Not Over Read!

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It may seem surprising and counter-intuitive for some, but the truth is reading for a long time isn’t the wisest thing to do if you are a regular commuter. Reading requires you to be alert the whole time, which makes your trip a little bit tough and draining.

If you like to read on your way to work, do so for 10-20 minutes after you’ve written down the brief plan of the day/evening. The repetitive movements of the bus or train you’re in and the constant background engine and traffic sounds will put you in a semi-hypnotic state that will make it harder for you to stay 100% attentive the whole way. You will notice that after a while, you’ll keep losing track of what you’re reading and you won’t comprehend the material entirely.

6. Audio Books And Podcast Are A Heaven For Commuters

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Since prolonged reading isn’t the best thing to do during your trip, audio books and podcasts of your choice are much more practical. After all, it’s about effectively optimizing your method of consuming information.

Pre download your favorite audio books and podcasts and copy them to your iPod/smartphone. Make customized playlists based on your preferences and make them ready to go. Listening to books narrated requires much less mental effort than reading them. Make sure to have a pen and a paper handy to quickly capture any ideas or pieces of information that are important to you. Don’t rely on your memory, you might be in that semi-hypnotic state and forget them once you get out of the bus – True story!

If you are too tired to read or listen to audio material, just put on some calm music and relax. Relaxation when needed is productivity as well. So don’t worry much about finishing that book or listening to that whole podcast today, you’ll do that later.

7. Put Your Smartphone On Silent

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If you want to listen to music or podcasts using your mobile phone, make sure to reduce the ringtone volume to the lowest or simply put it on silent mode. Why? Just try to leave it on full throttle while you have the earbuds on, and you’ll discover the why by yourself when somebody calls you!

8. Set An Alarm Even If You Are Not Planning To Sleep

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If you’re commuting 2-4 hours a day 5-6 days a week you shouldn’t rely on your own pure willpower to stay awake. Always set an alarm that goes on at least 10 minutes before you arrive at your destination. This way you will make sure not to oversleep and miss the right station. With smartphones, now it’s very easy to set a recurring alarm for work days so you don’t have to worry about setting the alarm each time you travel. I prefer to set my smartphone’s alarm 15 minutes before arriving in the morning and 10 minutes in the afternoon. It adjust the settings to silent mode (vibration only) – since I usually keep it in my pocket.

You won’t always need it and mostly you’ll be awake when it rings, but it’s definitely worth the embarrassment of having to explain to your boss why you came late. If you are your own boss then you owe it to yourself to be punctual and reliable.

9. Keep A Light Sweater And A Baseball Cap Or A Pair Of Sunglasses In Your Bag

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You can wear the sweater in case you felt a little cold inside the bus or train. Mornings are usually cold even during summer and sometimes the air conditioning is set to a low temperature. So instead of approaching the driver and asking them to adjust the temperature just pull out your sweater and put it on. This will save you time and effort and most importantly will keep you warm and cozy. However, you should choose a lightweight sweater to carry on; so that your bag doesn’t turn into a powerlifting contest!

When you decide to sleep, you can use the baseball cap or put on the sunglasses to cover your eyes. This will give you a sense of privacy inside the bus or train and will block direct daylight so it becomes a little darker for you to sleep with no trouble.

10. Breath, Breath & Breath

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One of the easiest things to forget during your long commute is to breathe well. Although the closed, air-conditioned atmosphere of buses and trains doesn’t provide you with very fresh blasts of air, this shouldn’t keep you from maintaining good breathing habits. Having regular deep breaths will keep you lively and relaxed. Your brain thrives on oxygen, remember? So you need to make of breathing deeply a fixed habit. Usually people feel exhausted and sleepy inside public transportation because they automatically start taking shallow breaths once they get in. you can easily prevent that by focusing on deep Diaphragmatic breathing until it becomes a routine.

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Since I was 9 years old, I have surrounded myself with all self-improvement literature. My idea of a celebrity was a bit different from that of my peers; because mine were names like Tony Robbins, Brian Tracey and Stephen Covey.

I have spent countless hours trying to decipher the puzzle of my life hoping that I could eventually reach a satisfying answer for the one and only question; what is my purpose? I tried almost every formula there is and bought every book, e-book and audio book that I could have a grasp on. You name it – I did it! Today I have more questions than when I started the purpose-quest, I have changed course more than I can count, and I have got the feeling that I am still where I have started years ago!

If you’re into self-improvement stuff -like me- and you enjoy consuming as much information as you can, I’m sure you’ve heard the term “Your Life’s Purpose” many times before. Personally, I have heard it and repeated it so many times by now that the term itself lost its charm and even its meaning. It happens often when you keep on repeating a certain word, after a while it loses all meaning and it starts to sound weird! Try “Chair” for example. . “Chair” “Chair” “Chair” etc. the same thing happened with me repeating the word “Purpose” over and over; it somehow becomes vague.

On the other side of the equation, constantly thinking about your life may have made you more eager than ever to unveil the mask off your purpose. In either ways this means you haven’t reached there yet – the shores of purpose-land are still out of sight!

We’ve all heard about the importance of defining your life’s purpose, setting short-term, midterm and long-term goals, being clear on your passions and true desires, being discipline in your approach and last but not least, being grateful for having done all of that! And I bet you have bought one of those famous goal-setting books, sat down and tried to figure your life out.

Do you know someone who’s discovered their lone talent early on, or somebody else (say; a parent for example) has discovered it for them and they held on to it without ever revisiting the idea again? That 8 year-old violin addict that chess genius in 5th grad, that brilliant 12 year-old painter or that 10 year-old ballet artist and the list goes on and on. We’ve all have encountered those among us who seemed to have figured it out and acted accordingly. Did they really figure anything out at all?

Well, you might be one of them; which is great for you. However, I know for sure that I wasn’t. I used to look at those friends with admiration and jealousy at the same time. After all, I just wanted to know my sole singular passion too! I tried sports early on – I forced my father to sign me up for karate training when I was 7 years-old. I lasted only to the yellow belt hooray! I went for reading books and tried to force myself to become a reader, but the problem is I get bored too easily and I couldn’t stand sitting with a 300 pages book till the very end. I then went for music; I signed up for the school musical band when I was in 6th grade and tried to learn to play the piano; I was disciplined enough to learn to play the national anthem and that was pretty much it for my career as a pianist before I quit out of boredom and lack of discipline.

I went again for sports and tried to enter the school’s basketball team when I was in 7th grade, after 2 weeks of general fitness training we got to the real business and the coach started auditioning for the district’s schools tournament. Out of 60 shots I was supposed to through at the basket from different distances I miraculously scored 2; Needless to say that I didn’t make it to that team! One year later, it occurred to me that playing the guitar was my passion –or at least it seemed a good classy passion to stick to for a while; so I convinced my parents to buy me a classical guitar and then to register me in a guitar summer school at my home town. And the list goes on and one until this very day! I tried acting, teaching, repairing bicycles, drawing, writing peotry and even singing. But still, without actually satisfying my quest.

So is it me, or there is something wrong with the singular passion formula? In the past I used to put all the blame on myself; after all, how could you blame Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey or even Deepak Chopra for your misfortunes?! It didn’t make sense at all.

Later I began to doubt the whole singular-passion life-purpose paradigm and shifting toward what’s felt right to me. I started asking a different question. This new question shifted my whole focus and energy to a brand new level which has totally changed my life.

The new question was: what do I really want – a purpose of life or a purposeful life?

What if the one purpose or one singular passion are nothing but fancy bla bla bla?! What if we are meant to have several passions and fulfill more than one purpose in a single lifetime? What if you are not the one who should be searching for his life’s purpose and it is the other way around – your life’s purpose should be searching for you?
What if your life’s purpose is –as simple as it sounds- to be happy and joyful in every single moment? So whenever you’re not happy or you don’t feel joy, you are contradicting your purpose in life?

Forget about being a part of a huge master plan. Forget about 10 years, or 20 years goals. Think of 1 day goals i.e. today I am going to be as happy as I am ever capable of being. That’s it, no more or less. When tomorrow comes I’ll worry about it then. For now I only have today to enjoy. After all I might not be given a tomorrow!
Every moment, we are being bombarded with a tremendous amount of information coming from everywhere. This does more harm than good because it annoys us and puts us under constant stress to keep our focus and sanity. Overwhelm is the new common dilemma nowadays, where you are encouraged to do more, be more, achieve more, read more, and think more – but at the same time you feel helpless and hopeless somehow!

Don’t waste your time in extensive planning for the future. There’s no such thing as a 20-year plan or 10-year plan or even a 5-year plan. The best you can do is to draw a rough direction for yourself – don’t sweat yourself off trying to curve this direction into solid rocks; because you will change it many times over the course of several years. Just live today to the fullest and it will move you forward one step at a time.

If you look at life as a game, where you come to it with a certain outfit (your body) and a certain set of circumstances, abilities and disabilities, then you have one chance to play it right. The fun part is that you don’t get to see the whole map in advance; you are able to discover each part of it as you approach it. Then the best you can do is to do your best at every single step.

If you are a student, be the best student you can ever be. If you are a parent, be the best parent you can ever be. If you are a janitor, be the best janitor you can ever be and if you are a president, be the best president you can ever be. Regardless of where you start your journey, make sure to make the end worthwhile. Walk slowly but surely towards your vision even if you don’t have one yet; make your vision to be the best person you can ever be in this world. The game will step up a little bit each time and you’ll soon develop strong sense for what you want and what you don’t.

I remember a rule I learned during one of the entrepreneurship workshops I attended, it was given to us after the end of a long strategic/business planning session when the instructor paused and said something to the extent that: you can through away the detailed business plan you’ve just made, the plan is worthless but the planning process is invaluable. What you’ve learned along the way of planning with remain with you although that the plan itself might become obsolete the moment it is finished!

Therefore, we can project this on our lives and conclude that life itself isn’t that important. What’s really important is the process of living. Living is action, movement, regeneration, development, vitality, energy, persistence, joy and laughter. Life is the obsolete sheet of paper that we call; the business plan. It is a record of wins and losses and it doesn’t mean anything by itself.

Don’t spend much time in thinking and wondering. Rather use that valuable time in LIVING. One of my all times favorite quotes is by Les Brown when he said:

“Leap and grow your wings on the way down. Put all your bets on you, and on your ability to achieve your goals. Throw caution to the wind! If you have a catastrophic set-back…know that you have the power to overcome it.

If you lose a job, you will find another one, or create one. If you make some mistakes…learn from them, and come back again. This is a time to use your talents, skills, and resourcefulness to make a radical change and take your life to the next level. Remind yourself everyday…that you’re in it to win it. You are your most valuable asset. Do what you need to do to make it happen! You deserve.”

So go ahead and take that leap of faith you’ve been waiting for so long to take. And remember, the best you can do is to do your best.
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Have you encountered similar experiences? What was the thing/concept you liked the most in this article? Did it resonate with you well? Are you encouraged now to take action on what you really want? Do you have anything to share with us? Please join the conversation and comment to this article.

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