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- Diet is not starvation.
- Don't go for diet plans which deprive you of food or make you eat only one type of food.
- The human body is designed for continuous activity.
- All food is good. Everything that you eat judiciously, at the right time and in the right
quantity, is good for you. - Never go on diet instead modify your lifestyle.
- Savour every bit of what you eat, slowly and mindfully, and you will naturally find your
threshold. - Eat food that is prepared fresh.
- Eat your vegetables and fruits whole instead of cutting them into pieces.
- As much as possible eat local produce and seasonal food.
- Before eating: switch off your phone, TV and PC etc., wash your hands, serve yourself half of what you usually eat.
- While eating: Drink a glass of water, chew your food slowly and deliberately, while you still have food in your mouth don't pick up the food from your plate, Eat with all your senses.
- Wake up closer to sunrise.
- Never wake up to tea or coffee.
- Eat every 2-3 hours during the day.
- Eat more when you are active and less when you are less active.
- Finish your last meal at least 2 hours prior to sleeping.
- Sleep at a fixed time.
Gist from the book: Don't lose your mind, lose your weight -- Rujuta Diwekar
Recently in an office meeting, I came across a situation, where I felt that many members within the group where restraining from expressing themselves. This kind of situation is not uncommon for me. Some members reserve their comments thinking that the team may not appreciate or counter to it. But more often then not, they express themselves privately or publicly or when the decision does not appear to yield desired result. I always feel that we need to overcome this kind of communication barriers to helps us make right decisions. This kind of situation (inferred) is also referred as Abilene paradox.
From Wikipedia:---
The Abilene paradox is a paradox in which a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of any of the individuals in the group. The Abilene paradox was introduced by management expert Jerry B. Harvey in his article The Abilene Paradox and other Meditations on Management.
On a hot afternoon visiting in Coleman, Texas, the family is comfortably playing dominoes on a porch, until the father-in-law suggests that they take a trip to Abilene [53 miles north] for dinner. The wife says, "Sounds like a great idea." The husband, despite having reservations because the drive is long and hot, thinks that his preferences must be out-of-step with the group and says, "Sounds good to me. I just hope your mother wants to go." The mother-in-law then says, "Of course I want to go. I haven't been to Abilene in a long time."
The drive is hot, dusty, and long. When they arrive at the cafeteria, the food is as bad as the drive. They arrive back home four hours later, exhausted.
One of them dishonestly says, "It was a great trip, wasn't it?" The mother-in-law says that, actually, she would rather have stayed home, but went along since the other three were so enthusiastic. The husband says, "I wasn't delighted to be doing what we were doing. I only went to satisfy the rest of you." The wife says, "I just went along to keep you happy. I would have had to be crazy to want to go out in the heat like that." The father-in-law then says that he only suggested it because he thought the others might be bored.
The group sits back, perplexed that they together decided to take a trip which none of them wanted. They each would have preferred to sit comfortably, but did not admit to it when they still had time to enjoy the afternoon.
A technique mentioned in the study and/or training of management, as well as practical guidance by consultants, is that group members, when the time comes for a group to make decisions, should ask each other, "Are we going to Abilene?" to determine whether their decision is legitimately desired by the group's members or merely a result of this kind of groupthink.
Group photograph of participants
• If machine is a new install, protect it from hostile network traffic, until the operating system is installed and hardened.
• Consider using the Security Configuration Wizard to assist in hardening the host.
•Install the latest service packs and hotfixes
• Enable automatic notification of patch availability.
• Configure Audit policy as described.
• Set minimum password length.
• Enable Password Complexity.
• Configure event Log Settings.
• Disable anonymous SID/Name translation.
• Do not allow Anonymous Enumeration of SAM accounts
• Do not allow Anonymous Enumeration of SAM accounts and shares.
• Disable the guest account.
• Digitally Encrypt of Sign Secure Channel Data (Always).
• Digitally Encrypt Secure Channel Data (When Possible).
• Digitally Sign Secure Channel Data (When Possible).
• Disable the sending of unencrypted password to connect to Third-Party SMB Servers.
• Do not allow everyone permissions to apply to anonymous users.
• Do not allow any named pipes to be accessed anonymously.
• Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares.
• Ensure that no shares can be accessed anonymously.
• Choose "Classic" as the sharing and security model for local accounts.
• Disable or uninstall unused services.
• Disable or delete unused users.
• Configure User Rights to be as secure as possible.
• Ensure all volumes are using the NTFS file system.
• Use the Internet Connection Firewall or other methods to limit connections to the server.
• Configure file system permissions.
• Configure registry permissions.
• Set the system date/time and configure it to synchronize against campus time servers.
• Install and enable anti-virus software.
• Install and enable anti-spyware software.
• Configure anti-virus software to update daily.
• Configure anti-spyware software to update daily.
• Configure a screen-saver to lock the console's screen automatically if the host is left unattended.
• If the machine is not physically secured against unauthorized tampering, set a BIOS/firmware password to prevent alterations in system startup settings.
• Configure the device boot order to prevent unauthorized booting from alternate media.
• Systems will provide secure storage for Category-I data as required by confidentiality, integrity, and availability needs. Security can be provided by means such as, but not limited to, encryption, access controls, file system audits, physically securing the storage media, or any combination thereof as deemed appropriate.
• Install software to check the integrity of critical operating system files.
• If RDP is utilized, set RDP connection encryption level to high.
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