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How Do To Be Financially Stable?

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  What Is Financial Stability? When you are financially stable, you feel confident with your financial situation. You don’t worry about paying your bills because you know you will have the funds. You are debt free, you have money saved for your future goals and you also have enough saved to cover emergencies. Financial stability isn’t about being rich. In fact, it isn’t a number at all. It’s more of a mindset. When you have financial stability, you don’t have to stress about money and you can focus your energy on other parts of your life. This may sound like a dream, but financial stability is something you can achieve. It will take some time and you will need to put in the work. If you follow these 10 steps though, you can reach your financial dreams. 1.  Make Your Finances Personal It’s very important to say this right off the bat: your personal finances are personal. That doesn’t mean personal in the sense that you can’t talk to anyone about your money. Making your finances...
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What Is Gambling Addiction And What Are Its Signs

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Gambling addiction—also known as pathological gambling, compulsive gambling or gambling disorder—is an impulse-control disorder. If you’re a compulsive gambler, you can’t control the impulse to gamble, even when it has negative consequences for you or your loved ones. You’ll gamble whether you’re up or down, broke or flush, and you’ll keep gambling regardless of the consequences—even when you know that the odds are against you or you can’t afford to lose. Gambling problems can happen to anyone from any walk of life. Your gambling goes from a fun, harmless diversion to an unhealthy obsession with serious consequences. Whether you bet on sports, scratch cards, roulette, poker, or slots—in a casino, at the track, or online—a gambling problem can strain your relationships, interfere with work, and lead to financial disaster. You may even do things you never thought you would, like running up huge debts or even stealing money to gamble. Are you concerned that someone you know has a gambling...
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Gambling Can Destroy Your Life

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  There are so many different types of gambling available for people to get involved with today. Some are the traditional options, such as betting on races or sports games, or taking a trip to your local casino. On the other hand, others are more modern concepts – such as online betting or playing games for cash online. Sometimes, these games of chance can be nothing more than a little harmless fun – a way to raise adrenaline and test your luck every once in a while. Unfortunately, gambling is only harmless if you know how to control it, and as casinos and online locations exert more effort in marketing to gamblers with free games, chips, and hotel rooms all intended to lure them to the table, addiction becomes more of an issue.  The Lure and Threat of Gambling Whether you choose to engage in online fantasy football with friends or strangers, or prefer to make your gambling trips into more of an occasion with a casino, statistics suggest that about 8% of all gamblers exhibit s...
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What Are The Benefits Of Walking

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Walking is a form of exercise that can significantly improve your physical and mental health. Not only can it extend your life and prevent disease, but it can also boost your energy and mood.  In addition, studies show that if you walk regularly and quickly enough, it could be the only aerobic exercise you need to keep your heart and lungs healthy.  It's also accessible, easy, and free. So if you're one of the 47% of adults who don't meet the CDC's Physical Activity Guidelines for aerobic activity, then walking is a habit worth pursuing and keeping.   Here's seven research-backed health benefits of walking, as well as how fast, long, and regularly you should walk to reap them.  1. Burn calories and lose weight  Walking increases your heart rate, causing you to expend energy and burn calories just like other forms of physical activity such as running, swimming, or cycling. How many calories you burn depends on how fast you walk, for how long, the terrain, an...
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The Elderly Are More Vulnerable To Violent Crimes - Here's Why

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Crime statistics have traditionally suggested that people aged 60 or over are less likely to be the victims of violent crime than the rest of the population. But while national victimisation surveys consistently report lower levels of victimisation among those aged 60 and over, these figures don’t necessarily capture the full picture. This is in part because most victimisation surveys exclude certain groups in society from participating – including those living in “institutions” such as care homes and hospitals. And in some cases, there have been age caps in these surveys. The rate of victimisation of older people may be lower than other age groups, but it is certainly not rare. A recent global systematic review estimated that at least one in six older people experience some form of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse each year. In the UK, this equates to around 2m people every year. To put this into context, this is higher than the UK current estimates of domestic violence ...
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Punjab's Drug Issue Is Getting Out Of Control

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  A video from Punjab which became viral in June showed a newly married woman—wedding bangles (chooda) on her wrists—taking drugs. She put a lighted candle below a foil and snorted what was thought to be chitta—Punjab's notorious synthetic drug made from heroin and other substances. The video indicates that Punjab's drug problem is not restricted to the typical demographic of unemployed youth. It is rampant across divides such as class, gender, age and geography. No wonder, the Punjab government recently ordered all its employees to undergo drug tests. A crackdown on drugs by the state government after Capt Amarinder Singh came to power last year has led to arrests of a large number of peddlers and choked supply routes. Yet there is no end to the problem. In June this year, dozens of drug-related deaths were reported in the state. In the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished. With addicts turning peddlers and severa...
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