8. Specialized Knowledge and / or experience Whatever it is you want to be, you must acquire specialized knowledge or skills required for it. Otherwise, your wish is just wishful thinking. You need to make right decision, make your plan and take appropriate action.

9. Exercise regularly and sensibly Regular sensible exercises keep you fit, alert and strong. Regular exercises helps blood circulation and need I say more?

10. Stay Employed or Occupied Even if you have to take some time off work to adjust to a new situation, try to work part-time, stay occupied or full-time. Keeping a job is a good way to stay active.

11. Food You are what you eat. Take a balanced diet, not just eat abundance of what you like and little of other food in order to give your body balanced amount of nutrition required to maintain a healthy body. Avoid too much hamburger burgers. Plain boiled water is good, cola is not good. Listen to your doctor’s advice if you are sick. For example people with diabetic issues should know what can be taken and what need to be avoided. Avoid heavy food at least 3 hours before going to bed. Avoid alcohol, take more vegetables, more fruits and fish.   12. Helping Others The more you give more you will get in return. Those who help others are also helping themselves. For example, if a consultant helps others in need by giving help and information, he is actually gaining trust from whom he helped and eventually people will like to do business with him.

Contributing to society is an important aspect of good life. By helping others within your means to help those who are less fortunate is our obligation to society. If you do that consistently, you will feel good about yourself and your fortune will grow even further because more people will be attracted to you.

Money likes to befriend people who already have abundance of it! Give generously to society, let money flow like water. I like what famous property tycoon of Hong Kong, Mr. Lee Ka Shing said, "no matter how much money a person has, he only take a 3 meals a day and sleep on one bed!".

13. Relationship The fact that relationship whether it is dating or married is hard. Things do not go perfectly right most of time. Say “I love you” more, and don’t under estimate ‘power of touch’. Avoid heated quarrel, no one wins a quarrel. The one who thinks he wins a quarrel lose respect of other. Put your family first and your career second if you need to make a critical decision. For more tips, click here.

14. Stay In Touch This is an information age, a digital age, age of dramatic change. Stay on Internet, be informed, and don’t lose touch! Visit Good Life regularly, be our friend, make more friends, expand your reach to other good communities, share your thoughts with others and be happy.  

Thank you for reading.

So we teach and re-teach as child moves between levels one and two, and then one beautiful day, child is working at third level of obedience.

Let's take an example of making a bed. At first level, child is shown how to make a bed. The child shows willingness by trying to make bed next morning. The bedspread is hanging too low on one side and there are lumps. Being friendly with error, adult simply states, "You made bed by yourself."

The next day child forgets to make bed. The adult gives another demonstration, wordlessly looking at both sides of spread to make sure they are even. The next day child makes bed. The fourth day child forgets to make bed. The adult reminds child, and child goes cheerfully to make bed. If child protests, adult simply smiles and says "Let's do it together," knowing that child may have forgotten how to do it.

After a few days child can make bed with just a verbal reminder. At some point, weeks, months or years, child will reach third level and make bed perfectly without any reminders. (Parents of teenagers are allowed to roll their eyes if still waiting on this third level of obedience.)

All of us learn faster and better in a trusting relationship. Trust is developed by offering assistance in a clear, concise and kind manner. The adult doesn't ask child to do something that is too difficult or belittle child for not being able to do it. The adult remembers that it takes many reteachings to get to second level of obedience and much practice to arrive at third level.

The adult needs to observe child's will, skill and experience levels before asking them to do something. We can offer assistance to child, keeping in mind "any unnecessary help is a hindrance."

For three- to six-year-old, these levels of skill, experience and obedience are changing daily. As adults, we need to remain "friendly with error" as child's experience and memory propel them to third level of obedience, an obedience built on a relationship of trust and mutual respect.

Kids Talk is a column dealing with early childhood development issues written by Maren Stark Schmidt. Mrs. Schmidt founded a Montessori school and holds a Masters of Education from Loyola College in Maryland.

She has over 20 years experience working with young children and holds teaching credentials from Association Montessori Internationale.

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