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One Man's Perspective of Love and Creating Work Balance By Dennis Twitchell aka The Big Bear

Do you ever experience pressure from work and home at same time? If you're like most working men you know when things are out of balance at home work tends to be more stressful.

For years I was a partner in a law firm. It never failed, when there were pressures at home, performance on job suffered. When things were good at home there was more balance between team members at office.

Over years I have had numerous conversations with friends and associates regarding work/life balance. There seems to be a common thread of agreement - when our wives and girlfriends feel loved we tend to have more balance not only at home, but at work.

Fact is, men need to feel loved as much as our life partners do. However, love to a man usually means something very different than what it means to a woman. If you are married and have been with your wife for any length of time you know of what I speak.

Having been happily married for many years now, I fully understand that my wife needs, wants and deserves special attention. Yes, that's right…deserves.

Your wife is probably no different. And lest I be misunderstood by any single men and women who are reading this, if you are in a long-term committed relationship, this applies to you as well.

Your loving partner needs, wants, and deserves special attention, maybe more often than you may think to give it to her. You are busy, pre-occupied with work, aggravated with things at work that occupy your time and most likely, stressed out. You're probably tired much of time.

The Money Jar Trap By Jeffrey Strain

Hundreds of thousands of people place their extra change into a jar or bank every night when they return home thinking that they are saving money. In reality, dynamics of saving coins has changed over last 10 years so that by placing your extra coins in a jar, you may actually be losing money. This is new money jar trap.

The money jar has been a classic way for people to save money for generations. The concept was easy. After coming home for day, you simply empty out your pockets and put coins into a jar. When jar was full, you take it to your local bank, have coins counted and place money into your savings account. While this sounds simple enough, savings generated in coin jar may not be worth their face value depending on how you redeem coins.

The problem with money jar game is that banks and other enterprises have figured out that they can charge you for taking your change. If there is a way to make a buck, you can be sure that banks and others will try to take it.

Take convenience of changing your coins at a grocery store. CoinStar and other businesses will take your change and give you a receipt that you can use for your grocery shopping, but they'll also take a huge fee to do so. In effect, you are trading face value of your coins for something worth less than face value.

More and more banks are also beginning to charge you to count coins if they will accept them at all. With current rates that banks are paying on savings accounts, you'll likely have to leave money your received for your coins in bank several years just to break even with what you initially had.