One Man's Perspective of Love and Creating Work Balance

Written by Dennis Twitchell


Title: One Man's Perspective of Love and Creating Work Balance Author: Dennis Twitchell Email: manager@justbearsandstuff.com Word Count: 878 Copyright © 2005 by Dennis Twitchell Web address: www.justbearsandstuff.com

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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 atrepparttar 110337 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 onrepparttar 110338 job suffered. When things were good at home there was more balance between team members atrepparttar 110339 office.

Overrepparttar 110340 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 ofrepparttar 110341 time.

Who hasrepparttar 110342 time orrepparttar 110343 energy to even think about romance? Fact is, many marriages are going through tough times because people forgetrepparttar 110344 reasons they fell in love inrepparttar 110345 first place. Romance has taken a back seat to everything else. Often, a woman can be heard saying, "He just isn't paying enough attention to me."

The Money Jar Trap

Written by Jeffrey Strain


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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,repparttar 110337 dynamics of saving coins has changed overrepparttar 110338 last 10 years so that by placing your extra coins in a jar, you may actually be losing money. This isrepparttar 110339 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 forrepparttar 110340 day, you simply empty out your pockets and putrepparttar 110341 coins into a jar. Whenrepparttar 110342 jar was full, you take it to your local bank, haverepparttar 110343 coins counted and placerepparttar 110344 money into your savings account. While this sounds simple enough,repparttar 110345 savings generated inrepparttar 110346 coin jar may not be worth their face value depending on how you redeemrepparttar 110347 coins.

The problem withrepparttar 110348 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.

Takerepparttar 110349 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 tradingrepparttar 110350 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. Withrepparttar 110351 current rates that banks are paying on savings accounts, you'll likely have to leaverepparttar 110352 money your received for your coins inrepparttar 110353 bank several years just to break even with what you initially had.

What this all comes down to is that for many, keeping a coin jar isrepparttar 110354 same as losing money. Where it once was a great way to add to your savings, it has become as wasteful as keeping a balance on your credit cards. We have come to a time whererepparttar 110355 coin jar can actually cost you more money than you save.

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