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Excerpts from baby center Living with a toddler can be like sharing a house with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If your child is "spirited," the toddler years can be especially trying. What defines a spirited child? "All toddlers are busy: They're climbing and jumping and throwing things," says Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, author of the popular books Raising Your Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime. "But the high-energy kid is the one who can get to the top of the refrigerator. All toddlers say 'no,' too, but a spirited child's 'no's!' are louder and more frequent, his tantrums longer lasting and more intense. You gradually realize that as a parent you're working harder than your neighbor, whose child is simply not as intense, persistent, and emphatic as yours. Your child is still normal, he's just more of everything." Spirited kids are definitely a challenge, but there are ways to defuse dai...

Excerpts from "Tools To Life" Here are ten traps to avoid: Trap 1: The instant gratification trap It’s truly one of the biggest problems in today’s society. We all want everything now, and our ability to put in the effort required has greatly diminished. You want change and you want it now! If you can’t get it right now, it doesn’t hold your attention. That’s why we get in trouble in life to begin with: We fail to pay attention. This belief in magic solutions also makes us susceptible to all the false promises that advertisers sell us. Buy this amazing machine or pill or product, and you’ll have the best abs in six weeks! Don’t fall for this trap. Put in the effort and time, and the results will come. Trap 2: The "This is silly," trap If you can simply disqualify something as nonsense, then you don’t have to follow through.Congratulations, you win! Now things can remain the same in your life. How do you know about anything, unless you try? Trap 3: The agreeing tr...

“ABC of Success:” A = Action . Start taking action today. We don’t achieve change through thinking about it, but by doing something. B = Bite size. Reduce all your new activities to small daily actions. It truly is amazing how doing something small doesn’t overwhelm us and produces amazing results. When we take on too much we either don’t start or can’t keep it up. Workout ten minutes a day; send out one resume a day, save a little money every day and the results will materialize over time. C = Consistency. Through the accumulation of small actions, we get big results. Do your bite size action activities daily.

Excerpts from Mark Goulston's diaries. 10 habits of happy couples ------------------------------------------------------- Happy couples know that the real relationship begins when the honeymoon is over. Unless you maintain a garden of love, it will grow weeds and its beauty will wither and die. So let's explore 10 habits of highly happy couples: 1. Go to bed at the same time. Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn't wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps. 2. Cultivate common interests. After the passion settles down, it's common to realize that you have few interests in common. But don't minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. If common interests are not present, happy couples develop them. At the same time, be sure to cult...

Excerpts from Monster.com "You are never going to get what you deserve. You only get what you negotiate" - Guillermo Villareal Ask for the Raise You Want You want a raise. Whether your performance review is around the corner or you've taken on new responsibilities over the past few months, chances are the thought of asking for a raise makes you nervous. "Even the strongest person becomes mush when the topic turns to raises," says Sharon Koss, a principal with Seattle-based human resources and compensation consulting firm Koss Management Consulting. "Just remember that your boss will also be uncomfortable talking about it with you." Planning is the key to effectively asking for a raise. Long before you even head to the negotiation table, you should be laying the groundwork for a bigger paycheck. Leverage Your Skills: "You could be the organization's PowerPoint guru or possess some skill that everyone comes to you for help with,...

A Few Things to Do Come, my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Excerpts from "Tools To Life" ################################################################ It’s getting pretty easy to wake up by now. This week is filled with information. Tomorrow is the end of our TOOLS week, and we are starting a new activity every weekend. Let’s go shopping. There are a few things we need, and we are not going to spend a lot of money. We are going to improve our lives. Each week I have a few simple ideas for you. You have two assignments today, and they are both simple. The first stop is a drugstore, supermarket, or good convenience store. What are we buying? I’m getting to that! I want you to buy a new toothbrush for home, and then I want you to buy a travel toothbrush. The travel brush can be one that folds in half or a regular toothbrush in a...

Speech Of Azim Premji At IIM-A “While change and uncertainty have always been a part of life, what has been shocking over the last year has been both the quantum and suddenness of change. For many people who were cruising along on placid waters, the wind was knocked out of their sails. The entire logic of doing business was turned on its head. Not only business, but also every aspect of human life has been impacted by the change. What lies ahead is even more dynamic and uncertain. I would like to use this opportunity to share with you some of our own guiding principles of staying afloat in a changing world. This is based on our experience in Wipro. I hope you find them useful.” LESSON 1 “Be alert for the first signs of change.” Change descends on every One equally; it is just that some realize it faster. Some changes are sudden but many others are gradual. While sudden changes get attention because they are dramatic, it is the gradual changes that are ignored till it is too la...