Mysteries aren’t exclusive to the Bermuda Triangle or the Loch Ness Monster. If you think about it, there are puzzling aspects of life we overlook each and every day. These mysteries can be found in even the most mundane of places — the office.
We delved into the science behind your home away from home. Why is it so hard to resist those free donuts? What’s the psychology behind the work crush? What’s the deal with coffee only staining your favorite mug at the level of the brew?
Approach your spouse with love, not anger. If you are actually angry about your spouse’s financial choices, you’re not in the right mindset to sit down and talk about things. Anger will solve nothing. It merely turns the discussion into an “I’m right and you’re wrong” competition.
Set goals together, watch the progress, and hold each other accountable. If you have different goals for the future, it’s going to be hard to make progress. Instead, you need to find goals that you share. What do you both want to achieve?
Regardless of your situation, a successful marriage requires commitment from both partners. If you’re not both willing to take steps and work hard to save the marriage, it’s not going to work. This does not mean simply giving in to all of the wishes of your partner. It means finding common ground that you’re both happy with.
The sunshine that warms Washington, D.C. is once again generating electricity for the White House. After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3 kilowatt photovoltaic installation of the “typical size for an American house,” is back on the White House roof and generating power.
The Obama administration had announced in 2010 plans to add solar but red tape and the White House’s status as a historic and working government building slowed progress. “It’s a really important message that solar is here,” said Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz in a video highlighting the now complete installation. “We are doing it. We can do a lot more. I am very bullish on the future of solar as a key part of our clean energy future.”
Straight up, today’s story is some truth telling and what you absolutely need to hear especially if you work from home OR have kids OR run your own business OR work on line. If none of these apply to you, you might find it interesting anyway!
About being productive….
The ironic thing is that when I have enough time to actually take extra time for me and for my various projects – I’m the most unproductive. Is that weird?
If I have a quieter week, you’d imagine I’d be getting all kinds of cool stuff completed right? Wrong.
Just when I breathe out a sigh of ‘thank goodness I have a little extra time this week’, those damn temptations slip in and kill my productivity.
So here’s what the top four killers are and how you can’t do anything to avoid them (aka. What you have to do to survive!!)
Apple’s rumored decision to purchase Beats Electronics for a vast $3.2 billion has puzzled many across the tech sphere. But, there may be a simple answer: Purchasing the Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre empire may give Apple a slice of the millennial pie.
“I got teens, and they don’t listen to anything unless it’s with those headphones. The association that Beats has with teens is it’s cool. Apple is the brand of your mom,” Jonathan Adams, digital agency iCrossing’s head of media in North America, said.
Adams points out that Apple obviously doesn’t have a brand problem and is still profitable. But, it can’t champion that spritely youthful image that wearing a pair of the bombastic headphones, which have become a fashion accessory, has. And, it seems Apple wants its mojo back, as noted by its tepid dip in the Tumblr waters in March.
Yang belongs to the age group, adults under 35, that’s traditionally the most mobile part of an American work force constantly on the move since the 19th century. Now, that’s changing as members of the millennial generation, the estimated 85 million born from 1981 through 2000, prove less restless than their forebears. The standstill may be holding back recovery in the labor and housing markets.
“They remain stuck in place,” said William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington who specializes in migration issues. “The recent slowdown is really an interaction of demographics and a continued housing- and labor-market freeze. Millennials are mired down, very cautious about buying a home or moving to new areas.”
Nobody saw it coming.
To pick a winning stock at the start of March, you had to find a company that was hated by analysts, adored by short sellers, avoided by institutional buyers and averse to doing just about anything but pay dividends. Shares with those characteristics have generated returns of as much as 5.8 percent even as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stood still, data compiled by Bespoke Investment Group LLC and Bloomberg show.
The unlikelihood of arriving at such a blueprint after a five-year bull market is taking a toll on asset managers, with more than 80 percent of growth and value funds trailing benchmarks in 2014. For investors coming back to the market just as losses in Internet shares approach 20 percent, it’s a lesson on how little past performance says about the future.
via Hated Stocks Unlock Market as Analysts Prove No Guide to Gains – Bloomberg.
In the United States, 410 billion gallons of water are withdrawn for use each day. Almost half (49%) of this water is used by the power sector. On the other side, more than 12%of the nation’s energy use is used to meet the country’s water and steam demand.
In other words – a lot of water is used for energy and significant energy is used for water.
This concept is at the core of a new bill in the U.S. Senate, which focuses on the connections between energy and water systems in the United States.
When people realize how incredible the deal is for a Roth IRA, they’re often in disbelief. After all, it lets you earn tax-free income in retirement. No federal income taxes, period, on money taken out of a Roth IRA when you’re at retirement age (and at a few other life opportunities, too).
Before we head too far down this road, let’s touch on what a Roth IRA is. I spelled it out in my earlier Roth IRA basics article, but here are the key things you need to know:
Generation Y is a term which is often used to describe those born between 1980 and 1991. This group are the generation of the digital age or the first ‘digital natives’. Generation Y are seen as a powerhouse of potential for the workforce as well as an essential group of consumers. This mobile generation are shaping the future. Following Generation Y is not Generation Z, but Generation C.
Who is Generation C?
Generation C gets its namesake as this generation flourishes on Connection, Community, Creation and Curation. Generation C is not traditional in the sense it is not defined by their age, though are often found to be under 35. Generation C covers all who have embraced technology, shape opinion and lead on thought.
