The blending of families:When yours and mine become ours

The blending of families is a common and yet challenging task. The days of the intact family, exempt from divorce, appears less noticeable in todays world. Changes in our family system pose a complex set of transitional difficulties. Making these changes takes commitment and hard work.

Handling divorce presents enough problems of its own, without the consideration of melding two families. How partners, who choose to dissolve their marriage, end up processing their divorce, plays a significant role in determining the outcome of future family relationships. Couples may maintain the marriage after the divorce by hanging on, feuding, and pitting the children in a nasty game. Couples may create emotional baggage that impacts the ability to reconfigure family life.

Adults and children need to feel safe before they can move on. Neither can move forward until they have fully let go of the past. Bringing unresolved baggage into a new relationship and prospective family life thwarts the potential for success. The new relationship after divorce may suffer from the pitfalls of partners resenting each other over on-going management of divorce issues, including finances, visitation structure and medical considerations for the children. Invariably, one partner may think his mate is being too passive in dealing with custodial issues with his former spouse. These differences in perspective may create unnecessary conflict. Frequently, a partners passivity with his ex-spouse may emerge out of a sense of false guilt. False guilt immobilizes people because they allow others to have a sense of power over them.

One of the pitfalls of the blended family is introducing children into the new family system prematurely. The grieving and healing process of divorce takes time, and forcing a new partner into the lives of children may backfire. Consumed with the excitement of a new relationship, couples can be too eager to involve their children into the newness they are experiencing. Childrens feelings need to be taken into consideration as they are asked to adapt to new family relationships. Children must be emotionally prepared to adequately deal with the ramifications of new family members or they will increasingly learn to resent the changes.

One of the most common perils of the blended family is allowing a step-parent to become the disciplinarian to the partners children. It is never advisable for a step-parent to discipline their partners children. It creates resentment and is a set-up for failure. It is imperative that the biological parent never lose sight of the need to nurture and oversee the discipline of their own children. Asking for parenting advice from a partner in a blended family is appropriate, but turning over responsibility for the discipline of ones children is not. Children want their own parents to maintain a strong sense of connectedness with them, set appropriate boundaries, and make decisions that affect their behavior and well-being.

Another issue important to the development of a blended family is making sure that each partner maintains a strong identity with their own children while integrating all children within the new family structure. Accomplishing this requires parenting patience, balance, communications and conflict resolution, including family meetings. Partners must avoid a sense of favoritism toward their own children, establishing new behavioral patterns that are in the best interest of all members of the new family. Being attuned to your partners needs and wants as well as those of the blended family children is essential. Expectations for increased involvement and communications among members of the blended family must be realistic. The chances for success of a blended family will increase if you will:

Resolve divorce related issues as effectively as possible.

Maintain a strong attachment to your own children so that they do not feel discarded or overshadowed by the blended family.

Be cautious and sensitive about introducing a new partner into your childrens lives.

Make sure that you handle all disciplinary matters directly related to your own children.

Spend alone time with your own children so that they do not feel overshadowed by the blended family.

Avoid any sense of favoritism regarding the blending of children. If there are parenting differences that are affecting the blended family, they should be discussed apart from the children, if needed with a third party.

Make any visitation process for the children as structured and as welcoming as possible.

Use family meetings as a way of handling blended family conflicts involving your children.

Of major importance is that children want to know that their parents are happy in a new relationship. Make sure that you build a committed, intimate relationship with your new partner and that you cultivate it by spending time apart from the children to develop it. The success of a blended family starts with a partners ability to communicate and promote understanding with their new blended family mate.

James P. Krehbiel, Ed.S., LPC is an author, freelance writer, and nationally certified cognitive-behavioral therapist practicing in Scottsdale, Arizona. His book, Stepping Out of the Bubble is available at www.booklocker.com. James can be reached at www.krehbielcounseling.com.

If husband does not want a child

Not all our husbands are ready to become fathers since the moment of family creation. Even after several years of a family life they are still morally unprepared for childbirth, then it becomes already a real problem that can cause various consequences.

If after some time your husband is still unprepared to have a child, do not wait for that happy moment for years, but analyze his behavior on this early stage and try to understand the problem. You should also remember following:

It is quite normal that during first time a man and woman sense different feelings (often contradictory) concerning their parental role. Future parents are often afraid that after childbirth they will lose their own freedom, have no time for entertainment, and lose a feeling that they can do everything in this world forever. Thought of children frightens everybody at first, especially those who have strained relationships with their own parents. A partner fear and uncertainty towards children is quite a normal thing. However, to overcome this problem, you need to talk more about children, giving your partner understanding that your family will become even happier and stronger after childbirth, but you will still have your own spare time.

Women and men prepare for parenting in different ways, someone needs more time, others less. A woman realizes she is pregnant earlier than her husband, she feels changes and is already prepared psychologically to become a mother since the moment of a baby first motions.

Men prefer denying changes in their lives, they understand they will soon become fathers, however, they still cannot feel these changes completely, as it is a woman who bears a baby. As a rule, husbands start understanding a father role only several months after childbirth.

You need to understand that a husband refusal from childbirth does not mean he does not want children. Most often he feels fear, so you should not treat your husband behavior as his unwillingness seeing you as a mother. To help your husband coping with the fear of childbirth, join your friends and close people who already have children to your problem. Ask them telling that the world does not change to bad after childbirth, ways of merry pastime with the whole family, how many pleasant moments their children presented them.

If you are already expecting a baby, give your husband understanding that now you need his support and comprehension as never before, try to explain his negative attitude to the situation makes you suffering and being depressed.

After you talk to your husband abut his fears, prepare him for a sincere conversation, during which you would try solving the problem of fatherhood together.

Do not like your work? Make friends with it!

Day after day everything goes the same way, waking up in the morning you already feel tired, thought of going to work causes terror and panic. You manage oversleeping or being late for work, even if earlier you were famous for your punctuality. Your closest people now arouse irritation in you, when they ask about things at your work, you turn red and white, simple words everything is ok require incredible efforts, and most often you just want to explode. When a boss comes with new recommendations, you can hardly resist a temptation to scratch a table with your nails.

What is happening? Diagnosis is simple. You hate your work. But why you are still here? What keeps you here? There can be many reasons, lets examine only several of them Heres a collection of self-mistakes and their exposure.

Im gaining experience

This is peculiar to young specialists that are just starting working after University, but in fact such hated work will rather cause complete aversion for this kind of activity and further you will have to train for a new profession, as the only thought of working in same area will make you sick. So if you are planning your carrier in one course, you should better consider pro and con.

Someone needs doing this

Strangely enough, this is the most popular argument. Yes, it seems if everybody starts doing only creative work, then there will be no none to wash floors and knock together stools. However, this is not truth, there are many people who really cannot create anything, and many creative people sooner or later understand that now they need to make a break and repair a workbench. If you realize you can do more do more. The world does not care for your sacrifices, no matter how sad it may seem, and everybody can take your place at Xerox, but there are less people wishing to do more difficult work, as it requires education.

Collective is just wonderful

Such also happens. But most often this is a justification for nice, very kind and responsive people whom others use to live at their expense. Colleagues adore them, bring coffee with cakes, congratulate on any occasion, only to load them with all the work. And this is done even unconsciously, theres a simple principle why should I do this, if somebody can do it for me? Look around, maybe it is only you who is working in this office, and rest people are busy with manicure, talking to friends on the phone and choosing new mascara in a catalogue? There are many good people in the world, your collective is not the only one maybe you will find even more of them in some other place?

Everything will come to naught here without me!

This argument is close to previous two ones. Welcome to the real world antique atlantes era is over, do you want to stand with the world on your shoulders during whole life? Surely, after your retiring colleagues will experience difficulties, but why should you bear this cross? Even birds sooner or later set their nestling free allowing them gaining independence. Of course, if this is a business of your whole life it will be difficult quitting it, but if this business causes aversion in you already? You cannot eat only chocolate during whole life only because some time it was a pink of happiness. Work should bring pleasure and satisfaction, not cause headache at one thought about it. After all, if sky collapses and crushes everyone, its not your fault nobody provided themselves with helmets!

Where will I go?

Nobody fires you right now. Everyone can start searching for a new job still working on previous place. Just do not repeat Bridget Johns mistake and edit your resume on your working place you can do this accurately at home and publish in Internet. Do not give a corporative e-mail some obsessed bosses read all post, and do not write your surname. You have a chance to receive a good offer, or your company will create more favorable conditions for you to make you stay.

15 years later Ill be an Assistant Director General

Policy of savings a year later you buy a washing machine, 5 years later a car, 10 years later a cottage, and then you will be happy. Theres a mistake then you will be not happy, but old. What if your company goes bankrupt? Or finds another specialist? Everything may happen, and your table will still stand in a corner.

No one will pay me more

Well, this is already seriously. If you are really assured in it you should better think longer. Of course, money is not the main thing, but their lack makes life much harder. Moreover, if you are a professional but still young specialist, you cannot count on a huge salary since the first month of work. However, this does not mean you should not search for it everyone has a right for fortune.

So, look at all these excuses, examine them carefully. Maybe you see your favorite one among them? If so, you should urgently change the situation! You know, when stress is accumulating in your organism for a long, it causes a long depression, and if your work is a reason, nobody will be able to pay your spent nerves and efforts later. Be careful a hated work can be more terrific than any vampire, sucking your blood, so try to gain immunity to excuses and start actions. It is quite possible that you wont have to change your work you just have to understand what disappoints you try to correct it.

Diet has a negative effect on man potency

According to researches, 40% men, having various sexual problems, first of all ?erection decrease up to its complete lack and accelerated ejaculation, suffer from overweight.

Peculiarities of our nutrition and slow-moving way of living are the reasons of it. Adiposity, first of all, is fraught with such ischemia risk factors as heightened blood pressure, impaired fat metabolism, and diabetes.

Often overeating becomes a habit while different emotional states: loneliness, boredom, fear, stress, continence and others.

Scientists strongly protest against hunger as a method of adiposity and overweight treatment. In such cases you get short-term weight loss, and soon one gains same weight and even bigger, than before starvation.

Besides, experts state while starvation a man potency is lowered and women suffer from intimate problems.

At the same time, scientists advise thinking about change of proteins and carbohydrates ratio, making nutrition separate ?at least 5 times during a day. Food should be rich in fibers, fresh fruits, and vegetables. High-calorie foods should be replaced by low-calorie ones. Animal fats should be replaced by vegetable, and sugar and sweets ?by sweeteners.

How to save your marriage

We hear and hear about divorces everythwre. This is a sure sign that the most respected institution is indeed in great danger. We do not already pay attention to the small details that support a marriage. You do not even remember his birthday or even the first time you met. Ability to listen is much more important than talking, remember this and try to save your marriage. Everyone has desire to be heard, especially men, as this makes them feeling loved and cared for. When he is talking try to look at him straight in the eyes and keep on nodding. This is a sure way of showing him that you are attentive and he will be encouraged to keep on talking.

Try to avoid complaining. If there is anything that can make your man to miss coming home are your endless complaints just about anything he does. Save your marriage by avoiding constant complaints. Men feel inferior and he may start feeling that he is not the right one for you. You should learn that no one is perfect and accept your partner just the way he is. When you feel your partner has wronged you in any way do not start yelling and throwing plates at him but create the right atmosphere around the table then put your point across in a loving and caring manner. This will make your partner feel respected.

Avoid making love right after a quarrel because this may make your partner feel that you are blackmailing him and he may not open up to you making the sexual ordeal boring to both of you. Try going for a walk instead just to relax his mind. During the walk keep thinking positively about your partner because he is the man you have decided to spend the rest of your life with. Remind him about your first date, how loving and caring he was at that time, and what attracted you to him. This will make him save your marriage by seriously starting to think of where and when he started going wrong and what he can do to bring the fire back to your marriage.

Little niceties like “i love you” at the end of a telephone conversation can help save your marriage because your partner will know he is still the man you love and care about. You should not have very high expectations about your man. This can push him off limits as he keeps on trying to prove himself to you. Remember the world outside is very cruel so when a man comes back home he needs a bit of tenderness, encouragement and love to make him strong enough to face another day. By choosing him to be your life partner simply means you had accepted him the way he is, never try to compare him with another man. Remember that you can never change a man be contented with what you have by making each day worth living. Make him feel appreciated.

15 ways to tell a man you are not interested in him

1. He: Haven’t we met before?

She: Probably, I work at venereal disease dispensary’s registry.

2. He: It seems, I’ve already met you somewhere?

She: Yes, and that’s why I do not go there any more.

3. He: Is this place free?

She: Yes, and mine will also be released, if you sit down.

4. He: What if we go to my place?

She: I’m not assured we will get together into one dustbin.

5. He: Will we go to your place or mine?

She: Simultaneously. You - to your place, and me - to mine.

6. He: I’d like to call you. What’s your number?

She: It’s in the telephone book.

He: But I even do not know your name!

She: It is also in the directory.

7. He: So than, what do you do in life?

She: I’m a transvestite.

8. He: What’s your sign?

She: Input is prohibited.

9. He: Which eggs do you like for a breakfast?

She: Not impregnating!

10. He: Well, here you are! Do not hide, you are in this club for the same reason, as I…

She: Really? Hooking?

11. He: I’m here to embody your most courageous imaginations!

She: You want to tell you have a goat and a German shepherd?

12. He: I want to score you.

She: Unfortunately, I do not accept cheap gifts.

13. He: If I could see you naked, I would die of happiness.

She: Perhaps, but if I have seen you naked, I would die of laughter.

14. He: For the sake of you I will go down and under…

She: Yes, and maybe you could stay there?

15. He: How do you manage looking so good?

She: I do reverse things to what you do.

How to manage your stress

A modern woman’s life is a continuous train of quickly replaced events, many of which become a stress reason. Traffic jams, a child’s not always good marks at school, unpleasant meetings, a time trouble on work, and even long-awaited advancement, which, apparently, is exclusively joyful event - all this can lead to stress. And what is stress? It is heightened irritability, nervousness, tears on trifles, headaches, feeling sick, sleeplessness ?And it is far not a full list of what a person can get together with stress.

It is obvious that for inhabitant of a city stress concerns a category of inadmissible. Which modern woman can successfully consult with all affairs after sleepless nights, suffering headache attacks, loosened nervous system? And if she can, how long? It is not necessary to execute such experiments, after all they will not pass completely for your health. Instead, it is better to master methods, with which help it is possible to manage stress and get rid of it. And then in any situation, even the most unpredictable, you will appear the mistress of position, instead of the hostage of stress.

How to avoid

In life there are situations when it is necessary to control yourself here and now, and not to allow stress seizing you. In such cases it is possible to take advantage of simple, but very effective ways.

Way 1. It is necessary to execute simple exercise. For this purpose you should not rise from a chair at all, just extend your hands forward, and then weaken them sharply. Hands thus will fall to knees. If it is necessary, this exercise can be repeated in fifteen minutes. The matter is that during stressful situations people can strain and lift shoulders, and it makes breath shallow. Such breath provokes emission of stress hormones, and raising of hands forces a person inhaling more deeply, therefore enough oxygen and level of stressful hormones comes to blood. Also it is possible to make thirty deep breaths. It is necessary to inhale and exhale through a nose, and at a breath to try filling with oxygen a stomach area, instead of lungs.

Way 2. It is necessary to think up some reasons for pleasure at present. For example, it is possible to be glad to good weather, think that soon a lunch break comes, recollect that in the evening you will go to a night club or view your favourite telecast ?Start to reflect and at once you will understand that there are many reasons for pleasure. Surprisingly, but your condition becomes quieter and mood improves.

Way 3. Go for a short walk. It is a question of walk, slow, quiet. It is known that during a nervous tension one’s movements become sharp, gusty, fast. Therefore slow walk will allow calming your nervous system. Atmosphere change will also work favorably. And for bigger efficiency during a walk it is possible to eat an ice-cream or chocolate.

How to get rid

If stress has already seized you all the same, there are some ways with which help it is possible to get rid of its influence.

1. Do not keep it in yourself, share, express yourself. Every woman resorted to this way, and possibly, not once. After all you still shared your experiences and sensations with a girlfriend, mum, or other loved one. Really, thus a person is released from negative emotions. Besides, during conversations we hear opinion of other person, often it leads to understanding of the reasons of an event. Thus, the stress gradually disappears, and self-trust replaces it.

It is possible to tell everything to your pet or a toy. And no matter that they cannot advise you anything, your negative emotions will be stated.

If you have nothing to share your thoughts with, it is possible to talk to yourself, having settled down in front of the mirror comfortably. After such conversation relief will necessarily come.

Well and if the variant with conversations in front of the mirror is not pleasant to you, it is possible to write a letter. You can start it with the words Hi, my dear, and further tell about all events, emotions and experiences. Probably, such way will help to understand a problem quickly and see its reason and decision, after all we build written speech more logically and it is shorter, than oral.

2. Give vent to tears. Tears really allow getting rid of negative emotions. It is one of the most effective ways which can be used to win stress. It is possible to cry under a shower. Water possesses calming and weakening effect. Tears and all problems will flow away together with water streams, and confidence, a peace of mind and calmness will come instead.

3. Present yourself a holiday. Or simply make a gift. Nothing helps cheering up, as a gift. It is possible to buy a thing of which you’ve been dreaming for a long time, maybe a new jacket, a book, good coffee or pleasant knickknack. The main thing ?it should bring you pleasure. Also a sensation of a holiday perfectly cheers you up. Arrange a holiday for yourself!

Preventive measures

To master stress, it is possible to drink some mugs of tea in day. The matter is that active components of black tea possess ability to lower level of stress hormone in an organism. Those people who regularly drink tea, manage stress more successfully, than those who prefer other drinks. So tea breaks during a working day are very useful.

Yoga helps raising your ability to handle stress. Yoga will allow you learning to relax, and also improve concentration.

Do not forget about dialogue with an opposite sex. About close dialogue. It considerably raises level of stability to influence of stresses. And it is a question not only of sex, but also about kisses. Kiss more often, it is not only pleasant, but also useful.

Try to sleep not less than eight hours a day, as it is necessary for organism to gain strength before a new day and restore those forces which it spent during a previous day. It happens better and faster during a dream.

Now you know how to manage your stress. Remember ?life is fine! And if it is not, make it fine. Everything is in your hands! Be a mistress of your life!

How to make a woman happy?

How to make a woman happy? It seems it is not too difficult! You just should be:

1) a Friend

2) a Companion

3) a Lover

4) a Brother

5) a Father

6) a Master

7) a Teacher

a Cook

9) a Roofer

10) a Sanitary technician

11) a Mechanic

12) a Set dresser

13) a Stylist

14) a Sexopathologist

15) a Gynaecologist

16) a Psychologist

17) a Psychiatrist

18) a Therapist

19) Courageous

20) an Organizer

21) a good father

22) clean

23) cheerful

24) kind

25) generous

26) tender

27) careful

28) gallant

29) intelligent

30) well-educated

31) with sense of humour

32) inventive

33) sportive

34) strong

35) understanding

36) compliant

37) tolerant

38) indulgent

39) cautious

40) soft

41) relaxed

42) ambitious

43) resolute

44) reliable

45) enthusiastic

46) polite

47)…..47) …..

48)…..48) …..

Etc.

Without forgetting thus:

49) making frequent compliments

50) to like to be engaged in shopping

51) not to row and not to search for problems

52) to be rich

53) not to irritate her

54) not to look at other girls

At the same time you need:

55) to be attentive to her

56) not to be jealous

57) to get on with her family

58) to find time for her…. At the same time leaving her space

VERY IMPORTANT:

59) NEVER!!! forget dates

* Birthday

* The first meeting

* Engagement

* Wedding

Unfortunately, even observing all these rules strictly, her happiness… is not guaranteed, because she can choke with perfection of her companion and run away with the first comer: swine-alcoholic-ladies’ man.

How to make a man happy

1) sleep with him

2) leave him alone

Tired of your man

Each of us starts being interested in psychology during certain periods of our life. Even if you are clever by nature and well educated, having faced impossibility to explain your man’s words and acts from position of common sense and female logic, start searching for answers to arisen questions in features of man’s psychology.

Sometimes it starts with the discussion of a problem with your wise girlfriend, and comes to an end with consultation of a psychologist or session of a psychotherapist.

Obsessed with order

- About once a week we gather in a close female circle and, as a rule, start gossiping about our husbands. Well, what to do, if our married life turned to be so sad?! We do not hesitate in expressions, because we know each other two ten years. Marsha’s husband ?a terrible miser, Lina’s ?a terry egoist, Lora’s one poses as the know-it-all. I receive most of all female sympathy. Have you ever seen anything like a man obsessed with order and cleanliness and their observance became his complex, because of them he cannot allow his wife and child living normally?!

During the first year after wedding his behaviour touched, surprised, and even shocked me. I could come home from work, and he had already boiled kitchen towels, ironed his and my pants from two sides, chlorinated toilet bowl and bath?“You can change clothes for a pure dressing gown, wash hands with bactericidal soap, go on kitchen to have a supper, I have spent disinfection there, and soup is boiled” - he could say to me. While I was eating in an ideally pure kitchen from sterilised ware, he was already in a room washing up windows for the second time for a week.

On the one hand, everything was fine: ideal order in a house, almost everything was made by my man’s hands. On the other hand, he is somehow not a real man. When our daughter was born, it became more difficult for me to support the cleanliness induced by husband during a day. The first quarrels started, and now we even have scandals. My girlfriends and relatives, even some of his friends are on my side. All of them agree that he is a person heavy in dialogue.

Sometimes, when my husband washes ware or wipes dust with enthusiasm, it seems to me that if me and our daughter would leave this sterile apartment, he would not even notice our absence. Probably, he even will be happy from that consciousness that now nobody will raise dust, pollute nothing. Therefore I also started talking about divorce.

Undersized not recognised genius

- After wedding I turned to a wife of man with complexes at once. He was suddenly overcome by painful comprehension of his abnormality ?he is too scrubby, you see. And where were his eyes, when he courted me round during two years, and then proposed me?! I tried to treat the situation with sense of humor. I refused high heels and hairdresses, even started slouching. Nothing could help. When I gave birth to a daughter, he calmed down.

Soon he started composing music. It would seem, everything was fine. But far from it. Suddenly he turned to a such superexcitable, vulnerable being. He was so sensitive! But only when something concerned him personally. What would become with our life if I would also start letting out plaintive cries, lying on a sofa?

Through some time there was a disk with his songs. Since then he became a talent, a genius. The vanity instinct passed in a vanity hunger, his “aura” became even more sensitive. And I was obliged to go round him on tiptoe, blowing off the smallest motes of possible insult. Then you sit and you puzzle, you guess what it would mean. You do it in vain, the insult is present in him incessantly.

My husband’s original tortures made a victim of me. His sense of superiority and self-conceit going beyond all limits are simply intolerable. I need to save the pain, condensing bitterness of disappointment. I am doomed to console my talented one constantly. And my bowl of disappointments is already full. I need consolation and help more than he.

Perhaps, I should cease listening and look narrowly at him? He can search for such kind of woman, who has ears and heart for these speeches and acts.

I will address to doctors

So, you were awfully bothered with his complexes. You plan a campaign to a psychologist or even psychiatrist. It is possible to assume, how this action will end.

Conversation with a doctor, as a rule, convinces in nothing. Results of inspection prove the obvious: activity decrease, emotional devastation, prevalence of closed internal life, discharge from external world, decline of mental activity. All this can be shown in the form of attacks or is continuous during certain time. If a man “possesses” all this things in mild degree, the diagnosis is following ?a person fluctuating between health and illness.

An expert will try to force you turning close attention on scientifically established psychological features of males. Though and before you had no doubts on presence of essential universal-biological or reflecting forms of sexual division of social roles and work of distinctions between a man and woman. And you will leave the doctor with “walking” stereotypes about uniqueness of such vulnerable beings ?men.

What to do? To bargain one trouble for another, man with complexes for an obsessed one? So we live this way: their problems ?our sufferings. We are already burdened by our own complexes. Promiseds carried us to such condition.

Attractive women make men more generous

What can force a man to become more generous and present more gifts? Scientists are assured: for this purpose an attractive woman should be near him.

British psychologists’ researches show that a man becomes more generous to win an arrangement of a woman he likes. Such law has not been revealed for women.

Psychologists found out that by means of gifts a man tries to prove a woman he suits her and is capable to put forces and means in further development of their relations.

Previous researches proved that women are involved more with generous men. For short relations women prefer men of heroic type. But in long-term relations they wish to see a generous altruist as a partner.

Top 9 celebrity phobias

Each person is afraid of something, there are no fearless people in reality. Someone to a greater measure, someone ?lesser. Someone panics because of it, others ?just do not pay attention. And what phobias celebrities have and how they struggle with them?

1. Richard Gere

Richard Gere - a big judge of a female, but he does not stand when women clean a premise, sweep a floor or sidewalks in front of his house. He suffers from the strongest allergy on a dust. There is even a joke: “If you want Richard Gere not coming to your place, hang on a tablet “Premise cleaning” and you are free from Gere”.

2. Marlene Dietrich

German movie star Marlene Dietrich also was afraid of microbes. She always had a small bottle of medical spirit on call to disinfect a toilet bowl seat with it.

3. Sean Connery

Sean Connery, legendary James Bond, is afraid to see a red traffic light, his hands grow cold immediately and the fever begins.

4. Federico Fellini

A great film director Federico Fellini preferred silence and darkness. However, darkness scarifies Madonna and Keanu Reeves.

5. Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone does not switch on the TV, if she is alone in a room. It seems to her, that it can blow up every minute.

6. Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell is not afraid to die of lung cancer, therefore he smokes godlessly. He is not afraid to knock into Angelina Jolie’s room in the night, and he even is not afraid of snakes. But he has clammy sweat at just one thought that he should fly by a plane. Therefore he never travels alone. On the journey he is constantly accompanied by a couple of people from a film crew. However, Jennifer Aniston and Whoopi Goldberg are also afraid to fly.

7. Sara Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar does not stand cemeteries. At shootings of a teleserial producers even had to create an artificial cemetery.

8. Matthew McConaughey

The superhero of “Sahara” Matthew McConaughey can go to a pedestrian hike through a desert without ceremony or go down on a raft across Amazon. But he gives in in front of… rotating doors and dark tunnels.

9. Nicole Kidman

And, finally, Nicole Kidman is afraid of the most harmless creatures in the world - butterflies.

15 ways to express your love

Wish to make a declaration of love to your beloved? But do not know, how to make it? There is a weight of ways: it is possible to tell just I love you, or I cannot live without you, or You are everything for me!. And it is possible to keep silent ?But allowing him hearing inexpressible, deeply experienced, sincere and coming from the bottom of your heart.

So, 15 ways of love declaration are offered to you. Alternative ways. They can be useful to you in the offered kind, and maybe they will tell you new ways of expression of feelings, and you will expand the list to 30, 40 or 50. Dare ?and do not be afraid of your feelings!

1. Suggest him to go riding on horses. Finish walk by a picnic on a wood glade. Bring a meal cooked in advance to have a snack.

2. Smile to him more often and think about your feelings. He will definitely feel it. And for this purpose it is absolutely unessential to wait an occasion!

3. Take in hire a video film which you once have looked together for the first time. If he chews chips, looking in the TV, try to make it synchronously with him. A meeting of your hands in a package with chips can become fatal for tonight.

4. While he takes a shower, iron a towel and give it to him behind until it is still warm, when you hear water noise has stopped.

5. Use fruits on a kitchen to compose three words “I love you” and wait silently, while he sees this work of art. If he does not love fruits or for any you have not them at the moment of your creative impulse, show ingenuity: in any house you can find a few macaroni (imagine a flowery style you can use with them?), a salt pack (of course, only not for superstitious) or sugar packing - that will be even more original!

6. Look through his clothes and sew come off buttons on his jackets, shirts and trousers. Try to satisfy one condition: do not tell him about it!

7. Put an ice, filled in the form of heart, in his glass and a candy in the form of heart into a pocket of his jacket.

8. Before work put a box with home meal imperceptibly into his portfolio. Just check up, that a box is densely closed, and food is not in liquid condition. Otherwise your small surprise can be misapprehended.

9. Play with him his favourite game, even if it is called “Sea fight”, and you are guided in the Cartesian system of co-ordinates badly. (If you preferred a game which you understand better than him, do not forget allowing him to win too!)

10. Turn on music with his favourite songs at home or in a car.

11. Invite him meeting a dawn together.

12. Let the freezer of your refrigerator be always hammered by his favourite ice-cream!

13. Join his morning jog with a plausible smile.

14. Cook him a dish he loves, but knows well that you hate it.

15. As a sign of special love make a housework which he got tired to do from year to year: for example, cut a lawn, paste (beat) unstuck wall-paper, clean waste in a kitchen bowl, walk his favourite doggie ?/p>

Infidelity: how to avoid

Anyone can cheat. If a combination of important reasons and worthy occasions provokes you doing this. Without it infidelity is awful and harmful evil. But whatever one may do, the reason of infidelity always roots in ourselves.

A husband only gives you an occasion which plays a role of the trigger mechanism of infidelity. There are few reasons in marriage, but many occasions, alas.

So, what to do, not to admit infidelity?

1. Cease suspecting him of infidelity constantly

Suspicions kill relations. There are such moral masochists, who are simply vital to tell fortunes at a leisure ?whether second half cheats or not. Similar impulses become especially active at conversations with %26#8220;suffered%26#8221; friends or girlfriends. Here thoughts about whom he is with now start crowding in a head, whether he (she) cheats, while I%26#8217;m working here? Be cautious, similar turn can outgrow in a clinical form. The following stage ?shadowing.

2. Do not watch your partner at all.

Even if there are some suspicions, proved by some indirect facts or certificates, it is not necessary to open hunting. As a rule, girl-friends, grandmothers and detectives are involved in it. People resort to the help of various dodges and provocations. There are lots of organisations which can offer on a choice an attractive individual to %26#8220;seduce%26#8221; your loved one. Don%26#8217;t you think it is very silly? According to statistics, about 80 % of men peck on this dodge. It turns out, even young men who did not cheat before, actually put horns.

I will result a joke: a wife, suspecting her husband of adultery, sends a son to chase him. Having returned an hour later, son informs his mum: %26#8220;Daddy went to a shop. On a road he met a woman and took her into his car and went with it to a secluded corner of wood. From bushes I saw, how they absolutely naked%26#8230;%26#8221;. %26#8220;The rest you will tell in the evening at supper%26#8221;, - mother interrupts. There has come a supper. The son repeats the whole story to a family and finishes with such words: %26#8220;And then%26#8230; And then daddy did the same as mum did with our neighbour, when she stay alone at home%26#8221;.

3. Learn to trust!

If you noticed some signs telling of adultery, do not hurry up with negative conclusions. Think, maybe justifications you loved one shows, actually are true.

4. Remember: there is also your fault in treasury.

Majority is inclined to accuse everybody, only not themselves. At the same time, it is known long ago that adultery follows from dissatisfaction both physical, and moral. In particular, impossibility of expression of such delicate thing, as sexual imagination leads to it.

Experts confirm, if imaginations do not find an exit in sex within the limits of a family, a husband or a wife will seek pleasures elsewhere. There is a question: who should start? Certainly, the one who is a leader of a married couple. Sometimes these are wives, but more often - husbands. If a family leader does not start a conversation, a weak partner will never open. If a partner waves away from offers to talk on this theme or is even rude, it is a sign of that there is a serious emotional rupture between you.

Emotional bond is an indispensable condition of that a partner will want to tell something. And still it is necessarily to keep in mind: a family partner can tell only about those imaginations in which he can take part, which do not offend him and will bring pleasure to him.

So, just try to understand, (if all the same it has occurred) what has induced your loved one on adultery. Who knows, maybe your relations just lack sincerity and understanding?

40 facts you didn

They say, men are from Mars, women ?from Venus. They consider us not clear beings, and we, accordingly, think the same about them. 40 facts will learn the stronger sex understanding women better, and maybe we will also understand ourselves better ?/p>

1. A woman never takes off a T-shirt, having seized on a back.

2. Women do not scratch in a nape. First, they do not like showing confusion, secondly, it spoils a hairdress.

3. A woman often reels up hair locks, even short, on a finger or tickles a cheek with a brush from hair. Men seldom do so.

4. A woman will never understand, why football players, standing in a wall, do such ridiculous hill by palms. Therefore she does not shudder, when in a movie a hero receives a blow by a boot in a crotch.

5. A woman does not bite a cigarette with teeth. She does not leave it in a mouth, and always holds in a hand.

6. Yawning, a woman covers a mouth with a palm, instead of a fist.

7. Having taken a bath, a woman - whether she is long-haired, short-haired or had been ill with a typhus - necessarily reels up an amateur similarity of a turban from a towel on her head, for at least one minute. The reasons of occurrence of this east ritual are unknown.

8. A woman practically does not irritate, when lingerie jams between buttocks. The fair sex gladly names all these awful adaptations “bikini”. Besides, usually a woman does not try to fix lingerie behind imperceptibly, having risen from a chair.

9. Raising to throw something, a woman takes away her hand not sideways, but back. For this reason ladies are never send to blow up tanks.

10. Women like these torn brooms bringing so much dust. They name them “compositions from dry flowers”.

11. Shaking hands, a woman almost does not shake it.

12. Turning around on call, a woman usually turns only a head. A man also turns a case, as his neck is much less flexible.

13. Women are afraid of spiders, worms and mice. They also do not like caterpillars, even very beautiful.

14. Overwhelming majority of women consider washing with water and soap harmful (What exactly they use to wash faces - look in a bathroom).

15. Having sex, a woman thinks of whether she looks beautiful.

16. On an offer to show hands a man often stretches open palms. Women stretch hands palms downwards, probably to show irreproachable manicure and size of brilliants.

17. Words a woman says having struck a hammer on a finger can be published without censorship. Words a man speaks in such cases are impossible to broadcast.

18. Women open beer bottles with church keys.

19. Women prefer chest type of breath. Men use abdominal tension muscles.

20. Women do not like, when their hands are free. Therefore they always carry a handbag with themselves - to finger its strap, hold its edge and dig in it all the time. Everything will approach for the lack of a handbag - a fan, gloves, a book, a flower.

21. Women try rising or climbing down a mountain sideways. Men simply place feet more widely.

22. Woman prefer looking at her heels, turning round. Men simply turn the lifted foot.

23. Women are rather indifferent to their genitals, have discharged relation, they are almost unfamiliar with each other. Women do not talk to them, do not give them playful nicknames, do not take offence at them.

24. A woman walks along heated pebble or sand on tiptoe. A man walks only on heels.

25. Sitting down, women compress knees or simply hold them in parallel. Therefore in public transport it is more preferable to have a lady as a neighbour.

26. Stretching, men scatter or lift hands, and women bend them in elbows, pressing to sides.

27. Aspiration to compromise, inherent in a female, affects in how they tell abusive jokes. They can dare to tell even a dirty joke publicly. But will murmur a keyword so muffledly that anybody will disassemble nothing. Even more often they try to transfer an indecent highlight using mimicry, gesticulation and a desperate look.

28. A belt on a woman’s dressing gown is fastened above a navel, man’s - lower.

29. If a woman’s fly becomes unbuttoned in the street, she will concern this circumstance indifferently enough and clasp trousers easy.

30. A woman stops her ears with fingers, men - with palms.

31. When you ask a woman to pass you a lighter, she passes you a lighter, instead checking your spring ability and reaction.

32. If a man, from a woman’s point of view, behaves like a monkey, we also can note some atavisms which our ladies inherited from our ancestors. For example, they can be searching insects in a wool of their male for hours. In the absence of small arthropods, women are satisfied with eels and heat-spots.

33. Dressing, a woman firstly will put on a shirt, then - trousers. Men usually act on the contrary.

34. A woman puts on gloves before going outside.

35. Lifting a heavy object, a woman will try to move it sideways. A man bears cargo before himself.

36. Woman prefer keeping loose change and banknotes in the same place. Their pockets seldom ding.

37. At a punch a woman exposes a thumb forward.

38. When women sit, they have a habit to turn a foot under themselves and rest a heel in a crotch. Men do not allow such things to themselves.

39. To wring out wet linen manually, a woman undertakes it with palms upwards, a man - palms downwards.

40. And still: after sex a woman wants to kiss and talk, not sleep.

Want to change your husband?

Unfortunately, many women know this phenomenon, when in the course of time husbands change, and their relation to wives changes, accordingly. Many say there are no ways of overcoming of this problem. But we know they exist!

A love boat was broken due to everyday life… How many married couples are ready to agree with this phrase! Alas, toilet paper on a toilet bowl cover sometimes is more terrible threat to marriage, than matrimonial change. And as though girls did not convince themselves that, having married, they will not spoil husbands’ and their own blood because of household problems, this nevertheless does not turn out in any way.

Habit is a second nature. You even do not represent, how it is difficult to refuse them! But will feel to the full when you will try to learn a husband putting his socks in this basket and open a milk package with scissors, instead of a knife. He cannot understand in any way why you so are upset with roughly picked corner of polyethylene. And you also cannot explain it, but continue to be angry.

Many psychologists connect a problem of modern marriages instability with the fact they are executed in rather late age. By 25-30 years you already have certain habits, and refusing them is extremely difficult. And it is much easier for a 20-year-old woman to “be arranged” under her husband. However, too early marriages effected before 20 years, are also undesirable. In such tender age character and outlook on life were not generated yet, and a person makes a choice unwittingly.

Wise mums very often repeat to daughters: Remember - you cannot alter a man. However, listening to mums is unfashionable today, and unshakable true can be learnt only on a private experience. As a heroine of a popular serial spoke, you can change only a man’s clothes and hairdress, and still there will problems with it. If you still believe force of love is capable to cure an inveterate addict, transform a rude fellow into intellectual, and idler in a hard worker, re-read “Oblomov”.

You cannot change “material” a man is made of. But it is possible to “facet” it by means of competent education. As a rule, a woman tries to make it through a method of constant reproaches. Alas, this way is not only inefficient, but also extremely harmful. So, what to do? Neglect everything? Certainly, no. It is necessary to be engaged in education, but through other methods.

First of all, estimate initial material. Remember: if a man does not beat, drink, is not drug addicted, he is a good man. If in addition he can work and even earn, he is an excellent man. Bulged ears and foolish words - trifles similar to a picked milk package.

You should bring up your husband from the first day of a honeymoon. But women usually “bethink” little later, when a man has already decided that washing ware and vacuuming carpet are not his duties. It is even better even to find out, whether he is ready to share household routine with you yet before wedding. Majority of men, strangely enough, agree that helping wife on economy is not shameful.

Besides, it is necessary to understand, what degree of cleanliness is necessary for him. Perhaps, he needs only buckwheat with a cutlet for a supper and washing vacuum cleaning once a week. And maybe, you will have to wash floors twice a day and master Italian cuisine secrets. In the latter case it is better to think, whether it is necessary to connect your life with such person in general.

Sending a husband to shop for products, you risk to receive not that you required. But you should not give up this thought. At first, go for purchases together with him. Thus he learns, what washing powder and oil for frying you prefer. Then be limited only to the list of products. Sooner or later a husband will catch laws of your taste and learn buying everything by himself.

Involving your beloved in cooking is difficult enough. Here you can go on cunning. Men like every possible artful adaptations very much. Having got a modern microwave and represented that you can not learn working with it, you will open your husband a fine possibility to show a class. Just do not forget to admire his culinary masterpieces! Spice-cake in home life is, as a rule, much more effective than whip.

Instead of constant monotonous reproaches use logic arguments. For example, explain that if have no time for yourself, you will grow fat and become ugly quickly.

Apply radical methods. If you do not like your husband’s clothes, do not reproach him with it every morning. Choose the right time and throw out old things from his case, having replaced them with new ones. You will manage a maximum one storm. Then a man will get used to a new image. However, you should buy clothes together with him, so that he would not buy a shapeless grey sweater again.

And never forget about praise! A flower will never blossom without watering. Very many well-known people said their wives helped them achieving successes. This are not flattery and aspiration to please, but fact ascertaining. If you constantly explain your man he is the best, support him in all undertakings, unostentatiously giving advice, he will find self-trust and rush to realise his talents. The result will not keep you waiting.

Seven Foolish Mistakes People Make When They Come Into Money

There is something uniquely human about the way many of us mishandle money, particularly when it’s received unexpectedly. Whether it’s a bequest from a long-forgotten uncle, an unexpected court settlement, or a sweepstakes winning, suddenly coming into a stash of cash can unhinge any of us

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By A.B. Jacobs

AL JACOBS has been a professional investor for nearly four decades. His business experience ranges from real estate, mortgage, and securities investment to appraisal, civil engineering, and the operation of a private trust company. In addition to managing his investments on a day-to-day basis, he is a featured financial columnist for both online and print publications. He is the author of Nobody’s Fool: A Skeptic’s Guide to Prosperity. You may subscribe to his financial Newsletter, “On the Money Trail,” at no cost or obligation, by visiting www.onthemoneytrail.com.

There is something uniquely human about the way many of us mishandle money, particularly when it’s received unexpectedly. Whether it’s a bequest from a long-forgotten uncle, an unexpected court settlement, or a sweepstakes winning, suddenly coming into a stash of cash can unhinge any of us. Every day the media reports the misery befalling citizens who previously struck it lucky, but then fell on hard times. We chuckle over poor Joe Slidebuck who pocketed a $3.8 million lottery winning just two years ago and is now filing in bankruptcy. We also shed a crocodile tear for Suzy Highstep whose palimony settlement a few years back slipped a cool bundle into her savings account, but whose Jaguar is now being repossessed. Of course, we breathe a collective sigh of relief that the misfortune is not ours, while wondering if we might have fared better under similar circumstances. For various reasons, many persons can’t handle a windfall. Let’s analyze the mistakes made.

1. An urge to spend. Perhaps the single greatest weakness of mankind-and womankind-is an inability to resist purchasing things. The late English historian C. Northcote Parkinson summed it up in his 1960 masterpiece The Law and the Profits: “Expenditures invariably rise to meet and exceed available income.” It’s this impulse to spend whatever is available that’s the undoing of many otherwise rational individuals. It’s not necessarily human nature. Rather, it’s a learned reflex that must be unlearned if you hope to remain solvent. If not held in check, spontaneous spending is a recipe for disaster.

2. Voices out of the past. It’s amazing how many people you knew that you no longer see-that is until your name appears in the paper as the sole beneficiary in rich old Aunt Emma’s will. Within a few days long lost cousin Calvin phones to remind you how much he always admired you, and how his current misfortune can be resolved if you can just see your way clear to assisting him. And don’t forget your former classmate Ernie, with whom you stopped exchanging Christmas cards a decade ago. His email extols the close camaraderie you two always shared, adding that the technology IPO his brokerage firm is underwriting is certain to be right up your alley-just like the good old days. If you fail to fend off these moochers and hangers-on, you’ll find yourself in deep trouble.

3. Take care with those who are closest. With newfound prosperity, relations with friends and relatives begin to change as you are viewed as something apart. It seems that admiration and envy are opposite sides of the same coin, and you will be the recipient of both emotions. Your advice and assistance will be solicited, and although you may at first welcome the attention as a novelty, you will eventually find it more burdensome than complimentary. The pressures to be placed upon you can become overwhelming. You may soon become convinced that fame and fortune constitute a mixed blessing. If you don’t take a step backward, life can become most unpleasant.

4. Loss of Anonymity. Although it may seem that sudden prosperity a cure-all for whatever troubles us, it doesn’t work that way. Perhaps the problems of meeting the mortgage and financing the children’s schooling may no longer exist, but other problems move in to take their place. You are now a known and recognized commodity in your community and as such, a natural target. You may expect requests for contributions to presumably worthwhile groups. Invitations to attend various functions will be forthcoming. You may even find yourself offered honorary positions or encouraged to become involved in activities for which you have no real interest. The toughest job of all will be to say “no.” Unless you learn to diplomatically turn a deaf ear to the entreaties, there’ll be no peace.

5. The investment trap. For those without prior investment expertise, coming into money can be an intimidating experience. No one is born with an ability to astutely manage assets. This is a talent that requires knowledge and practice. Perhaps the safest procedure is to refrain from any investment decisions for a full year, while any windfall is parked in non-risk vehicles such as certificates of deposit, government insured savings accounts, and treasury notes. It’s during that period of time that you will seek to educate yourself. By selective reading, attendance in legitimate instructional courses, and guidance from those persons you trust, you can hope to gain an understanding of what it means to prudently invest. If you attempt to become involved before you acquire an appreciation of the risks and rewards, you are fair game for the thieves and charlatans who regularly prey upon moneyed novices.

6. Charity is often uncharitable. Not a day goes by that the media fails to interview someone who has come-often blundered-into money. Invariably the declaration is blurted out: “I’m gonna’ give leventythousand dollars to the Zilch Foundation “cause I care about feedin’ the leprechauns.” Unfortunately, there is not enough money in the world to satisfy the myriad of organizations with outstretched hands. Charitable institutions that are carefully selected and effectively monitored can be an excellent way to share your good fortune in a meaningful way, but simply pouring out dollars in a spastic impulse is no way to accomplish any good.

7. Beware of yourself. I’ve saved for the last the most potentially insidious mistake of all. A malevolent effect of sudden prosperity can be your relationship with yourself. Despite the personal unpleasantness of impecunity, it imposes no demands on the ego. Affluence is another matter entirely, and the pressures it creates can be formidable. It is fulfilling the mundane requirements needed to meet daily financial obligations that keeps many people in balance. When this necessity is removed, the balance often goes with it. If you then add to that the ability to acquire unneeded possessions, exert unwanted influence on others, and seek unwarranted involvement, the potential for impairment is unlimited. One thing is certain: You must come to terms with yourself or you will surely live to regret it.

Valentine

Valentines Day is really a worldwide holiday. Europe, USA, Asia February 14 is considered the main day for all lovers everywhere. Every country has its own interesting traditions to celebrate the holiday and present original gifts.

Many countries have one common tradition: make a declaration of love and marrying at Valentines Day. Thats why people arrange collective weddings, when several couples pledge marriage vows, right at this day.

It was considered birds chose a match for themselves on February 14. People also should find their half at this day. You know, birds played also another interesting role in fortune-telling: if a girl saw a robin during Valentines Day, it was considered she would marry a seaman; if she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man she would be happy with. Well, if a girl saw a goldfinch, then she would marry a real rich man according to all signs!

However, in general every country has its own traditions of Valentines Day celebration.

For example, in England people have been choosing Valentines for themselves since Middle Ages. Youths gathered together, wrote girls names on parchment, put papers in a hat and drew lots. A girl whose name a youth chose became his date, his Valentine for a whole year. And later they invented a witty tradition: on February 14 a girl asked a man marrying her. In case he refused he had to present her a good gift.

Now Englishmen do not observe all ancient traditions. But especially romantic persons still tell fortunes on Valentines Day. To observe all rules, a girl wakes up by daylight and look out the window. The first man they see would be their promised husband. And those who are dreaming to have a good sleep should come to a river or pond during a day and throw scraps with male names in water. A name that emerges first will be a name of your future husband.

Japanese people do not tell fortunes on Valentines Day. They know whom they love. On February 14 they construct a big dais and arrange en event called The Loudest Love-Letter. Anyone can go on a dais and shout a love confession for a loved person. The loudest one gets a prize.

Poles are very serious about Valentines Day. They come to St. Valentines relics and icon and pray. It is considered pilgrimage to these relics helps in love affairs.

Each country also has its own gift ideas for a Valentines Day.

Englishmen are ready giving presents to everyone. They have gifts even for their home pets. And of course, every loved person will be appreciated this day with a Valentine card.

Americans keep pace with Englishmen. They made a whole fortune selling gifts for a Valentines Day and present their halves various sweets traditionally. These are chocolate and caramels with different holiday texts. Sweets packed in heart-shape boxes are especially appreciated. And of course, red roses are among other gifts this day. Statistics shows generous Americans buy about 20 000 red roses every minute on a Valentines Day.

France values never-fading beauty. So, people present jewelry to their halves. And all other close people: grandmothers, grandfathers, relatives and friends receive little Valentine cards.

Reserved Danes send dried white flowers to each other.

Vigorous Italians present exceptionally sweets. They often call a Valentines Day a sweet day.

Japan also likes sweets. Japanese women present various chocolates to their loved men and receive white chocolates from them.

Real estate pricing: million is not enough

American magazine Forbes summed up last years real estate market pricing: now even 1 million dollars wont allow you rampaging too much.

The magazine states: prices for houses and apartments were increasing all over the world, most of all in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. So, Forbes magazine puzzled itself a question: Which realty and where one can buy having a million?

It turned out that you have nothing to do in London having only 1 million dollars. Prices increased 10% for a year in Britain, and 1 million is just a modest sum which is enough only for a one-room apartment in London. However, a buyer can count on living in the vicinity of subway: what a useful neighborhood for a millionaire! You will get no view, neither any particular conditions for this sum in London. Unhappy millionaires feel little better in Paris, Sidney and Dublin. They cannot count on a house for 1$ million, but they can choose a two-room apartment.

Realtors recommend developing markets for your investment. The Old World is too small, old and densely populated. Ignoring any stereotypes and having a million, you can go to Hong Kong. Now you can buy a three-room flat (74 sq meters) there. But this apartment will be situated in a high block.

This is a peculiarity of a built-up and overpeopled Hong Kong. Well, everybody is different. Someone likes Parisian Monmanrtr, someone prefers big business closeness. You also can think about Republic of South Africa or Egypt. You can buy a house for 1 million there. This wont be a town house, but just a small, but quite comfortable dwelling. And still, Forbes recommends Canadian Montreal. Now they sell an apartment a la Art-Deco style with three rooms and three bathrooms, viewing gardens there. However, experienced millionaires characterize this style in other way decently, but tastefully.

Moscow is still glad to a millionaire. There you will find lots of newly-erected buildins in outlying districts. Want spacious apartments in high blocks here you are, but it is very far. If you want a center, then it will be something very small in an old building and out of fix. Most insignificant deserving offers in the center of the city start from 2$ million.

New York is more democratic. It will offer you a three-room apartment (65 square meters) viewing U.N.O. building, with 3,5 m ceilings and white oak parquet. Well, it looks almost smartly in comparison with London one-room flats. And still, you are dreaming of something more for 1 million dollars.

It turns out a millionaire cannot live it up in Kiev too. You can buy an elite apartment in the center of the city for 1 million, but then your money will be over. The most expensive apartment in Kiev costs already 40$ millions.

So, what do we get? A man having only one million feels sorely. Maybe he is a millionaire, but he cannot afford himself anything especially luxurious.

Rewarding Employees Without a Reward Program

By Ruth Haag

Have you noticed that the Employee of the Month parking places at many department stores are remaining empty? I can only assume that this particular reward program has been disbanded, but no one thought to remove the sign.

Many reward programs are started with great excitement, and then fizzle out. The goal of reward programs is to create a gift that the employee will want so badly that they will work harder to obtain it. A secondary, unspoken, goal is for the supervisor to have an easy program to institute so that they will not have to think too deeply about their employees. These programs normally do not work in the long run. One of the reasons is that there are only a finite number of employees at any company. Eventually, all will have been awarded the Employee of the Month title. Of course the other problem is that employees do not work harder for rewards. They work harder only if they want to work harder because they feel that they are making an appreciated contribution.

What really makes employees happy?

I train groups of people from all walks of life. When I stand in front of a group and ask, What makes you happy at work? nearly all the time they reply Recognition for a job well done. When I ask, Do you mean that you would like an Employee of the Month certificate? These people clearly explain to me, I want my supervisor to notice the work that I do, and tell me that I have done a good job. We then go on to discuss how they want to be told, and it is pretty simple. They just want their supervisor to see what they are doing, and to say, with sincerity, Good job, when it is a good job. No one else has to hear, they just want to know that they are appreciated.

The second most important thing to make them happy at work, according to the groups that I work with, is to feel that they are in on things. This means that they want to know what is going on with the entire company, and how their work fits in.

The easy reward program

If supervisors made sure, in their weekly or daily meetings, to tell their staff what is happening with the company, and then made sure to walk around and notice their employees while they are working, sincerely complimenting them for good work, they would notice a dramatic increase in dedication from their employees, and would see more work accomplished.

Supervisors need to care about employees

Employees are not usually asking for gifts and extra money. Employees are usually asking that their supervisor care about them, and appreciate the work that they do.

About the author: Ruth Haag (www.RuthHaag.com) helps managers and employees understand the dynamics of the work environment, and how to function smoothly within it. She is the President/CEO of Haag Environmental Company. She has written a four-book business series: Taming Your Inner Supervisor, Day-to-Day Supervising, Hiring and Firing, and Why Projects Fail. Her enjoyable, easy-to-read books provide a look at life the way it is, rather than the way that you might think it should be.

Do not like your work? Make friends with it!

Day after day everything goes the same way, waking up in the morning you already feel tired, thought of going to work causes terror and panic. You manage oversleeping or being late for work, even if earlier you were famous for your punctuality. Your closest people now arouse irritation in you, when they ask about things at your work, you turn red and white, simple words everything is ok require incredible efforts, and most often you just want to explode. When a boss comes with new recommendations, you can hardly resist a temptation to scratch a table with your nails.

What is happening? Diagnosis is simple. You hate your work. But why you are still here? What keeps you here? There can be many reasons, lets examine only several of them Heres a collection of self-mistakes and their exposure.

Im gaining experience

This is peculiar to young specialists that are just starting working after University, but in fact such hated work will rather cause complete aversion for this kind of activity and further you will have to train for a new profession, as the only thought of working in same area will make you sick. So if you are planning your carrier in one course, you should better consider pro and con.

Someone needs doing this

Strangely enough, this is the most popular argument. Yes, it seems if everybody starts doing only creative work, then there will be no none to wash floors and knock together stools. However, this is not truth, there are many people who really cannot create anything, and many creative people sooner or later understand that now they need to make a break and repair a workbench. If you realize you can do more do more. The world does not care for your sacrifices, no matter how sad it may seem, and everybody can take your place at Xerox, but there are less people wishing to do more difficult work, as it requires education.

Collective is just wonderful

Such also happens. But most often this is a justification for nice, very kind and responsive people whom others use to live at their expense. Colleagues adore them, bring coffee with cakes, congratulate on any occasion, only to load them with all the work. And this is done even unconsciously, theres a simple principle why should I do this, if somebody can do it for me? Look around, maybe it is only you who is working in this office, and rest people are busy with manicure, talking to friends on the phone and choosing new mascara in a catalogue? There are many good people in the world, your collective is not the only one maybe you will find even more of them in some other place?

Everything will come to naught here without me!

This argument is close to previous two ones. Welcome to the real world antique atlantes era is over, do you want to stand with the world on your shoulders during whole life? Surely, after your retiring colleagues will experience difficulties, but why should you bear this cross? Even birds sooner or later set their nestling free allowing them gaining independence. Of course, if this is a business of your whole life it will be difficult quitting it, but if this business causes aversion in you already? You cannot eat only chocolate during whole life only because some time it was a pink of happiness. Work should bring pleasure and satisfaction, not cause headache at one thought about it. After all, if sky collapses and crushes everyone, its not your fault nobody provided themselves with helmets!

Where will I go?

Nobody fires you right now. Everyone can start searching for a new job still working on previous place. Just do not repeat Bridget Johns mistake and edit your resume on your working place you can do this accurately at home and publish in Internet. Do not give a corporative e-mail some obsessed bosses read all post, and do not write your surname. You have a chance to receive a good offer, or your company will create more favorable conditions for you to make you stay.

15 years later Ill be an Assistant Director General

Policy of savings a year later you buy a washing machine, 5 years later a car, 10 years later a cottage, and then you will be happy. Theres a mistake then you will be not happy, but old. What if your company goes bankrupt? Or finds another specialist? Everything may happen, and your table will still stand in a corner.

No one will pay me more

Well, this is already seriously. If you are really assured in it you should better think longer. Of course, money is not the main thing, but their lack makes life much harder. Moreover, if you are a professional but still young specialist, you cannot count on a huge salary since the first month of work. However, this does not mean you should not search for it everyone has a right for fortune.

So, look at all these excuses, examine them carefully. Maybe you see your favorite one among them? If so, you should urgently change the situation! You know, when stress is accumulating in your organism for a long, it causes a long depression, and if your work is a reason, nobody will be able to pay your spent nerves and efforts later. Be careful a hated work can be more terrific than any vampire, sucking your blood, so try to gain immunity to excuses and start actions. It is quite possible that you wont have to change your work you just have to understand what disappoints you try to correct it.

7 reasons why it is better to have your own business

After graduating from educational institutions and attainment certain age, many people are sure they should get fixed up in a job. However, this is not the best idea. Why? you may wonder. Everything is quite simple. There is an alternative working for yourself, and there are at least 7 reasons why you should do it.

1. You raise money 24 hours.

Surely, getting fixed up in a good job and trade your time and work is a wonderful idea. However, this is not reasonably. Why? You may ask. You know, at your work you are paid only when you work. Have you ever thought it would be much better and easier gaining money even when you do not work? Just imagine, how your life could change, if you would gain money on a twenty-four hour basis.

At work you spend more than 40 hours a week. No one cares about this fact. Everyone is worried of value and importance of what we get. We are ready to pay for this. So, agree, exchanging your time for money is not the best way to earn money. There is a better method, in which value you produce is separated from your time expenses.

This is, for example, starting your own business, investment in something, application of your inventions to production, website creation, author’s emoluments for creative work etc. In this case the system you created is constantly bringing value to people, producing income and working continuously, regardless of your participation in it. Firstly you will have to spend some time and efforts to work out and introduce your own system of income production. After you launch a system, you wont have to exchange your time for money anymore. Since that moment most part of your time will be directed on increase of your income through improvement and development of your system or launching new systems.

2. All revenue belongs to you.

When you work for a wage, you should produce values that are enough to cover not only expenses on your salary (bonuses, social package etc.) and taxes, but also provide sufficient incomes for owners and investors.

Thus, at your work you are paid only a part of real value you produced. Your real salary can be several times higher, but you will never get most part of this money. When you work for yourself all revenue belongs to you.

3. You regulate your income by yourself.

When you want to increase your income, working for wage, you constantly have to prove equity of your requirements. However, you receive a positive answer not always. In your system of income acquisition, you decide and regulate when and how much you should get.

4. You receive knowledge on how to become financially independent.

As a rule, people get fixed up in a job to gain experience. However, we all gain experience from life, on work and without it. Any work only gives experience of this work. In the beginning you really learn many new things, but later such work remains same. Due to this fact you usually miss many other chances, more valuable and important. Ask yourself, which experience you would like to gain? Knowledge of how to do a certain work well, exchanging your time for money or knowledge of how to achieve financial independence without working for wage anymore? Most likely, you will choose second variant.

5. You are a free agent.

When you get fixed up in a job, you have a direct chief or owner. What happens when you do not want to obey or fulfill someones commands? Many of you do not like such work, as it oppresses and causes an open protest. In case of creation of your own income production system, you become a free agent.

6. You are in safety.

Most people are assured that getting a work is the most reliable and safest way to provide themselves and their families. We do not know how we can feel safe in our society, staying in a situation, when we can be deprived of general source of revenue work anytime. When you work for a wage, you cannot feel safe, as you do not control situation. Only working for yourself you control everything.

7. Determine your social networks and freedom of transference.

When you work in a certain structure, you have to communicate with people, working in same sphere. Besides, any company has corporative culture. This imposes certain limits and requirements to you. Not all of you are ready to stay in such dependence. Working for yourself you are absolutely independent in your choice whom and when to communicate with and how to behave in a certain situation. You do what you like and enjoy life.

Conclusions

Everyone has a choice: getting fixed up in a job or creating income due to other methods. Many of you already know that searching for a work is not the thing they need. Trust your intuition. As soon as you make up your mind, you will understand you can give others huge values and they will gladly pay you for it. Time will pass and you will make sure that this was one of your wisest decisions.

Luxury hotels craziest services

For many people, hotel is just a place for sleep. One spend most interesting hours during travels, excluding some romantic moments, outside of hotels. However, representatives of hotel industry do not agree with this and sometimes generate most unexpected ideas, turning them into exclusive and sometimes cranky services.

You may ask which unusual and crazy offers world hotels can strike us with, to win our love? Here are only some of them.

Brazilian hotel Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi is ready to provide its clients most comfortable traffic, not depending from traffic jams and other scrapes. The hotel offers passing road between hotel, airport and shops (!) by a helicopter.

New-York hotel The Benjamin is ready to cherish your sleep like the apple of their eye. For this, they hired a man, who has unusual duties of sleep concierge. In Florence, hotel Palazzo Magnani Ferroni pays a special attention to aromatherapy: you will scent your favorite smells, as soon as you enter the room. They inquire your tastes beforehand, to make a small aromatic surprise for you.

No one can be surprised at accommodation with home pets in hotels, however, Boston Nine Zero will not only give your pet a personal bed and kitchen, but also provide with constant care: they will take your pet for a walk, sit in a room with it and even massage.

A chain of luxury hotels The Ritz Carlton treated a question of exclusive services with usage of all relevant modern technologies. They offer their clients services of technological butler that will solve any problem from phone charging to Internet connection troubles.

Houstonian Hotel, accommodating tourists in Houston, made accent on fitness. You can choose from a hundred of kinds of physical load in the context of special hotel fitness-program, including basketball, rock-climbing, swimming and weight-lifting exercises.

American hotel Fitzpatrick Hotels in Washington is especially marked. It offers exclusive service for the smallest ones those who still believe dolls are live creatures. Here you can find rooms for travelers with kids, equipped with special doll set: tiny cupboards, beds and even slippers for toys everything that can create an impression of complete hospitality. It is interesting that both kids and their dolls are greeted by porters.

Well, if you need a real fun, go to Drake Hotel, where couples are offered Pleasure Menu, in which you can find lots of interesting and funny things. Which exactly? Well, you should see just once some of them, according to a saying, you know, even most interesting story cannot replace a real, unforgettable trip.

Travel: tips to save money

If you want to save money during travel, you need to learn how to travel budget. The hardest, yet most important part is sticking to your budget. When you develop a travel budget, you can literally see the world for less.

Early planning is the base here, use the many available resources, this way could save a great deal of money on renting cars, gasoline, airline tickets, hotel rooms and even the main attractions of your destination.

Learning to travel budget is simple. All you have to do is clear out the money you have to spend versus how you want to spend it and on what.

* Household monthly income plus your holiday allowance/13th check amount

* Household savings

* Household Monthly Expenses (Electricity, Telephone, Gas, Water, Garbage/Sewer)

* Personal Expenses (gasoline to and from work daily, food, hygienic needs, etc.)

Once you gather this together, you will add your household monthly income and savings together. Then subtract the expenses. The total that is left is the amount you have to work with. Of course, credit cards help a great deal when it comes to traveling, however, you will not want to spend more than you can afford at any point. Remember you always have to pay for the convenience of a credit card!

After you determine your travel budget, start planning your vacation. Do not forget to check with this budget at all times. Failure to stick within your travel budget, could lead financial troubles. Internet can be your best friend here. Many travel agencies, hotels, car rentals,and airlines execute deals through Internet.

Considering the time of the year you are vacationing presents another important moment in finding the hottest deals. You should also decide where you are vacationing and when you begin planning your vacation. Travel budget will depend on these aspects.

Maybe you want to have a family trip to Walt Disney World in April.

Places such as Disney World have different prices for specific times of the year. In other words, during peak season you will pay more for tickets and hotels in the area than you would during off peak seasons.

When creating your travel budget remember these moments, you may be better off hitting the world most magical place in November

The secret of Italian sexuality is revealed

Italians were named one of the most temperamental and sexual nations in the world at all times. What%26#8217;s the secret of their passion? If you think that it is in champagne or oysters, you are mistaken!

The interrogation spent in Italy, has shown that salami and cheese are general afrodisiacs for inhabitants of this country. 25 % and 21 % of interrogated accordingly named these culinary products.

Rissoto with saffron and steamed vegetables also increase libido of Italians. 12 % of respondents voted for these dishes.

However, very few Italians voted for such known afrodisiacs as oysters. Italians also do not pay much attention to the fact that champagne is capable to increase sexual desire.

Traveling With Pets

Whether you have a dog or other household pet, there’s much more to keeping your furry friend safe and happy than just opening the passenger door. Here are tips to make your long road trip ?or even your Sunday drive ?problem-free.

Here are a few things to consider when traveling with your pet:

1. Temperament - Make certain that your four-legged pal enjoys traveling before taking him on a long trip. Take time during the weeks leading up to your vacation to take him on several short trips so that he will be more accustomed to the sights, smells and sensations of riding in a car. If your pet is aggressive, ill-mannered or simply terrified of traveling, you may want to consider a qualified pet sitter or reputable boarding facility.

2. Pack ?and plan ?for your pet. Just like you, pets like the comforts of home: their own bedding, toys, brush, even their own dishes. Bring them with you if possible. Pack a bowl for his water, treats, a first-aid kit, medications (both oral and topical), and a copy of his medical records. Most important, though, bring your pet’s own food. Trust me; this is not the time to get experimental with your pet’s digestive tract. (If you’ve ever changed your dog’s food all of a sudden, you know what I mean.)

3. Before a road trip is a good time to take your pet for that overdue visit to the veterinarian. Beyond ensuring your pet’s health, it’s the only way to get a bona fide health certificate. That certificate ?and proof of an updated rabies vaccine ?is necessary if you board your pet at your destination.

4. Accommodations - As more people take to traveling with pets, more and more hotels are catering to pet travelers. By using the search term “pet-friendly” in your query, you will receive a wealth of information about pet-friendly accommodations and destinations, RV parks, dog parks, beaches and campgrounds. Pet barriers ?which merely separate your pet from the rear of the seat ?don’t do much to protect animals. Pet carriers, however, do. Carriers are essentially boxes made to confine and secure your animal. They come in different shapes, sizes and materials, but all should be well ventilated and have a secure door and latch. They should be large enough so your animal can sit and lie down.

5. Safety - When traveling with pets it is important to ensure their safety and not to do anything that could put them in danger. Always have your dog or cat on a leash and never allow a pet to roam freely in the vehicle, as it could get tangled around the driver’s feet or get in the driver’s sight of the road. Always crate your dog or cat in a sturdy, well-ventilated carrier big enough for them to stand up and turn around in comfortably. It’s a good idea to get them used to the crate a few weeks prior to departing. Also be sure to have collars and I.D. tags for your pets in the event that they become separated from you. Investing in a microchip may also be something to consider if your pet has a tendency to get loose.

6. Some people get car sick; so do some animals. If this sounds like your pet, give him a light meal a few hours before you leave and feed him minimally during the drive. Offer him small amounts of water periodically in the hours before the trip. If you can, take along ice cubes, which are easier on your pet than gulping down large amounts of water. (They’ll also keep him busy.) If your dog isn’t accustomed to car travel or to a carrier, break him in gradually, well in advance of the trip, by taking short trips and using lots of praise.

7. Take frequent breaks. A dog’s legs need to be stretched just like yours do ?perhaps twice as much. Your pet also needs water, exercise and potty breaks at regular intervals. Having your dog lie beneath the caf table while you eat lunch is not exercise, so be sure to take Fido once around the block before jumping back in the car. Taking time for your pet may also help you to take in some interesting sights along your trip.

Preparing in advance for traveling with pets and keeping its best interests in mind on the road will help make it an enjoyable trip for everyone.

Pets are definitely an important part of the family. In order to include them during your next trip or family vacation and make the experience enjoyable for all, be sure to take the time to plan and prepare for their travels.