Do your children have rich grandparents? If so, worry
My thesis stems from seeing many children grow up in an environment of abundance that had no connection to the level of work required to achieve such material success. Many of your parents conveyed the correct messages about academic success and the correlation with hard work and overall success....
cooking with chocolate
When people cook, they often prefer to use chocolate bars in their desserts rather than make it from scratch or use a cocoa powder mix. Chocolate provides the chef with a thicker consistency and stronger flavor. Sometimes it is not necessary to cook the chocolate to achieve the perfect...
How Socrates influences our lives today
Socrates (ca. 470-399 B.C.) is not just another “dead white male” scorned by our university elite, but a man whose philosophical advances echo down through the centuries and profoundly affect us today. Athens in the 5th century BC was the time of Pericles. The grandiose construction projects undertaken by...
Strategic Alliances: Ten Tips for Developing Incredibly Successful Partnership Relationships
Developing and implementing strategic alliances is a proven and effective method of growing your business, especially when you have limited resources. When getting value from a strategic alliance, the implementation element is always the challenge. Communications AllianceSuccessful partnership development and implementation requires both art and science. Excellent communication requires...
Rediscover Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
I don’t even remember if I ever read the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and if I did, I probably scrambled through it, thinking I had the concepts down. I made a mistake. I recently came across the Blaine Oelkers guide, Mastering Think and Grow Rich....
Keep Your Financial Wits When Breaking Up: 11 Critical Financial Mistakes To Avoid In Divorce
Breaking up is hard: Long after the wedding bells have faded, you may know someone who has come to a fork in the road and has decided to go in a different direction than their significant other. Building a life with someone involves many things. There are memories, friendships,...
Effective Public Speaking – The Four C’s
According to various polls and surveys, public speaking is one of the scariest things a person will ever have to do in their life, often more feared than serious physical dangers, even death. For some people, public speaking is a fairly natural part of life’s routine. Teachers, vendors, supervisors,...
Information About Overtime Wage Claims
Most employees who work more than forty hours per week are entitled to be paid one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for overtime hours worked. This is commonly known as overtime pay. The law that governs whether an employee is entitled to be paid overtime is...
Where is the Temple on the Temple Mount?
Something missing, something is missing. Rome is integral with the Vatican, Mecca with the Kaaba, and Jerusalem is known for its Western Wall. Aim because Should we stand facing the wall, letting it obstruct our vision, when we could be praying in a Temple? Why should Jews continue to...
Introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets
Perhaps the greatest writer to ever put words from pen to paper, William Shakespeare has been scrutinized, dissected, and studied in ways that could take the joy out of anyone. But Shakespeare wrote to entertain the common people of Elizabethan England, as well as the educated elite. And he...