His parents give little Dante everything he wants. Dante is only five years old. He calls his parents by his first name. When he swears at his friends, his parents just smile at his behavior. Little Dante is out of control. His teachers can’t control him, his classmates hate him, and his parents fear him. At a grocery store, Dante’s mother tells him to stop. Dante hits her with his fist. An old man looks on in amazement. Dante’s mother says, “I don’t know what to do. He’s not a controllable child. What should I do?” The older man smiles at him politely as Dante steps on his mother’s foot.

Wild world of parenting

How do you get control if you have “wild children”? What does it take to become an effective parent? Do you have bad children and you don’t know what to do? Parents must be parents again if America is to get our children back. The Columbine and Heritage school shootings have shown that extreme violence can happen anywhere. This is a scary situation for any sane person. A killer could be the boy next door or in her own house. According to one study, many of these violent children did not come from abusive and neglectful parents. Some children live their lives as if there are no consequences for their actions. Some parents do not place expectations on their children. This is the ingredient for an accident to happen. The boy sees the world as a great great opportunity to have fun: the world revolves around her wishes. NO! However, this happens. For example, a 15-year-old named Kip from Oregon, who was accused of shooting to death his parents and two high school classmates, had a history of trouble. His parents were public school teachers with two children and lived in a wooded subdivision home. Kip was a hot-tempered boy with a ###### for bombs, guns, and murder. His parents tried to control his inner demons with Ritalin and Prozac, and counseling. His parents, who hated guns, finally gave up and brought their son a semi-automatic rifle. It was a high price to pay for the acceptance of his son.

parenting expectation

Who makes the rules in your family? Parents today need to set expectations for their children. According to recent research, the children of professionals today are less likely than similar children of 25 years ago to rise as high on the economic ladder as their parents. Society doesn’t really expect much from this generation. I am constantly reminded of how little respect some children have for authority. Just look around your neighborhood and school. What has gone wrong? Our generation has abandoned the traditions of our parents in an effort to be different. We trust our hearts and listen to family experts. How does this disrespect begin? It starts off innocently enough. A father smiles at a little profanity from his youngest son. Isn’t he cute? Most people want to shift the blame: the media, indifferent parents, peer pressure, violent children, or the lack of strict gun laws. The media teaches our children that they can have it all without any sacrifice. To say that our children can escape this crazy propaganda is not true. However, we must teach the children.

Solution for parents

Finally, parents must set the standards. We cannot expect our children to act morally if their examples are immoral, hateful, and unforgiving adults. Parenting is a practical full-time duty. Parents of the past were uncompromising in their determination to expect a lot from their children. Growing up in my community of Cedar Grove in Louisiana, I found God to be an important part of my family. Being a parent is a very difficult task. Is it realistic to believe that you too can become your child’s best friend and parent? Doesn’t this sound like a conflict of interest? Every day parents are required to make difficult family decisions, decisions that may sound too harsh for a child. Communications are critical to any supporting family; however, adults need to focus on the long-term effects of a decision, as well as the short-term consequences. However, what is more important? We must go back to basics. Get guidance from our wise elders. Today we have more education and material things than generations of the past. However, I would ask you this question: “How is it possible that people with so little give so much, while we, with so much, give so little?” We must come together as a nation and set high standards for all children. And yes, we adults must shoulder the burden of setting good examples. If we fail on such a large commission, we will get our just reward. And perhaps, lose the next generation of leaders. Lead your family with focus. Set the standards. Get started today!

If you were to imagine your body shape and proportions, you would probably have a picture of broad shoulders and a narrow waist (or at least you SHOULD have this picture in your head). But you may not be focusing on the exact size of your shoulder compared to your waist.

To calculate your ideal shoulder size, you first have to know your ideal waist size. BUT to know what your ideal waist size is, you have to start with your height. The calculation goes from your height to your waist to your shoulders.

Your ideal waist size will be between 45% and 47% of your height. In other words, if you’re 70 inches tall, your ideal waist is between 31.5 and 33 inches.

This calculation is based on bone structure and a low level of fat mass. Once you have determined your ideal waist, the next calculation is your shoulders.

Based on all the research on proportion and physical attraction, we know that the ideal waist-to-shoulder ratio is a 1:1,618 ratio. Going back to our example of 70 inches tall and a waist of 31.5 to 33 inches, your ideal shoulder circumference would be 1.618 times larger than your ideal waist or 51 to 53 inches.

The ideal shoulder-to-waist ratio is only maintained when the waist is in its ideal range. In other words, having a waist that is 50% of your height and shoulders that are 1,618 times larger than this is not going to produce the proportions you are looking for. And in fact, you will find it very difficult to build your shoulders to this point to make up for most of your waist. This will also produce a shorter stalked appearance which is not ideal. Your best proportioned body shape should start by taking your height into account, otherwise there is no way to determine what waist size and shoulder size is too skinny and skinny.

Follow this pattern of measurements starting with your height –> ideal waist –> ideal shoulders and you’ll be on your way to building your best-proportioned body.

Whether you’ve just bought your first HDTV, your second HDTV, or just shopping for an HDTV, here are some tips to get the most out of your new TV.

1. Use the correct inputs and cables

Most televisions offer a wide variety of inputs including composite video and audio that use yellow, red and white RCA connectors and provide the lowest quality signal and not HD. S-Video connectors that use round black connectors are a bit better, but still no HD. Component connections use 3 RCA connectors for video and 2 for audio, they’re still analog, but they’ll give you HD and are the next best thing to HDMI. The best is HDMI with its small rectangular connectors that provide a high-quality digital connection for audio and video.

Our advice is to use HDMI and avoid super cheap cables. On the other hand, don’t be fooled into buying expensive cables from the salesman at your local big box store. Most HDMI cables work fine for most programming, but some are better. What others. The only reason to spend the extra money is for a high speed (Category 2) cable used for “Deep Color” and lossless audio.

2. Adjust the lights in the room and eliminate glare

One of the easiest ways to make your TV look bad is to shine a lot of light on it creating reflections and glare. Plasma TVs are especially prone to glare problems, but LCD panels can also reflect light. Invest in a pair of curtains or place your TV in a room with few windows. Some experts recommend turning off the lights in the room and adding a dim light behind the TV.

3. Calibrate, Calibrate, Calibrate

If there was only one thing we could recommend to get the most out of your new TV, it would be to set the TV out of “showroom” mode and switch it to “your bedroom” mode. You can adjust things like brightness, contrast, and sharpness without a calibration disc, but discs (Blu-ray and DVD) aren’t very expensive. On the other hand, you could always consider hiring a professional, who would probably use some expensive equipment to give your TV a high-quality calibration.

Here are some options for DIY calibration. Remember, a Blu-ray calibration disc in a Blu-ray player will show the best test patterns.

Inexpensive and easy calibration

George Lucas has arranged for THX Certified DVDs to provide a set of calibration tools in the setup menu. If you don’t already own a THX DVD like “Star Wars,” try Netflix or your local library for one of the DVDs listed on this website. THX Optimizer will guide you through a set of test patterns so you can adjust contrast, brightness, color/hue, aspect ratio, and sharpness. In case you’re wrong, most TVs have default settings that you can use to restore factory settings.

Buy a calibration DVD

For around $25, you can invest in a calibration disk that can include a set of filters that you look through or hold against the screen to help set color levels. Spears & Munsil’s Blu-ray Calibration Disc gets high marks from users. Joe Kane’s Digital Video Essentials (DVE) is another popular one, as is the Monster/ISF HDTV Calibration Wizard. The tutorials on the discs explain how to perform the tests and what the tests mean.

Call a professional or buy your equipment

If you can pay around $300 to have a specialist from somewhere like Geek Squad come to your house, you’ll get someone trained in using professional equipment like this colorimeter that sucks in the front of your TV and provides feedback to adjust settings. You can always buy the gear they use, like this SpyderTV analyzer, which starts at around $100.

4.Add speakers

Good sound can make a big difference in how a picture looks. Don’t make the mistake of buying a good quality HDTV and then adding a poor quality set of speakers or home theater.

Studies have shown that viewers think the picture looks better when the audio sounds better. Most HDTVs have outputs for additional speakers. The first thing you should consider adding is a bass-boosting subwoofer. A good subwoofer will cost around $100. To get the full immersion effect of surround sound, you’ll need to purchase a set of speakers and place them around the room. A set of 5.1 speakers that includes a subwoofer could cost you a few hundred bucks for a decent set. Another option is a sound bar that sits below the front of your TV and “projects” simulated surround sound.

5. Mount it

Mounting your large flat screen TV may require more skill and tools than you have at hand, but a TV mounted on an articulating arm against your bedroom wall can not only make the TV look more attractive, it can even enhance the viewing experience as the articulated arms can extend from the wall and tilt to optimize the viewing angle. They can also make ports easier to access when you want to change connections on the back of your computer. Installers generally warn against mounting a TV too high to avoid a stiff neck from “stargazing.”

What is the Perfect Male Body?

I have tried to do some research to find the answer to this question. Now obviously the answer in many people’s eyes would vary greatly depending on who you ask. I highly doubt there can be a hard and fast definition of the perfect male body. But there are places where you can find so-called perfect male body measurements and proportions. Honestly though, I think you should sit down and figure out for YOU what body you think you would like to achieve.

Now, as for the traits that make a body more masculine or feminine, that’s much easier to pin down. So what are the visual and physical differences that influence how people interpret others as masculine or feminine? I think it’s the entire muscle and bone structure, and the muscle can be manipulated through physical exercise to achieve a certain desired shape. Bone, on the other hand, cannot be changed for the most part. So let’s focus on muscle differences:

Men tend to have thicker necks than women, as well as broader shoulders and a generally more muscular build. Men, or at least fit men, have a defined V-taper, which means their shoulders and back taper to their small waist. For women, they tend to have softer features and not as strong or defined, unless they exercise quite a bit, and have more of an hourglass figure in my opinion. His shoulders taper to the waist and flare back to the hips. But even when women are in good condition, their muscles don’t have the ability to get as big as men’s or grow as fast as men’s.

Now, for FTMs trying to get a more masculine body shape, they have to avoid the fact that most were born with a female body shape, such as wider hips and smaller shoulders. As for testosterone, I think many FTMs, if they work towards it, will be able to see some good gains in the gym to achieve a masculine figure. Even those who do not take testosterone will have the ability to attempt to change their body shape to be more masculine. So, let’s take a look at the muscles we need to work and how to work them to achieve that tapered V shape and get rid of that hourglass figure.

The goal of the FTM bodybuilder should be to widen the upper body while trying to minimize the waist. To do this, you will need a combination of weight training, cardio, and a good nutrition plan.
Now, to widen your upper body, you’ll need to focus on your back, neck, and shoulders. However, the shoulders and back seem to be the most important for that wide look. Specifically the lats of the back and all the heads of the shoulder muscle.

As for minimizing your waistline, I think you should try to keep as much body fat as possible, as it tends to accumulate on the hips in female-bodied people. If you’re on T, this may or may not be a problem for you, but for those who aren’t, it’s probably much more important.

Other masculine characteristics tend to be well defined arms. Although not only biceps. Biceps, triceps, and forearms help build a strong, well-defined arm.

Also well defined calves and legs tend to help in my opinion. Especially if you’re considering trying to add a bit of size to your upper body, you’ll want to try to keep your body in proportion. Otherwise, you’ll probably end up looking a bit weird with giant upper body muscles and little chicken feet.

As far as abs are concerned, working on them to make them more defined and thick won’t be a big deal, you just don’t want them to get too wide, because that will interfere with making you look wider and getting that V-taper.

And of course, the chest is a big problem for many FTMs. If you have breast tissue and thicken those muscles underneath, I think you could make that tissue stick out a bit more, but losing fat and a good diet would help minimize that. And if you get tied up, I doubt it’s a problem. Those looking to undergo top surgery will definitely want to pay close attention to building a well-proportioned and defined chest. The better fit you are, the easier it will be for the surgeon to contour your chest over the muscle for a more masculine appearance.

So obviously all the muscles are going to be important, but the most important ones for that broader, more masculine appearance are the shoulders, the back, and a small waist.

I hope this article has helped you discover what you want from your body. I’ll be posting more articles and detailed descriptions of how to work each and every muscle group I mentioned here, and I’ll put together some sample exercises for you to try here in the near future.

If you’ve owned a home and paid off your mortgage over the years, you know that the first 10 years are almost all interest payments with very little principal.

There is nothing wrong with buying a home as long as you can qualify. That means a good down payment and a steady job. None of that nonsense with no money down. Buyer must be serious about monthly mortgage payments and have a good job. Banks are reviewing these days.

The financial community in the recent past has been forced to make mortgages to those who did not qualify with no money down and had no serious intention of paying if it became financially uncomfortable. It’s too easy to walk away.

The true cost of owning a home is not just the monthly mortgage payment. In a new home all appliances, plumbing, roof, pool equipment, window frames, etc., etc., all have an estimated life expectancy after which they need to be replaced.

Buying an old house means that all of the above will happen sooner. Replacing or repairing can be expensive.

The true cost of maintaining the house is the mortgage payment plus upkeep. Oh, and let’s not forget about taxes. Then there is a little thing called insurance that is required by the mortgage holder.

The industry calls it PITI = principle, interest, taxes and insurance. Depending on the length of the mortgage and whatever your down payment is, it typically comes out 10% per year of the sales price divided by 12 or 1% of the sales price each month.

If the house is $200,000, that’s about $2,000 or close to $2,000 per month.

If you are 55 years old, do you want to assume that obligation? Wouldn’t it be smarter to rent? If the same quality house can be rented for $1,200 per month, the renter could save the difference of $800 each month and in 10 years at retirement would have $96,000 plus interest. I can guarantee you wouldn’t have that in home equity if you bought the house when you were 55.

Plus, renters pay significantly less for renter’s insurance and have the ability to move to a new location at any time. Tenants don’t have to put on a new roof or replace an old water heater. No major out-of-pocket maintenance costs.

How about a 6 month rental in Canada for the summer and 6 months in Florida, Mexico or the Dominican Republic for the winter? The only extra would be travel expenses.

With so many rentals available, foreclosure prices are still not a great buy. If a person wants to buy, there are still about 4,000,000 more distressed properties to come on the market in the next 2 years. The prices will be even lower than the current ones.

Do the numbers before you buy.

Sometimes when you’re watching TV, you can’t hear the sound very well. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are rescuing Princess Leia, the blasters are rumbling, the Wookiee is howling, and you can’t hear a thing. Maybe Luke said “I’m here with Obi-Wan Kenobi” or maybe he said “Would you like fries with that?” You just can’t tell. So you turn up the volume and turn it up and turn it up but you still can’t hear it and now your husband is yelling that he’s too loud. Finally, you start to wonder if maybe it’s something more. Maybe his hearing isn’t what it used to be. But there is still a question: how to know if the problem is really the ears?

There is a simple solution. You can take a hearing test. There are many different types of hearing tests, and they come in many different shapes and sizes.

One tried and true method that you can use to measure your hearing is the audiometer test. It is usually given to people seated in a soundproof room. This booth is a lot like the room musicians use to record their music because it is completely soundproof. The person receiving the procedure will wear a pair of headphones that are connected to an audiometer. A licensed audiologist plays a series of tones at specific frequencies and volume levels to each ear independently. As you perform the test, you will indicate by raising your hand or pressing a button whether or not you heard the sound. The results are plotted on a graph and, at the end of the procedure; the audiologist will be able to determine the degree of hearing loss she is experiencing.

Another hearing test is called a tympanogram. In this test, the air pressure in the ear canal is varied using a small probe placed in the ear. This will tell your audiologist how well your ears and other muscles, tissues, and structures in your ear are working. In this case, if there is a perforation in your tympanic membrane, you will be able to tell and can take steps to correct it. This measures your actual ear and whether or not all parts of your ear are working properly.

The last hearing test that might be administered is an acoustic reflex test. A probe is placed in your ear and a loud tone is played. This will estimate whether or not your stapedius muscle is working and whether it can contract to protect your ears from loud noises. You want to make sure there is nothing wrong here as it could indicate an injury to your ear or a faulty reflex contraction that could be preventing your ears from working properly.

There are many hearing tests you can take to find out why you’re not hearing at optimal levels. Get your results back today and enjoy Star Wars at full volume!

New York’s only representative in the 2006 Home Run Derby was fan favorite David Wright. After a rush of sixteen home runs in the first round, Wright was only able to hit six more home runs over the course of the next two rounds, eventually falling to Ryan Howard of the Phillies 5–4 in the finale. Fortunately for the Mets, this will be the only time this season that the Phillies will win anything. Sitting 12 games behind the division-leading Mets, Philly Faithful may not have much to remember this season except for Ryan Howard’s home run derby title. Howard and the Phillies snap back to reality on Thursday, but for one day at least, they’re the champs.

Howard put in a big push to reach the final round, hitting 10 home runs in the second round for a two-round total of 18, tying Wright and beating David Ortiz and Miguel Cabrera. Last year’s Rookie of the Year, Howard was one of three players to hit a ball on a fly into the Allegheny River. Howard looks like he’ll be one of the league’s big hitters for a long time, as he’s hit 28 home runs during the All-Star break. As badly underperforming as his team may be, at least Howard and his teammate Bobby Abreu can take solace in the fact that they’ve won the past two home run derbies.

Although David Wright did not win, he did have a memorable experience at PNC Park. Wright’s 16 home runs in the first round were the third-most of any round in the derby’s 21-year history, though that was eight shy of Bobby Abreu’s record 24 last year in Detroit. Wright got to savor the experience with catcher Paul Lo Duca, as Wright selected Lo Duca to pitch for him. It marked the first time in derby history that a player selected a fellow All Star, and teammate, to pitch for him in the home run derby.

Tomorrow we have the American League and National League All-Star Game, where the National League looks to end the dominance of the American League for the last decade or so. I’m a little nervous about Kenny Rogers starting in the American League, as I think even a lower National League hitting lineup will hit him pretty well. I’m looking for the National League to take an early lead against the AL, but the AL players will eventually pull away in the middle and late innings.

The book Eat, Pray, Love topped the New York Times Best Seller list for one year. Author Elizabeth Gilbert writes about her search to “find herself” after a devastating divorce. She spends four months in Italy eating fabulous food, four months in India meditating in an ashram, and four months in Bali finding love and fulfillment. I read Eat, Pray, Love just before my trip to Bali.

Wayan was my favorite character in the book. She is the owner of a small healing shop and restaurant in the city of Ubud. Elizabeth Gilbert is cycling through Ubud and falls, injuring her knee. She goes to the store to buy ointment to heal her wound and she ends up befriending Wayan and her irrepressible cute daughter Tutti. Wayan has left an abusive husband and she finds it difficult to survive on her own, as divorce carries a strong stigma in Balinese culture. Wayan is often forced to move her business from one rental site to another and therefore has trouble maintaining enough established clients to be financially successful. Elizabeth Gilbert calls on American friends to donate money to buy Wayan her own store. It doesn’t take long for Gilbert to come up with $18,000. Before leaving Bali, Gilbert sees Wayan settled in a mortgage-free two-story building.

It’s not hard to find Wayan’s store. Gilbert’s book says it’s a few doors down from the Ubud Post Office and that’s exactly where my friend Kathy and I found it. The hand-painted sign in front invited us to get a massage, learn Balinese dance, buy medicinal plants, eat a healthy vitamin lunch or get cured of any ailment. Huge pots in the store’s front yard contained various herbs such as ginseng, jasmine, and aloe vera. Each pot had a sign saying what diseases that particular plant could help cure.

We wander inside. The restaurant had three tables. Wayan greeted us and, after ushering us to the only available table, he asked if we had come to eat or to be healed. We told her we were hungry after a morning of wandering the shops and galleries of Ubud, so she and her assistant began bringing food to our table. They grated the turmeric and mixed it with ginger, honey, and water to make a delicious juice. They brought us three types of seaweed, each with a different flavor. We had uniquely spiced melon and tomato served on banana leaves. We had rice and salad. As each dish arrived at the table, Wayan would tell us if it was good for the stomach, kidneys, heart, or love life.

Wayan said that for only a small additional cost we could have a healthy body check at the end of the meal, but she was very busy by the time we finished eating doing body checks for a group of French women sitting at another table. I noticed one of them had a French copy of Eat, Pray, Love tucked into her bag. The book has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Since Kathy and I knew that our husbands would already be waiting for us at our hotel, we decided to leave. We say goodbye to Wayan.

One of the things that I like to do whenever I travel is to read a book set in the country that I am visiting. It makes the place come alive for me. I don’t always get the chance to step into the pages of books and meet one of the characters I’ve read about. Happily I was able to do that in Bali.

The learning and education process is evolving with the continuous change of mobile technology and the Internet. Now people are learning knowledge and information from educational mobile apps. But there are plenty of quality and effective learning apps available on the Android Play Store to cover the different segments of the knowledge base. So how do you choose the best, effective and quality one?

The best educational apps for Android

Today I will share a list of top 10 educational apps for Android devices. That will definitely help you learn and gain the most valuable things in the word, Knowledge.

#10 – TED Talks

TED Talks let you enjoy more than 2,000 talks and discussions on science and technology from extraordinary people. You can sort and enjoy all the TED Talks by topic and mood. You can also explore the library of TED Talks videos with subtitles and in different languages. These learning apps also allow you to download the videos for offline use.

#9 – Duolingo: Learn Languages ​​for Free

This is one of the best language learning apps for Android. You can learn English, Spanish, French, German, Esperanto, Polish, and much more using Duolingo. Which improves speaking, reading, listening and writing skills through interactive games. You also increase vocabulary and grammar skills by answering questions and completing lessons.

#8 – Memrise Learn Languages ​​Free

Memrise Learn Languages ​​​​​​is one of the highest rated language learning apps on the Android play store. This educational app allows you to learn many languages ​​through games and lessons.

#7 – Quora

Quora is the best answer and question center that helps you to clear all the doubts about science, technology, social, political, religious and much more. Thousands of specialists, all over the world, are ready here to give you all the information about anything you want to know.

#6 – Udemy Online Courses

Udemy is a veritable hub of many online video tutorials on various topics, as you can imagine. You can sharpen your skills with over 32,000 online tips and guides on programming, business, yoga, photography, technology, and more.

#5 – YouTube

YouTube is the highest-rated, highest-growing, trending tech video app for all tech devices. It offers millions of easy online tutorials on anything you can think of. Every day millions of users spend thousands of hours to watch the videos and tutorials on YouTube. So why not take advantage of free lessons and how-to guides on YouTube?

#4 – Khan Academy

I personally like and want to recommend this educational app to learn anything, anywhere, anytime from variety of subjects. With over 10,000 free videos, you can learn math, science, economics, history, and much, much more. Want to take college prep like the SAT, GMAT, or MCAT? No problem. Get all the lessons on all those topics at your fingertips.

#3 – Coursera: Online Courses

With over 1,000 specialized courses and many instructors from renowned colleges and universities, you’ll be able to advance your career and specialize in specific topics like computer science, data science, creative content writing, lifestyle, business, science, photography, and much, much more. further. You can watch all the videos in different major languages ​​at any time and also download them for offline use.

#2 – Google Arts and Culture

Google Arts & Culture is one of the best learning apps for those who like culture, arts and artifacts, and the stories behind all those iconic arts. Google partners with thousands of institutions and museums around the world, just to bring you culture and arts without borders. Download now and get to know everything in no time.

#1 – Wikipedia

I don’t need to introduce you to Wikipedia, a veritable ocean of knowledge. This app literally helps you find, discover and explore detailed and in-depth analysis information on any topic in over 300 languages. This best educational app brings you more than 39 million content and increasing daily. Can you believe this? so why do you wait? Just grab this best learning app for your android phone and be a nerd of your preferred subject.

final thought

This is the list of top 10 educational apps for Android users. All of the education learning apps mentioned above are chosen based on top-rated, high-grossing, trending, and regularly developed by top developers. What ensures easy and quality learning in step-by-step guides and tutorials. Always remember that self-study is the best way to gain and learn quality knowledge.

What is your favorite?

Do you like this list of the best educational apps? Let me know which one you like best, in the comments section. And also please let me know about other learning apps you are using at the moment.

Share this list of the best apps for education with family and friends. And let them learn by themselves.

Usually right after the New Years celebration, many of us start looking at the resolutions we make, and if you’re like many people, yours is probably more like a shopping list: you want to exercise more, gain more money, have savings, learn a skill (say to play the guitar), get a better job (so you can earn more money), and find a lover (if you haven’t found one yet, or the one you have isn’t as “caring”) “).

A typical scenario might go like this: You’ll look at this long list of New Year’s resolutions and pick a goal, let’s say one of your goals is to master the guitar. So what you can do is buy a book on how to play a guitar, maybe buy an instructional DVD, and start practicing at home. If you’re a bit more diligent, you’d even start taking a few classes. But what about your other goals, like making more money? I mean, that minimum wage job isn’t really going to help, unless your definition of making more money is that fifty cent raise that’s coming your way… in about six months (pending your employee performance review). , of course).

So you start looking for another job to complement the job you have. Let’s say you found that other job. If you are already working full time at the job you have, at best you would probably be working part time at this new job.

Well, the good news is that you are now achieving one of your goals: making more money. The bad news? Now that he spends most of his time working at his job and a half, he doesn’t have time to practice his guitar, so he ends up giving up his guitar lessons. Hey, at least with all the running around between your two jobs, you’re working out, but now your life is miserable because you don’t have a life!

So you start looking for other ways to make money. You start looking for work at home opportunities and let’s say you found an opportunity. But now, you have to quit one of your jobs (probably the part-time job) so you can focus on building your new home business, which still isn’t making money to break even and even if it was, you still work two jobs. and no time to play the guitar, and we’re not even going to cover the other goals you’ve set for yourself.

The above scenario may sound comical and implausible to some, but all too often, we find ourselves setting more goals than we are capable of achieving. Now, understand that I’m not saying you shouldn’t have multiple goals, just start prioritizing them.

How do you do that? Start by choosing no more than one goal that you think you can best accomplish right now (I’ll give you an exception to this rule later). If you find that there is more than one goal you can achieve right now, choose the one that would have the most positive impact on your life. It could be financially, emotionally, spiritually, whatever goal would have the most positive impact on your life right now if you achieve it. Once you have chosen a goal, focus on that goal as if it were the only goal you have.

That’s how it is. Forget all the other goals and focus on achieving that one goal, and then use the momentum from that one goal to achieve the other goals on your list. Going back to the previous scenario, let’s look at our objectives. We have: exercise more, earn more money, have savings, learn to play the guitar, find a better job, and find a lover (or a new one, for that matter).

So which of these, if you were to focus on right now, would impact your life the most? The answer, of course, varies from individual to individual. However, if these were my goals, earning money would have a bigger impact on my life. Even though working that side job (or that side home business) isn’t as personally satisfying as learning to play the guitar, that side job or home business would give me the money I need to start saving. I would also try to cut back on other things to save money (which is essentially the same as making money), like walking to work (if possible) and taking my lunch to work instead of eating out.

This would also fulfill my other goal of exercising more and staying fit and perhaps the only time I would recommend focusing on more than one goal, as in this case, the two goals work in harmony with each other. This would essentially be killing two birds with one stone. In this case, there are three birds. Now that you’ve built a comfortable savings account (and, hopefully, already gotten that raise), it’s time to focus on the next goal. Maybe learning to play the guitar. Once you get the hang of the guitar, you could start giving lessons for money. So maybe I could afford to work less at the job I have. I would then look at the other targets on my list and use the same approach.

Unless the goals you have are in harmony (working toward the same goal), it’s best to focus on one goal at a time and move on to the next. This would give you the best opportunity to achieve your goals. Remember: it’s not about how many goals you set, it’s about how many goals you achieve.