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- Can You Put Up With Immature Behaviour? - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2014 from Peter MainThe answer to this to some extent depends on who the person is, and what the behaviour is, and how much their behaviour affects you and in what ways. Obviously this is a very broad question but there is an important point behind it, in terms of an individual's willingness to let other people be ...
Views: 1299 - How Much Thought Do You Give to Your Family? - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2014 from Peter MainThe reality of how much time and thought you give to your family is of course in many ways a unique question that can only be answered by the individual themselves. The reason it is so important is because in a significant number of cases the amount of focus that an individual puts on the family ...
Views: 1367 - Home Business Tips - How Working From Home Can Affect Your Health - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2015 from Peter MainMost people, when they decide to start working from home will probably not consider their health, either physical or emotional or mental as being at the top of their priority list. Their focus is much more likely to be on the nature of their business, how they might balance work and family life ...
Views: 1236 - Home Business Tips - Working From Home and Leisure Time - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2014 from Peter MainMany people, when faced with the reality of working from home tend to approach it in quite a manic way, often with quite a high degree of burnout at some point either physical or mental. They may well be able to work with this burnout as they can adapt their home or family life ...
Views: 1382 - Home BusIness Tips - Working With Others - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2014 from Peter MainThe notion of working from home in any capacity or running your own business from home has an implication that it is you alone and no one else. This is often not true and whilst there can be an appeal in the sense of being your own boss and being in control and owning your own time, there is ...
Views: 1160 - Home Business Tips - Home Business and Productivity - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2014 from Peter MainThe very word productivity may be one of the main reasons why people want to start their own business or work from home. Productivity by its very nature implies getting the maximum out of an individual, often at the expense of their individuality and quite often at the expense of any decent ...
Views: 1278 - Home Business Tips - Home Business and Personal Grooming - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2014 from Peter MainThe issue of personal grooming may seem slightly odd in the context of running a business from home, or working from home, but actually aside from the physical practicalities and needs of personal grooming, it is a really important issue in terms of the individual's attitude to their work and ...
Views: 1628 - Home Business Tips - Insuring Your Home - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2014 from Peter MainAnyone who runs a business of any description needs to make sure that they have certain types of insurance, normally insurance covering areas of property loss and damage, business interruption and loss of earnings and various types of liability insurance. Anyone working from home as well needs ...
Views: 1111 - Home Business Tips - Identity Theft - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2014 from Peter MainMost home insurance policies now offer a provision that gives some degree of protection against the risks of identity theft. This is normally included in the insurance policy as standard, or offered as an optional extra at a minimal extra cost. Insurance companies perceive risk of identity theft ...
Views: 1021 - Home Business Tips - Personal Possessions - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2014 from Peter MainAnyone who works from home or runs a type of business from home is likely to have a significant number of items that they would classify as their personal possessions. These may be items that are normally considered domestic or purely for domestic use, or maybe part of the business work that ...
Views: 1029 - What Is the Best Way to Deal With Anger? - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2013 from Peter MainLevels of anger and stress has increased hugely in recent times, especially in large urban areas and cities, resulting in increased tension and instability in many people's lives. The effects of anger can be seen very clearly in many domestic or work situation you care to imagine. Anger as an ...
Views: 1860(1 vote) - How Do You Learn to Meditate? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2013 from Peter MainMany people express a desire to learn how to meditate, without really understanding what meditation involves or what the process of learning it means in the context of a lifelong journey. This can be true of many areas of life, but especially true of meditation. This is in part because it is ...
Views: 1309 - How Do You Motivate People? - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2013 from Peter MainThe question of motivation is one that has become much more widely asked with the rapid growth of the self-development industry over the last few years. The question tends to be asked in two different ways. Firstly, people are asked or told how they can motivate themselves in numerous ...
Views: 2409(1 vote) - Farming as a Small Business - Farm and Tractor Safety - A Guide - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2013 from Peter MainUnderstanding the safety implications of buying and using a new or a used tractor is an essential element for anyone working either on a farm of any size, any type of small holding or any type of residential land where a small or compact tractor might be used. Agriculture generally is ...
Views: 1296(1 vote) - Farming as a small business – skills needed - by Submitted on May 23, 2013 from Peter MainMany people have quite a romantic view of farming, normally people who have never worked on one or been involved with any type of farm or agricultural business. A farm is a multi-complex business, that can range from a very small acreage or smallholding to a multimillion dollar enterprise ...
Views: 1069(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - Why Do People Isolate? - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Peter MainIsolation is often thought of in physical terms, as being a process where people physically remove themselves from other people and live apart, either from society or from family and friends and other people. Isolation is sometimes thought of as a good thing, often in the context of someone ...
Views: 3322(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - The Value of Listening - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Peter MainQuite recently there was television footage of a politician surrounded by his advisers, listening to a voter telling him what she thought about a particular subject. The commentary was about how this politician had been listening to this woman, and was designed to show him in a more human ...
Views: 1555(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - Self Acceptance Not Self Improvement - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Peter MainSelf-improvement has become something of a mantra and a watchword for a vast industry that has grown up around it in the last 30 perhaps 40 years. A lot of the self-improvement industry has flourished in the last 10 or 15 years with the growth of the Internet. Perhaps an inevitable ...
Views: 1741(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - It's Ok to Be Human! - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Peter MainWhen many people hear the word spiritual or spirituality, or any word associated with religion or spiritual terminology they immediately assume that the underlying idea or rationale behind it is that of becoming a good or a better person than they were before. To many if not most people, this ...
Views: 1602(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - What Does the Serenity Prayer Actually Mean? - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2013 from Peter MainThe serenity prayer has a special place for many people, aside from its actual or little meaning, it has become something of a mantra for members of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step fellowships. The wording and dating of the serenity prayer goes back far beyond the beginning of ...
Views: 2645(1 vote) - What Is a Spiritual Awakening? - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2013 from Peter MainA spiritual awakening or a spiritual experience are terms that are often used by people to try and describe experiences that are in many ways so deeply personal that they are extremely difficult if not impossible to put into words. This might seem a slight contradiction in terms, but is part ...
Views: 774 - Spiritual Terms - How Do You Give Hope to Someone? - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Peter MainGiving hope to someone who needs it, whether their situation be a desperate one or simply a need for inspiration is perhaps the most important gift one can give, as well as in many ways being the most difficult thing to help instigate. It is often easier to give a false sense of hope than a real ...
Views: 4921(1 vote) - Spiritual Terms - How Do You Deal With Anger? - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2013 from Peter MainDealing with anger comes at two particular levels - most important is realising that it is your problem, and secondly devising strategies to actually dealing with it. Most people, when they get angry about something will instinctively blame someone else, either a particular person or if they ...
Views: 1004(1 vote) - Self Help Tips - What Does Self Help Really Mean? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2013 from Peter MainIn modern day usage, self-help really refers to a process concerning people's own personal development or self growth. The good side of this is that it leads to people trying to become aware of who and what they are, and pursuing avenues that can help them become more rounded and happy people. ...
Views: 1905(2 votes) - Self-Help Tips - What Does Abandonment Really Mean? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2013 from Peter MainWhen people talk about abandonment, or fear of abandonment, they often feel it is something that either happened to them, or what happens to other people in childhood, often without a really clear sense of what it might mean. There is some truth in this interpretation of abandonment, but its ...
Views: 1793(2 votes) - Self-Help Tips - Why Are People Resistant to Change? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2013 from Peter MainMany people who have been involved in any type of personal growth or self development work and have subsequently sensed a real change in their inner world, will often forget the real difficulty and fear involved in doing any type of work that necessitates change. People approaching ...
Views: 1603(2 votes) - Self Help Tips - What are Boundaries ? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2013 from Peter MainMany people will hear the word boundaries and immediately think that it only applies to someone who works in or understands the world of therapy or counselling. In fact healthy boundaries are something that hopefully will be developed in most families with kids, and are essential for any ...
Views: 1515(2 votes) - Small business start-up – how to start a home-based business - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainThe idea of starting up a home-based business has become a significant reality for many people in today's world and is likely to increasingly become the norm in many people. This is because the term home-based business means a variety of things. It can literally be a business that starts and ...
Views: 1093(1 vote) - Small business start-up – how much money do you need ? - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainMoney is the big question runs through all the other ones. At the outset of setting up your own business the question tends to revolve around how much money you need to start the business up, both in terms of the funding that the business itself will need, and any money that you or your family ...
Views: 1041(1 vote) - Small business start-up – Who is your competition ? - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainAs a small business you need to know who your competition is. This is one of the first questions you need to ask yourself. Realistically who am I likely to be competing against for custom of my service or product. Many people think of this question and say to themselves that either there is no ...
Views: 856(1 vote) - Small business start-up – Why you need a business plan - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainAnyone who is starting up a business or plans to set up and run their own business needs to have a business plan. Many people think they only need to have a plan if they are going to be seeking funding either from a bank or an institution or an investor, and as such they either leave it to the ...
Views: 798(1 vote) - Small business start-up – How to choose a business location - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainLocation is perhaps the most important decision you make concerning a business start-up. Surprisingly or unsurprisingly it is also one of the decisions that people give least attention to. Its importance lies in a number of factors and is a decision that needs to be taken after much careful ...
Views: 759(1 vote) - Small business start up - what are your obligations to employees ? - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainAs a business start-up you will need to consider whether and at what point you will be wanting to employ people. It may not be in the immediate future, but having a plan will help hugely in the event that your business takes off and you need extra hands. It may be that you want to take on a ...
Views: 1068(1 vote) - Small business start up - how to choose the best location for your business - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainEven when you are starting up or thinking about starting up a business there are a number of practical considerations both short-term and long-term that are worth having in mind. They may not be hugely relevant when drawing plans up or making plans for the business, but they are issues that will ...
Views: 846(1 vote) - Small business start up - starting a green business - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainStarting a business that is deemed to be environmentally friendly is a big call for people nowadays and one that receives a lot of attention both in terms of support by state and government authorities as well as by consumers. A so-called green business may literally be a business that is in the ...
Views: 765(1 vote) - Small business start up - are you an entrepreneur ? - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainMany people have a real desire and inclination to start up and run their own business either as a sole trader, or as a small or potentially large company. Often they are put off even before they start by a number of sometimes well-meaning and sometimes not so well-meaning people who advise them ...
Views: 726(1 vote) - Small business start up - how to motivate yourself - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Peter MainOne of the first questions you want to ask yourself is why am I starting a business, or why do I want to set up my own business. The value of asking yourself any question you get it helps to focus your mind and clarify thinking around a sense of reality, rather than simply a fantasy bubble that ...
Views: 742(1 vote) - cheap car insurance - car hire or rental insurance - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Peter MainMany people use car rental for many different reasons, and there are many different ways it can impact on their own car insurance policies. The two main ways are firstly in terms of the cost of a drivers own car policy and the additional cost of having vehicle hire included as an optional extra, ...
Views: 1177 - cheap car insurance - car safety - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2012 from Peter MainCar safety may seem to be something that you assume most people take for granted, and really means just making sure it is locked and possible has an alarm and possibly a crook lock as well. It can mean all these things and important as they are, there are several aspects of car safety that are ...
Views: 1092 - cheap car insurance - high risk drivers - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2012 from Peter MainPeople quite often feel offended or upset if they perceive themselves as being classified as high risk. It is important however to understand the concept from an insurance point of view to understand what it means, how it affects them and why it can make a huge difference to what they pay for ...
Views: 1296 - cheap car insurance- how to reduce car insurance costs - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2012 from Peter MainCar insurance is usually a legal requirement for drivers of all vehicles, wherever you live. The legal requirement may be national or local or both, and will normally involve a minimum level of legal third party cover. This means that if you have an accident where you injure someone, including a ...
Views: 896 - cheap car insurance - what to look for in an insurance company - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2012 from Peter MainMost people when looking to buy car insurance will shop around and end up going with the cheapest quote, or one with best coverage at a reasonably low rate. Very few people will actually look at the financial strength of the insurance company prior to making a decision about whether or not to ...
Views: 1064 - cheap car insurance - what to do if you have a claim - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Peter Maincheap car insurance – what to do if you have an accident virtually everyone thinks that accidents happen to other people, sadly that isn’t true. there is a fair chance that most people will be involved at some point in tehir driving carreer in a minor accident, and that a significant number of ...
Views: 867 - car insurance basics - how online car insurance works - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Peter MainCar insurance basics – how online car insurance works Buying car insurance online broadly falls into three or four categories : using car insurance cost comparison sites, getting quotes from insurance companies that don’t sign up to cost comparison sites, using the internet to find insurance ...
Views: 915 - Car insurance basics – how motor insurance policies work - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Peter MainCar insurance basics – how motor policies work Most people buy all forms of insurance, including car insurance on an emotional rather than a rational basis. What this means in reality is that people pay a company a sum of money, and in return expect someone to come along and look after them or ...
Views: 978 - car insurance basics - why is my insurance premium so high - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Peter MainCar insurance basics – why is my premium so high ? Understanding why your car insurance premium seems very high may give you the insight needed to understand the nature of the risks involved, and what you may be able to do to reduce them, and in effect reduce costs, in this case premiums as ...
Views: 964 - car insurance best deals for young drivers - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Peter MainCar insurance – best deals for young drivers Cost comparison websites for car insurance have become the norm nowadays for many people to get their car insurance For young people however they may well not be the best option despite giving the illusion that they are. The illusion exist because ...
Views: 1007 - small business insurance - basic principles - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2012 from Peter MainArranging insurance for a small business can be a highly complex undertaking, and may require a considerable amount of thought and planning. Small business insurance is not like most other forms of insurance. If you are looking to insure your home or your car, then there is something ...
Views: 792 - Kubota Tractors - An introductory guide - by Submitted on May 17, 2011 from Peter MainBuying a used or new tractor is a major investment, both in terms of time and money. A tractor is most likely to be used as a part of farm machinery, and as such as part of a business. It is imperative therefore that you research thoroughly before you buy, because if you get it wrong, it ...
Views: 1397 - Work from home - web design - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2011 from Peter MainMaking a decision to work from home can be done for many reasons and can be either a full time career or a part time fill up. Whatever the reason, there is likely to be a real sense of freedom, as well as a sense of either apprehension or complete panic at the idea of what lies ahead. Both are ...
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