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3 Things I Wish I Knew Before We Got Married

3 Things I Wish I Knew Before We Got Married
I used to think I had my stuff together. Then I got married. Marriage is great—but it rocked everything I knew. I quickly realized my basic goal in life, prior to getting married, was to simply remain undisturbed. This “disruption” came suddenly and was disguised as a 5-foot-nothing Swedish-Filipino woman. This decision introduced my most significant experiences and most challenging experiences—none of which I would trade for the world. However, I wish I’d had a bit more insight on the front end of our marriage to help me navigate it all. According to most research, more than 50 percent of people who say “I do” will not be sleeping in the same bed eight years from now. Although happiness is often a very real byproduct of a healthy relationship, marriage has a far more significant purpose in sight. The following are three thoughts on marriage that friends and mentors have shared with me. 1. Here’s the truth: I get annoyed at my wife. 2. It’s a disorienting claim. 3.

An Experiment in Husbanding. | tylerwardis Due to a URL change, Facebook erased 450+ previous “likes” on this post. So, regardless if you “liked” it before, please feel free to do so again. Thanks! Over the past year, a few friends and I have had an open conversation about the highs and lows of marriage – specifically how to exploit the high times and avoid the low ones. Along the way, we happened upon a derailing thought from the book “The Garden of Peace” that hypothesizes something like this: If you make your wife priority number one, then all other areas of life prosper. Its a disorienting claim. However, seeing that my recent pattern of caring about work over marriage had produced little more than paying bills and a miserable wife, I figured experimenting with a new way of thought couldn’t hurt. The Experiment. For 31 days, I attempted 3 small things a day to communicate to my wife that she was my priority. Tell her I loved her and one thing I love about her as the absolute FIRST thing I did each day. The Results.

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Women Need to Realize Work Isn't School - Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr Academic institutions are churning out ever-more female graduates. But the very skills that propel women to the top of the class in school are earning us middle-of the-pack marks in the workplace. Indeed, a recent study found that women account for 51.4% of middle managers in the U.S. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO’s. In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal’s office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success, describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. This approach may get you some initial gold stars, but it won’t get you what you really want, which is to be an indispensable player, not just to your boss, but in your industry. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Joshua Bell Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor. Childhood[edit] Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States on December 9, 1967. His mother, Shirley, was a therapist. His father, Alan P. Bell began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. Bell studied as a boy first under Donna Bricht, widow of Indiana University music faculty member Walter Bricht.[6] His second teacher was Mimi Zweig, and then he switched to the violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold after Bell's parents assured Gingold that they were not interested in pushing their son in the study of the violin but simply wanted him to have the best teacher for his abilities. Career[edit] Bell made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1985, at age 17, with the St. Personal life[edit]

20 Unstoppable Entrepreneurs Share Their Advice For Outstanding Success These amazingly talented male and female entrepreneurs share their most valuable advice for achieving success. There seems to be a pattern of looking past your failures and pursuing your goals with relentless persistence to reach success. Read on for some invaluable advice on how you can be successful in your business and in life. Sara Blakely (Founder Of Spanx) “When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. Gurbaksh Chahal (Author & Serial Entrepreneur) “People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that’s a myth – and it’s often propagated by venture capitalists. Jeff Weiner (CEO of LinkedIn) “As a child, I can’t recall a day that went by without my dad telling me I could do anything I set my mind to. Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg, Pownce & Milk) “Go build it. Caterina Fake (Founder of Flickr & Hunch) “Entrepreneurs need to start building today. Evan Williams (Founder of Blogger & Twitter) J.K.

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The memorial of Dr Richard Teo Keng Siang (1972 - 2012) - Singapore at HeavenAddress online memorial community TESTIMONY OF Dr Richard Teo Recorded at the Dental Christian Fellowship , on 24 Nov 2011, 8 months after his diagnosis. Richard would have liked to share this with you. We are doing this to continue his work. Please have a read and leave it behind for someone else to benefit from his sharing. If you would like a copy, please let any of his family or close friends know and we will be able to provide both the audio recording as well as the transcript. Thank you, and may God bless you richly. Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Hi good morning to all of you. I’d just begin to say that I’m a typical product of today’s society. Coming from a poor average family, back in those days, I was highly competitive, whether in sports, studies, leadership. So in my recent last years, I was a trainee in ophthalmology, but I was getting impatient, cos I had friends of mine who were going out into private practise, making tonnes of money. So the clinic grew. So, things were doing well. I said, “WAH!!

Procrastination Is Not Laziness I was going to tackle my procrastination problem last weekend but I never got around to it. By Sunday at 5:48 p.m. I realized I had blown it again. But the weekends go by and I never catch up. Sometimes I do sit down early in the day and pound something out, but then I give myself a well-deserved break and that’s usually the end of any productivity. I avoid taking on the real important stuff. The important stuff doesn’t get done, at least not before my procrastinatory tendencies have created an obvious, impending consequence of not doing it, like incurring a fine, really letting someone down, or getting fired. So much of what I want to do isn’t terribly difficult and wouldn’t take a lot of time to get done. Reaching critical levels To some of you this is already sounding familiar. I have lived with this sort of “productivity lag” most of my life, but it only recently hit me that it’s not just run-of-the-mill human busyness. Monday I’ll formally announce Experiment No. 11. All I want

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