Monthly Archives: May 2008

Management Training Increases Worth to Companies

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Management training does a lot more than teach you how to more effectively deal with people. It teaches you how to handle stress in your life and that helps with work and home. That or leadership training will help secure your job and it will help get you where you want to go in the company.

Handling stress better while you develop good relationships with your colleagues and employees only increases what you mean to the company. It is through extra-curricular professional development that most employers notice their best assets.

French Open Inspires Cardio-Stamina

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Few things in life inspire me the way athletes do. I am not much of an athlete and I would say that my cardio-stamina is lacking but I still love to try to improve. When I watch professional athletes, I always feel like I should try to be more like them. Watching the French Open tennis news coverage always inspires me to get out my racket and play a match or two.

I love, love, love to catch the French Open results and I always make bets with my husband to see who we think will win, versus who we want to win. I knew that Justine Henin would win that past two years and my husband owed me twenty bucks or so. Now last year her French Open scores were amazing. I don’t think she lost a single match. I wish that I could be that methodical and just play my heart out and win.

I also get inspired when I watch the Olympics and I see the runners or gymnasts, the divers or the swimmers. Most all of those athletes work so hard at what they do that they have little time for anything else. That inspires me to want to do more with my life and not be selfish about my time and it inspires me to be more physical.

Son Makes Money from Custom Wheel Upgrade

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My son is very much into fixing his car up and entering it in car contests. He loves to spend his money on things like 20 inch rim and paint jobs. He works quite a lot and saves his money so he can afford this stuff.

He has made several purchases and then upgraded later. He bought rims cheap and then upgraded to custom wheel. After that he won his first show. I talked to him about saving some of that money for college but he was way ahead of me. The difference between what he originally bought and what he upgraded to was minimal and in some cases he actually made a little money.

I guess that the lessons he is learning are preparing him for life after he’s 18. I just never thought a hobby like fixing up a car could be so beneficial.

Dog, Food and Maps are all I Need for Trip

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I am planning a trip where I drive across the country, or at least part of it, alone. Well, I’m bringing my dog but no humans. I am thinking about spending a lot of time in the southwest part of the United States.

I have my car packed and a map of Texas, a California map and a map of Arizona. I think that after I make it through those states, if I still want to go on, I can just buy new maps for wherever I want to go.

The only problem with driving so much is that my knees start to hurt from being bent so long. I try to part and walk a few minutes but when you’re out in the desert, you really don’t have any place to park. But my dog, Lettuce, will need to get some exercise also so I guess I can just make time to stop.