10 Things to do After Work

What do you do after work? It is important to balance your life doing things you like and taking care of your family. Here are 10 things you should do after work:   

1.      Exercise: After work, the most refreshing thing to do is to exercise your body like going for a jog. It is good to move the body after sitting all day long in the office. Jogging is the best way to release tension and ease your mind. You will feel alive after a good workout. 

2.      Dinner with family: Having dinner at home is the best thing to do after work. Home-cook meal is healthy and it cost less than eating out. The most precious thing is that you are spending time with loved ones at home

3.      Help in household chores: It is good to do the washing up, water the plants, and walk the dog. Sharing is caring. 

4.      Communicate with family members: Instead of watching TV, share the events of the day. Discuss outstanding issues and decide on things to do on the following day. 

5.      Help your children with homework: Listen to your children and find out what you can do to help them out with their homework. Your children will be very pleased with your presence when they need you the most. 

6.      Work on your personal project: Do you have a personal project like writing an eBook? It is the best time to do it while your children are working on their school assignments.

7.      Do things as listed in your personal to-do list: Check your personal to-do list. Do you need to write a check or work on your tax return?

8.      Prepare a to-do list for the following day: It is also the best time to get ready a list of things you need to do the following day. The most important things should be on top of your list. It is always a good habit to get ready.

9.      Journal or diary: Do you have the habit of writing a journal or diary? It is a powerful habit to review the success and failures in a day. It is also beneficial to record things that you feel grateful and appreciative of. You know where you stand and you want to do better the next day. 

10.  Before going to bed: What are your bedtime rituals? I find that reading a chapter of a book is a good habit before you call it a day.  

Are you doing the right things after work?

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8 Easy and Effective ways to be Happy at Home

“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” –Lisa Weed

Happy home life is to be found in a place where there are peace and quiet. You will only hear the laughter of the children. There is no loud exchange of words or throwing things in the house or car smashing and crashing in the middle of the night.

Happiness at home is to be found in the simplicity of everyday life. But you have to appreciate the mundane life at home in order to discover the delightfulness in the simple and ordinary living. Here are ways to appreciate the ordinary home life in order to unearth the lasting happiness in it.


1. Clutter-free: A clean and tidy house is more than pleasing to the eyes. According to Feng Shui masters when a house is clutter-free, it attracts positive energy. You will enjoy the peaceful environment and happiness when you are at home.

2. Less TV: Watching less TV at home means more time for all family members to talk to each other and get closer to one another by understanding each other better. Isn’t it happiness?

3. Eat together: Eating together means fostering closeness among family members and allows the sharing of ideas and jokes and best of all – better communication and connection.

4. Help in the household chores: Sharing means caring. Instead of watching TV which makes you lazy why not do the washing- up to show you care and it makes your spouse happy and you are happy too.

5. Be tutors to the children: The children are happy when you spend time with them. Be tutors and help them in various subjects. You will be glad to know that you are more than your parents to them. The children are delighted that they are being loved and taken care of.

6. Spend time outdoor together: Take them to the beach, the country, or to the mall. It does not matter where you take them to as long as you are with them. The whole idea is to spend time together. The children are happy that you are around to spend time with them having fun.

7. Deal with Argument: What shall you do when your spouse starts an argument? You should just listen (and forget about it later about what he or she has uttered) and allow the other party to air his or her grievances. Don’t fight back. When you don’t participate in the heated debate, things will be back to normal in no time. This is the best way to stay happy at home. Nobody wins when there is a quarrel in the family.

8. Be sincere and truthful: Happiness is living together with a clear conscious. There is no transgression. There is no need to confess and ask for forgiveness. Don’t follow the footsteps of Tiger Woods. The one-car accident not only crashed his car but destroyed his lucrative career and many streams of income and, most importantly, shattered the happiness of a family. In the end, it is like the title of a popular pop song – too little too late.


Your home is your last refuge; it is where you return to after a hard day’s work. If you don’t find peace, quiet, and contentment at home you will miss a lot of happiness in life.

Treasure the happiness of simple home life.

10 Things to Teach Your Children about Money

Money

“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”― 

Brigham Young

Money is not everything but you can’t live without money. Talk to your child about money as soon as possible so that he can start young to manage money wisely. Here are the10 points to teach children about money.

1. Time is money: Promote the savings habit when your child is young. Show your child the wonder of compound interest when you start saving early. As an example, just save 100 dollars at 10% interest and keep it for 50 years and your money will grow into $11775.91 without doing anything on your part.

$100/=	Compound Interest @ 10%
YEAR	PRINCIPLE	INTEREST	BALANCE
1	100.00	10.00	110.00
2	110.00	11.00	121.00
3	121.00	12.10	133.10
5	146.44	14.64	161.08
10	235.91	23.59	259.50
20	611.58	61.16	672.74
30	1589.21	158.92	1748.13
40	4125.23	412.52	4537.75
50	10705.38	1070.53	11775.91

2. Live within your means: Set examples for your children. Do purchases for your child according to his needs. Don’t follow other parents what they buy for their children. The financial resources of each and every family are different

3. Happiness is not about the possession of material things: Instill in your child’s mind that happiness is not necessarily wearing branded shirts or having a PS3. Happiness can be achieved by having a good time with your child. Your presence with your chills brings much more happiness than your presents

4. Avoid wastage - Cultivate the good habit in your child to conserve energy by turning off the lights or air-conditioning when not in use. Do not allow the tap to keep running. Lead the way at home for your child to follow to prevent wastefulness.

5. Use the pocket money wisely: Pocket money should be given at the beginning of each month. This will allow your child to budget for savings and spending for the whole month. If your child needs a big-ticket item he should keep aside and accumulate an amount every month until the desired amount is obtained for the item.

6. Set limit for the purchase of each item: Specific an upper limit for the purchase of each item especially clothing and shoes. Look for comfort and durability and not brand

7. No impulse buying: Make it a habit that shopping is done according to the shopping list only Allow you, child, to learn about self-control

8. Gifts on special occasions only: The best time to send a gift is when your child has done well in his year-end examination. It is a recognition of his effort and achievement

9. Limited resources: Your child needs to know the financial resources of every family is limited. There is a budget to follow every month so that the limited money can cover monthly expenses as well as savings for rainy days.

10. Borrowing: A very important lesson for your child to learn is that borrowing money to buy things you want is a bad decision. Borrowing means incurring interest and paying more for an item. The best thing to do is to save enough to buy in cash.

When your child is able to apply what he has learnt about money, he will be able to accumulate wealth.

5 Secrets to Build a Strong Personality in Your Child

• “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde

According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, personality is the various aspects of a person’s character that combine to make them different from other people. Personality is what others perceive you by the impression that you have given to them. Psychologists believe that it is during childhood that lays the foundation for the healthy development of a person’s personality. How do you promote a strong and healthy personality development in your child? Here are the 5 secrets:


1. Promote physical development: A healthy body with agility and flexibility in movement is a prerequisite for balanced development in your child’s personality development. It is important to ensure your child is sufficiently nourished with nutrients to build up his health. Encourage your child to play games and take part in physical activities to train his bodily capabilities.

2. Warm and tender love: It is during the infant period that the mother should satisfy the psychological needs of your child. The warm embrace and tender stroking of your child is the right way to love your child. Avoid hurting your child. All these will facilitate the positive development of his personality.

3. A conducive family environment: A strong relationship between husband and wife will create a peaceful and serene situation at home. Apply a democratic style (see related post at the end of this article) to bring up your child. Provide appropriate motivation and reward your child accordingly. Let your child experience success so as to enhance his personality development.

4. Learn social networking techniques: One major development in childhood is to encourage a healthy relationship with his friends and classmates. A child’s social networking skills will benefit his relationship with others.

5. A happy learning environment: School is not only a place to develop children academically but physically and their character building. Teachers should identify the strengths of each and every child and provide affirmation. Positive feedback will instill in a child a sense of concern for his family, society, and promote self-worth and a feeling of personal responsibility.


Personality is a combination of a person’s character, appearance, mental and creative outlook, and the way he gets along with others and how he adjusts himself to the environment. It is also his motives, goals, interests, belief, and his value judgment

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3 Parenting Styles

3 Parenting Styles

Parenting Styles

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin

Are you a democrat, a dictator, or an independent? What is your parenting style? 

  Democrat: You respect the views of your child and at the same time, you insist on your child to do what is right. You communicate freely with your child and you expect nothing less in his appropriate behavior in line with his age. When you bring up your child this way he will grow up to be independent and self-assured. He is curious about self-control and likes to mix around with others. 

  Dictator: You exercise your absolute power as parents and you do not encourage opinion from your child. You do not show much affection. You child will grow up to be unsatisfied, unsecured, worried, suspicious and he will not like to make friend with others.

  Independent: There are no rules at home and you don’t expect anything from your child. There are no clear guidelines for reward or punishment. You do not take the trouble to promote the spirit of self-reliance and self-supporting in your child. Your child will very much rely on others. He is unable to control himself and hesitates to act. 

 The way you rear your child will shape his or her future behavior.

“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States

7 Tips for Family Life during Recession

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. – Bo Bennett

The negative impact of the recession has caused financial worries among parents of many households. Consequently, their children in the family are also affected. What do you do during such a trying time so that the family unit stays together? Here are the 7 tips:

1. Parents to take care of themselves: Continue to take good care of your health and eat a balanced diet. Replace all negative emotions with positive emotions such as cheerfulness and confidence. On the other hand, your anxiety will affect the emotions of your children negatively.

2. Watch less TV: The more you watch TV the more depressed you will get. The bad news is good news for the mass media. How often do you get yourself cheer up by watching TV? The best thing to do is to motivate yourself by reading inspirational books while your children are doing their homework.

3. Speak positively to your children: Clearly explain the situation to your children and tell them why certain expenses need to be curtailed, at least temporarily

4. Meet the needs of your children: Each of your children has special requirements. If it can’t be met, talk about ways to remedy the situation and make them understand the current predicament

5. A crisis is also an opportunity: During this difficult time, family members will talk more often together brainstorming and discussing ways to solve financial issues. In a way, it brings a family unit closer than before

6. Learn from other parents: It is a good idea to visit other families and find out how other people are coping with it and at the same you share your insight with them. It is a win-win situation.

7. Look into the future with high expectations: Be hopeful about the future. Every cloud has a silver lining. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Your positive mental mindset will make it easier for you to get over this critical period. Just remember the delightful words from Dr. Joyce Brothers,” When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family hapinesses”

10 Danger Signs in Your Marriage

The Danger of Marriage

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Your marriage is a time bomb. It is ticking away. Identify the following explosive signs and defuse them as soon as possible:

1. Rumors: There is no doubt that you trust each other, but in a marriage, it is necessary to clarify the situation as soon as possible whenever a rumor surfaces. When you think it is a small matter and let it simmer, you allow the time bomb to activate.

2. A boring life: It is essential to bring excitement into the marriage. Once in a while have fun together to get away from the daily monotonous life. Living every day the same way will allow attraction beyond your marriage to interfere with your peaceful life. Have enjoyment and laughter every now and then to brighten your marriage.

3. Serious illnesses: Look after your health well. You cannot guarantee your partner to stay with you and look after you when you are seriously ill for a prolonged period.

4. Bad habits: Your bad habits can be detrimental to your marriage. When you indulge in such bad habits like gambling and womanizing, your marriage will end sooner or later.

5. Different thinking: Before you got married you treated the differences in character, cultural and educational backgrounds as small issues. Now that you are living together the differences in looking at things are glaring and irritating to such an extent that it is unbearable.

6. Poverty: How long do you think your partner can withstand and endure the suffering with you when you cannot lead a normal life because of financial difficulties? Very soon your spouse will file for a divorce.

7. Your physical appearance: Do you look after yourself to stay attractive or you allow your body to develop in the wrong place after marriage? Get your partner interested in you and not a third party.

8. Children: Children may not be a problem in a normal marriage. However, when a marriage does not work out the custody of the children is a major issue and a bitter tussle.

9. Work: Your job can interfere with your marriage, especially when you are a workaholic. You take your partner for granted and ignore her.

10. Living separately: He may get a promotion and a transfer out of town. How sure for both of you that you can discipline yourselves not to involve in an affair after living separately for a long period of time?

No experts can disconnect the ticking time bomb. You have to help yourself to extinguish the fuse.

An Organized Home - 5 Benefits

Whenever you step into a house it is pleasing to see a place that is neat and tidy. An organized home is more than a delight to your eyes. It has many benefits:


1. Positive energy: There is a place for everything in the house. There is a place to store your items and there are bedrooms and a kitchen in the house. According to Feng Shui masters, your house is able to generate positive energy when your house is tidy and neat. It is especially so when you don’t turn your living room or your bedroom into a storage area.

2. Better time management: When things are kept where it should be, you waste no time to retrieve an item when you need it.

3. Save more money: Imagine your table is a few piles of paper and you can't locate your latest credit card statement. The bank imposed late payment charges plus interest just because you can't find your statement to pay the bank on time. You can save all these unnecessary expenses when your documents are filed systematically.

4. A feeling of well-being: You are either positively or negatively impacted by what you see in the house. An organized house will definitely vibrate in you a feeling of calmness and peacefulness. This will indirectly positively affect your health and well-being.

5. More Productive: An organized home means you are able to do things easily and quickly and it frees you to spend more time on things that you are interested to do.


Organize your living space to improve your quality of life at home. Do it right away to de-clutter your house.

Organize Your House for Better Feng Shui – 7 Top Tips

Feng Shui masters believe that when your home is free of clutter it is able to attract positive energy into your living space. Let us find out how you can keep your home neat and tidy:

1. De-junk: Throw away all those items which are used, broken, and beyond repair.

2. Newspapers and magazines: Keep the cuttings for your future reference and recycle the rest on a regular basis

3. Clothing and shoes: Send those clothing and shoes that have outgrown you to charity or sell to second-hand goods outlets

4. Use your free time: Whenever you are at home and you have nothing else to do that is the time you can use profitably to organize your house.

5. Do one room or one section at a time: Concentrate on one area at a time so that you are not under pressure to clear up the whole mess. When you look at the room you have just tidied up it gives you a sense of relief and you know it is the neatness and tidiness that are pleasing to the eyes.

6. Good Habit: Cultivate the good habit of putting back an item that you have used to its original storage place so that you will not start another pile again.

7. 5 actions you can take: Remember you can choose one of the following actions when you want to decide on an item. You can:

• Keep it at the proper place for easy retrieval
• Throw it away after using it
• Recycle it when you have done with it
• Donate it when it is still usable but it is no longer useful to you
• Sell it if an item is in demand when you don’t use it anymore

When you have cleared the whole house you will be very pleased to be at home and a sense of calmness and peacefulness will fill your mind.

Start organizing your house this weekend for better Feng Shui at home.