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How To Set Sucessful Goals

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:05:00 +0000

A friend once told me that if we fail to make a plan for whatever then we are planning to fail. Here are few tips that we can use to set goals the we will be able complete:

State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively - 'Execute this technique well' is a much better goal than 'Don't make this stupid mistake'

Be precise: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.

Set priorities:When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.

Write goals down: This crystallizes them and gives them more force.

Visualize Your Goals: First thing in the morning and last thing at night, visualize the Goal as already being achieved. If our Goal is to lose weight, see, feel and experience your new body. Get excited about how you will feel once you have achieved the goal you set.

Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. These could be bad business environments, poor judgment, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and draw satisfaction from them. Spend four hours in Income Producing Activities each day, is a better goal than Earn $5,000 this month. (Linda Stokes Entrepreneur, business manager and success coach)

Cool foggy pic

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:33:00 +0000

Look at this totally cool picture of skyscrapers in Dubai. You would think that they are up in some high mountain because of all of the fog. This planet is cool.

Make them feel apreciated

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:26:00 +0000

To be a good leader we need to let those whom we lead know how much we appreciate them and give encouragement to continue doing a good job. If we continue to let their hard work go unnoticed then we are setting them up for failure. For those of us who are the subordinates we also need to let those who are over us know that they are doing a good job when they do so. " To bring out the best in those around you, give them encouragement and show them loving appreciation." So everyone let those people who are doing a good job know it so that they will continue to do it.

More bank failures?

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:16:00 +0000

I was hoping that this banking problem was about to be over, but according to Henry Paulson more banks could fail. This from Times Online by Gary Duncan in Washington.

Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, attempted once more to soothe the world’s fractious markets, urging calm and patience while reassuring investors that Washington is movingly as swiftly as feasible to implement the $700 billion bailout for US banks under the Troubled Assets Relief Programme (TARP).

However, Mr Paulson also sought to dampen rising expectations that an even more sweeping global “grand plan” to stabilise the world financial system might emerge from Friday’s meeting of the Group of Seven leading economies, and a further “G20” meeting of the G7 with big emerging market nations on Saturday.

“We are moving as quickly as possible to organise and implement the most effective process possible,” the Treasury Secretary said on the US bailout.

He sounded a warning that “even with the new Treasury authorities, some financial institutions will fail”. The rescue scheme “doesn’t exist to save every financial institution for its own sake”, he added.

Adding that it would several weeks before any distressed assets could be bought up from banks under the Tarp scheme, he urged: “Patience is also needed because the turmoil will not end quickly and significant challenges remain ahead. Neither passage of this new law (the Tarp) nor the implementation of these initiatives will bring an end to immediate difficulties.”

Mr Paulson and his key international aide both pored cold water on speculation over a grand plan by the G7.

“When you look at the G7, we have very different economies of different sizes, financial systems with different needs,” the Treasury Secretary said. “I think it would not make sense to have identical policies. I think we are going to have different policies. The key thing is that we continue to work closely together, we continue to coordinate.”

David McCormick, the US Treasury Under-secretary, reinforced Mr Paulson’s caution that no grand plan was expected to emerge. “I am trying to think about what a global plan would look like because it seems to imply that there is a one size fits all for these challenges,” he said, adding that he saw no such likely approach.

Presidential debate

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:25:00 +0000

I listened the Presidential debate yesterday on the radio while I was at work and I have to say it was little bit boring. I thought there was to much bashing and not enough answering the questions. One thing that I am disappointed about is the fact that neither one of the candidates can follow directions very well. How can either one of these people be a good leader if they can not follow a few simple rules. The only one following the rules was the moderator and when he would tell it is time to stop they would get upset. What a couple of little babies. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come.

US Earthquakes

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:52:00 +0000

According to to the USGS there have been several earthquakes in the US. They were not very large. The places where they occurred is interesting. Here is the list from the USGS .

2008/09/30 Nevada Magnitude 3
2008/09/30 Ohio Magnitude 2.8
2008/09/28 Washington Magnitude 2.6
2008/09/28 Colorado Magnitude 2.5

six members of a family killed by Jobless Father

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:49:00 +0000

The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door.

But when police summoned by worried friends of the residents got inside Monday, they found a horror — six members of a family fatally shot in a murder-suicide committed by an unemployed man in financial crisis.

The body of 45-year-old Karthik Rajaram, a gun clutched in one hand, was found by officers who followed a trail of carnage through the home in a gated community in the Porter Ranch area of the San Fernando Valley.

His victims, most slain in their beds, were his wife, three sons and his mother-in-law.
"Absolute devastation," Deputy Chief Michel Moore told reporters outside the home.
Investigators quickly found two suicide letters and a will, and determined that the man once worked for a major accounting firm and was at least the part-owner of a financial holding company.

"The source of it appears to be a financial state, a crisis if you will, that this man became embroiled in that has unfolded over the past weeks," Moore said.

The man wrote in his suicide letter that he felt he had two options — to just kill himself or to kill himself and his family — and decided the second option was more honorable, Moore said.

The bodies were found when officers were sent to make a check on the home Monday morning after the wife failed to show up at a neighbor's home to go to work as a pharmacy bookkeeper, Moore said.

Officers found the mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, dead in bed on the first floor. Upstairs, they found a 19-year-old son, Krishna Rajaram, dead in bed in the master bedroom.

The gunman's 39-year-old wife, Subasri, was found in another room, also apparently shot while sleeping, Moore said.

In an adjoining room, a 12-year-old son, Ganesha, was dead on the floor, and his 7-year-old brother, Arjuna, was dead in bed. Their father's body also was found there with a handgun "in his grasp," Moore said. The gun was purchased Sept. 16.

Coroner's assistant chief Ed Winter said the victims were shot multiple times.
The killings occurred some time between midnight Saturday and early Monday morning, Winter said.

Dow Falls Below 10,000 Mark

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:00 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street suffered through another traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points and setting a new record for a one-day point drop as investors despaired that the credit crisis would take a heavy toll around the world. The Dow also fell below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, and all the major indexes fell more than 7 percent.
djia below , 10,000
(ABC News Photo Illustration)

The catalyst for the selling was the growing realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan and steps taken by other governments won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets. Global banks, hobbled by wrong-way bets on mortgage securities, remain starved for cash as credit has dried up.

That sent stocks spiraling downward in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and drove investors to sink money into the relative safety of U.S. government debt. Fears about a global recession also caused oil to drop below $90 a barrel; and the benchmark index that gauges fear in the market jumped to the highest level in its 18-year history.

BAIL OUT THIS!!

noreply@blogger.com (Airpresherinfo) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:15:00 +0000

I say this business with the US government bailing out every corporation that has some financial difficulties is ridiculous. I say if the companies are going to run on poor business practices then they need to fail. They need to be taught that there is no rescue plan for their incompetence. Now that this bill has been passed all companies that are having financial difficulties will think that they will be able to get help. It is just like if I were to give one child in a group a lollipop and not the others all of the other children will want one as well. So that is why it should not be done. I say we all get together and teach these politicians in Washington that if they do what they want to do and ignore us then they better get used to working at Wal-Mart because their political career is over. Please feel free to leave your comments.