Archive for August 21st, 2008

Happy Families Use Positive Feedback

Researchers at one school noticed that teachers praised good work and blamed bad behavior. As an experiment, teachers were trained to praise both good work and good behavior — and to ignore bad behavior. Soon the bad behavior largely vanished.

At home, too, praise is more effective than blame, creating upward spirals. The 80/20 Way exalts praise — praise is easy and the return over the lifetime of the child is immense. Praise is to children’s development as water is to plants: the tiniest encouragement leads to massive flowering. A capable, well-intentioned child will have a terrific positive impact on other people throughout life. A little praise for a child today has enormous lasting benefits.

Try counting the number of times you and your spouse say “yes” or “no” to your children. Make a conscious effort to say “yes” more and “no” less. Count again a week later. See the difference it makes.

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Happy Families Impose Discipline but Never Withdraw Love

Punishment works, but only when the limits of acceptable behavior are completely clear, so the child knows what he or she is being punished for. Withdrawing privileges for a time is safe and effective. It must always be clear that the punishment is for the action and isn’t a reflection on the child’s character. Whatever the child has done, never suspend warmth, affection, or love.

Some very good friends learnt this the hard way. They have two boys, now in their late teens, both intelligent and charming. Over the years, however, they have had major problems with Daniel, the younger child.

When he was 11, Daniel stole some money and successfully — for a time — deflected the blame onto an innocent schoolmate. Daniel’s mother, feeling that radical action was necessary, withdrew her affection from Daniel — for a month, she refused to talk to him or have anything to do with him.

Her action proved disastrous. When she realized her mistake, she tried to make up for it by very close love, attention, and constructive action over the next five years. But Daniel, and therefore the whole family, continued to have significant problems, partly caused by the withdrawal of love at that very difficult time.

Punishment is not the only, nor usually the best, way of imposing discipline. When faced with a crying, pouting, or demanding child, it’s tempting to punish or give way to the kid’s demands for the sake of peace. Instead, however, the child can be told that whining won’t work, but that a “smiley face” might do the trick. If from the age of four you reward smiley faces more than screams and pouts, guess what your child will tend to go for?

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Marketing; a Hole of Opportunity

With the growing of marketing activities, we can see the hole of opportunity for additional income. We know that every marketing activity especially when there are some promotional events there are some stuffs as promotional products of company. Every event always needs at least hundreds or thousands of products quantity and this is what I say as a hole of opportunity.

Only some people who can saw this big chance and I am sure they already have projects to get this chance. Now it’s our turn to start at least our project as side jobs and from this moment you can should make a relationship with marketing teams as you know then make a proposal, the good and different concept proposal, to support the marketing team in every their event. Good Luck!

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Getting Yourself Organized

This sounds really obvious so its worth repeating. Tax returns depend on many pieces of paperwork, in some cases over 100. The number depends on complexity and not your actual wealth. A person on a middling income owning many individual shares could have much more paperwork than a millionaire with just one source of income.

No matter how clever any computer program might be, there is no substitute for the paperwork. Acquire a basic filing system. You should not need to spend more than £5 for each tax year. And then look at the headings in a self assessment form so that you can file your bits and pieces away as soon as you get them. That way, you can devote more time to tax planning and less to tearing your hair out trying to find that vital piece of paper. Hopefully, you have something better to do with your life than search through old boxes filled with paper!

And tax inspectors will accord someone who’s organized more respect than someone who drops an old shoe box full of paper on their desk.


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Be Sure before Signing

Once you sign your self assessments form, that it. You are committed to whatever you have put down. Yes, the tax inspector will repair obvious errors such as a slip of decimal points or listing unit trust dividends in the wrong column. But earning £1,000 from self employment and claiming for a £15,000 van could raise eyebrows.

If you have doubts or know you have missing information, own up to it on the blank pages in the self assessment form. Wherever possible, work out approximately what the missing information would mean in extra tax paid. Add 10 to 20 per cent to this and pay it. You can always ask for a rebate later on. Overpaying avoids a range of penalties, fines, and interest.

Finally, remember you are responsible for figures produced by any accountant or other tax agent you employ. You cant blame them if they get it wrong. And suing them for negligence could be pricey, and tough.

The declaration that the information I have given in this tax return is correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief means what it says. Really.

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