Many cities have neighborhoods of valuable older houses that have been snapped up. Prices in these neighborhoods are high. Often nearby are houses of a similar era, but the neighborhood is not as prestigious. These transitional neighborhoods have older families who have been there for years if not generations, houses owned by absentee landlords who are not particularly picky about their renters, and people who want an old house but don’t have the money for the prestigious neighborhood.
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All of us have a desire for control in our lives. Control means that we can influence events enough that we can predict the future. Since not being able to predict the future is scary, we strongly desire control not just over big things such as what we do at work, but also the little things such as how the dishes get washed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sometimes a piece of our mind rebels against a task. It makes life miserable. Instead of reading the research article you are supposed to, you find yourself distracted by all the wonders of the internet or by all the things you have to do or even by how nice it would be if you mopped the floor right now. The article either does not get read or you “read” it, looking at words, but not really comprehending it.
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When people plan a wedding, often they focus on the big day itself without thinking as much as they should about the many years beyond the wedding day. But even as you are contacting caterers and trying to decide which music you will have, before you get married is a good time to take in one great reality about marriage: it’s not 50/50. It’s 100/100.
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Positions of authority have, of course, no guarantee that their occupants will actually be good leaders. In fact, for some, the right to control other people is so alluring that any thought of doing something different remains far away from consciousness. Effective leaders can take situations that are bad and turn them around to the good, yet, as will be seen, this must be done by balancing one’s own control with the right of employees to have some say over what they do in their lives, including their work.
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