Tag Archives: professional

What Are Your Priorities?

Is there a difference between making New Year’s resolutions and setting priorities for the year? I believe there is. The first, is usually made with the idea that it is more wishful thinking than anything else and New Year’s resolutions, more often than not, are broken. The second, requires an act of will and really looking at your life, where it is headed, what you want to achieve and sitting down to set those goals and priorities. How many times have you heard someone say they wished there were more hours in a day? Perhaps you have even said it … Continue reading →

Insurance Company Refused to Cover than Reconsidered Too Late

Welcome to 2008, hopefully your family had a better end to the year 2007 than the family of Natiline Sarkisyan. Their year ended with a funeral for their teen-aged daughter who died after her health and medical insurance company refused to pay for a liver transplant and then reconsidered. The Philadelphia-based Cigna HealthCare insurer has a history of approving coverage for over 90% of all transplants claims requested by their insured members, with over 90% of the liver transplant request being approved according to Cigna company President David Cordani in a memo addressed to employees and distributed to the media. … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Small Milestones

Our scrapbook albums tend to be full of these big events and activities. We commemorate birthdays, graduations, weddings, the birth of a new baby and many other huge events. But what about all the small events? There are dozens of other events that we overlook or forget about, that would be great to commemorate on a scrapbook page. This all started when I realized that I have been with this website for almost two years. My anniversary is in March and I wanted to remember that. A totally insignificant event to almost anyone else. There are dozens of other small … Continue reading →

A Man with a Plan?

Monday night I had my end of the season tournament for the volleyball league I play on. It can be a long night, depending on how many teams are playing and how many points each match goes to. However, I enjoy it because I get to catch up with friends. Such as my friend Chris. We met at the beginning of last summer on Tuesday nights, when a bunch of us get together and play sand volleyball in one of the local parks with a group called Team Green. Chris and I hit it off right away. He’s easy to … Continue reading →

Do You Want People to Think You Are Professional or Approachable?

As owners of small, home-based businesses we have plenty of choices to make about just exactly what sort of business operation we want to have, and we can influence and shape our business reputation as well. One of the choices we can make is whether or not we want to put forward a professional face, or we want to be more homey and approachable (or we can even try to do a little bit of both)… There are definitely benefits to both approaches—some customers and clients are really looking for a polished, professional business, while others may want something a … Continue reading →

Top 3 Reasons to Install a Home Security System

When I watch the evening news it makes installing a home security system seem like a logical decision. The Top 3 reasons to install a home security system: Protection: Everyone has a different level of need for protection. It’s a simply formula of whom, what and where. The basic math is the more “who‘s” your are responsible to keep safe and the more “what’s” you have collected along the way, the more protection you and your family need. There may be times in our lives when we have few possessions and only need to take care of our own personal … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking The Everyday Things

On a mission once again to create layouts that are different than the norm, I have come up with some great ideas. When I sat down to scrapbook the other day, I felt major scrappers block and I wanted to find a way to combat it. Deciding against trying to create an “event” layout, I wound up playing around with some ideas about scrapbooking the everyday things. I’ve written articles on this before, but I had some new ideas I haven’t shared so I will. I grabbed some cardstock, and decided this layout wasn’t going to have normal pictures on … Continue reading →

Happiness Happens When…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ~-The Declaration of Independence-~ August is Happiness Happens Month, but today is Happiness Happens Day. Happiness is a funny thing. We all want it. We all hope for it. But how many of us have it? After all, it’s not something you can just hop out to the store and pick up when you run out of it. “The pursuit of happiness is a most … Continue reading →

Life is NOT Fair

I remember one of the most annoying and frustrating things my parents would say to me when I was growing up was “Life is not fair.” Usually, I would be whining or complaining about some injustice or my siblings and I would be in the midst of a rivalrous battle. The fact was, it was an incredibly important lesson and one that I certainly benefited from learning. Life isn’t fair. It is not what anyone really wants to hear, especially not a young child whose thinking and reasoning is very much governed by black and white categorizing, but when children … Continue reading →

The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith

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One hundred and sixty-three years ago today, Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were shot and killed in jail in Carthage Jail at Carthage, Illinois. Willard Richards and future prophet John Taylor were with them. Taylor was wounded, while Richards escaped harm. I cannot express in adequate words the events of that day, and so I will not try. I will, however, provide you with a link to an Ensign article describing what happened. One of the things I most struggled with when I joined the church was my testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Indeed, I was baptized without … Continue reading →