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With start-up business demands sucking up so much of their days, some Small Business Challenge participants needed a bit of coaching about how to make sure family, friends, religious activities, workouts, hobbies — and even sleep — don't get relegated to the back burner. Some of their work/personal life issues:
Riegg left medicine for more work/personal-life harmony. Last month, she opened her business.
"As a pathologist, I had a tendency to be really compulsive about my work, so the balance was shifted ... and work definitely took up more of my time," she says.
She doesn't want to repeat that, but as she strives to accommodate clients, Riegg is considering office hours that extend into evenings and weekends.
Small-business adviser Rhonda Abrams, CEO of The Planning Shop, advises Riegg to not have such flexible hours. "(Botox) is not an emergency situation. It's a discretionary purchase," Abrams says. "So you can make the hours that work for you,"
Because Riegg eventually wants to work only about 25 hours a week, she should consider hiring a personal assistant who can tackle administrative work that could bog her down.
Riegg mentioned that she uses the text-messaging function on her mobile phone to stay in touch with her children during the day, and Abrams seized upon that to make another point: that technology advances such as getting e-mail through PDAs and using a shared calendar with an assistant (or family members) can alleviate some of the work/life balance burden. "Technology can really help you get things together," Abrams says.
Life can get a little nutty when you're trying to launch a snack-food firm while meeting the needs of family members such as wives and young daughters. Both men say they've continued to keep their children a priority — Hughes has two girls; Goldberg has one — but some other aspects of their personal lives have suffered as they work 12 to 14 hours a day for Poppa D's.
Hughes says he would like to not only spend more time with his wife but to also make religion and health higher priorities. But he's struggling a bit. Often, when he is spending time with the family, he remembers work-related tasks that he wants to handle. "I'll go take care of that," he says. "But then it's suddenly two hours later."
Coach's advice
Abrams applauded both men for realizing the importance of father-daughter bonding.
While Goldberg is a doting dad, he often mixes work with the downtime he spends with his 41/2-year-old. He'll bring her along to Poppa D's promotional events or send work-related text messages while he's playing with her.
While Abrams says it is healthy for kids to learn about business at a young age, she also advised Goldberg to focus on non-work-related father/daughter time — and not sneak in any use of his electronic devices.
For Hughes — who has 9-year-old and a 41/2-year-old — Abrams advises slotting calendar time for things that he wants to move up the priority list, such as relaxing with his wife, getting more exercise and putting a greater focus on religion.
Work/life balance issues
Standage's workday runs from early morning to late night as she promotes her website, showcases rental houses and tries to keep up with the stream of incoming e-mails from interested renters. As a result, once-regular activities such as exercise have suffered.
"Over the year leading up to the year of the launch, yes, I was balancing things pretty well," Standage says. "But would I say it's balanced right now? No."
Coach's advice
It's common for entrepreneurs to get so wrapped up with work that they let other important issues, such as healthy outside activities, slide, says small-business adviser Gladys Edmunds. And that's not only because there is so much to be done but also because a start-up is usually a labor of love.
Setting up and keeping a schedule will take discipline and creativity — and it may mean that Standage has to hire someone else such as a stay-at-home mom or a college student to answer e-mails that arrive during off-hours, Edmunds says.
To fit in time for exercise, Standage moved her workouts to 5:45 a.m., but she says she's "struggling" with exercising at that hour.
Edmunds advises Standage to make a detailed daily schedule that incorporates time for her work, her exercise, even possibly her meal breaks. It may take trial and error to finding a working system — no single scheduling procedure works for everyone, Edmunds says.
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WASHINGTON — Fresh from raising taxes on upper-income Americans to help expand health insurance coverage, President Obama and Democratic lawmakers are targeting them again.
When Congress takes up Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget this year, it will include extending President George W. Bush's tax cuts for middle-income families enacted in 2001 and 2003. Tax cuts for individuals with income above $200,000 and couples above $250,000 would be eliminated.
The effective tax increase on the upper income would yield about $41 billion next year and $969 billion over the next decade, according to the Treasury Department. The White House says that would help reduce the $1.5 trillion budget deficit.
Before that debate unfolds, Obama picked up some unlikely allies Tuesday. One group representing more than 700 wealthy Americans pledged to donate members' 2010 tax cuts while lobbying for the cuts to be eliminated next year. Another released a report showing that Americans with incomes above $250,000 have reaped $700 billion in tax cuts in the past decade.
"This is going to be a tough fight," said Jeffrey Hollender, a self-made millionaire from Vermont. The goal is to show that "there are significant numbers of wealthy people who, in fact, support rolling back this tax cut."
Because Bush's tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year, Congress must vote to extend them. For that reason, raising the top two income tax rates to 36% and 39.6%, as well as raising rates on capital gains and dividends, requires no vote.
A recently enacted law requiring Congress to pay for tax cuts or spending increases exempted Bush's tax cuts on the middle class — but not those on the wealthy. Extending them would require spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sandy Levin, D-Mich., said Obama's tax plan is fair because middle-income Americans are struggling, while wealthier Americans are not. "It's based on the realities of the last 10 years," he said. "The decade for middle-income families has been on the average a very difficult one, and much of the increase in income and wealth went to the very wealthy."
The vote could prove difficult for Democrats from more conservative districts who also voted for Obama's health care measure. The health law will raise Medicare payroll taxes on upper-income Americans and tax the most generous health insurance plans. "Small businesses are going to pay these higher taxes, and that will only make it tougher to create jobs in this country," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. "Raising taxes is the last thing we should do right now."
A March poll by Quinnipiac University in New York found 60% of Americans support raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000, if the money is used to reduce the deficit.
Andrew Roth of the anti-tax Club for Growth said letting taxes rise would curtail job growth and send stocks tumbling. Obama and Democrats probably will win the legislative battle this year, he said, but "we're going to make it tough on them politically."
When Congress takes up Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget this year, it will include extending President George W. Bush's tax cuts for middle-income families enacted in 2001 and 2003. Tax cuts for individuals with income above $200,000 and couples above $250,000 would be eliminated.
The effective tax increase on the upper income would yield about $41 billion next year and $969 billion over the next decade, according to the Treasury Department. The White House says that would help reduce the $1.5 trillion budget deficit.
Before that debate unfolds, Obama picked up some unlikely allies Tuesday. One group representing more than 700 wealthy Americans pledged to donate members' 2010 tax cuts while lobbying for the cuts to be eliminated next year. Another released a report showing that Americans with incomes above $250,000 have reaped $700 billion in tax cuts in the past decade.
"This is going to be a tough fight," said Jeffrey Hollender, a self-made millionaire from Vermont. The goal is to show that "there are significant numbers of wealthy people who, in fact, support rolling back this tax cut."
Because Bush's tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year, Congress must vote to extend them. For that reason, raising the top two income tax rates to 36% and 39.6%, as well as raising rates on capital gains and dividends, requires no vote.
A recently enacted law requiring Congress to pay for tax cuts or spending increases exempted Bush's tax cuts on the middle class — but not those on the wealthy. Extending them would require spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sandy Levin, D-Mich., said Obama's tax plan is fair because middle-income Americans are struggling, while wealthier Americans are not. "It's based on the realities of the last 10 years," he said. "The decade for middle-income families has been on the average a very difficult one, and much of the increase in income and wealth went to the very wealthy."
The vote could prove difficult for Democrats from more conservative districts who also voted for Obama's health care measure. The health law will raise Medicare payroll taxes on upper-income Americans and tax the most generous health insurance plans. "Small businesses are going to pay these higher taxes, and that will only make it tougher to create jobs in this country," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. "Raising taxes is the last thing we should do right now."
A March poll by Quinnipiac University in New York found 60% of Americans support raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000, if the money is used to reduce the deficit.
Andrew Roth of the anti-tax Club for Growth said letting taxes rise would curtail job growth and send stocks tumbling. Obama and Democrats probably will win the legislative battle this year, he said, but "we're going to make it tough on them politically."
Colorado State University's hurricane forecast team is predicting an above-average season for the Atlantic basin in 2010, which includes all tropical storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
The forecast calls for 15 named tropical storms, of which eight will become hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its sustained wind speeds surpass 74 mph. Of those eight, four are expected to develop into major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5) with maximum wind speeds of 111 mph or greater.
Looking at averages that go back to 1950, a typical Atlantic hurricane season sees 10 named storms — six of them hurricanes, with two major.
"We expect current moderate El Nino conditions to transition to neutral conditions by this year's hurricane season," says Phil Klotzbach, lead forecaster on the Colorado State hurricane forecast team. "The dissipating El Nino, along with the expected anomalously warm Atlantic ocean sea-surface temperatures, will lead to favorable dynamic and thermodynamic conditions for hurricane formation and intensification."
Colorado State's Tropical Meteorology Project is the nation's longest-running and most well-known forecast team. Begun by William Gray in 1984, these seasonal forecasts are used by insurance companies, emergency managers and the media to prepare Americans for the season's likely hurricane threat.
"Based on our latest forecast, the probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline is 69% compared with the last-century average of 52%," Gray says. "While patterns may change before the start of hurricane season, we believe current conditions warrant concern for an above-average season."
Last month, private forecasting firm AccuWeather predicted that 16 to 18 tropical storms and hurricanes would form in the Atlantic hurricane basin, of which seven will make landfall on U.S. shores. The federal National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to release its hurricane forecast on May 20.
Contrary to popular belief, hurricane forecasters don't "always" predict an above-average season that then doesn't come to pass. In fact, since 2000, the opposite is true: In the past decade, CSU's April forecasts have been wrong more than they've been right, but primarily because they've underestimated the threat.
In a USA TODAY analysis of the team's forecast data since 2000, CSU has under-forecast the number of named tropical storms and hurricanes four times, over-forecast the number three times, and been almost right (within two storms) on three occasions.
In 2009, the CSU team's April prediction of a near-average season was slightly over-forecast. They predicted that 12 named storms would form, of which five would become hurricanes. In reality, nine named storms formed, of which three were hurricanes.
The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The first named storm will be Alex, followed by Bonnie and Colin.
The forecast calls for 15 named tropical storms, of which eight will become hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its sustained wind speeds surpass 74 mph. Of those eight, four are expected to develop into major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5) with maximum wind speeds of 111 mph or greater.
Looking at averages that go back to 1950, a typical Atlantic hurricane season sees 10 named storms — six of them hurricanes, with two major.
"We expect current moderate El Nino conditions to transition to neutral conditions by this year's hurricane season," says Phil Klotzbach, lead forecaster on the Colorado State hurricane forecast team. "The dissipating El Nino, along with the expected anomalously warm Atlantic ocean sea-surface temperatures, will lead to favorable dynamic and thermodynamic conditions for hurricane formation and intensification."
Colorado State's Tropical Meteorology Project is the nation's longest-running and most well-known forecast team. Begun by William Gray in 1984, these seasonal forecasts are used by insurance companies, emergency managers and the media to prepare Americans for the season's likely hurricane threat.
"Based on our latest forecast, the probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline is 69% compared with the last-century average of 52%," Gray says. "While patterns may change before the start of hurricane season, we believe current conditions warrant concern for an above-average season."
Last month, private forecasting firm AccuWeather predicted that 16 to 18 tropical storms and hurricanes would form in the Atlantic hurricane basin, of which seven will make landfall on U.S. shores. The federal National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to release its hurricane forecast on May 20.
Contrary to popular belief, hurricane forecasters don't "always" predict an above-average season that then doesn't come to pass. In fact, since 2000, the opposite is true: In the past decade, CSU's April forecasts have been wrong more than they've been right, but primarily because they've underestimated the threat.
In a USA TODAY analysis of the team's forecast data since 2000, CSU has under-forecast the number of named tropical storms and hurricanes four times, over-forecast the number three times, and been almost right (within two storms) on three occasions.
In 2009, the CSU team's April prediction of a near-average season was slightly over-forecast. They predicted that 12 named storms would form, of which five would become hurricanes. In reality, nine named storms formed, of which three were hurricanes.
The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The first named storm will be Alex, followed by Bonnie and Colin.
Life is frustrated, unavoidable, always proud and apt to make people beside oneself; For fail sad, it is useless act it to be discontended with reality, all as wide to dissolve their with heart.
As the saying goes: ' less than satisfactory thing is often eight nine. ' do not allow people to be completely sad in life like this? Deny. You know sentence,Painting let ' the realization of good things is usually preceded by rough goings '. We should have this faith: It is one course of trial to be frustrated, heart even can cool either when being very cold. Have A timely snow promises a good harvest sayings, the heavier, annual the more abundant the snow is.
' a wide one sky than sea, a loud one the people's soul than sky. ' life no matter how rub people, how compress in one little box all sides you, Oil Painting but the space of thinking is unrestricted, the visual field of soul has no hedge, incomparably broad, let you play an outstanding role in. Come and go freely, the pleasant place of the life is just here!
Stand high, you look far. Red orange is yellowish green and blue and green and violet-blue, colourful life is a variety of different; The life's joys and sorrows are salty, five kinds of taste, follow one's own bent; Happiness, anger, grief and joy sad to shy probably, seven emotion, taste to the limit. Do not have plain sailing life. If there is no setback in all one's life, rather dull, too barren, too dull. Fail awkward bearing disgracing where come on successful happiness? Perhaps you can not stand the cold warm blow that fail of favor, embrace the head to bemoan, has already said ' less than satisfactory thing has been often eight nine ', you yourself will also meet, then as it lies across a stone in the front. Put it in a correct place, pedal! Perhaps the visual field will be widened even more, the ambition will be more optimistic!
Being very kindhearted, people often give being tolerant to the stranger, give being gentle to the lover, but forget to leave oneself some. There is very useful a word, ask ' not matter '. Always say to others ' not matter ', or for being courteous, or for being kindhearted, or out of pretending to be graceful, or out of having no way out; Either really pay no attention to, or have ulterior motives. No matter for what it is, who let life have so many places less than satisfactory? If you want to mediate oneself, should learn to say so. The day to lack sunshine is very melancholy, you should learn says ' not matter ', the life which loses the friend is very lonely, says ' not matter ' that you should learn. Oneself has been already very tired, need a kind of sincere understanding, say the sentence ' not matter ', to yourself, to one's own and tired out soul. That is to say, do not let you indulge all fault, just crave for and free oneself; Do not determine to forget all regrets, just refuse to indulge in. It is just affective to console oneself.
Being compassionate, people see others are sad - -Except enemy and personal enemy - -Oneself can not be happy either, always go forward to advise. It is out of mercy to advise, the speech is very philosophical too, but the person that listens to may not necessarily listen to, may not listen either according to this behavior, because the sharp pain makes people numb. A authoress says: 'Paint anyone's anything that I do not advise. Whoever started the trouble should end it, only touch it in person by oneself and can be untied in oneself hang-up in the heart, the friend's sentence,Art kindhearted people's words are all only catalyst. Oneself is the factor of playing a decisive role. '
In a word, frustrated and unavoidable, relax the heart for the time being.
One day, God has created three people. He ask man: "Prepare to reach you in this world how to live one's own life? " The first person thinks, answer: "I should fully utilize the life to create. "
God asks the second person again: "Has reached in this world, how do you plan to live your life? " The second person thinks, answer: "I should fully utilize the life to enjoy. "
God asks the third person again: "Has reached in this world, how do you plan to live your life? " The third person thinks, answer: "I should create as well as enjoy life in life. "
God give man give a mark 50, give second people give a mark 50, give third people give a mark 100, he thinks the third talent is a perfect person, he even decides to produce more " the third " Such a person.
One come, in this world, demonstrate the unusual devotion sense and save the sense. He is that a lot of persons have made a lot of contribution. To the person that oneself has helped, he is from asking. He works hard for the truth, is repeatly misunderstood without a murmur too. China Market Fully, he has become the much-admired person, his benefaction is told from mouth to mouth with approbation far and wide, his name is revered quietly by people. He leaves human world, all people are reluctant to part, people are from coming to see him off from all directions. After several years, he is still cherished the memory of deeply by people.
The second person comes in this world, demonstrate unusual occupying wanting and destroying wanting. In order to achieve the goal he is by hook or by crook, even stop at no evil. Slowly, he have countless wealth, life luxurious, spend money extravagantly, wife in groups concubine. Later, he had received the due punishment because of doing evil too much. Electronic When the sword of justice expels him in human world, he is disdained and spat and scolded. After several years, he is still hated deeply by people.
The third person comes in this world, does not have any unusual behavior. He has set up one's own family, lives a busy and substantial life.Chinese Furniture After several years, nobody remembers his existence.
Mankind give a mark 100 for one, give a mark 0 for second people, give a mark 50 for third people. This mark, is their final score.
Not getting on very well simply, people seem to divide into these three kinds of persons. Score with human score of God exist day difference, the mankind say: "God missing! " But the mankind can not hear God's answer.bmw gt1 The best explanation is: People want oneself to live, do not live for God.
God asks the second person again: "Has reached in this world, how do you plan to live your life? " The second person thinks, answer: "I should fully utilize the life to enjoy. "
God asks the third person again: "Has reached in this world, how do you plan to live your life? " The third person thinks, answer: "I should create as well as enjoy life in life. "
God give man give a mark 50, give second people give a mark 50, give third people give a mark 100, he thinks the third talent is a perfect person, he even decides to produce more " the third " Such a person.
One come, in this world, demonstrate the unusual devotion sense and save the sense. He is that a lot of persons have made a lot of contribution. To the person that oneself has helped, he is from asking. He works hard for the truth, is repeatly misunderstood without a murmur too. China Market Fully, he has become the much-admired person, his benefaction is told from mouth to mouth with approbation far and wide, his name is revered quietly by people. He leaves human world, all people are reluctant to part, people are from coming to see him off from all directions. After several years, he is still cherished the memory of deeply by people.
The second person comes in this world, demonstrate unusual occupying wanting and destroying wanting. In order to achieve the goal he is by hook or by crook, even stop at no evil. Slowly, he have countless wealth, life luxurious, spend money extravagantly, wife in groups concubine. Later, he had received the due punishment because of doing evil too much. Electronic When the sword of justice expels him in human world, he is disdained and spat and scolded. After several years, he is still hated deeply by people.
The third person comes in this world, does not have any unusual behavior. He has set up one's own family, lives a busy and substantial life.Chinese Furniture After several years, nobody remembers his existence.
Mankind give a mark 100 for one, give a mark 0 for second people, give a mark 50 for third people. This mark, is their final score.
Not getting on very well simply, people seem to divide into these three kinds of persons. Score with human score of God exist day difference, the mankind say: "God missing! " But the mankind can not hear God's answer.bmw gt1 The best explanation is: People want oneself to live, do not live for God.