The male sex drive is uncomplicated and honest. Men are visual. The hot-blooded sexual response to the sight of a good-looking young woman has been hard-wired into the male brain thanks to millions of years of evolution -- the average guy can no more stop ogling, lusting and urging to merge than he can stop eating or sleeping.But what about women? Just what do they find attractive about men? Read any typical survey and you'll be informed that what really turns them on is a sense of humor, confidence, consideration of others, etc. In other words, according to women, all you have to do is to be a nice guy and they'll come running.
The quick decline in the North American stock markets in the last few weeks has many of us on edge. With an uncertain economic future ahead, that job that you don’t like very much might be worth hanging onto -- at least it’s better than nothing. Chrysler’s announcement in late October that it would cut a couple thousand jobs later this year has many people in the automotive industry wondering if their positions will be on the chopping block, but the automotive industry isn’t the only one that’s scaling back. This period of uncertainty can easily drag you down, but if you find yourself out of work, there are steps to surviving unemployment that you can take. Here are some of those steps to surviving unemployment to follow during the harder times.
Here’s the scenario: You've been single for a while and no matter how you try to woo the ladies, your suave pickup lines and quips bear no fruit. Then, one evening when your dignity has all but bottomed out, you make nice with a jaw-dropper and soon find yourself in a new relationship. Things progress beautifully, and as they do, you notice that you’re getting an abnormally high number of bicep-squeezes, do-me eyes and knee-slapping laughs from attractive women who aren’t yours to bring home. In an unlikely turn of events, it seems that your success with one woman has made you successful with all women. So what gives? Like a moth to a flame, single women are drawn to a man in a relationship. It’s a fascinating coincidence -- one that is frustrating and unfair for the newly tied-down gentleman. Just when the gettin’s good, he’s not allowed to get. Nevertheless, the reasoning behind this phenomenon will help you be a better man, whether you’re single or taken.
You’ve done all the right things. You’ve made money, invested wisely, saved, and been smart with your income. But here’s your problem: You have too little time on your hands to manage your wealth properly. What do you do? Well, if you want to handle your wealth like a pro, turn the reigns over to a money management team. Here’s how to get started.
assembling your team A comprehensive wealth management team will have the following players: 1) a financial planner 2) a lawyer 3) a tax specialist/accountant 4) an insurance specialist Some people and companies can handle several of these positions, but no one person can handle them all. If you’re a major player like Donald Trump, you’ll have armies of guys working each one of these positions. But if you’re a regular millionaire, you’ll probably just need one wealth manager in each position to check in on your affairs on a regular basis.
If you're a younger employee, you've no doubt run up against the struggle of getting noticed for your work. One of the biggest battles in the workplace is getting recognition for the work you do without coming across as boastful or a braggart. Even older, seasoned workers have to fight to get their work recognized.The truth is, however, that you have lots of opportunities to champion yourself at work and point out your victories: in meetings, presentations and even company-wide e-mails. However, it's a fine line to walk; there's a definite art involved in the subtleties of touting your accomplishments. If you're always talking about how good you are at your job and how lucky the company is to have you, you'll come across as conceited, or even just as a jerk. But speak too little of your work, and you could miss out on assignments, raises, promotions, and your own private jet. Maybe not the last one, but if you want to take your career to the next level, you need to champion yourself at work.We’ve thought about it long and hard and we’ve come up with five ways for you to champion yourself at work.
You got dumped again, huh? We’d say “sorry about your luck” if we thought luck had anything to do with it. To be perfectly honest with you, however, the fact that you keep getting dumped over and over again is probably your fault. Sorry, pal. Now it’s time for some tough love.We know it’s easier to believe that all women everywhere are crazy: they don’t understand you, they don’t know what they want, etc. But isn’t it infinitely more likely that the cause of your frequent relationship failures is, in fact, you? Might it not be the case that you are the reason why you got dumped - again?It’s not that you’re a bad guy; it’s probably just that you are stuck in a cycle of bad decisions and bad behavior. See, certain kinds of relationship mistakes are self-reinforcing. For example, a man might get dumped because he’s too clingy, but getting dumped will only make him clingier in his next relationship, which gets him dumped again, and again, and again. It’s a vicious cycle.If you’re trying to figure out why you got dumped - again, read on and see if any of these guys sound at all like you.