If you are visiting a place for the first time, it’s only normal that you will not be aware of the locality or the road directions to your hotel. Also, after a long flight, you will just want to relax rather than drive a car to where you want to go. So what’s the solution? Well, that’s easy. You can just hire a local taxi. Yes, it’s the most practical option.

Having said so, hiring the right cab might be more difficult than you think because it’s certainly changed a lot in the last few years. A few years back there were a few limited companies who offered taxi services, but these days, there’s no shortage of such companies. What’s more confusing is that they all offer exactly the same kind of services.

So how will you determine if the taxi company you are hiring is actually good or not? They all seem the same, right?

Well, the qualities of a driver are one aspect which usually helps in differentiating good companies from the rest.

Needless to say, not all drivers will be the same, and it is this distinction which will help you determine the best taxi company you can hire. Some of the qualities which you should look for are:-

· Reliable and punctual: This is by far the most important quality that taxi drivers should have. When you are hiring a taxi service, one of the first things that will expect is for the drivers to come to pick up you right on time. Precisely for this reason, look out for drivers who have a reputation for being reliable and punctual.

· Free of any criminal record: Now, if the taxi company conducts thorough background checks on their drivers, this shouldn’t be an issue. But just to be safe, you should always look to hire a taxi who driver doesn’t have any criminal records or have been involved in any major accidents. This will at least give you peace of mind knowing that you are not in any danger.

· Well aware of the locality: If you are a hiring a local taxi, one of the first things that you will expect is for the drivers to be well aware of the place you are visiting. Which routes to take to avoid heavy traffic and which shortcuts to make to reach your destination quickly are something which the drivers should be well aware of.

· Is trained to drive safely: You are hiring a taxi because you don’t necessarily want to drive on your own and would like to relax throughout the journey, right? Well, precisely for this reason, you should look out for drivers who have the right kind of training when it comes to safe driving.

· Should be able to communicate freely: Proper communication is a must between you and the driver. Otherwise, things go easily go haywire when it comes to directions. The driver should be able to communicate freely to you whether they understand the destination you are looking to go and which routes they are going to take to reach there.

So these are some of the things which you should look for in a taxi driver while hiring.

December gives us the perfect excuse to pamper ourselves with holiday cheer. No matter which holiday tradition you celebrate, decorating your home is good for you. Psychologists report that change, planning, and entertainment make people happy. Change your environment for the holidays and plan to entertain yourself as well as guests.

Holiday decorations change stagnant rooms. When your accessories and mementos stay in the same place day after day, you soon get used to them and no longer notice your treasure in the same old location. Moving things around and adding holiday decorations to your spaces makes everything feel new again.

You increase your happiness when you decorate your home for the holidays, if you take out the stress. When you make a huge production out of decorating your home for the holidays, you can easily become overwhelmed and turn a happy event into a stress-filled ordeal. Balance, the key to happiness, will help you keep holiday decorating FUN. Don't take on too much. It doesn't take a lot of decorations to instill holiday cheer!

Have you ever noticed that when you plan a party that the actual planning makes you happy? Psychologists say that's because people love to daydream and plan. An added bonus, the more time you take to plan a party, the more organized the event, and the better the result.

Guests love to come to a home decked out in holiday splendor. The festive air created with candles, decorations, and music provides the backdrop for happy interactions. It's hard for someone to not be happy when they enter a home in celebration mood.

Take some time for yourself and enjoy your holiday decorating. Pamper yourself and your guests.

I’ve always had a problem with the “everyone is good at something” mentality… I mean, why does everyone have to be good at something? Isn’t there almost 7 billion people on this planet? Doesn’t it stand to reason that with that much diversity, there has to be some people who are simply pathetic at everything? I know there are some people who seem to be really good at everything so why not the opposite?

I’ll tell you why, it’s because people need to tell themselves something to help them feel better about themselves. When you aren’t good at anything, you tell yourself “everyone’s good at something!” and suddenly you feel a little better about yourself. You convince yourself that you just haven’t found what that one thing is yet. It may just be me, I’m a sadist like that, but I think it’s simply more frustrating and depressing to have people tell me that all the time, only to keep prodding along not being good at anything.

Instead, I’d be a lot happier knowing that not everyone has to be good at something. It’s o.k. to not be Gretzky playing hockey, or Jordan playing basketball or Gates taking over the computer industry. Reassure me that I don’t have to win the Olympics to be “just like everyone else.”

I know what you’re thinking, the purpose of the statement is to give you hope and to motivate you to get out there and try some more. But you have to realize that when someone is down, when they feel defeated, when they feel that they just don’t fit in with the rest of the world, a statement takes on a whole other dimension. Suddenly you feel like everyone has expectations of you that you “know” that you can not meet. It can be very demoralizing.

Instead, you should pay attention to the people who tell you just be happy with who you are. You don’t have to be good at something to be loved or even respected. Be confident in yourself even if you’re convinced that you’ll never rise up to be anything great. Because most people don’t and that’s o.k.

That doesn’t mean to stop practising or to stop trying new things. You should still keep the search going and keep experiencing new things because even if it turns out you’re not good at any of those things, at least you have those experiences, those adventures, those memories! And who knows, maybe you actually will find something that you are good at too! Maybe!

Don’t beat yourself up if you truly aren’t good at something, sure you suck because of it but so does almost everyone else. Us “average” people out number the “good at something” crowd 1000 to 1. We can take them in a fight…. even if it’s fighting that they’re good at.

1) Don't reinvent the wheel for the sake of being different: There's a reason for most design rules beyond taste and opinion. If something is tried and true, and it works, don't change it without a very good reason.

2) Start with good idea: Polishing a bad design will only go so far. It takes dozens bad ideas to come up with a one good one. Don't fall in love with your design only to have to justify it to your client. Be willing to throw ideas out and restart.

3) Brainstorm your ideas: Share your initial designs ideas. Even if you don't use any of the input, just talking about the options and explaining your work will spark new directions for you. Know your own feelings, the reasons why you did something, about the design and be clear with yourself about what works for you and what does.

4) Make sure to design for your target audience: This is so obvious, and yet, so many times I have seen inappropriate design elements, colors and fonts in a design targeted for a specific group. The design for a concert poster for children's play will have to use a very different approach if it's target audience is the children the if it's their parents.

5) Stop using too many typefaces: A typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific weight, style, condensation, width, slant, italicization, ornamentation, and designer or foundry (and formerly size, in metal fonts).

6) The beauty or the power of a good design is often in its simplicity: If you don't have a very good reason to use a certain font, a shape or a certain color to be in your design, delete it. Don't fill in the space in your design with "stuff" just to make it "interesting".

7) Use the "white" space to your advantage: The empty space in a page layout (or any graphic design) is called the white space. The balance of a good design often depends on the relationship between the graphic (or typographical) elements and the white space around them. As a matter of fact, you can give power to an element in your design with the white space associated with it. White space is not empty space!

Remember that the quality of your graphic design is in details. Be diligent in your decision-making – there is a difference between Arial and Helvetica; and you should know why you choose one over the other. Choose the right color for the right reasons, not because it's pretty. Different colors have their meaning.

Drinking coffee is good for your skin, but it is even better for it if you use it externally. These days you can find many skin products containing coffee. Check out the list of ingredients on tubes and packaging before buying such items.

You can use it to get rid of puffiness around your eyes. It also boosts the production of antioxidants and protects your skin from the harmful UVB rays, which can produce melanoma.

One useful life hack is to keep a supply of coffee ice cubes which you can use to gently rub over any swollen areas on your face.

Apart from these benefits, it boosts skin-cell regeneration, and increases your collagen levels. Collagen helps your skin keep its youthful appearance because its elasticity is retained.

If these facts haven’t yet convinced you of coffee’s health benefits, then consider these too; Coffee can help your blood circulate and if you drink it regularly, you will know that it gives you a boost of energy.

You can make your own facial scrub with this magical liquid and use it as an exfoliator which will make your skin glow with health. Make the scrub by combining coffee, olive oil and brown sugar. Use it to gently remove dead skin cells.

It is also very good for your hair and scalp, after all your scalp is skin which also needs nourishment. All you have to do is take ground coffee, about half a cup, and massage your wet scalp with it. When you have left it for approximately two minutes, you can wash your hair and scalp with your preferred shampoo and conditioner. You are sure to be pleased with the results.

A home-made body scrub can help rid your skin of cellulite and, amazingly, it can also help get rid of ‘dimply’ cellulite. Make your scrub by adding a dessert spoonful of olive oil and a teaspoonful of sugar to some fresh coffee grounds and mix well. Using circular movements, massage the mixture into the areas where you have cellulite.

Make your own face pack by mixing coffee grounds with a little milk. You need the consistency of this mixture to be thick. Leave your face pack on for around 15 minutes and then wash it off with tepid water. After this beauty treatment you will have glowing. healthy skin.

Try these suggestions and find out exactly the benefits you can reap from using the ground beans and the ubiquitous brown liquid.

The only way to maintain a healthy weight is to burn more calories than we take in. Although the evidence clearly supports this fact, it doesn’t stop us from searching for shortcuts. Superfoods, fad diets, and fat-burning pills promise real and lasting results that never seem to materialize. It is no wonder that Americans are tipping the scales in the wrong direction. At last count, one-third of Americans are obese while two-thirds are overweight.

Exercise Is The Answer

As we mentioned at the outset, expending more calories than you consume is the only way to win the battle of the bulge. The problem, however, is that only a small portion of the U.S. population is physically active enough to operate at a net caloric deficit on a regular basis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only about 20 percent of American adults get the recommended 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise each week.

Why Racquetball Works

While it true that any aerobic exercise can help you sweat off the pounds, racquetball is one of the very best for a number of simple reasons. First and most important, it’s fun! We cannot overstate the importance of finding an exercise routine that is challenging and enjoyable. Far too many adults skip their daily workout because it’s just plain boring. At the end of the day, the promise of a slimmer waistline is not enough to get you to do something you don’t want to do. You must find an activity that makes you want to hit the gym. Racquetball is that exercise.

The Benefits

A fast-paced sport that can be played alone or with friends, inside or outdoors, racquetball checks all the boxes when it comes to a fun, exciting, versatile activity. It also doesn’t hurt that the game works wonders for your waistline. According to the experts, it is possible to burn over 700 calories an hour playing the game — depending on your weight and intensity level. That’s more than tennis, basketball, weight training, and most forms of aerobics.

Getting Started

If you’re looking for a place to play, check out your local health club. With over 5 million regular players in the U.S., it shouldn’t be hard for you to find a court in your area. Depending on the facility, they may even let you borrow a racquet and balls. As for the rules of the game, they are fairly simple and straightforward and can often be learned in only a few sessions.

How Often To Play

If weight loss is your goal, you should play for an hour, three times a week. Because hitting the ball to yourself for 180 minutes a week would be boring, we strongly suggest that you play with a friend. If you can find a partner of the same ability/experience level, fantastic. But you can also benefit if your partner is much better than you because you will be forced to push yourself to the limits, burning a lot of extra calories in the process.

Racquetball is an exciting sport that can help you lose weight and improve your overall fitness while having a lot of fun.

The world is about people. How you connect to all the good people around is solely your responsibility. How then do you identify the good people? This article focuses on this aspect. Read on to find out.

Here are a few pointers to identify good people:

1. Good people are always ready to lend a helping hand to others. Although they may not lend money easily, they will help you to establish yourself for instance, introduction to influencers, news of job fairs, offers of good jobs in your area in your field of interest etc. On the other hand, evil people will always make you suffer, belittle you and reject you.
2. The benign individuals like to donate to charity or to a cause such as flood, cyclone or a massive earth quake. They will do their best to support the victims of these disasters. They are very human. Evil people, on the other hand, have no worries about helping victims of disaster events, rather they will take advantage to swindle money from the funds of these causes.
3. Good people are committed to their families. They will cater to their needs and spend quality time with them. They are honest about all matters and hold frequent family meetings to discuss problems and solve them. Evil people, in contrast, manipulate evil deeds. They are detached from their families and have no concerns about them whatsoever
4. Good personalities are not worried about changing the world or their families. They are more intent on growing and changing themselves and becoming the best versions of themselves. In order for that to happen, they follow some good habits such as quitting smoking, exercising and meditating in the morning and investing themselves in self-improvement books and programs. They become role models for their families and community and soon enough, they have people following them including their families, all intent on becoming like their role models.
5. The role models are good people who change themselves first in order to see the change they want to see in their world. Actually they are wise in doing so and they are also happy people. Evil people are always doing wrong things such as drug trafficking, money laundering, cheating people, fake man power business involvement and helpless women and children trafficking and the list goes on.They are never happy or contented. They want more and more deceitful money until they are caught red-handed by the police and they end up in prison cells.

So summing up, the above pointers show how I would differentiate good and bad people. It always feels good to be a good person, rising up to the challenges of life, helping people and families and improving ourselves to be much better versions. You too can follow this trail and gain BIG because this is the real way to happiness and glory, contributing positively to the world. Gotcha?

Poor Credit:

Poor credit describes an individual’s record as a consumer when it specifies that the borrower has a great credit risk. A poor financial assessment indicates bad credit, while a high FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) score is an indicator of positive points. Creditors who lend money to a person with terrible credit face a superior risk of that individual missing payments or defaulting than creditors who lend to people with great credit.

Good Credit:

A capability of a person’s record as a consumer that specifies that the borrower is protected credit hazard. A high assessment score is a sign of good credit score, while a low FICO score indicates bad rating score. A person’s credit history relies on a number of factors, including the amount borrowed, the amount of accessible credit remaining and the timeliness of payments.

Cost of Poor Credit:

When it comes to your credit score, if you aren’t making the suitable or apt financial decisions to keep it as high as possible, you are playing with fire that could cost you a lot of money.

In recent times creditors have had to become more selective about who they loan to. As a result, the difference someone will pay with bad credit versus good credit is considerable. Lower scores can extremely change your financial position for your whole life.

Poor FICO rating points can really take a fee on a person’s life – and in a bad way. In fact, the effects can be worse than one might think.

Poor score can make it next to terrible to attain a new car, an apartment, a personal loan for any small requirements too. Even something as simple as getting a new credit card will be out of the question for a consumer with a negative history.

Cost of Good Credit:

The situation between two who make the same financial acquisitions and moves over the phase of their life. They may work at the same place; they live in the same area and have similar income and family. The only difference between the two is their credit score.

If one maintains the good score by:

• Never maxing out the credit cards
• Applying for credit sparingly
• Paying bills on time

Creditors value this type of borrowing and reward the one by offering more credit, improving credit limits, which permits the one to spread her balances across numerous cards. One should know how important one’s be in debt and how should take the necessary steps to protect it.

• People can get loans faster.
• Credit decisions are fairer.
• Credit rates are lower overall.
• More credit is available.

It is important to distinguish between good Middle East business forums which you can gain a lot by using, and bad forums where you lose the valuable time you invest in using them and gain little by doing so. Below are some characteristics of both.

– Content

Although content is user generated, a good Middle East business forum will always try to insure that most of the content posted by its users is useful and factual. This can be done by restricting the forum members to practicing and established people in the business or having knowledgeable moderators who know factual posts from nonsense ones.

– Members

The members are the cornerstone of any forum. They will be a key factor in whether the forum is a good or bad forum. A forum full of childish comments and useless posts will never help you with what you need; on the other hand a business forum with knowledgeable members who try to help each other will be of great use to you. It is easy to tell the type of members on any forum. Members with childish nicknames, bad grammar and awful spelling are defiantly the wrong kind of members. Members who use their real names, write well and present information useful to all are the right kind of members on any Middle East business forum.

– Spam

Spam is posts on a forum that is an advertisement, abusive, or otherwise unwanted. Spam can reduce the quality of your experience on a forum. A good Middle East business forum will do everything it can to minimize spam.

– Moderation

A good business forum will have proficient moderators who keep the forum clean and encourage discussions. They also answer members’ concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as respond to specific complaints. Having good moderators are a definite characteristic of a good professional Middle East business forum, while having bad or abusive ones is a characteristic of a forum.

By considering those factors and choosing a good Middle East business forum you will gain a lot and keep away from the possibility of wasting time on useless forum. To read more articles about the topic and other related topics please visit www.doubleurincome.org/

Saying Good Night Never Felt So Good

Knowing how to say good night on a phone call will bring your relationship closer.

You can do as you have always done, talk as if you are a reporter – giving him a factual account of your day -when he asks how are you, how was your day – you can say as an example – “I went to the grocery store, I took the car in for a wash”, this and that as if you are reporting. Also, and as you have always done – you could continue to do what you are doing while talking with him- continue doing the dishes, washing your face, putting your clothes away, getting ready for bed.

Instead I suggest you STOP…

1. When you hear the phone ring -Stop doing whatever you are doing

2. Pick up your cat, a stuffed animal, a plush blanket – something to pet

3. Go to your bed, couch, comfortable chair – lying down is best, leaning back/reclining is what is needed

4. Unzipping your heart

5. You answer Hiiiiiiiiiiii! – but if possible you say it from your vagina – some place deep in your body, as sensuously as you can

6. He says Hi! And then he asks how you are?

7. You say – “Great – it is great to hear your voice”

8. You wait – you don’t try to fill in the conversation, might be tough for you to do

9. He says – “What’s new, what did you do today?”

10. Here is where you don’t “report” which would be like “I went to the store, I talked with my daughter, I paid some bills.”

11. Instead like a poet you say “It felt so good to be laughing with some friends” or maybe “the sun felt so good on my face when I went for a walk” – something using feeling words

12. He says something

13. You bring the conversation to the present moment with something like this “It feels so quiet outside”

14. He says something.

15. You feel the conversation coming to a close

16. You close it with “I feel so relaxed and sleepy – can’t wait to get between the sheets, I feel I will say good night and will be dreaming about you.”

If he doesn’t say – “maybe I’ll come over and join you” just then and there, he probably will say ” I can’t wait to see you, is Saturday good for you?”

You can use modifications of this for daytime calls, texts, emails.