According to research conducted by the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, overall happiness is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you than the status that comes from how much money you have in your bank account .

After considering all the evidence that higher socioeconomic status (higher income, wealth, or education) does not increase happiness and realizing that many theories suggest it should, the psychologists at Cal Berkeley decided to study the matter further.

They wanted to find out if higher socioeconomic status doesn't improve well-being or happiness, what does.

So they conducted a series of four studies.

And they discovered that the relationship between socioeconomic status and well-being could be explained, at least in part, by the sense of power and social acceptance people felt in their personal relationships.

"If someone's standing in their local ladder went up or down, so did their happiness …" said Cameron Anderson, the study's author. Anderson goes on to explain, "One of the reasons why money doesn't buy happiness is that people quickly adapt to the new level of income or wealth. Lottery winners, for example, are initially happy but then return to their original level of happiness quickly. "

Anderson surmises that kind of adaptation may not occur with local status, stating that "being respected, having influence, and being social integrated just never gets old."

Since I began studying happiness research a year ago, I have discovered study after study pointing to the fact that money does not buy happiness.

Yes, some studies indicate that up to a certain level (research says $ 75,000 a year) money does make our lives better. There's certainly the security factor of knowing that your basic needs are taken care of and that you can support yourself or your family. But beyond that, it's pretty clear it's not the money, or even all the things it can buy, that makes us happy.

Yet, that's the way our world is set up, isn't it?

We're conditioned to believe more is better. We're surrounded daily by marketing messages on television, radio, the Internet, and even from self-help gurus, that the goal is to own nice stuff, make more money, build bigger, more successful and profitable businesses. And it's implied that these are the things that will make us happy.

I'm sure the research scientists will continue to study this subject.

As long as we resist the conclusions of all the research done to date, and continue to buy into the idea that more is better-and is the path to a happy life-researchers will continue to try to prove, or disprove, that theory.

I suggest you conduct your own research.

Consider your life today and your level of happiness, well-being, and peace. Look around. How much money do you have in the bank? How much are you making per year? How much stuff do you own? Now, compare today's benchmark with a point in the past when you had less. And ask yourself, am I happier today than I was then?

Yes, it's nice to have money in the bank.

To be able to say you have a successful business that makes six or seven figures a year. To own a nice home (or homes), a nice car, and to have nice stuff.

However, if you're like me and the vast majority of people I have interviewed, you've discovered that's not what really makes you happy. In fact, the majority of people I've talked to have less now than five years ago, yet are happier now.

It's also not what Bronnie Ware, author of Regrets of the Dying found in her work with hospice patients. At the end of their lives, it wasn't the stuff and the success they wished they had more of. Rather, they wished they'd had the courage to be more true to themselves, not work so hard, expressed their true feelings more often, stayed in touch with friends, and let themselves be happier.

I hope we all don't have to get to the end of our lives to finally accept this truth.

What Causes Lack of Respect in Teenagers?

The lack of respect teenagers show these days is certainly no secret. Today, I found myself thinking about what some of the causes could be and I identified three things I believe contribute greatly to the lack of respect found in teenagers.

Changes in Government and Society

There was a time, and not that long ago, when most parents enforced the rules in their homes through several different methods including physical punishment.

These physical punishments, most often spankings, were actually very effective positive discipline for teenagers. They might not seem so positive but they were because the paddling was the final line. It brought real consequences to a child's actions.

For example, when I was growing up if I did something I wasn't supposed to do I'd find myself grounded for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.

Often, I'd be punished physically as well. I'm not talking about being slapped around or any foolishness like that. I'm talking about a good ole paddling. Often those were administered with a belt.

It wasn't just me either. It was quite common for a kid to be spanked back when I was growing up.

The result? We learned if we did not want to get a whupping we needed to follow the rules.

Times have certainly changed. Some of the people who make the laws in this country decided that a parent disciplining their child by means of a paddling was child abuse.

These days any parent who spanks their child can have child abuse charges filed against them and find their state government interfering in their family life.

I believe this is one of the greatest reasons teenagers have a lack of respect today. Because without the backup of an actual real punishment there is no real motivation for a kid to change their behavior.

Parents today often have their kids right up in their faces yelling at their parents. What is the parent going to do? Well, when it comes right down to it they really cannot do anything.

Sure they can tell the child to stop it or else … but what is the or else? The parent can try grounding them from the television or computer. They can take away their cell phone. They can tell their disobedient child he / she are not leaving the house for a week.

This all sounds good. It should be effective, right? So … what happens when the child thinks "to heck with this!" and watches television and gets on the computer anyway? What if they sneak in and take back their cell phone? What if they sneak out of the house or simply walk out right in front of their parents?

Although this might seem quite extreme for kids to do, believe me, it does happen and is happening all over the USA every day. Talk to your friends. Watch the news. Search the Internet only briefly and you will discover what a huge problem this has become.

The bottom line is without any real "tool" in their toolbox the parents no longer have any real power to enforce the rules and make their kids behave.

Everyone Must Earn Respect … Including You!

Recently, I was reading an article that talked about how teachers are seeing an alarming trend these past few years.

The students are expecting everyone else to earn their respect. Teenagers make their teachers earn their respect. Until the teacher earns the respect the student has none for them simply because of the teachers position.

The same goes for their parents and even other teenagers. They do not respect people for being older. They do not respect people for things they have accomplished. They do not respect their parents for providing for them and for bringing them into the world in the first place.

I have talked to many teenagers in an attempt to understand it. The things I have been told are "what other people have done has nothing to do with me" and "Why do adults always brag about what they have done, pat themselves on the back and want us to kiss their behinds?"

The only explanation I have for this behavior is the teenagers may have learned this from a role model.

A Disrespectful Role Model

If a child has grown up around a parent, or other adult role model, who often talks and acts disrespectfully the child will pick up on that.

For example, if a parent is always complaining about their job, and in particular, complaining about their boss or other people they work with … think about what kind of message this sends to kids.

First, the child can begin to lose respect for their parent. They may think "wow, (mom or dad) must be a real pushover if they have so many problems at work." They may also support their parent fully and think "I'll never let some idiot ruin my life like that. I won't even give them the chance to!"

Neither of these views is a healthy way for a child to see the world and other people. Under such circumstances, it is understandable how the child may develop an aggressive personality causing them to challenge all authority. After all they have seen what such people did to their parent's life. They've listened to their parent complain about it for years. The child may simply be doing whatever they can to make sure they will not be treated the same way as their parent has been.

I'm not laying the blame solely on parents. Believe me, I understand this cannot be the entire reason behind teenagers lack of respect.

In my opinion, self-respect is the most important thing we have, as human beings. We can’t buy it anywhere, no one else can give it to us, and without it our lives become much more difficult. If you are dealing with any kind of addictive behaviour such as alcohol or drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, internet addiction, compulsive overspending or relationship addiction, becoming aware of how you view your level of self-respect can make a huge difference to the quality of your recovery from these behaviours.

In fact, I often call self-respect “the name of the game” because it is such an integral and vital part of living an emotionally healthy life. Once we understand its importance and learn how to develop it, we never have to be without self-respect again.

Unfortunately, however, a great many people never think about their self-respect – they don’t consider whether they have it, or want it, or need more of it, or what they can do to attain it.

I believe it’s well worth our time to explore what it means to have healthy self-respect, and what we can do to improve and expand the self-respect we already possess.

Most of us are aware that we want to be treated with respect by other people. You probably find yourself becoming upset, angry or hurt when someone acts in a disrespectful way toward you, because it feels as if that person does not value you enough to treat you well.

SELF-RESPECT: WHAT EXACTLY IS IT?

Self-respect works in the same way as being respected by others. When you value yourself enough to treat yourself well, you are acting in a self-respecting way. If you take good care of yourself in healthy ways such as having clear and assertive boundaries, saying “No” when you need to, taking good care of your physical, emotional and spiritual needs, and putting your own important needs ahead of the needs of others when necessary, then you are exercising your self-respect.

And you will find that others take their cues from you, in terms of how to relate to you. For example, when people hear you talking about yourself in a derogatory way and putting yourself down, they will likely think less of you. However, if they see you valuing yourself and living your life in that manner, they will likely value you more as well.

As Dr. Phil so aptly reminds us, “We teach other people how to treat us.”

SELF-RESPECT HAS ITS ROOTS IN CHILDHOOD

The way you treat yourself often has its roots in messages that you were given about yourself in childhood. The ways in which you were treated by your parents, caregivers, siblings, teachers, and even your friends have led you to believe that you either were or were not worthy, valuable or cherished. And you have most likely brought these same beliefs about yourself into your adult relationships, colouring the way you treat yourself in present time.

But you do not have to continue believing something about yourself that is not true!

Of course you are valuable and unique and special – you always were, and that is true of all of us. When you make the decision to empower yourself by choosing to believe the truth about who you are rather than what someone else may think of you, then you are on the road to self-respect.

SELF-RESPECT AND ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS

Addictions can wreak havoc on our self-respect.

If you are grappling with an addictive behaviour of any kind, you know what I mean. On some level, you are aware that every time you indulge in that specific behaviour, you feel badly about yourself. You know that you don’t really want to be doing what you’re doing, and that you would feel better about yourself inside if you could stop.

For many people with addictive behaviours, low self-respect has become a part of life – you may not even be aware of how different life could be for you if you could change how you act and thus how you feel about yourself. Life is so much better when we have our self-respect!

SELF-RESPECT IS EARNED

Here is an easy gauge to see how well you’re faring in terms of your self-respect. Ask yourself this question, and be willing to look honestly at your answers:

“What do I need to do, or what do I need to NOT do, to be able to look at myself in the mirror and be okay with who I see?”

Each time you ask yourself that question, listen for your true answer and actually base your behaviour on what you have heard. If you do this regularly, you will build up your self-respect. That is the name of the game, and it becomes the basis for all of your interactions, whether you are aware of that or not.

This may be a difficult change for you to make, however. If you are used to pleasing others instead of yourself, for example, your challenge may lie in learning how to put yourself first without feeling guilty or “selfish.” But if you continue to put others first and feel badly about yourself for doing that, your self-respect will suffer.

So here is the choice-point – what is more important to you: having other people like you or liking yourself?

Every time you make the decision to like yourself despite any potentially negative consequences from others, you earn a little more of your self-respect.

ANOTHER’S PERSPECTIVE MIGHT BE HELPFUL

Learning how to treat yourself more respectfully will change your life. You will experience a profound shift in the ways you see your life, as well as your place in the world. Your relationships with other people will become healthier, as you begin to treat yourself in healthier ways. Although nobody’s life is ever “perfect,” living with non-negotiable self-respect is the most consistent way of living a rich and fulfilling life.

If you are having difficulty believing in yourself and treating yourself with self-respect, you may want to talk to some of your trusted friends or reach out to a skilled therapist for assistance. This might help you to explore what is holding you back from giving up your self-sabotaging patterns.

Remember, it all starts with YOU – what do you need to do, or what do you need to NOT do, to be able to look at yourself honestly and feel happy with who you are?

That is the name of the game!

One of the biggest mistakes most presenters make is in not considering or respecting their audience when preparing their talks. Showing respect means not boring them to tears with a data dump of information which is meaningless to them.

1. Respect your audience. Make sure your talk is relevant to them, not just to you. Focus your talk on what benefits the audience and you will keep their interest.

2. Do not memorize your presentation. It will sound like and feel like you are reading it from the cue cards in your mind.

3. Never read a presentation, even if you are giving it in a language other than your mother tongue. No matter how well you have practiced the talk, you will come off stiff and boring. One exception might be if you are in a crisis and have decided to only deliver a single statement to the press, with no Q&A afterwards.

Showing audience respect means not loading your Power Point slides with overwhelming content that you expect them to read while you continue talking, or worse yet, reading the slide content to the audience. Audience respect involves knowing who you are talking to and knowing what they care about. Audience respect means showing that you care about each person in the room. Speakers who respect their audiences:

o Find out what the audience wants to know and address this information gap.

o Keep the messages simple and interesting.

o Use colorful examples and stories to illustrate their messages.

o Present in a natural and comfortable way.

1. Stay Calm When Your Johnny Is Insolent.

Let’s say your thirteen-year-old Johnny is changing from an easy-going child to becoming a rude teen when you ask him to clean up his mess in the kitchen. “Why don’t you do it?” he sneers. “It’s your kitchen.”

Avoid getting swallowed alive in an argument. If you do, you may drown in your own sea of disrespectful words, regret your behavior, and end up feeling guilty. Remember, many kids will go to any lengths to argue their case. Be philosophical. Separate yourself from the problem. See insolence as your child’s problem, not yours. But how can you separate from your child’s behavior?

It would be easier to yell, “Stop being so rude! What’s the matter with you?”

Hold your tongue.

Ask yourself, “How can I stay in control of my emotions, think clearly, and have an outcome that is good for both of us?” When you have that answer, you’ll be closer to solving the problem.

2. Use Silence and Give Yourself Time to Deal with the Disrespect.

You might say something like, “Johnny, stop!” Please talk to me in a respectful way.” If you do, speak with calm authority. Use your serious parenting look. Then be silent and wait for Johnny to speak to you with civility.

In most situations, you don’t need to react right away. Say, “I need time to think. I’ll let you know when I’m ready to talk with you.”

Silence can be a powerful way to start handling problems because it keeps your child wondering what you’re going to do. Silence also helps you collect your thoughts, decide what to say next, and how to say it. Now that you’ve collected your thoughts, what could you say to Johnny?

3. Speak to Your Child with Authority and Be Brief.

Avoid showering your child with lots of reasons why Johnny is wrong and you are right. Sooner or later he’ll figure out how to twist one of your minor points against you. Your best ideas will be lost. Pick out one or two ideas that say exactly what you want to say. Keep it short.

“Johnny when you insult me with your tone, I feel angry. If you continue to speak to me with disrespect, I won’t take you and your friends to the movies this Saturday.”

The consequences could be anything you know Johnny wants like his favorite TV shows, computer time, video games, or something else. It’s important to be consistent and follow through with your consequences. If you say it, you must do it. Following through with penalties builds character. Otherwise, Johnny will know your backbone is just a wishbone.

4. Don’t Expect a Happy Ending to Every Problem.

Sometimes your child will need to experience your backbone several times before realizing you mean what you say. If Johnny has been acting disrespectfully for a long time, it will take many experiences to correct his behavior.

5. Encourage Respect by Complimenting It.

Develop the mind-set of noticing Johnny’s respectful tones and words. Even tweens and teens like to be appreciated for their efforts. Here are some examples:

. “Johnny, I like how nicely you spoke to me in front of your friends.”

. “Johnny, I noticed how your brother smiled when you congratulated him on his grades.”

. “Thanks for cleaning the kitchen so cheerfully.”

Don’t miss any opportunity to praise him. Be honest, specific, and completely positive. After thinking and speaking with calm authority, praise is the best way to turn him around.

Conclusions for Stopping Disrespect and Encouraging Respect

Strengthen your backbone with calm clear thinking. Make good use of silence. Pick only one or two points to make clear. When you’re ready to speak, keep it brief. Give consequences and follow through. Compliment your child’s good behavior whenever you see it. If you do, you’ll be building character and getting the esteem you deserve.

The chefs at restaurants often work hard to provide their customers with the highest quality meals made from the highest quality ingredients, and most of them must be annoyed when they watch people put large quantities of sauces over the top of their food. Sauces like mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, and thousand island dressing not to mention mustard can cover the flavor of what people are eating. You might as well be eating something that was bland, or completely tasteless if you smother it in the strongest mustard you can find in the restaurant.

Respect the chef; eat the dish as it's served to you.

People should not be surprised if chefs are driven crazy when watching diners eat their painstakingly prepared meals under layers of dressings and sauces, as that does not respect the dish at all. Chefs and restaurant owners will generally take a great deal of time, as well as effort to draw up menus that are intended to make their venue a very attractive place to eat a meal at. Before finishing the list of all the dishes and meals on the menu the best chefs will make sure that they can get each and every ingredient, and that their restaurant has the facilities to cook those dishes to the highest standards. Chefs will even select the best wines to accompany their dishes, so that the wine does not contrast too sharply from the flavors within each meal. For example a red wine goes better with beef, or a white wine complements fish dishes better.

Respect The Chef

The whole point about taking time plus effort to have a menu is that customers can select from a very carefully list of courses, dishes, and starters. Chefs when they put meals on a menu that have different courses generally come up with courses that are meant to be eaten in the particular order they are presented in. Now some cooks want to give a full variety of contrasting taste experiences, whilst others prefer courses that complement the other foods in the meal more closely. At some restaurants the sauces that accompany the meals are often put in small dishes in amounts too small to alter the taste of the meal too much.

Either way the chefs that arrange the menus and then prepare the meals intentionally the tastes of meals in specific orders and ways to provide people with the tastiest meals that have a precise mixture of flavors. If chefs want people to put anything with the meals then they will put out the sauces that accompany them the best. Ideally those would enhance the flavor or flavors of the meal instead of drowning them out completely. Although most restaurants will have ketchup and mayonnaise etc available for their customers to use as they wish that will not please some chefs, whilst more relaxed ones might not be that bothered. Chefs, if it were up to them might only have pepper, salt, and vinegar to add to their meals so the balance of flavors is not greatly affected. The best advice for people eating out in restaurants is to respect the dish.

Before covering your meal with extra salt or sauce, taste the food without it. You might find you can savor all the ingredients and enjoy your meal more by eating it the way the chef intended you to!

If you tend to customize meals while eating out, don't worry, most people do.

It is sometimes hard to be able to honor a lifetime of work and love and show your respect. Awards and other public recognition only go so far, but the love and respect from your family is the most important. When it comes time to show that honor and respect to the deceased, having that perfect funeral casket shows everyone who they were and how they are cared for, even in death.

Many people believe that the only place to order a casket is through a funeral home, and that is the way they want it to stay. That way they can get the largest amount of profit out of the session. Of all the things that a funeral home is, you have to keep in mind that the bottom line is, it’s a business. They’re out to make money in whatever ways possible, so charging all the traffic will bear on caskets and services is what keeps them in business.

Not only does it not help the family in any way thanks to today’s economy, but it does nothing to help us honor our loved ones. We have to rely on such things as online retailers and bulk distributors to help us save money in our daily lives for food and household items, and we can rely on those same types of people to do that for funeral caskets as well. You can get the exact same funeral casket you would from a funeral home by getting a casket online, and you can save hundreds of dollars by doing it.

The type of casket doesn’t matter either. You can get substantial savings on high quality metal caskets, and you can get them in all colors and finishes. And a beautiful wood casket with a piano finish is available as well. Whatever your preferences are for linings and handles and hardware are all right there to choose from. By going online, you could even have a better variety than what you would get from the funeral home.

Being able to honor your loved ones with a casket designed the way they want it is so much easier to do from the comfort of your own home as well. No one there to pressure you to hurry and make a choice or trying to get you to buy the most expensive one. Take your time and talk over choices and options and honor them by giving them the ability to have exactly what they want. That can be the best way to honor them since that’s the last opportunity you may have.

Employee resistance to change in the workplace is nothing new. Leaders and managers accept the pushback that comes when rolling out new procedures, changes in operations, shifts in hours, status, or even the loss of a prime parking space. How you deal with resistance makes the difference between gaining cooperation and respect and being viewed as an uninvolved, autocratic administrator.

Whether the resistance comes from a single dissenter or an entire department, use the following 7 steps to gain cooperation and respect:

Step1. Clearly state what you want, when you want it and how it will affect individual jobs. Use a firm but neutral or positive tone of voice. Refrain from conveying disappointment, anger or defeat. Your particular situation or location will dictate the appropriate vocal expression.

Step2. Decide beforehand how much time you will allot to objections, groaning and griping. Inform the person or team you are addressing about the time limit. Let them vent.

Step 3. Listen to understand concerns. What underlying emotions are behind the complaints? What are the real fears behind the protests? Often the real fears will not be voiced in the initial session and until further questioning your understanding may be based on false assumptions.

Step 4. Check your perceptions by reflecting back your understanding of the concerns. Do not allow another round of protests, rather simply check for confirmation.

Step 5. If appropriate, ask for suggestions. Not every circumstance will allow for this but to the degree that employees feel engaged in the process the quicker the cooperation. Once again, do not allow suggestions to go on forever and keep the conversation on suggestions only-not grousing. Be involved. Listen and list possibilities without judging. Put it all down. Be open to viable proposals.

Step 6. Suggest a review or an opportunity to revisit the impact of the change after a test run or implementation. This is a good practice to put into place whenever a new procedure or shift has taken place, regardless of the initial response. Small changes made at this re-visit may prevent a complete breakdown if left unchecked. This is also an excellent opportunity to increase face-time, engage employees and learn something new.

Step 7. If these steps fail, explain the costs of noncooperation. Change is what makes an organization stay competitive, robust and profitable. Dissenters may be in the wrong position or job so act accordingly.

Cooperation comes when people know and feel they are part of something bigger. Employees understand that changes occur but welcome the opportunity to influence the outcome and success. However, just because you communicate openly and involve employees by asking for suggestions, does not mean they make the final decision. Be a leader-listen, learn and then implement.

“My wife doesn’t respect me!” This is actually one of the most common complaints that married men have. Obviously there are others including, “my wife isn’t attracted to me, my wife doesn’t spend enough time with me and my wife never listens to me.” They’re all valid issues and if you’re a man dealing with any of them you know that the concern you feel over the problems in your marriage can have a dramatic impact on your life in general. If a man’s connection with his wife isn’t based in mutual respect and adoration, the marriage can become unbalanced very quickly. As soon as you understand why many wives lose respect for their husbands you can then begin charting a course to get your wife to see you in a different, and much more respectful, light.

There are several different reasons why women begin to lose respect for their husbands, including:

She feels emotionally neglected. Marriage is a partnership in many different and varied ways. Women look to their husbands for their emotional fulfillment. A woman wants to feel as though there’s an unbreakable emotional bond between her and the man she married. In many respects your wife views you as her emotional safe spot so that when life becomes difficult or challenging, she can look to you for guidance, acceptance and comfort. If your wife doesn’t feel that you are there for her emotionally, she may begin to lose respect for you. This happens mainly because she feels you aren’t living up to your duty or role as her life partner.

She feels you aren’t helping with daily responsibilities. If you and your wife have busy lives and you both need to nurture your careers, someone is inevitably going to end up taking care of more of the household chores including tending to the need of the children, paying bills and addressing any upkeep issues to do with your home. If your wife has taken on this role and you haven’t pitched in to the degree that she would like, she may just lose respect for you as her partner. No one wants to feel as though they are being taken advantage of and that may very well be what your wife is experiencing now in relation to this.

She is upset over an ongoing conflict. Most marriages have their fair share of conflicts. Some are innocent and disappear into the ether with just mutual apologies. Others seem to take on a life of their own and they become living, breathing entities that threaten the marriage. Such is the case when you and your wife butt heads over an issue that never sees a resolution. If she sees you as a stubborn oaf who won’t compromise in the least, that is definitely going to impact how much she respects you. If she feels strongly that you just don’t have any respect for her, those feelings will be reciprocated rather quickly.

It’s obviously incredibly difficult to live in a relationship in which you feel your partner has no respect for you. It’s up to you to take measures towards changing how your wife feels. Expecting her to suddenly respect you because you demand it will not happen. Work on improving your marriage as a whole and ensuring your wife knows that you hold her in the highest regard. This is a helpful way to start the relationship moving in a more positive direction for you both.

If this is the first time that you are undertaking a construction project you most likely haven’t come across architects. An architect is a very valuable person in the construction of your house. Some of the roles of the professional include:

Design

This is what architects are known for. They listen to your needs and come up with detailed drawings about your house. To test the feasibility of house design, the professionals use advanced technological tools such as CAD and many others.

When you visit an architect, the professional will listen to your needs and depending on the location of your plot and the local construction codes, he/she will come up with a design of your house.

Research

Before the professional can make a drawing of your house he/she has to do a lot of research. The professional has to research on the rules and regulations of construction in the area that you are planning of constructing your house.

Different areas have different regulations and the professional will research these rules and understand how they impact the design ideas that you have.

The professional will also do research in order to come up with an estimate of the cost of construction. Here the professional has to contact different contractors and enquire on their charges.

The professional will also visit different retail and wholesale stores and find out the cost of different construction materials.

Advice

Since you aren’t experienced in house construction it’s the responsibility of the architect to advice you on areas that you don’t understand. The professional should advice you on the best design that you should go for. The professional should also advice you on the direction that your house should face.

If you are going to hire a contractor, the architect should offer advice on the best contractor to work with and the best stores to purchase the building materials.

Supervision

Many people think that the work of an architect ends with drawings, but this isn’t the case. It’s the responsibility of the professional to supervise the construction and ensure that it’s being constructed according to plan.

The professional should visit the construction site regularly and ensure that the contractor is following the design on the plan.

Conclusion

These are some of the roles of an architect in the construction of your house. To enjoy all the services offered by the architect you should hire an experienced professional.