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Retirement Investment in Portugal – Our Story
And because we did not want to live a great distance from our children we decided Portugal would be the obvious choice as we both spoke Portuguese. We had travelled through Portugal before and knew the area north of Lisbon however the warmer climate of the south met our needs a little better. After we [...]
Shell: Sustainability At The Heart Of Our Business
Royal Dutch Shell plc today released its ninth annual report on its environmental and social performance. The report underlines the company’s commitment to help meet the world’s current and future energy needs in environmentally and socially responsible ways. The Shell Sustainability Report 2005 discusses at length the energy challenge facing the world over the next [...]
Why Working From Home is Better For Business, Life, Employees And Finally Our Future?
“I will exchange quality for quantity every time” replied 8 out of 10 people when questioned about longer working hours. Working from home was always considered attractive because:- A)One did not have to wait in traffic queue for hours on end, B)Of dead time and its impact on productivity and creativity; the time one spent [...]
Our Skating Trip Confirms My ‘WHY’
I have 2 young boys. The oldest is in Kindergarten. A couple of months ago my eldest had a field trip with his class to go skating at a rink. Now, in his short life, he had never skated before ; )… but, as most young boys of 6 years believe, they can do anything [...]
Convenience in our Training Program
Perhaps when you envision something like construction equipment operation training, you think of a long, drawn-out process that is necessarily given in an inconvenient manner. After all, it’s not as if you can simply trek down to your local community college and take construction equipment training courses. With the full and active lives that Americans [...]
Creating Our Reality
Imagine that you have just put on a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses. If you were to look around the room and describe what you see, everything would appear blue to you because it’s being filtered though a blue lens. But is this reality? No, it’s your perception of reality. We only see, hear and experience [...]
Our Accident Epidemic And How To Avoid Being A Victim
Remember the SARS scare. The West Nile Virus makes headlines every year. And now a bird flu from Asia is causing widespread concern. Unfortunately, we already have an epidemic, and it’s called off-the-job accidents. Even worse is the fact that this epidemic doesn’t get much attention, so the deaths and injuries continue year after year. [...]