Sentences with phrase «about a year and decided»

I stopped making bread for about a year and decided I wasn't going to give up.

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My husband and I scheduled this trip to Hawaii about a year ago — long before the caucus dates were decided.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

If people decided to actually get going on their new year goals and resolutions instead of just talking about them they would begin to see an amazing shift take place.

I think we decided about a year and a half in that it would be better to be independent.

After seeing friends and family battle cancer, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg decided to sell their advertising tech startup to Google for $ 81 million and use the proceeds to launch Flatiron Health about two years ago.

Then in 1985 Procter & Gamble acquired Richardson - Vicks and decided to spend $ 30 million a year — about double R - V's budget — advertising Vidal Sassoon shampoos and conditioners.

«Barry and I decided a year and a half ago not to talk about Aereo,» Moonves told CNBC on Wednesday evening in Sun Valley, Idaho, site of Allen & Company's annual conference.

Mizuho Securities's Abhey Lamba Sunday issued a note to clients cutting his rating on Apple (AAPL) shares to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target to $ 150 from $ 160, after deciding the stock's run - up this year has «fully captured» the enthusiasm about the next iPhone, especially as pricing above $ 1,000 may not help stimulate new user demand.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

Workday originally built out its own datacentres and infrastructure, but as the company looked forward to the ten next years, it thought about where the world was headed and decided on - premises was not the best option scale out its increasingly successful platform.

After about two years of investing I decided to launch this site to share my journey, connect with like minded people, and keep myself honest and on track.

About 2 years ago I wrote a post about fake accounts on social media where I addressed this concept of accounts following you on Instagram and Twitter and, if you decide to hook up with them, instantly dropping you after the About 2 years ago I wrote a post about fake accounts on social media where I addressed this concept of accounts following you on Instagram and Twitter and, if you decide to hook up with them, instantly dropping you after the about fake accounts on social media where I addressed this concept of accounts following you on Instagram and Twitter and, if you decide to hook up with them, instantly dropping you after the fact.

What I can say about my case is that from the moment I decided to leave university to the point where I am now as a development leader it has been a year and a half.

At the same time the Bank decided to raise the annual pace of JGB purchases from about 50 trillion yen to 80 trillion and to extend the average remaining maturity from about 7 years to a flexible range of 7 - 10 years.

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

What if you are concerned about cash flow and you decide to refinance to a 20 - year term?

Why did you decide to write about this topic of Christianity in Japan?I've lived in Japan for 25 years and had a lot of culture shocks.

Over the years, I've decided that it's less about the rules we keep and the boundaries we maintain and the principles we practice in this marriage.

That's exactly what I tried to do about two years ago when, despite some serious trepidation, I decided to learn all I could about the science behind evolutionary theory and the biblical scholarship surrounding interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2.

Several years later, he decided to call academic experts in paleontology, geology, and zoology to find out about the bones he decided to dig up.

I wasn't going to write anything about this, but then I decided to do a bit of Google research on this author, and I discovered that very early this year, he did in fact briefly mention my posts on one of his social media accounts.

Last year, I read about a bunch of churches that decided the way to defeat evil in their town was to write Bible verses on wooden stakes and then go drive them the ground in certain areas with the hopes that this would drive away any territorial sprits and reclaim the area for God.

In a way, I'd be happy if Israel and the rest of the ME just decided to nuke each other out of existence, and then we go in after about 10 years and recover the oil.

Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz

Edith decided to accept this responsibility this year because she harbors her own concerns about her church's worship life and thinks this committee is a good place to ask: why does our worship seem to bore people?

That is why every few years the Court must reiterate this abortion right as foundational to its legitimacy and to all the cases about privacy decided since Roe....

Over the course of the next year, I made several good blogging friends online, and learned a lot about blogging, started several other blogs, and decided to pursue my dream of getting published.

The church has more than 100 people who attend, had owned the building for more than 20 years, and decided to rent another facility in town at about one - third the cost of owning.

Many churches talk about vision casting, and this generally means envisioning how big and influential the church can be in ten or twenty years, and then deciding what steps need to be taken to get there.

When I started my blog and instagram account last year I started following way too many people, some because of their food, some for their lifestyle or creativity, some for the aesthetics... but recently I realized that I spend so much time scrolling through my feed, comparing, feeling bad about my work, my life or simply not good enough that I decided to unfollow quite a few of those accounts, keep only the ones that make me feel good and positive and to focus more on creating, shooting, baking, styling so basically all those things that make me happy and fulfilled and being the reason why I started doing this in the first place!

After about two years off (while doing normal gym workouts and Kayla Itsines BBG) I've decided to join a Crossfit gym once again.

About a year ago I decided it was time to reign in our grocery spending, clean up my diet, and stop relying so heavily on packaged convenience foods.

Now, she still used bottled concoctions from the store (which at the time was what we all did about 20 years ago) but to watch her mix and match till the flavors were what she wanted it to be and not what the folks that made the bottled stuff decided... magic!

I remember about five years ago taking my Pennsylvania - Dutch - born boyfriend (now husband) to EJ's on the UWS where he decided to order the challah toast with his breakfast and pronounced it just like it's spelled.

Fast forward about 25 years to the day I decided I had to get the nut cake and kugel recipes.

Illes is well known for its exceptional flavorings and, about one year ago, the company decided not to stop at just working with food.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

After we decided to close that down, I got a job as assistant brewer at West O Beer in West Okoboji, Iowa, where I spent about a year - and - a-half before taking the job at Gull Dam.

This chasing after the money was a tiring race, and two years into the bank, about the time when Juan and I were talking about where our long - distance relationship was leading us to, I decided to take a risk for love.

About a month after that we went to Jeni's ice cream and I decided to give it a try to see how my stomach would feel after about three years of not eatinAbout a month after that we went to Jeni's ice cream and I decided to give it a try to see how my stomach would feel after about three years of not eatinabout three years of not eating it.

After being in real estate and hospitality business for more than 10 years she decided to totally change her path to spread the word about healthy and sustainable nutrition and lifestyle.

I bought my ice cream maker about 2 or 3 years ago from a local yard sale, but it was only last year when I decided to dig it out of the basement and try my hand at homemade ice cream.

I sat down and decided to finally start a blog (after a couple years of consideration, because that's how I roll) 3 years ago on Saturday, which makes no sense because it feels like just last week I was sitting at my old white MacBook, wrapped in a blanket because my old apartment was FREEZING, and freaking out over what to write about in my first post.

It never occured to me to try baking them in the oven (after I decided to flick the mircrowave oven last year while I reading an article from Dr Mercola about how bad microwaves are on food and your digestion — just glad I never really used the microwave that much).

For about a decade, Halliday - Sharp juggled motor racing and three - day eventing, but just this year she decided to make training and competing her horses the priority.

«We were talking about moving to Chicago, or San Francisco, for a couple of years, and then coming back,» he says, «but we decided just to skip bouncing around and move here.»