Sentences with phrase «of spending more time with»

Proper grooming and brushing is also another way to meet your resolution of spending more time with your pet.

OTTAWA — When Ottawa announced changes to EI parental leave benefits last year that will allow new mothers to receive benefits for 18 months, Heather Wilson was excited about the possibility of spending more time with her baby.

You might dream of spending more time with your family, relaxing, taking up new hobbies, or going on the vacation of a lifetime.

Since then I've had the pleasure of spending more time with Yoshi and later getting to know a student of his, Takeshi Shinohara.

I have so many cherished memories of spending more time with my kids traveling, camping, and playing outdoor sports.

The finding could help explain the biological roots of monogamy in humans: Being in a long - term relationship raises a person's oxytocin levels, which in turn increase the psychological reward of spending more time with that person.

He said he had accomplished many goals — historic crime lows and revamping the department's use of force policy — but acknowledged his recent health scare and said the thought of spending more time with his family influenced his decision.

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Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

A joint study by AOL and Nielsen found that people spend more than 50 percent of their time online with content and an additional 30 percent of their time on social channels where content can be shared.

Consumers spend more than half of their digital time on smartphones, compared with a third on PCs.

Their employees volunteered about 188,000 hours in communities in 47 countries, with more than 40 % of their time spent devoted to providing their unique talents and abilities (skills - based volunteering).

These links between happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends more time with screens than any previous generation.

Pokémon Go players are highly engaged, spending far more time in the app than they do with some of the most popular social apps such as Facebook's Instagram and messaging services WhatsApp and Snapchat, according to SimilarWeb, a market intelligence and web analytics firm.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

They care more about the quality of people they are spending time with.

According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of time looking at both images developed the disease.

«Maybe he is getting more mellow,» said Schankerman, who has has spent a lot of time discussing his research on reforms needed in the patent system with Spangenberg.

What's more, customers who spend a lot of time coming up with innovations are going to be mad if you reward their idea but don't implement it.

His studies found a direct correlation between more time spent online and feelings of loneliness, where more time offline with family and close friends in face - to - face meetings correlated with feelings of safety, security and improved mental function.

Of the 370 business leaders and 161 IT leaders surveyed, 76 % of business leaders and 77 % of IT leaders agreed with the statement: «When it comes to IT, we are spending more time keeping the lights on than thinking about strategic direction of the business»Of the 370 business leaders and 161 IT leaders surveyed, 76 % of business leaders and 77 % of IT leaders agreed with the statement: «When it comes to IT, we are spending more time keeping the lights on than thinking about strategic direction of the business»of business leaders and 77 % of IT leaders agreed with the statement: «When it comes to IT, we are spending more time keeping the lights on than thinking about strategic direction of the business»of IT leaders agreed with the statement: «When it comes to IT, we are spending more time keeping the lights on than thinking about strategic direction of the business»of the business»:

Their fees are more a function of the time they spend with you figuring out what the document should include.

As you grow more comfortable with it, and as your coworkers begin to accept the time you spend offline, gradually expand the amount of time you spend away from technology.

The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

People spend the majority of their time in the office, more than with their family, friends and hobbies.

I ended up opening eight locations over the next five years, and then sold some of them to spend more time with my growing family.

And the more successful I got, the more leaders I started seeking out, whether it was investors, or Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, or I got the opportunity to spend time with Warren Buffett and he became a close mentor of mine.

Next Issue has more than 100,000 users in Canada, says Maich, with readers spending the same amount of time with the content as if it were a print magazine, rather than a website.

So you better give the 13 - year - old more independence and spend most of your time and energy with the infant.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that the President has delayed the speech in order to spend more time meeting with victims of the West, Texas fertilizer explosion Thursday.

«I have the kids for slightly more than half the week and spend a fair bit of time with them.

Time spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprTime spent capturing or retaining a high - value client, for example, is more valuable to your bottom line than spending an exorbitant amount of time with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprtime with a client whose business adds less value to your enterprise.

Roberts called the current system «sort of untenable» — with doctors spending much of their time with patients entering things into the EHR and even more time at night.

Whether it's being healthier, reaching financial goals or spending more time with loved ones, we make our New Year's resolutions in pursuit of the greatest reward: a happier, more fulfilled life.

This requires being more like a consultant and spending time with customers to educate them on real - world applications of high - value features — on the phone, via video conference or in - person.

The more of someone's day that you can capture, the more time that someone spends with your brand, and the more likely these customers are to go to you for their needs.

Managing finances internally is not necessarily a drain on employees» time, with 50 % of respondents saying they spend less than five hours a week on it and only 9 % taking more than 15 hours weekly.

While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the company's marketing and consumer research departments), more than 50 % of his time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.

Currently, I practice going to meetings with an open mind and spending more time listening to people's points of view without quick reactions.

They spent too much money before checking with the target audience, which made it necessary to spend precious time going back and redoing aspects of the company's website and software to make them more customer - centric.

We will spend more time with these people than any other group of people all week long.

Leadership WA spent some time with Terry to understand more about his philosophy on leadership and his insights on the role of the corporate sector in contributing to community and social impact.

The study also showed that time spent on social media sites is more for personal reasons than for job - related activities, with less than 7 percent of respondents indicating they use social media exclusively for work purposes.

When you're in a role that's fulfilling or working with a team of people you're excited to see every day, you tend to enjoy spending more time at work.

«People spending a lot of time commuting spend less time with loved ones, less time exercising, and are more likely to frequently eat junk food or microwave meals.

At least you make some profit, and with a campaign to send them samples (back to the previous step), you might lure them into spending more with you on the coffee capsules at least some of the time.

The viewer of our digital content is younger and more affluent and spends more time with the content than our older, less affluent more rural viewer of our magazine.»

I spend more of my time selling tea, but it's always in the back of my head that I'm doing something that really aligns directly with what I believe in.»

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

On what has and hasn't changed at Yelp over the years: I still spend a ton of time with product and engineering, we do seem to get a lot more press attention these days, but perhaps most fortunately I haven't had to invest a lot of time with Wall Street (if you pardon the pun)... our CFO Rob Krolik handles most of that.

If it will be used daily, or several times per day, and you plan on keeping it for years to come, then you'll want to consider the quality of the item along with the price and determine if spending more makes sense.