Sentences with phrase «on making things better»

I find that paying attention to my finances and focusing on making things better for us makes me feel more in control, and therefore more confident and happy about our financial situation.

We are focused on making things better — via stronger standards (Common Core), greater parental choice (vouchers, charters, and more), more effective teachers (upgrading preparation programs, devising new evaluation regimens) and lots else.

A jealous partner who interprets the other's interest in porn as rejection might consider whether the other finds one an unsatisfactory partner in sex and life in general and get to work on making things better.

Not exact matches

While some things you can do on your own, it's best to consult with a lawyer when starting out, so you can make sure you've covered everything that you need.

If any good could come out of all of this, she told me, it would be to spread the word and making sure people know one simple thing: Pets should never be placed in an overhead bin on an airplane.

Sure, it might be nice to have access to the absolute latest in technology, like John Wick does when he arrives in Rome, but you won't need to drop $ 1,000 on a new unlocked iPhone 8 if you keep your iPhone 6 in good condition, keep it clean (inside and out,) make sure you're not hogging file space for unnecessary things, etc..

Then you can focus on thinking about how to do things better, how to treat people better, how to make your business better.

And the best thing you can do for the people who love and depend on you is to do your best to make sure you can always be here for them.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

I launched it and the program went well, in the sense that we got a lot of customers on board and I got a training program in place, but the mistake [I made] was moving a little too quickly and not thinking through things all the way through.

All we'd been doing was posting positive messages on Plasticity Labs» digital platform, and answering occasional questions about things that make us feel good.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

«People often want to make themselves look better or avoid the trouble of explanations, and they put a spin on things.»

It means tomorrow the lights will come on and we can pay the bills and think about how we can make this the best thing for our users because that in turn makes it the best thing for us.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

The next best thing after that is the contractor, employer or agency who learned on someone else's dime but was incentivized by commissions to make the campaigns successful.

Good credit card management boils down to making payments on time and not buying things you otherwise can't afford, he said.

«The biggest mistake even experienced business owners make is pushing off a good P&L cleaning for weeks or months after they've already incurred expenses on things like subscriptions — that's money you can't get back, and it adds up fast.»

For the most part, Samsung has succeeded in making the Gear VR hardware unremarkable, and that's a good thing because it puts the focus squarely on the software.

I try everything in my power to get a good night's sleep and to make sure I don't waste time on silly things like TV.

«CEO Chuck Robbins is well on his way to making this one of the best ways to invest in the internet of things, and who can resist that juicy 3 percent yield?»

Machines and tools can make employees» lives better, and in those cases, certainly, spending money on machines and tools is a good thing.

It was just a month I had to go away, but identifying the places where I was weakest in those down times and making it my mission to fill those weaknesses with the best people I could find really relieved a lot of pressure on me and allowed me to concentrate on the things I do best.

Of course, things change, and in 2006, when the state legislature made good on his pledge, Romney, who has of late extensively revised the positions he took in the Bay State, vetoed the bill.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

«Giving gifts is a wonderful thing and it makes you feel good,» said Amy Goyer, an expert on family issues with AARP.

The most important thing I've learned is to make the experience you give an audience or a customer the absolute best you can make it — and that's hard when you're too focused on the future.

«Taking a focused look at clarifying the regulatory environment around online lending, reducing some of the burdens of regulation on small and community banks, and reducing the burdens on community banks so they can go back to making more small - dollar loans is a good thing,» she says.

«Jimmy was very, very good at letting go of the things that might have made him a success up to that point, but he was willing to shed them and go for something completely different... Jimmy's career is based on a tremendous lack of fear of moving forward.»

It's a lovely idea to promise your customers organic, fair - trade cotton, but making good on the promise is another thing altogether.

We'll make smarter choices every day about a wide variety of things based on vast quantities of better information that will be available all the time in the palm of our hands.

It's often seemingly insignificant things that make the biggest impact on employee satisfaction and engagement — for better and for worse.

For things to get better, I had to make some kind of shift to get myself on a more positive track.

I can use that time to think about how to make things better for the company, instead of focusing on email.

A little more than an hour later, Trump — who makes no secret of his preference for Fox News, and often tweets in response to things he sees on the network — tweeted: «Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!»

He wants to spend it on things that he thinks will make the world a better place.

This type of automatic payment is also good for borrowers because, among other things, it has the potential to help a small business eliminate cash flow lumpiness by making more frequent and smaller debits on a daily or weekly basis as opposed to requiring a large loan payment on a monthly basis — although that is not the only benefit to small business owners.

One of the best things you can do to save on your debt is to make extra payments when possible.

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Ross Rubin, an independent analyst for Reticle Research, said Apple could use Topsy's data analysis to better understand popular trends on social media and make smarter recommendations for things like finding apps, music and movies to buy, or perhaps finding content to watch with a future TV service.

The framework contemplates an enhanced child tax credit that will make things better, but there's no detail here at all, including on the income point at which the enhanced child credit will start to phase out.

Carried interest in and of itself is not a bad thing — it incentivizes fund managers to put investors» money to productive use and make sound investment decisions on their behalf (because if the fund doesn't perform well, the manager doesn't receive any carry).

When people start liking our posts on Facebook it makes us feel good, the way Facebook displays that, the way it sends you the notifications, the infinite scroll — all of these things secrete dopamine in your brain.

On Tuesday night, after the abuse allegations against Porter were made public by the Daily Mail, Kelly said in a statement: «Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

As someone who is hot on the path to financial independence if I want it (well before 30 with pretty conservative estimates), having to face imminent freedom has really made me consider things again.

«A good buyer's agent should be counseling you on your home inspection and giving you their opinion on how things should be addressed; whether it's asking for a credit or just asking straight up for the seller to make a repair,» Gassett says.

While we can sit here and debate the value of things, there is one company that is looking to blend the best of both worlds through the use of a crypto token that is based on real - world assets, but can still take advantage of everything that makes digital currencies so appealing — the blockchain and smart contracts being two examples.

Christopher Whalen: Well no, this is the thing, the Fed economists in Washington were bragging about the fact that they made money on QE and they don't understand.

Stop worrying about all the things that make headlines and focus instead on giving your very best to those areas that you can do something about.