Pecuniarities

How procrastination unforeseen events and delays such as power outages and technology malfunction almost got me in trouble with my tax return.

How showing respect and being polite when dealing with authority figures could save you from disciplinary actions. Story of my encounter with a police officer who pulled me over concluded with him giving me a benevolent warning to slow down and wishing me a nice day.

Financial, health and moral reasons to slow down.

As mentioned previously in Part 1 of this series, It’s Business But It’s Also Personal, no matter how professional a business tries to be, we sometimes can’t help but be affected by the people we deal with because we are human. When a customer is nice to us, we are nice in return. In many [...]

When I decided to do an article on how being nice can save you money based on my own experiences in business and customer service (both as receiver and provider), I had intended it to be a single post. But the end result was over 2,100 words, and I figured the chance that even one [...]

Food safety practices should actually apply all year round, but in summer and any time of warm weather, regular precautions might not be enough. For example, you might be able to leave food unrefrigerated for several hours in February without seeing any major effects, but the same practice may not work for you in [...]

Money on the Mind: Social and Psychological Ramifications
I came across an interesting article on MSN Money last night titled Does money make you mean? which described a study conducted on a group of subjects who had been preconditioned to have money on their minds when various experiments were conducted. The study found that those with [...]