Work-Life Balance: 14 Techniques for Improving It by Trent Hamm

The current issue of BusinessWeek features a big collection of articles on personal challenges in the workplace. I eagerly read their article about work-life balance as this is something I struggle with, but I was disappointed to find that the article mostly consisted of stories about people who were already well off who simply just chose a different career. While that is…

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Top 10 Most Valuable U.S. Coins Found in Pocket Change Coins Worth Money in Your Pocket By Susan Headley

You may have some coins worth big money sitting in your pocket right now. There are many reasonably valuable U.S. error coins and die varieties in circulation today. People overlook these coins because they have small distinguishing characteristics that are not easily recognizable, such as a modest doubling of the coin image, or minute differences in the…

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Solicitation H/T Wikipedia

Solicitation is the act of offering or attempting to purchase goods or services. Legal status may be specific to the time or place where occurs. The crime of “solicitation to commit a crime” occurs when a person encourages, “solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause” another person to attempt or commit a crime, with the purpose of…

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Mathematical optimization H/T Wikipedia

“Mathematical programming” redirects here. For the peer-reviewed journal, see Mathematical Programming.”Optimization” and “Optimum” redirect here. For other uses, see Optimization (disambiguation) and Optimum (disambiguation). Graph of a paraboloid given by z = f(x, y) = −(x² + y²) + 4. The global maximum at (x, y, z) = (0, 0, 4) is indicated by a blue dot. Nelder-Mead minimum search of Simionescu’s function. Simplex vertices are ordered by…

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Self-efficacy H/T Wikipedia

Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their innate ability to achieve goals. Albert Bandura defines it as a personal judgement of “how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations”.[1] Expectations of self-efficacy determine whether an individual will be able to exhibit coping behavior and how long effort will be sustained in the face…

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