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Import Programmes
A control on dealings in foreign currencies was imposed in Sep-tember 1939 by regulation under the Emergency Powers Act. Residents in Great Britain were prohibited from buying or selling foreign currencies except by permission of the Bank of England. The Board of Trade were authorised by the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, to prohibit or regulate by order, the import and export of all goods from and to the United Kingdom or any specified part thereof. Orders made under the Act prohibited the import of goods by private importers except under licence from the Board of Trade. With fuli employment at home, high money United Kingdom Balance of Payments table 7 £000,000'j Year Balance of Payments on Current Account requiring to be financed Grants to U.K. under E.R.P. and payment schemes, etc. Borrowing ( + ) or lnvestment ( —) Sterling Liabilities (Sterling Balances) Gold and Dollar Reserves 1946 . - 298 Nil + 324 + 28 - 54 1947 . - 443 + 30 + 21 + 240 + 152 1948 . + 1 + 138 - 20 - 174 + 55 1949 . + 31 + 154 - 378 + 190 + 3 1950 . + 300 + 140 - 86 + 221 - 575 1951 . - 400 + 43 - 325 + 338 + 344 1952 . + 242 Nil - 71 - 346 + 175 1953 . + 211 Nil - 193 + 222 - 240 Source: United Kingdom Balance of Payments, 1946-54 (Cmd. 9291), Table 1. United Kingdom Balance of Payments table 8 Grants to (+) and from (—) the United Kingdom—EOOO.OOO'.? Year Grants to U.K. (from Table 7) Dollar Area (a) Other Western Hemisphere O.E.E.C. Other Non-Sterling Countries Rest of Sterling Area 1946 . Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 1947 . + 30 Nil Nil Nil Nil + 30 1948 . + 138 + 144 Nil - 6 Nil Nil 1949 . + 154 + 244 - 15 - 80 - 11 + 16 1950 . + 140 + 239 - 2 - 96 - 1 Nil 1951 . + 43 + 54 - 11 Nil Nil Nil 1952 . Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 1953 . Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil (a) Principally European Recovery Programme (Marshall Aid). Source: United Kingdom Balance of Payments, 1946-54 (Cmd. 9291). For Definition of Areas—see notes, Table 6. incomes and the accumulation of wartime savings, the demand of the British public for imports right after the war would certainly have been greater than could be satisfied at the current level of foreign earnings. There were also outstanding at the time the sterling balances, debts owed overseas to certain Commonwealth and other countries. Sales of sterling if left unrestricted after 1945 would ąuickly have exhausted the free reserves of gold and foreign currencies and might conceivably have driven the pound well below those two dollars and eighty cents to which sterling was officially devalued in September 1949. Depreciation might have added to domestic difficulties by raising the costs of imports bought with dollars. It would of course have encouraged exports by cheapening British goods in the currencies in terms of which sterling had been depreciated; but there was at the time a pressing demand for industrial goods in overseas markets which British exporters could not then satisfy. Reduetions in export prices could hardly have increased sales in foreign markets, for no greater volume of output could be exported than was already being sold. Permission to sell sterling continued to be withheld after as during the war except by consent of the control. Authority over dealings in exchange by residents in the United Kingdom was made permanent by the Exchange Control Act, 1947. Orders prohibiting the import of goods except under licence, though amended from Year Net (from Table 7) Dollar Area Other Western Hemisphere O.E.E.C. Other Non-Sterling Countries Rest of Sterling Area Non-Territorial Organisa- tions 1946 + 324 + 301 + 7 - 2 - 12 + 63 - 33 1947 + 21 + 784 + 10 - 92 - 20 - 307 - 354 1948 - 20 + 45 + 146 + 8 - 39 - 180 Nil 1949 - 378 + 100 + 14 - 9 - 31 - 279 - 173 1950 - 86 + 111 + 34 - 2 - 44 - 184 - 1 1951 - 325 - 43 + 28 - 62 - 68 - 176 - 4 1952 - 71 + 39 - 5 - 12 + 5 - 95 - 3 1953 - 193 - 5 + 18 - 45 - 12 - 148 - 1 Borrowing{+)and Investment{—)by the United Kingdom—£000,000'^ Source: United Kingdom Balance of Payments, 194&-54 (Cmd. 9291). For Definition of Areas—see notes, Table 6. United Kingdom Balance of Payments table 9 time to time, remained substantially in force. No goods could be imported (by private traders) except by licence of the Board of Trade and permission to buy foreign currencies was allowed only to traders (and others) who held valid licences or who were otherwise ąualified under the terms of the control. The control of imports was somewhat relaxed in 1948. "Open General Licences" were issued taking the form of a list of commodi-ties which, during the currency of the licence, could be freely imported without special application to the Board of Trade. Some of these goods could be imported without licence from all countries and others from all countries except the Western Hemisphere and Eastern Europę. Another list of goods could be imported without separate licence only if consigned from and originating in the sterling area; and a fourth list limited the privilege of import without licence to goods produced in certain specified countries. These Open General Licences were varied from time to time according to the condition of the balance of payments and the demands of policy. On one occasion the Open General Licences were extended in the pursuit of a generał liberation of trade; and on another, sugar pro-ducts were removed and special licences reimposed "to guard against the risk that a substantial increase in imports would prejudice United Kingdom supplies of raw sugar under a Commonwealth sugar agreement". The relaxations of control were followed, as indeed it was intended, by an increase in the volume of imports. Sterling prices were then rising, partly as a conseąuence of devaluation in 1949 and partly as a result of the increases in the world prices of primary products gener-ally, which had been taking place sińce the war. The balance of payments, which had closed with a surplus in 1949 and 1950, was again in deficit in 1951 and the reserves of gold and foreign exchange published ąuarterly were being drained at an alarming rate. Tem-porarily, at least, the policy of relaxation had to be suspended. In November 1951 and again in March 1952, Mr. (now Sir Winston) ChurchilFs newly-formed Administration removed from the Open General Licence many classes of goods consigned from "foreign" (that is, not sterling) countries. A licence restricting the ąuantities of goods which may be brought in does not successfully limit the alue of those imports when prices are rising, and it is the gross sum paid which so affects the balance of payments. Licence and exchange control were accordingly strengthened by the imposition of a limit upon the value of the goods which might be imported. A quota was fixed for each class of goods determining the value of the imports which could be permitted and specifying the countries of origin from which the goods could be consigned. "Global" quotas were issued for countries sharing in the scheme of Marshall Aid (O.E.E.C.) and their dependencies and for certain other foreign countries, not situated in the Western hemisphere nor lying behind the Iron Curtain. Shares in the quota were allotted to importers on the basis of their trade in a past period. Each importer allowed a quota was entitled to apply for a licence to import this class of goods and licences were issued up to the value of each trader's quota. All applications had to be accom-panied by a certificate signed by an independent practising accountant showing the value of the goods already imported by the applicant in the period for which the quota was current. Quotas were allowed only to those already established in the trade. No provision was made in the scheme for the allocation of a quota to traders wanting to enter the business for the first time. To help fellow members in the O.E.E.C. overcome certain special cases of difficulty, facilities were offered for imports into the United Kingdom in addition to the ąuota and it lay with the country concerned to distribute these additions to the quota among their own exporters. The Board of Trade then issued import licences on presentation by the importer of a certificate from the foreign exporter that he had been allowed an export ąuota under the scheme by his own Goyernment.1 These drastic measures were apparently successful. The value of imported merchandise was brought down by one-seventh (£531 million). Exports rose by £77 million (3 per cent). A deficit which, together with the balance of other debits and credits had risen to £400 milhon in 1951, was turned into a surplus of £242 million in 1952 (Table 5). Late in the autumn the reserves began to rise and by 1953 the way was again elear to resume the march towards the liberalisation of foreign trade. The Chancellor was helped in all this, as his predecessor had been embarrassed, by the turns in the terms of trade. British imports rose in price relative to British ex-ports by 14 per cent between 1950 and 1951, a rise sufficient to account for three-quarters of the deterioration in the balance of payments which oceurred in the last year of Mr. Gaitskell's incum-bency at the Exchequer. The succeeding fortunate, but quite fortuitous, fali in the price of imports between 1951 and 1952 was worth nearly one-quarter of the amount (15 per cent) by which the value of imports was reduced during Mr. Butler's first year of office. 1 Import of Goods (Control) Order, 1940 (S.R. & O. 1940, No. 873, and S.R. & O. 1945, No. 1356). Board of Trade, Import Licensing Branch, Notices to Importers, Nos. 292, 401, 488, 490, 492, 518, 519, 520 and 527. The import of many foodstuffs and raw materials was concen-trated early in the war in the hands of the controlling departments, such as the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Supply. Govern-ment bought, often in bulk, from the foreign suppliers, either directly or through the appropriate control who, in turn, might employ the trade as agents. Some of these schemes were continued after the war because it was considered at the time that centralised purchases undertaken by one buyer—the Raw Cotton Commission is an ex-ample—would provide more efficiently for the needs of the users. Others were kept on only until the trade had sufficiently recovered to resume its former functions. These arrangements for Government purchase have now been wound up. The business of importing has been returned to private hands; but many commodities are still subject to import licence, and exchange control, including all those which have to be paid for in dollars and other hard currencies. Applications for licences from private traders were made direct to the Board of Trade or in the case of some raw materials and foodstuffs and certain other classes of imports, through the sponsoring department. Traders applying for licences to import machinery, plant, scientific instruments and parts thereof had to declare the purposes for which the plant was reąuired and what increase in pro-duction (and exports) could be expected. Licences were issued only on a showing that the goods in question could not be procured except from abroad and applicants were asked to "give particulars of the steps which had been taken" to obtain similar goods from sources within the United Kingdom. An assurance was also reąuired that the necessary raw materials and labour were available and that no extra building would be needed. Applicants for licences to import all other goods (goods, that is, other than vehicles and the commodities specified) needed to state the purposes for which the goods were reąuired. But both classes of applicants had to declare the countries of origin, the terms and means of payment, and whether any royal-ties, rentals, service charges or other similar transactions had been agreed to. Such agreements must be submitted to, and approved by, the Bank of England before an application for a licence can be enter-tained. A smali ąuantity of certain manufactures was imported from certain countries as a token. Licences were issued for goods on this token import list up to 20 per cent of the pre-war value of the importer^ trade. The privilege was intended as a concession to the generał principle that nobody, in this case the importer, should be wholly depriyed of the opportunity of keeping his business alive if so drastic an interference with the interests of an individual could reasonably be avoided. The import programme was drawn up showing the expected re-ąuirements for imports over a period of six months. These reąuire-ments were assembled under the direction of the Treasury; and estimates of supplies in prospect from overseas sources were furn-ished by the departments and controls arranging for import of the commodity either directly or through their trade agents. Reąuire-ments and supplies for the commodities imported in great ąuantity —foodstuffs, petroleum products, softwoods and so on—were ex-pressed both in terms of the physical ąuantities and in terms of value. In^ome cases the volume of imports which could be procured was absolutely confmed by a continuing world scarcity. In others the limit upon British capacity to import was imposed by the shortage of the means of payment in the appropriate "hard" currency, particu-larly, of course, in dollars. The commodity statement had therefore to be supplemented by a budget comparing reąuirements expressed as a demand for foreign exchange with a forecast of the resources in foreign currencies accruing and available for expenditure upon imports during the period in ąuestion. The Board of Trade estimated foreign receipts from goods exported and sold abroad (yisible items); the Treasury, earnings from commissions, services of one kind or another, borrowings and proceeds from the sale of overseas invest-ments, together with the amount to be expected from gifts, aid, drawing-rights under payment schemes and so on. The compilation of the import programme as a whole has been complicated by the shortage of dollars and by the limited con-vertibility of sterling and many other currencies. Imports into the United Kingdom from all countries of the Commonwealth except Canada are paid for in sterling; but imports from other sources must be paid for in the currency of the country from which the goods are obtained, or in one or other of the limited rangę of currencies which are generally acceptable, that is convertible. The British demand for goods and seraces from some countries and some parts of the world exceeds in value the British exports which those countries and those parts of the world are normally accustomed to buy. From certain other countries and from other parts of the world, the United Kingdom imports less than the sum of the British exports sold to those regions, and the other credits arising therein. A deficit accumulates in transactions with the first group of countries and their currencies are "hard". With the second group, there is a surplus of foreign receipts in Great Britain's favour and the currencies of these countries if inconvertible are correspondingly "soft". Convertible currencies such as the dollar can be freely exchanged and credits earned in one convertible currency can be used to ex-tinguish debts incurred in any other currency. Some currencies are convertible into no other currency; others, such as sterling, can be exchanged into a limited rangę of foreign currencies and converted into others only on certain terms and with official consent. Incon-vertibility, whether absolute or conditional, prevents foreign income in the hard (and generally convertible) currencies from being in-creased by the sale of credits accumulated in those softer currencies of the countries with which the balance of trade is favourable to Britain. Additional income in hard currencies can in these circum-stances only be earned the hard way, by the promotion of direct exports to hard currency markets. As long as soft currencies con-tinued to be inconvertible, the hard currency budgets had to be balanced by restriction of expenditure, by the limitation, that is, of imports from hard currency areas. Currencies which are inconvertible can be used for no other pur-pose but that of buying goods and seraces (and paying debts) in the particular country in which the currency is earned. Soft currencies, being inconvertible, may also be unacceptable (at the official rates!) outside the countries in which they circulate. British demands on these countries being less, ex hypothesi, than the value of the goods and sendces which the foreign suppliers are able and willing to provide, any surplus in these currencies, earned but un-spent, is amassed as a paper credit which can be put to no better purpose than that of increasing imports from those soft currency countries. There is conseąuently no ąuestion of scarcity in our deal-ings with these areas. The problem, rather, is one of plenty—how best to make use of the surpluses arising in the soft currency accounts. The world, trading with the United Kingdom, is split up for the purposes of exchange control into a number of distinct areas— dollar area, other Western hemisphere, O.E.E.C, other non-sterling countries, rest of the sterling area and non-territorial organisations such as the International Monetary Fund.1 The sterling earned in foreign trade by residents in these several areas is paid into one or other of these accounts, each with its own degree of convertibility. Sterling earned in trade within the United Kingdom and the sterling area and paid into an account in one of the "scheduled territories"2 1 See note to Table 6 above, p. 110. 2 Below, p. 125. is freely convertible into any currency circulating in the "scheduled territories". Rights of conversion into other non-sterling currencies, particularly into gold and dollars, vary. The claims of the dependent colonial territories are considered together with domestic reąuirements for dollar goods arising in the United Kingdom. Some members of the sterling area, such as Australia and New Zealand, have undertaken broadly to enforce much the same limitations upon dollar expenditure as are currently being imposed in the United Kingdom; and other members make their own arrangements with the U.K. Treasury as generał managers of the sterling area. Sterling earned by residents in countries with whom the United Kingdom has concluded bilateral agreements is to all intents and purposes completely inconvertible into any other currency within the limits specified in the agreements, and there is generally provision for the conversion or other disposition of currencies earned or accumulated outside those limits. Sterling earned by merchants shipping from countries party to such arrangements as the European Payments Union is paid into transferable accounts. This transferable sterling cannot be freely converted into gold and dollars, but may be transferred by the (non-resident) holder (that is, used by him, not being resident in the United Kingdom) to pay for exports from, and debts due in, certain other specified countries and groups of countries, the currency authorities of which are themselves willing to accept and hołd sterling. Sterling paid by merchants im-porting under hcence goods purchased in the dollar area is fully con-vertible. "American account" sterling, as these funds are called, may be exchanged into gold and dollars at the current rates. Care has to be taken, of course, to ensure that sterling goods, ostensibly sold within the sterling area, are not subseąuently "shunted" and sold in the dollar area. Inconvertible (sterling area) sterling can thus be con-verted into dollars—but for the credit, not of the sterling area pool, but of the intermediary, who is in a position to buy with incon-vertible sterling and sell for dollars. The import panel, in drawing up the programme for imports, had to strike a separate balance in respect of each group of currencies. They were at pains to ensure that all reąuirements were satisfied, to the limit of their capacity, by supplies drawn from soft currency markets. There was no other way of recovering the value of credits earned in trade with these regions. The maintenance of employment and the standard of life at home both demand that no stricter limits shall be imposed on imports of foodstuffs and raw materials than is necessary and it became, indeed, one of the chief functions of the planners to exploit to the fuli the soft currency areas of the world as sources of supply. Hard currencies, on the other hand, have to be severely economised. Reąuirements, particularly for dollar imports, have to be confined within the strait-jacket of current earnings plus funds obtained from loans or outright aid and the permissible draw-ings (if any) upon the reserves. There is no alternative, sińce dollars (as long as some currencies are inconvertible) can be got from no other source. Licences to import from hard currency areas conse-quently had to be limited in the days of stringency and indeed refused, if a substitute commodity could be got from a country willing to accept currencies which were softer and more easily earned. Only those demands which could not be met from anywhere else and that excess of the minimum reąuirements over the maximum expected supplies from elsewhere could be accepted for provision from sources asking payment in dollars and other hard currencies. But dollars might always be saved, though at the cost of a certain extravagance in terms of the softer and more easily earned curren cies. The Ministry of Food could (and did) add to the volume of foodstuffs by importing supplies bought in soft currencies at prices which exceeded the cost of the equivalent comestibles in the dollar area; and the supply of raw materials was also enlarged on occasion by purchases at higher prices from soft currency sources rather than a cheaper dollar market. The excess of the soft currency over the dollar price had to be limited, however, particularly in the case of raw materials. Too great a concession to the soft currency seller over the price ruling in dollar areas, by raising costs of manufacture in Britain, could impose a hindrance on British exports which would be the greater the more directly the raw materiał in ąuestion was consumed in the production of goods for sale in hard currency markets. The completed import programme, consisting of a series of commodity budgets and an estimate of the income in foreign exchange likely to be available for the purchase of foreign supplies during the forthcoming period, was considered by a body representing all departments interested in the procurement of imports, either as claimants or as advisers on supplies. The Treasury, concerned to ensure that expenditure upon imports did not outrun disposable resources in foreign currencies, was in the chair. It was the business of this committee to ascertain that reąuirements had been formed upon an acceptable statistical base; that none exceeded a reasonable minimum and that no worthwhile economies had been neglected; that adeąuate allowance had been made for income expected from each source, and, finaliy, that policy had been correctly interpreted by each department in formulating the reąuirements. The instrument for securing these objects was that mutual scrutiny of estimates (already described in other connections) by expert de-partmental representatives. Each was aware that too generous an assessment of another's reąuirements, an unreliable forecast of over-seas supplies or of foreign income,, would jeopardise the fulfilment of his own claim. Fuli and free discussion between officials was the as-surance that all would come to agree upon the reasonableness of the finał assessment of each reąuirement and also, it may be presumed, upon the generał order in which the reąuirements should be ranked according to the priorities laid down by the Cabinet. These delibera-tions concluded, the committee prepared a report, setting out the estimated minimum reąuirements for each class of import and the maximum supplies which could be expected; or the amounts which could be bought with the foreign income allocated for this purpose if this should be the smaller. The draft programme finaliy agreed upon by the panel of officials was submitted to the Cabinet. The ąuantities included had been accepted by the departments and the Treasury; and the report recommended how the two sides of the account could be brought into balance. It was for Ministers to decide whether reąuirements should be reduced and which should suffer; or whether more foreign exchange should be provided for imports and the budget balanced at the cost of a greater draft on foreign resources and possibly of a reduction in reserves and other foreign assets. The size of the import programme and its constitution raise large ąuestions of policy. Decisions about imports imply decisions about the ąuantity of foodstuffs to be provided, about the raw materials to be bought and about the supplies of foreign-made eąuipment which can be allowed for the improvement and development of British industry. The first directly affects the standard of life of the people, the second the volume of employment and the third the technical efficiency and capacity of British industry. Questions such as these cannot be left to an official and necessarily anonymous committee, however highly placed. As long as import reąuirements exceeded supplies, or at least, the means of foreign payment (and once reąuirements for imports had fallen short of current foreign earnings the need for this elaborate machinery of a budget for imports had disappeared), the responsibility for deciding which claims on foreign income should be accepted and which should be excluded had to be reserved for Ministers.


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Friday February 24th 2017: Union Pacific Corporation, UNP is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is Railroads in the sector of Services. Based in USA, Union Pacific Corporation, UNP has a market cap of 88.29 B. Since its IPO date on the 01/02/1980, Union Pacific Corporation, UNP performance year to date is 4.99%. Today Union Pacific Corporation, UNP has gained -0.01%, with a current price of 108.83.
Ownership of the company is 0.10% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 81.60%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 42.90%. Return of assets are at 7.70%, with return on investment at 13.60%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, Union Pacific Corporation, UNP is seeing a long-term debt/equity of 0.73. While Total debt/equity is 0.76. With a profit margin of 21.40%, this is combined with a gross margin of 80.80%, and operating margin of 36.40%. Union Pacific Corporation ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 0.9, while the quick ratio is 0.7.
For the last year Union Pacific Corporation, UNP has seen a EPS growth of -7.70%. A performance for the year of 15.63%. The 52-week high is -5.48%, and the 52-week low is 25.01%. The average volume for Union Pacific Corporation, UNP is 27072.
With a target price of 119.39, can Union Pacific Corporation, UNP reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of Union Pacific Corporation, UNP. Union Pacific Corporation has a P/E of 20.81 and a forward P/E of 16.98. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 1.68. Union Pacific Corporation also has a P/S and a P/B of 4.36 and 4.48 respectively. For P/cash, Union Pacific Corporation has a value of 77.51, while it is 51.93 for P/free cash flow.
At the current price of 108.83, Union Pacific Corporation has a dividend yield of 2.22%. We see a return on equity of 21.50%.
Looking more long-term Union Pacific Corporation, is projected to get an EPS growth for the next five years of 12.39%. In the short-term an EPS growth of 11.54% in the next year is forecasted. This is after a EPS growth of -7.70% for this year and for the last five years a 8.60% growth has been seen.

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With 2013 just around the corner it's traditionally the time of year we all start looking back on the year gone by, and planning for the upcoming one. I like to review annually what I've achieved and areas which need focus, and I think for most people the end of the year presents a good opportunity to do that. This year one of the major focuses for me has been increased productivity, and I think I've achieved a lot in that respect. However there's always room for improvement, and increasing productivity is one of the best possible ways to improve your life, by means of freeing up time for positive activities.
Ever since the advent of Tim Ferriss' establishment-shaking bestseller The Four Hour Work Week there's been a perceptable shift in business thinking surrounding time management. Perhaps Tim's book wasn't the turning point, but it seems the points he made – that time is our most precious commodity and that you don't have to work hard for decades in order to enjoy the fruits of your labor – have since become part of the psyche of many business people and entrepreneurs.
And whether it was Tim's book or not that was the catalyst, there has been a huge shift towards thinking like this. In decades past, perceived business wisdom tended to follow the lines of those who worked the hardest, the longest hours, climbed the corporate ladder and played the corporate game the most effectively, were the winners in the end: Able to retire in luxury to enjoy the spoils of their labours.
Lifestyle Design – Efficiency with Powerful Purpose
With the demise of secure retirement funds, the rise of the internet, and the catalyst of The Four Hour Work Week and other productivity masterpieces such as Leo Babauta's Zen to Done, it seems a massive shift in thinking has begun to occur. People are now asking themselves: what changes can I make in order to enjoy my life now? How can I work less time for more freedom? That change is a key one, as previously the idea of freedom was a monetary one…how can I be a millionaire? Or loaded enough to retire early? Actually now the idea is evolving that depending on how you run your life, your lifestyle can be that of a millionaire no matter what you earn. Ferriss calls it lifestyle design.
More and more, the people I talk to who are seriously successful are using techniques like Tim's to work smarter not harder, with the focus on enjoying life and achieving a work-life balance rather than a bank balance to write home about. As the saying goes: "You can't take it with you – he who dies richest doesn't win". While that's not to advocate spending sprees you can't afford, it is something to think about. Would you rather miss out on life now to be what society defines as successful, and then enjoy a few years of ideal living at retirement age? Or would you rather live your dream life now?
The Upside of the Economic Downturn
It seems more and more of us are hoping to choose the latter – and seizing the bull by the horns to start achieving exactly that aim. If there's one thing the recent global economic problems have done it's forced or encouraged many of us to take control of our own destinies, financial futures, and outcomes. Tim's book is one in a vast toolkit provided by the internet, which can help you revolutionise the way you work, where you work, and how much you work. Now.
One of the best ways you can achieve radical change in your daily life is through streamlining, taking laser focus and creating intense productivity periods which get your work done in a ridiculously short amount of time, allowing you to enjoy the rest of your life. I've put together my top seven tips which will help you achieve this on a daily basis.
1. Morning routine & Non Negotiable Practice
All the super-successful people I talk to are big believers in this first step. From Will Smith, to Oprah to Bob Shapiro and others of the world's top CEOs. For many the most grounding and effective morning routine involves meditation. Connecting and centring yourself before the day begins so you can perform your absolute best, and are in line with your core goals.
The above article on the world's top CEOs who meditate quotes William George, who sits on the supervisory boards of Exxon Mobil and Novaris AG, and is a professor of management practices at Harvard Business School.
"Meditation has been integral in my career; it is the single best thing that happened to me in terms of my leadership," Meditation enables one to focus on what is really important; and I haven't had high blood pressure since the 1970s."
Whether you're a meditator or not, commit to a practice in the morning that grounds your day, whether it be meditation, a run, or singing in the shower. Something that you do without fail which anchors you in the present, calms your central nervous system and clears your mind.
An addition to this concept which I like to incorporate is Non Negotiable Time, which is a concept espoused by the brilliant Marie Forleo – she explains in this video the self-care and self-support practices she builds in to her week, and how they increase her productivity ten fold.
2) Automatic Personal Routines
One of Tim's best suggestions is to create automatic routines. Don't put energy and thought into the small things you need to do each day to survive and function, have your choices automated by your personal routine. Investing mental energy in what to have for breakfast or what food choice to make is using mental energy you don't need to expend on choices.
3) Planning and Automating
So many high achievers and productivity mavens swear by staving off the inevitability of your inbox for an hour each morning to make sure that your goal setting and priorities for the day are focused. An initial hour of focused goal-setting, intention setting, and prioritising can make sure your day begins right and powers towards your desired outcome of more output in less time. Writing down to-do lists and action plans decisively reduces the amount of time they spend cycling through your mind, another waste of mental energy.
Inbox mania is one of the main productivity-sucking culprits these days which can be avoided – there is now so much you can do to stay away from your inbox, you can even get programs such as AwayFind which will let you know when a critical email comes in. The natural extension of this is hiring a VA to respond to all non-urgent email and to pare down your inbox to just the critical. This is outsourcing which most highly successful people consider non-negotiable.
This great infographic shows the main ways people lose time at work:
4) Productivity Havens During Most productive Times
For most people who want to operate extremely efficiently during a set period of time, productivity havens are critical. I would advise achieving this by turning off all distractions – email, facebook etc – during your peak hours of productivity so you can focus with laserlike precision on getting the job done with efficiency, speed and focus. Removing the distractions enables you to operate in your zone of excellence and stay in your zone of excellence for as long as is necessary to get the job done.
In this Business Insider article which examines the theory that many successful people only work four hours per day, Aimee Groth describes the results of a study into work habits saying:
"Famous authors tend to write only for 4 hours during the morning, leaving the rest of the day for rest and recuperation. Hence successful authors, who can control their work habits and are motivated to optimize their productivity, limit their most important intellectual activity to a fixed daily amount when working on projects requiring long periods of time to complete."
So make like Hemingway and aim to only work four hours a day, just make sure you stay away from the amount of booze he favoured: not helpful for productivity in most people!
5) Rescue Time/Time Management
Another of Tim Feriss' recommendations is accounting for every minute of your day by using a program such as Rescue Time. This clever software will ensure that you know exactly how you spend your time and where your time goes. Then using the data you collect you can analyse how best to streamline and improve where you're spending your time. This is critical to getting real about achieving your aims in time management.
Setting time limits for achieving things like shopping or web surfing is a useful tool too. If you allow yourself half an hour to find the best deal on your holiday then you will make a decision and book, ultimately saving you time which means saving you money, rather than allowing yourself endless time browsing and searching for the best deals.
6) Follow a Reward-for-completion Model
This is critical to achieving a massive increase in productivity and a freeing up of your time. Most of us have been trained to work between nine to five, and according to Parkinson's Law most tasks will expand to fill the time allocated to them. This isn't good for productivity as people knowing they have a certain amount of time to work will work slowly and less efficiently. A good way to combat this is by creating task lists for the day, with the promise of free time at the end as motivation to get you through them quickly.
Once you have your list of aims for the day, set yourself the task of cranking through them. This is hugely motivating if you stick firmly to the mantra that once your list is done your work is done. You will hustle through a ridiculous amount when it's the only thing which stands between you and quality time.
On thinksimple now, Scott Young writes:
"The solution is to stop paying yourself by the hour. Sure, you may continue to bill your clients by the hour. Or, your boss may continue to pay you a wage, and expect you to stay in the office until 5pm. But, that doesn't mean you need to pay yourself that way. If you reward completion over input time, you will have a lean schedule."
Keeping a list of daily goals puts only your work between you and relaxation, instead of some arbitrary amount of time for the day. Not a minimum amount of effort, just your most important tasks separate you and the finish line. This creates an incredible amount of motivation to cut distractions and keep the focus.
Don't fall into the trap of then giving yourself more work – this negates the motivational power of the strategy. Stick to your plan for the day and the week, and when your work's done your day ends. A super simple concept which will increase your productivity by double I'd be prepared to wager.
7) Mind Control Techniques
Ever heard that saying "it's all in the mind?" Well when it comes to business success I'm a firm believer that it is all in the mind. If you can get your brain functioning and trained to behave in a certain way then you can achieve anything. A big part of this is replacing the negative mantra which is drummed into us from when we're young whereby busyness equals importance, which goes something like: "I'm so busy" "I don't have time for that" etc etc.
As soon as you catch yourself having an internal dialogue which goes along these lines stop yourself and flip the conversation to a positive one such as: "I'm super efficient, I'm gaining efficiency every single day, I"m using my skills to hurtle towards my goals." If you can build gratitude into this then you're streets ahead of the game. As all the great gurus, spiritual leaders, and many many successful people have reiterated over centuries, gratitude for what you have is the strongest factor determining what you achieve. Mentally make sure you're practicing gratitude every day, rather than focusing on negatives. My suggestion would be something like this: "I'm grateful for this work, grateful to be able to do this. Grateful for the freedom I'm creating."
The Next Big Question?
So on New Year's Eve as the clock chimes midnight and we tick over into the next wonderful year of our lives, what changes will you promise to make? What will be the critical improvements you make this coming year? And if they're productivity goals, what will you do with all that glorious, healthful free time you're creating for yourself?
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The Sojourner program was a dream of Paul and Peggie Scott. Paul was a career Navy man and as such, had been in many places where the congregations of the Lord's people were small in number and struggling. It was his dream to do something to alleviate the situation by helping these congregations to become self-supporting and strengthen the Church.
While living in California, they worked with congregations of all sizes and conducted workshops statewide. At the time he retired from the Navy, he was serving as an elder of the Pacific Beach Church of Christ in San Diego, California. He still had the dream and hope of a particular type of mission work, but had not fully decided just how this would be accomplished. They moved to Lubbock, TX and attended the Sunset School of Preaching to better prepare themselves. They worked for a short period in Wyoming and Kansas. While in Kansas, Richard and Georgie Jones joined them. They had a RV as did some others and an idea began to grow that this would be the way to accomplish what had become known as "Paul and Peggie's Dream".
The Conroe Church of Christ in Conroe, TX sent them to a mission field in South Carolina where they worked for three years. When they completed the work there, they went to Staten Island, NY for a 3 month mission effort before returning to Texas. Another couple shared in the dream with Paul and Peggie. They were Marvin and Linda Hall from San Diego where Marvin was serving as an elder with the Pacific Beach congregation. They left San Diego and attended the Sunset School of Preaching to participate in a study course for which Paul had made arrangements. In 1978, these two couples held the first workshop in Weslaco, TX. In January 1979, the group adopted their identifying name of National Evangelism with Sojourners The number has continued to grow year after year. However, there are always more requests for help than there are Sojourners to do the work.
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Childhood Obesity: What can WE do?
We've heard it, the newspapers are reporting it, states and the federal government are addressing it, our universities are studying it and we in the field of early care and education see it on a daily basis… our preschoolers are getting heavier!
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that "obesity now affects 17% of all children and adolescents in the United States - triple the rate from just one generation." Obese and overweight children have increased incidence of risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, breathing problems, joint problems, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Obese and overweight children also have a greater risk of social and psychological problems including poor self-esteem and are more likely to become obese adults. http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html Sobering statistics for all of us who have been charged to ensure the health and welfare of all of the children in our care and in our communities!
As a Food Friends® Program Coordinator at Colorado State University since 2009, my work has focused on the research, development and implementation of a nutrition and movement program focused on establishing healthy eating and physical activity habits in preschoolers to prevent future weight gain. The Food Friends program received an implementation grant in 2009 from The Colorado Health Foundation to take the research based program in to 950 preschool classrooms and 600 family child care homes. In 2012 The Food Friends was awarded an additional $875,000 from The Colorado Health Foundation to implement a sustainability plan with all of the Food Friends participants. The grant was written based on my capstone project in the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program where my Food Friends team and I were able identify the needs of the participants, write them in to the grant proposal and secure funding to help address those needs. The Food Friends program is in 58 out of 64 counties with a current cumulative reach of 50,924 children and families. This reach was made possible in part to the incredible networking with my Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program fellows. A fabulous representation of how the Buell Network supports children and families throughout Colorado!
Here is a brief overview of how The Food Friends program is addressing childhood obesity prevention. The Food Friends: Fun With New Foods® is an evidence base social marketing campaign aimed at increasing children's willingness to try new foods in an effort to enhance food choice, and hence dietary variety. A physical activity companion program, The Food Friends: Get Movin' with Mighty Moves® develops gross motor skills to improve the programs' overall efforts to establish healthful habits that prevent childhood obesity early in life. Both programs have demonstrated significant behavior changes in preschool children and are published in the research literature.
In recognition of September as National Childhood Obesity Awareness month I would like to share The Food Friends 7 Simple Tips to Overcome Picky Eating and to Get Moving. These simple tips can be incorporated in early care and education centers/homes and shared with families.
Fun with New Food: 7 Simple Tips to Overcome Picky Eating
- Make trying new foods fun
- Keep offering new foods
- Offer one new food at a time
- Be a good role model by eating new foods with the children
- Let children choose new foods
- Avoid forcing children to try new foods
- Teach children about new foods
Get Movin' With Mighty Moves: 7 Simple Tips to Get Moving
- Let children explore with movement
- Make activity fun
- Be creative with activity
- Add activity into daily life
- Budget TV and screen time
- Engage children's imagination
- Be a good role model by being active with children
I have learned so much in my work over the past four years and my passion has grown to ensure that our precious little children have the opportunity to be healthy as they grow and develop! With that said, I want to emphasize it is we, the adults who are responsible for the health of our children! It is our job… our job! We are the adults, they are the children. We are the ones who are buying the food they eat and scheduling how/where they spend time. We owe it to the children to provide healthy food and beverage choices… to give them opportunities to move their bodies… build those gross motor skills… allow for free, glorious play throughout the day… to have fun learning about food and what their bodies can do! Join me in this critical cause, together we can join the national movement to address childhood obesity.
For more information on The Food Friends and/or program participation and healthy children please contact me, Becky Keigan at 970-491-3562 or by email firstname.lastname@example.com
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all the feelingsFeb. 6th, 2012 09:55 pm
Your poker face ain't fooling nobody, nobody here
We've all felt the flame and shed those same tears
Driving home to a one man hell, still counting years, still counting years
Hey brother we're all learning to love again
Making up your bed that day on a foreign floor between foreign walls
Thinking 'bout the words you'd say to a phone that never calls
Feel the weight of your father's ring and all those dreams, and all those dreams
Hey brother, we're all learning to love again
PERFECT DEAN'N'SAM SONG Y/Y? I was just listening to my shuffle the other day, and the first lines caught my ear, and so I listened it out, and now I can't not see it that way. Anyone else?
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HeLa cells contain a serine/threonine protein kinase (DNA-PK) that is strongly activated in vitro by low concentrations of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Activation was specific for dsDNA; both natural DNAs and synthetic oligonucleotides functioned as kinase activators. The fact that DNA-PK activity was rapidly inhibited by incubation with dsDNA and ATP suggests that DNA-PK activity also may be regulated by autophosphorylation. During gel filtration, DNA-PK activity behaved as a 350-kDa protein, and highly purified DNA-PK contained a dsDNA-binding, 350-kDa polypeptide that was phosphorylated in a dsDNA-dependent manner. We conclude that this 350-kDa polypeptide is likely to be DNA-PK. Previously we showed that the dsDNA-activated kinase phosphorylates two threonines at the N terminus of hsp90 alpha (S. P. Lees-Miller and C. W. Anderson, J. Biol. Chem. 264:17275-17280, 1989). Here we show that DNA-PK also phosphorylates the simian virus 40 large tumor antigen, the mouse tumor-suppressor protein p53, the human Ku autoantigen, and two unidentified HeLa DNA-associated polypeptides of 52 and 110 kDa. Identification of these and other newly identified DNA-binding substrates suggest that the dsDNA-activated kinase may regulate transcription, DNA replication, or cell growth.
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Lisa Evans, a commercial property solicitor at Kirwans law firm, has reacted to the low-key Spring Budget.
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It will increase from its current level of 9% to 10% in April 2018, and then to 11% in April 2019 for those making a profit of more than £8,060.
The level for employees for these Class 4 contributions is 12%. The Chancellor said that this would raise £145m by 2021-22. On its own, the change announced in the Spring Budget would leave 2.84m people facing an average annual increase of £240.
As previously announced, Class 2 payments, which have a lower threshold of £5,965 or more in profits per year, will be abolished.
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