Your vehicle is one of the most significant investments you will make. Whether you use it for commuting, leisure purposes, or emergencies only, traveling safely in your auto will help you stay safe on the road and get to where you need to be when you need to be there.
Regular care and maintenance for your vehicle is essential. All drivers know this, but what exactly do you need to do to get the most out of your car?
Clean It
Both inside and outside. Your enjoyment of your car and how well it drives it all depend on how well you clean and care for the interior and exterior bodywork. Use a good screen wash and wax treatments, and regularly vacuum and shampoo car carpets to help you improve cleanliness and hygiene levels. An easy way to keep your car clean is to book it in for regular detailing or heading to a car wash. Alternatively, book a time slot every few weeks to spend some time giving your auto some TLC.
Tires
Your tires are your car’s only point of contact with the road, and as such, you need to be sure that they are in good condition at times, especially before long journeys. Legal requirements are 2/32″. To check your tread meets this, you can either buy a tread gauge or you can use a penny. Using a penny, turn the coin upside down so you can see Lincoln’s head. Then, place the penny inside the tread on your tire. The tread should cover some of the head; if you can see the whole head, you need to replace your tires. You should also check you are using the right tires for your driving conditions, too. Be it changing from winter to summer tires or choosing off-road Super Swamper Tires if you drive on rocky terrain frequently to avoid damage to your vehicle.
Check Fluid Levels Often.
The last thing you want is to be in the middle of nowhere and get a warning flash-up that fluid levels are low or even out, and you have no way out of topping them up. Fluid levels you should be checking include water, oil, gas, screenwash, coolant, and power steering fluid. Check them regularly and top up when necessary. It is also a good idea to keep supplies in your car so that should you encounter an issue; you can top up until you can get to safety or repair any faults.
Your brakes are made up of many moving parts, and if you neglect to check your brakes, you might find yourself in trouble should they fail. At a minimum, you have your brakes inspected every six months or when your tires are rotated. Alternatively, if you notice a change in your braking, you should have this looked at as soon as possible.
Keeping your car in a roadworthy condition will allow you to extend its lifespan and stay safe on the road. While there are many aspects of car maintenance that you need to consider for complete care health, these points are some you need to keep on top of at all times.
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If the idea of traveling makes you feel giddy then you are not alone. However, if you have just bought or moved into a home, this is a huge purchase and it is something that you no doubt considered carefully.
This means that you will have to make sure your home is kept secure, especially when you have to be away for a while.
Here are some ways to make sure that your property is still getting superb care while you are away.
Before you, jump on your next flight. Be sure that no one can pry open and jump through your windows. Before you head out make sure that you check every door and window and see to it that they are properly locked.
If you have spare keys it’s a good idea to take them up. If a burglar were to come around and sniff out that you are not at home, they will start lifting mats and potted plants to find spare keys.
In doing so, they are likely to discover your secrets if you hide keys this way, so make sure you don’t keep any spare keys in these very obvious places.
Get Timers on Lights
Getting lights that have timers on them can help to level up your security. Your best security is often found in motion lights.
Motion lights will come on outside your home whenever a thief or criminal tries to walk or sneakily tiptoe their way onto your property.
You will say goodbye to cat burglars with motion sensitive lights. These lights are often enough to frighten away these criminals.
Get Smart
Another great way to beef up security on your property is to install smart cameras, lights, and locks. You will get control of what’s happening at your home.
You can control the ins and outs while you are on vacation. Let people go in or out as you wish from wherever you are via an app. You can put it up on your phone or your tablet and then go to work in securing your property from a distance.
It’s great for letting service people such as house cleaners while you are away. With smart cameras, you can become a super spy because you can see what is going on in your home while you are in a different country.
The next thing you need to do is reduce the signs that nobody’s home. You should try to get someone to pop in and pick up your mail from your mailbox.
Also, get someone to come in and clear away any packages that get delivered.
Getting someone to do this will throw potential burglars off the scent. It will be almost impossible for them to tell that no one is home.
When your yard turns into a forest of overgrown weeds while you have been gone for a long period, it’s a dead giveaway that no one’s home. This draws attention to your property and lets the criminals know that the place is empty.
It’s not just your locks, lights, and your doors that you can program when you are going away on vacation. It’s also possible for you to create the illusion of being home using electronic timers.
You can get lamp timers that will turn on at a specific time during the night or the day. Like magic, they will give the appearance that someone is home when they’re not.
This magic can even be extended to your television. Let this come on at different times so that if someone is watching your house they think you are home. This is usually enough to make a burglar think twice before masterminding a plan to get into your home.
You must try to keep your house as safe as possible when you are away on vacation. You want to make sure that your home is not the equivalent of a sitting duck when it comes to being vulnerable to criminals.
Throw confusion into the minds of burglars, so that they make plans in vain. By taking the time to predict and block every possible move while you are away. You can beat them at their own game and keep your property safe night and day while on vacation.
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1. How to design a routine that sets you up for success and ensures you create impact wherever you direct your energy.
2. The key to staying refreshed, revitalized and renewed even when you’re incredibly busy.
3. The secret to finding fulfillment, satisfaction, and inner peace while you go about conquering your dreams.
4. The secret to finding fulfillment, satisfaction, and inner peace while you go about conquering your dreams. A method for building a rock-solid foundation that will give you the strength to triumph over yourself and life.
What is an Ultimate Success Routine?
AN ULTIMATE SUCCESS ROUTINE IS A SET OF DAILY HABITS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO SET YOU UP FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE. IT REVOLVES AROUND THIS SIMPLE, BUT LITTLE-USED, CONCEPT: EITHER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE IMPACT ON YOU OR YOU IMPACT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
If you want it to be the latter, you’ll need an ultimate success routine. Nobody gets on top of life without one. The idea is to make deliberate, daily space for the activities that ensure you flourish. It is best completed when you first rise in the morning and should leave you feeling ready to spring into action for the day. A good personal success routine will renew, refresh and revitalize you.
Personal success routines may be a simple concept, but they’re startlingly effective when implemented consistently. Ultimately, what they do is connect you with both your spirit and the world around you, allowing you to walk through life as the best possible version of yourself. That enables you to find fulfillment, satisfaction, and inner peace while you go about conquering your dreams.
A personal success routine will not only create deep, lasting happiness – it will give you a rock-solid foundation from which you can build any dream, conquer any goal and triumph over yourself and life. To put it simply… You need a personal success routine because it will give you the power to thrive, no matter what circumstances life throws at you. Here’s what Executive Life Fulfillment Coach, Gagan Gupta has to say about the results he experienced from implementing his personal success routine:
“I wrote a program I was dreaming about for quite some time, am on my way to restoring my health to its peak, making more time for fun and friends, expanding my business with collaboration, and
creating deep, lasting relationships like never before. I feel like I am finally getting connected with my spirit.â€
The Key Elements in an Ultimate Success Routine:
While individual personal success routines can differ quite a bit, there are some key elements they all need to include in order to deliver at the extraordinary level they do. A personal success routine can be broken into two sections – the first is for seeking space and the second for seeking connection. Here are the key ingredients that you’ll need to include…
THE KEY SPACE INGREDIENTS:
• Get up early
• Exercise
• Space
• Introspection
• Inspiration
Of those five things, the most important are to rise early, seek some space and be introspective.
Exercise is an excellent ingredient to add if you can, but if you’re short on time the others are the place to start. Depending on your personality, you may be able to exercise and be introspective at the same time.
THE KEY CONNECTION INGREDIENTS:
• Connection
• Helicopter View
• Brainstorming
• Creation
Here, the critical parts are connecting with loved ones and getting a helicopter or ‘big picture’ view of the day/week. The brainstorming and creative elements may be different for you depending on the nature of your work. However, if your day includes anything creative, it’s helpful to put those activities right at the beginning.
Example of an Ultimate Success Routine:
The following example comes direct from the Author (Gagan Gupta), so it is specific in terms of what works for him, but contains all of the key elements mentioned above. This example would work particularly well as a model for entrepreneurs and business owners, but could be adapted to suit anyone’s needs. Here are a few notes from Gagan on the nature of his routine…
RISE 5AM & EXERCISE (60 minutes)
I rise early because I’ve yet to meet anyone highly successful who gets up late. I’m immediately off
to do Yoga. I listen to my body and do Kriyas (techniques) that I feel like doing on the day.
Movement is key. While doing Yoga, I am also enjoying the space to be introspective. I don’t listen to music or podcasts while doing Yoga.
MEDITATE (30 minutes)
I meditate immediately following my Yoga because it’s the most logical next step for me and I also don’t want to take a shower right after some movement. Meditation allows that gap for me and allows my body to continue to cool down while I connect with my spirit and reap the multitude of other benefits meditation delivers.
SPIRITUAL READING (15 minutes)
This is reading that is inspirational, thought-provoking, and character-moulding. During this stage of the morning, I just immerse myself in the deepest material I can find (generally about living a spiritual life) because I know it’s setting up the channel my mind will run along for the rest of the day. The purpose is to awaken my inner self, so to speak. By the time I head for the shower at the end of my spiritual reading, I’ve spent several hours reflecting in solitude and silence. I cannot adequately describe the positive impact of spending that time on myself. Suffice it to say that I’m in the best place I’ve ever been.
BREAKFAST (20-30 minutes)
I get my breakfast ready. The rules for breakfast are pretty simple. No screens, no business, no distractions and no rushing the event. It marks a turning point in the day, take this time to be present to each other and the environment.
BUSINESS STRATEGY MEETING (30 minutes)
After coffee, I have a business strategy meeting with myself. I spend time getting a helicopter view of the business and the things that I want to achieve today. It’s focused on today because I’ve made my plans for the year (and even the month) a long time ago. I am really just getting up to date, seeing which activity is happening when and how I can do better.
Practically speaking, I look at what needs to be produced, created, filmed, or written gets mapped out. This keeps me focused on business building and development as the single most important of all entrepreneurial-related activities I could possibly undertake. It also reinforces the helicopter view and allows me to modify my plans as I move forward. I limit this time to half an hour (sometimes less) because I have discovered it’s important to keep it fun. It takes discipline and commitment to keep things moving quickly so that I don’t get bogged down in details.
WORK ON BUSINESS (2-3 hours)
This is the time I implement my plans as if our lives depend on it. For that reason, we delay actions with clients, answering emails, finances, tax, compliance, education, or anything we could consider product delivery until after lunch. That’s several hours of doing things that will have a fundamental impact on the business in an enormously positive way.
That’s it in a nutshell!
I know not everyone can manage three hours every morning and that’s fine, you don’t have to. Even if you can only spare thirty minutes a day, it’s still critically important you design and implement your own version of this routine.
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It may seem as though those accused of crimes are at least a little guilty, if not of the act itself then the possibility of actually being a solid candidate for its prosecution.
There’s no smoke without fire, some may say. While it’s true that being accused of a crime does not place you in a warm light, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and deserves to have their right to a defense. That’s what helps separate our society from others in which mob justice is still considered an acceptable or even necessary form of justice.
We can understand this intellectually of course, but that doesn’t help the raw emotions that often come when cases like this are pursued.
But what if you, yourself, have been falsely accused of a crime? Perhaps you’ve been labeled as being at fault in a road collision, or accused of financial impropriety, or perhaps an issue has caused you to struggle with an appropriate outcome. In this post, we’ll discuss what to do if you’ve been falsely accused of a crime and how to defend yourself in kind:
Ultimately, law enforcement is not your friend. If they suspect you’re involved in a crime, their task is to get to the bottom of the issue. That may or may not incriminate you. Either way, you have certain rights. You can politely deal with law enforcement, give them the respect they’re due, and clearly but firmly keep quiet until you have time to speak with a local professional. Of course, you’re free to deny accusations, as police will often treat those who outright deny (and feel incredulous you’re even being asked these questions), as more trustworthy than those who seem to give half-hearted responses. Still, it’s always best to remain silent until better counsel is available. Remember, the police are within their rights to lie to you (such as telling you they have great deals of evidence against you), in hopes they’ll find a connection.
Always Request An Attorney
At the soonest possible opportunity, it’s important to exercise your right to an attorney. One can be appointed to you if you don’t have the funds to pay for a private lawyer. However, following these tips to choose a local felony attorney can be a fantastic place to start for most people. They will help you assess the exact way to answer questions without incriminating yourself, they will ensure your rights are fully respected, and that you won’t incriminate yourself, even by accident. They can also help you begin the process of:
Gathering Evidence & Build Your Case
It’s always helpful to gather appropriate evidence for your case. That might sound obvious in theory, but this might take a little while and having a legal expert piece that together for you will sustain the best possible outcome. That might involve finding witnesses, people to testify in a potential trial, or simply proving you couldn’t have been in a certain location at a certain time because of proof that has come to light. They can also help organize deals, pleas, and many other potential avenues toward a conclusion before the case ever goes to a jury of your peers. With attorney-client privilege, lawyers are bound to protect your honesty if they choose to accept your case – but if you’ve been falsely accused then this won’t be a problem.
With this advice, you’re sure to act sensibly and in the most self-preserving manner if you’ve been falsely accused of a crime.
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The cost of living crisis is – right now – affecting people of all incomes and from all backgrounds. In fact, it’s having a less than lovely effect on the moods of most people just trying to live their lives and exist. The thing is, even with a cost of living crisis and even with people finding it hard to get by, there is always room to treat yourself every now and then.
A car is not always a luxury. It’s a necessary part of an everyday household and many of us rely on our cars to get by. We rely on them to get us to work, to school, and to wherever we need to be in the most convenient way.
Of course, cars are an expense and sometimes that expense can feel rather huge. From the car service you complete regularly to the cleaning and detailing, insurance, and more, you want it to be worth it for the car you buy. If you do often worry about services and repairs, seek support from Cars Protection Plus as you can reduce the cost of repairs and maintain your expensive car. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the top reasons to make sure that the next car you buy is a luxury one.Â
Safety. You want to be on the road, and you want to get where you need to be in one piece, right? Well, a luxury car can help you with that. In fact, a luxury car could be the exact thing your household needs. You can spend cash on a luxury car on finance if you can’t afford to buy it outright, but you can bet that the latest and greatest technology affords you the best safety features around.Â
The prestige. You know as well as anyone else that driving around town in a luxury car is going to afford you some appreciative looks. If you can afford it, why not?
You can sell it. The best part about driving a luxury car is knowing that when it comes to selling up, it’ll retain most of its value. Most cars start to depreciate as people drive off the lot, but luxury cars hold their weight a little longer. You get to sell it for almost the same as what you paid, and this will help you to buy a different or upgraded luxury car.Â
Comfort. Luxury cars are made with the latest and greatest in technology and upholstery. Comfort comes with heated seats, surround sound, and gadgets that you can only have dreamed about when driving your first-ever car. Luxury cars have been manufactured to the best possible standards, and things like remote start and parking assist can really make a big difference to your driving experience.Â
Driving a luxury car may feel frivolous in a cost-of-living crisis, but luxury comes in many forms. One amazing car that lasts you years is going to be as valuable to you as an amazing pair of shoes. Don’t let anyone convince you not to buy the car you have fallen in love with. It is absolutely worth the investment.
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