One of the biggest questions people tend to deal with in the course of their life is how they can go about making their relationship work; of course, this is a complex question, and the answer to this question is multi-faceted (after all, what “works” for some people may not work at all for others!), but there are also a few specific things anyone can keep in mind when it comes to making their relationship work, as these things can help to lay the foundation for a relationship that will continually flourish as time goes by.

A lot of people make the mistake inside of their relationship of looking to their counterpart for “completion,” expecting that the other person will be more than a complimentary part, and will instead be the part that completes them; when you approach a relationship in this manner, you set it up for failure, as it is much healthier to look to the other person to be someone who compliments you, rather than to be someone who completes you!

As you and your significant other make it your goal to compliment one another, you should also both learn to pick out the things about one another that you like – dwelling on these things, instead of dwelling on the things about them that you dislike; too many couples constantly try to “change” one another, and as they do this, they build up resentment on both sides, but when you look to appreciate the things you like and let go of the things you do not especially like, the two of you will grow much stronger and much closer together.

And one goal you should put above all others is that you and your significant other make an effort to always have fun and make memories together. A lot of couples take their relationship, themselves, and life in general far too seriously, and this causes everything to feel much more serious than it needs to be, but when you and your significant other learn to make memories and have fun together, each of you will continue to move into a place where your relationship is more fun, and where life is more fun as a result!

Thousands of aspiring authors band together around the end of each year to participate in “NaNoWriMo” – which stands for “National Novel Writing Month,” and which takes place in November, as each participant tries to write a full-length novel (minimum of 50,000 words) during the single month of November – but while many aspiring authors find this to be an exhilarating and rewarding experiences, many of them also end up at a loss as to what to do when it ends!

Upon wrapping up your participation in NaNoWriMo, the first thing you need to realize is that a novel written in only thirty days will require quite a bit of editing; let your manuscript sit for at least a month, enjoying the accomplishment of having finished it and putting it out of your mind as much as you can, and when your break from the manuscript comes to an end, start diving into it with deep and merciless edits!

After you have finished this arduous step, and you feel that the book has been edited to a point where it could truly sit on bookshelves in a major bookstore, enlist a handful of friends whose opinion you trust to read the book; ask them to read the manuscript with an eye for what they would think if they had spent money on it and did not know the author – and sit down with each reader, gathering these honest thoughts and opinions of theirs, and taking everything they say seriously!

After you have talked with all of your “beta readers” and have put into play all the suggestions of theirs that you feel were appropriate, you will be ready to approach agents; take time to understand exactly what this entails and how you should approach agents, making sure to avoid the mistakes other aspiring authors make during this step (and make sure you keep the fact that your manuscript was a NaNoWriMo work to yourself, as this has a negative connotation with most agents!).

And you will be ready to move onto the toughest step of all once you have started to approach agents: sitting back, waiting, and seeing what happens!

Regardless of whether you are playing for a cash prize or even just playing against your friends for fun, it can be difficult to figure out what to do when your fantasy football season gets to a place where it seems like you can do nothing but lose; after all, the common thought, as far as fantasy football goes, is that there is not a whole lot you can do after the draft to improve your team. But while you can certainly enjoy a great season as the result of a great draft, a bad draft does not necessarily have to spell disaster for your chances in the season, as long as you know what steps you can take in order to improve your team as the season goes along – turning around your bad fantasy football season and making your team competitive!

You are unlikely to find much serious talent on the waiver wire as the season progresses, but that does not mean that there will be absolutely no one who you can pick up; there will always be players who are set to have huge second halves of the season, either because of injury to someone else on their team, or because of a new role for them on the team, so keep your eyes open for such players, always looking to make speculative adds on high-upside players.

You should also make an effort to “bye week stack” as you pick up players; it might not be possible to field a spectacular team in the middle of the season, but you can pay attention to the weeks when your opponent will get hit hard by the bye weeks, and you can make sure you have a full-strength team on these weeks, saving your own “bye week heavy” weeks for when you will be playing a full-strength opponent you would probably lose to anyway!

And of course, trades are one of the best ways to improve your team as the season progresses; look to sell high on players you feel are over-performing, and buy low on players you feel have not been playing up to their talent level!

During fantasy football season, Saturdays and Sundays – right up until kickoff on Sunday afternoon – can be a bit stressful (especially for those who are really into fantasy football!), as so many decisions will need to be made each week as far as who to start and who to sit; because of this, a lot of fantasy footballers will make crazy decisions each week in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle, but it is much better to make the “right” decision each week than to make the wrong one. There are going to be times when you could have made the wrong decision and gotten lucky with it paying off, but in the long run, you are going to win a lot more games if you consistently go with the “right” move, starting the guy who gives you the best chance of winning.

One of the big things that causes people to make crazy decisions, as far as who they will start and who they will sit, are the matchups a player is facing, but realize that matchups generally affect the outcome of a player’s fantasy football output a lot less than people give them credit for; it is much better to start one of your top-tier players in a tough matchup than to start a second-tier player against a softer opponent.

Of course, if you are trying to decide who to start between a pair of second-tier players who each have similar matchups, this can be a bit trickier, as there will be no clear “right” decision; when this is the case, the best thing for you to do is find the “weekly rankings” on as many fantasy football websites as you can, as you will usually find that the experts will be consistently ranking one player higher than the other for that week – which will give you your answer as to what the “right” move is.

And of course, there will also be times when even this does not answer the question of who you should start – times when some experts have one player higher, and others have the other; when this is the case, realize that there is, in fact, no “right” move, and you can go with your gut, cross your fingers, and hope things work out!

There will be a lot of things that you will need to learn about throwing your discs when you are playing disc golf, in order to improve your game, but perhaps the most important element of all when it comes to disc golf is knowing how to throw a disc perfectly straight for a long distance. This might seem as though it would be exactly as easy as it sounds (after all, it would seem like it would be more difficult to make a disc curve than to make it fly straight!), but this is the one aspect of disc golf that tends to give people the most trouble, and even if you are simply playing disc golf “for fun” and are not all that competitive, you will likely have a lot more fun when you are actually playing well.

In order to throw a disc golf frisbee far and straight, the first thing you will need to do is start with the disc itself perfectly level; this seems quite obvious on the surface, but if you examine your starting stance next time you go out to fling around the disc, you just may find that you are actually starting with the disc at a slight tilt, and by correcting this mistake you can make your disc far more likely to fly straight.

Once you have adjusted your starting stance so that the disc is level from the beginning, you will want to make sure that the disc remains level as you torque your body and cock your arms to throw; keep everything as “straight” as possible as you wind up for the throw, and the throw itself will come out straight as well.

And as you practice throwing the disc straight, you should aim to work on straightness first, and to add distance over time, as it will be easier to continue adding distance onto a straight throw than it would be to try and straighten out a long throw.

When you head onto the disc golf course with these tips in mind (and when you remember to always throw low to the ground, instead of causing the disc to rise!), you will soon find that it is a whole lot easier for you to get those long, straight throws!

A lot of people have a tendency to use their free time in what is basically a throwaway manner, doing nothing redemptive or memorable with the time they have freedom over; of course, in the process of using free time in this manner, many people also reach a point where they convince themselves that they enjoy their free  time a lot more when they can “just relax and do nothing,” but once these people start working to “free up their free time,” they will realize that there is a whole lot more for them to get out of their free time than simply sitting around doing nothing at all.

In order to free up your free time, the first thing you will want to do is identify the things in your life that could be categorized as “nothing things,” such as watching television and browsing the internet aimlessly; of course, some people truly get a kick out of watching television or surfing the ‘net, but many others simply do these things to pass the time – not especially caring what they are watching or spending time with online, but instead simply engaging in these activities with no real purpose (and with no real pleasure derived!).

Once you have put your finger on these “nothing things” (which can be a bit harder than it sounds, as you will have to be honest with yourself about what these things truly are!), you will next want to find things you enjoy that could take the place of these “nothing things,” such as a hobby or some sort of regular adventure.

And finally, in order to free up your free time, you will need to make a conscious effort to divide your time between yourself and others; during your time with others, do your best to always be fully engaged, giving these people your full attention, and during your time alone, chase after the things you have chosen to replace the “nothing things,” which will help you to truly maximize the free time you have.

The author Jack Kerouac once said that “life is holy and every moment is precious”; when you make this effort to truly free up your free time, you will start to understand to a greater degree exactly what he meant!