How Many Times Will You Have to Fail Before Finally Getting it Right?
How Many Times Will You Have to Fail Before Finally Getting it Right? Maybe a Lifeline Would Help …
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Author: Roger Reid
Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business?
Ready to leave your corporate job and strike out on your own? Before you turn in your resignation and order new business cards, take some time to think long and hard about your motives …
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Fifteen Techniques to Maximize Your Personal Effectiveness During Meetings
Like them or not, meetings are the life-blood of the corporation. Whether it’s implementing a new organizational process or procedure, a strategy session, dissecting a team report, goal setting, policy changes, introducing new employees, or disseminating information, a meeting is still the preferred method to accomplish the task …
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Is Your Career Sustainable?
Regardless of the number of times we change our employment, there is the underlying, fundamental premise that we’re boosting our career trajectory, that our need to leave one employer for another is motivated by the hope and promise of something better — improved working conditions, more money, or greater opportunity for advancement.
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8 Tips To Master Your Communication Skills
The so-called “art” of argument is taught in law school and debate classes. In some circles, it’s thought to be a legitimate tool of getting to a better answer, to generate new ideas, and motivate new thinking that would otherwise not have happened. My advice?
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How To Create A Life Of Authenticity
I see this question asked over and over again in blog posts and magazine articles. It’s become a popular exercise in perspective. Here’s the premise: We know the end of our lives is inescapable, so let’s take a critical look at the way we’re living …
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Want To Make Better Choices? Try Separating The Decision From The Deadline
Upon the conclusion of both sides presenting their evidence, the judge sends the jury into a private room to deliberate and determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. The jurors review the testimony, consider the facts, and discuss the circumstances.
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How Do You Decide If Good is Good Enough?
How good is good enough? Could life be ready to offer you more — happiness, financial success, a great relationship — if you were willing to commit to doing what’s necessary to receive it?
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The Truth About Men and Their Sons
In my senior year of high school, one of my teachers told me when I was much older, I would look back and remember three or four days that had been the most important — celebrations, landmark birthdays, accomplishments — all sorts of occasions that ultimately became the major events that shaped my life.
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How I Broke The Habit Of Making A Dream List
There was a time, not too long ago, when I constantly told myself there were things I needed to do — tasks I should accomplish. Knowing the importance of having written goals, I added each new ambition to my list of objectives, then reduced them into small, achievable steps.
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4 Suggestions For Being Helpful Without Losing Yourself In The Process
We all have them in our life. You may even have one in your family — someone whose outlook on life is overly pessimistic, complains about everything, or worse, spends every moment telling you what’s wrong with your life. The result is an energy-draining, frustrating experience no one wants to repeat.
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Top 5 Reasons Why “Things” Will Never Make Us Happy
It’s the common mindset of the successful: First, set new goals and identify what’s important. Then make plans to accomplish those objectives. For some, it means a new job, buying a home, or acquiring the latest model car.
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5 Discoveries That Answer The Question: Which Comes First, Success or Happiness?
How your attitude about life determines your potential for achievement, according to psychology. Do you have to be successful before you can be happy? Apparently, it’s a two-way street.
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Fighting CoVid-19 – Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
How’s everyone doing with the requirement to self-quarantine? It’s difficult, yes? Sequestered from our friends, work colleagues and, in many cases, our own family members, we feel separated — detached from life itself, unable to connect, and powerless to change it.
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Will Belonging To A Tribe Result In A Longer, Happier Life?
You say you’re not tribal? Then you may be hurting your chances of living a long and healthy life. It’s a different kind of relationship — something that goes far deeper than a holiday card at Christmas or catching up on your lodge buddy’s accomplishments at the next annual convention in Biloxi.
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5 Tip-Offs It May Be Time For a Little Minimalism in Your Life
Minimalism. It’s the new, trendy lifestyle of simplicity. Pair it down, throw it out, recycle it, or give it away, it doesn’t matter, just as long as you get it out of the house. The rationale for paring down is simple: The time we spend on our unneeded or unnecessary possessions often spills over into other areas of our life …
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6 Principles of Family Leadership – The Most Important Job You’ll Ever Have
A century ago, family leadership was an obvious component in nearly every home. The family patriarch was respected for his wisdom and experience. He made the decisions concerning the family’s finances, and where and how the family would live.
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Your True Calling In Life May Surprise You
We all go through periods in which we wish we were doing something else.
It might hit us after a particularly difficult day at work, after a bout of bad weather, or during one of life’s milestones.
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Is it Time to Sue Your Employer?
Bringing formal legal action against your employer should always be considered a last resort to correcting an difficult situation or problem at work. So how do you know when it’s time to call an attorney? Here’s a three step process to help settle, manage, or otherwise negotiate a problem at work and avoid bringing the kiss of death to your career …
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The New World Corporate Culture
The popularity of “culture” has made it a leading topic for positive change. But as the concept of company culture expands to include tangible, value-added employee benefits, are we creating unrealistic expectations—a sense of entitlement—in the minds of existing and future employees?
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Are You Paying Too High a Price to Accomplish Your Goals?
Management newsletters and business blogs are buzzing with tips and techniques on how to choose objectives that are realistic, challenging, measurable, and most important, time-bound. These articles often deliver their advice accompanied by the well-worn metaphor of comparing the unfortunate goal-shunning majority to a ship without a rudder …
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