Wouldn’t it be great if everyone knew how awesome you really are? It’s possible, according to writer and artist Austin Kleon. The secret is to be “findable . . . (to put) your work out there and make it discoverable while you’re focused on getting really good at what you do.” In his book, Show […]
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A Career builder survey found that 49% of all workers accept the first offer given to them. For people under 35, who are far less likely to negotiate, these numbers are surely much higher. Losing an extra few thousand dollars may not seem like a big deal. However, over a long enough period of time,
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When I was a young kid, I played a lot of sports. When I was ten, my father told me that no matter how highly I achieved in my sports career, playing football and baseball wouldn’t be a lifelong pursuit. My body would age. I’d peak early. That awareness led me to take up a
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The brain-training is big business. For companies like BrainHQ, Luminosity, and Cogmed, it’s actually a multimillion dollar business that is expected to surpass $3 billion by 2020. But, do the actually benefit your brain? Research doesn’t believe so. In fact, the the University of Illinois determined that there’s little or no evidence that these games
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While our lives continue to be consumed by digital technologies, lost is the art of journaling. Keeping a written journal, however, can have remarkable benefits. Studies have demonstrated that “students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more,” and doodling has been shown to help focus and creativity. And while typing to take
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For most people, the stakes simply aren’t high enough.00 There’s not enough reason to get up early and work, get off Facebook, or get into shape. Put most simply, most people don’t have a compelling enough why. If they did, their whole life would be different. Life, apparently, isn’t worth giving everything they’ve got. Most
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I am in Cesme, Turkey, near the Aegean sea, for summer vacation. Last night my family and I went to dinner in the village. As we walked down the main street, store owners called out to us in different languages, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, to invite us to look at their goods. The crazy
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner There are two primary mental shifts that occur in the lives of all highly successful people. Many make the first, but very few make the second. Both of these shifts require a
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It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. You know exactly what you want to do, but there are endless obstacles in your way. There is so much competition – thousands or millions of people competing to do exactly what you want to do. How do you get out of the rat race? How do you
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“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” – J.M. Barrie You know exactly what you want in life. But you can’t seem to get there.
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