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Get Up Again When You Get Knocked Down
Some days are brutal! I know you know what I mean. We’ve all had them! I’ve had so many metaphors run through my head for how this feels. Keeping your head above water when the world is pushing you under. (I thought it sounded to much related to cash) When you feel like a bobbing [...]
Thoreau’s Guide to Living More by Spending Less
There are lots of reasons for living a more minimalist life. By owning less you reduce your impact on the environment, you spend less, and you live more simply.For Henry David Thoreau, the reason for spending less boiled down to a simple formula. It…
Facing Rejection? Here Are 5 Key Steps To Handle Them Like a Pro
Rejection can be tough to handle. I know because I face them often in my life.As a personal development blogger, some readers reject what I write in my articles, sometimes writing lengthy personal emails to tell me why I’m wrong. In my work as a speake…
Are You Effective Or Just Efficient?
A lot of popular time management or “life hacking” advice is aimed at making you ever more efficient. Perhaps you’re constantly reading lists of Firefox plugins, concerned that you might be missing out on some essential time-saving tool. Maybe you re…
7 Simple Tips That Will Turn You Into a Powerful Leader
You don’t have to be in a position of authority to be a leader. Conversely, just because you have authority doesn’t mean that people will follow you. You must be a leader to get others to follow you.There are many books on leadership. They can have lot…
How Cee Lo Green Taught Me to Achieve
I’ve got to make a confession. On November 9, 2010, my life changed. You see I was minding my own business, watching the Colbert Report, and saw Cee Lo Green pick up the microphone to finish the show by singing his hit single “Forget You” (aka …
How to Become Wildly Successful at Anything
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff, WriterThe interesting thing about success is that anyone can do it. If you simply do what successful people do, you are inevitably going to be successful. Right? Well, ok, …
How to Effectively Measure the Amount Of Work You Actually Do
I remember reading somewhere that only a fraction of the work we do every day is productive work. Rest is not actual work; we just fool ourselves to believe that it is.I think that if each of one us were to take a minute and carefully think about the w…
The Practice of Ying / Yang Productivity
In our modern Western world, we are all striving to be more productive – to do more, to produce more, to create more. Very often we don’t even know why we want that – we are conditioned to feel that we should push harder and we don’t question it. A…
How to Minimize Interruptions When You’re Working
Have you ever been right in the middle of something – a complicated email, a tricky paragraph of a report, a hunt for some vital figures – only for your concentration to be shattered?Maybe your work day seems to be a string of interruptions. Maybe …
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