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Maintaining Friendships Is Hard—Here’s Why It’s Crucial for Your Well-Being

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But much clinical evidence shows the strength of these relationships can increase positive emotions and improve our health and well-being. Wagner’s circle of confidants is larger than most. Researchers found the mean number of confidants had declined by almost one person—or from 2.94 between 1985 and 2004.

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Your Guide To Understanding ESG — Plus How It Can Help Create Smarter Workplaces

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The three letters were first used in a 2004 report commissioned by the United Nations called Who Cares Wins, which promoted ethical investment and subsequently spawned a huge and growing industry in defining and supporting its aims, along with a mind-boggling swarm of acronyms that would be a challenge to list, let alone remember.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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her mother Dr. Whitney Casares, pediatrician and founder of Modern Mommy Doc Photo courtesy of Ashlie Behm Photography Maternal child health care expert Dr. Casares founded Modern Mommy Doc , where she teaches career-minded moms to prioritize what matters most to them and to stop letting their to-do lists define them.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race. I needed the income and the security and the insurance and the health benefits and all that.

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Why Productivity is a Matter of Life and Death for Me

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Too high of a blood sugar level can lead to long-term health issues. I read Getting Things Done in 2004, and I tried several different productivity tools to become more organized. Thomas'' health depends on routine, and we document these routines so they are out of our head.

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. The 1930s saw an increase in discussions on the importance of physical fitness to health and well-being. Harvard students Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein were rejected.

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