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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

Success

president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association told The New York Times in 2011. When picking my official automated outfit, I realized an unsettling truth: I wear a lot of the same clothes anyway. The human mind is well set up to form habits and routines to conserve its energy.”.

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Minimum Life Traveling Baggage

Brilliantly Better

In the form of the most used currencies (USD, Euros) or debit cards. At any decent hotel you can find a DIY washing facility so you don’t need to carry any extra clothing in your luggage. But I still think I need to be covered with clothes for at least 2 days. Extra Clothing. Without it, you’re not there.

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

Men With Pens

I bet that over the past months or even years, you’ve collected a ton of half-formed ideas. Maybe not clothing or gadgets, but you hoard ideas. Think about the files on your computer, the notes you’ve written to yourself, the cheat sheet full of partially formed stuff you’ll do. Heaps of them. Because they’re Good Ones.

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Why You Should Invite Your Customers to a Campfire Storytelling Session

Men With Pens

Of course, you probably don’t want to make up a story out of whole cloth—“Our natural spring water comes from the exact center of the earth, delivered in clay vessels by naked nymphs”—but you need to place your reader, your customer, in the dramatic arc of your tale. Stories Are Living Things. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” He spent his money as he earned it – on fine clothes, good food, and busty wenches.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. She started in real estate in 2011 with no SOI, no experience and $6 to her name. Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry.

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

Main | Start 2011 off Organized! You can make that first step easier by supporting yourself: comfy clothes, your favorite music, an organizing buddy, etc. Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Communication Productivity Tip: Dont Make People Search for You.

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