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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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Since 2012, when Chance released his first mixtape after graduating from Jones College Prep in 2011, his promise has attracted attention from established artists eager to collaborate. Only in his 20s, Chance had already accomplished major goals he’d set for himself, including hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live and winning Grammys.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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Hotelier and author Orison Swett Marden sat in a small bedroom on Bowdoin Street in Boston churning out the very first issue of SUCCESS Magazine. From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation.

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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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She purchased a second location from her mother in 2012 and has since opened one more, giving her three locations in New Jersey. “My My goal is to build a national chain,” Morales says. My parents told me to not worry, not change my goals and strive to become successful. There is nothing like what we offer in this country.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” She moved on in 2012 and founded Mina Shah Enterprises the following year, self-funding with income from consulting. trillion.”

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012. As she sees it, the goal of AI goes beyond its efficiency or cost-effectiveness; the real design value is in our ability to collaborate with these technologies. “We Photo by Jimmy Day/courtesy of MIT Media Lab.

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4 Important Truths of Lasting Professional Relationships

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Remember what you’ve learned, and ask follow-up questions about your new acquaintance’s family, hobbies and career goals at your next encounter. During a 2012 TED Talk , she recounted this exchange: “A 50-year-old businessman lamented to me that he feels he doesn’t have colleagues anymore at work. Listen to them. Really listen.

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How Ice Cream Gave Hap Cameron Purpose & Inspired Him to Open Happy Cones

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When Hap Cameron turned 30 on 11/11/11, he had just summited Mount Kilimanjaro and was watching the sun rise from Uhuru Peak, Africa’s highest point—a poignant feat that was the symbolic cherry on top of a layered life goal of working and living on every continent by the time he was 30. Happy Cones is just a vehicle for that.

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