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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. They spent two admittedly short Swedish sailing seasons preparing for the inevitable roadblocks and learning how to co-captain on their own.

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Banish Stress Burnout in 3 Easy Steps

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Instead, the goal is to learn how to manage those potentially stress-inducing events. By shifting your response to stress, you can learn how to peacefully coexist with events that might have stressed you out in the past. For example, if you’re feeling anxious, you’re likely thinking, something bad is going to happen.

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5 Tips for Dealing with Annoying People at Work

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A 2015 Harvard study shared that 80% of employees report lost work time worrying about a co-worker’s behavior and how to deal with the person. To do this, she gives a few examples of specific problems. But there are certain colleagues, bosses and employees who can ruin the day with their ridiculously annoying behaviors.

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5 Ways to Start Your Day Just Right

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But my 18-year-old daughter, Emma, set a good example for all of us. To learn what works for other people, I turned to business owners who consider themselves happy and successful. This article was published in April 2015 and has been updated. Her rationale: “I refuse to be rushed, and I refuse to be late.”

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How to Be a Better Thinker, Innovator and Problem Solver

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Asking for a shelf sticker that draws attention to a product, for example, is very different from questioning how to increase the noticeability of a shelf. If you want to become an agile thinker, you have to learn beyond your own role, read a lot, be interested in everything and look to other industries to see what they are doing.

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‘Autism Is Not a Spell That Gets Lifted—It’s a Way of Being’

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During the Night of Too Many Stars autism fundraiser in March 2015, 24-year-old Owen Suskind dressed in gray slacks and a V-neck sweater hurried onstage, clearly excited to meet his idol—and not at all self-conscious about it. He learned to work the remote control and would rewind and rewatch certain scenes. Hello, Gilbert!”

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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“Creatives” are not only artistic and imaginative; they are, for example, analytical and task-oriented, too. The fight-or-flight response, for example, originates in the amygdala. Relationships involve inventive problem-solving at every turn, for example, as does the management of our own emotional well-being.