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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. Methodically, they took each step with time to allow dust to settle and not get caught up in the excitement and newness of the adventure.

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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

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Lesson 1: Motivation to keep going and do whatever it takes As with anything in life, the drive to achieve a goal is a huge motivator to get things done. When we first start with a dream goal, we have all the energy and gumption to make it big. Rest is how you absorb fitness, and slowing down allows you to speed up later.”

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5 Realistic Tips to Be More Positive

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It wasn’t easy, but by internalizing the following five tips, I was able to turn my negative attitude into a positive one : 1. Don’t postpone the reward until after achieving the big goal. Rather, I build rewards into the process leading up to competition and after. This article was published in June 2015 and has been updated.

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UFC’s Francis Ngannou’s Keys to Overcoming Obstacles and Visualizing Success

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The key to his success, he says, was never losing sight of that goal. Eventually, though, he would be taken under the wing of mentors, who convinced him to take up MMA over boxing. As he describes it, the thing that kept him going was his internal drive to make a radical, lasting change in his life. I didn’t make it in the U.S.

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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

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18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. women’s team has been far more successful on the international stage than the men’s team,” according to ESPN.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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Additionally, a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health looked at the relationship between overusing technology and the mental detachment from work as the result of overwork, arguing that “work is intensifying more and more as a result of technologies in day-to-day work.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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Is the metric based on how many new ideas you can come up with ? On how you dress, what music you listen to and with whom you strike up conversations? When we diversify our experiences, we’re more likely to come up with new ideas or ways of looking at the world,” Forgeard says. “We After all, how do you measure? a paperweight!