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5 Qualities of People Who Use Time Wisely

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Ask the cancer patient who just learned he has only two months left to live. By learning to emulate the five characteristics of people who use time wisely: 1. If your skill level is a two, don’t waste substantial time trying to improve because you’ll likely never grow beyond a four. But we can learn to spend time wisely.

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

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To achieve that pinnacle of mental toughness, Darcy Piceu, a licensed psychotherapist, 20-year veteran professional ultrarunner and two-time UTMB winner (3rd in 2011 and 5th in 2015), suggests breaking down your goals into manageable chunks and using simple management tools like a calendar to keep the momentum going. “I

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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. By stepping back and concentrating on my best skill, my mind switched from feeling frustrated to feeling fresh, alert and more willing to accept new information. So how did I do it? Switch gears. Why is that?

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12 Things Even the Best Leaders Can Forget

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Learn from what other great leaders sometimes forget, so you can avoid forgetting the same (important) things on your path to leadership. They could be external in the form of a market win or internal in the form of a superstar performer. This article was published in December 2015 and has been updated.

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Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

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Emotional intelligence refers to your capacity to handle internal and external emotions. But unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your IQ, EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve. enumerates the specific components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

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They’re Back: Boomerang Employees on the Rise for Good or Bad

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Stripling worked at 84.51° as an intern and then as a lead data scientist for about five years. I gained new experience and skills , but I was eager to return to 84.51°.” Learn about the company culture. “If He left the company in 2018, then returned in 2022. “I

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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One 2015 study from Northwestern University found that, in regards to sensory processing as a predictor of creative achievement, divergent thinking did not correlate with real-world creative success. In a 2015 study published in Memory & Cognition , Zabelina explored how patterns of attention may influence creativity.