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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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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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After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018. There are no shortcuts for that.”.

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How a Self-Portrait Changed My Life

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Do you want to be confident, healthy, successful, loved, happy? For example, if you captured yourself as a more confident person , practice a new posture, strike up a conversation with a complete stranger or head to a networking event by yourself. This article was published in June 2016 and has been updated.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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By the Inch Life’s a Cinch, by the Yard It’s Hard People usually procrastinate because of fear and lack of self-confidence —and, ironically, become even more afraid when under the gun. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. We have calls to answer and calls to make.

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4 Ways to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

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If he had given up, we wouldn’t have the legend we have today. Giving up is not my style. It’s easy to give up; it’s much harder to stick to the plan. Have the confidence to be the exception, the outlier that overcomes all obstacles—someone who is willing to bet on themselves. Every person has obstacles in their life.

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The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

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Throughout his life, family and friends have implored him to cheer up. When you go through your day tallying up positive experiences, it can get old very quickly. Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.”.

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The Anatomy of a Simple, Beautiful TEDx Talk

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I ended up scrapping the entire thing and rewriting it one week before showtime, because they were right—it sounded like a great TED Talk (or whatever I thought one should sound like), but it didn’t sound like me. “I Up until the point of the talk, “can’t” is a mindset that can be designed around. I bombed the first dry run.

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