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

Success

In 2016, he co-created the Warmest Winter project, which created coats that doubled as sleeping bags for the homeless. 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. Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B.

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6 Powerful Personality Traits of Influencers

Success

Seemingly overnight, influencers can inspire the evolution of a smaller project into a world-changing idea. This is true of influencers as they build their big vision over time while crafting smaller projects along the way. Simply put, your big vision is your end goal. Influencers experiment to find their goals.

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3 Science-Based Mind Hacks to Get Into Flow

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Have you ever lost an entire afternoon to an engaging conversation or become so involved in a work project that everything else was forgotten? Using a basis of Csikszentmihalyi’s work, Steven Kotler determined what prompted a state of flow , including these three critical “flow triggers”: Trigger 1: Clear goals.

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Another Productivity List for 2016. Woot!

Virtual Moxie

Yesterday, we shared some of our best “2016” lists. You’ve seen them—the 25 best business books for 2016, the 19 top iPhone apps for 2016, 465 things to get rid of in 2016—those sorts of lists. of the most important things a VA can do to improve her productivity in 2016! Maybe each client has a folder (or label).

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

Success

While you and your fellow employees might share common goals, more collaboration doesn’t always mean the team will be successful. A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%.

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10 Questions to Ask Yourself for a Successful Collaboration

Success

If an opportunity to partner on a project or business presents itself, make sure that a collaboration is really what you need or want in order to create or grow your business. We start by asking ourselves three things: How much will the project cost? This article was published in September 2016 and has been updated.

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What Highly Skilled Independent Workers Want

Small Business Labs

  Like PWC's Talent Exchange and Deloitte's Open Talent Community , the goal of GigNow is to help EY find and engage skilled independent workers - both for EY's internal use and for use on client projects. These are: Access to diverse and interesting gigs. To be welcomed by the client and treated as part of the team.

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