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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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A viral start for Katie Blomquist In the fall of 2016, when Katie Blomquist worked as a first-grade teacher at a Title I school in South Carolina, a boy in her class asked her for a bike for his birthday. Going Places is growing each year and is projected to have at least two more companies funding entire schools with bikes in 2024.

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How I Became a Morning Person (and How You Can, Too)

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I’d have to end whatever great dream I was having, put on clothes I didn’t like, go out into the world bleary-eyed and stand in a cramped train with a hundred other people who would also rather be anywhere else. We would often stay up into the early hours working on our projects, chatting, watching movies, you name it.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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You may hear a new song, for example, that reminds you of that book you read that the guy you met on the train recommended. By training yourself to notice what’s going on around and within you at the present moment, without getting caught up in it, you can actually focus better, he says. Remember: Creativity is a whole-brain activity.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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And passive-aggressive people try to have it both ways, giving in to others but then doling out punishment in sneaky ways—“forgetting” to follow through, backstabbing or sabotaging projects, for example. Joy then could have reminded him that, as a contractor, he works for her, the project manager. Learn it from the inside out.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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This is your mind when you avoid news All that to say, even when you take your mind off the news, it’s still trained to think the same way. I handwrote a script for a short film in mini-breaks from other projects. We might not consciously take in the news with this mindset, but the reasonable among us do it unconsciously every day.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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She is serving her third term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, with her signature project serving as an introduction to native poets. In February 2016, Graham made history as the first size 14 model to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swim. The Inspiration.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. Kim Anthony. Andrea Callanan. Matt Callanan.

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