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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. He suggests trying things like calling your cable company and asking a phone rep to waive a late fee. Paterson has people who take his assertiveness training make reservations at a restaurant, then call back a couple of hours later and cancel. Learn it from the inside out.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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It doesn’t include marketing campaigns, friends’ social media updates and all of the other components of a world in which your time is someone else’s commodity, a world in which seemingly everyone is trying to find ways to reach through your phone and into your living room to steal your attention, just for a minute, promise.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. In September 2016, Hampton aimed to wipe out that painful experience by creating the Sit With Us app. She woke him up at 5:30 a.m. Jeff Vrabel. Open Seating.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff. The experiment was working!

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