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Can Dopamine Dressing Make You Better At Your Job?

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She dives into the topic in her book, Dress Your Best Life. A 2012 study published by the University of Hertfordshire Press links “how clothing and mood don’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood, too.” This is an extreme form and thankfully, not the only way to do it.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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It’s one thing to read a definition of racism in a book, and quite another to know if you currently work in an environment that is racist. These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. It can be overt or subtle.

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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The trend towards desiring greater levels independence - and the autonomy, control and flexibility that comes with it - takes many forms.  But according to the book The Modern Homesteader : Dreams of self-sufficiency, independence, and tranquility continue to pull in a new generation of modern homesteaders.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. I look at it as ‘The American Reality,’” says Jeffrey Gitomer, best-selling author of the Little Red Book of Selling and the Little Gold Book of YES! It was time to go into business for himself.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation. In his teens, he came across the book Self-Help by Samuel Smiles. After all, it had over a century’s worth of change to keep up with.

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Tips for the Traveling Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

The checklist below is split up into different sections of the trip: booking, planning, packing, and flying! Booking Your Trip. Booking your trip is probably the most stressful part of the planning process. Search for your loyalty program before you book. Pack a couple dryer sheets in with your clothes.