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How to Write a Book: Advice for New Writers

Success

I’d love to give you a secret formula for how to write a book. Having written two books now, I can tell you it is as hard as people say it is. In this week’s SUCCESS Stories , I explain my personal approach to writing books. Writing a book is like running a marathon. The bad news is that there isn’t one.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Your goal might not be to enter a memory competition, but you might have a simpler goal to be able to remember names and faces, or what you read in a magazine or a book, or to give speeches without notes or memorize product knowledge.”. If your file is the stove, catch whatever you’re filing on fire.

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10 Easy Ways to Start Something Great

Success

In my research for my book, Make Waves: Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life , I’ve learned that those who start change are incrementalists. Read a few books that push your thinking. Don’t view a book as the bible on your topic, but to spur ideas. Don’t worry if you don’t know the goals and specifics yet.

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3 Steps to Finally Tackle Your Tedious Tasks

Success

As a professional organizer who encourages people to find the joy in tidying up their desks, calendars and filing cabinets, I am very familiar with the thinking behind grunt work, as organizing often falls into that category. By week’s end, you can reward yourself with something commensurate with the goal achieved. In the words of St.

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The Anti-Work Movement and the Surge in Self-Employment

Small Business Labs

Because of the pandemic, millions of people are reexamining their career paths and goals, relationship to work, and priorities. Business applications (tax ID filings)  have been at all-time levels since the fall of 2020. The post nicely sums up the lack of personal time associated with many jobs.

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New Year’s Resolutions by Enneagram Type: Which Number Are You?

Success

Using the Enneagram, we can set goals and craft New Year’s resolutions with an understanding of why we act the way we do and what it will take for us to transform our habits. He describes how using Enneagram knowledge can help people set goals and make resolutions that stick. “We How the Enneagram Impacts Your Goals.

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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

Despite a record uptick in new business filings during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurship has been on a troubling downward slide for years. We were just two highly ambitious friends who had reached a stage in our lives when working for someone else no longer fit our goals. Copyright © 2022 by Stacey Y.