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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Instead, in an effort to avoid conflict altogether, they are far more likely to quit, which could have a negative impact on their earning potential, retirement account contributions, health care coverage and other financial employee benefits. Years later, at the peak of my corporate career, I developed a slight eye twitch.

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On Your Mark Get Set — Recharge

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In his book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance , Schwartz and co-authors Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy, Ph.D., Schwartz, founder and CEO of The Energy Project, advocates for a work style based on a series of sprints rather than a marathon.

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Do This When Procrastination Strikes

Executive Assistant Breakthrough

I’d be sprinting to drop it off in time at 9 am before the last chime of the bell. Which means that even though you love writing and really wanted to crank out that book chapter this weekend, you may still find that you cleared out 800 junk emails and re-organized your sock drawer, but have no book chapter to show.

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New Year’s Resolutions, Pacing Oneself, and Staying Curious

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And I’m incorporating and thinking about spiritual and health goals too, all the while of being mindful to pace myself and be realistic of what is do-able. This results in staying up really late to finish a good book or whatever project I’m indulging in and throwing my sleep schedule out of whack. How are your resolutions coming along?

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” I needed the income and the security and the insurance and the health benefits and all that. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!” I didn’t want to quit my job.

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5 Ways To Work Smarter | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

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Power List of 50+ Life Changing Books Plus a FREE bonus gift: “90 Of The Most Motivational Quotes You Will Ever Find” You’ll also get Pick The Brain’s motivational weekly newsletter filled with positive thoughts, expert advice, helpful self-improvement articles & blog updates. Life after all is a marathon, not a sprint.

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How To Play The Game Of Blogging

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Hydrate Yourself: It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint I can’t emphasize enough on this one. With that pace in mind, I’ve taken the long view and given my self room to experiment and test the waters … and run a marathon of sprints over a sprint and burn. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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