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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

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How to meet new people. Your teaching methods, clothes, the booger in your nose during allergy season—all of it. After two years of daily feedback (or criticism, however you prefer to look at it), I had to choose between feeling insecure because of their comments or discovering how they made me coachable.

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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Be the mentor you wish you had By no means do I claim to be the voice for freelancers everywhere. Besides the opportunity to buy some new school clothes and get a pair of new shoes, I absolutely loved learning. Play to your strengths—but shore up your weaknesses. I’m 60 and still learning new things decades into my career.

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Paying Candidates for Interviews: What Should Be Covered and Why?

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In a 2021 LinkedIn article , author Sue Ellson writes, “ the interview preparation , selection criteria answers, mini-project or portfolio requests, travel, attendance, self-reflection, rumination and chats with friends, family, mentor or coach—that could be anywhere from two hours to 20-plus hours.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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How to Start the New Year Right. Each month for 30 days in a row, commit to doing something new that you have thought about doing, but have not done, and notice how it affects your life. Find a mentor. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Clean out your closet and donate unwanted clothes to charity. Attend training.

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The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide for Entrepreneurs, 9-to-5ers and Executives

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Learn how to make your own way from someone who grew up poor, became a millionaire , went broke and became a millionaire again. That person was Jim Rohn, an entrepreneur who mentored none other than Tony Robbins. With color options of dusty gray-blue, lush berry pink, rosy orange-brown and more, it’s just as cute as it is functional.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. Practicality is kind of her thing.

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Looking at This Year’s Successes as You Set Next Year’s Goals

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Sure, it’s fun to live in the moment, but when you realize you’re thousands of miles from home without so much as a place to stay or a change of clothes, you’ll wish you’d made a plan. Here’s how to do this: Review your goals from the past year and check off the ones you’ve accomplished. Did you develop your leadership skills? •

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