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Beyond Gold: What Happens After You Achieve Your Biggest Goal?

Success

If your definition of success involves pushing yourself to achieve a goal , there’s no one more successful than Olympic Gold medalists. After retiring from gymnastics at 18, Patterson released an album, aptly named Back to the Beginning. At 18, following medical advice, she retired. That sounds great.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

Success

Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. There’s a definite hitch in his gait and some slight shaking in his head and arms. The Michael J.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

A meeting planner by MY definition is the go-to person within an organization – be it corporate, association or otherwise – charged with the responsibility of planning and executing a meeting or special event. Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners.

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Ep 243: Nicole Grinnell on Delegation and Unlocking Your Productivity Potential

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Well, we’ll definitely do that. So right out of college, I actually worked as kind of an assistant in a medical office, then I actually was fortunate enough to get a role with pilot travel centers in the Knoxville area. Nicole Grinnell 5:57 Yeah, so I’m the CEO that I was mainly supporting, actually retired.

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An interview with Admin Awards Founder, Sunny Nunan, by Executive Support Magazine

Admin Awards

When my mom retired just shy of her 80th birthday from the profession, she was given a scrapbook that was packed with pages of pictures, letters and writings about what she meant to her co-workers and organization. There was a winner in one of our cities whose leader was the Chief Medical Officer for a global pharmaceutical company.

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Deepak Chopra: A Life of Fullfillment

Success

Chopra went on to America to become a respected endocrinologist, a medical school professor and eventually, one of the foremost proponents of mind-body medicine, or the combination of Western medical knowledge with ancient Eastern philosophies. He fulfilled his own definition of success. He didn’t just become successful.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Has Workplace Loyalty Gone to the Dogs?

On The Job

Employees are bruised and battered (at least psychologically and financially) by companies who have sacked them, forced them to take unpaid leave and slashed pensions and medical benefits. Scot, When I was a senior in college and my dad was 10 months from retirement, he was laid off, as were 900 other people at the refinery in my small town.

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