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Live to 100: 4 Takeaways from the Netflix Docuseries to Help You Live Better and Longer

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He visited Okinawa, Japan; Ikaria, Greece; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Loma Linda, California, interviewing people in the Blue Zones about their lives. We text, email and message instead of talking on the phone. to achieve this goal. We don’t see each other, hear each other, hug each other as often as we should.

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Why ‘Be Yourself’ Is Both the Best and Worst Advice You Can Get

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I usually just ask for a word of advice via email, but most of them talked to me on the phone and offered to read my essays and share feedback. In one of those preparation phone calls, one current student gave me this final piece of advice: “I know this may sound trite, but when it comes to your application, really be yourself.”.

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The Art of Strategic Nothingness

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We hadn’t used phones or computers, listened to music, read books, or written. Only my phone knew how many texts and emails awaited me. Total silence can’t be my new lifestyle, of course. I interview people every day, and I spend almost as much time with my laptop as my husband. Sometimes I even like my phone.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. Relational capital is huge, especially in assistant relationships,” Sciortino says.

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

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Try arriving at a cocktail party with just this one goal, Beck says: All I’m going to do is ask questions. For weeks, Kelleher failed to compose a persuasive note requesting an interview. At last, “I stopped trying to see my own needs, which were to get an interview with her, and just went with extreme empathy,” she says.

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Interview with Steve Pritchard from hiremyparents.com

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

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If you had asked me a week before that accident if I was happy, I would’ve said yes,” I told life coach Martha Beck over the phone. “ The goal is to get in touch with whatever is making our current situation feel too constricting or just plain wrong. Over the course of the next few months, I waited to find out if I needed surgery.

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