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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. My goal is to build a national chain,” Morales says. Look how popular Mexican food, Asian food, Italian food restaurants are. So, I did.”.

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

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A lot of planning has gone into this trip – from the airline you chose to fly to the hotel you selected to the restaurants you’ll eat at. Your success depends on knowing what you truly want to accomplish before you begin setting goals and pursue achieving them in the new year. You worked with a budget. You made detailed packing lists.

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How to Create a Budget: 6 Steps to Get You on the Path to Financial Security

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We all know expenses exist, but the numbers keep adding up—rent, water, trash, electricity, cable, Internet, car insurance, renter’s insurance, gas, cell phone. Set goals and adjust your expenses. By sitting down each month and comparing your actual expenses to what your goals were will help you stay on track.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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My goal is to conquer it today, camp at Naked Ground, then hook up with another trail that takes a less-strenuous 8.5-mile The lodge has a restaurant with a nice outside patio overlooking a river. There’s a restaurant near my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, that scrolls trivia questions on a few television screens all day.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Is there one thing that will make the difference between actually achieving your goals and chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? Visualize your goals as already complete. Call one of your children on the phone. Write a 101 life-goal list. Reach my financial goals. Meditate for 20 minutes.

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Master the Sales Mindset to Land Your Biggest Clients

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As a trainer, speaker and author, Meyer says contemplative goal setting is an early preparatory step that sets the stage for success throughout the entire sales process. Having tangible short-term goals that go out six months, as well as longer-range goals that can span up to a lifetime, are well and good. They rationalize.”

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Finding Joy and Friendship in a Pandemic-Induced Hobby

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I’m driving home from one of Atlanta’s popular new restaurants. I needed something to do—a hobby—that would force me to put my phone down and redirect my attention and my thumbs. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. For the past few hours, I have been gabbing and sipping French wine with 15 friends. Generation Zen.