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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

And startups generally don’t have a long planning horizon. They don’t know if they’ll be around in a few weeks or months or years. So when we started in 1999, if you look at Google, the word coworking didn’t exist. And there really wasn’t a history of doing this sort of thing very much.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

But how do you move beyond the bumper stickers and T-shirt slogans that say “Just Do It,” “Live Strong” or “Be Brave?” Fourteen years later, they have raised nearly $18 million to fund their goal of eradicating extreme poverty. But if you keep working out, over time you’ll increase your capacity to lift heavier ones. But at what cost?

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

When a GoFundMe account was set up to raise funds for rebuilding the uninsured structure, it surpassed the goal of $850,000 within days. In 2001 Mary Parry was homeless and living in a tent in Pennsylvania when she began befriending hikers along the roughly 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail. Sophia Dembling. Respect the Hustle. Elisa Zied.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

With an inspirational personal journey of going from having no food or home for her family to 11 streams of income, multiple real estate properties and running a multimillion-dollar organization within four years, she demonstrates what is possible when your brain is in line with your goals.

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Most US homes are energy vampires — here’s how we need to rethink housing from the ground up

Ideas.Ted

T he US has a housing problem. If we’re going to meet the Paris Agreement goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 — as many states and municipalities are still striving to do — we have some work to do. That’s because most homes are stubbornly stuck in a previous generation.

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6 Ways to Alleviate Ergonomic-Related Strain

Ian's Messy Desk

I got carpal tunnels syndrome/tendinitis in 2000 & 2001 because I didn’t have good ergonomic advice, & didn’t take any initiative back then to seek it out. The problems can range from minor muscle aches that last less than a few hours to persistent tendon problems that can last for years.

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Crazy, Foolish, Ridiculous

Virtual Moxie

My goal for this Sunday, October 10, is 10,000 people each giving $10 on 10/10/10 to help stop child trafficking. In the face of this super-sized goal, it may seem like an odd moment to be thinking about my high school biology teacher. In 2001 she was in Mumbai, India, and saw cages holding 5-year-old girls smuggled in from Nepal.

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