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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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By then I was insistent that I wanted to run the business alone, and I rented a conference room for a meeting away from our office. My best friend and neighbor opened a boutique with me in 2002, and for most of the nine years we owned it, it was fabulous. I was surprised, but we continued on as effective partners for another year.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. So although more money doesn’t necessarily make you happier (see the discussion of salaries below in “Happiness Roadblocks”), more happiness just might make you more money. Besides the temporary high that exercise can confer, its long-term effects on happiness are well documented.

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