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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

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I interviewed 300 people to discover the quality of their relationships and here’s what they had to say. The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled between 1985 and 2004, according to a 2006 study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona.

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Interview with Kate Smith of Juno VA

Karen Vivarelli

Despite a world pandemic sweeping the world at the time the course started, Kate and the other women in the VA Course all banded together to support each other in learning something new. I have learned the hard way. What types of things have you had to learn to become a VA? What made you want to become a VA?

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

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There’s a definite hitch in his gait and some slight shaking in his head and arms. But during a September 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Fox told the radio host, “Believe it or not, from a scientific point of view, that’s not significant.” They have learned not to count on everything being the same and to react to subtle changes.

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Interview with Rob Siefker of Zappos – Part 1 of 4

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After interviewing Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and seeing the company’s HQ outside of Las Vegas , I knew I wanted to learn more about the nuts and bolts and day-to-day operations of Zappos. And I started in the company as a temp worker in 2004. Service Untitled: So tell me about your role and what you do at Zappos.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Working on customer service skills

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Some companies think that customer service representatives do not learn skills from abstract situations taught in seminars and training classes, but I witnessed an interesting experience yesterday that had been learned and mastered well. It saves the company a huge amount of time, and keeps people happy. photo credit: TheTruthAbout.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race. And it started reframing our definition of failure,” she says. He’d say, ‘Tell me about it. What happened?’

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. But they stay the same, too.

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