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

Success

Has an overloaded calendar or demanding work life left you disconnected from the people and things that matter most to you? In fact, Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past few decades. What can we learn from this? 55% have not had a friend over to their home in more than two months.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

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I worked hard at that job and was rewarded with a promotion to Account Manager in 2006, yay! Sometimes it is easy to forget what we learn over the years so lets have a little reminder of the skills we have picked up at various stages of our careers: Administrator: Improving computer skills from intermediary to advanced .

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6 Reasons Every Serious Blogger Should Blog for the Big Dogs

Men With Pens

Advance your blogging swagger : Check to see if the site you are targeting has an editorial calendar. Often these calendars provide valuable clues to future themes and designated deadlines – which gives you a better chance of getting the right article in front of the blog owner at the right time. It breeds confidence.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure. I had been selling fax machines door to door for seven years, and I had learned a lot about rejection and how to deal with people telling you no. And it started reframing our definition of failure,” she says.

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5 Blog-Building Lessons from Model Planes

Men With Pens

I learned many lessons while building that F-16, and they served me well when I began writing online. At the uber-confident age of seven, it was ridiculous to consider buying a Skill Level 3 kit. A simple calendar plan with day-by-day objectives for a blog redesign could have prevented all that strife. But Skill Level 2?

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Business Competition is Good | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Competition makes you confident. Being able to say that you’re better for whatever reason gives you confidence in your business and in your product. And it’s going to translate into a confidence that affects your sales, your demeanor, and ultimately the success of your business. Excitement instead of indifference?

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The Psychology of Procrastination and How to Avoid It

Productivityist

Learn more about how Paul works by checking out his free 7-Day Productivity Plan. Let’s dive into some of these components a little further to work out why we procrastinate and learn what we need to do to execute effectively. You’re pretty confident in your ability, but at the same time you don’t expect to get an A+.