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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

To the sailing community, she’s a 2007 Beneteau Oceanis 40 with a two-cabin layout. Whether launching a new business, leaving a toxic job for your mental health or, say, selling everything to live on a boat, the final moments are those most riddled with self-doubt. Her name is Polar Seal.

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The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

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Unchecked positive thinking and “irrational optimism” led to the housing market crash in 2007, she contends. So what’s a wise approach for embracing the whole self while still moving toward goals with kindness, compassion and responsibility? Following are lessons that can be derived from the backlash against positivity: 1.

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Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds

Stephanie LH Calahan

Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? years or so. 

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Make Your Resolutions/Goals from a Customer/Client Perspective.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Main | Group Similar Tasks Together for Awesome #TimeManagement » Make Your Resolutions/Goals from a Customer/Client Perspective & Grow Your Business Next Year (The 3 Ss) Every year at this time we start to think about how the current year has progressed and what we want to do in the upcoming year.

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Why You Should Get Rid of Your "To Do" List

On The Job

In 2007, Ari Meisel was diagnosed with a severe case of Crohn’s disease (a disease of the digestive tract) and nearly died. Meisel says that he achieved his good health by improving his diet and fitness, but also by finding a way to deal with stress, which he says was a big part of his illness. Stress is a major cause of inflammation.

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How to stop procrastinating

Ian's Messy Desk

I am happy to realize I set a goal ten weeks ago, to write a series on procrastination, and have followed through on that commitment! Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.

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7 Lies That Prevent Powerful Results

Ian's Messy Desk

Powerful Results come from taking baby steps, one after another, day after day, until you reach your goal. Elusive Goals instead of Do-able Goals An elusive goal is “save $5 thousand for down payment for a house”. A do-able goal is “save $100 every week for one year, beginning this week.”

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