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Perform at Your Peak Level with These 5 Mind-Sharpening Tips

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How you think impacts everything, so it’s important to learn how to sharpen your mind. Start by recognizing self-defeating and sabotaging thought patterns and replacing these patterns with powerful and confident thoughts that support your goals and objectives. This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated.

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5 Reasons to Question Everything

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Many of us think of a “questioner” as someone who’s more a thinker than a doer, whereas the successful go-getter is supposed to be confident, decisive and certain. For those who embrace questioning, change becomes less scary—instead, it offers a welcome opportunity to inquire, learn and keep getting better. “How?

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Rocking the Boat: 4 Traits of Wave Makers

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Build valuable relationships that will help you learn, create strong networks and find meaning in your work. Changemakers have a healthy balance of determination toward a goal and ability to adjust as they learn new information. A changemaker never stop learning—even in unlikely situations. Rethink how you define a wave.

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The Customer Isn’t Always Right But How Do You Know Where to Draw the Line?

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I mentioned that I was confident I had fully performed the contract and was still offering to rework things to make her happy. Confidence kept Lynch from refunding a penny, and she wasn’t sorry to lose the difficult client. “If In the end, if they’re unwilling or unable to learn, I would rather walk away.”

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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Rejection is naturally something an entrepreneur has to go through , but my confidence in this completely unique style was high enough that I chose to take the risk.”. What I’ve come to learn since opening up about my mental health is that I’m not alone, and it does get better,” Deer said. An abrupt stop.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

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I lost my confidence. But the pain was fresh, and the daily struggle for money and confidence were keeping me stuck. And since 2014, I have had the pleasure of helping leaders transform their thinking and strategies to build businesses beyond what they thought was possible. I lost my business. I lost my savings. And so can you.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). million workers and generating revenue of $1.9 I mean ‘Your life will be improved by the ascendance of women.’”

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