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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

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Before officially shoving off in 2018, Ellison and Darsy led what some might call typical lives. They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. These are five of those lessons.

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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

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Lesson 1: Motivation to keep going and do whatever it takes As with anything in life, the drive to achieve a goal is a huge motivator to get things done. When we first start with a dream goal, we have all the energy and gumption to make it big. In ultra-trail running, this attitude can make or break your race.

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UFC’s Francis Ngannou’s Keys to Overcoming Obstacles and Visualizing Success

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The key to his success, he says, was never losing sight of that goal. An important part in his personal development was realizing that while he couldn’t control the hand he had been dealt in life, he could control how hard he worked to achieve his goals. After fighting in France, he eventually got his big break with the UFC in 2015.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. Consequently, this also leads to a higher level of speed required, with more tasks to cover and less response time available.”

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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

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18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. women’s team has been far more successful on the international stage than the men’s team,” according to ESPN.

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

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A 2018 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology even created a General Charisma Inventory with points that varied from leadership skills to general approachability. Try arriving at a cocktail party with just this one goal, Beck says: All I’m going to do is ask questions. Confidence to spare.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

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Secretary-General António Guterres said back in 2018 in his address to the UN General Assembly — a statement that in hindsight now rings especially true. A United Nations report in 2018 concluded as much, saying back then that average global temperatures will likely reach 1.5°C The widely publicized “1.5°C

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