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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. “But Your speed is the right speed.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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I learned how to use Pro Tools, how to record myself and how to EQ [equalize] my vocals a little bit from Simeon Viltz and another mentor who passed away, Brother Mike Hawkins,” he says. The goal of becoming a millionaire wasn’t on Chance’s list, but it happened anyway. That was a really, really big part of me gaining my fanbase….

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The Nathalie Virem Foundation Helps Leaders Rediscover Their Purpose

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In 2015, after some time spent musing over what her calling actually was, Virem started her first company, Nathalie Virem Inc. So, really learning to connect intuitively, to become more conscious, to discern when they make business decisions. This, she realized, was her calling. Or holistic, in a sense.”

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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. The mystery excites me.

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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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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. And it can be learned. Try arriving at a cocktail party with just this one goal, Beck says: All I’m going to do is ask questions.

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One way to create cooler, cleaner megacities: Plant rooftop gardens!

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From 2015 to 2017, Egypt borrowed $1.03 Founded in 2018, the organization partners with sponsors to provide hydroponic gardening supplies to low-income families for free and sells these same supplies to other customers. Those are the goals of Schaduf, another Cairo-based organization working in urban agriculture. Absolutely.”.