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

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To achieve that pinnacle of mental toughness, Darcy Piceu, a licensed psychotherapist, 20-year veteran professional ultrarunner and two-time UTMB winner (3rd in 2011 and 5th in 2015), suggests breaking down your goals into manageable chunks and using simple management tools like a calendar to keep the momentum going. “I

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This Canadian Real Estate Agent Helped His Daughter Break an Unusual Guinness World Record and Found a Breakthrough of His Own

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He helped his daughter set an unusual world record : most national anthems sung in their home countries in a calendar year. Use the anthem singing to raise funds and awareness for SOS Children’s Villages, an international development organization providing aid to children in need on a global level. All in one calendar year.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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Erin Balsa, head of content marketing at The Predictive Index , has been hiring freelance writers since 2011 and managing them since 2015. We find 20+ hours per week or a month-long engagement warrants access to internal communication channels like Slack and project management systems like Asana. Her secret?

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Want to Work at a Startup? Read This First

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We desperately need to get the most out of our internal team and are prepared and happy to reward you for doing more than the minimum. John Rampton, Calendar. This article was published in January 2015 and has been updated. When an entrepreneur hires a new employee, there is a lot more on the line for the former.

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17 Time Management Strategies to Help You Tackle Your To-Do List

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You no longer have to sit down and plan out your calendar for the week because productivity apps make it easy to set reminders, stay on track and get things done. So we internally developed a code that means, ‘Please don’t get offended, but I really need to tackle this task.’ Whatever you find, go beyond observations.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

In 2015, Jasmine Freeman sent out a survey to our webinar attendees and asked them to identify one thing that was standing in the way or was a barrier in their relationship with their manager. Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. Shared calendar. Consolidate emails/list.

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The Admin’s Guide to Organizing Digital Files

Office Dynamics

When I view it by file name, all of these past webinar alerts that I downloaded to add to my calendar appear together. These are already on my calendar so they can be deleted completely from my Sorting Folder. I also see that there are 16 iCalendar files that I can delete if the items have already been added to my calendar.

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