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

Success

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. All in one calendar year. I paid her $10 to learn the American national anthem,” Everitt says. You can’t make your daughter learn 80 national anthems in 41 languages,” he says. Everitt says.

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Personal Attention Is the Key to Winning Business—Start with These 7 Best Practices

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Open your calendar at the end of the meeting and say, “What does your Thursday look like next week? Salespeople learn to make cold calls. They learn to be relentless. Have you ever asked for a meeting to learn about a prospect’s needs for the product or service you sell? But she does keep her commitments.

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Want to Work at a Startup? Read This First

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John Rampton, Calendar. Learn when to do and when to ask for help. Learn how to recover from failure. The best new employees we have had are ones who have a thirst for learning and aren’t afraid to expose themselves to what they don’t know. This article was published in January 2015 and has been updated.

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Navigating Change with Courtney Clark – Free Webinar For Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics

As an assistant, you are constantly dealing with change and often have to adapt to whatever comes your way, whether it is changing your executive’s calendar or travel, or immediately responding to a crisis. She was a presenter at the Office Dynamics 2015 conference where she amazed everyone with her story and “detour” philosophy.

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

Success

The good news is, you can learn time management strategies. Learn time management strategies from the experts. A wise man, who had studied success for more than 50 years, once concluded that the greatest success principle of all was, learn from the experts. Success leaves tracks. Delegate more. “I

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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Why you should (or shouldn’t) work with freelancers After learning about Fishkin’s past hiring experiences, we decided to do our own analysis on the subject — comparing full-time marketing employees to outsourced agency and freelance talent. Set up a calendar for regular check-ins and deadlines. Her secret?