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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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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. It’s a relatable moment for anyone who’s packed for a multi-week international trip only to remember they probably don’t need five pairs of strappy sandals.

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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. I needed to find out what ultra-athletes can teach us.

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5 Realistic Tips to Be More Positive

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It wasn’t easy, but by internalizing the following five tips, I was able to turn my negative attitude into a positive one : 1. Don’t postpone the reward until after achieving the big goal. This article was published in June 2015 and has been updated. Then one day I asked myself, what are they doing that is different?

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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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Additionally, a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health looked at the relationship between overusing technology and the mental detachment from work as the result of overwork, arguing that “work is intensifying more and more as a result of technologies in day-to-day work.

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Accept or Shift Your Primary Commitments to Reach Your Goals With Ease!

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The brilliant Alice Inoue of Happiness U wrote a smart post about why people don’t reach their goals. Alice talks about the conscious and unconscious, and how, in goal achievement, the unconscious always wins. When our primary commitments are congruent with what we want, every goal around them becomes easy to achieve.

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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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