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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. I apologized.

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18 Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence

Success

Emotionally intelligent people are self-confident and open-minded, which creates a pretty thick skin. This creates the tendency to get right back up every time you fall down. For example, you might have an interesting conversation with someone about a book, and when you see them again a month later, you show up with the book in hand.

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11 Ways to Handle Confrontation

Success

And it’s probably because you’re either scared that the conversation is going to be terribly awkward and so you put it on the backburner, or you’re frustrated but don’t want to make a big deal of it and so you just bottle it up. Bottling it up and not addressing it is the worst course of action. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

Success

I lost my confidence. But the tickets never showed up. But the pain was fresh, and the daily struggle for money and confidence were keeping me stuck. I ended up realizing my journey back would begin with forgiving myself —that I could start over and create my own way. I lost my business. I lost my savings. And so can you.

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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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After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018. There are no shortcuts for that.”.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

How Will You Show Up? , She was born in Chengdu but grew up everywhere. Gao uses her experience as a chef to share meaningful flavors that open people up to new ideas and conversations. Her Rise Up: Book of Proof journal and VPM Method combines manifestation techniques rooted in neuroscience with actionable goals.

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Getting People to Notice You: Cultivating High Self-Esteem Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

How to comfortably and confidently showcase your value. Many of you stepped up and shared some of your own notes, questions and links to help me recreate what was lost. ODI Scholarship Packet 2016. How to build, deepen, and strengthen alliances within your network. Put your talents on display…in the right way!