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Wondering How to Become a Morning Person? Try These 8 Techniques

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It’s also important to set goals for yourself before you sleep. Consider making your goals more about house chores and hobbies rather than work, like doing laundry, reading that article you bookmarked a month ago and shopping for upcoming birthdays and holidays. Put down your phone. Is your alarm on your phone?

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Working a Side Gig? Here’s How to Prep for Your Second Shift

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My goal is to create as much parity as possible between my roles.”. Because Long can’t neglect his other work entirely, he allows himself an hour in the middle of each day to respond to emails and phone calls. This article originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Learn to say no.

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10 Things Exceptionally Successful People Do on the Weekends

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Successful people know they have to carve out downtime where they put away phones and don’t check emails. The weekend is a good time to put things in perspective and gain clarity, to refocus on your most important goals. This article was published in August 2016 and has been updated. They disconnect.

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Why Success Doesn’t Mean You’re Living a Fulfilled Life

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Although Parachute helped us think through our career paths, today’s world is far more complex and speedy, requiring individuals to think both about their overall life goals and plans, and to be willing to continuously adjust them throughout their lives. Which ones are time-sucks that are inhibiting my long-term vision or fulfillment goals?

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How to Improve Your Client Relationships

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Instead of focusing on income, race, gender and age, drill down into customers’ loves, hates, habits and goals—all before you even think about selling to them. From this data you can construct what Webb calls “nodes,” or customer profiles based on personality types and goals. Understand your client. Forget demographics.

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This Is My Key to a Successful Business Partnership

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On one of his visits to Los Angeles, Eric overheard Jim on the phone talking with some straight friends, making up a story about why he couldn’t do something with the group that night. The goal of any partnership should be success; what partnership was ever created in order to fail, right? Jim was smitten. A strange word: success.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? Khaled was about 16 and DJing a party in Orlando, Florida where he spent his formative years, when his phone rang. It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t startle me. I love the man.