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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. I said to myself, I hope my phone doesn’t ring, because I won’t sign the note this time. My phone never rang. Soon, you’ll open up a whole new world of fresh ideas. This article was published in December 2016 and has been updated. We all need to build a good library.

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How to Improve Your Client Relationships

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We’ve been working together for five months, and I touch base with him up to 15 times a week. I make it clear to clients that we don’t work together on weekends, and I don’t respond to texts or phone calls after 7 p.m. In turn, they served as business mentors to me; the senior partner is much older and more experienced than I am.

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

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In a study by the Metrus Institute , nearly every respondent harbored a desire to become fulfilled—to reach a state of long-term happiness and conscientiously live up to his or her potential. I missed my three daughters growing up—something I can never replace,” one respondent said. They adapt.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

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When you’re in charge, your opinion simply takes up more space than that of others, whether you intend it to or not. Describing your team as a family also sets up a very confusing mixed reality because you can’t fire a member of your family, but you absolutely have to be able to fire an employee who isn’t pulling their weight.

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5 Challenges and Mistakes Faced by Every Solopreneur

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One way to overcome this is to draw up an ideal client profile and use it as a checklist for when you’re having your initial conversation with a potential client. That said, sometimes working with the wrong client can be good as it allows you to figure out exactly what you do want and so better draw up your Ideal Client Profile.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Set your wake-up time a half hour earlier tomorrow and keep the clock at that setting. Block out specific times to initiate phone calls, personally take incoming calls and meet people in person. So it is with prioritizing.

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Representation Matters: 5 Tips for Creating a Business Worth Supporting

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When Robert Hartwell first launched The Broadway Collective , a musical theater academy, in 2016, he worked at the kitchen table with his assistant. How to build a company that reflects your values To Hartwell, showing up for these communities means building a company that reflects his values of representation and diversity. “If

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