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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

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If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. T his article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. The pushback was all around.

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The Problem With the ‘New Year, New You’ Mindset

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I Don’t Subscribe to ‘New Year, New You’ Although the holidays are a time of joy and gratitude, we often fill the last days of the year with forward thinking, our faces to the horizon, looking for ways to make the following year even better. This article was published in January 2017 and has been updated.

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Use This Writing Exercise to Uncover Your Ideal Self

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I resisted the urge to uproot myself after 10 months in a new country to take a working holiday visa on the other side of the world. This article was published in June 2017 and has been updated. After that, I recognized when I was motivated by fear of staying in the same place or doing the same thing.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party. The plan was to fly to Miami, rent a car, and drive to Key West. Things weren’t looking good.

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How Happy Are You?

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I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Two days later, the sleepy, snappy malaise that hovered over our house like some gray beast was gone, and holiday joy had returned. This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. And that part worked for me. Well, that and the real coffee. Photo by Mariia Korneeva/Shutterstock.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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It has also sparked collaborations with celebrities and popular fashion and lifestyle brands including Alice + Olivia, LoveShackFancy, Dogwood Hill and Draper James, the clothing line founded by Reese Witherspoon. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” How did you look for potential manufacturers?

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