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The Real Good Life Takes Dinner Stress Off Your Plate

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In seventh grade, Maggie Skarich Joos dreamed of owning a restaurant. But years later, after studying hospitality management and working in several restaurants, Skarich Joos realized the long evenings weren’t a good fit for her. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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Stay on Track for Productivity

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So, what can you do to stay focused while working form home? Look up that new restaurant to make reservations for Friday night, get sidetracked reading the reviews and BOOM! This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. Set boundaries with friends and family. More time-wasters: social media and web-surfing.

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Habit Hack: How To Form A Habit

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Visit the original article at [link]. To be successful at anything then, we need to form good habits that support our endeavors and carry us through to our goal’s end. This consistent and repeated act of choosing is what forms the habit. Habits are formed when we do the same things consistently over time. Guest Post.

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What It’s Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

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The water’s high salinity means that no life form, including microbes and other pathogens, can survive. Before you can reserve your session, you have to agree to a release form. This article was published in May 2016 and has been updated. If I expanded my consciousness in the void, so much the better.

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What Can Workplace Design Practitioners Learn From Human Psychology?

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This article was written by Kim Rousseau and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. In this current protracted return-to-office paradigm, attention should be given first and foremost to more basic human needs — specifically our hunger for positive, joyful and life-affirming social interaction.

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Ready or Not: My Experience Launching a Side Hustle in 121 Days

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The 50s were a hook to celebrate my 50th birthday and just happened to form a great marketing shtick for an adventure trip. 121 Days to Launch: An idea starts to form. Relationships like that can be formed in any number of ways; it could be over books or wine or musicals. Maybe you can learn from my journey. Here’s how it went.