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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

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Your teaching methods, clothes, the booger in your nose during allergy season—all of it. By seeking coachability opportunities like teaching, I’ve met some amazing people who are now mentors and mentees constantly helping to move me forward. Finally, I became a mentor , but I was always willing to be the mentee, too.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Join a class at your fitness club, an exercise group or a team sport. Find a mentor. Ask questions of mentors and peers. I often think I need new clothes, but when I clean out or organize my closet, I realize I have lots of options and everything I need at my fingertips. Take a dance or fitness class.

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Stop Saying "When I Was Your Age"

On The Job

Also, nothing makes you look worse than clothes that are too tight, too loose or too worn, so get them altered or get rid of them if needed. Take a class or enlist the help of a younger worker in exchange for some mentoring from you in other areas. Keeping up on current events. Use new technologies to implement your strategies.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She even signed up for a fear-of-flying seminar to help calm her nerves, but she missed so many classes because of her schedule and constant traveling that her instructor told her, “I don’t know if I should be mad at you or proud of you, but you’re never here because you’re always on a plane.” Practicality is kind of her thing.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more. Kim Anthony. Elena Cardone.

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

You can make that first step easier by supporting yourself: comfy clothes, your favorite music, an organizing buddy, etc. For bigger changes, enlist a mentor or professional coach to help you stay on track. I practice yoga once or twice a week and know that I always leave class feeling more grounded and centered than when I started.

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