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When to Retire from Your First Career and How to Plan Your Next Move

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Besides being at the top of their respective game at one time or another, all three second-guessed their initial decision to retire. You might not knock on your former company’s doors months after blowing out the candles on your well wishes in retirement cake. Here’s how to know when it might be time to retire from career No.

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Beyond Gold: What Happens After You Achieve Your Biggest Goal?

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If your definition of success involves pushing yourself to achieve a goal , there’s no one more successful than Olympic Gold medalists. After retiring from gymnastics at 18, Patterson released an album, aptly named Back to the Beginning. There’s always something to be learned from your hardest days if you can just keep going.

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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His goal at that juncture was to be ejected, and his wish was granted. In the minors, there are two-man crews for Rookie ball and Class A, three at the higher levels. Two former umpires, many retired from the major leagues, see each umpire in his respective league six times. Wellman knew that better than anyone.

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. Researchers from the Grant Study (now called the Harvard Study of Adult Development ) selected 268 white college sophomore men from six consecutive class years.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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Extension classes abound at colleges and universities. He notes that “learning agility”—the deftness at gaining and using knowledge—is the “biggest predictor of long-term leadership success,” according to research by the Korn Ferry Institute. Slews of podcasts and tutorials (some free, some not) go online every day. A push for parity.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Is there one thing that will make the difference between actually achieving your goals and chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? Visualize your goals as already complete. Write a 101 life-goal list. Join a class at your fitness club, an exercise group or a team sport. Reach my financial goals.

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GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons Is in the Business of Helping Others Find Success

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The Marine Corps awarded Parsons the Purple Heart medal for his service, and the experience went much deeper than his learning how to be a soldier. Lessons Learned Parsons pinpoints what he considers the key to understanding success, in both business and life. “I I think the most important thing is to first learn about worry.

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