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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Live and learn, right? While I appreciated learning about the PR side of the business, my heart was on the writer’s side. I’m 60 and still learning new things decades into my career. Why not share what I’ve learned since I started freelancing in the (gulp) 1980s? But what I really loved was the writing aspect of the job.

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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The Big ‘Why’: Unraveling the Purpose of Work in a Changing World

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There are moments where I see a student beautifully capture something that was a learning objective of mine—and I also spend a lot of time in boring committee meetings which feels like actual drudgery,” Tosti-Kharas explains. You learn as much through what you don’t like doing as what really resonates,” Toshi-Kharas says. “I

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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” He was working as an X-ray technician when he learned about the field. “I It is very unpredictable what we do,” he says.

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How Ice Cream Gave Hap Cameron Purpose & Inspired Him to Open Happy Cones

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“All I had to my name was a pack of my clothes and my bike,” he remembers. “I I was writing Hap Working the World , about my travels, and making a documentary, Bikes for Africa [about helping implement a self-sustainable bike workshop in rural Namibia], and all I had were memories. I was living with my parents in their spare room.

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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

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[Editor’s note: One of the greatest gifts you can give is the gift of lifelong learning. Learn more here. ]. Here are three: 1) An annual gift subscription to Duolingo (Plus or Family), because learning another language is a beautiful gift to ourselves and to the world. Digital subscriptions for the mind, body and soul.

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How Can Executive Assistants Be Like Zappos?

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Zappos sells online shoes and clothing for men, women, and children. We learned a great deal in those 2 hours which we can now apply to our own roles and business. Jasmine Freeman and I presented a 2-day workshop a few years ago called Mastering Exceptional Self-Leadership. Tony Hsieh , 41-year old CEO, is a simple man.

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