Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

She was the founder of an award-winning, modern-Chinese fast casual restaurant in Shanghai, and her work has been featured in The New York Times , BBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal , Fast Company , Fortune and more. Thomas offers vetted, executable solutions that are formed from real-life experiences.

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Success

JULY 30, 2021

We’re here today because our ancestors avoided rejection at all costs. Rejection is that much-dreaded response that hits us right in the self-esteem. It’s the worst, and it’s no wonder we’re programmed to avoid it at all costs. Request an item at a restaurant that’s not on the menu. Try Rejection Theraphy!

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2010

Whether this involves setting the time of the event, or getting gas before a long trip, or picking the restaurant to meet at, this is your chance to impress everyone. This builds your self-esteem, and the person you contact will remember that you made the effort to talk to them.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 10, 2010

Maybe the trip turned out to be a fiasco because the budget exploded and now you have to do the dishes in a restaurant to pay for your plane ticket home (or, most likely, you ignored some very common sense rule and it turned out that rule was for real). Denial is a form of rejecting reality. The outcome is the part when we pay.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant. I’d rather work with people who self-identify as businesspeople rather than bloggers. Businesspeople understand investment, as opposed to cost.

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