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Try This Brainstorming Exercise to Come Up with Better Business Ideas

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Atop the columns, fill in six S’s: story, skills, strengths, situation, social and solution. This is your background, the details and the goals of your life that drew you to this idea in the first place. Maybe a local bakery is shutting down, and you’re able to buy all of their equipment and supplies at wholesale cost.

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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

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Still, there are ways to continue to increase your skills at work without spending a massive amount of money. If you’re reading SUCCESS magazine and listening to our podcasts , you probably already fall into the category of lifelong learner, and you already take classes on topics that interest you. Know your end goal.

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Mastering EQ: 9 Best Emotional Intelligence Tests to Boost Your Relationships & Career

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These EQ tests provide the user brief scenarios to easily quantify emotional intelligence along one or more dimensions such as self-awareness, social skills, personal motivation and empathy. As with any skill, emotional intelligence is not a fixed or inherent quality. You can learn and improve your EQ.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

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Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. If you want the best of everything in life, the skill of eliminating what you don’t want is critical. Start by asking yourself a simple question: Do you use your phone as a tool to advance your goals and make money, or is your phone using you?

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Yet, despite all these technologies, the unique skills that come naturally to us as humans— emotional intelligence , empathy and social awareness to name a few—still reign supreme. As she sees it, the goal of AI goes beyond its efficiency or cost-effectiveness; the real design value is in our ability to collaborate with these technologies. “We

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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She wanted something that would impact as many children as possible and not cost them anything to participate, with teachings and tools that could work with or without therapy , as she recognizes that therapy is a resource many aren’t able to access. So, how can I invest in myself to make sure I have enough skills and tools?

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Joining the Family Business—Without the Drama of HBO’s ‘Succession’

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While he performed manual labor in and around the law firm, drove clients and ran errands during summers as a young man, his ultimate goal was to play football or baseball professionally. An article from the Spring 2000 issue of Family Business magazine suggests a similar approach to the one exemplified by Ben’s family.

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