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How to Create a Budget: 6 Steps to Get You on the Path to Financial Security

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We all know expenses exist, but the numbers keep adding up—rent, water, trash, electricity, cable, Internet, car insurance, renter’s insurance, gas, cell phone. The cost of building a life isn’t. It all feels a bit much. Dive into a digital finance manager, excel sheets, worksheets and a homemade bill binder.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? Khaled was about 16 and DJing a party in Orlando, Florida where he spent his formative years, when his phone rang. It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t startle me. Podcasts. “I

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When Using Your Cell Phone can be Bad Manners

Laughing all the Way to Work

Why does all our good etiquette sense go out the window just because we are a cell phone? Some employers are even considering banning cell phone use at work because of our poor etiquette. [1] 1] What is it about the cell phone that we just have to run for it when it rings? In the workplace it is a definite no-no.

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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

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It is worth noting, however, that the Stanford Institute research did not differentiate contractors, the self-employed, or part-time workers in its study and acknowledges that the definition of the “office” stretches beyond the white-collared job, making this misleading.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. That would require (based on the USDA’s definition of a food desert) constructing a new supermarket in every square mile of every major city without one. More tactically, it’s Bonton Farms.

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Tips for Planning Someone Else’s Travel

Office Dynamics

If the chain is not available in their destination, definitely make sure all their preferred amenities are available to them. Except in the case of “foodie” travelers, most people will pick restaurants based on convenience and location rather than the hottest artisanal eats. Hotel Preferences.

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