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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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After dinner, my wife had broken off to wrap presents, so I adjourned upstairs to accept my son’s challenge in a fierce game of Super Mario Kart 8. The post What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal appeared first on SUCCESS. It was a balmy 6 degrees that night, with a wind chill of are-you-kidding-me-with-this.

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Funding Bias: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Win the Battle in Raising Capital

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Cultivating community and inclusivity Author and psychology professor Angela Duckworth says, “Grit is living life like a marathon, not a sprint.” When researching the differences between men and women founders, BCG learned: “More women report being asked during their presentation to establish that they understand basic technical knowledge.

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How Parents Feel About Remote and Hybrid Work Being Here to Stay

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I was also pregnant with my fourth child, had two kids attempting the hot mess that was remote learning, a husband stealing parts of my desk for his Zoom calls and about all the chaos possible. In a recent KinderCare Learning Companies study with Harris Poll, 41% of participants said hybrid models are ideal, an increase of 5% from 2022.

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Funding Bias: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Win the Battle in Raising Capital

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Cultivating community and inclusivity Author and psychology professor Angela Duckworth says, “Grit is living life like a marathon, not a sprint.” When researching the differences between men and women founders, BCG learned: “More women report being asked during their presentation to establish that they understand basic technical knowledge.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Turns out, whether I was traveling on business or not, the likelihood of me being impacted by racism was still present. After visiting a specialist, taking medication and undergoing hours of electrostimulation, I learned it was all stress-related. The importance of being an ally.

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Do This When Procrastination Strikes

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I’d be sprinting to drop it off in time at 9 am before the last chime of the bell. When it came to certain challenging activities like building a presentation for him, he wanted the work far sooner than I’d do left to my own devices. For example, I recently delayed handing in a written presentation for my German class for 3 weeks.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!”

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