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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018. These are five of those lessons.

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Demystifying Tax Jargon

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The existing tax system was set up “to incentivize certain behaviours, things like charitable giving and homeownership … But then, in the 1950s… [governing bodies] introduced tax write-offs as a way for businesses to reduce their taxable income, and things have just gotten more complicated since then,” says Kiersten.

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Surprise Medical Bills: The Costs of Healthcare

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But healthcare is a fundamental part of life, and even if you maintain a healthy lifestyle , you can find yourself sidelined by a common cold or a more serious virus: We’re facing a trifecta of threats to our immune systems this season, including new COVID-19 variants, the flu and RSV.

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Financial Resolutions to Consider for 2023

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Kiersten and Julien share tips for creating a system and carving out the time required to get organized through actions like automating savings, looking at current interest rates, updating budgeting apps and evaluating debt payment plans. Getting your finances in order can seem exhausting. Resources: Scannable app Personal Capital Mint YNAB.

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5 Elements of a Great E-commerce Website

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These include: inventory and delivery tracking systems, a shopping cart and abandoned cart recovery, payment options and billing, tracking numbers and order status, applicable taxation and other basic features. Most first-time clients will check these reviews before purchasing from you. Buying online should be easy. And again, engage.

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This 27-Year-Old Left a Promising Architecture Career to Revamp Her Family’s Struggling Hotel Business

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When I wasn’t waiting tables or… learning about all these customers, I was exploring this building,” Nelson explains. There’s 10,000 square feet of unfinished space upstairs, and I got to run around there and in the basement and see how all of our systems were exposed or how this open-frame space could be one day.”

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Hiring Internationally Doesn’t Have To Make Payroll Complicated

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It’s essential for an organization/business to have a more-than adequate payroll system. Allwork.Space may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through an affiliate link in our stories, at no additional cost to you. Learn more here. This helps support our journalism. If you don’t pay your employees, they leave.

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