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The Art of Strategic Nothingness

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Total silence can’t be my new lifestyle, of course. During the decades after, each stage became an investment in the next: enhancing that college application, getting that promotion, building that portfolio. It’s very much a skill that you must practice. A bigger challenge followed: how to bring zen home. I’m a writer.

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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In The Alter Ego Effect , author Todd Herman suggests that we add another element: creating an alter ego to boost our confidence and skills. What happens is this: Thanks to the chaotic environment and harried lifestyles society has made the norm, we cannot figure out how to strike the right balance to achieve everything we want to achieve.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. Greg McKeown shows that when we distinguish between the “vital few” and the “trivial many,” then focus ONLY on the vital, massive results follow: spiked productivity, a reputation for getting things done, work promotions and tranquility. (80/20

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Cutting Out Confusion: How to Explain SEO to Non-Techie Clients

Andrea Kalli

Despite being skilled, successful, and attentive, the vast majority of SEOs lack the corporate structure to gain a meeting with large businesses. Using Videos to Develop the Perception of a Personal Relationship With Target Audiences When pursued correctly, video marketing can be an extremely effective tool to promote your small business.

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Set Healthy Boundaries at Work

Ian's Messy Desk

Trust the skills and judgement of your team and resist the temptation to hover over people to ensure every little task or decision is on target. But while you may dream of a senior level promotion, putting in 70 hour work weeks to achieve it will only result in burnout. Put your health first. Put your health first.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

This sounds like the fantasy version of the e-commerce lifestyle that’s sold in Instagram ads, but it was reality for my wife and me when we lived in Mexico in 2019. You could use your store to sell diving excursions to tourists, dog walking to busy professionals, or your coaching/consulting/accounting/speaking skills.

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How To Network Awesomely – A Book Review

Brilliantly Better

And then I realized that since Colin is a big advocate of lifestyle design, the ebook should have taken the form of a lifestyle magazine too. Tagged as: ebook , lifestyle , lifestyle design , networking Liked it? Because it didn’t look like an ebook at all. It looked like a nice magazine. You can thank me later.