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Designer Michael Costello Aims to Empower Women Through Fashion

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Michael Costello dressed Beyoncé in a handsewn white lace and nude mesh dress for the Grammy Awards in 2014. My designs are all about celebrating women from all walks of life and making them feel confident and beautiful. It’s the perfect piece to dress up or down, and it always makes me feel confident and put together.

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Perform at Your Peak Level with These 5 Mind-Sharpening Tips

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Start by recognizing self-defeating and sabotaging thought patterns and replacing these patterns with powerful and confident thoughts that support your goals and objectives. This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated. Just as athletes optimize their bodies, entrepreneurs should optimize their minds.

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How to Communicate With Confidence

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The post How to Communicate With Confidence appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. The good news is that by using a few simple strategies, you can boost your own communication confidence. 10 Simple Communication Resolutions for 2014. You just finished reading How to Communicate With Confidence !

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5 Reasons to Question Everything

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Many of us think of a “questioner” as someone who’s more a thinker than a doer, whereas the successful go-getter is supposed to be confident, decisive and certain. This article was published in March 2014 and has been updated. Blame it on a grown-up world that tends to put more value on having answers than asking for them. “How?

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Rocking the Boat: 4 Traits of Wave Makers

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Adopt this healthy confidence , and allow yourself to realize your goal without getting distracted by future details. They are comfortable taking on new ideas because they are confident that they can learn what they need to know. This article was published in June 2014 and has been updated. Rethink how you define a wave.

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The Customer Isn’t Always Right But How Do You Know Where to Draw the Line?

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I mentioned that I was confident I had fully performed the contract and was still offering to rework things to make her happy. Confidence kept Lynch from refunding a penny, and she wasn’t sorry to lose the difficult client. This article was published in December 2014 and has been updated. She said she would sue me….

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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Rejection is naturally something an entrepreneur has to go through , but my confidence in this completely unique style was high enough that I chose to take the risk.”. The program generated over $240,000 to causes including eating disorder prevention, cancer advocacy and LGBTQ youth services since its start in 2014. An abrupt stop.

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