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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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Tracking on this kind of lifestyle is still in the nascent stages, so it’s hard to say how many of those digital nomads live on the water, but for Ellison and Darsy, the sailing community has become the most rewarding part of their lifestyle. In a more traditional lifestyle, the idea of five- and 10-year goals are common.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Every day we seem to have a giant to-do list of people to see, projects to complete, emails to write. Experience has shown that when people go after a big goal at once, they invariably fail. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. We’re all busy. So it is with prioritizing.

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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

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But I did answer the pressing email! In my article on ideas for shaking up 2013, I mentioned the dependence we have on habit. Send an email. Do one thing toward your big goals. This article was published in March 2013 and has been updated. I am trying to lessen my phone dependence for Lent. I’m working on it.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If

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Why ‘Be Yourself’ Is Both the Best and Worst Advice You Can Get

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I usually just ask for a word of advice via email, but most of them talked to me on the phone and offered to read my essays and share feedback. I got an email from Harvard inviting me to the interview phase. I knew this program, its goals and what they were looking for backwards and forwards. And it felt great in the moment.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. For many employees, the workday does not end when they leave the office,” the authors wrote. The breakdown of work-life balance.

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How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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It would be fair to say then that this idea—that thoughts have power—is the foundation for today’s multibillion-dollar personal development industry , and the reason you’re reading this SUCCESS article right now. David Bayer’s article grabbed me; he’d clearly done serious thinking about mindset. Their primary goal? Look smart!

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