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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

Success

Masarweh says it’s a way to better allocate employees’ time, especially when they have special skills, so you aren’t paying high salaries for basic administrative tasks. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Many companies approached Assistantly for help.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

Success

I thought this was going to be another year of travel for me,” Harper says about her sojourn in Mexico. “I I was going to be there for two weeks and plan my travel. We were on the front page of the New York Times and the travel sections.” This article originally appeared in the January/February 2023 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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I got a job as a junior features writer with the Indian edition of a teen magazine on a monthly salary of Rs 6,000 (approximately $80), more than half of which went into rent. Having outgrown pop culture and travel listicles, this had been my most challenging assignment. Dinners were skipped or consisted of a cheap street meal.

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

Success

On a balmy Thursday night, the RoughRiders , an affiliate of the big league Texas Rangers, face the Arkansas Travelers , an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, at Frisco, Texas’ Riders Field, formerly known as the Dr Pepper Ballpark. The life of a baseball umpire At the major league level, the starting salaries for umpires is $120,000.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

Success

I had intended to ask him about how he started Bonton Farms , an urban farm he founded in a South Dallas food desert more than a decade ago after abandoning a cozy corporate job and six-figure salary. A food desert is an urban community whose residents need to travel a mile or more to get to a grocery store. So, we had the right one.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

With my husband working long hours and regularly away for travel, I was already stretched thin mothering three children. A successful sales executive, Webber found herself increasingly dissatisfied with her work in the tech industry despite its secure salary and lucrative annual bonus. I recall slapping my face to reset the image.

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Getting buy in from the boss

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Magazine Subscriptions. Salary Increase. Magazine Subscriptions: In the past when I asked for subscriptions to magazines to be paid by the company I made a point of bringing in the magazine and showing the value that it gave to me. Internal & External Training. Membership to Networking Clubs & Associations.