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Design Your Life: Stop Living on Autopilot

Think about where you’d like to take your family for a vacation. The Bahamas? Europe? Asia? Take your pick.

How’re you going to get to the Bahamas? Probably by air, right? Ok. So, let’s say you’ve chosen Airline A, because they had the best prices and you booked a couple of months in advance.

Now, where are you going to stay when you’re vacationing? You’ve probably looked at a few hotels, compared their rates. What about destinations? Surely you’ve made a list of things to do and places to see while you’re in the Bahamas.

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4 Productivity Tips (that don't require coffee)

We've all had the long day where you got to the end and had only a headache to show for it... That’s your brain (and your body) telling you that it’s being overworked. Your brain is no longer being productive, and you need to switch off. In today’s day and age, we’re inundated with information. It flies at us constantly, all day, every day. Meetings, deadlines, emails, texting, applications, social media profiles. It’s easy to see why so many of us need a cup of coffee several times a day

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5 Strategies to Revive Your Brand on Instagram

Instagram is too vast a platform for any ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy to work long-term. Therefore, as a business looking to build a brand on Instagram, you have to craft your own path. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel, necessarily, but you’ll have to adapt best practices and give them your own unique spin.

Maybe you’ve already been on Instagram for a while and you’re wondering why you don’t have the following and user engagement that you want and need. 

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Stop Letting Cynicism Ruin Your Life And Your Business

Cynicism is born out of the belief that profit and selfish motives are the only reason people ever do anything. Under the cynical umbrella, there are no selfless or purely altruistic acts.

Right away, you might begin to see how this is a potentially poisonous concept. When you believe that everyone around you is operating purely, 100% selfishly, it is difficult to form a positive worldview.

Some might say, “But you need to be cynical if you are an entrepreneur or own a business!”

The word you are looking for is SKEPTICISM, which is completely different from cynicism. Skepticism, in healthy amounts, is a great way to parse new information because it gives you the option to test the waters before you jump in.

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5 Beliefs Stopping You From Doing What You Love

ow would your life be different today if you were doing something you truly love?

How would you rate your happiness today, if you had realized your true calling and were excited about it? I think it’s a fair guess to say that your life would be pretty awesome. Sure, you’d still have a lot of challenges and hard work at hand, but it would be, dare I say…

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10 Ideas for Making Everyday More Awesome

You heard of (and used) the expression “take it one day at a time”.

But today, I’d like you to consider what “taking it one day at a time” really means, with respect to the larger picture of your life and what you want to achieve.

Regardless of where you are in your current development, you will always have to take it “one day at a time”.

So, if your goal is to advance ten levels in your current career, you will still have to take it “one day at a time”.

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The Profitability Formula – How To Go From Zero To Hero Reliably

So, you’ve taken the leap and started your own business.  Woohoo! Building a business is just the first step of many that eventually culminates into your ultimate goal – profitability.

Profitability is the most reliable indicator for how well a business is doing. (There are other business models which don’t rely on direct profit, but that’s a topic for another time) Once you’ve started turning a profit, the market has answered. You have a winning product at hand.

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