Entrepreneurship
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How I Stay Motivated Every Single Day
By Kevin on January 3, 20174What is the single best way to stay motivated and energized every single day? How do highly successful people maintain their motivation—and continue to chase their toughest goals—through an entire year? A reader named John recently contacted me with a similar question. He wrote, “I’m currently working in investment...
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7 Secrets Of People Who Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions
By Kevin on January 3, 2017I know you didn’t achieve your New Year’s resolutions in 2016. I say that confidently, even though we’ve never met, because research shows only 8% of people actually achieve them. So statistically, I bet you didn’t. How can you become one of those elite few, who actually achieve what they...
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Is Your Bad Boss Actually ‘Killing You Slowly’?
By Kevin on December 28, 2016Working for a bad boss may actually be killing you slowly. Hard to believe? In a massive 10-year study of 3,122 men, Swedish researchers found that working for a bad manager was linked to an increase in incidents of unstable angina and heart attacks, resulting in hospitalization or death....
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New Book Teaches Influence & Persuasion Secrets
By Kevin on December 28, 2016What are some easy ways you can persuade others, whether at work or at home? To many people, the word persuasion carries a negative connotation. It typically evokes images like that of a disingenuous used car salesman who slaps you on the back and pretends to be your best...
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Throw Out Your To-Do List, Fix Your Calendar, Double Your Productivity
By Edgar on December 24, 2016What if everything you’ve been taught about time management has been wrong? You were told to keep a task list for your “to-dos” and your calendar for phone calls and appointments. Meetings at work, doctor’s appointments, kids’ dance recitals and soccer games. But what if you used your calendar...
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How 2,000 Women Can Teach You The Value Of Letting Go
By Kevin on December 24, 2016December. A time of holiday joy? Or a time of dangerously high stress? Jessica Turner, the author of The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You, surveyed over 2,000 women for her book. Among other things, she asked her participants to describe the hardest part of being a woman. The...
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17 Top Business Experts To Follow On Snapchat
By Kevin on December 5, 2016Imagine if you could shadow Elon Musk or Richard Branson each day. Like a professional voyeur you could see what events they were attending, who they were hanging out with, which books they were reading, and they were openly teaching their secrets to success along the way. How great...
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6 Secrets To Planning Your Day Like a Millionaire
By Kevin on November 7, 2016What are the productivity secrets of self-made millionaires? Do they think about their time differently than the rest of us? Portraits Of Ultra Successful People I’ve interviewed 200 entrepreneurs including over 100 self-made millionaires. Among the many highly successful entrepreneurs who gave me their best productivity and time management...
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Book Review: Conversation Tactics: Workplace Strategies
By Kevin on October 20, 2016Would you like to master office politics and make sure you’re never overlooked at work? In his book Conversation Tactics: Workplace Strategies—Win Office Politics, Disarm Difficult Coworkers, Get Ahead & Rise To The Top, Patrick King teaches how to make the best impression on the people in your job,...
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Time Management Secrets For Creatives And Indie Artists
By Kevin on October 17, 2016What can business professionals learn from the productivity habits of a highly successful indie artist? How can Creatives use time management habits to improve their art and grow their fan base? You can imagine my surprise when singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata emailed me while she was on tour in Sweden....