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Make 2019 The Year You Started Your Own Business With This Crash Course MBA
You have two choices: you can make 2019 the year you kept deferring on your dreams, or you can make it the year you finally got motivated to start your own business. If you plan on the former, then you’re going to have an easy, boring, mundane 12 months. But if you’re brave enough to do the latter, ...
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5 Languages To Learn in 2019
Nobody doubts the benefits of being bilingual, but how do you know which language to learn? It’s a big time investment, after all, and if you don’t actually use the language you teach yourself then you might end up forgetting all that hard-won knowledge anyway.With that in mind, we put together a sh...
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How to Become More Mindful In 2019
You can be the master of your home, all it takes is some money and a vacuum cleaner. You can also be a master of your job if you work hard and are promoted to a managerial position. You can master a game by practicing enough. But how do you master your own mind? It takes years of discipline and trai...
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Overcome Fear and Become the Public Speaker You've Always Wanted to Be
Say you get nervous in front of crowds. Instead of tackling this issue head-on, you simply build your life around never having to do public speaking. Which is easy enough -- lots of jobs involve working in front of computers or behind desks with no large groups around you, and you’ve managed to carv...
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The Top Five Ways to Learn a Language
Once you’ve decided to learn a new language, the first step is deciding how. This is a hugely difficult task, after all, and something that millions of people fail every year, so you have to approach with some careful strategy. If we had our druthers, we’d go with a lifetime subscription to uTalk — ...
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Reading Before Bed Will Give You a Better Night's Sleep
In the information age, the classic ritual of reading a book or newspaper before bed is dying off. Since TV fits in your pocket and streaming services allow you to watch literally anything you want while you fall asleep, why bother with reading? You’re no Luddite.Except, it turns out that there are ...
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Expand Your Skill Set to This Growing Job Field
Most projects require at least a little bit of graphic design. Even if the project isn’t about images or even totally reliant on them, you’re going to want to add some highlighting graphics that really sell your concept, and that’s not something you can fake. Making, or even identifying, good images...
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4 Reasons to Read More Books In 2019
Everybody says they want to read more, and most of them actually do, but the hard reality is that reading is time-consuming. These days, we’re busier than we’ve ever been, so we have to maximize our recreation time with things that stimulate our minds, right? Netflix, video games, cross-fit, hot yog...
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Reboot Your Outlook On Life with These Classes On Building Happiness
The old adage is true: you simply can’t buy happiness. Longterm contentment and satisfaction with the self doesn’t fit in a jar, can’t be programmed onto a blue-ray disk, and won’t fit in a handbag. What you can buy, however, are strategies for achieving happiness that you can practice in your own f...
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Learn to Become More Productive This New Year From These 5 Courses
Times are tough, and you gotta be tougher if you want to get ahead. It’s not enough to just do a job anymore -- you have to be a veritable wizard of productivity, slaying countless tasks with an efficiency that leaves lesser folk shocked and awed by your accomplishment. But if you find yourself spen...
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Learn to Turn Your Photography Hobby Into a Paid Side Hustle
It’s no secret that we’re all working harder than we want to, but if you get too focused on paying the bills you can forget to take care of yourself. If you don’t have a hobby or some other way to let off a little steam and enjoy living for a few minutes, you simply won’t be able to keep everything ...
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Tupac Shakur: Stir Up Trouble, Spark Change
Tupac Shakur - Spark Change Hip-hop artist 2Pac talks about the importance of speaking your mind and stirring up trouble, so that you can spark the change that will transform the world. Transcript: "My big mouth. My big mouth. I got a big mouth, can't help it. I talk from my heart, I'm real. Whateve...
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Johnny Depp: Success Doesn't Change You, It Reveals You
Johnny Depp - Stay Yourself Actor Johnny Depp tells of how he's still the same person he's always been, and says that money and success reveal a person's true nature. Transcript: "Mine was pumping gas, most definitely. Printing t-shirts and selling ink pens, anything and everything. Yeah and then th...
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John Assaraf | How to Prime Your Brain for Success While Brushing Your Teeth
John Assaraf - Do Whatever It Takes Watch John Assaraf's personal story of growth, the lessons he learned early on in life, and how he went from robber to self-made millionaire by brushing his teeth. Transcript: I was stealing money from her. Her name was Sadie, and she was a teacher, and she used t...
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John Hope Bryant: Losing His Wallet Taught Him To Be An Eagle
John Hope Bryant - Be An Eagle John Hope Bryant explains the lesson he learned from a poor selfless Indian man and uses a metaphor to deliver an inspiring message. Transcript: I got beat up every single day. I was 10 years of age, we didn't have that much money, so my mother used to dress me funny. ...
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Gaur Gopal Das: The 5 Letter Secret to a Worry-Free Life
Gaur Gopal Das - Smile Gaur Gopal Das swears by a simple mental exercise that keeps you happy, healthy, and in control. Transcript: The most pleasing five lettered word. The most pleasing five lettered word ... come on ... sorry? Is it most pleasing? I don't think so. You say sorry ... not at all pl...
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Tyler Perry: What do Water Buckets Have to do with Success?
Tyler Perry - Know Your Intentions Tyler Perry shares what he learned from his father, a carpenter, on how to build a foundation strong enough to support all of your dreams. Transcript: I ended up homeless. I ended up out in the street with no money and nothing to my name. But my intention was just ...
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Inky Johnson | This is How You Turn Tragedy into Triumph
Inky Johnson - Impact. Inspire. Empower. Inky Johnson was 8 games away from playing in the NFL when tragedy struck. Here is why he is an inspiration machine who refuses to let tragedy define his life. Transcript: I said "I can't move. There's a shock going through my whole body. I can't feel anythin...
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Sunny Jacobs | How I Found True Inner Peace While Facing Death Row
Sunny Jacobs - Shine Your Light Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs was a young mother of two when she was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death by electric chair. This is how she found the courage to be truly free. Transcript: My freedom was taken away when I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit. I w...
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These are Arnold Schwarzenegger's 5 Rules for Success
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Change The World Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals his 5 secret steps to tackling life and becoming Mr. Universe (at the age of 20), 7-time Mr. Olympia, Hollywood legend and 2-term Governor of California. His story proves that no obstacle is too big to overcome and no visio...
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