Everything Comes to Him Who Hustles While He Waits By Nadege Lewis

Thomas Edison's wise words bring life to anyone who has experienced frustrations due to missed opportunities. The person who finds themselves to be "unlucky", the individual who never seems to get a break, the one who seems to stay in the same rut time and time again. These are all examples of people who fail to hustle while they wait. Edison's timeless quote contains within it two crucial words that we should pay close attention to...wait and hustle. I looked up the meaning of the word "wait" in my Oxford dictionary and found two definitions. The first definition is...

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The Ultimate Guide to Giving and Taking Constructive Criticism

The Ultimate Guide to Giving and Taking Constructive Criticism

  Life is full of give and takes.  But when it comes to criticism, most people would rather give than take.  People react differently when they are criticized.  Some people get angry while others may lose confidence in themselves.  Then there are some who can take criticism and apply it in a positive way.  My goal in this article is to help you become one of those people. Giving criticism can be as difficult as taking criticism.  If your intentions are good but the delivery is not, your message will not be well received.  When that happens, the person will not...

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The Power of Positive Drinking: 9 of the World’s Healthiest Juices and Their Benefits

Pomegranate Juice This juice that seems to be showing up on shelves everywhere has been proven to have some amazing disease fighting properties.  High in antioxidants, pomegranate juice has been shown to destroy cancer cells (Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 54: 980-985, 2006).  It has also been effective in promoting good cardiovascular health.  In one pilot study, 19 patients with atherosclerosis (clogged arteries) showed a 30% decrease in plaque after drinking 100% pomegranate juice daily.   A 2007 University of California study reports that pomegranate juice may slow the growth of prostate cancer tumors. Cranberry Juice  This juice that was first made by...

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The 3 A.M. Experiment Part 2: From Experiment to Lifestyle

The 3 A.M. Experiment Part 2: From Experiment to Lifestyle

“You’ve been waking up at what at time the past few weeks?” “Three.” “Three?” “Yes, Three.” “Well, I usually go to bed at around three every night so I guess I’ll give you a call before I go to sleep to tell you good night.” That is how many of my conversations have been going in the past few weeks when I revealed to someone about my 3 a.m. experiment.   Some would say that they admired my ability to wake up early.  Others wondered how I was able to do it without falling asleep at work.  And a few just looked at me as...

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How to Stay Focused and Accomplish Any Task

How to Stay Focused and Accomplish Any Task

Have you ever started your work day or project focused and ready to succeed just to find yourself thinking about something that has nothing to do with what you are working on a few minutes later?  Maybe you have a goal that you intended to accomplish just to see it fade because you were unable to stay focused.  We all have an issue with staying focused at some point or another. Recently, I’ve had a hard time staying focused.  My lack of focus has cost me to be ridiculously unproductive.  After a few good months of high productivity and accomplishment, the last...

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The Persuasion Experiment:  5 Effective Persuasion Techniques Tested

There are many different ways to persuade people to your way of thinking.  Politicians, writers, and advertising companies use multiple techniques to get the masses to buy into their message.  But persuasion techniques are important for everyone to learn. We are constantly trying to persuade others in one direction or another.  Whether it is trying to convince your friends to eat at one restaurant instead of another, or getting your boss to give you a raise, being able to persuade other people is important. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle understood the power of persuasion.   They used persuasion (rhetoric) to...

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How to Keep Promises to Yourself

Each one of us has made some type of promise to ourselves.  It may have been a promise to eat healthier, watch less T.V. and read more, or even to wake up earlier.  Our promises to ourselves are usually made in order to create a better life by adding something good, or taking something away. There many moral reasons why we want to keep promises to other people.  It may be because you believe it’s the right thing to do.  It may also be because you want to be known as a trustworthy person.  Or even because you really want the...

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5 ways to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset by Richard Onebamoi

An entrepreneurial mindset is a way of thinking like an entrepreneur – passionately seeking new opportunities and executing them well. Creating a mindset that pushes you beyond treating your entrepreneurial ventures as a hobby to entrepreneurial actions that really make a difference in your business endeavors is critical. Developing an entrepreneurial mindset is so crucial for any industry if you must succeed. Having said that though, an entrepreneurial mindset should not be dreaded, because of the way it has been mystified. You must develop a passion for learning and acquiring new skills that will be helpful in building your business. In...

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Be Smarter in 30 Days

If you are reading this than chances are you believe that it is possible to be smarter in a month. Fortunately for you, it is possible. The amount of progress that you make in the time you dedicate to this is determined by how well you can execute the practices that will help you become smarter. In other words, if you do these things you will see a difference, if you cheat you won’t. When I say that you can become smarter, I am referring to an increase of concentration, focus, productivity, understanding and overall intellectual knowledge. Professor Howard Gardner...

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Building Self-discipline

Building Self-discipline

Why does it seem like every time you commit to changing a bad habit, something happens that tests just how committed you are?  You start a diet, and then you get a call from a friend who wants to go to your favorite restaurant.  Or sometimes you promise yourself you are going to immediately start on an assignment that has to get done but you end up procrastinating until the very last minute?  These types of things are common and one of the major reasons why they occur to all of us is due to the lack of self-discipline. Many people...

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