Get Benefits from the Negative

In weight lifting and many other exercises, you normally get benefits from lifting weight against the pull of gravity. But you can also get benefits from restraining the weight as gravity pulls it back down. In setting goals for both your work

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Take on a Challenge

There are many ways to grow your abilities and your competence, and also to increase your level of success, including your potential for larger earnings. One good way is to systematically look for and take on challenges. This is because some of

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More Elements of Successful Negotiation

As I’ve written previously, the goal of your negotiation efforts should naturally be to find an outcome that works for both you and the other side. This kind of a “win-win” result is not as difficult to achieve as it sometimes seems.

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Build Your Productive Situation

Productivity, earnings, and success grow from working smart and working hard. But they grow much faster and better when you root smart, hard work in a nurturing environment. In this piece, I’d like to help you understand the elements of a nurturing

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Take Some Quick Wins

In many – perhaps even most – situations, the biggest and best wins are usually those that take a lot of effort, resources, and time. But even there, taking steps to deliver a quick win or two can offer some important benefits:

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Finding Work You Will Love

Most of what I write about in this blog contains a large component of objective, tangible, practical considerations or criteria that make the ideas and practices pretty easy to implement. This one is different. That’s because finding work you love inherently depends

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4 Steps to Self-Improvement

As the famous and highly successful basketball coach at UCLA, John Wooden, wisely counseled: “When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. … Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for

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Keepers

As you make your way through your work and your life, you’ll meet lots of people, both good and bad. Most of them will appear, hang around for a while, and then slowly or suddenly disappear from your world. However, some of

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Making the Most from Feedback

Feedback is great. It’s an important and easily available way to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses, as well as to identify the best available opportunities to improve your level of productivity and success. Of course, this is true only of

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