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Why Online Networking Matters and How To Do It

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Written by: Marina Milosheva, Edinburgh Napier University

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Now though, many of us are faced with a slightly different predicament: how to network while working remotely. Operating out of makeshift home offices, with children demanding tea or pets stepping on keyboards

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4 Strategies for Negotiating Well

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Written by: Carl Greer PhD, PsyD

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When you have to negotiate a high stakes deal, do you find yourself becoming so anxious you can’t think clearly?

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Why It’s So Difficult to Engage Men as Allies and How To Change That

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Written by: Ray Arata

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If we aren’t being denied opportunities based on our gender and our identities, or not having to work twice as hard to adhere to a double standard simply because of who we are, then it doesn’t get our attention—because it’s not happening to us. And this certainly is not an excuse. We’re simply not experiencing the pain.

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A Positive Way Forward Is Possible Even in the Darkest Times

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Written by: Elliott Noble-Holt

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Falling into a rut doesn’t mean we have to stay there. Even when it can seem like an insurmountable challenge to climb back out, finding a way is possible. My life is a testament that it can be done.

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A Positive Way Forward Is Possible Even in the Darkest Times (Video)

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Written by: Elliott Noble-Holt

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Falling into a rut doesn’t mean we have to stay there. Even when it can seem like an insurmountable challenge to climb back out, finding a way is possible. My life is a testament that it can be done.

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Mentors, Men, and Leaning Into Closed Doors

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Written by: Areva Martin

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In an excerpt from her new book, Ladies, Leadership, and the Lies We've Been Told, women's rights advocate and entrepreneur Areva Martin explores the power dynamics of male mentors in the post-#MeToo era.

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Mentors, Men, and Leaning Into Closed Doors (Video)

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Written by: Areva Martin

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In an excerpt from her new book, Ladies, Leadership, and the Lies We've Been Told, women's rights advocate and entrepreneur Areva Martin explores the power dynamics of male mentors in the post-#MeToo era.

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Inspiration or Motivation: Which Comes First? (Video)

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Inspiration or Motivation: Which Works Best?

People who are enthusiastic about a goal find ways to achieve it and they do not need to be goaded or manipulated. People not enthusiastic about a goal will not go there no matter what tricks you try to play to get them to do it.

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Inspiration or Motivation: Which Comes First?

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Inspiration or Motivation: Which Works Best?

People who are enthusiastic about a goal find ways to achieve it and they do not need to be goaded or manipulated. People not enthusiastic about a goal will not go there no matter what tricks you try to play to get them to do it.

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When We Compete for Life, How Fit Are the Survivors?

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Written by: Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.

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Competition has become so much a part of how we work, live, and love that it is difficult to consider a life not based upon it. We are so immersed in our toxic competition to be successful that those who are not driven by this obsession are seen as 'out of it,' not fully engaged in the game of life, or even cowardly.

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Practicing Safe Success: Working with Your Inner Selves

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Written by: Bridgit Dengel Gaspard

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Crossing your finish line can be a time of joyful celebration. But that can be followed by a myriad of emotions that might include melancholy as well as pride and joy. As you arrive at your finish line...

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The Triumvirate of Money, Spirituality, and Service

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Written by: J. Donald Walters

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Once you learn to use money rightly, you will find gains on many levels. Your abundance, energy, joy — all will expand. I had an interesting experience, many years ago. I undertook what was, for me, an important project. It meant money worries I'd never had...

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Never, Ever Give Up: Having the Courage to Start Over Again

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Written by: Peter Ruppert

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If you continue to build courage throughout your life and take each next step with grit, determination and a knowledge that failures along the way are part of the process, you will eventually come out on the other side successful.

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Never, Ever Give Up: Having the Courage to Start Over Again (Video)

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Written by: Peter Ruppert

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If you continue to build courage throughout your life and take each next step with grit, determination and a knowledge that failures along the way are part of the process, you will eventually come out on the other side successful.

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Open the Floodgates of Abundance and Inner Peace

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Written by: Susan Smith Jones

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For many people, abundance and prosperity are tied to their level of self-esteem. You make a good living, pay your bills and save money, so you feel successful. I define success in a different light. Success can be measured only by the degree to which you have inner peace and if...

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The Floating Fig Miracle: Ask and It Will Come

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Written by: Alan Cohen

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I was famished. I had not eaten for many hours . I began to feel anxious about not being able to get anything to eat until the next day. Somehow, I reasoned, I would be taken care of; even if I had to go without food for a while, my heart was full. I surrendered my sense of struggle and remembered...

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How to Attain A Life of Balance with Money, Love, and Consciousness

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Written by: Ruth Ross, Ph.D.

How to Attain A Life of Balance with Money, Love, and Consciousness

Prosperity has had only one connotation for too long -- money. The subject of money has a powerful emotional charge, equivalent to the subject of sex. Yet, we will usually talk about it only like the weather -- in general economic terms. 

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Business, God, and Magic: We Are All Magicians

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Written by: Marc Allen

 Business, God, and Magic: We Are All Magicians

I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, as I understand God. That's it, in a nutshell -- at least for me: Just keep turning it over to God, asking to do God's will. That's the one simple solution. Whenever you have a problem, turn it over to God...

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Generating Abundance by Thinking Abundantly

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Written by: Penelope Ashton

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It is true that money should never be used as the only yardstick for accomplishment, but it is useless to pretend that is not so. That may change in the future, but for the now, money is the measure to be used as an exchange of energy. As always, the end result to strive for is balance...

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5 Ways To Cope With Going Back To Work

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Written by: Lindsey Hendrix, Texas A&M University

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With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more widely available and mask mandates lifting, a new source of anxiety has emerged for some—returning to the office after more than a year of working from home.

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Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs?

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Written by: Alex Gallo-Brown, author of Variations of Labor

Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs?

For decades, Americans have been told they should love their jobs. But is this a healthy relationship?

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