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First-time leaders: Here’s how you can avoid feeling like a fraud.
Read more: First-time leaders: Here’s how you can avoid feeling like a fraud.-Shift your mindset to quash self-doubt and grow your leadership. As a new leader within a company or a budding entrepreneur, it’s common to feel self-doubt. Imposter syndrome can lead to unhelpful attitudes of perfection-seeking, rigidness and overwhelm. Doubt in leadership can spring up for many reasons. Fear of failing, inexperience, criticism, and inability to […]
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Unleash Your Inner Confidence: Mastering the Art of Sounding Confident.
Read more: Unleash Your Inner Confidence: Mastering the Art of Sounding Confident.-Practice techniques to sound confident and become confident. Did you ever walk away from an important conversation, regretting how unsure you sounded? Confidence is essential for job interviews, presentations, sales pitches, negotiations and conflict resolutions. But you don’t always have to be confident to sound confident. There are techniques you can practice to make yourself sound […]
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How to get someone interested in what you do in 30 seconds.
Read more: How to get someone interested in what you do in 30 seconds.-Get better results with this new spin on the old elevator pitch. You’ve probably been to a networking event or situation where you had to introduce yourself and your work quickly and effectively. How did you do? If you flunked, you probably learned that you had to have an elevator pitch, a quick and compelling […]
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Uncover your mind’s Saboteur that holds you back.
Read more: Uncover your mind’s Saboteur that holds you back.–Learn to engage your wiser side to succeed AND be happy. According to Shirzad Charmine, success and happiness don’t always go hand in hand. The author of the New York Times bestseller Positive Intelligence says that the human mind has two conflicting parts, the Saboteur and the Sage. (Think of the cartoon figure with a devil on […]
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Now is the time; It’s not too late and you’re not too old.
Read more: Now is the time; It’s not too late and you’re not too old.-You can change, adapt and grow at any stage of life. At sixty-four, Diana Nyad completed a 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first person to do so without a shark cage. She tried four times before, the first when she was just twenty-eight. At thirty, Jeff Bezos had a secure, high-paying job […]
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Comfort or success, you don’t get both at the same time.
Read more: Comfort or success, you don’t get both at the same time.To achieve a goal, dream or vision, you must do something different than you’re doing now. If this weren’t true, you would already have what you want or be well on your way.
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Are you the kind of person who can achieve what you want?
Read more: Are you the kind of person who can achieve what you want?Our beliefs, including the hidden ones, impact our choices. This can work for our benefit or detriment. Either way, we must become aware of what we’re saying to ourselves. If it’s not productive, then it’s our responsibility to change it.
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Win big in every area of your career and life when you’re authentic.
Read more: Win big in every area of your career and life when you’re authentic.Authentic people succeed by being honest about their fears and doubts. They don’t shy away from what’s difficult. They embrace it as the foundation for unshakeable confidence and a genuine impact on others.
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Succeed faster and more often with boundaries.
Read more: Succeed faster and more often with boundaries.Boundaries are like the property lines in a neighborhood. They designate what everyone is responsible for. You wouldn’t expect your next-door neighbor to mow your lawn. Nor would you mow their lawn even if the grass was high.
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Don’t Take the Bait; Stop Verbal Aggression Before It Stops You.
Read more: Don’t Take the Bait; Stop Verbal Aggression Before It Stops You.We need each other at work, at home and in our community. Cultivating and maintaining good relationships is critical for our success and happiness. They are the source of rich opportunities, essential information and needed support.