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12 Corporate Survival Lessons You Must Learn Sooner than Later

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Going from A Scared Worker Bee to A Confident Career Warrior

sad_woman_2When I was 26, new and terrified to the corporate landscape, and desperate for guidance and encouragement, I had this boss. We’ll call him Rafaello Mule. Mr. Mule was bald and ugly. He also had a large head, literally and figuratively speaking. He never ever smiled and few were good enough to engage even in a casual greeting with him.

You would see him in the hallway or in the break room and say hello, he would either look at you in a strange way or completely ignore you. You felt invisible. To him, you barely existed.
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A Confession and How to Turn Things Around When You Lose Balance

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When You Lose Your Own Balance

It’s really kinda embarrassing when a personal development blogger stops following her own advice, no?

She is supposed to be humming along and cheering you on for the ride, leading the way like a fearless warrior, experimenting away with life and work to report out on the best ways to form smart habits or to stop bad cycles, and then one day, she hits a wall. She stops following her own advice, and falls into the traps that she thought she had conquered. [Read more…] about A Confession and How to Turn Things Around When You Lose Balance

20 Mistakes to Avoid in Running Your Own Online Business

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Experience – that most brutal of teachers, but you learn, my god! do you learn! ~ C.S. Lewis

They say we learn best from our own mistakes, and there is some truth to that, yes, but if you could save time and effort and a few tears and avoid certain mistakes, would you not want to do it, especially if I promise that you could still make plenty of other mistakes on your own? [Read more…] about 20 Mistakes to Avoid in Running Your Own Online Business

The Inner Conflict between Luxury and Simplicity

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I desperately want a Prada bag.

A genuine, $5000, brand spanking new Prada bag, and I want to buy it in Tokyo and Tokyo alone.

In Japan, every woman (at least, every woman that I saw during my 4 separate trips and incalculable hours walking the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto) carries either a Prada, a Gucci or a Louis Vuitton. [Read more…] about The Inner Conflict between Luxury and Simplicity

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