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From Corporate to Self-Employed: How to Adjust to Being Your Own Boss

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Maybe You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss!

“You weren’t meant to have a boss!” wrote Paul Graham on his blog in 2008.

It’s a popular piece that taps into the psychology of whether we as human beings are meant to have bosses. It’s a wild article. He compares us to lions in Africa, then weaves in our attachment to junk food and the unnatural way we have to act in large companies and concludes with the crazy notion that perhaps some of us were simply not meant to have a boss!
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Define Success in Your Words with 10 Clarity Questions

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Defining Success

Why You Feel So Confused about Success

I talked about having the right success mindset in a recent podcast, but hey, let’s go back to basics: What is success itself? What is it to you? How do you define it?

Welcome to the Weekly Business & Career Strategy post. Follow the series by hopping on our no-nonsense exclusive list or come back every week.

You see, you have got to be able to define success and describe it in clear words as Stephen King [Read more…] about Define Success in Your Words with 10 Clarity Questions

17 Business Lessons from a Conversation with Jackie Chan

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A Conversation with Jackie Chan at TIFF 2012

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We are back for the 4th year in a row to the Toronto International Film Festival, baby. Oh time, why dost thou fly? I still remember the 2009 TIFF films like it was just a week ago! This year’s highlight so far was A Conversation with Jackie Chan. I was engrossed in how much he shared and how much I learned about running a business and being the best person I can be. [Read more…] about 17 Business Lessons from a Conversation with Jackie Chan

Motivation: 5 Quick & Dirty Tips to Automate the Return of the Spark

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How Distractions Kill Motivation

You cannot be motivated and distracted at the same time. You need focus to stay motivated. And if you stay focused, motivation tends to stick around.

Distractions kill focus. There’s no other way to put it. But stifling all distractions will kill all outlets of fun and excitement. Focus is not exactly an expression of joy, we know that, it is a necessity of productivity and the birthplace of accomplishment. [Read more…] about Motivation: 5 Quick & Dirty Tips to Automate the Return of the Spark

Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

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Starting over is a scary prospect. Our human nature wants to move forward, one foot in front of the other and off we go. We want to blaze trails. We want to climb mountains. We want to sail the seas. We want to fly the skies. And we intend to climb up not down the ladders in our careers and move up not down the financial scale in society.

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So by nature, starting over does not appeal to any of us. Least of all to me! I should know, even though I was spared the brunt of the situation because I was just a kid. My Dad was 40 and my mom in her early 30s when we left Iran for an initial 2-week vacation to Turkey that turned out to be a “vacation” of a lifetime. My parents left everything behind. When they closed the door to our beloved sweet home at 13 Lida Street in Tehran, [Read more…] about Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

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