Business Today

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Q. What was the problem you were grappling with? A. After college, I joined the sales team of Pond's. I had the opportunity to lead team members who were far senior to me by age. After the acquisition of Pond's, I joined Unilever’s marketing function

Diabetic Living Australia

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Why am I sick? What did I do to deserve this? We’re sure you’ve asked these questions. Rather than blaming yourself, use your diagnosis as a chance to focus on you. It’s a long journey, but the moment you begin to accept it, the quicker you pave the

Psychologies

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This month, we are concentrating on domestic life and self-care. • Write down how home life feels for you right now. Are there any issues? Focus on how you honestly feel about your life in this area, then give it a score – 1 being awful and 10 bein

Tennis Magazine

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When you game-plan for a match, things like first-serve percentage and attacking an opponent’s weakness are common considerations. The changeover? It’s seldom given a thought. Yet, this brief respite after every odd game can play an integral role in

NPR

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Condos and apartment buildings are going up in cities across the country to meet housing demands. But many of these buildings look like simple, plain boxes.

Cycling Weekly

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Forgoing the snug warmth of the duvet to haul yourself out of bed and stand on a windswept junction with a lollipop for a few hours might sound like a sacrifice (other volunteering jobs are available, of course). But while we make much of the noble i

WellBeing Being

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Something enchanting happens when we walk. The gentle motion of the body elicits a change in our biochemistry, affecting everything from our thoughts, emotions and mood to our energy, creativity, clarity, memory and even immunity. And when actioned m

NPR

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Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. 2020 has been a disaster for meeting new people, which is why Per Carlbring's New Year's resolution is to spend next year trying to connect with someone new every d

Nautilus

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It’s a clear warm day in early August, and the Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert is lucky it isn’t windy. Towering right behind him stands a 30-foot tall domino. It’s 15 feet wide, four feet long, and weighs two tons. Gilbert, who is bald and has a th

ThinkSales

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If you asked the world’s most successful business leaders what it means to be ‘strategic,’ how many different answers do you think you’d get? Consider this number: 115 800 000. It’s the number of unique links returned when I searched online for ‘stra

New American Paintings

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Milwaukee, WI josiahcellner@gmail.com / josiahellner.com / @josiahcellner My paintings are abstracted narratives that revolve around the relationship between humanity and the natural world, captured through my personal experiences. I am drawn to mome

Men's Health Australia

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BURNING THE CANDLE at both ends, working yourself to an early grave – few idioms about hard graft offer much hope for longevity. But research suggests that your perseverance could earn you the last laugh. A long-term study published in the Annals of

Womankind

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Some people like to think we have two selves, our current self who we have to put up with on a minute-by-minute basis, and our future self, the person waiting in time, which painstakingly metamorphoses as we advance. And it’s suggested that these two

Psychologies

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JUST LIKE A SEE-SAW, where one side goes up and the other side comes down, the same, it seems, is true for kindness and stress, which are at opposite ends of their see-saw. Scientists at UCLA and Yale* followed people’s stress levels and approximate

Psychologies

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• Are you living life fully, in the moment, or is your attention on the future or past? Write down your definition of living a life of discovery, enjoyment and adventure. Score your life in this area, with 1 being awful and 10 being brilliant. • Brai

NZBusiness and Management

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FOR SEVERAL years, we worked with a business who was all about TLC. But in their organisation, TLC didn’t stand for tender loving care. To their team, TLC stood for ‘Think Like a Customer’ – and that drove everything they did. As businesses, we can a

3D World

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In 2010, four of us came together as a directors' collective to help each other complete personal projects and develop portfolios. This evolved quickly into client work. We realised we needed to become a business to be effective and financially prote

Business Today

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Q. The biggest challenge you faced in your career A. Our baptism by fire came in the initial phase and truly tested our conviction and passion. Just months after the company's launch in 2001, we were staring down the barrel of a gun as the dot com bu

FourFourTwo UK

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“I first came across Bukayo when he was an 11-year-old boy, which seems like ages ago – but then you actually remember it’s not, really. My first experience was him coming on an age-group tour in northern Italy; he was the youngest player there but c

Femina

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Parents may love their children to bits, but smothering them with too much attention can be problematic. To begin with, if you are always breathing down your child’s neck, you are curbing his/her freedom and making his/her individual space shrink. No

Clay Shooting

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A coach is much more than just someone who will tell you “You’re in front of that” or “You missed that one behind.” They will help you develop skills and behaviours often without needing to teach or tell you, but rather by asking stimulating question

Home & Decor

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The festive mood is still in the air as we step into the first month of a brand new year. With the lunar new year coming up in a few weeks, most homeowners are turning their attention to giving their home a good clean and a fresh look. While the gene

Her World Singapore

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As kids, some of us were taught to work on our weaknesses. I had Chinese tuition because I struggled with the language. I was told by netball coaches to build strength and bulk so that my smaller frame would be “sturdier” on court against bigger buil

BuildHome Victoria

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Building a new home is one of the most exciting times in your life and one of the most rewarding things you can do. There are so many options for building your new dream home, which is why one of the first things to do is to narrow down your thinking

Woman's Own

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You might be thinking of treating your partner to a trip. You can make the future better by treating yourself and others. You will feel eager to get out and enjoy time with friends. Tend to any overlooked personal wellbeing and make a plan. Are you f

The Atlantic

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As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.

Futurity

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Computer models are helping public health researchers plan for disasters. For instance, if a plume of toxic smoke was to hit downtown Los Angeles, would you be better staying inside your building or dashing for the street? Computer models help resear

Cosmopolitan South Africa

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We’ve had ‘grit’, ‘disrupt’ and ‘mindful working’. Now the career buzzword is ‘values’. Or so says Lisa Quinn, executive leadership coach and founder of Lisa Quinn Coaching*, who offers her pearls of wisdom to many head honchos. If you’re in a career

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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It’s not unusual for kids these days to have busier schedules than their parents. Dance and music lessons, sports practice, hobby clubs, Scouts and Girl Guides, extra tuition… their extracurricular activities can be full-on and, in some cases, become

Harper's Bazaar Singapore

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Be careful not to throw your weight around within a competitive field you share with peers or companions. You’re entitled to be proud of your achievements, but there are those who would hate you to become too full of yourself. While that may well be