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One Life Changing Day

One Life Changing Day

After the waking nightmare that was 2020, I wanted to enter 2021 focused and ready to reclaim some feeling of control in my life. If I learned anything from Covid-19 and months of quarantine, it is to be grateful for each day that I wake up in good health with the power to determine my own destiny. I graduated college and law school, but as I haven't won a Nobel Prize or a MacArthur Genius Grant (yet), I reckoned there was more I could learn about goal setting - so I decided to check out Achievement 21: Goalapalooza on January 2, 2021.

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One Life Changing Day

One Life Changing Day

After the waking nightmare that was 2020, I wanted to enter 2021 focused and ready to reclaim some feeling of control in my life. If I learned anything from Covid-19 and months of quarantine, it is to be grateful for each day that I wake up in good health with the power to determine my own destiny. I graduated college and law school, but as I haven't won a Nobel Prize or a MacArthur Genius Grant (yet), I reckoned there was more I could learn about goal setting - so I decided to check out Achievement 21: Goalapalooza on January 2, 2021.

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Strategies for Successfully Working From Home

Strategies for Successfully Working From Home

After the last 18 months, many of our work from home practices could use some fine tuning, particularly if you plan to work from home at least part-time for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, work can easily invade your entire home and every waking moment. Likewise, it can be easy to keep up bad habits that can leave you feeling inefficient and ineffective. In this week’s post, Chelsea B. Ashworth shares some reminders and suggestions for working from home effectively and efficiently.

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Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part Two

Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part Two

According to Clear, the most proven scientific analysis of personality traits (as of the time his book was published) is "The Big Five," which is an inventory of five principle traits. Clear describes the traits as: 1) Openness to Experience (curious and inventive versus cautious and consistent), 2) Conscientiousness (organized and efficient versus easygoing and spontaneous), 3) Extraversion (outgoing and energetic extraversion versus solitary and reserved introversion), 4) Agreeableness (friendly and compassionate versus challenging and detached), and 5) Neuroticism (anxious and sensitive versus calm and stable).

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Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part One

Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part One

James Clear has a passion for self-improvement and optimization via habit engineering. I recently listened to his book Atomic Habits on Audible and I was spellbound. I wrote so many notes that I'm actually going to divide this article into two parts. In Part One, I want to share Clear's four laws of habit building, which he believes are key to making change.

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One Life Changing Day

One Life Changing Day

After the waking nightmare that was 2020, I wanted to enter 2021 focused and ready to reclaim some feeling of control in my life. If I learned anything from Covid-19 and months of quarantine, it is to be grateful for each day that I wake up in good health with the power to determine my own destiny. I graduated college and law school, but as I haven't won a Nobel Prize or a MacArthur Genius Grant (yet), I reckoned there was more I could learn about goal setting - so I decided to check out Achievement 21: Goalapalooza on January 2, 2021.

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