success
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Why Going Silent Mode Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Career
Usually, people spend too much time talking about what they’re going to do, and not enough time doing it. Isn’t it funny that it’s the skills you often excel at, you tend to advertise the least? It has to do with uncertainty. The less certain we feel about a subject,…
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How Practicing Detachment Can Save Your Work Life
Dear Diary, Today was a tough day at work. On the day-to-day, my role in the workplace is not just subjected to hard skills like copywriting and marketing analytics. A lot of my work is also handling and mediating people’s emotions. I don’t when or how I adopted this role,…
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Make your 9 to 5 a Breeding Ground for Success
Is it just me, or does it feel like every time I go on my phone, there’s this cacophony of hatred toward the 9 to 5 career? When I searched the phrase 9 to 5 on Google, the first 5 results were: “Breaking Free to 9 to 5 Culture” –…
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Letting Go of the Ungrateful Narrative
Nearly every single day, I repeat the same four words to myself. I am very fortunate. However, I’ve also come to realize that you can simultaneously feel fortunate for the things you have, and feel as if something is deeply missing. I have a life that most twenty third year…
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The Number One Thing That’s Holding me Back
Have you ever felt stuck? The feeling tends to start with mild frustration which tumbles into helplessness. You begin to think “this is just how it is and it’s how it’s going to be.” A couple of months ago, I was feeling this way much of the time. I had…
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The Top Mind Hacks for Being Less Envious and More Successful
We’ve all experienced that pang of envy—whether it’s scrolling past a perfect vacation, summer body, or a career-related milestone. The feeling of envy has a bad rep because it’s believed to be “good human beings” we by default need to always feel 100% supportive, especially to those we feel close…
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