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March 2011

50 Things To Eat Before You Die – Your Food Bucket List

There’s a lot of talk these days about bucket lists and the things that you want to do before you die, or in order to live life to the fullest. One category of items you should definitely consider adding to your bucket list are the foods you would like to try. In this post you’ll [...]

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75 Simple Pleasures and Small Delights

Your life should be filled with large goals you want to tackle–such as visiting San Francisco and riding a cable car, or studying French in Paris–as well as simple pleasures you can enjoy at a moment’s notice. To help you with the latter, here are 75 simple pleasures and small ways to enjoy life: Simple [...]

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A Career Guide for Your Right Brain: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

“The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need”, written by best-selling author Daniel H. Pink, is a cutting-edge career guide that will show you how to find a career you can thrive in. And it’s written in Manga-style (a Japanese-comic format)!  Pink is the author of “A Whole New Mind: Why [...]

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Two Effective Strategies for Overcoming Fear of Failure

In order to learn, to grow, and to ultimately get what you want in life, you have to be willing to fail. We’ve all heard that the road to success is paved with failures. However, that moment in which you first realize that you’ve failed at something, when you’re splayed out on the floor after [...]

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5 Ways to Boost Your Self-Esteem

Do you like and accept yourself? Are you happy with who you are? Do you have faith in yourself? Do you believe that you have what it takes to be able to lead a rich and fulfilling life? These questions are all related to your level of self-esteem.   Self-esteem is essential for success and [...]

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Three Unconventional Ways to Find Ideas

You can either wait for ideas to come to you, or you can get out there and actively seek out ideas. The second option will almost certainly prove to be more fruitful than the first. After all, the most creative people are very productive.  They come up with lots and lots of ideas, most of [...]

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49 Snippets of Wisdom on How to Succeed

“How to Succeed”, or “Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune”, was written by Orison Swett Marden in 1896. I wrote about Marden’s book, an “Iron Will”, in my post “The Power of Perseverance – Creating an Iron Will”.  “How to Succeed” is the third book written by Marden that I’ve read, and I’m quickly becoming a [...]

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How to Cultivate a “Success Mindset” – The Psychology of Success

In her book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, Carol Dweck, Ph.D.–a professor at Stanford University and a social psychologist– explains that there are two different kinds of mindsets: a “fixed mindset” and a “growth mindset”. One mindset leads to success, while the other leads to risk aversion and feelings of limitation. People with a [...]

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