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    3 Ways to Find Your Peace When Life Feels Overwhelming

    Too much to do, not enough time to do it. Sound familiar? Twenty-five years ago, at the dawn of the modern internet revolution, people were predicting that our technological advancements would eventually allow us to work less, so we could pay more attention to what’s truly important in our...
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    5 Popular Myths About Success that Need to Be Ignored

    by Peter Banerjea How often has this happened to you? … You want to do more with your life – get into great shape, pursue a hobby you’re passionate about, start your own business, or work toward a new career, etc. You start building a positive habit that will take you in that direction –...
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    10 Excuses the Mind Will Tell You Before You Take the Next Step

    The mind is a wonderful thing. It’s also an excuse-making machine that frequently tries to convince us not to take actions we know are good for us. And this prevents many positive changes from taking place in our lives. I’ve had to learn to watch these excuses very carefully in order to make...
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    7 Powerful Reminders to Focus on What Matters

    “Am I making meaningful use of this scarce and precious day?” That’s a simple question Angel and I challenge our course students to ask themselves anytime they feel busyness overwhelming them. Because excessive busyness is rarely meaningful. And make no mistake about it—excessive busyness is...
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    5 Signs You’ve Been Doing Too Much for Too Long

    Busyness is an illness. Think about your own life and the lives of those close to you. Most of us have a tendency to do as much as we possibly can—cramming every waking minute with events, extravagances, tasks and obligations. We think doing more will get us more satisfaction, success, etc...
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    The Life-Changing Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time

    Why is it that over 50% of our new course students tell us they feel completely overwhelmed and exhausted in their personal and professional lives? The answer may surprise you: It’s not the number of minutes they spend awake and working hard each day that’s the issue—it’s that they often spend...
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    11 Easy Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life

    Let’s start off here with a simple question: What does your perfect day look and feel like? Visualizing your perfect day is important not necessarily because it will be a recurring reality, but because it’s crucial to understand what a simple life — or an “uncomplicated life” — really means to...
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    12 Quiet Daily Rituals of Enormously Successful People

    The result of enormous success is often pretty noisy — lots of people talking, writing, and sharing stories about it. The actual process of achieving enormous success, on the other hand, is far more discreet. But it’s this process that happens quietly, behind-the-scenes, that makes all the...
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    Why a Remote Workspace Will Set You Up For Career Success

    It’s no secret that space has a profound impact on our productivity and many other aspects of our lives. Research shows that those who have control over the layout of their workspace are not only happier and healthier but also up to 32% more productive. Now, remote workspaces have become part...
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    How to Set Boundaries at Work in a Professional Way

    From overly demanding bosses to oversharing coworkers, the workplace is fraught with traps for sucking away your precious time, turning you into an unpaid therapist, possibly making you lose your composure…. How do you set boundaries at work while maintaining a modicum of respect among your...
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    7 Ways to Cope With New Job Anxiety

    Along with the self-discovery, excitement, and other confusing feelings that finding a different profession can bring up, anxiety at a new job is more common than we might think. The average person changes jobs 12 times in their lifetime.[1] This event may not happen too often for some, so we...
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    7 Tips on How to Plan Your Career Growth and Development

    Welcome to one of the biggest career-changing climates in the history of employment. With the “Great Resignation” and the intensive search for the elusive qualified candidate, change is everywhere. But knowing opportunities abound doesn’t mean you’ve got your next career change in the bag...
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    How To Increase Your Chance For Upward Mobility At Work

    We all pursue different careers depending on our passions, but there’s one thing many of us have in common: the desire to succeed and work our way up the ladder. Upward mobility at work is vital for all of us. It serves as proof that we’re good at our jobs. It gives us further economic...
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    7 Things to Remember When You Feel Discouraged and Defeated

    This morning I didn’t feel like doing anything. It’s a combination of exhaustion from a few days of hard work, and a lack of sleep with a baby in the house. I couldn’t motivate myself to do anything important, which is a rare occurrence for me. I just felt completely discouraged and defeated...
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    9 Ways to Make Your Days Simple Again

    PLEASE NOTE: This post has been updated with new information and republished here: How to Make Life Simple Again Photo by: The 10 Cent Designer
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    The Quiet Rituals that Make Us Remarkably Successful

    When we think about walking with the dreamers, the believers, the creative types, the planners, the doers, the remarkably successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground, we get excited. We want to jump on their bandwagon, join the party and hoot and holler! We...
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    10 Ways to Free Your Mind When You’re Feeling Stuck

    by Thanh Pham of Asian Efficiency Have you ever felt like you were racing around in circles without making much forward progress? I know I have, many times. In the past I caught myself feeling stuck more often than I wanted to admit, and eventually I knew I needed to find a new roadmap. I...
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    10 Simple Habits that Will Save You Lots of Time and Energy

    by Corina Semph You wonder … “Where do my days go?” You are busier than ever before, but you have very little to show for all that time spent working and hustling. Gurus tell you that time is your most precious resource, but it seems to fly by like never before. You’re overwhelmingly busy...
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    The Smartest Thing You Can Do for Yourself Today (You Won’t Regret It)

    About a decade ago Angel and I started the blog that would ultimately become Marc and Angel Hack Life. We didn’t know how to design a website. We didn’t know what a blog was. We didn’t even really know how to write very well. All we knew were five things: We recently lost two loved ones...
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    6 Steps to Eliminate Self-Doubt (and Trust Yourself Again)

    by Sarah Peterson Has self-doubt ever stopped you from doing something you longed to do? That little voice in your head kept whispering… “Who are you to even try to accomplish that?” Whether you wanted to run a marathon, start a business, or go for a promotion, that little voice kept...
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