Afleveringen
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Iāve always been fascinated with people who became super successful at an early age.
Not just millionaires and billionaires.
Iām talking people who figured it all out while others are still trying to āget their life together.ā People who jump out of bed every morning, looking forward to going to work. People who seemed to have āskipped the lineā in their careers without paying their dues like everyone else.
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Every time, in the heat of arguing, itās in our human nature to do our best to win. However, arguing can get quite irrational when we lose focus on what weāre trying to resolve. If weāre not focused on solving the problem, weāre wasting time and energy that can be diverted into something more positive.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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If you want to lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you burn. Thatās simple physics, and thereās no way around it.
Exercise usually burns somewhere between one hundred and five hundred calories per hour, depending on how intense it is and how much of your body it uses. On the other hand, you can easily cut back your intake by a thousand calories a day with a few small changes to your diet. Thatās why weight loss is commonly said to be 70% diet and 30% exercise.
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Everyone, without exception, struggles with the negative voice in their head.
And before I built the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition, I did too.
The first half of my life was controlled by a negative mindset. I was often paralyzed by fear. Wrecked by insecurity. I didnāt think too highly of myself.
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This episode was initially published as an article on vanschneider.com by Tobias van Schneider.
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At least once a day I get an email from someone reaching out to me asking for advice on how to become a designer. Or more specifically, how to become a freelance designer with your own clients.
Now, my advice might shock you a bit. When I started out as a designer, I lied about my career. -
Life is complex. One day youāre happy, working on your daily tasks, and the next day you wake up, thinking: āWhat the fuck should I do with my life?ā
Am I right? Weāve all been there. When one of my readers responded to an article last week, I asked her: āHowās it going?ā
She said: āAm doing well. Been interesting times figuring out which direction to go to next in my life journey.ā
Last week I talked to a friend who was in the same position. And everyone will face the same challenge one way or the other over the course of a long career.
Iāve been there many times as well. No one is immune to being confused. Letās face itāāāthere are literally a million things you can do with your life.
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Sometimes, to become successful and get closer to the person you can become, you donāt need to add more thingsāāāyou need to give some of them up.
There are certain things that are universal, which will make you successful if you give up on them, even though each one of us could have a different definition of success.
You can give up on some of them as soon as today, while it might take a bit longer to give up on others.
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Getting here wasnāt as easy as I thought it would be. Thatās for sure.
Most startups fail within the first five years of launching. So many startups are going bankrupt or in a death spiral and shedding jobs in the hope of staying afloat to buy a few more months of life. Itās sad.
So what has made WordStream different? What makes WordStream a unicorn in a sea of startup donkeys?
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In this day and age, it can be hard to keep your child from being exposed to Elon Musk. Although you may do your best on the home front, they may inevitably stumble across a profile piece or news item on TV at a friendās house or the computer at the school library. For that reason, itās better to be prepared for your childās eventual exposure to Elon Musk and to know how to respond to the questions you may be asked.
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The most important skill for a young person today is learning quickly and effectively. Since the Great Recession, nobody buys the false impression that you can get a credential after studying for four years, land a job, and then have a career with the same core set of skills over your entire life. Even professional career tracks like medicine and law are under outside economic and technological pressure to change and adapt at a faster pace than ever before.
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Iām a pretty high-strung guy by nature. I have trouble sitting still, I can rarely focus on anything for more than five minutes, Iām always worrying about the future, and oh shit did that girl just look at me?
So naturally, Iāve been advised to try meditation many times over the years. And naturally, Iāve found it very difficult. Iād give it a try for twenty minutes or so, have trouble, try it again a few more times over the next two weeks, and give up. Rinse and repeat two or three times a year. For years.
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This episode was initially published as an article on Medium.com by Larry Kim.
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These productivity techniques will keep you on track and happy.
1. Turn Off Alerts
Itās terribly tough to get into your Zen zone when your phone is buzzing every few minutes. Depending on how chatty your phone is, you may get notifications for everything from emails to retweets -
Hello! Today's podcast is just an update and some outreach regarding future episodes, how often they will be put out, and the quality of those episodes.
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āThese days, everyone needs a side hustle,ā starts the Uber commercial recruiting new drivers. And itās got bouncy music and the dude is hip and it makes it sound like this is super fun and Iām sitting there thinking: Are they seriously trying to make a āsecond jobā sound like a sexy thing!?
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This episode was initially published as an article on Medium.com by Zdravko Cvijetic
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It took me four years of researching, experimenting, and a lot of excuses, to finally reach a point where waking up early as a habit is under my command, but it was worth it.
I presume the reason why you are reading this article is that youāve tried to develop the same habit (probably more than once) and for some reason failed.
Luckily, you donāt need to go through this again by yourself; you have me and my learning lessons...
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Money. Freedom. Respect. Fame.
These are some of the many promises of the all holy entrepreneurship.
In recent years thereās been a flood of blog posts, eBooks and video courses on why and how to become an entrepreneur. āHow to Make Money Online.ā āHow to Make $5k Per Month in Passive Income.ā āHow to Tell Your Boss to Go Screw Himself and Live Your Dreams.ā āā¦in 3 Easy Steps!ā
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āHow could she do something like this to me?ā said a voice in my head. All the time. Every day.
Back in 2011, when everything had gradients, iOS icons made sense, and people used deodorants, I was stuck in middle of a pretty bad depression due to my divorce.
Thankfully, I think I was smart enough (and had great people around me) so I found ways to stay afloat...
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Focus on whatās important, and NOT the method/tool used to get the result you want.
Think of ONE thing thatās killing your time right now.
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I used to think it was a silly waste of time to think about a vision for my life. Who does that? It seems to touchy-feely, too Tony Robbins-ish.
But then, as I started learning how to change my life and my habits, I realized something: people avoid creating a vision for their lives because they believe the exercise is futile. Why make a vision when itās impossible to accomplish those things anyway?
Iāve also noticed something over the past several years...
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