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Have you completed employee reviews in the last month? Did it feel like a good use of your time? Did you feel like you were really building value in your company or did you feel like you were checking off a box on someone else’s cover-my-butt list?
Be honest.
When your Outlook [...]

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Do you have too many interests and not enough time?
Here's a quick way to try out your secret dreams, create some new ideas and sow the seeds of your next adventure - all without leaving your desk.
Today I used it to feed my "travel jones" during lunch: I went to Brazil.

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Do you ever get a feeling that your job has lost its luster? A job that used to motivate you now requires you to get yourself pumped up before you do it?
Check out what I learned at a No Doubt concert this weekend - how to know when you have outgrown your work. [...]

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Want to do something different, but can't figure out what it is? Or how to do more meaningful work without jeopardizing your lifestyle?
Join me for a special tele-class this Wednesday night, June 10th at 5pm ET: Don't wait to test-drive your dreams (How to start now without quitting your job).
It's [...]

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I knew a guy (call him 'Tom') who had a detailed "Top 10" list of requirements for any prospective girlfriend. She had to be blonde, athletic, intelligent, Ivy League-educated, successful, from a good family, and more.
Tom met a woman once who came close, but when every date was compared to that top 10 ideal, [...]

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About four years ago, I was getting ready for my first-ever trip to Asia - to Hong Kong and China for business.
Because I was traveling so far, I had to stay over the weekend. So as a way to keep in touch with my daughters, I came up with a game.
They each [...]

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