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"Nothing has a bigger influence on the fate of your pursuits than your ability to set a clear, measurable, and meaningful goal at the start of your journey."
The better you are at setting goals, the more likely you are to accomplish them.
In this post I share four keys to setting more effective goals including to make your goal measurable, avoid confusing goals with results, and use clear goals to reveal the strategies necessary to achieve them.
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"Anyone who isn't curious doesn't love what they do. And you should be hiring people who love what they do."
He explains how to run a hiring process and suggests the three most important criteria to judge candidates on is their drive, curiosity, and ethics.
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"Most of the habits we have are habits we ended up with after years of unconscious behavior. They're not intentional."
This is only a six-paragraph post, but its impact is much greater than its length.
Jason Fried points out habits are always forming and suggests you be aware of what you do and how you're doing it because your actions will form habits - whether you realize it or not.
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"When you're done with your initial draft, take a hard, dispassionate look at those first few paragraphs. See if you can toss them out."
It's almost impossible not to pick up at least one valuable tip in this thorough post for writers.
Gareth Branwyn breaks down how to be a better writer and shares advice on everything from how to cultivate a writer's mindset, to what tools to use, to how to edit your work and work with publishers.
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"Pair two one-way tickets — even from different airlines and airports — to create an itinerary that could end up being less than a round trip."
Whether you want to beat the system when it comes to booking flights or are just hoping to make it less of a hassle, this post can help you.
Brooke Porter Katz explains how to find better airfares including tips about when to book, when to fly, and how best to use mileage points.
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"My two favorite questions to ask direct reports are 'if you were me, what would you do differently' and 'what don't you like about the product?'"
If you ever have one-on-one meetings with a boss or employee, this will help you make those conversations more beneficial for both parties.
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"We are surrounded by environments. Everything you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is an environment that is either adding energy to your life or draining energy from your life."
Here's an interesting way to take stock of your life and identify what's working and what's not.
The environments include things like your relationships, finances, and network.
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"We assume far too many things are obvious. And it's often very self-serving. It prevents us from having uncomfortable conversations or having to ask for things that are scary."
This post features marriage advice from a divorce lawyer - not sure if that makes it more or less dependable, but I'm guessing more.
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"It is a scalable revenue stream as long as the audience scales."
If you have your own newsletter or are thinking of starting one that you hope to monetize, this video is a must-watch.
Khe Hy and Kyle Westaway have an open and honest conversation about how to monetize a newsletter based on the experiments they've run with their own newsletters.
They touch on the realities of trying to monetize through ads, events, digital products, and more.
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"Most things aren't great — no matter how much experience or desire you have."
Of the 193 songs the Beatles released on albums, only 17 went to number one on the charts.
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