Unfortunately and ironically, fear of failure leads to inaction and inaction leads to failure. Stagnation makes people lose out on opportunities and makes companies lose out to innovative competitors. Don’t stay in the same place for too long, or you’ll be left in the past. It sounds true, deep, and like a sound solution, but [...]
Sometimes, in life, things just don’t go the way they are expected to go.
Those of us who were not so fortunate as to be born into money have to work for a living. Sometimes, while working, we will be asked to do things we would rather not do, whether it be physical labor or an act with which we have moral dilemmas. Similarly, work is a place to [...]
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb People regularly make excuses for why they cannot and will not do something that needs to be done. Crossing items off the to-do list becomes infinitely more complicated than it actually is when one simply [...]
Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr The main goal of this blog is to teach small business owners working from home and college students alike the art of living balanced lives. Personally, I define living balanced as being happy with progress and continuing personal growth without limiting or becoming obsessed with professional growth. A [...]
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