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Chances are, within the next few months, you’ll be asked at least once to acquire a new skill or body of knowledge. If you’re in high-tech, you can count on your entire skill-set becoming obsolete every few years, but even people in less accelerated fields have to keep learning just to stay even these days. For example, whether you’re in marketing and PR, corporate communications, human resources, or political campaigning, you’ve had to learn how to use and make sense of social media – a field that barely existed a couple of years ago....

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. Ten Top Tips for the Innovative Leader

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. For someone struggling with depression, getting out of bed in the morning is courage. For someone successful in their career, striking out on their own is strong and courageous. For those of us who like to put our best foot forward — don’t we all? — it’s simply this: True courage is risking being uncomfortable. How to Be Courageous

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. Luckily, in addition to the top 10 reasons why people don’t reach their goals, I’ve included a quick fix for each of them. So let’s get to it. Top 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Reach Their Goals

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. Here are important steps that can take you from being lonely to having the friends you want. What To Do If You Have No Friends

The dreams that you have are there for a reason: to be realized as a part of fulfilling your life purpose. If you are still trying to find your passions and purpose, you might want to start with Leo Babauta’s article on how to find your passion. Many people have trouble seeing the potential of their dreams; they give up on them because they don’t see how they will ever come true....

Our vulnerability. We have limited and fragile support systems. When those systems fail, people often lose their lives. Real dangers. Nature can be dangerous, and making mistakes can put us at the mercy of nature and its animal residents seeking a meal. Ignorance. Many cultures scapegoate someone whenever there is a failure of some kind. Scapegoating can be serious and deadly. Order. Many societies punish those who do not conform to the prevailing orthodoxy and treat difference and non-conformity as a mistake....

Why Bother? How to Inventory Easily Doing an inventory can seem too huge to manage at first glance. Even if your home is relatively clutter-free, there’s a surprising amount of stuff in it. But an inventory doesn’t have to be done all at once — and it doesn’t actually have to include every single thing in your home. To get started, you need a plan of attack. Perhaps you’ll work on one room a day — or even one square foot....

The study Luckily, we’re in 2016, a year in which psychopharmacology has advanced dramatically – and this notion echoes with antidepressants. A new study published in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA aimed to predict whether or not an antidepressant would work in the long term. According to Dr. Andrew Leuchter, the lead author of the study, researchers were able to predict the outcome of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant drug Lexapro, using brain wave recordings....

Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

Grimaldi actually made sports history as he became the shortest player at five feet, six inches tall to be selected in the NHL entry draft. This is really something given that professional hockey players these days are hovering at about six feet in height on average. But Grimaldi’s lack of height has certainly not stopped him from playing well enough in the minor leagues to get the attention of NHL scouts....

A surprising number of the names on the cards in my box are repeated. I’m not talking about duplicates: I’ve been introduced to quite a few people who have handed me a card for their day job, and then added a personal card to the stack. It seems that carrying multiple business cards is becoming common. How Many Business Cards Do You Need? If your employer goes to the effort of printing you business cards, the expectation seems to be that you’ll hand out those cards at each and every event you attend....

Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.

Started in 2007, hashtagging is now widely used to cover popular and trending topics. So, how can you integrate this in your social strategy to increase your online presence? Quicksprout brings this handy infographic to help you use it effectively. Using Hashtags To Increase Your Social Presence | Quicksprout Featured photo credit: Quicksprout via goo.gl

It may look similar to mind map, but its functionality is different. Mind map is supposed to reflect what you think within one main concept, where concept map may have several concepts. Another difference is the representation – concept map can be represented by a network, but mind map is usually represented as a tree structure. Refers to this document for more information on concept map. Download IHMC CmapTools v4....

All successful people have to overcome numerous disappointments and failures in life – yet it’s usually only their successes that are celebrated and remembered by the public. Seeing only the positive sides of successful people is an illusion. It causes expectations of success in an unrealistically short time, and creates a negative bias towards our own results in life. The Want for Instant Results Is Inborn The desire for instant results began when we were just babies....

Here are some remarkable and surprising beer benefits that might change your perception of the drink. 1. Help reduce risk of heart disease One eye-opening study involving 200,000 subjects conducted at Italy’s Fondazion di Ricerca e Cura found that people who drank a pint of beer daily had a 31% reduced chance of heart disease. This heart-protecting power of beer stems largely from beer’s natural antioxidants called phenols.[1] However, the study also showed risk of heart disease increased in people who consumed higher amounts of beer....

1. Malaysia: A Tropical Paradise If you’re seeking that scenic beachside retirement home where you can spend your days enjoying crystal clear waters and soaking in the tropical sun, then Malaysia should be on the top of your list. Here, it’s easy to get by on $1,700 per month, and the health care system is fantastic. Since many of the doctors have studied outside Malaysia in places like the States, it’s not tough to find an English-speaking doctor, either....

1. You will get to know yourself better Once you are out there on the road on your own you will be faced with decisions you need to make, fears you need to overcome and discover your true self and how much you are capable of. Travelling exposes you to raw experiences where you get to know the person inside you, that little kid that always wanted to travel, wander, expand and grow as a human being through exploring different places around the world....