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Articles Week Ending 14 September 2013 (Pacific Time):
The One Thing You Must Give Up to Have a Successful Full or Part-Time Business: http://www.powerfulthinkingonpurpose.com/the-one-thing-you-must-give-up-to-have-a-successful-full-or-part-time-business
Why Leaders Must Have Integrity: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/the-importance-of-integrity/article14167037
Second Guessing Being an Entrepreneur? 5 Things to Consider: http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/5-things-to-do-when-you-hate-being-an-entrepreneur.html
Top Performer Paradox: http://www.davidmansaray.com/top-performer-paradox
Social Good and Profitability are not Exclusive: http://ecopreneurist.com/2013/09/08/social-good-and-profitability-are-not-exclusive-theyre-very-compatible
How to Start Your Own Business While on the Job: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/starting-out/how-to-start-your-own-business-while-on-the-job/article14087159
From Idea to Profitable Business in 8 Extremely Difficult Steps: http://managerialmayhem.com/idea-to-profitable-business-in-8-extremely-difficult-steps
25 Brain Lubricants to Generate Ideas: http://holykaw.alltop.com/25-brain-lubricants-to-generate-ideas-chart
6 Ways to Get Over Naysayers Who Say “No” To Your Ideas: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/six-ways-get-over-naysayers-who-say-your-ideas.html
5 Reasons 8 Out of Ten Businesses Fail: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericwagner/2013/09/12/five-reasons-8-out-of-10-businesses-fail/
5 Signs You’re Standing in Your Own Way to Success: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228320
When to Quit a Side Hustle: http://www.budgetsaresexy.com/2013/09/when-to-quit-side-hustle
How I Quit My Job: http://flippa.com/blog/how-i-quit-my-job
5 Things Mentally Tough People Don’t Do: http://addicted2success.com/motivation/5-things-mentally-tough-people-dont-do/
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself that You’ll Ever Need: http://www.jucyafrica.com/motivational-monday-the-only-two-secrets-to-motivating-yourself-youll-ever-need
It’s About Progress, Not Perfection: http://www.coachingconfidence.co.uk/progress-perfection/
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Quotations, Images, etc. Week Ending 14 September 2013:
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent van Gogh
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. — George Washington Carver
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. — Seth Godin
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ― Marcel Proust
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you’ll never have enough. — Oprah Winfrey
Goals Happen Here Articles & Videos Week Ending 14 September 2013:
Rip off the Band-Aid and Just Do It! A bit like going cold turkey, ripping off the band-aid refers to taking sudden, swift on action on something you’ve been putting off doing/stopping doing.
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Are You Unbalanced? Do you feel incomplete at the end of the day, as though you’ve left important things unfinished? Do you wonder where all your time has gone? Is your life as balanced as you’d like it to be? Do you feel as though you’re spending all your time working and not doing anything else?
Read more here.