...Must is who we are, what we believe,and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It's that which calls to us most deeply. It's our convictions, our passions, our deepest held urges and desires - unavoidable, undeniable, and inexplicable. Unlike Should, Must doesn't accept compromises...
...If you don’t like (or at least respect) your business partner, things can only go downhill from there. Just as you would screen potential employees, you need to make sure that you and your future partner agree when it matters most...
Why is it that some people seem to make constant progress in their professional and personal lives, while others appear to be doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over?
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...You can dramatically accelerate your transition into your new role. Do the right things – the essential transition tasks listed next – and you will rapidly create momentum that will propel you to even greater successes...
The Seven Financial Sins Of Millionaire Households
...In this recipe, paraffin wax—a now mostly forgotten candy-making ingredient—is mixed with chocolate so that it will set properly when cooled and take on a shiny appearance...
...Being active in youth may change the inner workings of brain cells much later in life and sharpen some types of thinking, according to a remarkable new neurological study involving rats...
...We tend to believe that chance has a way of evening things out. If a coin has landed on tails eight times, the next one must be heads. It's hard for us to wrap our heads around the fact that probability doesn't care about timing; doesn't care about what we think, and doesn't care about what came before. Each event is entirely independent of the one before, and will in no way affect the one after. Still, the gambler insists that the next one will be the lucky winner...
...You don't need to do all of them, but focus on a few...
...Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions...
Everybody would love to have an amazing relationship. But most of the advice you get isn’t from real experts. Whaddya say we just go ahead and fix that?
...Awareness. Acceptance. Letting go of comparisons. Compassion. Appreciation. Loving yourself, and everything else too...
...Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should...
...Pure sugar syrup heated to the hard-crack stage becomes a hard, translucent candy. In this recipe, the addition of butter produces an opaque candy with a silkier but still crunchy texture...
...Art projects are an easy way to bond with your kid and give them a chance to show their creative side. Even cooler are art projects your kid can do that harness the power of the sun...
...The Need to be Selective – For this reason, and perhaps more than ever before, your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality of skill you can develop...
...Strategies that manage AGI become very appealing for those nearing the IRMAA thresholds, especially if income can be manipulated to come in just below one of the tiers...
Quartz compiled a slew of free reading resources are available if you’re looking to stock up on great literature, and you can read it basically anywhere, even if you can’t walk into a library.
The end result is that while borrowing from a 401(k) plan may be an appealing option for those who need to borrow – where the effective borrowing cost is not the 401(k) loan interest rate but the “opportunity cost” or growth rate of the money inside the account – it’s still not an effective means to actually increase your returns, even if the 401(k) loan interest rate is higher than the returns of the investment account. Instead, for those who have “loan interest” to pay to themselves, the best strategy is simply to contribute the extra money to the 401(k) plan directly, where it can both be invested, and receive the 401(k) tax deduction (and potential employer matching!) on the contribution itself!
