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8 Important Lessons on Business and Life from Kim Kardashian
As much as you like or love her, Kim Kardashian is a force to be reckoned with in the age of television and social media. She and her family used the TV reality wave in the early 2000s to help catapult themselves to fame and finance their businesses and life starting with the E! reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Almost two decades later, Kim Kardashian has multiple business ventures such as KKW Beauty, KKW Fragrance, and SKIMS, including many multi-million dollar business endorsements. What can we learn from Kim Kardashian? The world did not think she would be so successful, we overlooked her drive and ambition, but…
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8 Traits of Extremely Successful and Purpose-Driven People
Success has become an obscure word we throw around nowadays. We desire the attainment of success without knowing precisely what the word means to us. We must have a clear idea of success by defining it for ourselves. Otherwise, others will define it for us. The attainment of success is hard. But realizing what success looks like for us is the first step and is a significant leap forward. Fortunately, many successful people, past and present, could become a template for us. These people can show us that often success is a great balancing act between priorities, deriving meaning and purpose from our passions, and maintaining a focused effort and…
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8 Profound Questions to Ask Yourself to Achieve Success in the Next Decade
What is the determining factor of success? What is the catalyst that lights a fire within us to push us in the right direction for achieving our goals? I often ponder these questions in search of ways to bottle up the ingredients for success. Yet, so often, the reason someone is successful is not only based on luck but because the person has the drive, focus, and determination to continue walking the road to achieving their goals. “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself”— Anthony Robbins from the book Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control…
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How to Define Happiness: The Tale of the Fisherman and the Businessman
The tale of the fisherman and the businessman is a classic story reminiscent of Aesop’s fable. The moral of this story reflects the idea of what success looks like for each of us. Success, happiness, and contentment could be the simplicity that life already offers. A businessman once sat by the beach in a small village. As he sat, he saw a fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore, having caught quite a few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take to catch so many fish?” The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.” “Then why don’t you stay longer at…
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8 Lessons from A Reluctant Businessman: Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia’s Business Philosophy
I encountered Yvon Chouinard many years ago after his talk on business’s moral role in environmental sustainability and immediately bought his book “Let my people go surfing. The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.” “Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.” — Yvon Chouinard “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” — Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman The word ‘reluctant’…
