Many people desire to make more of their business life, whether it’s getting a promotion, finding a better job, or simply having the opportunity to take time off for a once-in-a-lifetime extended vacation. But we often miss these chances because we unintentionally hold ourselves back from success. For example, if you are stuck in a dead-end job, you’ve got to find a way to get out of it. If you stay in that position, you will never move up to the next level professionally, and you’ll miss out on longer vacation time, more money, and even more job flexibility.

Over one hundred years ago, British writer James Allen skillfully remarked in his essay, From Poverty to Power, “To know that justice, harmony, and love are supreme in the universe is likewise to know that all adverse and painful conditions are the result of our own disobedience.” Positive, lasting change starts by knowing who we are and taking ownership for the dissatisfying aspects of our lives. We can’t rely on others, to improve out station. We must learn to act now.

Change is your career can require looking deep within yourself to find out how you can best succeed. Spend some time each day reflecting on where you want your career or business to head. You will find that your dreams and goals will begin to take shape. It’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s not going to be easy, but it will work.

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One of Dale Carnegie‘s bestselling books,How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, is about stress management. In fact, based on quite extensive research that I did, it was the first book written specifically on the subject. Mr. Carnegie wrote it because he was sick and tired of stressing out everyday over his position in life and wanted to put a stop to it. So he looked very closely at what it was he was worrying about, how it affected him, and came up with a method on how to stop it.

One of the first realizations was that stress and worry cause fatigue. So Carnegie’s strategies for combating include this very simple technique: lie down for an hour before dinner. He translated those hours into the course of a lifetime to get the technique called “5,467 times more effective” than a cocktail.

Today it seems that it’s even harder to find a free hour. But we are able to, and can adapt. Find the time to take a break, even if it’s for only 20 minutes. It will suffice. You’ll be amazed at the wonders it will do for your stamina and your overall peace of mind.

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“Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people get their food and income by farming small plots of land,” Gates said. “So if we can make smallholder farming more productive and more profitable, we can have a massive impact on hunger and nutrition and poverty.”

Interestingly, Bill is looking to controversial genetically modified foods (GMFs) as part of the solution. The Microsoft founder recently gifted $10.4 million to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and Michigan State University, as part of a charge to develop a center in Africa to regulate the new biotechnology.

Think Gates can lead the way? Are GMFs a viable solution? It’s certainly great to see someone using his wealth to do so much good in his lifetime.

Read the entire article at: Scientific American

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“I was born free and I intend to live like it.

This means that I will live my life while I’m alive.

No one owns me except my Creator.

No one can put me in a box, a category, a social group, a voting block, or a classification.

I am fiercely independent (interdependent).

I know that with my freedom comes responsibility.

I take responsibility for my own actions, and I hold the bar high on myself.

I am not afraid to struggle, because it’s the struggle that makes me great.

I know that excellence always lies on the other side of inconvenience.

I am a learning machine.

I read, I confront brutal reality, I grow.

Long term, no one and nothing can defeat me, because I will keep coming back, stronger and better than before.

I will educate myself about the true principles of freedom,

and I will strive mightily to preserve freedom for the next generation.

I rely on no man and no government to provide for me.

I will not follow the herd of mediocrity and victim-thinking.

I don’t follow herds, instead I run with a pack – a pack of Rascals.

Let others bask in their privileges, as for me, I will invest them in my purpose.

I will defy description.

I will charge the hill.

I will make a difference.

I’m a Rascal!”

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