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3 Questions to Bring You Out of Your Darkness

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How to Deal with Personal Attacks

It’s funny how I still get a little upset and a wee bit defensive when I get blog comments like this last one on How to Stop Wasting Life in a Dead-end Job:

“Great advice! Now … try paying your rent with it! No one said life is easy. But you are not here to be “happy”! You are here to do your duty. Deal with it; and rest assured that others have had to endure a hell of a lot worse and have not complained. Now stop your nonsense and make your living!”

Ouch.

At first, I just wanted to delete it … but something uneasy crept inside … I just couldn’t put my finger on it.

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83 Ways to Become a Better Person

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Small steps. Giant leaps.

Are you able to say that today you are a better person than yesterday every day of your life?

That’s all. Nothing grandiose. Nothing lofty or ambitious. Nothing to get all anxious about or make big plans for. Just a little better person than you were yesterday?

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Dealing with Success Envy: How to Shut Up the Inner Ego

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Suffering from Success Envy?

Do you watch others who are more successful than you and secretly envy them?
Do you find yourself daydreaming about another person’s life and wish you were them?
Do you see things and feel captivated by their aura, wondering why you were dealt such a bad hand of cards in life?

In other words, do you suffer the insufferable inner ego or have you shut it up already so you can get on with the business of your own life?

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From Corporate to Self-Employed: How to Adjust to Being Your Own Boss

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Maybe You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss!

“You weren’t meant to have a boss!” wrote Paul Graham on his blog in 2008.

It’s a popular piece that taps into the psychology of whether we as human beings are meant to have bosses. It’s a wild article. He compares us to lions in Africa, then weaves in our attachment to junk food and the unnatural way we have to act in large companies and concludes with the crazy notion that perhaps some of us were simply not meant to have a boss!
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Episode 68: Why Being a Copycat Destroys Your True Essence

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Welcome back to our Episode #68 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is inspired by a personal story; I titled it: Why Being a Copycat Destroys Your True Essence, and yes, there is a copycat in my life and you know what, she is sadly destroying her own true essence by copying work and my style and my way of running my business, and what a terrible act of self-sabotage.

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