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How to Select a Video Conference Background

January 17, 2023

Video conferencing and live-streaming are commonplace now, but having a pleasant, visually appealing background is still crucial to your success.

A bespoke background not only serves as a stunning film backdrop but also provides an excellent first impression. Your remote meeting will benefit significantly from a wise background mural choice. Thankfully we are mostly out of the pandemic times, but such attention to detail indicates you are a player, not merely a poseur.

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January is Get a Balanced Life Month

January 12, 2023

Would you like to kick off the new year with a bang? Getting your life into a balanced state is a great place to start. Let’s take on this challenge of having a balanced life — and make 2023 the best year yet.

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12 Ways to Stay Energized This Holiday Season

December 13, 2022

You may be running on fumes by mid-December. Your schedule is probably a little hectic between buying gifts, decorating, attending holiday parties, cooking, and wrapping up your end-of-year work obligations.

During the holidays, it’s not surprising to find many people’s stress levels increasing rather than decreasing, according to YouGov America. Additionally, one in three Americans will suffer a case of “Festive Burnout” before the 25th of December.

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What Leaders Can Learn From Great Teachers

December 6, 2022

Leadership lessons are a constant learning process and there are many things leaders can learn from great teachers.

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Entrepreneurship Takes Balancing Your Work, Life, and Parenting

July 21, 2022

Unfortunately, life doesn’t come with a manual for being a working parent. And this is especially true for “parentrepreneurs.”

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Principal Annuities: What You Need to Know

July 19, 2022

Annuities, at their core, are simply tax-deferred investments sold by insurance companies to supplement financial security during retirement.

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How People Make Hacking a Legit Career Choice

July 12, 2022

The media, journalists, and the public are prone to oversimplification. And hackers are no exception. Hackers get a bad rap in movies and TV shows. Their reputation is often that of a shadowy, secretive, or marginal group. Here’s how people make hacking a legit career choice.

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11 of the Easiest Ways to Protect Your Retirement Money

July 5, 2022

It’s no secret that it’s hard to plan for retirement. ‌In addition to growing a sizeable nest egg, you must protect it from ‌external factors like market‌ ‌volatility, inflation,‌ ‌and unforeseen expenses. And, to be brutally honest, that’s been tough as of late.

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How to Make Company Flex Schedules Work for Everyone

June 16, 2022

The demand for flexible work schedules is on the rise. ‌ ‌Almost ‌80%‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌workers in the U.S. would prefer a job offering a flexible work schedule over one without. As a consequence, this results in employers starting to accommodate this request. ‌

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How to Retire Early – The Definitive Guide

June 14, 2022

Have you dreamed of early retirement? ‌How about the freedom it brings – financial and otherwise? ‌It’s not just you who dreams of‌ ‌early‌ ‌retirement.

In fact, since 1992, people have embraced the F.I.R.E. movement. ‌It has become more popular in recent years. ‌As an example, Natixis Investment Managers reported that Generation Y (ages 26-61) wants to retire at the age of 60 on average.

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15 Ways to Make Money With Your Home

June 9, 2022

According to data from the Federal Reserve, consumers ended 2021 with debt totaling a staggering $15.6 trillion. In the fourth quarter alone this was a year-over-year jump of $333 billion. In addition to the biggest quarterly gain since 2007, the largest annual gain was recorded going back to 2003.

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How Can You Make the Recruiting Process Faster?

June 7, 2022

Did you know that the average time to fill a position is 42 days? ‌However,‌ ‌this varies by industry. Still, during that span, top talent may accept an offer elsewhere. And that means you have to continue devoting resources to filling that opening. This puts more strain on your current team as they have an additional workload.

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Are Most People Debt-Free When They Retire?

May 31, 2022

I believe that it was Josh Billings, the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw, who once proclaimed, “ Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”

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How to Get Rich from Nothing to Millions

May 26, 2022

The desire to become rich is universal. ‌But‌ ‌that‌ ‌probably impossible if you start with very little or no money. ‌After all, there’s an old saying “you have to have money to make money.” ‌If you don’t already have some cash to work with, you might think you’ll never be able to build significant wealth.

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12 Pro Tips That Will Increase Company Retention

May 24, 2022

Employee retention is critical to your company’s survival in the saturated, competitive international job market.

Moreover, retention is one of the biggest challenges businesses face today. ‌The number of people quitting their jobs voluntarily is expected to reach 1 in 3 by 2023. ‌This ‌sobering projection reflects decade-on-decade increases in churn rates.

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Be Deliberate, Time Management Skills Don’t Improve by Accident

May 19, 2022

At the time of this writing, it’s spring. So, I’ve been spending as much time as I can outside. A few ways to spend a great time outside are by tinkering with a vegetable garden, playing with your kids, riding your bike, or getting in shape.

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25 Ways to Help Your Young Children Save Their Money

May 17, 2022

Did you know that kids aged 4 to 14 receive an average weekly allowance of about $9.35? That comes out to roughly $486 per year. Which, really isn’t all that bad for daily chores like tidying their bedroom or helping with laundry.

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Protecting Retirement Savings from Volatile Crypto Digital Investments

May 12, 2022

Did you hear? You may be able to allocate some of your 401(k) retirement savings to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Case in point, retirement juggernaut Fidelity.

Fidelity launched a plan in April 2022 that could let workers invest up to 20% of their 401(k) contributions directly in bitcoins — directly from the account’s main menu. Fidelity says it is the first in the industry to allow such investments without a separate brokerage account. And one employer has already agreed to offer the service later this year.

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