Inspiration: How a Positive Role Model Changed My Life
They say you’re only as good as the company you keep, something as a 23-year old female, I have struggled to understand. We are often consumed by the desire to surround ourselves with individuals we admire and appreciate. However, in our younger years that means something much different than as…
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Why You Need Shark Habits in Your Life
In 1977, at our first team meeting with the Utah State University track and field team, Coach Ralph Maughan outlined a few things that continue to shape my life. At the time, he was addressing state and national champions and one Olympian. Three statements stood out: “Make yourself a slave to…
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The Money vs. Happiness Debate
Where do you sit in the money vs happiness debate? Which is more important? After reading this article, do you still feel the same way?
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Do You DRIVE with the Radio On or Off?
I have a friend who sometimes likes to drive with the radio off. Before we get to why that’s not weird, I want to tell you a quick story about the time I called NYT and WSJ bestselling author Daniel Pink a “pencil pusher” — and Mr. Pink not only saw my…
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The Ten Commandments of Con Men
I told her I would never write about her again. The first time I wrote about her was in 2009. I met her in a bookstore and she was drawing and I was attracted to her. I asked her what she was drawing. She told me her whole story. And…
READ MOREThe Value of a Vision Statement
Here’s a profound thought: Whatever your current situation, from your bank balance to the shoes on your feet, it is the direct result of decisions you made getting here. You set the trajectory and forged the causal chain link by link, and it has all led inexorably to this place.…
READ MOREFather’s Day and What Dad Means to Me
Father’s Day offers the opportunity to reflect on the wonderful men in our lives. “Once upon a time, a Long, Long, LOOONG time ago… when I was a little girl…” I giggled uncontrollably even though I knew there was no possible way my dad had once been a little girl.…
READ MOREHealthy Travel Tips (In-Flight Exercises!)
Summer travel has begun and if you’re like me you have at least one getaway planned, which means a whole lot of… sitting. Using healthy travel tips makes traveling that much better, yet it’s nearly impossible to be active when getting where you’re going will involve sitting at the airport,…
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The Truth About Cord Cutters
Ask any teen or early-twenty-something how they kill time when they’re bored and I bet they say they search for videos on YouTube. Ask any person in their mid-to-late twenties how they kill time and I bet they say they watch Netflix, or Hulu, or HBO Now. Ask any person in…
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How to Live Each Day — Advice from a Billionaire to Millennials
“Live each day as if it were your last.” The best way to take this advice is to do exactly the opposite, said PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel to Hamilton College’s graduating class of 2016. If you’ve been following the news lately, then you’ve probably seen Peter Thiel’s name mentioned a…
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What’s Your Price?
“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it. The reason I’m successful is because I worked 7 days per week, for 10 years to make it happen. Short of that, I don’t think I would have been as successful. And I knew…
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The One Thing I Will Always Regret
I regret passing the crying woman on the staircase inside the Chelsea Hotel. For three floors, as I was walking up, I kept thinking of things to say to her but then I just walked right by her and heard her weeping. I used to regret starting Vaultus, my wireless…
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