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Your happy and productive tomorrow starts tonight. The importance of good morning habits is a no-brainer. It's common sense that if you wake up early and do good things to ramp your body and mind up for the day, those things will pay off.  How we spend our evenings gets a lot less attention--but they're just as important, the time that bridges one day into the next. Train yourself to make that transition a great one with these eight evening habits borrowed from highly successful people. 1.     Read to learn. Growth requires learning, and the more topics you're engaged and interested in, the more effective you can be. But there's rarely time during the workday to feed your mind or learn something new. If you set aside some time to read in the evening, you'll find it's a relaxing way to expand your horizons. As a bonus, it can help you make the transition to a great night's sleep, as long as you read from a book or ...

See how to zap yourself into action and creative massive life changes immediately. We often have huge aspirational goals that feel completely out of reach. Even if your ambitions feel a zillion miles away, though, there's good news. It's often small changes you can make in your life today that will allow you to reach those milestones. Even if it doesn't seem like it, shaking up your routine can zap you into action and snowball into those changes you've always desired. Here are seven proven ways you can realize your full potential, stay motivated, and revamp your life. 1. Science says to have fun A University of Scranton  study  in the  Journal of Clinical Psychology  found that 45% of American make New Year's resolutions but only 8% actually realize their goals. However,  science  also offers answers to combat this phenomenon. It turns out having fun is one of the best ways to get motivated and generate massive and lasting changes in your lif...

If you can influence and have an impact on others, you're a leader. Many people believe leadership is something that's conferred along with a title or attained when you direct a team of people, but true leadership is never about authority or power. It's about helping others grow, and that's something anyone can do. If it's your desire to influence and have an impact on others, you have leadership qualities. And if you can inspire people to do something they thought they couldn't do, demonstrate how the impossible is possible, believe in someone when they didn't believe in themselves, you're already a leader. People don't set out to be great leaders, they set out to make a difference. It's never about the role or the title, but about influencing others, helping and supporting them. Here are seven questions to help you gauge your own leadership: 1.   Do you act with integrity?  Leaders allow their good character to speak for them. ...

When you are put in a tough situation, don't ask, "Why me?"--instead, say "Try me!" Maybe your business has failed or your venture gone off track. Maybe you were supposed to be the next Steve Jobs, but it's all gone bad. For whatever reason, you find yourself in a place you never imagined--rock bottom. But failure is not fatal and rock bottom is not forever, unless you make it so. There are very important lessons to learn when you've hit rock bottom. Here are nine of the most important: 1. You're may not be who you thought you were .  When you're down and out, you're forced to confront yourself as you probably never have before. It's when you're at your most broken and weak that you can dig down through your vulnerabilities to the strength to stand strong. It is in loss and imperfection that you can see how perfectly human you are. 2. The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is how you use them.  Hit...

The brilliant management strategies of Howard Schultz, who just announced a pay raise for US employees of his $82 billion Starbucks empire On Monday, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced a number of new company benefitsfor US employees — including pay raises of at least 5%. Presumably, it's a way to make employees feel appreciated. Another way Schultz does that? He encourages his team — at least the executives — to step up and push back against his ideas when they don't agree. According to a profile of Schultz by George Anders in Forbes , even now that he's running a global business with upwards of 238,000 employees and a market capitalization of  $82 billion, Schultz still has the impulse to micromanage. At a recent staff meeting, Forbes reported, Schultz jumped in with a critique of some cards introducing Starbucks' new partnership with Spotify. "Black looks so dull," he said. "We're talking about music. This should be lively. ...

Nervous? Anxious? Insecure? Here are some ways to fake it that ensure you will actually make it. If you're like me, you often come across as confident, but inside you're far from it. Actually, if you're like me, you're  situationally  confident:  sometimes, very much so; other times, not at all . So you spend a lot of time thinking about how to  gain confidence , and in the short term how to at least appear confident, even when you're not. While genuine confidence takes time to develop (because  genuine confidence is based on incremental, steady success ), according to  Dharmesh Shah , co-founder of HubSpot , there are definitely ways you can  seem  confident--which is the next best thing. Here are some of his tips: 1. Listen  way  more than you speak. Talking a lot is a mask for insecurity. When you're nervous and insecure, it's easy to rush to fill any silence with words. (And later you often can't even remember what you s...