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  • Growth Mindset: The Key to Success in All Areas of Life

    Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to skate right through their academic career while others seem to struggle endlessly? For some of us, academics just don’t seem to come as easily as it does to others. Or does it? Is it possible that intelligence is not necessarily left to the gene pool and there is something you can do about it?

  • Growth Mindset: The Key to Success in All Areas of Life

    Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to skate right through their academic career while others seem to struggle endlessly? For some of us, academics just don’t seem to come as easily as it does to others. Or does it? Is it possible that intelligence is not necessarily left to the gene pool and there is something you can do about it?

  • How to Avoid and Overcome Writer’s Block

    Writing is one of the creative arts. A writer uses words to paint beautiful pictures for others to see. Unfortunately, like any other creative process, there can be obstacles. If you are suffering from writer’s block, it doesn’t have to last any longer. What exactly is writer’s block? If you’re a writer you know that it’s when all of the creativity seems to leak out through a hole in your…

  • Do You Fall Into This Trap? Comparing Yourself to Other People

    If you are human, you have done it. You compare yourself to other people. The good news is that people out there compare themselves to you and the not-so-good news is that you do it, as well. While neither is benefit of the other, it is simply part of human nature. It’s how we grow, it’s how we strive, but sometimes, unfortunately, it’s sometimes an excuse to give up, as…

  • Communication and Changing Your Mindset

    Older theories about intelligence dictate to us that we are born a “certain way.” We have certain traits that others do not possess, others have certain traits that we do not possess, and that is that. There is no room for growth or expansion. Our intelligence is as it always was and there is no room for improvement. However, today, we know better. We know that we have the ability…

  • Choose Your Thoughts like You Choose Your Words

    Now that you have examined how choosing your thoughts makes an impact on your growth and potential, you can also take a look at another area in your life. Firstly, however, take a moment to realize that there are two components of whether or not you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Growing up, you may have been told that you are not as good as someone else…

  • The Benefits of Setting up a Twitter Feed

    The main goal in most businesses is to attract as many customers as possible. With Twitter, you have the ability to continue having contact as long as you have either a cell phone with texting ability or an internet connection. And one added perk, it’s a free service! The signup process for Twitter is pretty much the same as for any other social media or networking service. It requires providing…

  • Growing Trends in SEO

    The rules of SEO (search engine optimization) are constantly changing, leaving marketers scrambling to try to keep up with the latest ways to get free traffic from the search engines. The search engine algorithms that determine what position a URL gets in the search engine results pages (SERPs) are forever changing, especially at Google. Keeping up to date can mean the difference between a top spot and falling out of…