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How to Maintain Success: 4 Ways to Keep the Wins Coming

Are you enjoying success in your life right now? What’s the key to maintaining success and keeping it from slipping through your hands? In Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday asserts that self-discipline is essential to maintaining your success in good times. He contends that practicing discipline can help you with four things that come with success: ego, pleasure, power, and money. Discover how to maintain success through the power of discipline.

Commit to Learning: The First Step on the Path to Mastery

Do you have a mentor? What skills are you learning right now? How can related skills help you master them? In The Daily Laws, Robert Greene says that to make a successful impact in your field and produce innovative and quality work, you must pursue mastery. He describes mastery as a process of learning and exploration to deeply understand your field. Keep reading to learn why and how you must commit to learning if you want to be at the top of your field.

How to Hone Your Work Style to Create Masterful Work

What’s your work style? Did you create it deliberately? Would you like to develop your own unique way of working? Throughout history, many famous innovators—whether they engineered scientific breakthroughs or composed revolutionary musical pieces—went through a process of developing their own style of work. You, too, can go through this process and make a unique mark on the world. Read more to learn how to develop a personal style that sets you and your work apart in your field.

How to Master Something: Commit to Learning & Find Your Style

How do people rise to the top of their field? What craft would you like to master? The Daily Laws by Robert Greene is based on 25 years of research on power, mastery, and human nature. He explains what it means to master something, and he shares the steps you must take in pursuing mastery in your field. Keep reading to learn how to master something and fulfill your potential.

Crafting & Sharing Your Career Story With Others (and Yourself)

Do you look at your career as just a timeline with points on it? What if you saw it as a story? Whether you realize it or not, your career has a narrative. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end (in the past or in the future). You’re the main character who has certain motivations and faces obstacles along the way. Keep reading to learn how putting your career story into words can be powerful for colleagues, prospective employers, and even yourself.

How to Measure Success: Forming Your Own Definition

What Is the Secret to Living a Happy Life?

How do you know when you’ve finally “made it?” What do you do next if you find the success you’ve been chasing? When many people hit success, they don’t even know they have it. That’s because there’s not one solid definition of success—everyone measures success differently, and you have to find your own meaning. Check out how to measure success, according to The Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden.

How to Heal From Burnout: 6 Tips to Relieve Stress

Are you exhausted from work and home from responsibilities? How do you heal from burnout? Physical, emotional, or mental burnout is something you can experience when you neglect your personal needs while overworking yourself. The most common symptoms of burnout are exhaustion, lack of motivation, and even more dangerous effects such as high blood pressure and insomnia. Here are six tips that will teach you how to heal from burnout.

Discover Your Purpose: 3 Ways to Turn Your Interests Into Impact

How to Find Your Major Definite Purpose in Life

What did you enjoy as a child? What makes you different? What do you care about most? In The Daily Laws, Robert Greene argues that we lead our lives guided by false beliefs. He discusses how you can break free from false notions of success and happiness by identifying your unique life purpose and pursuing mastery in your field. Read more for Greene’s advice on how to discover your purpose and an exercise to help you implement Greene’s ideas.

A Network of Ideas: Harnessing Social & Neural Connections

When you network, do you deliberately share and collect new ideas? Do you seek out opportunities for collaboration? According to Steven Johnson, good ideas don’t just appear from nowhere. Rather, they build on existing knowledge and ideas. New ideas proliferate in networks. The more connected you are, the more you’ll find and develop good ideas. Read more to learn how you can plug into and benefit from a network of ideas around you.

How to Stop Overanalyzing & Start Getting Things Done

Are you a perfectionist? Do you analyze every last detail only to miss the big picture? In Someday Is Today, Matthew Dicks shares tips for accomplishing extraordinary things. He discusses ways to maximize your time, efficiency, and productivity so you can become as successful as possible, as soon as possible. One solution is to stop being a perfectionist and a micro-analyzer and just get on with the task at hand. Continue reading to learn how to stop overanalyzing and start getting things done.