The word ‘but’ is more damaging than it looks when used in a discussion. Agreeing with someone and then saying ‘but’, may completely undermine your efforts to be understanding and agreeable. Those three letters somehow have an ability to kill everything good that you said before it.
Instead try the following example:
“I agree with [...]

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I’m a recovering academic: a university lecturer that chose to leave the ivory tower because, frankly, I prefer my own company. I still run into young students, however, who are keen to work in academe and pump me for advice. In the true spirit of the internet, here’s my take on how to succeed [...]

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Kathy Sierra of ‘Creating Passionate Users’ has put together this set of tips about how to cut through the noise, and get someone’s attention.
Everything revolves around this golden rule:

“The secret is to be more provocative and interesting than anything else in their environment.”

To pull this off, she gives the following tips:

Be Visual
Be Different–Break Patterns [...]

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“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together”Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)

A good sleep helps you get a healthy fresh start the next day, so getting a good nights rest is very important. If you’re having trouble getting shuteye, here are a few tips you can try:
Make Sleep Part Of [...]

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With high schools and colleges kicking off with the start of another academic year, it’s important to remember that teachers can’t be solely responsible for what we learn. We ourselves need to decide to learn something and work actively towards achieving our goal. To put it another way: we need to aim to become [...]

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Reliable information is crucial to making a good decision. Learn how to separate the truth from the lies, and you will go a long way in protecting yourself from fraud, or being taken for a ride. Wikihow has a great post about how to tell if someone is lying, and here some of [...]

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Don’t have an endless closet full of ultra-trendy couture? You can still knock ‘em dead this year with a few simple tips, from none other than the uber fashionable guys here at LifeSpy.
Although us geeks have it easy, with our flared jeans, baggy khaki shorts and t-shirts for every occasion, we know it [...]

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While networking is a crucial aspect of business, it’s really important we don’t adopt fall into the trap of adopting what ‘Life Beyond Code’ describes as a ‘Use-and-Go’ attitude.
‘Use-and-Go’ basically refers to the act of being nice, or getting in touch with someone when you need something, and then vanishing from their lives once you’ve [...]

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Forget coffee or coke! Stress and tension will only get you so far when it comes to being productive; however, being relaxed and focused will really up your productivity levels.
A college principal that I know meditates for 20 minutes every morning.
“I started doing it to help me focus more as well as relax,” says [...]

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The subconscious mind is an extremely powerful mechanism. Each individual has an unique perspective and opinion on what success means to them. If properly trained, utilized and enacted; subconscious thoughts achieve success.
In my previous article I enlightened you on how extremely important goal-setting is. In an effort to elaborate on these details [...]

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Dumb Little Man has a great list of 20 tips that got a person promoted, and I wanted to highlight a few of them here for you, as well as point out the article containing the tips, so you can work on some of them, and get the promotion you deserve.

I will be the [...]

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Blogging has become so popular that massive amounts of people are setting up new blogs and establishing a presence in the blogosphere.
Unfortunately, despite beautifully themed pages, outstanding development, plug ins and precision content, many fall short of success. Potentially successful blogs fail due to numerous conflicts and reasons; however, one of the main reasons [...]

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Whenever you’ve completed an important task or faced a challenging situation, it’s important that you reward yourself for your efforts. This is especially important if you don’t have any employers or authority figures to give you a bonus or treat you to a nice, rewarding dinner after a successful proposal. Here are some ways [...]

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There’s an ongoing myth claiming that you have to sacrifice a lot of free time for your studies. Nothing could be further from the truth. Education isn’t just about listening to lectures – it’s also about experiencing new things outside the confines of a classroom. This means that you shouldn’t spend your growing-up years [...]

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Most employees aren’t utilized to the full capacity of their skill or potential. As a result, they tend to underachieve at work, and may lose their jobs in the process. Your job security is dependent on your contribution to the workplace – this is exactly why you should make your presence count. Here are [...]

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