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What is it worth to be the best?

By Dave Rendall, The Freak Factor Guy on September 2nd in Business 1 comment

In my last post, Become the Best by Being the Worst, I argued that if we want to be the best in one area, we need to be willing to be the worst in other areas. We can’t be the best at everything. After reading my post, a few people asked, “Why bother being the

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Open Thread: What Is Your Re-Set Button?

By Matt Gartland on September 1st in Open Thread Leave a comment!

Today is September 1st – the birth of a new day and a new month. How are you going to take advantage of this re-set opportunity? What’s a re-set opportunity? Re-sets are moments when you can re-focus, re-calculate, and re-engage your plans for meaningful action. It’s easy to get lost in the daily grind and hustle

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Four Ideas for your Remote Online Business

By Rob Stretch on August 31st in Entrepreneurship 1 comment

You’re in a slight predicament. You know you want to work remotely; that the Untemplater lifestyle is the life for you. You also know that you want to start a passive income stream that gradually turns into a river. What you don’t know is where to start! The web is a gold mine for savvy

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Truth?!…We’ll Pass

By Robert on August 30th in Self Improvement 7 comments

If you’ve been following me on twitter, then you’ve been hearing me rant on and off about health as of late. It’s been my main focus of study for the last few months. The main reason I’ve been on it so much is because, well, I think it’s fascinating to learn so much of what

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Help me, Talented Person, You Are My Only Hope

By Brandon Stanfill on August 27th in Business 5 comments

We appear to be in the middle of a talent dry-spell. At every avenue of popular media, there seems to be someone sitting at the top who many believe doesn’t deserve to be there. Miley Cyrus. Megan Fox. Stephenie Meyer. Michael Bay. They’ve all been parts of heated discussions as to whether or not they

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Give Yourself a Challenge

By Brandon Stanfill on August 26th in Health 3 comments

Life in the past was a lot more difficult that it is today. Back during caveman times, any given day could result in getting gored or trampled by a Wooly Mammoth. Even as far back as one hundred years, during the late 19th century, we were still an agricultural society. There was always a chance

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Open Thread: What Was Your Best Failure?

By Norcross on August 25th in Open Thread 6 comments

Failure used to be a dirty word. For some people, it still is. But for anyone who’s tried to hang their own shingle, start their own side venture, or just do something different than what they’ve always done? Failure almost seems par for the course. My own experience was with my first ‘side’ business fixing

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Do Grades Matter? Episode 2

By Colby Gergen on August 24th in Untemplate 7 comments

In the first part of this thrilling two-part series I decided that grades didn’t matter to me. That’s not to say that education and learning doesn’t matter, but that my lecture professor with no real-world experience isn’t going to contribute to any waste of time on useless pursuits or stress. Simply, society’s expectations for myself

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What Everyone Ought To Know: Tips on Time Management

By jtardy on August 23rd in Productivity 6 comments

Do you hear people complain about being busy as much as I do? Apparently everyone has issues with it! As a business coach 90% of my clients ask for my help with their time management skills. But what is time management? Unless you can slow down reality, you can’t manage time. (and if you can

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Round Up! Dirty Dancing Edition

By Monica on August 21st in Untemplate 1 comment

It’s link round-up time! Today we’re celebrating Dirty Dancing, which came out on August 21st, 1987 and went on to become a massive box office hit despite being a low-budget film with no star names attached! You can watch the movie in honor of today if you want, but I’m going to spend the day

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