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Relationships

When Is The Best Time To Have Kids?

By Sydney on December 15th 2011 in Relationships 46 comments

The decision to start a family is completely natural to many people but not for me. For the last few years I’ve continually wondered, when is the right time to have kids? And do I even want to have kids at all? When I was growing up though I always assumed I would raise children [...]

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Why Does Money Corrupt People?

By Sydney on December 5th 2011 in Business 28 comments

I recently had lunch with one of my friends and we got to talking about money and how it can change and even corrupt people. She told me a fascinating story about her cousin Trent, who grew up rather poor and had to work part time jobs throughout school to help his family. Despite his [...]

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Risking Everything For Education

By Sydney on September 22nd 2011 in Personal Finance 23 comments

My parents have never been good with money. They were constantly borrowing from their own parents to get bills paid. It wasn’t something they were proud of and they always emphasized they never wanted me to end up in their situation and have to rely on money from friends or family to survive. They said [...]

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The Benefits of Constructive Criticism in Relationships: MANAGERS & MENTEES

By Sydney on July 11th 2011 in Business 10 comments

July is a popular month for mid-year performance evaluations in the workplace. It’s often a dreaded period for managers who have to scramble to get forms filled out, and an equally antsy time for employees nervous about getting critiqued and having to sit down with the boss one on one. Evaluations Are GOOD For You [...]

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The Benefits of Constructive Criticism in Relationships: FRIENDS

By Sydney on June 30th 2011 in Relationships 10 comments

Today’s focus on friends takes us to part 4 of a five part series on how all sorts of relationships benefit from constructive criticism. I’m covering key tips on how to give constructive criticism, and how this type of feedback benefits our relationships with family, significant others, managers and mentees, and friends. From One Circle [...]

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The Benefits of Constructive Criticism in Relationships: SIGNIFICANT OTHER

By Sydney on June 23rd 2011 in Relationships 18 comments

I’m so excited to talk about how the relationships we have with our significant others can be improved so much through constructive feedback. For those of you dropping in, this is part 3 of my 5 part series on how to give constructive criticism many types of relationships (family, friends, managers & mentees, friends) benefit [...]

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The Benefits of Constructive Criticism in Relationships: FAMILY

By Sydney on June 15th 2011 in Relationships 4 comments

In part 1 of this series, I went over several tips on how to give constructive criticism. Now let’s talk about how constructive feedback benefits the relationships we have with our families. Perfect Families DO NOT Exist As much as we’d like to, we can’t choose our families. Unfortunately many of us, myself included, also [...]

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How to Give Constructive Criticism & Why It Benefits Relationships

By Sydney on June 13th 2011 in Relationships 6 comments

Our lives are filled with many different types of relationships, and constructive criticism is invaluable in all of them. This is a 5 part series I’ve put together that highlights tips on how to give constructive feedback and why it benefits 4 major relationship categories (family, significant other, friends, and manager/mentee). Now let’s get started. [...]

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Why You Should Be Going to Conferences

By Sean Ogle on June 9th 2011 in Business 11 comments

If you’re an entrepreneur (or an aspiring one) it should be a requirement that you go to at least one conference a year. So far in 2011 I’ve been to two, South By Southwest in Austin, Texas and the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. Each has not only changed the way I think about [...]

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