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As entrepreneurs, we often view other business owners as competitors. We think we need to outperform them, outsmart them and simply outdo them. We need the world to see that we are the best of the best or the cream of the crop.  That mindset can be very flawed, and it has never worked for me. Instead, I have always chosen to come alongside other business owners—especially other women—to share ideas , converse and strategize. By doing this, we all grow and become better versions of ourselves, not only in our businesses, but in our communities as well. The value of working together, collaborating and partnering with other business owners, especially within your industry. To show that you can come together collectively and serve alongside each other for the betterment of your customers can be huge for the morale of an industry. Become intentional with the mindset that we are not competitors, but are instead a community of business owners serving people can provide priceless benefit...

Good leaders know they must be kind to employees. There is no way around it in 2021, as the pandemic redefines what is most important to workers. Today, we’re in the thick of what economists are calling the Great Resignation, where more than 40% of workers want to switch employers. The reasons vary, but employers’ hesitancy to embrace hybrid working is a factor. Going forward, companies that are thoughtful and innovative will attract fresh talent. That’s why it’s time to practice radical kindness in business, whether you have 10 employees or 10,000. In this episode of Brilliant Thoughts , SUCCESS People Editor Tristan Ahumada talks to Glenn and Mindy Stearns (Burbano) about leading with kindness. Mindy is a media personality and philanthropist who loves to help others. Glenn works in real estate and wants to change the aggressive, profit-driven side of his industry. He recently founded Kind Lending , a company where “fun is mandatory” and “friendly professionals” assist homebuyers....

Big, fat failure is the key to realizing your dreams. The funny thing is you already know failure is good for you . We hear about failure all the time: Actors who were rejected at hundreds of auditions (until they weren’t), entrepreneurs whose first dozen ideas were garbage (though their next one was brilliant), and inventors with strings of useless inventions (and some that changed the world). Details and statistics like these make us feel good, but they boil down to an uncomfortable question. If failure is the key to getting what we want, why do we do everything in our power to avoid it? In Guy Winch’s book Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts , he explains: Rejections are painful, and for a good reason—during our prehistoric past, we were only as strong as our social groups. “Being ostracized would have been akin to receiving a death sentence,” Winch writes. To save us from dying alone in the wilderness, our brains evolved a clever tric...

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself. I noticed that my poor dad was poor not because of the amount of money he earned—which was significant—but because of his thoughts and actions. As a young boy, having two fathers, I became acutely aware of being careful in deciding which thoughts I chose to adopt as my own and to whom should I listen—my rich dad or my poor dad. I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained. When I was growing up, my poor dad often said, “Go to school and get good grades so you can find a good job with good benefits.” He was encouraging me to become an employee . My rich dad often said, “Learn to build your own business and hire good people.” He was encouraging me to become an entrepreneur . The Cashflow Quadrant explains that there are four types of people that make up the world of business, ...

SLOW DOWN High achievers tend to be prone to overworking themselves. The next time you feel stress over your schedule, take some time and get serious about narrowing your priorities.  Read: Lecrae’s Restoration Project GIVE AND GET New members of Achievers, our startup social network, are asked for two things when they sign up: One give, and one get. Join us today! We ask you to offer another member a lesson or perspective of your own, and ask the community for help where you are currently struggling. TAKE NOTE For the highest-level influencers, social media is big business. This week, keep an eye on your favorite personality’s posts and think deeply around the “why” behind each one. Read: The Influencer’s Influencer DESIGN INTELLIGENTLY One of the first steps toward creating a life that makes you happy is to understand what is most important to you: Family? Financial freedom? Communing with nature? Get clear on your few values, and work from there.  Read: C...

Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that being likeable comes from natural traits that belong only to a lucky few. In this article, originally published on LinkedIn Pulse , Dr. Travis Bradberry explains how being likeable is under your control, and it’s a matter of emotional intelligence (EQ). If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likeable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of. When I speak to smaller audiences, I ask them to describe the best and worst leaders they have ever worked for. People inevitably ignore innate characteristics (intelligence, extraversion, attractiveness and so on) and instead focus on qualities that are completely under the leader’s control, such as approachability, humility and positivity. These and other words describe leaders who ar...

Years ago, our founder Ramit Sethi beat out several Stanford MBA students for an incredible internship at Sun Microsystems. Oh, and he was just a sophomore in college at the time. That’s right. A skinny teenage college student beat out the cream-of-the-crop students getting their Master’s Degree in business.  “How did he swing that?” you might ask.  Great question! Getting an internship isn’t quite as hard as you might think and getting your dream internship is far more achievable than you’ve led yourself to believe.  You just have to follow a few simple steps (don’t get us wrong, it’ll still take hard work) and soon you’ll be getting your ideal internship in college. By the end of this guide, you’ll be empowered (and psyched) to go out and land your ideal internship at your dream company. Bonus:  If you want to stop making excuses and break yourself out of a rut, download my Ultimate Guide to Habits . Why it’s difficult to get an internship The truth i...

Do you know how to prepare for an interview so that you walk away with a job offer — not scratching your head wondering what went wrong? In this post, we’ll share the top interview tips from our founder, Ramit Sethi, who’s helped thousands of people land new jobs and impressive salary increases. To illustrate this – we’ll start with a story from Ramit: Two candidates walk into an interview. One has an MBA. He’s wearing the sharpest suit and carrying the sleekest business cards. The other is a college sophomore. He walks in with none of those things, but he walks out with the job. How? What did he do that most people — like the MBA — don’t do? Well, that college sophomore was me, and these are the same techniques I used to get job offers from Google, Intuit, and a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund. But it doesn’t just work for Ramit. Thousands of people have used these strategies to prepare for interview after interview, and beat out people with 10+ years of experience — getting...