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“For today’s aspiring entrepreneur, exploring avenues of creativity to find your passion is likely the quickest route to increase your chances of launching a successful business.” As of one of the strategies, then article suggests to revisit your childhood and what you loved to do then. Explore other exercises to unlock your passion in the article.

“Neglecting passion blocks creative flow: when you’re passionate, you’re energized, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Equally, energy is everything when it comes to earnings. Your thoughts, attention, and focus affect your energy and, therefore, everything around you – including your bank account. This article will explore how to get that passion back into your work to give you your energy once again.

According to time management expert Julie Morgenstern, work life balance is about viewing time as something tangible, recognizing your natural preferences, differentiating goals from activities and then diligently aligning your activities to your goals or eliminating them from your to-do list.

“Learning a technology is the easy part. Having the mindset to apply it, having the mindset and logic to process it, being thorough and detail-oriented while doing so, these are the critical skills.” A study by Career Builder helped identify the 10 most in demand skills of 2013 from the critical skills sets for the top jobs of 2013. Active listening and critical thinking ranked among the top five skills reconfirming specific processes are not so much the main focus skills. See what other skills made it to the list.

“Planning is about managing resources and priorities in an organized way. Management is related to leadership, and it’s related to productivity.” Three steps to better planning outlined in the article claims to improve management in business.

“The biggest and most destructive myth in time management is that you can get everything done if only you follow the right system, use the right to-do list, or process your tasks in the right way. That’s a mistake.” This statement correlates with a McKinsey survey stating that, “only 52 percent of 1,500 executives said that the way they spent their time largely matched their organizations’ strategic priorities?” Learn how a “management by six-box-to-do-list” aligns priorities across an organization in this article.