Sentences with phrase «more focused purpose»

Life coaching can help you grow older with a more focused purpose.

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A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Focusing on the purpose of your business and what product or service you're aiming to provide will help you more easily gain the support of customers, investors and employees.

These findings echo those of the 1994 classic «Built to Last,» in which Jim Collins and Jerry Porras reveal that over a more than 60 - year period, purpose - guided companies earned six times more for their shareholders than their narrowly profit - focused competitors.

I'm learning that profits seem to be more of a bi-product of focusing on your company's purpose or mission.

Speaking like a robot and repeating a spiel ad infinitum turns people away, but there's another way to become a more effective salesperson: focusing on purpose, rather than achieving certain metrics.

In the initial bootstrap phase of the business, you would have to pick a niche, focus on the builder (as opposed to the more general purpose scheme), go out and sell, sell, sell to your niche, and get enough revenue to work on the larger idea.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

As such, I think for strategic and clarity purposes we ought to keep the scope of those issues which are «pro-life» more narrowly focused on bioethical concerns, while coming up with other ways of describing our positions elsewhere.

Nothing shows more clearly than the contrast between the death of Socrates and that of Jesus (a contrast which was often cited, though for other purposes, by early opponents of Christianity) that the biblical view of death from the first is focused in salvation - history and so departs completely from the Greek conception.

I understand where you are coming from, and I think gluten free cookbooks can be marketed to different GF audiences — the gluten free crowd is large enough that there is room for different types of GF books, and so I see a place for both books that do include naturally GF recipes (which I might call a GF lifestyle cookbook for an all around book with a variety of types of GF foods), and books whose purpose would be to focus on the more technical recipes of replacing gluten.

These crossover drinks are more than just a gulp on the go; vitamin - infused flavored waters and performance - focused juices serve multiple purposes — refreshment, energy, and even workout recovery.

We have been there before with Walcott but there's clearly more focus, maturity and purpose to his game.

But beyond this important policy implication is a second implication in Jackson's study that is more relevant for our purposes: There is a more creative and potentially more useful way to measure noncognitive skills than what most researchers are currently focused on.

The purpose of parenting classes is to help parents feel more connected, involved and focused on their child.

The weekly Common Purpose meeting shares some aspects with Grover Norquist's long - running Wednesday Meeting of conservative activists, but is more focused on messaging day - to - day politics and doesn't include journalists and academics, people involved said.

«The purpose of our facility is to take the repetitive, tedious, and administrative burden off the backs of the researchers so they can focus on doing things that provide more value,» she says.

Yet until fairly recently, scientists focused more on describing the phenomenon — its stages, aberrations and basic physiology — than on understanding its purpose.

(This explains why rare single - gene diseases are more common in such groups; although studying such diseases is not the purpose of the East London study, it is the focus of another large U.K. study, the 100,000 Genomes Project.)

«The board decided to focus more on the original purpose,» says Hollinsed.

After all, this bench press version was invented for the purpose of placing a more intense focus on stimulating the chest fibers that the flat and incline versions can't hit that well.

What I learned along my journey is the more we focus on trying to «find» our life purpose, the harder it is to reach.

If you can channel your mind to focus more on the greater purpose of your work, the «how you do it» gets to fade in the background.

When I incorporate these into my daily practice, I feel more calm inside, focused, steady, vibrant, positive, and deeply connected to my higher self and purpose.

Leg days should be divided into one ME day focused heavily on posterior chain strengthening for balance purposes (deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts, good mornings, and glute - ham raises), and a dynamic effort day designed to improve explosive leg power, incorporating both plyometric movements (lunge hops, box jumps, jump squats) and more traditional speed / explosive movements (power cleans, speed squats, full cleans, split squats).

A life of meaning and purpose is one focused less on satisfying oneself and more on others.

This way when you begin to search ads, only members looking for the same type of relationship will show up in your search results - so you can focus more on getting to know someone rather than wasting time on a person that is using the service with another purpose in mind.

The purpose of this section is to continue the discussion of issues in developmental psychology by focusing on personality development The current study examines whether adolescents who report sexting exhibit more psychosocial health problems, compared to their non-sexting counterparts.

By adding choice, through characters and Crew Skills, and trimming the level length, what's left is a focused experience that leaves you feeling like a heroic participant rather then a fatigued shell struggling to find purpose, wishing your time with the game was over rather then looking for more.

Pettyfer is pretty and easygoing but lacks the sort of charisma that comes with a more focused sense of interior purpose, and the film basically feels, at its core, like a mash - up of carefully cross-tabbed teen movie trends, which is probably what happens when you set out in pre-production with the chief intent of manufacturing the next big «Twilight» - type cinematic franchise.

For the purposes of this list we skipped documentaries and animated films to keep the list more focused (and avoid arguments about dubbed versions or whatnot) but please to know that had we kept them in the wonderful Turkish street cat documentary Kedi would be in the top ten right here.

Since the purpose of this review is to spend more time discussing the multiplayer component of FC5, it will be less focused on the story, though the two are closely related.

Thomas Philip: We need to start with questions that focus on what sort of learning experiences we'd like to facilitate and, even more fundamentally, the purpose of learning.

Engaging courses increase attention, focus, and retention, and are more successful than those that provide no means to engage learners; assessments are an extension of this engagement and serve the purpose of engaging learners to make learning more meaningful and effective.

More specifically, suggests Snow, «Middle and high school teachers could make their classroom activities more engaging by ensuring that students are focused on an organizing question or purpose for the activitMore specifically, suggests Snow, «Middle and high school teachers could make their classroom activities more engaging by ensuring that students are focused on an organizing question or purpose for the activitmore engaging by ensuring that students are focused on an organizing question or purpose for the activities.

Clarity around the best purpose and use of different types of assessments along with intentionally shifting time and energy to focus on information from assessment gives teachers and students more power and more meaningful information to ensure learning.

The case study, A Clear Focus: Leadership Lessons in Purposeful Instruction, describes how a push for purpose in the Anchorage School District is creating pathways to more equitable education, critical in an increasingly diverse urban district.

As Evans pointed out after her visit, PLCs in Shanghai focus more on inquiry than on data — with a primary purpose of unpacking the «why» and «how» of effective teaching, not just attending to the «what» (Berry, 2014).

The QUESTion Project and like - minded programs such as the Future Project and Project Wayfinder focus on something a little more abstract and, arguably, profound: finding a sense of purpose.

As every language arts teacher knows, it's essential to teach students to focus on audience and purpose, and the more specific and authentic the audience and purpose, the more focused the writing.

But while Goldstein assumes that the purpose of a value - added model is to assess individual teachers, it's worth noting that value - added methods can be much more useful if we focus on larger units of analysis, such as the performance of a whole school or mathematics achievement across a whole district.

Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) that focus on smaller sets of related concepts and provide more detailed information for instructional purposes.

Smaller, lighter and more focused, the 2016 MX - 5 is purpose - built with one goal in mind: providing the thrills and wind - in - the - hair driving experience that only the MX - 5 can deliver.

I spent a stereotypically Seattle wet - weather day at the wheel both the A5 and S5 Sportback, and for the purposes of this review, I'll focus on the latter, as it's the model I netted more time in.

BMW focused on performance, with the X5 and X6 M models promising more power, prowess, and purpose than ever.

In artisanal publishing, the words, the purpose, focus, structure, core meaning, originality, literary craft and artistic style of a book is actually a lot more significant than whether words are spelled correctly or a comma is out of place (although that's very important too!)

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Maybe by focusing more on the problem solving aspect, also helps with your overall purpose or intent.

I'm less inclined to think of KU as something Amazon is completely focused on monetizing, and more inclined to think that KU may be considered a loss leader within the company, the purpose of which is to ensure continued and escalating sales (in addition to a larger market share) for Kindles, Kindle Fires, etc., by increasing the amount of content for current and future users to consume.