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In a time when the 24-hour news cycle bombards us with stories of tragedy, heartbreak and deceit, it can be difficult to keep our heads up and remain optimistic about [...]

Stressed? Exhausted? Stuck in a rut? Or just feeling a little ho-hum? When it's time to nourish your soul, reach for these ideas ... 1. Make this daily 10-minute date [...]

AFTER REACHING A BIG GOAL, A LETDOWN IS ALMOST CERTAIN. TO COPE, FOLLOW ADVICE FROM ACHIEVERS AND ENTREPRENEURS WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT THEMSELVES. Have you ever felt deflated after [...]

On the day of the announcement that would be heard around the world, Jose Garcia awoke without realizing anything unusual was in store. He dressed, left the run-down rental home [...]

IT WAS THE BIG DAY, the opening of the championship round of the international FIRST Robotics Competition, and Carolina Menjivar was so nervous that she'd had trouble eating for two [...]

Get a new job. Land a promotion. What would you do if you weren't afraid? Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posed that query in her best-seller Lean In: Women, [...]

A SENSE OF URGENCY RIPPLES Gary Vaynerchuk's raspy New Jersey-accented voice. The 38-year-old self-made social media marketer is sitting at an office table, looking intently into a video camera as [...]

YOU HAVE PROBABLY GIVEN MORE than a passing thought to being your own boss, maybe even pursuing an entrepreneurial idea you've nurtured for a long time. Well, as the economy [...]

Paul Allen wears a big beard in the old photo, Bill Gates looks like he's 15, Standing behind them are nine colleagues dressed in tieless plaid shirts or other informal [...]

For just a minute, or as long as it takes you to read this article, suspend your disbelief. Shift those mental gears. Disengage from the here-and-now reality of paying bills, [...]

If Facebook were a nation, it would be the world's third largest behind only China and India. Hundreds of new people join every hour. And at the helm stands fresh-faced [...]

Jimmy Carter is visiting a poor village in tropical Ghana when he notices a beautiful woman in her 20s standing near the edge of a crowd. She's holding her arms [...]

As we emerge from economic recession, we seek beacons of inspiration and leadership--innovative thinkers who challenge our ideas about what is possible in business, the world and in ourselves. SUCCESS [...]

A lot of great things can come from starting a business at a young age: Gaining independence. Dealing with hard knocks. Resourcefulness. Self-confidence. Money-management and goal-setting skills. Maybe even hitting [...]

Almost everyone has an opinion about marriage and relationships. Just ask Dear Abby or your mother-in-law. Much of the advice comes in sound bites, in reaction to the crises of [...]

At 61, Wally Blume could've prepared to retire. He instead mortgaged his house and cars to buy out his partners and run his own national ice cream enterprise. At 72, [...]

Ken Burns faced a quadruple whammy when a couple of years out of college he approached the first of many potential funders to ask for money for his first full-length [...]

Nutrition and exercise boost mood and brain power. An angry disposition can bring on back pain. A positive attitude can aid in recovery from disease. Stress can kill you. Think [...]

Zhena Muzyka sized up the bleak situation: Here she was, a 25-year-old single mom whose baby needed lifesaving surgery for a kidney defect. She punched numbers into the ATM but [...]

Great family businesses share certain traits: loyalty among the team, vigilance and competitiveness in their fields. Those that pass successfully from one generation to the next have a sense of [...]

Tasia Malakasis ditched her high-charged career with technology startups to follow a slower-paced calling of cheese making. College assistant basketball coach Michelle Marciniak loved the fabric of her favorite athletic [...]

At 66, newly retired high-school teacher Frank McCourt finally accomplished what he considers his personal equivalent of climbing Mount Everest or running a four-minute mile: He wrote a book. His [...]

A surprising thing happened after David Bach moved his family into New York City's first green residential tower, The Solaire, which features views of the Hudson River, filtered fresh air [...]

Kareema Conda-Barr had a lot going for her: She loved being a cheerleader and ranked 11th academically in her high school freshman class. He dad, a retired professor, pushed education [...]

Roberto Velez used to work nights cleaning jets at JFK Airport. The work was hard, but he didn't have much hope of a better job. He didn't have skills, education [...]

AS A SMALL CROWD gathered by a closed runway at a little airport outside Dallas, 40-something father of five Lane Segerstrom did an unlikely thing. Stepping onto an extra-long skateboard [...]

Ralph W. Braun was 6 when he was told he wouldn't live past his teens. He and his cousins were playing with toy cars in his aunt's driveway when he [...]

Abroad smile easily crosses Quanitta 'Queen' Underwood's face, lighting her up. Gone during these moments is the tough stance and penetrating stare she wears in the boxing ring, where her [...]

Alex Bogusky has a fire pole outside his office door that lets him slide down to the next floor of the Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency--a place of bikes [...]

Three young guys in Southern California buy a used camera on eBay and make a decision that scares their parents: They're going to a war-torn area of Africa to capture [...]

1 Network with everybody you've ever worked with; connect on LinkedIn with each person you meet on the job. 'LinkedIn will be a lifeline for your next job,' says Don [...]

Purchase that daily latte, advises financial expert Nicole Lapin. Surprised? That's not her only unusual advice. 'It's not your momma's finance lesson,' Lapin says in describing her new book, Rich [...]

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you found a $20 bill? Eight-year-old Myles Eckert excitedly picked up a twenty from a snow-covered parking lot at a Cracker Barrel restaurant off I-475 [...]

* WHAT WOULD you do if you were told you had only a few weeks to live? When Joan Zawoiski Lewis found out she was dying from pancreatic cancer, the [...]

Peter Aaron's iconic Seattle bookstore faced a do-or-die decision when the neighborhood declined. Wylan Fleener's family business was synonymous with Greensburg, Kan., for more than 100 years--and then came the [...]

At 23, Jan Fields--a military wife with a child and no college degree--made a fateful stop. Early for an interview for a secretarial job, she stepped inside a McDonald's for [...]

An elevator tragedy launched Helen Gurley Brown on a path toward her world-changing career. She was just 10 when her father Ira Gurley, a schoolteacher and an Arkansas state legislator, [...]

Brianne Schwantes came into the world with 13 broken bones. Doctors said she probably wouldn't live a day. A rare and incurable brittle-bone disease called osteogenesis imperfecta made her skeleton [...]

Brad Sterl was out of town in March at the busiest trade show of the year when he answered the phone and heard, 'We just called the fire trucks.' The [...]

If it weren't for accidents, some change-makers wouldn't have come up with inventions we take for granted. Consider: * Charles Goodyear had been working on creating synthetic rubber for years [...]

Entrepreneurs express more optimism about their future than regular workers, Gallup reports, even though they also are a bit likelier to say they experience stress and worry. So upbeat are [...]

For 25 years, Gary Kinder has taught a tough crowd--lawyers--to write better and eliminate useless words. That prompted an idea to create patented software that takes about 30 seconds to [...]

Newly crunched census statistics show the number of women-owned businesses with $10 million or more in revenue has shot up in the last decade by 56.6 percent. These businesses have [...]

Smartphones don't just walk off or get shot into the night sky like a firework. But something apparently happens in July that does cause them to go missing. July is [...]

Ninety-five percent of our thoughts, emotions and learning happen subconsciously, so it's important to appeal to the subconscious instead of merely targeting the rational mind. In other words, says author [...]

If former Amazon vice president Nadia Shouraboura is right, her high-end men's jeans shop will revolutionize the retail clothing world just as Amazon changed how people buy books. Shouraboura is [...]

Imagine answering a phone by using a thumbs-up gesture. Or changing a TV channel with a wave of your hand. Researcher David Kim believes we'll do these things and more, [...]

Salespeople often beg business strategist David Horsager to teach them the newest technique for closing a deal. 'if you know how to become trusted, you will not need any technique. [...]

As the economy picks up, experts say consumers will demand innovations that save them money and improve their productivity, efficiency and overall quality of life. Entrepreneurs will be more than [...]