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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 [...]

Pent-up demand for new space launched the build-to-suit boom five years ago and it's still going strong As the recession ended about five years ago, some South Florida businesses grew [...]

NASHVILLE - Already they had bused employees in from 40 miles away, introduced on-site child care and offered flexible work schedules. But a 2.9 percent unemployment rate has spurred the [...]

ORLANDO--Universal Studios Florida has announced one of the biggest hotel projects of the year. It will include five themed hotels with more than 4,300 rooms. The question: Is Orlando finally [...]

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 [...]

Tampa--City officials here hope they've discovered ever-elusive magic bullet: a way to build a 900-room convention-center hotel at no risk to taxpayers for about 13 years--if ever. Mayor Sandy Freedman [...]

The hotel and tourism industries in the state of Florida have implemented major publicity campaigns in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. After Hurricane Andrew hit southern Florida, tourism fell off in Florida as a whole. Tourism is a major industry in Florida; in Dade County, which was hit hard by Hurricane Andrew, tourism is a $10 billion industry that employs 31% of the people in the county. The publicity campaigns promoting the state apparently are working and tourism levels are returning back to normal.

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 [...]

South Florida firms flexing their health prevention muscles If Betty Jo Saenz decides to get a mammogram test or hearing exam, she doesn't need to take the afternoon off work [...]

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 [...]