The Most Important Working Habit Of Hemingway: Stop At The Height of Your Day

One of my favorite things to study is the working habits of people I look up to. I’ve read about athletes, entrepreneurs, painters, musicians, writers, etc.

And from studying people who were successful in their field, I’ve learned a lot about how they got their work done. A great book to get inspiration about the habits of interesting people is Daily Rituals by Mason Curry.

One thing is sure: Everyone who achieved some form of success accomplished it by working. But work can happen in many different ways.

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Do You Want To Live A Happy Life? Smile.

Happy life smile

Sometimes there’s no reason to smile in life, but I’ll smile anyway because I’m happy. Yes, I’m one of those people who always smile.

  • I smile when I enter a room.
  • I smile when I see other people.
  • I smile when I’m by myself.
  • I smile when I see the sun.
  • I smile when things are difficult.

Am I crazy? A pessimist would say yes.

But smiling is an attitude. Most people think it’s an effect of something.

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30 Things I’ve Learned From Publishing 100 Articles

On August 7, 2015, I published my first article on DariusForoux.com. When I hit that publish button I had no idea where it would lead to. I also had zero expectations about how many people would read my stuff.

Now, 100 articles further (this is #101), things are a lot different. I never thought I’d meet so many great people through blogging. I also never thought I would end up drawing my own blog images (I was always the least creative kid in school).

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10 Career Mistakes I Wish I Had Never Made

In the last decade, I made several career mistakes. I went from student to entrepreneur to freelancer to climbing the corporate ladder to blogger to a teacher.

Yes, that’s not a normal career path, and it’s also not what I ever expected. I also made a bunch of career mistakes on the way. That’s because life hardly turns out the way you expect.

That’s because we’re only human. And humans make mistakes. Recently I received an email from a reader. He asked about my biggest career mistake.

That got me thinking. And writing. A lot. 

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