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  So this is cool. I just logged into LinkedIn and found out that I now have this fun little badge next to my name that recognizes me as a Community Top Leadership Voice. And it will stay on my profile for the next 60 days. Pretty sweat. It's actually a pretty simple process to get a Community Top Voice Badge. You just need to Contribute to 3+ articles in one particular skill set. So in this case I chose Leadership. Next you need to be in the top 5% of contributors for a specific skill, and among the first...

  Setting goals will get you on a true path to success in your life. It may seem simple to sit down and write out the goals you want for your life or business, writing is one thing, but taking action can be another thing altogether.There are 3 ways to know if you will achieve your goals: • You know what you want• You are passionate—I mean really- passionate about your goals• You have a plan of action in place to reach them What are your dreams? What do you want your life to look like? When you think about...

By HGYC Member Melissa Slemp Fifty-six thousand nine hundred and forty (56, 940), this is the number of insulin shots I have given myself in 39 years living with type 1 diabetes. Bet you are saying, WOW that is a lot of shots. Yes, it is but when you are in it, knowing what is necessary to survive, our inner resolve naturally takes over. We all face obstacles in life, how we view and decide how to reframe this is essential to living our purpose. It took years for me to understand the purpose of my diagnosis. I felt bitter focusing...

We often think luck is reserved for the “lucky few” who happened to be at the right place at the right time, (like Dustin Moskovitz & Eduardo Saverin who were the 2 friends Mark Zuckerberg invited to his dorm room to start Facebook and are now worth 6.5 and 3.4 Billion respectively) or the unlucky (like the other 3 who were invited but failed to show up!)

And yet even in that example we can see luck had very little to do with it! Dustin and Eduardo had to SHOW UP! They had to take action. They had to DO SOMETHING!

So what if we could mix our “taking action and doing something” and sprinkle a little luck on it this month?

Ok stay with me here…. What if we could actually trick our brains to think we were lucky so we would actually make our own luck?