“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

There’s much focus in today’s society on intelligence and higher education as a precursor to success. Yet, some of the world’s all time successful people have been described as “losers” when they were young. Robert Greene, authors of Mastery reveals that Charles Darwin was once an “underachieving schoolboy” and Leonardo da Vinci an “illegitimate outcast”. Both learned social rules early and after a period of mediocrity, turned them on their head to become elite, joining the ranks of world’s very first life hackers.

Some leaders in recent years also have spoken out about the value of real world experience over getting an MBA. Author Tim Ferriss of the infamous Four Hour Work Week goes so far as to describe the latter as “effectively a two-year vacation that looks good on a resume.”

These days more people do their shopping online rather than go to an actual store front and it’s easier than ever to set up your own business, be your own boss and still keep your daily job!

Here are some tips that will help you get your business started and the top five eCommerce platforms that you will want to work with or avoid.
For starters…ideas…

Do you have a great idea for a business or do you have something you want to sell? Have you decided what you want to do?
If you’re a creative person you may make your own personalised crafts and want to sell them to the masses.
Do you have a niche hobby or interest that you think you could turn into a small business?
How about programming? Are you good with computers but you don’t know where to display your talents so that potential clients can hire you?

Start with finding the thing you love and decide how you want to market that. Once you have your idea, think about how much you want to sell. If you think that you will be moving high volumes of merchandise you may want to choose an eCommerce site builder program that allows a lot of storage space and ample bandwidth.

We’ve all at one stage or another, worked with someone with whom we do not see eye to eye. It can not only hinder your performance, but put a dampener on going to work everyday.

Whether you’re a business owner or part of a team, instead of waiting to see if any interpersonal tensions arise along

The science is in, recent studies published in the Harvard Business Review are proving once and for all that your emotions do affect your performance at work. Experts around the world are now acknowledging that our emotions cannot be separated from how the mind works, that work is personal and that happy people make more

“Your mind will answer most question if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S. Burroughs

We’ve always got plenty of projects happening across the business at CITI Recruitment. One that I’m particularly proud of is a new app we’v gotten involved with, kalmmind which was launched earlier this month.

kalmmind is a