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Achievement

Vegan Vegetarian Wins Women's Race in North Pole Marathon

Jasmijn de Boo | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Sport
Read More: Women, Inspiration, Athletes, Running, Marathon, Training, North Pole, Winning, Vegan, Achievement, Record, Race, UK Sport News
Jasmijn de Boo

On 9 April, vegan athlete Fiona Oakes, 43, won the women's race in the North Pole Marathon in -28°C, breaking a course record by 44 minutes despite the worst conditions in the race's history.

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Achievement Anxiety - A By-Product Of Modern Mankind

Andrew Telling | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Achievement, UK Procrastination, UK Students, 50 Plus, UK Lifestyle News
Andrew Telling

So, is it wrong to tell aspiring kids and adults to 'work hard, stay focussed and you'll achieve your dreams'?

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Returning to Oxford University 20 Years on Prompts the Question: Is Achievement Overrated?

Katherine Baldwin | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Bridget Jones's Diary, Women, Ambition, Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement, Oxford University, Work-Life Balance, Higher Education, Aspiration, Helen Fielding, UK Universities & Education News
Katherine Baldwin

I hadn't been back to St Anne's for two decades and had avoided mailing lists. So I'd never realised some of the authors, journalists and broadcasters I most admired had slept in the same shoebox rooms and drunk in the same windowless college bar years before me.

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The Hypocrisy of Achievement

Jenni Bergman | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Convervativism, Depression, Benefits, Coalition Government, Unemployment, Poverty, Achievement, Disability, American Dream, USA, Confidence, Benefits Cap, UK Politics, UK Politics News
Jenni Bergman

Recently a nugget of wisdom mentioned in Back to the Future has come to mind. I love the film, but this statement encapsulates a belief in achievement that is particularly pervasive in American society but is popular throughout the Western world.

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Don't Flunk Your Resolutions by Accident

Mark Fletcher-Brown | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Success, Personal Responsibility, New Year's Resolutions, Achievement, Motivation, Goals, UK Lifestyle, UK News
Mark Fletcher-Brown

New Year is the season for new commitments and new failures to see our commitments through. We begin well and mid-way through January we seek out those who abandoned their resolve early and use them as an excuse to do the same. It's too easy not to do what you say you really want to do.

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Ask a Friend to Write Your Obituary - Today

Mark Fletcher-Brown | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Steve Jobs, Achievement, Obituary, The Balanced Life, Achievement Gap, Apple, UK Lifestyle News
Mark Fletcher-Brown

It's said that Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize because his obituary was published in error before his death and he didn't like what was said ...

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