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I'm Alex Azzi, I'm an entrepreneur & internet marketer living between Dubai, Beirut & London.

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Time Management Strategies For Sales People

Recently I’ve been thinking about how to make our sales teams more effective. I have come to the conclusion that one of the key success factors for any sales person is good time management, and that is what I would like to discuss in this post. Being a sales person isn’t easy – long working hours, travel, difficult customers, [...]

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Stay humble

Filing under the “staying humble” category is this image I stumbled upon from Tim Urban of Wait But Why. As he writes: A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood. On the very best nights, we can see up to about 2,500 stars (roughly one hundred-millionth of the stars in our galaxy), [...]

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My high-tech meditation practice – part 2

In my previous post I outlined my first meditation-tech investment which was the Muse neurofeedback device. In this post I will be discussing my second investment, the Inner Balance Heart Rate Variability (HRV) trainer from HeartMath plus some conclusions from my practice. HRV training is practiced by many of the gurus of the biohacking [...]

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Want to be more happy?

The study of “happiness” (happiology?) is one of my main areas of interest.  I’ve read multiple specialized books on the matter by people who’ve dedicated their lives to its study, such as: The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom [...]

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10x thinking and why 10x improvement is easier than 10%

 An idea I picked up recently from Larry Page and Google X via the Singularity Crew is the concept of “10x thinking”. Mostly, when people are trying to improve something, they aim for a 10% improvement. Setting your target at 10% will get a 2% to 5% improvement, if you’re lucky. The culture that Larry Page has tried to instill in [...]

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