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Lesson 2: The importance of showing initiative
Lesson 2: The importance of showing initiative
Model go-getters
Nadira says: Look no further than Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Just about every episode has the sisters taking on some new challenge head-on. Like the time brother Rob wouldn't introduce them to his new girl. Solution? Steal her number from his phone and interrogate her over coffee. Duh! We could all learn from these girls' get-up-and-go.

Jake says: Every issue of every newspaper is filled with people showing initiative, whether in business, sports, entertainment, or at the community level. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find stories in the paper in which nobody showed any initiative. Read about that ambition and it just might rub off.

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