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Being a negative thinker can affect your whole outlook on life. It can determine every aspect of your day, it could potentially be the reason you may not be succeeding or just the reason you may think you will not succeed.

Being negative delivers an expectation, it shapes what we believe and think of ourselves, and it is true that a negative person often finds a negative outcome.

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Written by Diane Lightfoot - United Response

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We know that having a job is something that is important to the vast majority of people with learning disabilities. We also know that only a fraction of those who want jobs, have them.

And yet the benefits of working for even a few hours a week are huge – and it’s not just about money, important though that is.

It’s about being included; about being part of a social network; about making friends on an equal basis. It’s about the confidence boost and self esteem that comes from being valued for your abilities and for a job well done. And these benefits are not just for the most able; we’ve seen time and time again the benefits that even a few hours work a week can bring to people with complex learning disabilities who may never have worked before or worse, have been written off.

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Honesty and Humility Predict Higher Job Performance

By: Ann Petriangelo - FHG - Senior Writer

Honesty-humility trait able to predict supervisor ratings of employees' job performance.

The more honesty and humility an employee may have, the higher their job performance, as rated by the employees' supervisor.

That's the new finding from a Baylor University study that found the honesty-humility personality trait was a unique predictor of job performance.

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