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You're here for tips on leveling up your career, but here's a bonus tip on leveling up your investments. Check out Public Public is an investing platform where you can invest in stocks, options, bonds, ETFs and crypto all in one place. Public is a modern brokerage and has brought innovation to aspects of investing that were dinosaur y. I'll give you an example. Public is one of the only brokerages to offer self directed investing in bonds Treasuries, which have historically been sold primarily through a government website. But with Public you can invest in Treasuries with just a few clicks right from your phone. And Public allows you to make fractional investments in bonds. So before fractional bonds on Public you had to buy government bonds starting with a $1,000 investment at a minimum. And if you wanted to invest in any more than that, you could only invest in $100 increments. Now you can buy bonds for as little as $100 and for any dollar amount on Public. That's just one example of how Public is making it easier to invest. But there are a ton more and you can explore them for yourself@public.com helpwanted to get started with your portfolio today, go to public.com helpwanted this is a paid endorsement for Public Investing. Full disclosure and conditions can be found in the podcast Description this is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor in chief of.
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Entrepreneur Magazine, and I'm money expert Nicole Lapin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems.
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And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.
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And it starts now.
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Are you starting something new this year? If so, congratulations. That is awesome. New job, new project, new relationship, whatever it is, great. But ask yourself something. What do you plan on ending this year? And have you congratulated yourself on that too? We often don't celebrate endings. We think of them as failures or mistakes, as if the end invalidated everything else. But endings can be many things. They're how we preserve time and energy. They're how we reach a healthy conclusion. They're how we prepare for something new. Today, I want to help you embrace endings. I'm going to give you three questions to ask yourself, and after you do, you might feel lighter and happier and freer by being done. And I'm going to start by telling you about something that I just ended. I truly loved it. Really. But saying goodbye was liberating, just as it could be for you. So here's what I just ended. A few weeks ago, I had gotten an exciting email. It is a new project of mine that had gotten approved. I've been talking about it a long time and it's going to require a lot of my energy and attention this year in 2025. I felt excited and then I felt terrified because I'm already too busy. How will I possibly do this new thing too? Then I remembered a conversation that I had this summer with Mary Beth Westmoreland, a VP of technology at Amazon. She told me that when her team starts a new project, they often eliminate an old project at the same time. And here's how she explained it to me.