Articles by Sandra Bienkowski

Starting a new business comes with no guarantees. While risks are unavoidable, you can vastly improve your chances of succeeding with proper planning. Use this checklist from the Small Business Association to help you get started. Poor planning is actually the No. 1 reason for small-business failures, so make sure you are prepared.

It’s a role with no paycheck and no specific duties, but the position of first lady of the United States commands great influence.

Life has enough stressors without you adding to them, so stop stressing yourself out. Here's how, with tips from Susan Fletcher.

In this web extra, Harvey McKinnon discusses more strategies for giving back.

How do you align your life to live your purpose? Best-selling author Ken Dychtwald provides tips to tell when you’re off track and how to get back on.

Want to know how to think better? Tim Hurson has the answer.

Author Daniel Cole believes that talent doesn't just come naturally. Learn how supreme talent is "made" and not "born."

General Electric's Chief Marketing Officer Beth Cornstock shares her personal success strategies.

Whether you are on the Net or not, YouTube and Facebook are changing the way you live.

Theodore Roosevelt overcame chronic illness as a child to become a larger-than-life American icon.