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Make Sure Your Life and Dreams Are Your Own

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When I was around 10 years old, my mother had a college friend, who brought over her son (who was my age) and he thought it would be amusing to take some of my mother’s lipstick and put it on.  Then he started putting some sort of mascara (or something...

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How Much Do You Want Your Dream?

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I live on the beach in Malibu, California, on a cliff overlooking the ocean. I have a fairly large lot for the area and regularly rent out my house and lot for weddings, television shows, model shoots, and that sort of thing. I enjoy this. It is fun...

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Rules, Your Nature, and Your Career

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I went into the basement today, and without realizing it, I pulled out an old list of goals and rules I created for myself around 15 years ago. I remember writing them down as I was completing a yearlong clerkship with a federal judge and preparing to...

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Cattle, the Importance of Maintaining Fences-and Your Career

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When I was in law school, I lived on a cattle ranch in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ranch was over 550 acres, and the cows used to wander all through the property as large groups, eating grass, mooing, sleeping (standing up, as they do), having baby...

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Do Not Stand in the Way of Your Own Progress

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I recently heard a story about a man who was on his deathbed. As he lay in bed, he pondered over what he had achieved in his lifetime, and he concluded he had lived his life making no mistakes. This was by far the man’s greatest and most virtuous...

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21 Pieces of Career Advice No One Ever Gives You

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1. Your Attitude Is Just as Important as the Quality of Your Work In most organizations, there are various people who have a negative impression of the organization or, for whatever reason, do not like the management. There are also people who may have...

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Tap Into Your Unseen Power

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Once when I was in college the strangest thing happened. In my sophomore year my girlfriend’s best friend was struck by lightning when she was walking out of the dorms one day. The girl was taken by an ambulance to a hospital, where she spent a...

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Yoga Blue

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The Tight Spot Several years ago, I was running a company I thought would soon have thousands of employees.  Things were going exceptionally well and I was enjoying myself and my job in all respects.  Anticipating continued expansion, I started purchasing...

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Mass Forces

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I love meeting successful businesspeople and entrepreneurs who have managed to consistently flourish in whatever they do.  They all seem to share the same gift: They understand where the forces of the market are headed before others do, and they tap...

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As a Man Thinketh

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Of the nineteen books James Allen wrote, As a Man Thinketh is considered his most widely recognized classic self-help book. It is concise and eloquent, and it best embodies his idea that thought and character are one. This unrewarded literary mystery...

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The Importance of Fitting In

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The ability to fit into your work environment is among the most important parts of obtaining and retaining a job, even more so than your skill level. Fitting in means nothing more than being comfortable in one’s work environment, and making others similarly comfortable. Employers want to hire people who will embrace their approach to business and the world on physical and moral levels, so you must strive to fit in with their worldview.

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