apply for a job
Several years ago, I was on the island of Kauai in a very small, out-of-the-way restaurant with my wife. We had driven to one of the more remote areas of the island far away from the resort where we were staying. Seated at a table not too far from...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentAre You Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic?
You have probably heard before that people tend to be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. In my experience, this is true and it is something you can generally pick up on within just a few minutes of meeting the average person. Understanding whether or not...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 2 CommentsMake Sure Your Life and Dreams Are Your Own
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...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentDo Not Stand in the Way of Your Own Progress
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...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 5 CommentsJust How to Wake the Solar Plexus
All of us have incredible potential that is rarely, if ever, awakened. This book discusses the power of the solar plexus and our ability generate great potential and accomplishment using it. Similarly, the book discusses that our full potential is not...
Filed under Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentThe Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 and is Gibran’s best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over forty different...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 1 CommentOf 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...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 7 CommentsOrison Swett Marden’s An Iron Will is an inspiring book that states that the primary difference between those who succeed and those who fail is whether or not they have will power. However, if misdirected, even a strong sense of will power is meaningless...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 6 CommentsHermann Hesse’s allegorical novel Siddhartha, written in a simple, yet powerful lyrical style, is a tremendously inspiring book, written in German in 1922. It deals with the spiritual journey of a boy named Siddhartha from the Indian subcontinent during...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 1 CommentRobert Collier’s book, The Secret of the Ages, is one of the true classics of self-improvement literature. The book has been referenced in, and the inspiration for, many other self-improvement works, such as the recent phenomenon The Secret. Collier...
Filed under Self Improvement Books Comments Off on The Secret of the Ages« PREVIOUS showing 131-140 of 154 NEXT »
recent posts