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The Inner Voices, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Your Life
When you consider all that you are capable of achieving, nothing is more exciting than imagining who and what you can and will become in your life. To do this, you must first learn to ignore that voice inside your head that may tell you otherwise. You...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 6 CommentsSelf-Help Means Helping Others
There is a simple concept that separates those who experience great success from those who do not. I am going to tell you all about this concept in a second, but first I want to talk a little bit about self-help. I have read countless books that discuss...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 6 CommentsThe Importance of Productivity, Focus, and Measurement
When I was in school, I would study at least a couple of hours each day in the library. While there, I noticed that the best students were always very focused. They were not distracted like poorer students were. A poor student looks around and looks...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 7 CommentsStolen License Plate Tags, Unlawful Arrests, Hookers, Drug Dealers, and Looking for the Positive
During my summers in college, I rented an apartment in a really bad neighborhood of Detroit. When I say it was a bad neighborhood, I am not exaggerating. Right in front of my window, hookers literally walked back and forth on Jefferson Avenue. It was...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 10 CommentsSympathy, Morale, and the Importance of Being Organized
In every job I have ever had, I have been happy for the most part. When I was an attorney, for example, I liked many aspects of being an attorney. When I worked in the asphalt business, I loved many aspects of that business. Most people are able to find...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 43 CommentsThe Power of Resistance in Your Career and Life
Every single day in business and in our personal and family lives, most of us face difficult choices. One of the hardest things to do in life is to resist pursuits of immediate gratification. However, the more we resist immediate gratification, the more...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 14 CommentsUpgrade Your Career and Life by Finding Work to Be Done
Several years ago, I decided I didn’t want to work in a law firm anymore. The problem was that I didn’t know what else I could do besides practice law. Also, I didn’t have any money. In order to continue to make a living, I needed to...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 4 CommentsMoses, Great Religious Figures, the Wilderness, and Your Career
On a Christmas vacation over ten years ago, I went home to Detroit from Los Angeles, where I was practicing law at the time. I was taking a 10-day vacation. Over the course of those ten days, I found myself having trouble getting to sleep every night....
Filed under Featured 2 CommentsPhony Accident Scenes, Internal Affairs, Racial Discrimination, and Your Career
One Friday evening in 2002, I decided to take a couple of our company’s prized employees out for dinner. We had had an excellent week and morale was pretty high within the company. We typically worked very hard and quite late every night of the...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentThere is nothing more important to your long-term success than finding and keeping yourself in a healthy environment. I have known so many people out there with incredible talent who insist on remaining in the wrong environment and, consequently, they...
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