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Bears, Foster Homes, Resourcefulness, Love, and Endless Opportunity
When I was around 12 years old, my mother decided to take my 5-year-old sister and me on a trip from Detroit to northern Michigan. There was not a lot of planning involved, and all we knew was that we were going to be gone for two weeks. There was no...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 2 CommentsToday I would like to share with you one of my favorite quotes. This quote is something that can change your life forever if you adopt the incredible power of it in your life: I will persist until I succeed. In the Orient young bulls are tested for the...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 5 CommentsSick Crows, Your Attitude, and Being on the Winning Team
Over the past week I have been witnessing something extremely unusual in my backyard. There is a crow outside, who appears to be ill – he’s not doing well at all. The crow appears to be infected with West Nile Virus. He wanders around appearing...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 6 CommentsPush Yourself Outside Your Comfort Zone
About ten years ago, an attorney who had been practicing about seven or eight years longer than me purchased his first house. I remember congratulating him on the purchase, and his response shocked me at the time: “I am very happy with the house. ...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentCharacter-Building Thought Power
In his book, Character-Building Thought Power, Ralph Waldo Trine draws a clear distinction between good and bad habits. In the process he raises questions as to whether we have control over habit forming and character building, or is it just a matter...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 9 CommentsSeveral years ago, I wrote an article for BCG Attorney Search called “Builders and Destroyers”. In this article, I discussed the two types of people one may encounter inside a law firm: (1) People whose mission it is to build and improve things around...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentScientific Advertising By Claude Hopkins
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins is one of my favorite books. It is a classic book and something that many people I know who are extremely successful have claimed as the source of their success. The book was the first popular book to talk about...
Filed under Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentFocus on Doing – and Stop Talking about Those Who Are Doing
Throughout my career I have learned that there are generally two types of people out there: First, there are those who are out there doing this or that and making things happen. These people typically put in years to perfect their craft, whether they...
Filed under Advancement, Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 8 CommentsAre You More Motivated by the Opinions of Others-or Your Own?
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I found myself spending the occasional Saturday or Sunday going to Beverly Hills with a girlfriend to look in clothing stores. One of the stores that I usually ended up in was a store like Barneys, which carries both...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 7 CommentsBeing in the asphalt business in Detroit taught me very early on that things frequently go wrong. In fact, things go wrong so frequently, it is difficult to believe: Pumps break. Tanks break. Trucks break. People get injured. Employees do not show up...
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