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The Importance of Your Sense of Self
Once, when I was around 17 years old, I was sitting in a car with a friend of mine, waiting for another group of kids. My friend was very wealthy and by this age had already inherited several million dollars–and he was very arrogant about this....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive 23 CommentsThe Most Important Person You Communicate with Is Yourself
“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven” -John Milton Several years ago, I was home after graduating from college and I met a guy who was friends with my girlfriend’s brother. He had graduated from Yale University...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 5 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 CommentsPlato’s Allegory of the Cave and Taking Your Thoughts and Life Out of the Shadows
One of the greatest challenges to finding a job, changing direction in our lives and becoming the people we are capable of becoming, is learning to see the world in different ways. Several years ago I was on a jet with one of the wealthiest men in...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 2 CommentsJobs from Employers and Employer Websites
When looking for a job, as with anything you do, you get rewards only when you put work into it. Researching employer websites is not the easiest type of work to do. It requires more effort than simply going to a job site, as you may be accustomed to...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job Leave a CommentThe Kick-Ass Marketing Secret of the Most Successful Job Applicants and Employees
I’ve been going to conferences for one thing or another at least a couple times a year for the past several years. I’ve spent thousands of dollars attending marketing-related conferences. If I go to one more conference...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market 6 CommentsHypnotists, Worry and Living Your Life Today
I took my wife to Las Vegas about a year ago and we decided to go see a hypnotist show. I had gone to see a hypnotist who had performed for the entire university when I was in law school and had really enjoyed it. The show was fascinating to me and really...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 5 CommentsFinding a Job in a Down Market
I made a video recently called “Job Search Secrets for a Recession,” which discussed the best way to locate a position during a recession. In my experience, the best way to find a job is and always has been to approach the widest variety of employers...
Filed under Job Market 1 CommentThe Most Important Thing You Can Have Is Faith
Several years ago I was practicing law, and over Christmas I went home to Michigan from Los Angeles for a one week vacation. At the time, I was also a law professor and I had brought a stack of papers to grade with me. For several days I read paper after...
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