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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 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...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsDo Not Tell Yourself You Have Negative Traits
Many years ago, I decided that I was not that good at math. This happened with seemingly good reason. I got an F in algebra in the ninth grade. However, I did not get an F because I was not capable of doing the work. I got an F because I never once did...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed Leave a CommentTo-Do Lists, Tactics, Strategies, and Going to the Moon
Companies, governments, and other organizations are typically organized in the following way: At the top of the pyramid are people whose job is to strategize for the organization. These are the people who set the entire tone for a group and define what...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsAre You More Interested in the Intangible or the Tangible?
Several years ago, I started a business called Law Firm Staff, which is a staffing business for attorneys, paralegals, and so forth. Because it was a relatively new business and I had hired a manager, I felt that it was extremely important that the business...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 9 CommentsSeveral 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 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...
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