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The 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 CommentsPlan for Success – Not Failure
When I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age, on the person’s birthday each year. So, on your 25th birthday,...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 4 CommentsOnce You Achieve Success, Savor and Enjoy It to the Fullest
I have certain habits and ways of thinking about the world that are the right ways, at least for me: If I make a friend, I do everything within my power to keep the friendship going and to stay close to the person. If I get a book, I always read and...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 5 CommentsA baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother’s womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds, it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 2 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 CommentsKeep a Broad Perspective When Looking for a Job
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they cannot find them, make them. -George...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 2 CommentsThe Importance of Encouragement
If you look at most successful people, somewhere in their background there is someone cheering for them and believing in what they can accomplish. It could be a significant other, a friend, or a family member. When people are encouraged by others, it...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 2 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 CommentsCarpenters, Fancy French Restaurants, Backstage, and Your Career
One of my favorite stories is about a man who has a creak in his house. For years he has tried one way or another to fix the creak, but every single time he walks through the old house it still makes that annoying squeaky sound. No one has ever been able...
Filed under Staying Positive 8 CommentsExpose Yourself to Pain in Your Job Search
When I was growing up, I did not have any friends whose parents were attorneys. In fact, I did not really know any attorneys until I got to college. A girlfriend of mine at that time had a friend whose stepfather was an attorney. I met him during my senior...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 2 Comments« PREVIOUS showing 51-60 of 170 NEXT »
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